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１、规则和习俗 A man on a lonely islandA man on a lonely island can act as he likes because he has no one to consider except himself. But when Robinson Crusoe discovered footprints in the sand, he could no longer act precisely as before. He had to think of the existence of a companion and the possible effect of his actions upon a second person. Two people thus suddenly brought face to face can not ignore each other. Either one must overcome the other or they must arrive at some form of coexistence.In the latter event they have first to convince each other of their friendly intentions. When a man comes upon a tribe whose language he does not know, he will nod and smile, make friendly gestures and perhaps send them small gifts. If these offers are successful, the tribesmen will take him to their village and bring him food and drink. Moreover, the arrival of an important visitor is something out of the ordinary. So, as an answer to the feeling that their guest should be treated as well as they can, something better than the ordinary food will be provided, and the meal followed by singing and dancing. The host wishes to make his guest feel at home, the guest to show thanks of the kindness he has received.Questions of good behavior and consideration for others maybe have arisen in one form or another since social life began, because social life is impossible if each person thinks only of himself.If men are to live together in a community they must, as a measure of common sense and in the interest of all，accept a certain number of rules and conventions. Such agreement is more than ever necessary. Chaos may result when four people play bridge according to widely different conventions. The same is true of social life.1. A man on a lonely island can act as he likes, because _______.D. he feels it unnecessary to consider others2. Two strangers will never get along well unless _______.C. they make peace with each other or one defeats the other3. If you meet a tribe whose language you don't know, you can offer all the followings EXCEPT ___.A. teaching them your language4. The arrival of an important visitor is something out of the ordinary, so they will .C. receive the visitor better5. If you want to live well in a community, .C. you should follow the rules and conventions of societymanners. But what are good manners? How does one know what to do and what not to do? Well, here are some examples.A person with good manners never laughs at people when they are in trouble. Instead, he tries to help them. He is always kind to others. When people are waiting for a bus, he takes his turn. He does not push to the front of the line. On the bus he gives his seat to an older person or a person with a very young child. If he knocks into someone, or gets in his way, he says "Excuse me" or "I'm sorry".He says "Please" when he asks for something and "Thank you" when he receives something. He stands up when he is speaking to an older person, and he does not sit down until the other person takes his seat. He does not interrupt other people when they are talking. He does not talk too much. He does not talk loudly or laugh loudly in public. When he is eating, he does not speak with his mouth full of food. He uses a handkerchief when he sneezes or coughs. He does not spit in public.As a student, it is a bad manner to come late to class. If you are late you should make an apology to the teacher either at the time or after the class. It is also a bad manner to keep silent when the teacher asks you a question. If you do not know the answer, say so immediately. If you do know, answer in a loud enough voice so that all the class may hear. It is polite for the students to help the teacher. Sometimes students can help their teachers to clean the blackboard, to close or open the door or windows.Sometimes there are papers to collect or to hand out. This kind of help is always appreciated. Ideas of what are good manners are not always the same in different countries. But in all countries it is important to be kind and helpful.1. person with good manners is popular with others because ____.B. he knows what to do and what not to do on different occasions2. A person with good manners will ____ those in trouble.D. do whatever he can do help3. When you are with an old man, you should do all the following except ______.C. interrupting him if he talks too much4. Which of the following is NOT proper for a student with good manners to do?A. Making no sound all the time in class.5. You'd better keep in mind that _____.example, the number of elephants killed illegally in Africa has fallen sharply. 89 thousand were killed in 1983. 46 thousand were killed one year later.This happened because African countries agreed to establish export limits on ivory from elephants. Ivory is the hard white material that forms an elephant's two long teeth, or tusks. Countries that import ivory are refusing to accept ivory shipments that do not have legal export documents.The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in a treaty signed by 91 nations led to the program for saving endangered elephants in Africa.Successful efforts also have been made in protecting Africa's endangered mountain gorillas. Almost 400 of the gorillas survive in a volcano area on the border of Rwanda, Uganda and Zaire. The mountain gorilla population has remained about the same for 15 years. This happened partly, because Rwanda developed an important business that depends on protecting the gorillas. Visitors there can pay to get close to watch the gorillas in the animals' traditional home area.Another successful program is to take endangered animals out of their natural homes. The animals are put into zoos or other protected areas where they can reproduce in safety. The goal of many of these programs is to produce enough animals to put back into the wild.51. What is the best title for this passage?B) Protecting Endangered Species52. The number of elephants killed illegally in Africa has decreased greatly in that ______.A) African countries agreed to establish export limits on ivory from elephants53. In Africa, the number of elephants killed illegally in 1983 and 1984 was _____.C) 135,00054. The number of mountain gorillas has remained about the same for many years partly because of ___.A) the development of an important business that depends on protecting the gorillas55. The phrase "the wild" in Paragraph 5 refers to _____.stick and the overlarge shoes.Much has been written about chaplin’s art and his career, and opinions have ranged widely. But perhaps those who called him “the most general human being of our time” came closest to the truth. Those who have called h im a genius stress the timeless and common qualities in his work, it is an art filled with sad elements and deep human feeling, with which an audience cannot help but become involved. It is for these reasons, I believe, that th figure of Charlie has attracted generation after generation.All the writers who give accounts of chaplin’s life agree that charlie’s unhappy early years in the area in London where hous es were dirty and worn had a great influence on his development and on the type of films he made, chaplin himself emphasizes it in his memoirs(回忆录), the more one reads about his earliest period, the more on tends to agree indeed, his suffering youth had a lasting influence on him.Chaplin was never afraid to deal with subjects causing much disagreement in his films, he gave a humorous performance on war only a few weeks before the American soldiers came home from world war I in 1918, this was regarded as madness, but the performance was well received. So perfectly did it hit the mail on the head that even the returning soldiers found it impossible to hate it and deeply appreciated this short and humorous performance on what for them had been unpleasant reality. Chaplin gave numerous performances attacking capital governments, satirizing(讽刺) the cruelty of the machine age and even making fun of Hitler.Years after his death, the funny films of motion picture actor and director Charlie chaplin continue to be popular. He is particularly well known for his success as a creator of humorous presentations that make fun of people, the establishment, or networks.1 all of the following about Charlie chaplin are true exceptA he was born in the USA2 according to the author, Charlie chaplin has been popular with generation after generation becauseD both B and C3 according to Charlie chaplin’s life history writers,_had a strong influence on the type of films he made.D his unhappy early years in the poor area in London4 according to the passage, which of the following true?D chaplin’s films are the combinations o f funny and sad elements5 this passage wasUSA today, about 75% of jobs require some education or technical training beyond high school. The lowest wage earners in the USA are those without high school degrees, college graduates out-earn those without a college education, people with master’s degrees out-earn those with only bachelor’s, and the highest incomes of all are earned by people with advanced academic degrees. These facts explain why m ost of young Americans go to college. But more diplomas don’t always mean more money. Many skilled blue-collar workers, salespeople, and business executives out-earn college professors and scientist. And great athletes and actors out- earn everyone else!But college education is not only preparation for a career, it is also (or should be) preparation for life. In addition to courses in their major field of study, most students have time to take elective course. They may take classes that help them understand more about human nature, government, the arts, or sciences.Today, more than half of American high school graduates go to college. But recently high school graduates no longer dominate the college campuses. Today, it is quite common for adults of all ages to come back to college for personal growth. Now about half of all the American college students are older than 25, and 20% of them are over 35.For Americans, to receive college education is very important. This is proved by the rising number of Americans who have at least a bachelor’s degree. About 20% of Americans are college graduates, however, am ong younger adults and working people, the percentage is at least 25%, much higher than in most other major nations, in the USA, college education is not regarded as privilege for the wealthy or the academically talented. In fact everyone who wants to go to college can do so.1. many young Americans want to go to college becauseB they can get higher income with higher degrees2. it could be concluded from the second paragraph thatC college education can make a student understand a lot about the world around him3. when the students study in college, they canD do all of the above4. in America, the percentage of college graduates among working people isB much higher than in most other major nations5. which of the following can most probably be inferred from the passage?B all of the Americans have realized the importance of receiving a college education６、保持年轻If you want to keep youngIf you want to keep young, sit down and have a good think, this is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise, and as a result, we are getting old soon.Professor taiju matsuzawa at Tokyo national university wanted to find out why quite he althy fanners in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down. With a team of researchers, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and different jobsComputer technology enabled the researchers to get most exact measurements of the volume of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with intellect and feelings, and decide the human character. As we all know, the back part of the brain, which controls tasks like eating and breathing, does not contract with age.Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was seen in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty-and seventy-year -olds.Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction- using the head.The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.”those with least possibility.” Said matsuzawa, “are lawyers, followed by un iversity professors and doctors. White collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as likely to have contracting brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants”1 the team of doctors wanted to find outB why some people age sooner than others2 the front and side parts of the brain relate to all of the following aspects EXCEPTD eating and breathing3 the word “subjects”(in paragraph 4) most probably refers toB persons chosen to be studied in an experiment4 according to the research findings, which kind of people seems to age most quickly?D farm workers4 according to the passage, which people seems to age slower than the others?B lawyers5 which of the following sentences is NOT mentioned in the passage?C the team of doctors made these tests in order to show how the brain works6 On What are their research findings based?C The study of brain volumes of different people.7 The doctor’s tests show that ____ .of the gold rush.A gold miner came into a city looking for a pair of pants. He wanted pants strong enough to stand up to the rough work of mining. He met a young man named Levi, who sold heavy cloth for tents and wagon tops. They asked a tailor to use heavy cloth for their pants. Then Levi went into the business of making work pants, he asked his brothers to send him some strong blue cotton cloth called denim(斜纹粗棉布). With this blue denim cloth, Levi started making the kind of pants we call blue jeans today. They were sewed up in the same way as other pants.In 1860, a miner said that the pockets weren’t strong enough to hold the pieces of gold he found. The pockets kept pulling loose from the pants. The cloth was all right. It was the thread that wasn’t strong enough. So Levi used rivets(铆钉) attach the pockets onto the pants.Cowboys needed tough pants, too. They liked their pants to fit tightly. But the rivets marked the cowboys’saddles. So Levi covered the rivets with cloth. Then everybody was happy.1 this article as a whole is aboutA. how people got blue jeans2 while not stated in the article, you can tell thatC Levi made more money than many gold miners3 the word this in the first paragraph, last sentence, refers toC. many people looking for gold4 Levi used strong blue cotton cloth to make pants becauseC. miners wanted pants which could stand rough work5 which of the following sentences is not correct?own symptoms and cure.Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs andsymbols of social intercourse. Those signs or cues include the thousand and one ways in which we 4orient ourselves to the situation of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meetpeople when and how to give tips how to make purchases when to accept and when to refuseinvitations when to take statements seriously and when not. These cues which may be words gesturesfacial expressions customs or norms are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and are asmuch a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us depend for ourpeace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues most of which we do not carry on the levelof conscious awareness.Now when an individual enters a strange culture all or most of these familiar cues are removed.He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded or full of goodwill you may be aseries of props have been knocked from under you followed by a feeling of frustration and anxiety.People react to the frustration in much the same way.First they reject the environment which causes thediscomfort. “The ways of the host country are bad because they make me feel bad.” When foreigners ina strange land get together to grouse about the host country and its people you can be sure they aresuffering from culture shock. Another phase of culture shock is regression. The home environmentsuddenly assumes a tremendous importance. To the foreigner everything becomes irrationally glorified.All the difficulties and problems are forgotten and only the good things back home are remembered. Itusually takes trip home to bring one back to reality.1. According to the passage culture shock ______.C is actually not a disease2. According to the passage culture shock results from ______.A the sudden change of the social atmosphere and customs3. Which one of the following may not be the symptoms of culture shockC You suddenly forget what a word means.4. How would a person who stays abroad most probably react when he or she is frustrated by the culture shock according to the passageA He is most likely to refuse to absorb the strange environment at first.5. This passage is most likely taken from ______.was named after the goal Janus.Janus was a strange god with two faces that could look in two directions.He could look forward and back at the same time,so he was the god of beginnings and endings.January,the first month of the year,is a time at which one looks forward to the New Year and back to the old year.2.The name February comes from a Roman celebration called Februa.Februa was a celebration of cleaning.Toward the end of February,after the long winter months,people begin to think of spring cleaning.This probably was the origin of the name of the month.February has only twenty-eight days except every fourth year,when it has an extra day.This is because in every year there are exactly 365 days and six hours.At the end of four years,these six extra hours of each year add up to twenty-four hours,or one full day.This fourth year,in which February has twenty-nine days,is called leap year.3.The third month,March,was named after the Roman god of war,Mars.Mars was a strong god,and the Roman people always connected him with thunder and lightning.Pictures of Mars always show him with lightning above his head.It is natural that March should be named after this god since in most of North America,it is a month of strong winds,rain,and storms.There is frequent thunder and lightning in March.4.The exact origin of the word April is not known.The word probably comes from the Latin word aperire,meaning "to open".Today,the Italian word for "to open" is aprire and the Spanish word is abrir.In the month of April,the skies open and give us rain.The rain aids in the opening of life among trees,grass,and flowers.5.May was named after the young and beautiful goddess of the fields,Maia.Maia was the mother of the god Mercury.Another beautiful goddess,Juno,the wife of Jupiter,give us the name of the month of June.6.The seventh month of the year,July,was named after Julius Caesar.Caesar was a famous general who became dictator of Rome.Before the time of Caesar,the year began in March instead of in January.Caesar made a new calendar,which is the one we use at present.He himself was born in July,the seventh month of the new calendar.7.After Julius Caesar,his grandnephew Augustus became the ruler of Rome.Augustus' real name was Octavian,but when he becameemperor,the people wished to please him.They gave him the title of Augustus,meaning "noble",and they named the eighth month,August,after him.8.The months of September,October,November,and December need little explanation.In our calendar today,they are the ninth,tenth,eleventh,and twelfth months.But in the old calendar before Julius Caesar,they were the seventh,eighth,ninth,and tenth months.Their names therefore came from the Latin words for seventh,eighth,ninth,and tenth.1.在英语里，一年中每个月份的名字来源于拉丁语。
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大学英语（B）网考阅读理解Passage 1There was once an ant that was very thirsty.It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any.Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.The ant drank the water, which saved its life.The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying.Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.“Why are you sad?”asked the ant.“I’m the prisoner of the giant,”the girl told the ant.“He won’t let me go until I’ve made three separate heaps of grain, barley (大麦) and rye（黑麦）out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together.”“That will take you a month!” the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.“I know,” the girl cried, “and if I haven’t finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!”“Don’t cry,” the ant said, “my friends and I will help you.”Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.1.What is an ant?A.A small animal.B.An insect.C.A birdD.A giant2.When did the drop of water fall on the ant?A.When it was looking for food.B.When it saved the ant’s life.C.When it was nearly dying.D.When it looked up.3.Why was the young girl crying?A.Because of her sadnessB.Because she saw the antC.Because the giant would let her goD.Because the giant had given her an impossible job to do.4.What would the giant do if the girl failed to do the work?A.He would eat herB.He would let her goC.He would take her awayD.He would send her to prison5.Who or what saved the girl’s life?A.The giant.B.The ant.C.The ant’s friendsD.Her tears.Passage 2Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and1960s.