2023年河南专升本公共英语基础训练（二）

2023年河南专升本公共英语基础训练（二）

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The moment two humans lay eyes on each other has incredible. The first sight of you is a brilliant holograph. It burns its way into your new acquaintance's eyes and can stay printed in his or her memory forever.

Artists are something able to capture this quicksilver, short emotional response. I have a friend, Robert Grossman, an accomplished artist who draws regularly for Forbes, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and other popular publications. Robert has a unique gift for capturing not only the physical appearance of his subjects, but zeroing in on the essence of their personalities. The bodies and souls of hundreds of figures radiate from his sketch pad (素描). One glance at his pictures of famous people, you can see, for instance, the insecure of arrogance of Madonna, the boyishness of Clinton, the awkwardness of George Bush.

Something at a party, Robert will do a quick sketch on a cocktail napkin of a guest. When he's finished drawing, he puts his pen down and hands a napkin to the guest. Often a puzzled look comes over the subject's face. He or she usually mumbles some politeness like, “well, er, that is great. But it really is not me.” The crowd's convincing echo of “Oh yes it is!” drowns down the subject, who is left to stare back at the world's view of himself of herself in the napkin. Once I asked Robert how he could capture people's personalities so well. He said ,”It is simple. I just look at them.” Almost every side of people's personalities is evident from their appearance, their gesture, the way they move.

First impressions are incredible. Because in our fast-paced information-overload world, multiple stimuli bombard us every second, people's heads are spinning. They must form quick judgments to make sense of the world and get on with what they have to do. Whenever people meet you, they take an instant mental snapshot. That image of you becomes the data that they deal with for a long time.

问题：

1. People usually get the first impression if a person through ______________.

A.reading an article about him or her in a famous magazine

B.getting acquainted with his or her best friends

C.taking a brief look at his or her appearance

D.studying his or her personality carefully

【参考答案】C

【精析】C 文中第一句阐述道，“The moment two humans lay eyes on each other has incredible”。倾斜词组的含义即两眼相望，与 C 选项的 a brief look 意思是相近的。故选 C。

2.Why does the author say that Robert has a unique gift?

A.He can draw the subject carefully

B.He can memorize the names of people instantly

C.He can illustrate the subject's characteristic

D.He can communicate with famous people effectively

【参考答案】C

【精析】C 第二段第三句与第四句，有一描述，“the essence of their personality”。本题 C 选项中的 characteristics 就同义替换了 personality。

3.What does the phrase “zeroing in on” most probably mean?

A.relying on

B.responding on

C.acknowledging on

D.grasping

【参考答案】D

【精析】D 定位到原文第二段第三句 Robert has a unique gift for... but zeroing in on the essence of their personalities 可知罗伯特有独特的天赋，他不仅能捕捉人物的外表， 而且能集中注意力于他们个性的本质。通过“capturing”一词含义可以推测出该词组的意思。

4. The puzzled look on the subject's face suggests that ___________.

A.the artist's drawing is out of subject's expectation

B.the crowed treated the subject rudely

C.the artist failed to show his respect for the subject

D.the image of the drawing was too real to believe

【参考答案】D

【精析】D 问题含义首先得理解，被 Robert 所描绘的这个人物脸上露出疑惑惊讶的表情是为何。定位到原文第三段，根据众人的反应推断出，再联系上文 Robert 的独特技能天赋是能第一眼就画出人的性格，所以推测出是由于 Robert 画的太逼真，让该人物惊讶的难以相信。故选 D。

5.We can conclude from the passage that ___________.

A.one should never trust a person by his or her appearance

B.the first impression usually has a long lasting influence

C.the judgment based on the first impression is always reliable

D.we can no longer make any sense of the information an hand

【参考答案】B

【精析】B B 选项的中文含义是“第一印象通常有持久的影响力”，在原文第一段第二句“stay printed in his or her memory forever”以及全文最后一句“That image of you becomes the data that they deal with for a long time.”可以推断出 B 选项的正确性。A, C, D, 选项中的“never”, “always”, “no longer”, 都太过绝对，不符合原文内容。