第一部分 歷年真題［部分視頻講解＋聽力音頻］

2021年英語專業(yè)八級真題及詳解［聽力音頻］

二、PART II READING COMPREHENSION ［45 MIN］

SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

In the section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question,there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark youranswers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

(1)The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene. One thinks one knows him well. For a hundred years ormore he has been killed, captured and imprisoned in zoos. His bones have been mounted in natural history museumseverywhere,and he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scientists and romantics alike. He is the stereotyped monsterof the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past.

(2)Yet the fact is we know very little about gorillas. No really satisfactory photograph has ever been taken of one in awild state; no zoologist, however intrepid, has been able to keep the animal under close and constant observation in the darkjungles in which it lives. Carl Akeley,the American naturalist, led two expeditious to Uganda in the 1920s and now lies buriedthere among the animals he loved so well;but even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies,nor was he able to define the exact social pattern of the family groups,or indicate the final extent of their intelligence.All thisand many other things remain almost as much a mystery as they were when the French explorer Du Chaillu first described theanimal to the civilized world a century ago. The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in theHimalayas is hardly more elusive.

(3)The little that is known about gorillas certainly makes you want to know more. Sir Julian Huxley has recorded thatthrice in the London Zoo he saw an eighteen-month-old specimen trace the outline of its own shadow with its finger."Nosimilar artistic initiative，” he writes， ＂has been recorded for any other anthropoid（類人猿），though we all know now that youngchimpanzees will paint 'pictures' if provided with the necessary materials.” Huxley speaks too of a traveler seeing a malegorilla help a female up a steep rock-step, and gallantry of that kind is certainly not normal among animals. It is this “human-ness” of the gorilla that is so beguiling. According to some observers he courts and makes love the same way as humans do.Once the family is established it clings together. It feeds in a group in the thick bamboo jungles on the mountainside in thedaytime,each animal making a tidy pile of its food-wild celery, bamboo shoots, and other leaves-and squatting down to eatit; and by night each member of the family makes its own bed by bending over and interlacing the bamboo fronds so as toform a kind of oval-shaped nest which is as comfortable and springy as a mattress. The father tends to make his bed just a footor two from the ground,the mother a little higher, and the children are safely lodged in the branches up above.

(4)When he walks the gorilla takes the main weight on his short legs and rests lightly on the knuckles of his hands at theend of his very long arms. When he stands upright a full-grown male rises to six feet, but with that immense chest he is farheavier than any normal man could ever be. Six hundred pounds is not uncommon. His strength is incredible-certainly greatenough to take a man in his arms and wrench his head off.

(5)Gorillas appear to talk to one another in high-pitched voices, not unlike those of women, or by smacking their lips orstriking their cheeks,and the female,if alarmed, will scream. The male is capable of making a frightening demonstration in theface of danger. He stays behind while his family gets away, rising to his feet and uttering a terrifying roar. Sometimes he willdrum on his chest and shake the trees around him with every appearance of uncontrollable fury. In extremity he will charge.

(6)But all this is no more than shadow boring as a general rule, for the gorilla is a gentle, kindly creature, a most forgivingape who lives at peace with all the other animals, and his reputation for savagery and belligerence is nothing but a myth. Whenthe animal charges, the thing to do is to stand your ground and look him in the eye. Then he will turn aside and slip awaythrough the undergrowth.

1. Which of the following facts about gorillas does mankind know?

A.Lifespan.

B. Causes of death.

C.Family structure

D. Bone structure.

【答案】D

【解析】推斷題。根據(jù)題干定位至文章第一段和第二段。由“His bones have been mounted in natural historymuseums everywhere”可知，大猩猩的骨頭陳列在各地的自然歷史博物館中，因此可以推斷出人類已經(jīng)對大猩猩的骨頭結(jié)構(gòu)有所了解；由“but even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives， or how orwhy it dies, nor was he able to de-fine the exact social pattern of the family groups, or indicate the final extent oftheir intelligence.”可知，博物學(xué)家也未能弄清楚大猩猩的壽命、死亡方式、死亡原因以及族群確切的社會模式。故選D。

2.Which of the following words is closer to the meaning of “mystery”in Para.2?

A.Myth.

B. Elusive.

C.Horror.

D. Stereotyped.

【答案】B

【解析】推斷題。根據(jù)題干定位至第二段。由“Yet the fact is we know very little about gorillas.”可知我們對大猩猩所知甚少，再根據(jù)mystery所在句后文可知，人們對大猩猩的了解仍停留在一個世紀(jì)前剛知道大猩猩這種動物的時候，也是再次證明了人們對大猩猩這種生物知之甚少，因此可以推斷出mystery與elusive相接近，表示“神秘難懂、捉摸不透”。故選B。

3.What does the author mean by saying “But all this is no more than shadow boxing,...”(Para.6)?

A.When facing danger, gorillas seldom intend to attack others.