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 rightsmovement 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 nowa federal holiday in Luther King’s honor.He lives in people’s hearts forever.1.Martin Luther King was murdered when he was _____ years old.A.64B.50C.39D.282.Martin Luther King was a _____.A.political leaderB.black ministerC.religious leaderD.all of the above3.According to the passage which of the following statements is TRUE?A.Martin Luther King was killed in 1964.B.Martin Luther King’s Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.C.Martin Luther King urged his people to get equality and freedom through violence.D.Only black Americans loved Martin Luther King.4.The underlined word “delivered”in the second paragraph could be replaced by _____.A.gaveB.threwC.announcedD.published5.What’s the best title for this passage?A.Martin Luther King.B.How to Award the Nobel PrizeC.Civil Rights MovementD.Civil Rights LawPassage 3My secret for staying young is simple.Put all attention to the part of your brain and keep it young and growing.Keep your mind awake and you’ll stay young all over.These are exciting times.Take an interest in the world around you, and stick to learning at least one new thing every day.No matter how old you are, it’s not too late to make your life more interesting.I know a housewife with no knowledge before she made herself into a well-known engineer.I know a retired electrical engineer who has become a highly-paid dress designer.Get over the idea that you are too old to go back to school.I know a man who entered medical college at 70.He got his degree with honors and became a famous doctor.Another man went to law school at 71 and now was an active lawyer.Staying young is easy for those, old or young, who live in the future.You can do it if you care enough to try.Keep your mind awake and active: that’s the only way.1.According to the passage, that people’s brain of all ages remains young and growing is _____.A.impossibleB.a scientific factC.a secretD.a wrong conclusion2.It is wrong to for the old to _____.A.think himself too old to go back to school.B.keep his mind awake.C.try to stay youngD.lead an active life3.The passage says that the man who entered college at 70 _____.A.was unthinkableB.became tired of his lifeC.wanted to be a highly-paid manD.became famous in the medical circle4.The only way to keep young is _____.A.to go back to schoolB.not to consider one’s ageC.to live in the futureD.to keep one’s mind awake and alive5.The writer suggests that you should _____ learning at least one new thing every day.A.take care ofB.set outC.keep onD.turn toPassage 4If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers.These great forests are the oceans of trees.There are thousands and thousands of different kinds of plants and animals.However, the world's forests are getting smaller all the time.We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farmland.Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years.What will happen if they disappear?If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world.In a lot of places the new farmland will soon look like the old deserts.Crops will not grow there.It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot.Perhaps the climate of the world will change.This will be dangerous for everyone in the world.That is why we must take care of our forests.6.The passage mainly tells us about ______.A.the importance of taking care of plantsB.the result of cutting down the treesC.the locations of great forestsD.the reasons for forming the deserts7.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.Africa and South America are the oceans of trees.B.Forests are homes for different kinds of animals.C.Forests are usually several square kilometers large.D.Different plants can't be found in the same forest.8.The need for more wood and more land results in _____.A.the change of the world climateB.the disappearance of many plants and animalsC.more deserts and less farmlandD.All of the above9.What will happen in 20 or 30 years in some people's view?A.We'll have more and greater forests.B.We'11 have enough land to support our people.C.We'11 have no forests like those in the center of Africa.D.We'll have enough wood to do some cooking.10.The writer thinks _________.A.it dangerous to cut down the forestsB.it necessary to protect the forestsC.it impossible to take care of the worldD.it important to keep animals Passage 5Let’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（英国）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.What is the speaker planning to do?A.To go traveling within the country.B.To listen to the weather forecast on the radio.C.To watch the weather forecast on TV.D.To fly to Wales or London.2.Can the speaker fly to Northern Scotland tomorrow morning, according to theweather forecast?A.Yes, because it will be a fine day tomorrow.B.Yes, because it won’t be foggy there tomorrow.C.No, because it will be foggy there tomorrow.D.No, because there will be a storm there tomorrow.3.When is the speaker watching the forecast?A.In the morning.B.At noon.C.In the afternoon.D.In the evening4.What does the forecast mainly tell us?A.The whole country will have fine weather tomorrow.B.The whole country will have very bad weather tomorrow.C.Within one day the weather varies from one part of the country to another, even within one district.D.Weather changes a lot in Britain recently.5.What can you infer from the passage?A.The speaker will go to London.B.The speaker is in Northern Ireland now.C.None of the places offers ideal weather tomorrow for travel.D.East Anglia will have perfect weather tomorrow.Passage 6As price and building costs keep rising, the "do-it-yourself" (DIY) trend in the U.S.continue to grow."We needed furniture for our living room," says John Ross, "and we just didn'thave enough money to buy it.So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs." John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high.The Rosses took a 2-week course for $ 280 at a night school.Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died.He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe-making st month, he received a car repair bill for $ 420."I was deeply upset about it.Now I've finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself."John and Jim are not unusual people.Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living.If you want to become a "do-it- yourselfer", you can go to DIY classes.And for those who don't have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.1.We can learn from the passage that many newly married couple ______.A.find it hard to pay for what they needB.have to learn to make their own furnitureC.take DIY courses run by the governmentD.seldom go to a department store to buy things2.John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to ______.A.run a DIY shopB.do it themselves in their spare timeC.do his own car and home repairsD.keep house and looks after his children3.When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim ____.A.makes shoes in his homeB.does extra work at nightC.does his own car and home repairsD.keeps house and looks after his children4.Jim Hatfield decided to become a "do-it-yourselfer" when ______.A.his car repairs cost too muchB.the car repair class was not helpfulC.he could not possibly do two jobsD.he had to raise the children all by himself5.What would be the best title for the passage?A.The Joy of DIY.B.You Can Do It Too.C.Welcome to Our DIY Course.D.Ross and Hatfield: Believers in DIY. Passage 7Mrs.Jones' telephone number was 3463, and the number of the cinema in her town was 3464, so people often made a mistake when they wanted the cinema.One evening the telephone bell rang and Mrs.Jones answered it.A tired man said, "At what time does your last film begin?""I'm sorry," said Mrs.Jones, "but you have the wrong number.This is not the cinema.""Oh, it began twenty minutes ago," said the man."I'm sorry about that.Goodbye."Mrs.Jones was very surprised, so she told her husband.Mr.Jones laughed and said, "The man's wife wanted to go the cinema, but he was feeling tired, so he telephoned the cinema.His wife heard HIM, but she didn't hear YOU.Now they will stay at home this evening, and the husband will be happy!"1.Why do people often telephone Mrs.Jones when they want the cinema?A.Because she lives next door to the cinema.B.Because she knows the cinema program very well.C.Because the telephone company's computer goes wrong from time to time.D.Because her telephone number is similar to that of the cinema.2.Why was Mrs.Jones so surprised at a phone call one evening?A.Because the call was from a stranger.B.Because the man on the phone knew her name.C.Because the man on the phone asked a question and then answered it himself.D.Because the man on the phone invited her to the cinema.3.According to Mr.Jones, why didn't the man on the phone want to go to the cinema?A.Because he had seen the film before.B.Because he was feeling very tired that evening.C.Because the film wasn't worth seeing.D.Because the film had started already.4.What do you think the man's wife wanted to do that evening?A.To go to the cinema with her husband.B.To find out when the last film started.C.To stay home with her husband.D.To eat out with her husband and then go to the cinema.5.What can you conclude from the story?A.The man on the phone was not interested in film.B.The man on the phone was rather clever.C.The man's wife was fond of films.D.The telephone companies are inefficient sometime。
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第二部分阅读理解Passage 1It was very cold last Sunday. Paul and his friends Allen, Bill and Betty went to the lake after breakfast. They began to skate on the ice. Paul skated better than his three friends. He skated fast and didn‘t know a piece of ice was broken. He fell into the water. His friends were afraid and called for help. Just then two workers walked there and heard them. They ran there quickly and helped the boy come out of the water. Then they took him to a hospital. Paul and his parents thanked them very much.1. When did the children go skating?A. After breakfast.B. Before supper.C. After lunch.D. At lunch.2. How many children skated on the lake?A. Three.B. Four.C. Five.D. Six.3. Who skated best of all the children?A. Allen did.B. Paul did.C. Bill did.D. Worker did.4. Why did Paul fall into the water?A. Because he skated fast.B. Because he was not good at skating.C. Because he didn‘t know the ice there was broken.D. Because he skated slow.5. Who helped Paul?A. His friends.B. His parents.C. Two workers.D. Betty.Key: ABBCCPassage 2Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communication technology is a step back from the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.As almost every imaginable contact between human beings becomes automatic by machine, the alienation quotient goes up. You can‘t even call a person to get the phone number of another person anywhere. Directory assistance is almost always fully automatic by machine. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the worker when you … swipe （刷卡）your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Placing money at the bank? … talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when can just put your credit card into the ATM?Pretty soon you won‘t have the hard task of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some grocery chains are usually a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing?1. The writer‘s attitude towards advances in communication technology may be described as ____?A. criticalB. unconcernedC. positiveD. uninterested2. If his mom has a question, he _______.A. will find ways to reach herB. will locate her e-mail addressC. will try to get her a voice machineD. will leave her the answer through voice mail3. Judging from the context, the word ―alienation‖ in line 2, paragraph 2 means ______.A. relationshipB. closenessC. strangenessD. stress4. With the rapid development of high technology, people don‘t need to _______.A. see or talk to one anotherB. say good morning to workersC. make eye contact with clerksD. completely rely on manpower5. It can be inferred that the writer _________.A. is pleased with the modern pace of lifeB. feels more separated from othersC. doesn‘t want anyone to bother himD. sings the praised of communication technologyKey: ADCABPassage 3There was once an ant that was very thirsty.It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any.Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.The ant drank the water, which saved its life.The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.―Why are you sad?‖ asked the ant.―I‘m the prisoner of a giant.‖ the girl told the ant. ― He won‘t let me go until I‘ve made three separate heaps of grain, barley（大麦）and rye（黑麦）out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together.‖―That will take you a month!‖ the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.―I know,‖ the girl cried, ―and if I haven‘t finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!‖―Don‘t cry,‖ the ant said, ―my friends and I will help you.‖Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.1. What is an ant?A. A small animal.B. An insect.C. A bird.D. A giant.2. When did the drop of water fall on the ant?A. When it was looking for food.B. When it saved the ant‘s life.C. When it was nearly dying.D. When it looked up.3. Why was the young girl crying?A. Because of her sadness.B. Because she saw the ant.C. Because the giant would let her go.D. Because the giant had given her an impossible job to do.4. What would the giant do if the girl failed to do the work?A. He would eat her.B. He would let her go.C. He would take her away.D. He would send her to prison.5. Who or what saved the girl‘s life?A. The giantB. The antC. The ant‘s friendsD. Her tearsKey: BCDADPassage 4My friend‘s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed（移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.―Start out at the end,‖ she said. ―Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end he‘ll tell you how much you have to pay.‖―I soon learned that‘s how everything works in America,‖ the grandfather told my friend. ―Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you‘ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.‖1. Where do you think the old man came from?A. Poland.B. Australia.C. Canada.D. Japan.2. From the passage, we know if you want to get success in America, you should _________.A. get help from your friendsB. try to get it by yourselfC. know how a cafeteria worksD. get up again if you fail3. Which of the following is TRUE?A. The old man sat down opposite the woman so that she could take his order.B. The old woman sat down opposite the old man so that she could serve him.C. Although the woman didn‘t know the old man, she told him how to get something to eat in the cafeteria.D. Although the woman didn‘t know the old man, she decided to pay the bill for him.4. What does the word ―it‖ in the third paragraph refer to?A. The food served in the cafeteria.B. The success one wants to get.C. The bill one has to pay in the cafeteria.D. The plate used in the cafeteria.5. Which is the best title for the passage?A. From Eastern Europe to AmericaB. Eating in an American CafeteriaC. How to Eat in a CafeteriaD. Life Is Like a Cafeteria in AmericaKey: ABCBDPassage 5Three men traveling on a train began a conversation about the world‘s greatest wonders.―In my opinion,‖ the first man said, ―the Egyptian pyramids（埃及金字塔）are the world‘s greatest wonder. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And remember: the people who built them had only simple tools. They did not have the kind of machinery that builders and engineers have today.‖―I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful,‖the second man said, ―but I do not think they are the greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the moon and brought them back safely. In seconds, they carry out mathematical calculations that would take a person a hundred years to do.‖He turned to the third man and asked, ―What do you think is the greatest wonder in the world?‖The third man thought for a long time, and then he said, ―Well, I agree that the pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too. However, in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world is this thermos.‖And he took a thermos out of his bag and held it up.The other two men were very surprised. ―A thermos?‖ they exclaimed. ―But that‘s a simple thing.‖―Oh, no, it‘s not,‖ the third man said. ―In the winter you put in a hot drink and it stays hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether it‘s winter or summer?‖1. The underlined word ―thermos‖ in Chinese means ―_______‖.A. 电冰箱B. 洗衣机C. 电风扇D. 保温瓶2. That the three men could not agree on what the world‘s greatest wonder was because _______.A. they could not think of anything very wonderfulB. they all had different ideasC. they could not prove that their opinions were rightD. the journey ended too soon3. The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful things in the world because ____.A. they were very beautifulB. they were EgyptianC. they had been built with very simple toolsD. they could do mathematical calculations4. The third man thought a thermos was the most wonderful thing in the world because _____.A. it lasted longer than the pyramidsB. it cost less than a computerC. he thought it knew whether it was winter or summerD. the other two men were surprised when he told them about it5. The third man was not very clever because ______.A. he could not think of anything to sayB. he did not understand how a thermos worksC. he did not think the pyramids were wonderfulD. he did not know anything about computersKey: DBCCBPassage 6If you ask Daniel Radcliff who acted Harry Potter to pick a special moment from the last year of his life, you will find it almost impossible. ―Oh, wow, that‘s really difficult,‖ he says with a smile.―There have been so many things, so many memories that at times it‘s hard to recall them all,‖ says Daniel. ―But Iguess one of the best ones was the London premiere for the Philosopher‘s Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.‖―But I‘ve had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It‘s been great.‖Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July, 2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.1. How old was Daniel Radcliff in 2003?A. 15B. 16C. 14D. 132. What is Daniel Radcliff‘s memory about the past year according to the passage?A. He didn‘t remember anything about it.B. He had so many bad memories about it.C. There were amazing experiences in the past year.D. There were not many unforgetable things in the past year.3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a liking by Daniel?A. Making friends.B. Being an actor.C. Being part of the team.D. Becoming a director.4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Daniel‘s parents are all film stars.B. Daniel‘s parents influenced Daniel greatly.C. Daniel has never had any influence from his parents.D. Daniel has brothers and sisters.5. Daniel was born in _________.A. New YorkB. BeijingC. ParisD. LondonKey: ACDBDPassage 7These days, children often think of superheroes（超级英雄）as cute（漂亮的）, cool and strong supermen. A poor, short and thin boy wearing glassed may not interest the kids today. Yet in less than 4 years, Harry Potter has taken the world by the storm. J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter, was a British single mother out of work and living on money given to her by the government. One day, when she was on a long train trip, she had the idea for this book. She wrote the first book of the seven in the café with her baby daughter sleeping beside her. Last year, the fans welcomed the birth of the fourth by lining outside the bookstores. Today these books are still popular among people. Harry Potter is something more than fantasy（幻想）. Rowling tries to tell the readers how things are not always what they seem to be. However, millions of the fans don‘t care about such a lesson. They would like to spend many sleepless nights waiting in line for the fifth, the sixth and the seventh to come. For them, surprising stories of the little boy are what they want.1. J.K. Rowling ________ when she wrote the first book.A. lived a quiet life with her husbandB. was very poor and didn‘t get work for herselfC. had to teach her daughter how to workD. was already a famous writer2. When did Rowling think of the idea of writing her book?A. While she was telling her baby stories about superheroes.B. While she was going on a long trip.C. She was on her way to find work.D. While she was drinking in a café.3. How many books of the seven have come out according to this passage?A. Four.B. Five.C. Six.D. Seven.4. What does Rowling want to show to her readers?A. Harry Potter is a poor, short and thin boy wearing glasses.B. Fantasy.C. How things are not always what they seem to be.D. She has got many interesting story books.5. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Rowling wrote the first book with her daughter‘s help.B. Rowling gave birth to her fourth baby last year.C. The fans just care about the surprising stories of Harry Potter.D. Only children love the books, for they‘re fairy tales.Key: BBACCPassage 8Ours is a big world, complex and full of many diverse people. People with many varying points of view are constantly running up against others who have differing opinions. Those of us who smoke are just one group of many. Recently, the activism of non-smokers has reminded us of the need to be considerate of others when we smoke in public.But, please! Enough is enough! We should like to remind non-smokers that courtesy is a two-way street. If you politely request that someone not smoke you are more likely to receive a cooperative response than if you scowl（皱眉）fiercely and hurl insults. If you speak directly to someone, you are more likely to get what you want than if you complain to the management.Many of us have been smoking for so long that we sometimes forget that others are not used to the aroma of burning tobacco. We‘re human, and like everyone else we occasionally offend unknowingly. But most of us are open to friendly suggestions and comments, and quite willing to modify our behavior to accommodate others.Smokers are people, too. We laugh and cry. We have hopes, dreams, aspirations. We have children, and mothers, and pets. We eat our hamburgers with everything on them and salute the flag at Fourth of July picnics. We hope you‘ll remember that the next time a smoker lights up in public.1. The purpose of the first paragraph is _________.A. to inform the reader of the complexity of the worldB. to declare that the author belongs to the group of smokersC. to tell non-smokers that smokers will be considerateD. to reveal the author‘s reason for writing this essay2. What does the second sentence in the second paragraph imply?A. We should go on two different roads.B. We have different ways of doing things.C. Being polite to each other is a mutual thing.D. We can smoke and sometimes we will not smoke.3. According to the author, how can you get cooperative response from smokers if you don‘t like to have someone smoking beside you?A. Complain to his superior.B. Tell him directly that you hate smokers.C. Refrain from complaining but try to hint him next time.D. Tell him politely that you are not used to smoke.4. According to the author, why do some smokers smoke in public?A. Because they cannot resist smoking.B. Because they forget that others do not like the smell of cigarettes.C. Because they are humans and they cannot avoid offending people.D. Because there is no law against it.5. How does the author try to persuade the reader?A. He uses reasons.B. He appeals to people‘s emotions.C. He cites examples in his argument.D. He simply states his opinion.Key: BCDBBPassage 9Here is a story told about an American general who was a very important figure in the American army during the First World War. Everybody in the United States knew him and many people wished to have a picture or something of his in their homes.Soon after the war the general returned to Washington. One day he went to a dentist and had six teeth pulled out. Aweek later the general heard that his teeth were being sold in shops at $5 each. On each of the teeth there was a label with the name of the general and words: ―buy these teeth and show them to your friends at home.