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  SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 4

  10 mins - 7 questions

  The excerpt is taken from a novel. Mr. Harding, now an old man, has lost his position as the Warden of a hospital for old men. He has just come from an unsuccessful interview with Mr. Slope concerning his reappointment to the position.

  Mr. Harding was not a happy man as he walked down

  the palace pathway, and stepped out into the close. His

  position and pleasant house were a second time

  gone from him; but that he could endure. He had been

  5 schooled and insulted by a man young enough to be

  his son; but that he could put up with. He could even

  draw from the very injuries which had been inflicted

  on him some of that consolation which, we may

  believe, martyrs always receive from the injustice of

  10 their own sufferings. He had admitted to his daughter

  that he wanted the comfort of his old home, and yet he

  could have returned to his lodgings in the High Street,

  if not with exultation, at least with satisfaction, had

  that been all. But the venom of the chaplain's

  15 harangue had worked into his blood, and sapped the

  life of his sweet contentment.

  'New men are carrying out new measures, and

  are carting away the useless rubbish of past centuries!'

  What cruel words these had been- and how often are

  20 they now used with all the heartless cruelty of a

  Slope! A man is sufficiently condemned if it can only

  be shown that either in politics or religion he does not

  belong to some new school established within the last

  score of years. He may then regard himself as rubbish

  25 and expect to be carted away. A man is nothing now

  unless he has within him a full appreciation of the

  new era; an era in which it would seem that neither

  honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which

  success is the only touchstone of merit. We must

  30 laugh at everything that is established. Let the joke be

  ever so bad, ever so untrue to the real principles of

  joking; nevertheless we must laugh - or else beware

  the cart. We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit

  of the times, or else we are nought. New men and new

  35 measures, long credit and few scruples, great success

  or wonderful ruin, such are now the tastes of

  Englishmen who know how to live! Alas, alas! Under

  such circumstances Mr. Harding could not but feel

  that he was an Englishman who did not know how to

  40 live. This new doctrine of Mr. Slope and the rubbish

  cart sadly disturbed his equanimity.

  'The same thing is going on throughout the

  whole country!' 'Work is now required from every

  man who receives wages!' And had he been living all

  45 his life receiving wages, and doing no work? Had he

  in truth so lived as to be now in his old age justly

  reckoned as rubbish fit only to be hidden away in

  some huge dust-hole? The school of men to whom he

  professes to belong, the Grantlys, the Gwynnes, are

  50 afflicted with no such self-accusations as these which

  troubled Mr. Harding. They, as a rule, are as satisfied

  with the wisdom and propriety of their own conduct

  as can be any Mr. Slope, or any Bishop with his own.

  But, unfortunately for himself, Mr. Harding had little

  55 of this self-reliance. When he heard himself

  designated as rubbish by the Slopes of the world, he

  had no other resource than to make inquiry within his

  own bosom as to the truth of the designation. Alas,

  alas! the evidence seemed generally to go against him.

重点单词   查看全部解释    
harangue [hə'ræŋ]

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n. 长篇演说 vt. 向 ... 夸夸其谈地演讲 vi

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explanation [.eksplə'neiʃən]

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n. 解释,说明

 
doctrine ['dɔktrin]

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n. 教义,主义,学说,(政府政策的)正式声明

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score [skɔ:]

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n. 得分,刻痕,二十,乐谱
vt. 记分,刻

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interview ['intəvju:]

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n. 接见,会见,面试,面谈
vt. 接见,采

 
comfort ['kʌmfət]

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n. 舒适,安逸,安慰,慰藉
vt. 安慰,使

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ruin [ruin]

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v. 毁灭,毁坏,破产
n. 毁灭,崩溃,废墟

 
appreciation [ə.pri:ʃi'eiʃən]

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n. 欣赏,感激,鉴识,评价,增值

 
venom ['venəm]

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n. 毒液,恶意

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politician [.pɔli'tiʃən]

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n. 政治家,政客

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