B. When gorillas get into fury,they usually attack others.

C. When the family is in danger, the male gorilla protects them.

D. When alarmed, the male gorilla is more likely to show fury.

【答案】A

【解析】推斷題。根據(jù)題干定位至第六段。shadow boxing表示“空拳、佯裝的攻擊”，因此此句想表達(dá)的意思是“所有這些行為不過是在打空拳”，后文用for引出原因，指出大猩猩是一種溫和、善良的生物，與所有其他動物和平共處，是一種最寬容的猿類，因此可以推斷出大猩猩面對危險(xiǎn)時很少發(fā)起攻擊。故選A。

4.We can learn from the passage that the author's attitude towards gorillas is

A. ambiguous

B. hostile

C.sympathetic

D. nonchalant

【答案】C

【解析】觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度題。作者首先指出大猩猩的悲慘遭遇，接著又糾正了人們對大猩猩的誤解，指出大猩猩是一種溫和、善良的生物，與所有其他動物和平共處，是一種最寬容的猿類，C選項(xiàng)sympathetic表示“同情的”，與語境相符。故選C。

【全文翻譯】

（1）大猩猩是非洲景觀中讓人難以捉摸的家伙。人們以為自己很了解它。一百多年來，大猩猩一直遭受捕殺、被圈養(yǎng)在動物園里。它的骨頭被陳列在各地的自然歷史博物館中，一直以來對科學(xué)家和浪漫主義者都有著強(qiáng)烈的吸引力。它在恐怖片和冒險(xiǎn)故事里被習(xí)慣性地當(dāng)成怪物，它還和我們祖先的過去有著明顯（盡管可能不怎么科學(xué)嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)）的聯(lián)系。

（2）然事實(shí)是我們對大猩猩所知甚少。還沒有拍攝到真正令人滿意的野生大猩猩照片；無論多么勇敢的動物學(xué)家也沒能在大猩猩生活的黑暗叢林中對其進(jìn)行持續(xù)的近距離觀察。美國博物學(xué)家卡爾·阿克利在19世紀(jì)20年代曾兩次率領(lǐng)探險(xiǎn)隊(duì)前往烏干達(dá)，如今與他深愛的動物一同安葬在那里。但即使是他也沒能弄清楚大猩猩的壽命長度、死亡方式和死亡原因，也無法確定大猩猩族群確切的社會模式，也無法指出大猩猩智力的最高程度。一個世紀(jì)前，法國探險(xiǎn)家杜·沙伊魯首次向文明世界描述了這種動物?，F(xiàn)在所有這一切和其他許多事情幾乎都和一個世紀(jì)前一樣神秘?？M繞在喜馬拉雅山登山人腦海中的雪怪也沒有比它更難以捉摸。

（3）對大猩猩知之甚少當(dāng)然會讓你想要了解更多。朱利安·赫胥黎爵士曾三次在倫敦動物園記錄一只18個月大的大猩猩用手指勾勒自己影子的輪廓。他寫道：“雖然我們現(xiàn)在都知道。如果為年輕的大猩猩提供必要的材料，它們也會畫“畫”，但盡管如此，在其他類人猿身上也未曾記錄到類似的藝術(shù)主動性?！焙振憷柽€談到，有一名旅行者看到一只雄性大猩猩幫助一只雌性大猩猩爬上陡峭的石階。這種殷勤在動物中肯定是不同尋常的。大猩猩的這種“人性”正是令人著迷的地方。據(jù)一些觀察員說，大猩猩與人類一樣求偶和交配。一旦組建家庭，就會依附在一起。白天，它們成群地在山坡上茂密的竹林里覓食。每只大猩猩都將自己的食物-野生芹菜、竹筍和其他葉子-整齊地堆成一堆，然后蹲下來進(jìn)食；到了晚上，家庭的每個成員都會搭好自己的床。它們將竹葉彎曲交錯成一種橢圓形的窩，像床墊一樣舒適有彈性。大猩猩爸爸會將床搭得離地面只有一兩英尺高，大猩猩媽媽則將床搭得稍微高一些，而孩子們被安全地安置在上方的樹枝中間。

（4）大猩猩走路的時候會把主要受力點(diǎn)放在小腿上，并用長臂末端的指關(guān)節(jié)輕輕地做支撐。一只成年的雄性大猩猩站直時有六英尺高但它巨大的胸膛讓它比任何一個正常男人都重得多。六百磅的體重并不少見。它力量驚人-足以將一個男人抱在懷里，把他的頭擰下來。

（5）大猩猩之間似乎是以類似女人尖叫的高音進(jìn)行交流，或者拍打嘴唇或臉頰。雌性大猩猩如果受驚便會大叫起來。面臨危險(xiǎn)，雄性大猩猩能做出嚇人的示威。當(dāng)其家人逃跑時，雄性大猩猩會留在后面，站起來，發(fā)出可怕的吼聲。有時它會錘擊胸口，晃動周圍的樹木，表現(xiàn)出無法控制的憤怒。極端情況下它還會進(jìn)攻。

（6）但一般來說，所有這些行為不過是在打空拳，因?yàn)榇笮尚墒且环N溫和、善良的生物，和其他動物和平相處，是最寬容的一種猿猴，而它野蠻好斗的名聲不過是虛構(gòu)出來的東西。當(dāng)大猩猩要撞向你時，你要做的是站在原地看著它的眼睛。然后它就會轉(zhuǎn)身從灌木叢中溜走。

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