博士研究生考博英语阅读理解分类2022年模拟题5.docxVIP

博士研究生考博英语阅读理解分类2022年模拟题5 (总分：175.41，做题时间：180分钟) 一、Reading Comprehension(总题数：1，分数：100.00) 二、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：25.00) 1.? Just over a year ago, I foolishly locked up my bicycle outside my office, but forgot to remove the pannier. When I returned the pannier had been stolen. Inside it were about ten of the little red notebooks I take everywhere for jotting down ideas for articles, short stories, TV shows and the like.? ? When I lost my notebooks, I was devastated; all the ideas Id had over the past two years were contained within their pages. 1 could remember only a few of them, but had the impression that those I couldnt recall were truly brilliant. Those little books were crammed with the plots of award-winning novels and scripts for radio comedy shows that were only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment.? ? Thats not all, though. In my reminiscence, my lost notebooks contained sketches for many innovative and incredible machines. In one book there was a design for a device that could turn sea water into apple cider; in another, plan for an automatic dog; in a third, sketches for a pair of waterproof shoes with television screens built into the toes. Now all of these plans are lost to humanity.? ? I found my notebooks again. It turns out they werent in the bike pannier at all, but in a bag in my spare room, where I found six months after supposedly losing them. And when I flipped through their pages, ready to run to the patent office in the morning, I discovered they were completely full of rubbish.? ? Discovering the notebooks really shook me up. I had firmly come to believe they were brimming with brilliant, inventive stuff—and yet clearly they werent. I had deluded myself.? ? After surveying my nonsense, I found that this halo effect always attaches itself to things that seem irretrievably lost. Dont we all have a sneaking feeling that the weather was sunnier, TV shows funnier and cake-shop buns bunnier in the not-very-distant pasty.? ? All this