2017年专业英语八级考试阅读理解练习辅导1

2. The pain-killer abated his splitting headache.

3. The mountain village is adjacent to a highway.

4. A good student does not need to be admonished about being absent too much.

5. People are much better informed since the advent of television.

6. A good friend will not desert you in time of adversity.

7. The French and Italian languages have many affinities with each other.

8. The young man spends money like water in that he comes from an affluent family.

9. She didn't mention Mr Smith by name, but it was clear she was alluding to him.

10. The little restaurant has a pleasant ambience.

11. Kate Chopin, a great American writer, maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mother-women in her fiction.

12. Parks and a theater are just some of the town's local amenities.

13. Her whole being was filled with a vague anguish, which was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

14. The army annihilated the enemy.

15. The people of that tribe are dressed in strange apparel.