2017年英语一真题解析(3)

the numbered boxes. Paragraphs B and D have been correctly placed. Mark you answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)

[A]The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Polar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine. From then on his sketches, which appeared under the pen name “Boz” in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a modest reputation.

[B]The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens’s fame. There were Pickwick coats and Pickwick cigars, and the plump, spectacled hero,Samuel Pickwick, became a national figure.

[C]Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the then-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story. With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead. After the first installment,Dickens wrote to his pose.Seymour made the change,went into his backyard, and expressed his displeasure by committing suicide. Dickens and his publishers simply pressed on with a new artist. The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837 and was first published in book form in 1837.

[D]Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens cafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

[E]Soon after his father’s release from prison,Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get on even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in parliament. At the same time,Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him, especially anything comic or add, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines. [F]Dickens was born in Portsmatch, on England’s student coast. His father was a clerk in the British Navy pay office-a respectable position,but with little social status. His paternal grandparents,a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status,having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background, Dickens’s mother supposedly came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dickens’s birth, his mother’s father has caught, stealing and fled to Europe, never to return. The family’s increasing party forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in warren’s Blacking is Narehouse, a shoe-polishing factory, where the other

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working boys necked him as young gentleman”. His father was then imprisoned for debt. The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens’s greatest wound and became his deep secret. He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the acknowledged foundation of his fiction.

[G]After Pickwicr, Dickens plunged into a bleaker word. In other he traces an orphan’s progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London. Nieholas Nickleby, his next novel, combines the darkness of Oliver Tuis with the sunlight of Pickwick. The popularity of these novels consolidated Dicken’s as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters. 【答案】

Part B

41.F. Dickens was born in Portsmactch, on Englands… 42.E. Soon after his father’s release from prison…

43.A. The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk”… 44.C. Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared a publishing firm… 45.G. After Pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world… Part C Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neat on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)

The gowth of the use of English as the world’s primary language for international communication has obviously been continuing for several decades (46) but even as the number of English speakers expands further there are sings that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.

Complex international, economic, technological and cultural changes could start to diminish the leading position of English as the language of the world market, and UK interests which enjoy advantage from the beadth of English usage would consequently face few pressures. Those realistic possibilities are highlighted in the study presented by David Graddol.(47) His analysis should therefore end any self-contendedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generations of the United Kingdom do not need additional languages capabilities. David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as

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qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organizations alongside that (48) many countries are introducing English into the primary-school curriculum but British school children and students do not appear to be gaining greater encouragement to achieve fluency in other languages. If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish, Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other languages such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

(49)The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to the UK’s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors. The English language teaching sector directly earns nearly ￡1.3 billion for the UK in invisible exports and our other education related exports earn up to ￡ 10 billion a year more. As the international education market expands, the recent slow down in the numbers of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage. Clearly, the effect of developments in that direction would not be limited to the commercial and educational sectors. Cultural and civil contacts and understanding would also be diluted.

The anticipation of possible shifts in demand provided by this study is significant: (50) It gives a basis to all organizations which seek to promote the learning and use of English, a basis for planning to meet the possibilities of what could be a very different operating environment. That is a necessary and practical approach. In this case in much else, those who wish to influence the future.

【答案】

46. 但是随着讲英语人数的进一步扩增，社会发现了这些迹象：英语语言的全球主导地位预期将来可能变弱。

47. 因此，大卫·格瑞德尔的一些分析经过了一些人的自我满足，这些人可能相信英语的世界地位很稳固，因此英国的年轻人无需掌握其他语言能力。

48. 许多国家正在将英语纳入小学课程当中，但是英国的儿童和学生似乎并未受到鼓励而能够流利地运用其他语言。

49. 大卫·格瑞德尔所确定的这些变化都体现出了对英国的英语语言的提供者清晰且主要的质疑，这些提供者教其他国家的人们英语，并扩大教育事业的版图。

50. 这一预期为试图促进英语语言的学习和使用的机构奠定了基础，也为满足这些可能性的计划奠定了基础，即人们能够建立一种截然不同的运行操作环境的可能性。

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Part B

Section III Writing

51. Directions:

You are to write an email to James Cook, a newly-arrived Australia professor, recommending some tourist attraction in your city. Please give reason for you recommendation.

You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.

Do not sign your own name at the end of the emai. Use “Li Ming” instead. Do not write the address. (10 points). 51.【参考范文】 Dear Professor,

I am writing this letter to recommend you some famous attractions of this city.I have lived here since 1990 and have been familiar with every corner of our city.

Firstly, considering that you are the fresh visitor to our city, so it is advisable for you to have a look upon the City’s Museum, which is beneficial for quickly learning the comprehensive perspective, such as the development of this city,and its specific culture.What’s more,another tourist site deserving your attention is our special and sophisticated buildings in the center of the city,since these buildings are telling residents the gradual changing habits and lifestyles, which are helpful to assimilate yourself into this city.

I do hope that you would find these tourist attractions worthy of your visit and appreciation. Sincerely yours, Li Ming

52. Directions:

Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following pictures. In your essay, you should

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1) Describe the pictures briefly 2) Interpret the meaning, and 3) Give your comments.

You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)

【参考范文】

Here are two pictures, both interesting but with sharply contrasted implication. As is vividly depicted in the first photo, a man sitting in sofa looking at his bookshelves and satisfied with the quantity, which successfully arouses our curiosity. On the contrary, the second picture describes that another teenager set his aim at complete 20 pieces books reading, finally completing the contrast of the two pictures. Apparently, what the two drawings have subtly conveyed by their striking contrast is supposed to be given further analysis.

With the increasing pace of modern life, perhaps no change has characterized the past decade more dramatically than the wide spread of reading. Naturally, it brings us both advantages and disadvantages. As for my part, the latter outweighs its former. On the top of list is that people became flippancy without reading. In addition, there is the other point that no one can ignore. It is universally admitted that a nation will recede without reading. No other case can better illustrate the consequences of what I have discussed than the picture above.

According to the analysis above, it is advisable for us to take steps to maximize its positive effects and minimize the disadvantages. Of all the steps, mass media tends to function essentially in the job. Only in this way can we make the best of the value of reading and embrace a bright future.

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