‖ The general got angry. He rushed to his office and ordered six officers to go around the city and buy all his teeth.The officers went out and visited every shop in the capital. They were away from the office all day. In the evening they returned and put on the table in front of the general the teeth they had bought. They had collected 175 teeth.1. The general came back to Washington ____________.A. after the First World WarB. after the Second World WarC. during the First World WarD. both A and B2. Many families wanted to have __________ of the general.A. a pictureB. a tooth or anythingC. a shopD. Both A and B3. The general ordered his men to _____________.A. arrest the dentistB. look for all his teeth and buy all of themC. visit all the shops selling teethD. buy all the teeth in all the shops4. The face that the general‘s name was on the label of each tooth shows that ____________.A. the general was famousB. the shop owners wanted to make more moneyC. the general‘s teeth were valuable.D. both A and B5. The teeth they collected most probably cost __________.A. $175B. $795C. $875D. $1150Key: ADBDCPassage 10A 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）. 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 fora 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 _________.A. a ghostB. the owner of the public houseC. going to buy the houseD. going to have a free drink2. Which of the following is correct?A. Mr. James saw the ghost.B. He had not turned off the lights.C. The chairs had been moved.D. He slept well.3. Mr. James __________ the house.A. was givenB. builtC. rentedD. bought4. Mr. James found ___________.A. sixty empty bottlesB. that the villagers had drunk the whiskyC. that the lights were onD. there was a ghost on his bed5. The writer of the passage _________ Mr. James‘ story.A. believesB. doesn‘t believeC. makes upD. has been told the story by some elseKey: BCDCBPassage 11We are busy talking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer network didn‘t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. Ifpart of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on working on the time.At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made ―surfing‖in the Internet more convenient.Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. Sending e-mail is more and more popular among students.The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people‘s life.1. The Internet has a history of more than _______ years.A. sixtyB. tenC. fortyD. twenty2. A new network system was set up to _________.A. make computers cheaperB. make itself keep on working all the timeC. break down the whole networkD. make computers large and expensive3. At first the Internet was only used by _________.A. the governmentB. universitiesC. hospitals and banksD. schools4. __________ made ―surfing‖ the Internet more convenient.A. ComputersB. HardwareC. SoftwareD. Information5. Which of the following is TRUE?A. In the 1960s, computer network worked well.B. In the early 1970s, the Internet was easy to use.C. Today it‘s still not easy to get on-line.D. Sending e-mail is now more popular among students than before.Key: CBACD1. You needn‘t pay if you want to get __________.A. a pair of shoesB. a women‘s dressC. a girl‘s dressD. a lovely dog2. If Mrs. Evans is interested in the dressed, so she may call _____________.A. 8631966B. 5998326C. 2455919D. 24568363. If Mrs. Evans wants to buy all the dressed, so she has to pay _________.A. $170B. $200C. $270D. $3004. If you give an old pair of shoes to Hilo‘s Store, you can get a new pair of shoes with ________.A. over 10 dollarsB. less than 10 dollarsC. only 10 dollarsD. 10 dollars or less than 10 dollars5. Whom will the old shoes be given to __________.A. rich peopleB. poor peopleC. beggarsD. hard-working peopleKey: DBCDBPassage 13Jack Brown, an office worker, livers in Washington. He inherited（继承）a million dollars when he was 23, but he wasn‘t happy at all. When his college friends were looking for their jobs, he didn‘t have to. Jack decided to live a simple life like everyone else. He gave $10,000 of his money to a charity（慈善机构）to help poor children live a better life. Today he is 36. He still wears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only, but he is very happy.Up to now Jack has helped some children from poor countries all over the world, by sending them each $200 a month. The money was used for the children‘s study, food, medicine and clothing. Jack receives a report each year on the children‘s progress. They can write to each other, but usually the children do not speak English.When Jack first heard about these children, he wanted to help them. ―It was nothing special,‖ he said. ―Until I went to these countries and met the children I was helping, I didn‘t know anything about their life.‖ Once Jack went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that the meeting was very exciting. ―When I met her, I felt very, very happy.‖ he said. ―And I saw that the money was used for a good cause. It brought me happiness. I want to do everything I can to go on helping those children.‖1. Jack didn‘t need to look for a job _________.A. before he went to collegeB. after he went to AfricaC. because he got one million dollarsD. before he received a report2. Jack has sent them each $200 a month to help some poor children __________.A. only in WashingtonB. only in EnglandC. only in AfricaD. around the world3. Jack learned about the children‘s progress by __________.A. visiting them each yearB. getting a report every yearC. staying with themD. talking to them in English4. The underlined（划线的）words ―for a good cause‖ means ―__________‖ in Chinese.A. 施舍B. 行善C. 优惠D. 赏赐5. What‘s the main idea of the story?A. Help others, and you will feel happy.B. It‘s necessary to write letters to poor children.C. Live a simple life, and you can give others help.D. It‘s the most important to help the children in Africa.Key: CDBBAPassage 14What is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn a second language in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say and tries to imitate what he hears. When he wants something he has to ask for it. He is using the language, talking in it, thinking in it all the time. If people had to use a second language all the time, they would learn it quickly.We learn our own language by hearing people speak it, not by seeing what they write. We imitate what we hear. In school, though you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is best to learn all the new words through the ear.You can read them, spell them and write them later.1. Everyone learns his mother language when he ________.A. is a childB. was a childC. was a manD. is five2. A small child learns to speak by imitating ________.A. what people thinkB. what people doC. what people sayD. what people hear3. People can learn a language quickly if they ________.A. imitate itB. ask for itC. use it from time to timeD. hear it4. It is best to learn new words through ______ first.A. readingB. spellingC. listeningD. writing5. What is the best way to learn a language?A. Listening to what people say.B. Imitating what people do.C. Using the language all the time.D. Both A and C.Key: ACCCDPassage 15The Chinese New Year is now known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the beginning of spring. Though there are some sayings about its origin, all agree that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese means ―year‖, was originally the name of a beast that started to eat people the night before the beginning of a new year.One story goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would take in a great many people at one time. People were very afraid. One day, an old man came to their help and said he would stop all this. He said to Nian, ―I hear that you are very strong, but can you eat up all the beasts on earth instead of people who are too weak to be your enemies?‖―Yes,‖Nian agreed with him and went to kill many of the beasts on earth. People were very happy because those beasts also did bad things to people and killed their farm animals from time to time.After that, the old man, who was a god, rode on the beast Nian and left. Nian was gone, and other beasts also went into forests; people began to enjoy their happy life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper-cuts on their windows and doors at each year‘s end to drive Nian away, because red is the color the beast felt most afraid of.From then on, every year at the beginning of spring, people prepare to ―Guo Nian‖. The word ―Guo Nian‖ means ―go through the Nian safely‖. Putting up red paper-cuts to drive Nian away and making dumplings for a better new year are still an every-year doing by the Chinese people. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, they just feel the color and the food make the New Year very enjoyable.1. The Chinese New Year is also called __________.A. the Beginning of SpringB. the Spring FestivalC. the New SpringD. the Beast Nian2. How did the old man stop Nian from eating people?A. By putting red paper-cuts on windows.B. By eating up beasts.C. By talking to him.D. By riding on him.3. Why did people put on red paper-cuts instead of those of any other color?A. Because Nian liked the color red.B. Because the color red could kill Nian.C. Because the old man like the color red.D. Because Nian was afraid of the color red.4. The best title of this passage is ―__________‖.A. The Origin of the Chinese New YearB. The Old Man and the Beast NianC. How to Go Through the Nian safelyD. What Nian Was Like5. Which of the following statement is TRUE?A. Nian can eat up all the beasts on earth at one time.B. Nian is a tall beast that likes to eat farm animals.C. Nian is afraid of paper-cuts.D. Nian doesn‘t like to use his own mind.。
电大英语网考统考真题题库与答案(完美版)
(1)、The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors.
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.
-- _______________ A：Happy birthday to you! B：I am very glad ． C：That's all right ． D ：Thank you ． 答案： D 3 、- Mr. Jones, this is Sean, an English teacher from the United States. - ______________ A：What can I do for you?
