2011电大 网院 奥鹏远程教育 大学英语B统考 大学英语B网考 阅读理解

阅读理解B24、Mr. White lived in a small village. His parents hadn't enough money to send him to school. He had to help them to do something in the fields. But he didn't like to live in the poor place. When he was sixteen, he got to the town and found work in a factory. Three years later he became tall and strong. So he was sent to Africa as a soldier. He stayed there for five years and got some money. Then he came back to England and bought a shop in a small town. No people in the town went to Africa except him. And he hoped they thought he was a famous man and that they could respect him. The children often asked him to tell them some stories and his life in Africa.One day a few children asked him to tell them something about the animals in Africa. He told them how he fought with the tigers and elephants. His stories surprised them all and some policemen and workers went to listen to him. It made him happier. Just a man who taught geography in a middle school passed there. He stopped to listen to him for a while and then said, “Could you please tell us a rare animal, sir?”“Certainly,” said Mr. Turner. “One day I met a rhinoceros（犀牛）by a river…”“Please wait a minute, sir,” said the man. “There aren't any rhinoceros in Africa at all!”“It's rare just because there aren't any!”(1)、Mr. White was born in a farmer's family.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Mr. White hoped to be respected because he was the richest man in their town.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、The children often asked him to tell them something interesting because he knew more than any other person in the town.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、All people believed Mr. White except the children.A：TB：F(5)、Mr. White wouldn't like to admit that he was wrong.A：TB：F答案：A25、Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil relights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best known speech “I Have a Dream” before the Lincoln Memorial. The “dream” is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. Thus, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Luther King's honor. He lives in people's hearts forever.(1)、Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Martin Luther King was a black minister only.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The underlined word “delivered” in the second paragraph could be replaced by “gave”.B：F答案：A(5)、The best title for this passage is “Civil Rights Law”.A：TB：F答案：B26、Let's watch the weather forecast on television. We may go to Scotland, we may go to Wales or London. We can decide after the forecast.“Good morning, and here is the weather forecast for tomorrow. Northern Scotland will be cold, and there may be snow over High Ground. In the north of England it will be a wet day and rain will move into Wales and the Midlands during the afternoon. East Anglia（英格兰）will be generally dry, and it will be a bright clear day with sunshine, but it may rain during the evening. In the southwest it may be foggy during the morning, but the afternoon will be clear. It may be windy later in the day.”(1)、The speaker is planning to go traveling within the country.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、The speaker can fly to Northern Scotland tomorrow morning, because it won't be foggy there tomorrow.A：TB：F答案：A(3)、It will be a bright clear day in East Auglia tomorrow.A：TB：F答案：B(4)、The forecast mainly tells us the whole country will have fine weather tomorrow.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、You can infer from the passage that none of the places offers ideal weather tomorrow for travel.A：TB：F答案：A27、Nancy and Peter McCall like sports. In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski. They are planning ski trip for this weekend, but they don't know about the weather. It's 7:30 now, and they are listening to the weather report on the radio. The weatherman is giving the weather forecast for the weekend.“Friday is going to be cold and cloudy, but it's not going to rain. The temperature is going to be in the thirties. It's going to snow Friday night and maybe Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are going to be clear, cold and sunny. ”Now Nancy and Peter are excited. The weather is going to be perfect for a ski trip. They are going to have a wonderful weekend in the mountains.(1)、Nancy and Peter listened to the weather forecast for the weekend.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Nancy and Peter are planning a trip to the village for the weekend.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、It is going to snow Friday night according to the weather forecast.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The weather will be warm and rainy on Sunday.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、Nancy and Peter often do sports.A：TB：F答案：A28、Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would get sick if he continued like that, so she often tried to get him to take a vacation. At last she managed to persuade him to do so, and she hoped that he would be able to enjoy his vacation without any disturbance, so before they left, Mrs. Young went to see her husband's secretary. She said to her, “My husband needs a vacation very much, so whatever happens, please don't bother him with telegrams and letters about business problems while we are away. Just wait till we get back.”After Mr. and Mrs. Young had been away about a week, Mr. Young received a letter from his secretary which said, “Something terrible happened to your business, but I'm not going to bother you with it while you are enjoying your vacation.”(1)、Mr. Young was the owner of a private business.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Mrs. Young worried about her husband's business.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、Mrs. Young was afraid that her husband's vacation might be spoilt.