【考研英语】2021年 5 月吉林建筑工程学院研究生招生考试英语练习题100道(附答案解析)第 1 题解答题Directions:On your way from Beijing to Paris,you lost your luggagecarried by the airline.Write a complaint letter to the service center ofthe Airline.In your letter,you should tell them 1)what happened to yourluggage,2)what your luggage is like,3)what compensation you expect.Do not sign your own name.Use“Li Ming,z instead.You do not need towrite the address.正确答案】Dear Sir or MadamJ am writing because I need tocomplain to you about what happened to my luggage carried byyour airlines.On Friday,June 2,2006,I traveled on your airlinesfrom Beijing to Paris.When I went to pick up my luggage inParis,I was informed that it was missing.The lost luggage is ablack suitcase,50 cm in length and 30 cm in width,in whichthere are five volumes of valuable research papers.If theycannot be found for me,I am sure that you will agree to pay me 1000,the estimated worth of my luggage on my claim ticket,to compensate for my great loss.I have always enjoyed thegood service of your airlines,and I look forward to receiving thesame kind of good service in this matter.Sincerely Li Ming第2题【单选题】If they want to,that/s fine with me.A、integrateB、sustainC、pressureD license【正确答案】A【答案解析】integrate求积分；取消隔离；成为一体。第3题【单选题】My teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood thateverything has a name.A、我的老师和我相处了好几个星期以后，我才知道每样东西都有一个名字。B、我在知道每样东西都有一个名字以前，我的老师和我相处了好几个星期。C、老师教了我好几个星期以后，我才知道每样东西都有一个名字。D、我在知道每样东西都有一个名字之前，老师教了我好几个星期。【正确答案】C【答案解析】答案选C。本题考查before的译法。第4题【单选题】Our journey was slow because the train stopped at differentvillages.A、unceasinglyB、graduallyC、continuouslyD continually【正确答案】D【答案解析】unceasingly没停顿的。gradually逐渐的。continuously 连续不断的。continually 不断的。第5题【单选题】It is a wise father that knows his own child,but today a man can boosthis paternal(fatherly)wisdomor at least confirm that hes the kids dad.All he needs to do is shell out$30 for paternity testing kit(PTK)at hislocal drugstoreand another$120 to get the results.More than 60,000people have purchased the PTKs since they first become availablewithout prescriptions last years,according to Doug Fogg,chief operatingofficer of Identigene,which makes the over-the-counter kits.More thantwo dozen companies sell DNA tests directly to the public,ranging inprice from a few hundred dollars to more than$2500.In paragraphs 1and 2,the text shows PTK s.A、easy availabilityB、flexibility in pricingC、successful promotionD、popularity with households【正确答案】A【答案解析】答案选A o段落主旨题。本文开篇提出All heneeds to do is shell out$30 for paternity testing kit(PTK)at hislocal drugstoreand another$120 to get the results/,指出了PTK这一测试的普遍性，第2段也跟进补充说明PTK测试的普遍性，所以A的内容符合原文。第 6 题阅读理解Many things make people think artists are weird.But the weirdest maybe this:artists only job is to explore emotions,and yet they choose tofocus on the ones that feel bad.This wasn/t always so.The earliest formsof art,like painting and music,are those best suited for expressing joy.But somewhere from the 19th century onward,more artists beganseeing happiness as meaningless,phony or,worst of all,boring,as wewent from Wordsworth/s daffodils to Baudelaire/s flowers of evil.Youcould argue that art became more skeptical of happiness becausemodern times have seen so much misery.But its not as if earlier timesdidn/t know perpetual war,disaster and the massacre of innocents.Thereason,in fact,may be just the opposite:there is too much damnhappiness in the world today.After all,what is the one modern form ofexpression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness?Advertising.The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks theemergence of mass media,and with it,a commercial culture in whichhappiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.People in earlier eras weresurrounded by reminders of misery.They worked until exhausted,livedwith few protections and died young.In the West,before masscommunication and literacy,the most powerful mass medium was thechurch,which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger andthat they would someday be meat for worms.Given all this,they did notexactly need their art to be a bummer too.Today the messages theaverage Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial,and forever happy.Fast-food eaters,news anchors,text messengers,allsmiling,smiling,smiling.Our magazines feature beaming celebrities andhappy families in perfect homes.And since these messages have anagendato lure us to open our walletsthey make the very idea ofhappiness seem unreliable.Celebrate!”commanded the ads for thearthritis drug Celebrex,before we found out it could increase the risk ofheart attacks.But what we forgetwhat our economy depends on usforgettingis that happiness is more than pleasure without pain.Thethings that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss anddisappointment.Today,surrounded by promises of easy happiness,weneed art to tell us,as religion once did,Memento mori:remember thatyou will die,that everything ends,and that happiness comes not indenying this