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二、阅读理解 1 、 Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red, green,
电大英语阅读试题及答案
电大英语阅读试题及答案一、阅读理解（共20分，每题4分）阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。
A New Era of TechnologyThe world is witnessing a rapid development in technology. From smartphones to smart homes, technology is becoming an integral part of our lives. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the latest trends that is connecting everyday objectsto the internet, allowing them to communicate with each other. This has led to the creation of smart cities where traffic management, energy consumption, and public safety are all monitored and controlled through advanced systems.1. What is the main topic of the passage?A. The development of smartphones.B. The integration of technology in daily life.C. The Internet of Things.D. The concept of smart cities.2. According to the passage, what is the role of IoT in our lives?A. It connects people to the internet.B. It connects everyday objects to the internet.C. It controls traffic management.D. It monitors public safety.3. What is a smart city according to the passage?A. A city with advanced systems for traffic management.B. A city where all objects are connected to the internet.C. A city that uses technology for efficient management.D. A city that only focuses on energy consumption.4. What can be inferred from the passage about the future of technology?A. It will become less important in our lives.B. It will be limited to smartphones and smart homes.C. It will continue to grow and impact our lives.D. It will only be relevant in the context of smart cities.答案：1. B2. B3. C4. C二、完形填空（共10分，每题2分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
电大英语网考阅读理解
阅读理解About three hundred words in the English…ACBBC(A dog for sale)A man walked into a pet shop…BCADCNo one knows who made the first ice cream….ACDADPeople have been talking about health for a long time…BDABAA characteristic of American／This attitude toward manual／Ａ。
people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made manＢ。
she takes pride in what she can do herself she can hardly afford servantsＤ。
serve customers in a restaurant A. positive Ｂ。
American Attitude toward Manual Labor.A couple, John and Mary, had two lovely children…A.frightened D. rushed B.sometimes B.John C.firstA famous American writer: BBDABA film was at the Circle Five Ranch to film DBBADA foreigner's first impression of the U.S. is likely D.Americans are impolite to their business colleagues.B. a first concern D. by learning about their past performance A.how Americans treasure their time C. appreciativeA friend of mine was fond of drawing horses.…答案一CDDBC。
(精华版)国家开放大学电大《高级英语阅读(1)》网络课形考网考作业及答案
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形考任务一（70分）Chapter 1 Exercise（分值7分）题目1I. Vocabulary skills（3 points）Look at the columns below. Match each vocabulary word on the right with the correct definition on the left.(0.5 points each)1.the bus or subway2.proof of completion of courses of students3.money for students from scholarships, grants, or loans4.formal talks by professors or instructors on subjects of study5.courses by video, video conferencing, or computers to students in different places6.the points or grade a student gets on a test答案：II. Reading Comprehension (4 points)Read the passages, then answer the questions that follow. (1 point each )Experiencing Culture ShockA When Eliza James arrived at the University of Xian, she was excited to live in a new country, to improve her Chinese, and to experience a culture so different from her own. But soon her excitement turned tofrustration as she encountered one roadblock after another. "I felt like I couldn't accomplish anything. My dorm room had no heat, I couldn't get into the classes I wanted, and every time I asked someone for help they gave me the runaround. I felt like no one was listening to me." Eliza met with administrators, sent letters of complaint, and even contacted the consulate in Beijing, but she got nowhere. What Eliza didn't realize was that her American approach to solving problems was very different from the Chinese one in which patience and negotiation skills are key. She soon learned how to solve problems within the cultural norms of Chinese society instead of forcing her own values onto those around her. "I finally feel like I fit in and that I know what I'm doing. In fact, it's really fun being in a place that's so incredibly different from what I am accustomed to."B Yoshi Yamamoto is a junior at a small college outside of Boston. Although he is an honors student now, Yoshi didn't always have such an easy time studying in America. "Teaching methods are very different here than they are in Japan. It took me a long time to get used to learning in seminars and discussing ideas with my classmates. At first it seemed like I wasn't actually learning anything." Yoshi's reaction was to totally withdraw: he didn't participate in class discussion; he spent lots of time alone in his room, and he even skipped class on occasion. "I thought I could teach myself. Now I recognize the value of the U.S. academic system, and I am able to adapt it to my own learning style."C Both Eliza and Yoshi experienced what is called culture shock: psychological disorientation due to living in a new culture. For many international students, studying abroad can offer exposure to new cultures and an opportunity to study new fields and languages. However, it also offers the greater challenge of trying to function in a foreign culture. Studying and reading about a certain culture is poor preparation for the reality of living in it. According to psychological studies, the four stages of culture shock are 1. euphoria, 2. hostility, 3. gradual adjustment, and 4. adaptation. Culture shock can be manifested in many ways: homesickness, boredom, stereotyping of or hostility towards the host culture, overeating or overdrinking, withdrawal, and inability to work effectively.D Different people experience different levels of culture shock and react in different ways. For example, Eliza got angry while Yoshi withdrew from society. The most important thing to remember is that culture shock is normal; it is not something to be ashamed of. Luckily, there are some things international students can do to make their adjustment to a new country go more smoothly. For instance, they can stay in touch with family and friends from home, join international student organizations, meet people from their own countries, and get involved in campus activities. Most importantly, they can adjust to life abroad by keeping a sense of humor and trying to remain positive.Recognizing Paragraph Topics（choose the paragraph letter）题目27. an explanation of culture shock选择一项：C. C题目38. ways that students can adjust to living in a new country选择一项：D. D题目49. the experience of an international student in the United States选择一项：B. B题目510. the experience of an international student in China选择一项：A. AChapter 2 Exercise（分值7分）题目1I. Vocabulary Skills（2 points）Sometimes examples can explain the meaning of a word or phrase. For example, sun, rain, and wind are examples of kinds of weather. Look at the columns below. Match each vocabulary word or phrase in the first column with the examples in the second column. (0.4 points each)1.kinds of extreme weather2.Earth’s natural materials and gases3. diseases or health disorders4. seasons of the year5. natural areas or regions of the earth答案：II. Reading Comprehension (5 points)Complete the following statements by choosing the best from the answers A, B or C. (1 point each) Seasonal Affective Disorder: More than Just the BluesA Joshua dreads the winter months, not only because of the cold New England weather--the sleet, snow, wind, and rain--but because as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter, the days get shorter. As the days get shorter, he starts feeling depressed and irritable and spends more and more time at home, eating and sleeping. A graduate student in philosophy, Joshua finds that he gets little work done during the winter months and has trouble paying attention in class and concentrating on his research. "I soon realized that what I thought was just the 'winter blues' was something more extreme than that." Josh visited a doctor who diagnosed him with SAD.B Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a kind of depression that occurs seasonally. It is associated with the long hours of darkness and lack of sunlight during the winter months (people with SAD usually feel worse from December through February). Scientists don't completely understand the exact causes of SAD, but they believe it is related to a biochemical imbalance in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is the basic part of the brain that controls the body's breathing, heartbeat, metabolism, and hormone release. The effects of SAD include moodiness, irritability, low energy, increased appetite for carbohydrates (foods such as potatoes, rice, and bread), difficulty concentrating, and the tendency to oversleep.C Although doctors described SAD for the first time in 1984, humans have probably dealt with the disorder for thousands of years. It is not a coincidence that many cultures have important celebrations during the short days of the winter months. Christmas, Hanukkah, and Winter Solstice celebrations all occur in December. These celebrations involve lighting candles in order to bring light, warmth, and happiness to an otherwise depressing time of year.D So what can SAD sufferers do to feel better? Naturally, they need more light. For people who have mild cases of SAD, exercising in the morning sun could be enough to help them. Phototherapy, or light therapy, is usually prescribed for people who have more serious cases of the disorder. In light therapy, patients sit in front of a light box, a strong artificial light, for up to four hours a day. Phototherapy is effective in over 80% of SAD cases, and patients usually see results within three to four days. Although the symptoms of SAD are similar to those of clinical depression, traditional antidepressants have not proven useful in treating SAD. While psychological counseling cannot treat the symptoms of SAD, it is recommended to help SAD sufferers learn to accept and deal with their illness.题目26. Joshua starts feeling depressed and irritable in the winter because选择一项：B. he suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder题目37. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a condition that researchers believe affects people during the winter months. Scientists believe it is caused by选择一项：C. lack of sunlight and a biochemical imbalance in the brain题目48. Humans have probably struggled with SAD since选择一项：A. ancient times题目59. People who suffer from SAD can to feel better.