2025年中国银行笔试之英语阅读真题

中国银行笔试英语阅读真题阅读下面旳短文。每篇短文旳背面有五个问题，每个问题有四个备选答案。请根据短文旳内容选择最佳答案。每个试题计 3 分,合计 15 分 A Tale of Scottish Rural Life Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song (1932) was voted “the best Scottish novel of all time”by Scottish’s reading public in 1 Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotland’s poor rural farmers，it has been adapted for stage，film，TV and radio in recent decades. The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie ， in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War I.At its heart is the story of Chris ，who is both part of the community and a little outside it. Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine.We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father ； experience tragedy (her mother’s suicide and murder of her twin children)；and learn about her feelings as she grows into woman.We see her marry ， lose her husband ， then marry again.Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man2. But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris.It is truly a novel of a place and its people.Its opening section tells of Kinraddie’s long history ， in a language that imitates the place’s changing patterns of speech and writing. The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents.It is told from Chris’ point of view but also from that of the gossiping community ， a community where everybody knows everybody else’s business and nothing is ever forgotten. Sunset ...