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The secretary didn't explain in her letter what had happened to Mr.Young's business, because she didn't want to spoil Mr. Young's vacation.A：TB：F答案：A(5)、You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid secretary.A：TB：F答案：A29、 A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is haunted (闹鬼的). He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. James had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost (鬼) must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have come in for a free drink, he shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept it even if he gives it away.(1)、Mr. James was the owner of the public house.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Mr. James had not turned off the lights that night.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、Mr. James built the house.A：TB：F答案：B(4)、Mr. James found sixty empty bottles.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、The writer of the passage believes Mr. James' story.A：TB：F答案：B30、After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new neighborhood. He surprised his landlord by telling him that he was leaving because he could not afford to buy any more chocolate.It all began a year ago when Albert returned home one evening and found a large dog in front of his gate. He was very fond of animals and as he happened to have a small piece of chocolate in his pocket, he gave it to the dog. The next day, the dog was there again. It held up its paws and received another piece of chocolate as a reward. Albert called his new friend “Bingo”. He never found out the dog's real name, nor who his owner was. However, Bingo appeared regularly every afternoon and it was quite clear that he preferred chocolate to bones. He soon grew dissatisfied with small pieces of chocolate and demanded a large bar a day. If at any time Albert neglected his duty, Bingo got very angry and refused to let him open the gate. Albert was now at Bingo's mercy and had to bribe him to get into his own house! He spent such a large part of his weekly wages to keep Bingo supplied with that in the end he had to move somewhere else.(1)、Albert lived there for many years.A：TB：F答案：B(2)、Albert was moving because he did not like the place.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、Albert and the dog became friends a year ago.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The dog visited Albert every day because it wanted the chocolate.A：TB：F答案：A(5)、Albert “had to bribe him” means he had to take care of him.A：T答案：B31、Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed.China has banned free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets, and people have to pay for using plastic bags. The rule started on June 1. It came because our country tried to make litter less. Making super-thin plastic bags has also been banned.The Chinese once used about 3,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags a day, and they have caused pollution of the environment. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution because they are not easy to break and people throw them away here and there. So the Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.What kind of shopping bag is the best to bring? Some students in Chongqing have a good idea. They make their own shopping bags. They use old clothes to make cloth bags, and send them to their parents as presents. They also ask their parents and friends to use cloth bags instead of plastic ones. They think it is their duty to protect the environment.(1)、People in China have to pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets now.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the environment.A：TB：F答案：A(3)、The Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、Some students in Chongqing buy cloth bags for their parents.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、The main idea of the article is the bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution.B：F答案：B32、Taking away a city's rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can't eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside the city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage（污水，排水）system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you'd never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything except the metal.Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus（腐殖质）, which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.(1)、You can most probably read this kind of passage in a telephone book.A：TB：F答案：B(2)、The main idea of the passage is to tell people to take useful things out of rubbish.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、The underlined word “sewage” in the second paragraph means laundry.A：TB：F答案：B(4)、According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again to feed plants.A：T答案：A(5)、We should take care of a used metal box by reusing and recycling it.A：TB：F答案：A33、Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red, green, yellow, or black. There have been snowflakes of almost every color. Think how it would seem to have colored snowflakes coming down all around you.Black snow fell in France one year. Another year grey snow fell in Japan. It was found that the snow was mixed with ashes. This made it look dark. Red snow had come down in other countries. When this happened, the snow was mixed with red dust.Most snow looks white, but it is really the color of ice. Snow is ice that comes from snow cloud. Each snowflake begins with a small drop of frozen water. More water forms around this drop. The way the water freezes gives the snowflakes its shape.No two snowflakes are ever just the same size or shape. Sometimes the snowflakes are broken when they come down. Other snowflakes melt as they fall. All snowflakes are flat and have six sides, if they are not broken or melted. When the air is cold and dry, the falling snowflakes are small and hard. If the air wet and warm, the snowflakes are big and soft.Would you be surprised to see snowflakes as big as your head falling from the sky? It happened once in the United States. It could happen again.