2009年南京藝術學院考博英語真題

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1、During the 1992 presidential campaign a new media star emerged-Virginia Kelley, the mother of candidate Clinton, who died of breast cancer this past January. It was she who created the Clinton lore; throughout the campaign she told how 14-year-old Bill had stood up to his drunken, abusive stepfather one night to protect Virginia and his little brother. She also told with great effective how young Clinton had come back home with stars in his eyes after meeting JFK at Boys Nation in Washington. She knew then, she said, that he would go into public service. She also created her own lore-four husbands, an up-and-down nursing career, and her passion for makeup (she even wore it to bed in case she got a call from the hospital in the middle of the night). She simply won the public over with her candor and lack of pretense.

Now these oft-told are told again in Leading With My Heart, by Virginia Kelley with James Morgan...Not surprisingly, the stories feel familiar here, especially since the book arrives just a few months after a batter of obituaries of Mrs. Kelley. But the book has another problem: as is often the case with co-written memoirs, it feels inauthentic. Written in a prosaic, colorless style, this doesn’t sound the way we imagine Mrs. Kelley talked. There are no Southern locutions, and the grammar is impeccable. Where are the spicy stories or the occasional “damn” or “hell”？

Coke-bottle glasses: Anyone approaching this celebrity book with an eye for gossip will also be disappointed. What feels fresh, though, is Mrs. Kelley’s descriptions of her shock at meeting Hillary Rodham when Bill brought her home from Yale Law School. The young woman wore Coke-bottle Glasses, no makeup and had perfectly hair-nothing like the Dixie beauty queens that Clinton usually dated. She was also a blunt Yankee, and not adept at Southern blarney. “There was almost a kind of cultural tension between Mother and Hillary.” said Clinton. “I guess that’s as good a way to put it as any.” replies his mother. But there was no going back: “I want you to pray for me. Pray that it’s I Hilary. Because I’ll tell you this: for me it's Hillary or it’s nobody,” he told his unhappy mother. “I couldn’t stand it，” she writes. “Here was this woman 1 didn’t understand, didn’t feel comfortable with. And she was all he wanted.”

There’s a lot that’s moving about Mrs. Kelley’s story, partly because of the way she handles her final illness. “You can’t tell my sons about my condition,” she tells her shocked doctor. She may have had a disaffected mother and a parade of mostly bad marriages. But in the last year of her life, she also had a memory granted to few parents-the thrill of attending her son’s Inauguration and the gala that night. “What a night it had been” she wrote." ---a magical evening.”

Virginia Kelly might be best characterized as（）.

Virginia Kelly believed her son was motivated to go into public service by his （）.

The “book arrives just a few months after a battery of obituaries…’’ The underlined words suggest that-Kelley’s death was （）.

According to the reviewer, the style of Leading With My Hear is （）.

Hillary differed from Clinton’s former dates primarily in（）.

A、genuine

B、morose

C、pitiable

D、elitist

A、difficult childhood

B、meeting with President Kennedy

C、law studies at Yale