2. 推理类

实考真题 2009年阅读理解 (TEXT D)

With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadn’t realized I was supposed to. This was the fi rst time he’d used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafi a-style protection racket (收取保护费的黑社会组织).

98. According to the passage, the author felt ______ to give Raoul a holiday tip.

A. excited ted C. embarrassed D. forced

解析：答案D。推理类。最后一句“Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket.”，这种节假日收取小费的行为已经从自愿表示感激的行为，变成强迫收取保护费的行为了。

实考真题 2008阅读理解 (TEXT B)

In an article some Chinese scholars are described as being “tantalized by the mysterious dragon bone hieroglyphics.” Tantalized is one of many English words that have their origins in myths and legends of the past (in this case, Greek and Roman ones). The meaning of the verb tantalize is a very particular one: “to promise or show something desirable to a person and then take it away; to tease by arousing hope.” Many (but not all) English dictionaries give you a brief indication of a word’s origins in brackets before or after the explanation of the meaning.

For tantalize the following explanation is given: [> Tantalus]. This means that you should look up the name Tantalus to fi nd out the word’s origins, and if you do, you will fi nd out that in Greek mythology, Tantalus was a king who was punished in the lower world with eternal hunger and thirst; he was put up to his chin in water that always moved away when he tried to drink it and with fruit on branches above him placed just a little bit out of his reach. Can you see why his name was changed into a verb meaning “to tease or torment by arousing desire”?

85. The purpose of the fi rst sentence in Paragraph One is .

A. to describe the work of some Chinese scholars.
B. to arouse readers’ interest in hieroglyphics.
C. to lead readers onto the main theme.
D. to link the preceding part to the present one.

解析：答案C。推理类。第二句话“...Tantalized is one of many English words that have their origins in myths and legends of the past (in this case, Greek and Roman ones).”Tantalized（逗弄）是来源于过去的神话和传说（如希腊和罗马神话）的英语单词之一，这恰与文章的主题相符。