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简析俄底修斯的人物形象。

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俄底修斯是古希腊另一种理想的化身。阿喀琉斯是英雄武士的典型,俄则是政治家、商人、冒险家的典型,以智慧和刚毅为其个性特色。史诗集中描写他的机智勇敢、刚毅、随即应变:木马计为其杰作,海上十年漂泊,全凭其足智多谋而化险为夷。这些英雄行为的动力来自他对部落集体和故乡的眷恋之情,正是这种爱感动了那些企图阻挡他返回故里的神与人。辉煌而美貌的神女卡吕普索要把他留在自己身边,答应使他永生;埃亚依的女神刻尔吉想留他作丈夫,未果;阿吉诺国王以公主许之;这些均遭俄罗拒绝,说明他把故土看得比永生更可贵。他亲吻故乡大地之情节,足以生动表现对故土之爱。

他说:“任何东西也不如故乡和自己的父母更可爱,即使一个人离开父母,远在异乡,住在富裕的人家里。”史诗颂扬这种恋土情绪,也构成后世西方文学的重要母题。同时,它在欧洲文学史上的意义,还在于是一部以个人冒险经历为主要情节的作品,为后来的《鲁滨孙飘流记》、《格列佛游记》以及18世纪流浪汉小说开辟了先河。

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第三部分阅读理解 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Picking a Christmas tree takes most people a few minutes, a couple of hours if they head to the woods. Dave Murbach needs 11 months.

Almost every day of every year, Murbach’s thoughts turn to vision of a perfectly shaped evergreen tree that will take everyone’s breath away.

“The tree,” he says wearily. “Always the tree.”

Murbach is the man responsible for finding the towering tree that graces Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center each Christmas season.

“I’m always looking for a tree,” the center’s chief gardener says. “I look for it even when I go to the beach in the summer. It’s like a homework assignment hanging over your head.”

And if he gets it wrong, there’s nothing hiding it.

“Every day it’s up, 400,000 people go by, and 2.5 million people watch the lighting celebration on television,” he says.

This year’s tree, a 74-foot Norway spruce (云杉) from Richfield, Ohio, flown to New York on the world’s largest cargo plane, was lighted on December 2.

The arrival of the tree leads in the Christmas season in New York - a tradition dating to 1931, when the workers building Rockefeller Centre put up a small tree with decorations.

The search for the next year’s tree starts soon after the old tree is chopped up for wood chips and horse-jumping logs.

That’s not as simple as it sounds. Though forests are full of evergreens, few get enough sunlight or space to fill out. And branches in snowy regions often break under the weight, making flees uneven.

Back at the office, he sorts through hundreds of letters from people offering their trees, many addressed simply to “Mr. Christmas Tree Man.”

Despite the occasional anxiety attack and sleepless night, Murbach knows the together people you love. That’s what I hope it sets off.”

But Murbach says he’s always too worn out to celebrate Christmas.

“No card, no lights, nothing,” he says.

“No tree?”

“No tree.”

1. Murbach takes his job seriously because he most likely wants _____________.

A. everyone to be happy with his work

B. to make everyone surprised at his choice

C. everyone to know his care for their happiness

D. to attract people’s attention to his special ability

2. Which is the correct order of the events in the passage?

a. Murbach’s thoughts turn to a perfectly shaped tree.

b. 2.5 million people watch the Christmas tree.

c. The tree is flown to New York.

d. it was lighted on December 2.

e. The tree is chopped up.

f. Murbach searches for the tree.

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

3. According to Murbach’s standard of trees, the best tree must _________.

A. be evergreen                             B. have no space between branches

C. be thick enough                          D. be equally balanced in shape

4. Which is tree about Murbach?

A. He is most devoted to his work.                     B. He is now quite tired of his work.

C. He has no loved family members.           D. He never wants to celebrate Christmas.

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