英语专业学业测试

章节摘录

　　Passage 7　　Jane Shapiro's hilarious， nasty new novel is about a woman who marries a very clumsy man.　Dennis is sweet， overzealous and devoted as a dog， but he can't walk into their Brooklyn brownstone without spilling blood - his or hers. She yells at him; he turns his back. They're 40-something newlyweds - they try to work it out. As she says， "Often enough we thought about ourselves as so many... couples will：　Not beginning to hate. Struggling with love. " But the accidents pile up. Dennis breaks his wife's arm; he gives her a concussion; he cracks her toe in 17 places. His clumsiness is a metaphor for everything a husband can do to drive a wife nuts. And our narrator - who doesn't have a name - could be any wife in love with a husband who makes her miserable， a husband she can't will herself to leave. Bruised and limping， she comes to a hard realization： she must kill her husband before he kills her.　　Whether she's delivering farce or marital wisdom， Shapiro - whose first novel was the well-received After Moondog - is as absurdist as Jeanette Winterson and as acerbic as Lorrie Moore. To our narrator， a witty and agonizingly self-conscious photographer who's more comfortable recording life than living it， marriage is a performance. "I encouraged myself， and began to rehearse， the attitude of the wise wife： implacable detached amusement commingled　　with dogged acceptance. "　　Her detachment can actually be measured - it's the distance between her camera and her husband. She shoots every daily mess， every bump and fall. Dennis may be the clumsiest man　　alive， but， she reflects， maybe she's the real monster， counting and cataloguing his sins. As Dennis tells her，　"You're telling bad stories about me. " He's right. It's her story to tell，　and he's trapped in it. Reflected in her lens， he's made clumsier every day.　　The story falters when our narrator hires a novelist who moonlights as a hit man.　（ It's an over determined bit of casting - so now all story-tellers are murderers?） Also， there are inevitable taste and tonal problems in a comic novel bristling with red flags for spousal abuse：　　our narrator loses all her friends， her husband warns her not to leave. Shortcomings aside， Shapiro's surreal tragic-comedy tells the real story of a bad marriage - how two people can turn each other into monsters; how a whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts that it can gobble them up until there's nothing left.　　……

书籍目录

PART ONE PRACTICE EXERCISES
ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION
Section A Talks
Section B Conversations
Section C News Items
Section D Mini-Lectures
Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION
Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION
Section A Close Reading
Section B Fast Reading
Ⅳ CLOZE
Ⅴ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Ⅵ TRANSLATION
Section A Chinese to English
Section B English to Chinese
Ⅶ WRITIN G
PART TWO　SAMPLE TESTS
SAMPLE TEST 1
SAMPLE TEST 2
APPENDICES
Ⅰ KEY TO PRACTICE EXERCISES AND SAMPLE TESTS
ⅡTAPESCRIPTS

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《英语专业学业测试：高级英语1级》，习题册第一版见于2002年，2005年第二版根据英语专业四、八级考试大纲的修订对习题册做了相应的修订。第三版替换了部分时效性较强的练习，4、8级提供实考考卷，并作了一定量的删减和纠错。

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