(1)、The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、No two snowflakes are just the same size, but all snowflakes are hard.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、Snowflakes begin with cloud.A：TB：F(4)、The bigger the snowflakes are, the softer they are.A：TB：F答案：A(5)、Black snow fell only in European Countries.A：TB：F答案：B34、The Spring Festival together with the winter holidays often means sharing cakes, candies and other delicious food with friends and families. Most people will eat more than they usually do. But doctors find out that what you eat may affect how well you remember things. This is bad news for people who eat too much.Forgetfulness seems to many people an inevitable part of aging. As our bodies grow older, most of us find that many things we should remember are slipping out of minds. But new facts show that it is possible to slow time's effects on our minds.Once people thought that the brain could not make new cells, but now studies show that learning new things can help brain grow and keep the illness away from the brain.Professor Eric Kandel, a Nobel Prize winner for his study of the human memory, says the best way to save our memories is to keep our brains in good shape. Through mental exercise, he says, people can keep their memories well into their 80s and 90s.And Mark Mattson, a professor at the National Institute on Aging, says that reducing the amount of calories fed to older rats and mice by thirty percent can be a good help to learning and memory. While it is hard for many people to go on their diet like that, doctors tell us that even small steps can make big difference.(1)、Doctors find out that eating too much may be bad for your memory.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、The underlined word “slipping” in the second paragraph means forgetting immediately.A：TB：F(3)、A famous doctor thinks that we can save our memories through mental exercise.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The writer thinks that forgetfulness is a big problem we face as we grow older.A：TB：F答案：A(5)、Doctors say we can save our memories even through small efforts in our diet.A：TB：F答案：A35、Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters．One Sunday，Mrs. White said to her husband，”The children don't have any lessons today，and you're free too．There's a new funfair（庙会）in the park．Let's all go there to play.”Her husband said，”I want to finish some work today.”“oh, forget it．Go there and make our children happy．That's the most important work” Mrs. White said.So Mr. and Mrs. White took their children to the funfair．Mr. White was forty-five years old. But he enjoyed the funfair more than his children. He hurried from one thing to another，and ate lots of sweets. One of the children said to her mother，”Dad is just like a small child，isn't he, Mom?” Mrs. White didn't want to follow her husband around any more at that time and answered，”He is even worse than a small child，Mary，because he might spend more money than a small child.”(1)、There were five children in the White family.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、One Sunday，Mr. and Mrs. White wanted to go to a shop with their children.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、Mr. White liked the place so much that he bought lots of sweets.A：TB：F答案：B(4)、From the story we know Mrs. White was a little angry with Mr. White.A：TB：F答案：A(5)、Of all the family members, Mr. White enjoyed playing there most that Sunday.A：TB：F答案：A36、Some British and American people like to invite friends and colleagues for a meal at home. You should not be upset (心烦意乱) if your English friends don't invite you home. It doesn't mean they don't like you.Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 p.m., and end at about 11. Ask your hosts what time you should arrive. It's polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a present.Do you want to be extra (特别地) polite? Say how much you like the room, or the pictures on the wall. But remember - not to ask how much things cost.You'll probably start the meal with soup, or something small as a “starter” (第一道菜), thenyou'll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then a dessert (甜食), followed by coffee. It's polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it. Some people eat bread with their meal, but not everyone does.Before they take out their cigarettes after the meal, most people usually ask, “Do you mind if I smoke here?”Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short “thank you” letter. Perhaps it seems funny to you, but British and American people say, “thank you, thank you, and thank you.” all the time.(1)、If your English or American friends don't invite you to dinner at home, it doesn't show they don't like you.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、When you are invited to go to your friend's home, you may go at any time.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、In England and America, it's not polite to ask the price of something.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、In the passage, the order of the serving of a meal is meat or fish withvegetables-dessert-soup-coffee.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、You'd better write a short “Thank you” letter to your hosts or give them a call if you want to be extra polite.A：TB：F答案：A37、People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term “health” has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term－quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.(1)、Progress in scientific research leads to people's deeper understanding of health.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、According to the passage, to people of today, health means absence of illness.