选择一项：A. do light therapy题目610. This passage talks about_____.选择一项：B. Both A and B.Chapter 3 Exercise（分值7分）I. Reading Comprehension (5 points)Read the passages, then answer the questions that follow. (1 point each )Fast food can be good foodMany people are too busy to prepare and eat three nutritious meals a day.so they turn to the convenience of fast-food restaurants. Many of the items at fast-food restaurants, snack bars, and food stands are fattening and not very nutritious.But fast food d oesn’t have to be unhealthy.you can eat at fast-food restaurants and still eat well.Pay Attention to Calories and Fat ContentBy paying attention to the number of calories and fat that a food item has ,you can make smarter choices.Calories are “units for measuring how much energy a food will produce”.condsider two fast-food meals. A quarter-pound hamburger with cheese, jumbo-size fries,and a 16-ounce soda have a total of 1,535 calories and 76 grams of fat .a broiled (cooked under direct heat or over a flame )chicken sandwich ,a side salad with low-fat dressing,and a glass of water at the same fast-food restaurant have only 422 calories and 7 grams of fat .but maybe you really want a hamburger and fries .well,you can have a small hamburger,a small serving o f fries,and a glass of water.At a total of 490 calories and 20 grams of fat,that’s stilla much smarter choice than the large burger ,fries,and 20 grams of fat ,that’s still a much smarter choice than the large burger,fries,and sada.There’s More That You Can DoThere are a few additional things you can do to make sure you eat well in fast food restaurantS.First of all,say “no” when the cashier asks you if you want to “supersize” you meal (order an extra large portion of each item).Second, ask for no mayonnaise or sauce,or ask for it on the side (in a separate dish).Third,substitute(use something instead of something else)healthy foods for fatty ones. For example,instead of ordering deep-fried tempura,order fresh vegetables.Instead of ordering a beef burrito with lots of cheese and sour cream,order a vegetable burrito with beans and rice.and don’t eat the chips!Another thing you can do is order a side salad or a vegetable soup and eat it first.That way,you will eat some vegetables,and you won’t be able to eat as much of your burger and fries.Fnally,eat slowly and stop eating when you’re full. It sounds simple,but many people keep eating even after they become full.题目11.What is the main idea of this article ?________选择一项：C. You can eat well in fast-food restaurant题目22.A small hamburger and small firies has __________选择一项：A. more calories and fat than a chicken sandwich and a salad.题目33.Some things you can do to eat well in fast-food restaurants are________选择一项：D. order healthy foods instead of fatty ones and drink water.题目44.Manyonnaise and sauces probably_________选择一项：C. have a lot of fat and calories.题目55. By eating a salad or soup before the rest of your meal,_______选择一项：A. you eat less of the rest of your meal.II. Vocabulary skills（2 points）Read the paragraph below and fill in each blank with a word from the box. (0.4 points each)题目6changes damaging losing global availableThe growing similarities in diet and eating habits around the world are influencing people of various cultures in different ways. For example, Western foods are 6 damaging health in the industrialized island country of Japan. Instead of small meals of seafood, rice, and vegetables, the typical Japanese diet now includes large amounts of meat, dairy products, and desserts like tiramisu, a rich Italian dish full of chocolate, cheese, and sugar. According to Japanese health researchers, such 7 changes in eating habits are related to a great increase in health problems such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, and diabetes. On the other hand, the changing 8 global diet is having the opposite effect on the people in the CzechRepublic. The government of this European nation no longer supports meat and dairy products financially, so the cost of these foods is going up. In contrast, fresh fruits and vegetables are becoming more widely 9 available from private markets and stands. Cooks are even serving salads to schoolchildren, and families are eating healthier home-cooked meals. For these reasons, fewer Czech men are having heart attacks, the women are 10 losing a lot of weight, and most people are living healthier lives.Chapter 4 Exercise（分值7分I. Vocabulary Skills（2 points）题目1Match each vocabulary word on the left with the correct definition on the right. (0.4 points each)1.make sense2.pedestrians3.vehicle4.teenager5.fine答案：II. Reading Comprehension (5 points)Complete the following statements by choosing the best from the answers A, B, C, or D. (1 point each)These days, it’s getting easier and easier to find your way around. Some people have GPS devices in their cars to make sure they don’t get lost. GPS stands for Global Positioning System. These devices use satellites in space to “see” where you are and give you directions to where you want to go. And if you don’t have a GPS device, you can simply go online to get step-by-step directions. Websites like and can produce a map and directions in just a few seconds. But how do they do it? MapQuest® uses data (informatio n) from a few different sources to produce directions and maps. Before MapQuest® went online, it sold regular paper maps in places like gas stations. The website uses the data from those paper maps, information from digital mapping companies, and government databases. At the moment, MapQuest® uses more than 30 computers to read all this data and provides users with millions of maps every day.In order to find the best route (way or path) from one place to another, MapQuest® first has to look at all possible routes. Then MapQuest® looks at each part of each possible route. It considers the types of roads on the different routes. Are they dirt roads, paved roads, freeways, or city streets? It looks at how many turns there are in each route and what kinds of turns they are. Are they right turns or left turns? It also considers the speed limit on each road and how many intersections there are. An intersection is “a place where two or more roads cross each other”.MapQuest® can also tell you how long your trip will take you. It does this by doing some math. MapQuest® bases its estimated driving times on the length and speed limit of each part of the route and the amount of time it probably takes to get through each intersection. For example, it allows more time for a left turn at an intersection than it does for a right turn. Someday, maybe we will have cars that can just drive us wherever we want to go, but for now, mapping websites make it a little harder to get lost.题目26.What is the main idea of this article?选择一项：C. How mapping websites work.题目37.According to the article, MapQuest®______选择一项：D. starting by selling paper maps.题目48.When you search for directions, the first thing MapQuest® does is_______选择一项：D. look at all possible paths.题目59.When it’s deciding on the best route, MapQuest® probably chooses ________选择一项：C. freeways instead of dirt roads.题目610. To estimate your driving time, MapQuest® considers _________选择一项：D. the speed limits and types of turns on your route.Chapter 5 Exercise（分值7分）I. Reading Comprehension (5 points)Read the five main-idea questions that follow about the information in the reading. Three details correctly answer each question. Cross out the untrue, unrelated detail. (1 point each )题目11. What are the definitions of the two main types of families?选择一项：D. The nuclear family is the same as the extended family.题目22. What are the reasons for the changes in the structure of the family?选择一项：A. The divorce rate went down and the birthrate began to rise in the early 1900s in the United States. 题目33. What happened to families in industrialized countries in the 1930s and 1940s?选择一项：A. Before and during World War II, families faced few financi al problems and women didn’t have to work away from home.题目44. What changes will happen to family structure during the next decades?选择一项：D. After the war, there were more divorces and fewer stay-home-mothers.题目55. What will families be like in the future?选择一项：B. Two-parent family will probably come back and all other family forms will end.II. Vocabulary Skills（2 points）Read the paragraph below and fill in each blank with a word from the box. ( 0.4 points each)题目6living extended category typical believeThe Family of the FutureMany people today would like the traditional two-parent family back—that is to say, they want a man and a woman to marry for life; they also think the man should sport the family and the woman should stay home with the children. However, few families now fall into this 6 category In fact, if more women decide to have children on their own, the single-parent household may become more 7typica l than the traditional family in many countries. Also, unmarried couples may decided to have more children—or they might take in foster children or adopt. And because people are staying single and 8 living longer (often as widows), there may be more one-person households in the future. On the other hand, some people 9believe similar events happen again and again in history. If this is true, people may go back to the traditional 10 extended or nuclear family of the past. Others think the only certainty in history is changing: in other words, the structure of the future family could begin to change faster and faster—and in more and more ways.Chapter 6 Exercise（分值7分）I. Vocabulary skills（2 points）Complete the following statements by choosing the best from the answers A, B, C, or D. （0.4 points each）题目11. Some examples of the architecture of old Europe are the magnificent cathedrals and castles. The design and building styles of modern architecture are excellent too. What does the noun architecture mean in these sentences?选择一项：D. the form and plan of buildings and other structures题目22. Perhaps the real beginning of civilization—with its scientific and technological discoveries and inventions—was in the Middle East and Africa. Over five thousand years ago, those ancient civilizations had astronomy, mathematics, medicine, government, and so on. Which word is a synonym of the word civilization? 选择一项：C. culture题目33. The cultural legacy of ancient Chinese and Indian peoples included walled cities, the first governments, tools for work, and weapons for protection. odern peoples built on this legacy.What is a possible explanationof the word legacy?