Question

Since it was published in 1818, Frankenstein, a classic horror story, has been in print in many languages.  The monster from the novel by Mary Shelley is the result of man's uncontrolled desire to create and apply his knowledge.

    The novel features Victor Frankenstein, a student who explores the secrets of life in his laboratory. Fearing that he has created a monster, Victor Frankenstein wants to stop but too late. The monster kills Victor Frankenstein's young brother and causes the murder to be blamed on an innocent girl. Victor and the monster meet in the frozen mountains. The monster asks Victor to create a female monster, promising to afterwards leave with her for the wilds. Victor begins the work and discovers the monster has followed him to watch the work. Victor regrets his decision to create a second monster and worries that together they will begin a species of monster. Victor destroys the monster's bride. The monster soon takes revenge (复仇) on Victor by killing his best friend, his father and finally, his bride, Elizabeth. Victor pursues (追赶) the monster across many places. On the point of death, Victor meets a ship and tells his story to the captain whose letters and diaries are then to form this novel. Victor Frankenstein's last words are, "Farewell, Walton! Avoid ambition, even if it is only the obviously innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries."

Frankenstein’s conflicted ambition is with us always. And the Monster stands at our window, reminding us to take care of our creations against experimenting with things we don’t understand.

36. The passage was written to　_______。

    A. tell us the story from Frankenstein         B. encourage us to explore the secret of life

    C. entertain us with the monster              D. show pity on Victor Frankenstein

37. According to the passage, Mary Shelley' s Frankenstein is made up of_________。

    A. poems         B. plays    C. fairy tales     D. letters and diaries

38. The correct order of the following events is_________。

    a. The monster follows Frankenstein to watch his work.

    b. Frankenstein runs after the monster across many places.

    c. The monster kills Frankenstein's bride.

    d. Frankenstein kills the monster's bride.

    e. Frankenstein creates a monster in experiments.

    A. e, b, a, c, d       B. e, d, c, b, a     C. e, a, c, d, b       D. e, a, d, c, b

39. In the last paragraph, the writer of the passage points that_______。

    A. the monster is still disturbing people

    B. man's ambition in creations should never be allowed

    C. man's risky experiments have created many monsters

D. creations in science should be carefully dealt with

Answer 1

36--39 ADDD

解析:

36.答案：A。主旨大意考查题。本文是介绍性的说明文，主要介绍经典科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》(又名《科学怪人》)的故事梗概。

37．答案：D。细节理解题。倒数第二段中On the point of death，Victor meets a ship and tells his story to the captain whose letters and diaries are then to form this novel．在临死时，Victor遇到了一艘船，并将自己的故事讲给了船长，而船长的信件和日记随后形成了这篇小说。

38．答案：D。排序题。请仔细阅读原文中相关细节和选项。

39．答案：D。推断题。...reminding us to take care of our creations against experimenting with things we don’t understand．．．可知作者认为故事告诉人们不成熟的实验和研究往往导致危险的不可知的后果，故答案是D。