2005武汉大学考博英语全真试题

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Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are 5 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some

questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets.

   The calendar used in Australia and in most other countries was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. It provides for 366 days in those years for which the year number when divided by 4 gives a whole number (i. e. without a remainder), those years are called leap years. All other years have 365 days. The Gregorian calendar further specifies that years whose year number is divisible evenly by 100 are not leap years, unless the year number is also divisible by 400.

   In a leap year February has 29 days, whereas in a non-leap year it has 28 days.    A decade is a 10-year period, such as I January 1885--31 December 1894.

1.Which one of the following years was a leap year?    

A. 1880                B. 1894                

C. 1906                D. 1926

2.Which one of the following years will not be a leap year?    

A. 2000                B. 2024                

C. 2052                D. 3000

3.How many leap years will there be in the decade commencing 1 January 2019?    

A. 1                  B. 2                  

C. 3                  D. 4

4.Since 1582, the maximum number of leap years possible in any decade is ______.    

A. 2                  B. 3                  

C. 4                  D. 5

   When you meet Tim Winton, it's easy to understand his success at writing for teenagers. He likes surfing and fishing and camping and hanging out in the vast tract of sand dunes that borders the one-pub fishing town where he lives in Western Australia.     He even looks like the big kid who sat behind you in high school and has the kind of laid-back manner and earthy conversation that you know appeals to those too young to be treated as kids but not grown-up enough to be admitted to the adult world.

   Winton's first foray into teenage fiction, Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo, is about to go into its second printing. Even more gratifying for the writer has been the response the book has prompted. He's had scores of appreciative letters "from kids, parents, teachers", and has read passages from the book to students in country high schools.

   Writing for young readers has also enabled Winton to find a wider, non-literary

audience. "It's very difficult to break out of the few-thousand-group of Australians who read, of whom half or all are professional or semi-professional readers. It's nice to get to people who aren't jaded, who will come at a story and read it for what it is. "You don't have to deal with their education and their past and their biases."

   Winton was himself still a teenager when he started writing seriously at 16. Three years later, in 1981, he was named joint winner of The Australian Vogel Literary Award for his first novel, An Open Swimmer. Had he known when he was 16 how difficult it is to make a