20xx吴永麟英语100篇精读荟萃

20xx吴永麟英语100篇精读荟萃内容摘要：

以巨大的文明影响，否则人类很难改变。 答案详解 1. A. 不太高。 文章一开始就点出科技巨大进步，而其他方面进展很少。 人们以轻蔑的口气谈及可怜的古罗马人，因为他们欣赏竞技场上的屠杀。 我们轻视他们，因为他们把这些屠杀视为娱乐。 我们可以降阶 /屈尊地谅解他们，因为他们生活在 2020 年前，显然，对好的东西不知道。 在这里作者反问，我们的优越感是否正确呢。 我们的嗜血性是不是少一些。 为什么拳击比赛吸引那么许多人。 在场的观赏者（观众）是不是也希望看到一些暴力呢。 结论是：人类和过去一样残忍。 唯一的不同点在于古罗马人很诚实，他们承认他们欣赏观看饥饿的狮子把人撕碎，活生生吃掉，而 我们会找出各种精辟的理由来保卫早该制止的运动。 第二段举出具体例子，如斗牛、拳击中把人打瘫在地、车赛中，车子碰撞起火，人们就坐在那里观看欣赏，参赛者是为了高报酬，观众付出大笔钱财是为了看到暴力。 作者指出任何体育精神的说法纯粹是虚伪。 如果一场打比赛（世界重量级冠军赛），两轮而不是十五轮就告结束，成千上百万人们会感到失望――这些都证明人的卑下，不文明。 这两段似乎也证明作者的观点应该是 C 项――蔑视的。 但在第三段谈及，好几个世纪以来，人们一直试图在精神上和情感上改善自己，又得承认不怎么成功。 可至少我们不再容忍疯人禁锢 于笼中，当众鞭挞，以及其他许多过去普遍存在的野蛮行径。 监狱也不再是过去那种令人窒息的禁锢之地，社会福利制度在全世界许多地方推行。 在财富公平分配上也作了很大的努力。 这些变化的出现不是因为人突然改善，而是在改变法律上采取了 积极的步骤。 如果我们禁止危险的暴力体育项目，那么我们在改善人类方面又前进了一步。 我们会认识暴力是人类的堕落和卑下（人类不应有的）。 从这段来看，作者对人类还抱有希望，不是很蔑视。 所以选 A项。 2. A. 法律应禁止堕落而又危险的体育项目。 见第一题注释。 作者从古罗马人欣赏 残忍的体育项目说起，点出现代人也是嗜血成性，喜欢暴力体育项目。 这是不文明，是堕落。 必须制止，而法律是我们社会改革最强大的工具，它可应用，发挥强大的文明影响（第三段倒数第三句） B. 人们愿意支付巨大款项来观看暴力。 这是作者说明“嗜血成性”的具体内容之一。 C. 对比对危险体育项目不同的态度。 这里没有对比。 D.人类嗜血成性。 这是作者认为人们为什么欣赏危险残忍体育项目的根源。 3. D. 人们在体育上习惯于“嗜血成性”，过去是，现在仍然是，不同点只是前者坦直承认，后者婉转掩饰。 见第一题注释。 A. 把古罗马人和现代人对比。 这项没有说明对比什么。 B. 给出一个例子。 太抽象。 C. 说明过去人类不太知道更美好的东西，这两项都没有到位。 4. B. 5个。 作者提到⑴逗熊游戏；⑵斗牛；⑶车赛；⑷拳击；⑸人狮斗。 至于当众鞭挞和绞刑不能称作体育活动。 5. A. 通过制止野蛮体育项目，我们能改善人类自身。 这在第三段讲的最透彻，见第一题和第二题注释。 B. 通过制止野蛮体育活动，我们能改善法律，不完全对。 作者明确指出要用法律来禁止野蛮体育项目。 C. 我们必须采取积极 步骤来改善社会福利体制。 D. 去表明法律是社会变革的主要工具。 Passage three(Advertisers Perform a Useful Service to the Community) Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’ re always ing in for criticism. Their critics seem to resent them because they have a flair for selfpromotion and because they have so much money to throw around. ‘ It’ s iniquitous,’ they say, ‘ that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big panies are making. Why don’ t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’ s the consumer who pays„’ The poor old consumer! He’ d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’ t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement. Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities. We must not fet, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, mercial radio and television panies could not subsist without this source of revenue. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price! Another thing we mustn’ t fet is the ‘ small ads.’ which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a tremendously useful service they perform for the munity! Just about anything can be acplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the ‘ hatch, match and dispatch’ column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or ‘ agony’ column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It’ s the best advertisement for advertising there is! 1. What is main idea of this passage? A. Advertisement. B. The benefits of advertisement. C. Advertisers perform a useful service to munities. D. The costs of advertisement. 2. The attitude of the author toward advertisers is A. appreciative. B. trustworthy. C. critical. D. dissatisfactory. 3. Why do the critics criticize advertisers? A. Because advertisers often brag. B. Because critics think advertisement is a “ waste of money” . C. Because customers are encouraged to buy more than necessary. D. Because customers pay more. 4. Which of the following is Not True? A. Advertisement makes contribution to our pockets and we may know everything. B. We can buy what we want. C. Good quality products don’ t need to be advertised. D. Advertisement makes our life colorful. 5. The passage is A. Narration. B. Description. C. Criticism. D. Argumentation. Vocabulary 1. e in for ( sth. ) 是某事物的对象，吸引（某事物），获得 2. flair 天资，天分 3. iniquitous 极邪恶的，极不公正的 4. drab 单调的，乏味的 5. subsist 活下去，生存下去，维持下去 6. hatch 孵化（指生孩子） 7. match 匹配，婚姻 8. dispatch 派遣，发送 9. agony 极大痛苦，煎熬 10. agony column。