2016浙江机电职业技术学院单招英语模拟试题及答(9)

2016浙江机电职业技术学院单招英语模拟试题及答案

考单招——上高职单招网

Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson River must remember the Catskill

Mountains. Theyare a branch of thegreat Appalachian family, and can be seen to the

west rising up to a noble height and towering over the surroundingcountry. When

the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their

beautiful shapes on the clear evening sky, but sometimes when it iscloudless, gray

steam gathers around the top of the mountains which, in the last rays of the

settingsun, will shine and light up like a crown of glory (华丽的皇冠).

At the foot of these mountains, a traveler may see light smoke going up from a

village.

In that village, and in one of the houses (which, to tell the exact truth, was sadly

time-wornand weather-beaten), there lived many years ago, a simple, good-natured

fellow by the name of RipVan Winkle.

Rip's great weakness was a natural dislike of all kinds of money-making labor. It

could not befrom lack of diligence (勤劳), for he could sit all dayon a wet rock and

fish without saying a word,even though he was not encouraged by a single bite. He

would carry a gun on his shoulder for hours,walking through woods and fields to

shoot a few birds or squirrels. He would never refuse to help aneighbor, even in the

roughest work. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to do suchlittle

jobs as their less helpful husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready

to attendto everybody's business but his own.

If left to himself, he would have whistled ( 吹口哨) life away in perfect

satisfaction; but hiswife was always mad at him for his idleness (懒散). Morning,

noon, and night, her tongue wasendlessly going, so that he was forced to escape to 68. Which of the following best describes the Catskill Mountains?

A. They are on the west of the Hudson River. B. They are very high and beautiful in this area. C. They can be seen from the Appalachian family.