上海20xx年碩士研究生入學(xué)單獨考試英語考試大綱(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 a police siren.Until he found a treatment, flight attendants would ask him not to sleep on planes. Eight of his neighbors sold their homes in one 10year period. Only his wife stood by his side.“My wife and I love ach other,” he says. “And she is deaf in one ear.”Julie’s condition had no connection to her husband’s strident snoozing (打盹兒). But even with diminished hearing, she found it hard to sleep—and though to get up each day to get their two boys off to school. “I just thought most men sound like a electric saw in the bedroom,” she says.After two decades of sleeplessness, Julie entered Mel in a local contest, sponsored by a British newspaper in 1984, to find the loudest snoring husband in the United Kingdom. Until then, Mel had not realized the scope of his snore.The contest turned out to be the best thing she ever did. In one brave stroke, Julie turned her husband into an international celebrity of sorts. Suddenly, she and Mel were flying to Japan, so that doctors could measure his snoring on national TV.“I guess there are better reasons to be famous,” Mel says. “But if people are sending you to Tokyo, why fight it?”The folks at Guinness were quick to certify him, and all the attention brought hundreds of wouldbe remedies—including one that finally worked.About four years ago, New York entrepreneur Robert Ross gave Mel a Chinese herbal concoction that he now markets throughout North America as Ysnore.Ysnore changed the Switzers’ life. Just a few drops in the nose and Mel is silent as a lamb. Finally, a peaceful night for his wife.1. Julie Switzer is considered somewhat a saint because ________. [A] she has been an excellent homemaker all the time [B] she has been married to Mel for 40 years [C] she turned a deaf ear to her husband’s snoring [D] she tolerated the loudest snoring in the world for more than 40 years2. What did Julie think of her husband’s snoring before she entered him in a local contest? [A] She thought it was as loud as a police siren. [B] She felt bored. [C] She thought it was just a normal phenomenon. [D] She was anxious to find a cure for her husband’s snoring.3. Entering her husband in the snoring contest was the best thing Julie ever did because ________. [A] Mel became a famous person as a result o
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