2016年04月自学考试00595《英语阅读（一）》真题.pdf

绝 2016 4 00595 I. CAREFUL READING Read the following pa age carefully. Decide on the be t an wer and blacken the corre ponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 point , 2 point each) Pa age 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the f ollowing p assage. I was bom in a pleasant old colonial house built near 1750, and bought by my grandfather sixty or seventy years ago. e j oined a group of acquaintances who were engaged in the flourishing West Indian trade of that time. For many years he kept and extended his interests in shipping, building ships and buying large quantities of timber, and sending it down the river and then to the sea. The business was still in existence in my early childhood, so I came in contact with the up-country people who sold timber as well as with the sailors and shipmasters of the other side of the business. I used to linger about the busy country stores, and listen to the lively country talk. In my grandfather ’s business household my father had taken to his book as old people said, and gone to college and begun that devotion to the study of medicine which only ended with his life. e gave me my first and best knowledge of books by his own delight and dependence upon them, and ruled my early attempts at writing by his good taste. "Don't try to write about people and things, tell them just as they are!" ow often my young ears heard these words without comprehending them ! But while I was too young and thoughtless to share in an enthusiasm for Sterne or Fielding, and Smollett or Don Quixote, my mother and grandmother were leading me into