单选题 Passage Two
Adolf Hitler was the ruler of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Guided by concepts of elitism and racism, he established a brutal totalitarian regime under the ideological banner of National Socialism, or Nazism. His drive for empire Line resulted in the devastation of World War II, culminating in Germany's defeat and the reordering of world power relationships. Hitler failed as a student in the classical secondary schools, a situation that contributed to his desire to become an artist. He went to Vienna in 1907 but was unable to gain admission to the Academy of Fine Arts. He lived a shadowy, alienated existence in multiracial Vienna until 1913. His years were characterized by melancholy, aimlessness, and racial hatred—in Vienna he developed his lifelong obsession with the danger that world Jewry posed to the Aryan race.
Hitler's rise to power paralleled the unstable course of the Weimar Republic, which replaced the fallen Hohenzollern monarchy(霍亨索伦王朝). The abortive Communist revolution in Germany and the dictated Peace of Versailles determined Hitler's decision to enter politics. In 1919 he joined a small political faction in Munich and within the next year formed the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He directed the organizations with an iron hand and used its meetings to deliver forceful rhetorical assaults on Germany's enemies. In 1923 he led the party into the ill-fated Munich Putsch. This action resulted in his imprisonment.
While in prison at Landsberg, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf(我的奋斗)(德语), which became the standard work of Nazi political philosophy. He defined the enemy as world Jewry, international communism, effete liberalism, and decadent capitalism. Hitler offered instead pure Aryan blood and the renewal of German nationalism under a fighting elite. Germany would once more become the leading power on the Continent and gain its living space in central Europe and Russia.
单选题 The best title for the passage would be ______.
  • A. Hitler-the man and the myth
  • B. Hitler-a paragon of the ages
  • C. Hitler-the early years
  • D. Hitler-the war years
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】综合全文，作者讲的是他年轻时的经历，包括他在维也纳学美术等，显然选项C是本文最合适的题目。
单选题 In paragraph 1, the word "culminating" is closest in meaning to ______.
  • A. resorting
  • B. collaborating
  • C. resulting
  • D. deliberating
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】依据文章第一段，他的drive for empire导致了第二次世界大战的大破坏，也导致了德国的战败。可以看出选项D说“导致……的结果”是符合题意的。因此D是正确的。
单选题 According to the passage, ______.
  • A. Hitler replaced the failed Hohenzollern monarchy with the Weimar Republic
  • B. the Weimar Republic installed Hitler to replace the failed Hohenzollern monarchy
  • C. Hitler's ascendance coincides with the decline of the Weimar Republic
  • D. Hitler's decline coincided with the ascendance of the Weimar Republic
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】从文章第二段“Hitler's rise to power paralleled the unstable course of the Weimar Republic, which replaced the fallen Hohenzollern monarchy.”可以看出，霍亨王朝衰亡后由威玛共和国取代，而威玛共和国不稳定的局势正是希特勒得权的时候。显然答案是C。
单选题 What was the basis of the Nazi political philosophy?
  • A. The Munich Putsch
  • B. The Weimar Republic
  • C. The National Socialist party
  • D. Mein Kampf
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】文章最后一段说“Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, which became the standard work of Nazi political philosophy”, Mein Kampf成为当时纳粹政治哲学的标志作品，选项D正符合这个意思。
单选题 The word "effete" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
  • A. weakened
  • B. severe
  • C. dormant
  • D. rampant
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】依据文章最后一段，“effete”是用来定义犹太世界，国际共产主义，自由主义，以及腐化的资本主义等敌人的，一定是贬义词，可以看出选项A的衰亡和软弱不振之意正符合题意。