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英语六级
2017-06-09
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Prison Studies
A. Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I´ve said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely to my prison studies.
B . It had really begun back in the Charles town Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to emulate him. But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn´t contain any where from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colony still going through only book-reading motions. Pretty soon, I would have quit even these motions, unless I had received the motivation that I did.
C. I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary-to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. I couldn´t even write in a straight line. It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the Norfolk Prison Colony School.
D. I spent two days just thumbing uncertainly through the dictionary´s pages. I´ve never realized so many words existed! I didn´t know which words I needed to learn. Finally, to start some kind of action, I began copying.
E. In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I´ve written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting.
F. I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words-immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I´ve written words that I never knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didn´t remember. Funny thing, from the dictionary´ s first page right now, that "aardvark" springs to my mind. The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants.
G. I was so fascinated that I went on-I copied the dictionary´s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history. Actually the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopaedia. Finally the dictionary´ s A section had filled a whole tablet and I went on into the B ´s. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. I went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words.
H. I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something; from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn´t have got me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad´s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors, and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life...
I. As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. There was a sizable number of well-read inmates, especially the popular debaters. Some were said by many to be practically walking encyclopaedias. They were almost celebrities. No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand.
J. I read more in my room than in the library itself. An inmate who was known to read a lot could check out more than the permitted maximum number of books. I preferred reading in the total isolation of my own room.
K. When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten p.m. I would be out raged with the "lights out". It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing.
L. Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glow into my room. The glow was enough to read by, once my eyes adjusted to it. So when "lights out" came, I would sit on the floor where I could continue reading in that glow.
M. At one hour intervals the night guards paced past every room. Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep. And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto the floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight minutes-until the guard approached again. That went on until three or four every morning. Three or four hours of sleep a night was enough for me. Often in the years in the streets I had slept less than that.
N. I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read a woke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn´t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, "What´s your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I´m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man ...
O. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read-and that´s a lot of books these days. If I weren´t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity--because you can hardly mention anything I´m not curious about. I don´ t think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest problems of colleges is there are too many distractions. Where else but in prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day?
In that way I began copying, and continued to copy, the whole dictionary.
参考答案
G
答案解析
参考译文
监狱中的学习
A.今天,许多当面或在电视上听我讲话的人,或者那些读到我讲话的人都以为我的学历远远不止八年级。这一印象完全归功于我在监狱中的学习。
B.这是在查尔斯顿监狱真正开始的,当时宾比第一次让我对他渊博的知识感到了羡慕。无论参与什么交谈,宾比总是起着主导作用,而我也曾经试图效仿他。但我找到的每本书中,几乎每个句子都有一个以上,甚至几乎全部的单词我压根儿不认识。当我跳过那些词时,我最终当然不知道书中所云。所以我来到诺福克监狱时,仍然只有看看书的意愿。要不是我后来获得了动力,我本来很快就会连这一愿望也丢弃的。
C.我明白我最好是能弄到一本字典——为的是学习,学一些单词。幸好我还想到应该努力提高一下自己的书写技巧。我的书写很糟糕,甚至于不能将字写在一条直线上。这两个想法促使我要求诺福克监狱学校给我一本字典以及一些便笺簿和铅笔。
D.头两天我还拿不定主意,只是随便翻了翻字典。我从来没有意识到会有这么多单词!我不知道哪些词是我需要学习的。最后,为了开始某种行动,我便开始了抄写。
E.我把印在第一页上的所有东西甚至标点符号,慢慢地、费力地、歪歪斜斜地抄到了我的便笺簿里。我记得那花了我一天的时间。然后,我便把写在便笺簿上的每个词大声读给自己听。我一遍又一遍地把自己写的东西大声读给自己听。
F.第二天早上醒来时我还想着那些词——我无比自豪地意识到,我不仅一下子写了那么多,还写了许多我从来不知道存在于这个世界上的词。而且,我稍微动一下脑筋还能记得其中许多词的意思。我复习了那些被我忘记了意思的单词。有趣的是,就在此刻,词典第一页上的“土豚”一词竟跳入了我的脑海之中。字典上有它的一幅插图,一种长尾、长耳、会挖洞的非洲哺乳动物,以白蚁为食,像食蚁动物捕食蚂蚁那样伸出舌头来捕食白蚁。
G.我完全被迷住了,于是又继续进行了下去——我抄写了字典的下一页。当我学习它时我获得了同样的体验。随着以后的每一页,我还了解了人物、地方和历史事件。实际上字典就像一部小型百科全书。最后.字典的A部分抄满了一整本便笺簿——于是我便继续抄写B部分。我就这样开始抄写了整本字典。如此多的实践帮我提高了书写速度,所以以后我抄得快多了。包括我写在便笺簿上的词和写的信,我猜我在后来的囚禁日子里足足写下了一百万单词。
H.我认为随着词汇量的增加,我肯定能第一次拿起一本书来读并开始理解书中讲的内容了。任何一个博览群书的人都能想象得出那个被打开的新世界。让我告诉你一些事;从那以后直到我离开那所监狱,在我的每一段空闲时间里,我不是在图书馆里看书,就是在我的床上看书。你哪怕用楔子也休想把我跟书分开。我学习穆罕默德先生的教导,我跟别人通信,我会客,我读书,日子就这样一个月一个月地过去了,我甚至没有想到自己是在坐牢。事实上。在那之前,我在生活中从来没有那样真正自由过……
I.正如你能想象的,尤其在一个特别强调改造的监狱里,如果一个犯人表现出对书籍异乎寻常的强烈兴趣,他就会受到赞许。犯人中有相当多的博览群书者,尤其是受广欢迎的辩论家。一些人被公认为活的百科全书。他们几乎成了名人。当这个新世界,这个能够阅读并理解的新世界向我敞开时,我贪婪地阅读文学作品,数量之多超过了任何一所大学对任何一个学生的要求。
J.我在自己的房间里比在图书馆里读得更多。一个以读书多而出名的犯人能超出规定借出更多的书。我更喜欢在与外界完全隔绝的自己的房间里读书。
K.当我发展到开始读非常严肃的读物时,每天晚上l0点左右,我会因为“熄灯”而愤怒不已。它似乎总是在我正读到引人人胜之处时来跟我捣乱。
L.幸好在我的门外面有一盏走廊灯把光线照到我的房间里。一旦我的眼睛适应之后.这点光线就足以让我读书。所以“熄灯”后,我就坐在地板上,借着那点光继续读书。