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、We can infer from the passage nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、This passage is mainly about different understandings of the term “health”.A：TB：F答案：A38、On February 14th many people in the world celebrate an unusual holiday, St. Valentine's Day,a special day for lovers. The origin of this holiday is uncertain but according to one story it gets its name from a Christian named Valentine who lived in Rome during the 3rd century A.D. His job was to perform marriages for Christian couples. Unfortunately, the Emperor of Rome didn't allow Christian marriages. So they had to be performed in secret. Finally Valentine was arrested and put into prison. While he was in prison he fell in love with the daughter of the prison guard. After one year the Emperor offered to release Valentine if he would stop performing Christian marriages. Valentine refused and so he was killed in February, 270 A.D. Before he was killed Valentine sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard. He signed the letter “from your Valentine”. That was the firstValentine.Today Valentines are cards usually red and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. On Valentine's Day tens of millions of people send and receive Valentines. Whether it is an expensive heart-shaped box of chocolates from a secret admirer or a simple hand-made card from a child, a Valentine is a very special message of love.(1)、The passage is mainly about a special holiday.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Valentine was put into prison because he sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard. A：TB：F答案：B(3)、It is because he refused to accept the Emperor's offer that Valentine was killed.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、Valentines are cards usually red, and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. A：TB：F答案：A(5)、People send Valentines to each other nowadays to celebrate Valentine's birthday.A：TB：F答案：B39、Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. One of them, for example, was the great Italian artist, Leonardo Da Vinci. In the sixteenth century he made designs for machines that would fly, but they were never built.Throughout history, other less famous men had wanted to fly. An example was a man in England 800 years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into air from a tall building. He did not fly very far. Instead, he fell to the ground and brokeevery bone in his body.The first real steps took place in France, in 1783. Two brothers, the Montgolfiers, made a very large “hot air balloon”. They knew that hot air rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon was made of cloth and paper. In September of that year, the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon. They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely. Two months later, two men did the same thing. They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they traveled about eight kilometers.(1)、Leonardo Da Vinci made designs for flying machines.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、Eight hundred years ago an Englishman made a kind of flying machine.A：TB：F答案：B(3)、In fact, the Englishman who tried to fly lost his life.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The very first air passengers in the balloon were two Frenchmen.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、The two Frenchmen rose above Paris in November 1783.A：TB：F答案：A40、A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This was in 1868, before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching the crewset up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when the time came to shoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crew saw Winfield and asked him if he would ride the horse for 50 dollars. “Hell,” said Winfield, “for 50 bucks, I'll jump that damn horse over the moon!”To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is 55, a family man who's been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, he's a real, working cowboy who raises horses in his ranch in Wyoming.One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasn't changed him much. He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, “I've met you,know you from somewhere. ”Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed.(1)、Marlboro commercials were allowed on television in America before 1868.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、The word “prohibited” in the first paragraph mean “forbidden”.A：TB：F答案：A(3)、When they filmed the ad, Winfield was too drunk.A：TB：F答案：B(4)、From the passage, we know that Winfield was a rich man.A：TB：F答案：B(5)、When people recognized Winfield, he felt uncomfortable.A：TB：F答案：A41、Last Friday a storm tore through two villages in the New Territories destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or torn roofs. One person was killed, several were badly injured and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller injuries. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless as a result of the storm.A farmer, Mr. C. Y. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.“I was in the kitchen with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us, we managed to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she noticed that her house was shaking. She rushed outside immediately with her children.“There was no time to take anything,” she said. “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”Soldiers helped to bring people out of the flooded area and the Welfare Department provided food, clothes and shelter.(1)、Some of the people were taken to hospital because they had been badly injured.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、When the storm first began, Mr. Tan was inside his house.A：TB：F答案：A(3)、When Mr. Tan's house fell down, only one of his children was inside it.A：TB：F答案：A(4)、Mrs. Woo and her family escaped injury because her husband had gone to work.A：TB：F答案：B。