(B) They wish to live in mountainous regions. (C) They are wealthier than most other car buyers. (D) They are influenced by marketing strategies. (E) They are insecure about their social status.
解析：D，这个是考察两篇文章的主旨题，其他四项文中都有提到的，而他们共同的问题就是不清楚多功能越野车在社会中的地位。 10. Which of the following aspects of SUVs is addressed in Passage I but not in Passage 2 ?
(A) Their imposing bulk (B) Their escalating cost
(C) The psychology of their owners (D) Their environmental impact (E) The significance of their names
解析：A，第一段中提到“what matters is their connotations of rugged individualism. mastery over the wilderness, cowboy endurance.”这里我们可以看出是提到越野车的很拉风的外表。
11. Which of the following in Passage 1 exemplifies the\mentioned in Passage 2. line 15? (A) \(B ) \
(C) \(D) \
(E) \
解析：D，这里subtleties在第二篇章中提到的，是名字的细微变化，那么在篇章一的最后一句中“The to names simply magnify the appeal of these vehicles that are the Frankensteinian concoctions of our private anxieties and desires.”这一句展示了这一细微变化。
12. Passage I and the article cited in Passage 2 bothindicate that the imagery used to market SUVsis intended to (A)appeal to drivers' primitive instincts (B) stir yearnings for a simpler way of life
(C) engender feelings of power and control (D) evoke the beauty of unspoiled nature (E) create an aura of nonconformity
解析：C，文中找到销售这一考点“the important goal of the marketing hype is to plant the image in customers' minds that they can conquerto rugged terrain.”销售的目的就是在消费者的心中树立可以征服不平山地的形象，一种征服的力量。
Questions 13-24 are based on the following passages.
These two passages discuss different aspects of the impact of the First World War (1914-1918) on British people and society. Passage 1 is from a book that examines the depiction of the war in literature, letters, and newspapers; Passage 2 is from a book that examines the differences between men's and women ‘s experiences of war. Passage 1 Passage 2 Even if the civilian population at The First World War is a classic case home had wanted 10 of the dissonance know the realities of the war, they 35 between official. male-centered couldn't have without history and unofficial female experiencing them: its conditions history. Not only did the apocalyptic were too novel, its indus- events of this war have trialized ghastliness too very different meanings for men and unprecedented. The war would women, such events 5 have been simply unbelievable. were in fact very different for men From the very beginning a and women, a point fissure was opening between the understood almost at once by an army and the civilians. involved contemporary The causes of civilian 40 like Vera Brittain. She noted incomprehension were numerous. about her relationship with Few soldiers wrote the truth in letters her soldier fiance that the war put a home for fear of '\ causing needless uneasiness. If they experience between men and women did ever write the whom they loved. 10 truth, it was excised by company Sometimes (I wrote at the time) I fear officers, who censored that even if he gets all outgoing mail. The press was through. what he has experienced out under rigid censorship there may change his throughout the war. Only 45 ideas and tastes utterly.\ correspondents willing to file The nature of the barrier thrust wholesome, optimistic copy were between Vera Brittain permitted to visit France, and her fiance. however, may have and even they were seldom allowed near the battlefields of 15 the front line. Typical of these reporters was George Adam, Paris correspondent of the Times. His Behind the Scenes at the From. published in 1915, exudes cheer. as well as warm condescension, toward the common British soldier, whom he depicts as well fed, warm, safe, and happy-better off, 20 indeed, than at home. Lord Northcliffe. the publisher of the Times. eventually assumed full charge of government propaganda. It is no surprise to find Northcliffe's Times on July 3.1916, reporting the first day's attack during the battle of the Somme* with 25 an airy confidence which could not help but deepen the division between those on the spot and those at home. \ Douglas Haig telephoned last night,\says the Times, \ the general situation was favorable.\It soon ascends to the rhetoric of heroic romance: ''There is a fair field ... and 30 we have elected to fight out our quarrel with the Germans and to give them as much battle as they want.\ communication failed between the troops and those who could credit prose like that as factual testimony. ? \ had nearly 60,000 casualties, the largest number for any single day in the army's history. been even more complex than she herself realized. for the impediment preventing a marriage of their true minds was constituted not only by his 50 altered experience but by hers. Specifically, as young men became increasingly alienated from their pre-war selves. increasingly immured in the muck and blood of the battlefields, increasingly abandoned by the civilization of which they had ostensibly been heirs, women seemed to become. 55 as if by some uncanny swing of history's pendulum, ever more powerful. As nurses. as munitions workers, as bus drivers. as soldiers in the agricultural \ as wives and mothers. these formerly subservient creatures began to loom larger. A visitor to London observed in 601918 that \women-women in uniforms.\ The wartime poems. stories. and memoirs by women sometimes subtly. sometimes explicitly explore the political and economic revolution by which the First World War 65 at least temporarily dispossessed male citizens of the primacy that had always been their birthright, while permanently granting women access to both the votes and the professions that they had never before possessed. Similarly. a number of these women writers covertly or overtly cele- 70 brated the release of female desires and powers which that revolution made possible. as well as the reunion (or even reunification) of women which was a consequence of such liberated energies. Their enthusiasm. which might otherwise seem like 75 morbid gloating, was explained by Virginia Woolf. a writer otherwise known for her pacifist sympathies: How . .. Can we explain that amazing outburst in August 1914. when the daughters of educated men .. rushed into hospitals ... drove lorries. worked in fields 80 and munitions factories, and used all their immense stores of charm . .. to persuade young men that to fight was heroic . .. ? So profound was (woman’s) unconscious loathing for the education of the private house that she would undertake any task, however menial, exercise any 85 fascination, however fatal, that enabled her to escape. Thus consciously she desired \splendid Empire\ unconsciously she desired our splendid war.
文章大意：篇章主要讲的是一战对于当时的报纸，杂志，出版社带来的印象，很多一战的士兵并不能发来准确的情报所以导致当时很多信息是
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