15春考试阅读理解复习题(简化版)

大学英语2阅读理解练习题

According to a Xinhua News Agency report, residents of China’s five largest cities spent

about 643 Yuan (US $80.37) each on sport in 2005, with Beijing topping the survey at about 880

Yuan (US $ 110) per person (The five cities were Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu).

1. Which of the following cities is not among the 5 largest cities of China?

B. Tianjin

2. The citizens of which city spent the most money each on sport in 2005?

C. Beijing

3. What are the basic means for people to pursue fitness?

D. fitness classes, private training and sports teams

4. People take exercise not only for their own fitness, but also for___.

C. social responsibilities

5. The elderly care more about their health because____.

D. they don’t want to bring any burden to their children

Wang Yani was born in 1975 in Gongcheng, China. Even when she was a baby, she loved to draw lines everywhere. Seeing this, her father decided to help her. He gave her paint, brushes and paper. She practiced hard and improved very quickly. Soon her lines became flowers, trees and animals. Some of her pictures were shown in an art exhibition in Shanghai at the age of 4.

1. Wang Yani’s pictures were first shown____.

B. in Shanghai

2. She was especially good at drawing ____ before she was eight.

A. monkeys and cats

3. Why did her father take her to zoos and parks?

D. Because he wanted the girl to get ideas for her work.

4. When did Yani have her personal show in Washington D. C.?

D. At the age of 14.

5. Which of the following is true?

A. She had a style of painting with bright colors.

One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had a

student who finished his work before all the others and needed something more difficult for him to

do. “Could you help me in the library?” she asked. I said, “Send him along.”

1. Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates?

C. Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.

2. What do you know from the passage?

B. Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.

3. The sentence “He picked up the idea immediately” means that_____.

A. he learned that system quickly

4. What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library?

D. Finding books with wrong cards.

5. How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area?

C. Worried.

The United States is a large country. From the East Coast to the West Coast it is about 3000

miles wide. The Atlantic Ocean is on the east coast and the Pacific Ocean is on the west coast.