2022年考博英语-四川师范大学考前模拟强化练习题84（附答案详解）

2022年考博英语-四川师范大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题It is clear that human history will end; the only mystery is when. It is also clear that if the timing is left to nature (or, if you prefer, to God) and humans hang on until the bloody end, the races final exit will be ignoble. If future generations escape the saurian agony of extinction by a wandering chunk of rock or ice, the suns unavoidable growth to giant-hood will still burn their last successors to ashes: only cinders and gases and dust will remain.Far future generations might prolong the process by posting colonies beyond the earths orbit, but these would be sad outposts at the end of the solar systems long day, clutching memories of a lost planet and of billions of sacrificed souls. The difficultiesfantastic difficultiesof interstellar travel might be overcome, but the mightiest of starships could do no more than defer the end of the world. An ignoble existence hopping from planet to planetclinging to each clod until it, in its turn, was vaporized or frozenmight still be bearable were it not for the knowledge of its final uselessness. In the end, there is only death by gravity or entropy, the fiery quantum pit or the heatless grey soup.The great violinist Jascha Heifetz was great not least because he quit the concert stage at his peak, before the show became stale or the audience drifted away. To exit gracefully is sublime, as Heifetz understood. And only one species is capable of choosing a similarly graceful exit; all others march on like robots. To call time on the human race by choice, not necessity, would be the final victory of the human spirit over animal nature, an absolute emancipation from the command of DNA. Precisely because no other known life-form could do or even conceive such a thing, humanity must.More science has revealed only one place in the universe that is hospitable to intelligent life, and humans are the only intelligence that, as far as is known, has ever enjoyed the opportunity to occupy it. If people left the stage after a reasonable run, in the fullness of time intelligence could evolve again (dolphin-people? Chimp-people? Orchid-people?). And then, in due course, when this new species deciphered human books or reached the marker that might be left for them on the windless moon, they would know that man ended his dominion so that theirs might begin. Imagine, then, how they will regard us. It is, far and away, the greatest act of goodness ever contemplated, the ennoblement of a whole species; an act, almost, of angels.1. According to the passage, what might be human beings best choice about its future?2. What does “interstellar travel” serve according to the writer?3. The writer cites Jascha Heifetzs example mainly because _.4. According to the passage, what may be the reason for human beings leaving the stage?5. The writer thinks human beings leaving the stage can be any of the following BUT _.问题1选项A.Leaving the timing to nature.B.The saurian-like elimination.C.Being eliminated by the suns unavoidable growth to giant hood.D.Leaving the timing to human being itself.问题2选项A.A practical way to escape the end of the world.B.Nothing more than postponing the end of the world.C.A way hopping from planet to planet.D.A way to escape from gravity.问题3选项A.he is a famous violinistB.he quits the concert stage at his peakC.he quitting the stage gives some inspiration to human beingsD.he is adorned by his audience问题4选项A.The force of the nature.B.The force of the God.C.Human beings rationality.D.The command of DN问题5选项A.the greatest act of goodness ever contemplatedB.the ennoblement of a whole speciesC.an act, almost, of angelsD.human beings having no alternative【答案】第1题:D第2题:B第3题:B第4题:C第5题:D【解析】1.判断推理题。根据题干可定位到文章第三段“To exit gracefully is sublime, as Heifetz understood. And only one species is capable of choosing a similarly graceful exit; all others march on like robots. To call time on the human race by choice, not necessity, would be the final victory of the human spirit over animal nature, an absolute emancipation from the command of DNA.（正如海菲兹所理解的，优雅地退出是崇高的。只有生物物种能够选择同样优雅的退出；其他所有人都像机器人一样前进。选择而非必然地呼唤人类的时间，将是人类精神对动物本性的最终胜利，是人类从DNA的控制下的绝对解放。）”，由此表明人类应该自愿地选择结束，即作者认为，人类应该用自己的理性控制退出的时间，因此D选项“把时间留给人类自己”正确。根据第一段中的“.if the timing is left to nature and humans hang on until the bloody end, the races final exit will be ignoble.（如果把时间留给大自然，人类坚持到血腥的结局，种族的最后退出将是不光彩的。）”可知本文不支持A选项“把时间留给大自然”的做法；B选项“像蜥蜴一样的消灭”和C选项“被太阳不可避免的长成的巨大的遮光罩所消灭”都还是属于由自然的力量结束人类的做法，同样不能作为本题答案。因此D选项正确。2.细节事实题。根据题干可定位到文章第二段“The difficultiesfantastic difficultiesof interstellar travel might be overcome, but the mightiest of starships could do no more than defer the end of the world.（星际旅行的困难难以想象的困难也许能被克服，但是最强大的星际飞船也只能推迟世界末日的到来。）”，由此可知B选项“无非是推迟世界末日”说法正确。A选项“一个逃离世界末日的实用方法”说法错误，文中作者提到了“fantastic difficulties（难以