高级英语阅读考试题目及答案完整版.doc

Reading 1: This is Water1. What’s the point of the fish story?The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.2. What is our natural default-setting, according to Wallace? Do you agree with him? If yes, give examples; if no, examples too, please.I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.Yes, I do. The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever. Other people’s thoughts and feelings how to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.3. Is it possible for us to adjust our natural default-setting? If yes, how? And by the way, why should we adjust it? A: Yes, it is. We should pay attention to what’s going on inside me and stay alert and attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head. what’s more, we should learn how to Think and how to decide.The reason why should we adjust it is that thinking in the way of default-setting that we experience the boring, frustrating, crowed parts of adult life.　B: Yes, it is. Learning how to think------Learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. If we don’t adjust it, we will be totally nosed. 4. What does it mean by ‘learning how to think’? And what is the justifiable way to think? Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.5. What is the meaning of college education? Do you agree? If yes, further explains please, if no, define your meaning of college education and further illustrate it. College education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside our head instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on right in front of us.6. What did Wallace refer to as ' the work of choosing'? A:When you are going through petty, frustrating craps, you need to make a conscious choice of how to think and what to pay attention to.B：Make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to.7. What is the only True matter of the long, lonely 'day in and day out'? B：The only thing what’s capitally true is that you get to decide how you are going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what does not. You get to decide what to worship.8. Why did Wallace suggest the graduating seniors to worship some spiritual things instead of anything else, say money and power? An outstanding reason for choosing some sort of spiritual things to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.9. How did Wallace define the real important freedom and if you would like to, please give your definition of freedom. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, awareness, discipline, effort, and being able truly able to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in my pretty little unsexy ways, every day.10. Finally, what is water? The most obvious, important realities are the hardest to see and talk about.Reading 2: Moon Landing Faked.1. Why pathological explanations cannot be sufficiently used to explain conspiracy theories? Because conspiracy theories are not just the implausible visions of a paranoid minority. There are so many people coming to believe in it.并不是少数妄想狂的难以置信的幻觉。

2.How do you understand contradictory conspiracy theory? 出于一种更高层次的信仰，严重的对权威的不信任3. What is the definition of “conspiracy theory” (Para.7)? Who might those “powerful individuals and organizations” be? A conspiracy theory is usually defined as an attempt to explain the ultimate cause of an important societal event as part of some sinister plot conjured up by a secret alliance of powerful individuals and organizations. Government or officials.一些有权有势的个人和组织组成了一个秘密联盟，而这个秘密联盟策划了那些险恶的阴谋4. Why do people refuse science?B: Widespread belief in conspiracy theories. Receiving positive information about or even merely exposed to conspiracy theories can lead people to become disengaged from important political and societal topics.阴谋论为复杂的社会事件提供简单的解释，提供了可控和可预测的感觉。

Reading 3: What’s Isn’t for Sale?1. What are ‘the hidden costs’ mentioned in the leading paragraph? A:“ The hidden costs ” mentioned in the leading paragraph mainly means that there are some things money cannot buy in the past, but it is possible today. The logic of buying and selling no longer applies to material goods alone. For example, nonviolent offenders can pay for a c。