题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
2016届江苏南京市、盐城市高三第二次模拟英语卷
Before the law sits a gatekeeper. Tothis gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into thelaw. But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment. Theman thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in sometimelater on. "It is possible," says the gatekeeper, "but notnow." The gate to the law stands open, as always, and the gatekeeper walksto the side, so the man bends over in order to see through the gate into theinside. When the gatekeeper notices that, he laughs and says: "If it tempts you so much, try going insidein spite of my prohibition. But take note. I am powerful. And I am only themost lowly gatekeeper. But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each morepowerful than the other. I cannot endure even one glimpse of the third."
The man from the country has notexpected such difficulties: the law should always be accessible for everyone,he thinks, but as he now looks more closely at the gatekeeper in his fur coat,at his large pointed nose and his long, thin, black Tartar's beard, he decidesthat it would be better to wait until he gets permission to go inside. Thegatekeeper gives him a stool and allows him to sit down at the side in front ofthe gate. There he sits for days and years. He makes many attempts to be letin, and he wears the gatekeeper out with his requests. The gatekeeper ofteninterrogates him briefly, questioning him about his homeland and many otherthings, but they are indifferent questions, the kind great men put, and at theend he always tells him once more that he cannot let him inside yet. The man,who has equipped himself with many things for his journey, spends everything,no matter how valuable, to win over the gatekeeper. The latter takes it allbut, as he does so, says, "I am taking this only so that you do not thinkyou have failed to do anything." ②
During the many years the man observesthe gatekeeper almost continuously. He forgets the other gatekeepers, and thisfirst one seems to him the only barrier for entry into the law. He curses theunlucky circumstance, in the first years thoughtlessly and out loud; later, ashe grows old, he only mumbles to himself. He becomes childish and, since in thelong years studying the gatekeeper he has also come to know the fléas ( PZ) inhis fur collar, he even asks the fleas to help him persuade the gatekeeper.Finally his eyesight grows weak, and he does not know whether things are reallydarker around him or whether his eyes are merely deceiving him. But herecognizes now in the darkness a ray of light which breaks out of the gatewayto the law. Now he no longer has much time to live.
Before his death he gathers in his headall his experiences of the entire time up into one question which he has notyet put to the gatekeeper. He waves to him, since he can no longer lift up hisstiffening body. The gatekeeper has to bend way down to him, for the greatdifference has changed things considerably to the disadvantage of the man. ③ "You are insatiable (不知足的)."t"Everyone strives after the law," says the man, "so how isit that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?" Thegatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach hisdiminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, "Here no one else can gainentry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I'm going now to close it."④
PROGRAM TITLE |
Hispanic Studies Program |
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UNIVERSITY |
Universidad de Barcelona |
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MINIMUM AGE |
18 |
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LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT |
Open to all levels of Spanish speakers. Beginning level students, however, must have completed at least one semester of college-level Spanish. |
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ACCOMMODATIONS |
Student apartments, local host families, and residence halls (Additional fees. Only available during the fall semester). Host family includes 2 meals per day and laundry service. All Barcelona housing includes internet access. |
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G.P.A. REQUIREMENT |
2.75 |
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LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION |
Spanish, Catalan, and English |
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ACCEPTANCE TO U.S. UNIVERSITY REQUIRED |
No |
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DATES & PRICES |
Fall 2017 |
September, 4, 2017 —December 21, 2017 |
$11,680 |
Academic Year 17-18 |
September 4, 2017 — April 28, 2018 |
$23,380 |
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Spring 2018 |
Late January, 2018 — April 28, 2018 |
$11,680 |
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