SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 11

　　SAT考试阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 11

　　8 question 12 minutes

　　I chose to wander by Bethlehem Hospital; partly, because it lay

　　on my road round to Westminster; partly, because I had a fancy

　　in my head which could be best pursued within sight of its

　　walls. And the fancy was: Are not the sane and the insane

　　5 equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming? Are not all of us

　　outside this hospital, who dream, more or less in the

　　condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? Are

　　we not nightly persuaded, as they daily are, that we associate

　　preposterously with kings and queens, and notabilities of all

　　10 sorts? Do we not nightly jumble events and personages and times

　　and places, as these do daily? Said an afflicted man to me,

　　when I visited a hospital like this, Sir, I can frequently

　　fly. I was half ashamed to reflect that so could I - by night.

　　I wonder that the great master, when he called Sleep the death

　　15 of each days life, did not call Dreams the insanity of each

　　days sanity.

　　1. It can be correctly inferred that Bethlehem hospital

　　I is very close to Westminster

　　II has patients who are regarded as insane

　　III is a place the author has visited before

　　A. I only

　　B. II only

　　C. III only

　　D. I and II

　　E. I, II and III

　　2. The author makes his point with the aid of all of the following except

　　A. rhetorical questions

　　B. personal anecdote

　　C. allusion

　　D. frequent use of metaphor

　　E. repetition and parallel construction