新題型：英語四級真題及詳解精講版(2006年6月)

　　【解題核心】選項表明本題很可能是關于尸體埋藏的方式。由選項中的should可推測本題很可能與建議或意見有關。故聽音時應重點留意表達建議或意見的詞句。A選項是說埋藏時將尸體躺著放，B選項則是說埋藏時將尸體立著放，二者正好相反，故很可能有一個為答案。

　　【正確項分析】希臘教會反對火葬，因為違背宗教教義。為了節(jié)約空間，教會建議將尸體豎立著而非平躺著埋葬，選項B正確。

　　【干擾項分析】文中用instead of lying down否定了選項A中的橫放安葬。選項C、D均不是教會的建議。

　　29. A) Burning dead bodies to ashes. A) 將尸體燒成灰燼。

　　B) Storing dead bodies in a remote place. B) 將尸體埋葬在偏遠地區(qū)。

　　C) Placing dead bodies in a bone room. C) 將尸體放置在尸骸存放屋。

　　D) Digging up dead bodies after three years. D) 三年后將尸體挖出。

　　【解題核心】選項均為動名詞表明本題為考查“行為活動”類型。四個選項均表示處理尸體的方式，故本題很可能是關于除埋藏以外的其他處理尸體的方式。聽音時應留意以下要點：burn;store in remote place;place in bone room。本題只要抓住burn一詞便不難選出答案。

　　【正確項分析】burning dead bodies在Greek church前后出現了兩次，問題中的object to與原文中的resist是同義詞，所以應該選A選項。

　　【干擾項分析】選項B、C、D雖在原文中都提及，但與希臘教會的觀點沒有任何關系。

　　六、原文及譯文

　　In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace for ever when they die. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years, and then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long. The body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most people choose to rent the grave for three years and even after it has been dug up, lasting peace is still not guaranteed. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town. Lack of space in Athens is the main reason why the dead are dug up after the three years. The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are kept in the hospitals for over a week until a grave is found. Athens’ city council wants to introduce cremation, that is burning dead bodies, as a means of dealing with the problems. But the Greek church resists this practice; they believe the only place where people burn is hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying down. Some people proposed building multi-storey underground grave yards.

　　26. What must Greeks do to keep the dead resting in ever-lasting peace?

　　27. Why are most dead bodies in Athens dug up after three years?

　　28. What suggestions does the church give about the burying of dead bodies?

　　29. What practice does the Greek church object to?

　　在希臘，只有富人死后才能得到永久安息。然而，大部分人死后享受安寧的時間只有3年，隨即他們會被挖出、洗凈、塞到一個小錫盒里，然后被放入存放尸骸的房間。如果身體只是局部腐爛，它會被再次埋葬在一個更小更廉價的墓地里。不久，等身體全都腐爛后，會再次被挖出。買塊墓地是避免這一過程的唯一方法。墓穴的成本過高，大多數人選擇租墳墓，租期為三年。尸骨被挖出來后，永久的安寧也仍得不到保證。如果沒有人繳納租用尸骸存放處的租金，骨骸會被移出并存放在城市貧窮區(qū)的一個建筑內。雅典的空間不足是埋葬三年后被挖出來的主要原因。這個城市是如此擁擠，有時尸體被放在醫(yī)院一個多星期后才能找到墳墓。雅典的市議員希望引進火葬，即燃燒尸體，作為解決問題的方法。但是希臘教會反對這種做法，他們認為唯一焚燒人的地方是地獄，這與希臘死后重生的觀念是相沖突的。為了節(jié)省空間，教會建議將尸體豎直而非平躺安葬。有些人則提議建立地下多層墓地。

　　26. 為讓死者永久安息，希臘人必須做什么?

　　27. 在雅典，為什么尸體埋葬三年后會被挖出?

　　28. 教會建議如何埋葬尸體?

　　29. 希臘教會反對什么樣的做法?

　　Passage Two

　　一、篇章結構

　　這是一篇關于國際飯店的說明文，屬社會文化類型。文章指出美國的大城市都有國際飯店，并以底特律市為例說明了這類飯店深受歡迎的兩個原因。最后，介紹了美國最常見的意大利餐館，并扼要介紹了其兩種經營模式。

　　二、核心詞匯

　　apart from 除……外;typical a. ①典型的 ②有代表性的

　　三、話題詞匯

　　family restaurant 家庭餐廳

　　foreign a. 外國的

　　international a. 國際的

　　native a. 本國的，本土的

　　restaurant n. 餐廳，飯店

　　sample n. 樣品，標本

　　四、難句解析

　　1. Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life.

　　【解析】此句關鍵是as well as并列結構連接the foods和the opportunity，共同做動詞enjoy的賓語。即美國人既享受食物，又抓住機會。不定式to better understand the people and their way of life是the opportunity的后置定語。

　　2. Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people who worked together in the business.

　　【解析】本句主句為it may be a large restaurant。or是連詞，表示“或者”。owned by several different people作后置定語修飾restaurant。restaurant與own是被動關系，所以用owned。who worked together in the business是典型的定語從句，先行詞為several different people。