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  SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 10

  Passage 1

  It begins the moment you set foot ashore, the moment

  you step off the boat's gangway. The heart suddenly, yet vaguely,

  sinks. It is no lurch of fear. Quite the contrary. It is as if the life-

  urge failed, and the heart dimly sank. You trail past the

  5 benevolent policeman and the inoffensive passport officials,

  through the fussy and somehow foolish customs - we don't really

  think it matters if somebody smuggles in two pairs of false-silk

  stockings - and we get into the poky but inoffensive train, with

  poky but utterly inoffensive people, and we have a cup of

  10 inoffensive tea from a nice inoffensive boy, and we run through

  small, poky but nice and inoffensive country, till we are landed

  in the big but unexciting station of Victoria, when an inoffensive

  porter puts us into an inoffensive taxi and we are driven through

  the crowded yet strangely dull streets of London to the cosy yet

  15 strangely poky and dull place where we are going to stay. And

  the first half-hour in London, after some years abroad, is really a

  plunge of misery. The strange, the grey and uncanny, almost

  deathly sense of dullness is overwhelming. Of course, you get

  over it after a while, and admit that you exaggerated. You get

  20 into the rhythm of London again, and you tell yourself that it is

  not dull. And yet you are haunted, all the time, sleeping or

  waking, with the uncanny feeling: It is dull! It is all dull! This

  life here is one vast complex of dullness! I am dull! I am being

  dulled! My spirit is being dulled! My life is dulling down to

  25 London dullness.

  This is the nightmare that haunts you the first few weeks

  of London. No doubt if you stay longer you get over it, and find

  London as thrilling as Paris or Rome or New York. But the

  climate is against me. I cannot stay long enough. With pinched

  30 and wondering gaze, the morning of departure, I look out of the

  taxi upon the strange dullness of London's arousing; a sort of

  death; and hope and life only return when I get my seat in the

  boat-train, and hear all the Good-byes! Good-bye! Good-bye!

  Thank God to say Good-bye!

  Passage 2

  35 On the banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of

  accidents - the London-lover has to confess to the existence of

  miles upon miles of the dreariest, stodgiest commonness.

  Thousands of acres are covered by low black houses, of the

  cheapest construction, without ornament, without grace, without

  40 character or even identity. In fact there are many, even in the best

  quarters, in all the region of Mayfair and Belgravia, of so paltry

  and inconvenient and above all of so diminutive a type, that you

  wonder what peculiarly limited domestic need they were

  constructed to meet. The great misfortune of London, to the eye

  45 (it is true that this remark applies much less to the City), is the

  want of elevation. There is no architectural impression without a

  certain degree of height, and the London street-vista has none of

  that sort of pride.

  All the same, if there be not the intention, there is at least the

  50 accident, of style, which, if one looks at it in a friendly way,

  appears to proceed from three sources. One of these is simply the

  general greatness, and the manner in which that makes a

  difference for the better in any particular spot, so that though you

  may often perceive yourself to be in a shabby corner it never

  55 occurs to you that this is the end of it. Another is the atmosphere,

  with its magnificent mystifications, which flatters and

  superfuses, makes everything brown, rich, dim, vague, magnifies

  distances and minimises details, confirms the inference of

  vastness by suggesting that, as the great city makes everything, it

  60 makes its own system of weather and its own optical laws. The

  last is the congregation of the parks, which constitute an

  ornament not elsewhere to be matched and give the place a

  superiority that none of its uglinesses overcome. They spread

  themselves with such a luxury of space in the centre of the town

  65 that they form a part of the impression of any walk, of almost any

  view, and, with an audacity altogether their own, make a pastoral

  landscape under the smoky sky. There is no mood of the rich

  London climate that is not becoming to them - I have seen them

  look delightfully romantic, like parks in novels, in the wettest

  70 winter - and there is scarcely a mood of the appreciative resident

  to which they have not something to say. The high things of

  London, which here and there peep over them, only make the

  spaces vaster by reminding you that you are after all not in Kent

  or Yorkshire; and these things, whatever they be, rows of

  75 'eligible' dwellings, towers of churches, domes of institutions,

  take such an effective gray-blue tint that a clever watercolorist

  would seem to have put them in for pictorial reasons.

  The view from the bridge over the Serpentine has an

  extraordinary nobleness, and it has often seemed to me that the

  80 Londoner twitted with his low standard may point to it with

  every confidence. In all the town-scenery of Europe there can be

  few things so fine; the only reproach it is open to is that it begs

  the question by seeming - in spite of its being the pride of five

  millions of people - not to belong to a town at all. The towers of

  85 Notre Dame, as they rise, in Paris, from the island that divides

  the Seine, present themselves no more impressively than those of

  Westminster as you see them looking doubly far beyond the

  shining stretch of Hyde Park water. Equally admirable is the

  large, river-like manner in which the Serpentine opens away

  90 between its wooded shores. Just after you have crossed the

  bridge you enjoy on your left, through the gate of Kensington

  Gardens, an altogether enchanting vista - a footpath over the

  grass, which loses itself beneath the scattered oaks and elms

  exactly as if the place were a 'chase.' There could be nothing less

  95 like London in general than this particular morsel, and yet it

  takes London, of all cities, to give you such an impression of the

  country.


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inoffensive [.inə'fensiv]

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adj. 无害的,没恶意的,不讨厌的

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vast [vɑ:st]

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adj. 巨大的,广阔的
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benevolent [bi'nevələnt]

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adj. 仁慈的,乐善好施的

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ornament ['ɔ:nəmənt]

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n. 装饰,装饰物
vt. 装饰

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vista ['vistə]

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n. 街景,展望,回想

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contrast ['kɔntræst,kən'træst]

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n. 差别,对比,对照物
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variety [və'raiəti]

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n. 多样,种类,杂耍

 
overwhelming ['əuvə'welmiŋ]

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adj. 势不可挡的,压倒的

 
dislike [dis'laik]

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v. 不喜欢,厌恶
n. 不喜爱,厌恶,反感

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urge [ə:dʒ]

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vt. 驱策,鼓励,力陈,催促
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