2017届河北省高考英语阅读理解一轮限时训练（4）_高考复习指南

2017届河北省高考英语阅读理解一轮限时训练（4）

　　河北省武强县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮限时训练题（4）及答案

　　【陕西省西安市长安一中2017第二次模拟】

　　阅读些列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出你最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Britain, would not have felt excited over Oxford’s intention to offer him an honorary doctor’s degree had he known it were later to be taken back.

　　The story should begin from a girl called Catherine Lisa Bell.

　　Catherine Lisa Bell was a girl from a remote mountain area. She was the first graduate in that area to reach Oxford’s entry score, but her application was refused in the interview, because the professors thought she lacked creative potential.

　　The government of the girl’s hometown paid a special visit to Minister of Education and asked him to speak for her to Oxford. The Minister called at Oxford and hoped they would give the girl special admission. Quite unexpectedly, however, his pleading was refused. The Minister turned to the deputy prime minister, but he got turned down as well. The deputy prime minister couldn’t help but turn to Prime Minister Blair. Blair telephoned to Oxford himself to show his personal attention to the matter. He tried his best to persuade the university officials to change their decision, only to be greeted with a declaration from Oxford: “We admit that Prime Minster’s proposal comes out of concern for the students from less developed areas, but it is unacceptable. There is but one reason: On matters of enrolment (招生), no one has the right to change the interview conclusion the professors draw. This is hundreds of years of tradition of Oxford.”