单选题 Visitors to St. Paul Cathedral are sometimes astonished as they walk round the space under the arch to come up a statue which would appear to be that of a retired armed man meditating upon a wasted life. They are still mare astonished when they see under it an inscription indicating that it represents the English writer, Samuel Johnson. The statue is by Bacon, but it is not one of his best works. The figure is, as often in eighteenth-century sculpture, clothed only in a loose robe that leaves arms, legs and one shoulder bare. But the strangeness for us is not one of costume only. If we know anything of Johnson, we know that he was constantly iii all through his life; and whether we know anything of him or not we are apt to think of a literary man as a delicate, weakly, nervous sort of person. Nothing can be further from that than the muscular statue. And in this matter the statue is perfectly right. And the fact which it reports is far from being unimportant.
The body and the mind are closely interwoven in ail of us, and certainly in Johnson's case the influence of the body was extremely oblivious. His melancholy, his constantly repeated conviction of the general unhappiness of human life, was certainly the result of his constitutional infirmities. On the other hand, his courage, and his entire indifference to pain, was partly due to his great bodily strength. Perhaps the vein of rudeness, almost of fierceness, which sometimes showed itself in his conversation, was the natural temper of an invalid and suffering giant. That at any rate is what he was. He was the victim from childhood of a disease that resembled St. Vitus's dance. He never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked it was like the struggling walk of one in irons. All accounts agree that his strange gestures and contortions were painful for his friends to witness and attracted crows of starters in the streets.
But Reynolds says that he could sit still for his portrait to be taken, and that when his mind was engaged by a conversation the convulsions ceased. In any ease, it is certain that neither this perpetual misery, nor his constant fear of losing his reason, nor his many grave attacks of illness, ever induced him to surrender the privileges that belonged to his physical strength~. He justly thought no character so disagreeable as that of a chronic invalid, and was determined not to be one himself. He had known what it was to live on four pence a day and scorned the life of sofa cushions and tea into which well-attended old gentlemen so easily slip.

单选题 Visitors to St. Paul Cathedral are surprised when they look at Johnson's statue because ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】事实细节题。文章第一段前两句话“Visitors... are sometimes astonished to come up a statue”，“ They are still more astonished when they see under it an inscription indicating that it represents the English writer, Samuel Johnson”，游客们在大教堂拱门发现一个退伍军人模样的人在沉思荒废的生活，而这个人竟然是英国大作家Samuel Johnson，游客认为这座雕像不应该矗立在这里。所以答案为[A]。而根据第四句和第五句我们知道雕像的穿着合乎十八世纪的风格，装束不是人们吃惊的原因，所以排除选项[B]和[D]。人们惊讶的是大作家的雕像怎么会在这里出现。

单选题 What is the writer's general opinion about literary men?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】作者观点题。根据文章第一段第六、七句话“... whether we know anything of him or not we are apt to think of a literary man as a delicate, weakly, nervous sort of person”可以看出在作者看来，从事文学创作的人通常delicate(体弱的，羸弱的)，weakly(虚弱的或有病的)和nervous(易焦虑的或易痛苦的)，故选[D]。选项[A]正好跟作者的观点相反。选项[B]是对文中nervous一词的过度引申理解——作家都有神经障碍，这与文章的意思不符。而干扰项[C]在文章中并没有提到。

单选题 "The body and the mind are closely interwoven" in Line 1, Para. 2 means ______.

单选题 The author says Johnson found it very difficult to walk because ______.

单选题 According to the passage, which is NOT true to Johnson?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】综合推断题。根据文章倒数第二句话，我们知道“He justly thought no character so disagreeable as that of a chronic invalid, and was determined not to be one himself”，他很有自知之明地认识到，没有谁会像一个慢性病人那样的废物令人生厌，所以决定不让自己成为这样一个拖油瓶；并且根据最后一句“to live on four pence a day”，每天生活开支仅仅四美分，可以看出他以前是一个人生活，这种窘境也证实了选项[A]。根据“scorned the life of sofa cushions and tea...”可以排除 [C]；而根据文章第二段最后一句“his strange gestures and contortions were painful for his friends to witness”，我们推知朋友还是很关心他的，所以选[D]。