成人学位英语阅读理解专项练习题含详细解析 (1).docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 学位英语阅读理解专项提升练习合集 一、阅读理解 Passage one My father Earl was to take two-lane highways all the way from Chicago to New York. This way, he explained, we’ll actually see where we’re going. I hate turnpikes (收费高速公路), Virgil. There were other reasons for taking highways: no fee to pay, cheaper gas stations, and a chance to shop for food. He had me laughing from the moment we left town. I’d never seen him in better spirits. He did imitations, told stories and made remarks to the waitresses in the restaurants we’d stopped in every three hours, highly praising their cooking skills. Earl asked me to keep an eye out for hitchhikers (搭便车的人), so we might have someone to share the driving. My father had, however, tough standards of selecting hitchhikers. We passed teenagers, soldiers and old men, and each time Earl had a different excuse for not stopping. Finally, my heart was filled with uncontrollable anger. Why don’t you ever stop? It’s not fair to look at people and then not stop. Earl looked at my face. I don’t know. Virgil, he said. I think the reason is that I don’t want anyone in the car. We never have any time alone and I like it with just the two of us.” Hearing what he said, I felt tears welling up in my eyes. How wonderful, yet disturbing and unprepared I was to hear it. We pulled in for the night some twelve hours after leaving Chicago and checked into a nameless motel. It was in this motel that my father and I spent one of the best nights of our lives. He watched TV with me for a while and he begged a pack of cards from the motel manager and did card tricks for me — a skill I had no idea he possessed. Then my father and I played a card game and we were so comforted by the game that we took the pack with us when we drove out for a late night snack of ham and eggs. The sky was filled with stars. After turning off all the lights, we whispered to each other in bed, like boys who fear they might be overheard. I don’t remember what I said, but I was sure h