上海新东方2006四级模拟预测试题(2)

上海新东方2006四级模拟预测试题(2)

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions: There are 4 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 the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single ling through the centre.

Passage 1

This issue of the writer’s identity is one aspect of writing that makes it so complex a task. Because your written language is form of communication divorced from your physical presence in most instance, who “you”are on the page is open to question. This written matter on the page isn’t “you”, and yet it does have some unique characteristic, personality, belief, or values. As reader, we cannot assume that

the voice speaking to us through prose in identical to the actual author. The actual author of a piece of writing and the authorial voice that author has assumed in the writing are not necessarily, or even usually, the same.

This phenomenon has implication for you as a writer. It means that writing can be a liberating activity, one that frees you from your usual social self and voice. This is probably one of writing’s most appealing features, and many account for the vast numbers of people who enjoy writing for themselves, without the slightest intention of seeking publication or an audience beyond their own eyes. Awareness of writing on the level also carries a kind of responsibility with it, however. As a college student, you are asked to write with this understanding of writing. It’s not that instructions are uninterested in your personal opinion in your essays; rather, you are expected to understand writing on a more sophisticated or perhaps more professional level. In your essays, in most academic contexts, you will be expected to employ this notice of authorial voice, and to express your views whatever they are.

In most of your academic courses, college students are expected to have all skill of assuming different authorial voices

to meet your different writing situations. It is perhaps human nature to assume that the reason one instructor gave you an A on an essay and another instructor gave you a C on paper that had similar demands, in term of writing difficulty, was because one instructor liked you or liked what you had to stay in the paper, and the another had personal or ideological reasons for grading the paper down—the instructor disagreed with you and so lowered the grade. But the issue may actually not be one of unfair or inconsistent standards; it may be an issue more related to your writing authorial voice.

1. The author voice is .

[A] the actual voice of the author

[B] the voice which speaks to readers through the writing

[C] the voice the same author uses in his other writing

[D] the written matter which the author employs on the very page

2. According to the author, many people enjoy writing for themselves because writing .

[A] can free one from any kind of social responsibility

[B] often frees the person who write from hid usual social itself