2015年学位英语考试冲刺试题及答案（第七套）
Passage 3
In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.
It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras (交响乐团). It became a fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly.
At the same time, the "Fringe" appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.
Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Ox-ford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.
Today the "Fringe", once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959,with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.
A paid administrator (行政人员)was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold.
26. What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?
A. To bring Europe together again.
B. To honor heroes of World War 11.
C. To introduce young theatre groups.
D. To attract great artists from Europe.
27. Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 19477__________.
A. They owned a public house there.
B. They came to take up a challenge.
C. They thought they .were also famous.
D. They wanted to take part in the festival.
28. Who joined the "Fringe" after it appeared?
A. Popular writers.
B. University students.
C. Artists from around the world.
D. Performers of music and dance.
29. We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival__________.
A. has become a non-official event
B. has gone beyond an art festival
C. gives shows all year round
D. keeps growing rapidly
30. The first group of students making the journey to the Scottish capital to perform theater is from__________.
A. Oxford University .
B. Edinburgh University
C. Cambridge University
D. Birmingham University
Passage 4
There is no doubt that adults, and even highly educated adults, vary greatly in the speed and efficiency of their reading. Some proceed very slowly throughout; others dash along too quickly and then have to regress. Poor readers in particular may lack the ability to vary their manner of reading according to the type of reading matter and to their intentions in reading it. A good reader can move at greats peed through the text of a novel or similar light reading matter. He may be able to skim a page, picking up a word or two here and there, and gain a general idea of what the text is about without really reading it. In reading more difficult material, with the intention of taking in the whole of it, he will proceed more slowly, but even then he will vary his pace, concentrating on the key words and passages, perhaps re-reading them several times and pass more quickly over the remainder. A less efcient reader tends to maintain the same speed whatever the material he reads. Consequently, even light reading matter gives him little pleasure because he reads so slowly. But this pace may be too fast for eally difficult material which requires special concentration at difficult points.
A type of reading which necessitates careful attention to detail is proofreading, in which the reader, in order to detect misprints in a sample print, has to notice not so much the meaning of what hereads as the exact shape and order of letters and words in the text. This is extremely difficult for most people, since they are accustomed to overlooking such details. In fact, considerable practice is required to practice this task efficiently and it can be done only by reading very slowly, and by paying comparatively little attention to the general meaning of the text.
31. The author claims that there is a difference in reading speed__________.
A. among readers who have different experience
B. among all the readers
C. between the poorly educated and the highly educated
D. among the highly educated people
32. A good reader is a reader who
A. concentrates on the wonderful part of the article
B. always reads slowly and carefully
C. changes his speed according to the kind of text
D. changes his speed according to the interesting of the text
33. The author says that when reading a novel, a good reader can quickly read
A. every part of the book
B. the most wonderful part in the book
C. the major part in the book
D. the scientific part of the book
34. The last two sentences of the first paragraph mean that
A. a reading speed too slow for a difficult book is just right for a non-serious one
B. a reading speed too slow for a non-serious book may be too fast for a difficult one
C. A reading speed too fast for difficult material is just right for a non-serious book is also too slow for a difficult one
D. A reading speed too slow for a non-serious book is also too slow for a difficult one
35. Which of the following can be the title of the passage?
A. Reading and listening.
B. Difference between highly-educated and poorly educated.
C. Practice reading skill.
D. Difference in the speed and efficiency of reading.
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