M.夜间看守每隔一小时就走过每个房间。每次听到越来越近的脚步声,我就跳到床上假装睡觉。看守一走过去,我就从床上回到地板上那块亮的地方,再读上58分钟——直到看守再次走过来。这样一直持续到每天凌晨三四点钟。每天晚上睡三四个小时对我来说就足够了。在流落街头的那些日子里我经常睡得更少。
N.我经常思考阅读为我打开的那些新的远景。我当时在狱中就知道,阅读已永远改变了我的人生历程。正如我现在所认识到的,阅读能力唤醒了在我内心潜伏已久的对于思想活跃的渴望。我当然不是在追求任何学位。那只是大学授予学生一种地位象征的方式。我通过自学所受到的教育使我每读一本新书就更意识到正在折
磨着美国黑色人种的聋、哑和盲。不久前,一位英国作家从伦敦打来电话问了我几个问题。其中一个问题是 “你的母校是哪儿”,我告诉他“是书”。在任何一个空闲的十五分钟里,你都会发现我在学习一些我觉得可能有助于黑人的东西……
O.每次乘飞机,我都带一本想读的书——至今已读了很多书。如果我现在不是每天出来同白人斗争,我会将余生用于阅读,仅仅是为了满足我的好奇心——因为你几乎说不出什么东西是我不感到好奇的。我想任何人都没有像我那样从坐牢中获得了那么多。事实上,如果我的生活是另一个样子,如果我上了大学,我就不能像在监狱里那样能更集中地进行学习。我想上大学最大的麻烦之一就是有太多让人分心的事。除了监狱还有什么地方能让我有时间每天集中学习15个小时来改变我的愚昧无知呢?
参考答案及解析
此句意为 “我就这样开始抄写了整本字典”,与文章G段中That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary(我就这样开始最终抄写了整本字典)意思相同。因此,正确答案是G。
监狱中的学习
A.今天,许多当面或在电视上听我讲话的人,或者那些读到我讲话的人都以为我的学历远远不止八年级。这一印象完全归功于我在监狱中的学习。
B.这是在查尔斯顿监狱真正开始的,当时宾比第一次让我对他渊博的知识感到了羡慕。无论参与什么交谈,宾比总是起着主导作用,而我也曾经试图效仿他。但我找到的每本书中,几乎每个句子都有一个以上,甚至几乎全部的单词我压根儿不认识。当我跳过那些词时,我最终当然不知道书中所云。所以我来到诺福克监狱时,仍然只有看看书的意愿。要不是我后来获得了动力,我本来很快就会连这一愿望也丢弃的。
C.我明白我最好是能弄到一本字典——为的是学习,学一些单词。幸好我还想到应该努力提高一下自己的书写技巧。我的书写很糟糕,甚至于不能将字写在一条直线上。这两个想法促使我要求诺福克监狱学校给我一本字典以及一些便笺簿和铅笔。
D.头两天我还拿不定主意,只是随便翻了翻字典。我从来没有意识到会有这么多单词!我不知道哪些词是我需要学习的。最后,为了开始某种行动,我便开始了抄写。
E.我把印在第一页上的所有东西甚至标点符号,慢慢地、费力地、歪歪斜斜地抄到了我的便笺簿里。我记得那花了我一天的时间。然后,我便把写在便笺簿上的每个词大声读给自己听。我一遍又一遍地把自己写的东西大声读给自己听。
F.第二天早上醒来时我还想着那些词——我无比自豪地意识到,我不仅一下子写了那么多,还写了许多我从来不知道存在于这个世界上的词。而且,我稍微动一下脑筋还能记得其中许多词的意思。我复习了那些被我忘记了意思的单词。有趣的是,就在此刻,词典第一页上的“土豚”一词竟跳入了我的脑海之中。字典上有它的一幅插图,一种长尾、长耳、会挖洞的非洲哺乳动物,以白蚁为食,像食蚁动物捕食蚂蚁那样伸出舌头来捕食白蚁。
G.我完全被迷住了,于是又继续进行了下去——我抄写了字典的下一页。当我学习它时我获得了同样的体验。随着以后的每一页,我还了解了人物、地方和历史事件。实际上字典就像一部小型百科全书。最后.字典的A部分抄满了一整本便笺簿——于是我便继续抄写B部分。我就这样开始抄写了整本字典。如此多的实践帮我提高了书写速度,所以以后我抄得快多了。包括我写在便笺簿上的词和写的信,我猜我在后来的囚禁日子里足足写下了一百万单词。
H.我认为随着词汇量的增加,我肯定能第一次拿起一本书来读并开始理解书中讲的内容了。任何一个博览群书的人都能想象得出那个被打开的新世界。让我告诉你一些事;从那以后直到我离开那所监狱,在我的每一段空闲时间里,我不是在图书馆里看书,就是在我的床上看书。你哪怕用楔子也休想把我跟书分开。我学习穆罕默德先生的教导,我跟别人通信,我会客,我读书,日子就这样一个月一个月地过去了,我甚至没有想到自己是在坐牢。事实上。在那之前,我在生活中从来没有那样真正自由过……
I.正如你能想象的,尤其在一个特别强调改造的监狱里,如果一个犯人表现出对书籍异乎寻常的强烈兴趣,他就会受到赞许。犯人中有相当多的博览群书者,尤其是受广欢迎的辩论家。一些人被公认为活的百科全书。他们几乎成了名人。当这个新世界,这个能够阅读并理解的新世界向我敞开时,我贪婪地阅读文学作品,数量之多超过了任何一所大学对任何一个学生的要求。
J.我在自己的房间里比在图书馆里读得更多。一个以读书多而出名的犯人能超出规定借出更多的书。我更喜欢在与外界完全隔绝的自己的房间里读书。
K.当我发展到开始读非常严肃的读物时,每天晚上l0点左右,我会因为“熄灯”而愤怒不已。它似乎总是在我正读到引人人胜之处时来跟我捣乱。
L.幸好在我的门外面有一盏走廊灯把光线照到我的房间里。一旦我的眼睛适应之后.这点光线就足以让我读书。所以“熄灯”后,我就坐在地板上,借着那点光继续读书。
M.夜间看守每隔一小时就走过每个房间。每次听到越来越近的脚步声,我就跳到床上假装睡觉。看守一走过去,我就从床上回到地板上那块亮的地方,再读上58分钟——直到看守再次走过来。这样一直持续到每天凌晨三四点钟。每天晚上睡三四个小时对我来说就足够了。在流落街头的那些日子里我经常睡得更少。
N.我经常思考阅读为我打开的那些新的远景。我当时在狱中就知道,阅读已永远改变了我的人生历程。正如我现在所认识到的,阅读能力唤醒了在我内心潜伏已久的对于思想活跃的渴望。我当然不是在追求任何学位。那只是大学授予学生一种地位象征的方式。我通过自学所受到的教育使我每读一本新书就更意识到正在折
磨着美国黑色人种的聋、哑和盲。不久前,一位英国作家从伦敦打来电话问了我几个问题。其中一个问题是 “你的母校是哪儿”,我告诉他“是书”。在任何一个空闲的十五分钟里,你都会发现我在学习一些我觉得可能有助于黑人的东西……
O.每次乘飞机,我都带一本想读的书——至今已读了很多书。如果我现在不是每天出来同白人斗争,我会将余生用于阅读,仅仅是为了满足我的好奇心——因为你几乎说不出什么东西是我不感到好奇的。我想任何人都没有像我那样从坐牢中获得了那么多。事实上,如果我的生活是另一个样子,如果我上了大学,我就不能像在监狱里那样能更集中地进行学习。我想上大学最大的麻烦之一就是有太多让人分心的事。除了监狱还有什么地方能让我有时间每天集中学习15个小时来改变我的愚昧无知呢?
参考答案及解析
此句意为 “我就这样开始抄写了整本字典”,与文章G段中That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary(我就这样开始最终抄写了整本字典)意思相同。因此,正确答案是G。