北语17秋《阅读IV》作业3文档格式.docx

1、 a meaning to their work well over and beyond the reward of the paycheck. For the many, there is a hardly concealed discontent. The blue-collar blues is no more bitterly sung than the white-collar moan. Im a machine, says the spot-welder. m caged, says the bank teller, and echoes the hotel clerk. m

2、a mule, says the steelworker. A monkey can do what I do, says the receptionist. m less than a farm implement, says the migrant worker. m an object, says the high-fashion model. Blue collar and white call upon the identical phrase: m a robot.There is nothing to talk about, the young accountant despai

3、ringly enunciates. It was some time ago that John Henry sang, A man aint nothin but a man. The hard, unromantic fact is: he died with his hammer in his hand, while the machine pumped on. Nonetheless, he found immortality. He is remembered. As the automated pace of our daily jobs wipes out name and f

4、ace-and, in many instances, feeling-there is a sacrilegious question being asked these days. To earn ones bread by the sweat of ones brow has always been the lot of mankind. At least, ever since Edens slothful couple was served with an eviction notice, the scriptural precept was never doubted, not o

5、ut loud. No matter how demeaning the task, no matter how it dulls the senses and breaks the spirit, one must work. Or else. Lately there has been a questioning of its work ethic especially by the young. Strangely enough, it has touched off profound grievances in others, hitherto devout, silent, and

6、anonymous. Unexpected precincts are being heard from in a show of discontent. Communiques from the assembly line are frequent and alarming; absenteeism. On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, mi

7、ddle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job. Question:The second paragraph reveals that _.A. everyone is working hardB. most people cannot get satisfaction from their workC. people are robotsD. people are immortalized and remembered through their work 满分：4 分2

8、. I _ asleep in the corner, for I remember nothing of what happened during the night.A. might fallB. must fallC. must have fallenD. can have fallen3. California-born and Stanford-educated, John Steinbeck gained prominence during the Great Depression of the 1930s as a novelist who combined themes of

9、social protest with a benign view of human nature and a biological interpretation of human experience, a combination that gained him wide popularity and provided the basis for a career not only in fiction but also in journalism, the theater, and films. John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., was born in 1902, in

10、 the Salinas Valley, whose scenery, agricultural workers, and neer-do-well paisanos appear frequently in his fiction. His father was treasurer of Monterey County, and his mother was a former schoolteacher. Their library introduced him early to such standard authors as Milton, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, G

11、eorge Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. He was a contributor to the school newspaper, a varsity athlete, and president of his graduating class in high school, and he attended Stanford University sporadically between 1920 and 1925, majoring in English, but never finished the degree. He worked on ranches and o

12、n a road gang before trying futilely to establish himself as a writer during a brief stay in New York City in 1926, and he worked in a California fish hatchery and camped in the Sierras before publishing his first novel, Cup of Gold, in 1929. In those years he read D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Sher

13、wood Anderson, and particularly the novelists James Branch Cabelland, Hemingway with enthusiasm, but his perennial interests were the classics of Continental literature and the ancient historians. In 1930 he married and moved to Pacific Grove, California, where his father provided a house and small

14、allowance to support him. Two unsuccessful novels treating the enchantment of the American Dream and the cost of pursuing it （The Pastures of Heaven, 1932, and To a God Unknown, 1933） preceded his first successes, Tortilla Flat in 1935 and In Dubious Battle in 1936. The first was an episodic, warmly

15、 humorous treatment of a band of paisanos （a mixture of Spanish, Indian, and Caucasian strands）. Their picturesque and shiftless ways, naive affection for their church, mystical appreciation of nature, and loyalty to their band are given the air of legend and likened to the tales of King Arthurs Rou

16、nd Table. The second deals with a strike among fruit pickers, its defeat by the landowners with their vigilantes, and the efforts of communist organizers first to organize the strike and then to exploit the workers. Paisanos means _.A. rich peopleB. poor peopleC. peasantsD. laborers4. To create a su

17、percell, take a storm where wind speed increases with height, while wind direction veers; a situation in which updraughts and downdraughts within the thunderstorm can support each others existence rather than cancel each other out. It is as winds blow into this turbulent region from three to five ki

18、lometers up that a low-pressure section of the storm may begin to rotate. The rotation of this part of the storm （known as a mesocyclone） causes the air pressure to fall some more, prompting wind lower down to flow into the storm and speed up upwards. This creates a spinning updraught which high-lev

19、el winds in the storm can boost in the same way that wind blowing across the top of a chimney does wonders for drawing up an open fire. Youre not yet looking at a tornado, though if youre watching this particular storm develop you might start looking for a getaway car -especially if the storm begins

20、 to change shape. When mid-to upper-level winds upwind of the storm encounter the supercell, some are forced to detour round it. They converge again downwind, moulding the storm clouds into an ominous anvil-shape in the process. But while some wind goes round the mesocyclone, some runs full square i

21、nto this meteorological brick wall and is forced downward, creating a rear flank downdraught （RFD） which many experts believe is what makes or breaks a tornadic storm. Its when an RFD tries to swing around the base of the storm, narrowing the area of wind flowing into the updraught and increasing it

22、s spin （in the same way figure skaters when their arms are pulled in） that you might want to get into your getaway car. If youre anywhere beneath whirling piece of meteorological give and take-a funnel cloud-you are in a bad, dangerous place known to stormchasers as the bear cage. Its where, if the

23、funnel cloud sticks around long enough for the updraught to touchdown on terra firma, you will find yourself on the inside of a tornado. What can be inferred from the third paragraph?A. If an updraught is created, tornado appears.B. A tornado comes into being when a RFD is created.C. RFD is created

24、if winds go round the mesocyclone.D. When meeting supercell, winds will blow in all directions.5. Mary _ in the garden when it began to rain.A. was walkingB. walkedC. walkingD. had walked6. To create a supercell, take a storm where wind speed increases with height, while wind direction veers;If you were caught by a tornado, which of the following statement is NOT right?A. You must have been in .B. It should have been the updraught that got you.C.