2022年考博英语-湘潭大学考试题库及全真模拟冲刺卷（附答案带详解）1. 单选题Ricci, 45, is now striking out on perhaps his boldest venture yet. He plans to market an English language edition of his elegant monthly art magazine, FMR, in the United States. Once again the skeptics are murmuring that the successful Ricci has headed for a big fall. And once again Ricci intends to prove them wrong.Ricci is so confident that he has christened his quest “Operation Columbus” and has set his sights on discovering an American readership of 300,000. That goal may not be too far-fetched. The Italian edition of FMRthe initials, of course, stand for Franco Maria Ricci is only 18 months old. But it is already the second largest art magazine in the world, with a circulation of 65,000 and a profit margin of US $ 500,000. The American edition will be patterned after the Italian version, with each 160-pageissue carrying only 40 pages of ads and no more than five articles. But the contents will often differ. The English-language edition will include more American works, Ricci says, to help Americans get over “an inferiority complex about their art,” He also hopes that the magazine will become a vehicle for a two-way cultural exchange what he likes to think of as a marriage of brains, culture and taste from both sides of the Atlantic.To realize this vision, Ricci is mounting one of the most lavish, enterprisingand expensive-promotional campaigns in magazine-publishing history. Between November and January, eight jumbo jets will fly 8 million copies of a sample 16-page edition of FMR across the Atlantic. From a warehouse in Michigan, 6.5 million copies will be mailed to American subscribers of various cultural, art and business magazines. Some of the remaining copies will circulate as a special Sunday supplement in the New York Times. The cost of launching Operation Columbus is a staggering US $ 5 million, but Ricci is hoping that 60% of the price tag will be financed by Italian corporations. “To land in America Columbus had to use Spanish sponsors,” reads one sentence in his promotional pamphlet. “We would like Italians.”Like Columbus, Ricci cannot know what his reception will be on foreign shores. In Italy he gambled and won on a simple concept: it is more important to show art than to write about it. Hence, one issue of FMR might feature 32 full-color pages of 17th-century tapestries, followed by 14 pages of outrageous eyeglasses. He is gambling that the concept is exportable. “I dont expect that more than 30% of my reader. will actually read FMR,” he says. “The magazine is such a visual delight that they dont have to.” Still, he is lining up an impressive stable of writers and professors for the American edition, including Noam Chomsky, Anthony Burgess, Eric Jong and Norman Mailer. In addition, he seems to be pursuing his own eclectic vision without giving a moments thought to such established competitors as Connoisseur and Horizon. “The Americans can do almost everything better than we can，” says Ricci, “But we (the Italians) have a 2,000 year edge on them in art.”1.Ricci intends his American edition of FMR to carry more American art works in order to（ ）.2.Ricci is compared to Columbus in the passage mainly because（ ）.3.We get the impression that the American edition of FMR will probably（ ）.问题1选项A.boost Americans confidence in their artB.follow the pattern set by his Italian editionC.help Italians understand American art betterD.expand the readership of his magazine问题2选项A.they both benefited from Italian sponsorsB.they were explorers in their own waysC.they obtained overseas sponsorshipD.they got a warm reception in America问题3选项A.carry many academic articles of high standardB.follow the style of some famous existing magazinesC.be mad by one third of American magazine readersD.pursue a distinctive editorial style of its own【答案】第1题:A第2题:B第3题:D【解析】1.细节事实题。本题是问Ricci为什么计划在美国版的FMR上登载更多的美国艺术品。根据本文的第二段倒数第二句“The English-language edition will include more American works, Ricci says, to help Americans get over an inferiority complex about their art. 里奇说，英文版将包括更多的美国作品，以帮助美国人克服“对自己艺术的自卑情结”。由此可知，登载更多美国艺术品是为了帮助美国人树立自信心，因为他们对其没有太长历史的文化艺术而感到自卑。A选项正确。2.推理判断题。本题是问本篇文章将Ricci和哥伦布相比的主要原因是什么。分析文章第二段Operation Columbus” and has set his sights on discovering an American以及常识可知，哥伦布是一位探险家，他发现了美洲大陆，而Ricci是想要开拓美国的艺术杂志市场，是一位商业探索者，因此他们同是探索者。B选项正确。3.推理判断题。本题是问对美国杂志FMR的印象如何。由本文最后一段“In addition, he seems to be pursuing his own eclectic vision without giving a moments thought to such established competitors as Connoisseur and Horizon. 此外，他似乎在追求自己的折衷主义视野，而没有考虑到像鉴赏家和地平线这样的老牌竞争对手。”可知该杂志的编辑方式不同于其他艺术杂志，所以D选项D“追求自己独特的艺术风格”正确。2. 单选题By 1950, the results of attempts to relate brain processes to mental experience appeared rather discouraging. Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in