专业英语四级(阅读)模拟试卷180(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷180

(题后含答案及解析)

题型有： 5. READING COMPREHENSION

PART V READING COMPREHENSION

SECTION AIn this section there are several passages followed by ten

multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers

marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.

(1) The Clyde whom Samuel Griffiths described as having met at the Union

League Club in Chicago, was a somewhat modified version of the one who had fled

from Kansas City three years before. He was now twenty, a little taller and more

firmly but scarcely any more robustly built, and considerably more experienced, of

course. (2) For since leaving his home and work in Kansas City and coming in

contact with some rough usage in the world—humble tasks, wretched rooms, no

intimates to speak of, plus the compulsion to make his own way as best he might—he

had developed a kind of self-reliance and smoothness of address such as one would

scarcely have credited him with three years before. There was about him now,

although he was not nearly so smartly dressed as when he left Kansas City, a kind of

conscious gentility (文雅) of manner which pleased, even though it did not at first

arrest attention. Also, and this was considerably different from the Clyde who had

crept away from Kansas City in a box car, he had much more of an air of caution and

reserve. (3) For ever since he had fled from Kansas City, and by one humble

device and another forced to make his way, he had been coming to the conclusion that

on himself alone depended his future. His family, as he now definitely sensed, could

do nothing for him. They were too impractical and too poor—his mother, father, Esta,

all of them. (4) At the same time, in spite of all their difficulties, he could not now

help but feel drawn to them, his mother in particular, and the old home life that had

surrounded him as a boy—his brother and sisters, Esta included, since she, too, as he

now saw it, had been brought no lower than he by circumstances over which she

probably had no more control. And often, his thoughts and mood had gone back with

a definite and disconcerting pang (一阵剧痛) because of the way in which he had

treated his mother as well as the way in which his career in Kansas City had been

suddenly interrupted—his loss of Hortense Briggs—a severe blow; the troubles that

had come to him since; the trouble that must have come to his mother and Esta

because of him. (5) On reaching St. Louis two days later after his flight, and after

having been most painfully bundled out (赶，匆忙打发) into the snow a hundred miles

from Kansas City in the gray of a winter morning, and at the same time relieved of his

watch and overcoat by two brakemen who had found him hiding in the car, he had

picked up a Kansas City paper—The Star—only to realize that his worst fear in regard

to all that had occurred had come true. For there, under a two-column head, and with

fully a column and a half of reading matter below, was the full story of all that had