选择一项：A. ideas and achievements passed from earlier generations to modern society题目44. “For me, the idea of ancient culture creates a contradiction in definitions,” said Karen, going against Mei’s views. “Only modern things can be part of culture.Of course, people that li ke classical art and music will contradict me.”What might the noun contradiction mean?选择一项：A. the opposition of two opinions题目55. Because of the worldwide media—movies, TV, CDs, the Internet, newspapers, magazines—everybody knows the same information, plays the same music, and enjoys the same jokes.How might you define the phrase the media?选择一项：A. the combination of visual, sound, and printed ways to send ideas around the worldII.Reading Comprehension (5 points)Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for True and “F” for False. （1 point each）题目6Many visitors to different countries don’t realize how important it is to understand a country’s culture. Sometimes people learn this lesson by making a big cross-cultural blunder, or embarrassing mistake. In business situations, these blunders can cost a lot of money or end business relationships.6.It is important to understand other people’s cultures before you do business with them.选择一项：B. T题目7For example, one company wanted to sell toothpaste in Southeast Asia. In their advertisements, they claimed that their toothpaste whitens teeth. They didn’t understand that many of the local people chewed betel nuts to make their teeth black, and that these people thought black teeth were attractive.7. The toothpaste company probably kept using the same advertisement in Southeast Asia.选择一项：题目8In an other case, a car company tried to sell a car called “Matador” in a Spanish-speaking country. The company thought that it was a strong name because it means “bullfighter”. In Spanish, matador is indeed a noun meaning “bullfighter”. But it is also an adjective meaning “killing”. Imagine driving around in a car called “Killing”!8. The car company that tried to sell a car to a Spanish-speaking country probably didn’t sell many Matador cars in that country.选择一项：B. T题目9A European businessman had an important meeting with a company in Taiwan. He wanted to bring gifts for the people he was meeting with. He thought that something with his company’s logo on it would be a nice gift. So he bought some very nice pocket knives a nd had his company’s logo printed on them. He didn’t know that giving a knife as a gift symbolizes cutting off a friendship!9. The European businessman probably researches new cultures before he visits them now.选择一项：A. T题目10It’s very easy to make blunders like these people did. But it’s also very easy not to. Before you visit a new country, research that country’s customs and etiquette (social rules for polite behavior). You can find a lot of information online. Just go to a search engine and type in key words like “cross-cultural etiquette” or “cultural information Taiwan”. By spending a few minutes doing research, you can save yourself from a lot of embarrassment and make sure you don’t accidentally offend anyone.10. What you can disagree with people to save yourself from making cross-cultural blunders.选择一项：B. FChapter 7 Exercise（分值7分）I. Reading Comprehension (5 points)Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for True and “F” for False on the Answer Sheet. (1 point each)题目1For instance, a doctor doesn’t always have time to thoroughly explain an illness. In these cases, the Internet1. One benefit of using the Internet as a medical resource is it has a lot of information about illnesses and diseases.选择一项：B. T题目2For example, some websites claim that sniffing (smelling) a newspaper can cure nausea (the feeling of being sick to your stomach and wanting to vomit).2. One possible remedy for nausea is drinking a lot of tea.选择一项：B. F题目3Other websites suggest that a person with a cold should keep a piece of raw garlic in his or her mouth all day and bite down on it every few minutes to release the juice. People with smelly feet are told to soak their feet in tea for half an hour.3. The websites remedies might be unpleasant or odd, but they probably will cause harm. And who knows? They might actually be unhelpful.选择一项：A. F题目4An herbal remedy for helping your memory may also be a blood thinner. So if your doctor prescribed (put you on) a blood thinner and you start taking this herb without asking your doctor about it, a simple cut could be deadly; you might not be able to stop bleeding.4. A person who is taking a prescribed drug should probably talk to the doctor before taking an herbal remedy.选择一项：B. T题目5The bottom line is this: be careful when using the Internet as a health resource. Use it to find information that you can discuss with your doctor. But don’t spend a lot of money on “miracle cures”.5. The best way to use the Internet as a medical resource is to read about your illness and discuss what you find out with your doctor.选择一项：II. Vocabulary skills（2 points）Read the paragraph below and fill in each blank with a word from the box. ( 0.4 points each)题目6disease substance classification prevent figureIn a small-town farm market, hundreds of elderly people drink a glass of sour dark cherry juice every day. These happy senior citizens, some of them over the age of 90, claim that the natural fruit juice cures—or at least decreases—the pain of their arthritis, a 6 disease of the joints of the aging body. It’s a folk remedy, not a proven medical therapy. Nevertheless, science is beginning to 7 figure out why sour cherry juice might work to improve the health of patients with arthritis. The secret is in the 8 substance that gives the cherries their dark red color. It belongs to a 9 classification of natural nutrients that color blueberries, strawberries, plums, and other fruits—and vegetables too. Moreover, these coloring substances may help to 10 prevent serious health disorders like heart disease and cancer. In other words, vitamins and fiber ar e not the only reasons to eat fruits and vegetables. “To take advantage of natural whole foods,” advise nutritionists.Chapter 8 Exercise（分值7分）I. Vocabulary Skills（2 points）Complete the following statements by choosing the best from the answers A, B, C, or D. ( 0.4 points each) 题目11.At all hours, the media offer language learners “real-life” audio visual instruction and practice in aural comprehension.选择一项：B. understanding spoken language题目22. High-quality TV programming —a good plan of shows about various fields of study—can increase people’s knowledge and improve their thinking abilities.选择一项：D. choice and organization of shows题目33. Television and video provide almost everyone with good entertainment—a pleasant way to relax and spend free time at home.选择一项：A. amusement or pleasure4. Images of violence on the screen scare people, giving them terrible nightmares when they sleep.选择一项：D. behavior that hurts people题目55. The talk shows of “trash TV” make instant “stars” of real people with strange or immoral ideas, who tell their most personal secrets, shout angrily, and attack one another.选择一项：C. shows without qualityII. Reading Comprehension (5 points)Complete the following sentences by choosing the best from the answers A, B, C, or D. (1 point each)AEveryone makes mistakes, or so the saying goes. But have you ever heard about mistakes in Hollywood? When most people think of Hollywood, they think of blockbusters (very successful movies), high-paid actors, glitz, and glamour. But according to one Website, many Hollywood movies are full of mistakes. Some are technical errors. For instance, in a scene of the science-fiction adventure film The Matrix, when the main character steps out of his car, the viewer can clearly see the camera crew in the car window. In another scene, the same character is typing on his computer, yet the computer screen is blank. Other movie mistakes are historical. For example, the epic Gladiator, an Oscar winner, is known for having lots of historical errors. Throughout the movie, the gladiator Maximus refers to his home in Spain, and the other characters call him "the Spaniard." However, in 180 A.D., when the movie takes place, Spain as a country or even as a concept didn't exist yet. At another point in the movie, Maximus says that his homeland of Spain has "the best horses." But horses weren't brought to the Iberian Peninsula until the invasion of the Moors (North Africans) in 711 A.D, more than 500 years after the movie takes place. The historical drama Titanic, another Oscar winner, also has its share of historical blunders. The Titanic sunk in the year 1912. So why is one of the characters wearing a digital watch? In fact, movie watchers have found over 100 mistakes in The Matrix, Gladiator, and Titanic. Can you think of any errors in your favorite films?BHow susceptible are you to advertising? Has a TV commercial or magazine ad ever made you buy the product that was advertised? If so, perhaps you have been subjected to subliminal advertising. Subliminal advertising is a kind of advertising that appeals to the subconscious. The word "subliminal" comes from the Latin "sub" meaning "lower," "beneath," or "under," and "limen" meaning "threshold," (the level at which something begins to happen). Thus, subliminal advertising stimulates your brain at a level below conscious perception. You。
电大网考大学英语B之阅读理】试题及答案.doc
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电大英语B级考试——阅读
阅读10th August, 2004Dear Sirs,13. When did the company's annual sales exceed $ 2 billion?35 Forest AvenueDew’s ParkerAdelaide6. This passage is a letter of __ A. an informal invitation7. When C harles writes, “I’m sorry about the lack of warning”, he means that he is sorry that _D. he is not able to write this letter to Bob earlier ___.8. Charles and his wife decided to hold the house-warming party, mainly because B. they still had a little money left to afford the party _.9. From the letter we know that the new house that Charles moved in is C. in a new housing estate10. In the sentence “Barbara and I hope that you can make it …”, the phrase “make it” is used to say that Bob can _______. A. manage to attend their partyA 15-year old boy,……⑴shops⑵22 boxes⑶twice⑷when the boy began swearing(骂人)⑸the absence of the boys fathera funny thing happened on the way to the communication..⑴unhappy⑵both A and B ⑶more disconnecet⑷all of the above⑸it actually creates a distand between …An Extraordinary Change of Direction Molly Wilson had been⑴very unusual and surprising⑵dissatisfied because I had nothing better to do at home⑶part of the route of sail⑷not smooth because of huge waves⑸the qualities she needed for the trip were the same as those for a dancerAn Extr …BACCAAnna is our …ABCDDA dag …BADACA 15 year …CDCBBAfter her …BADCAAirline companies BABDDA characteristic of American culture that21. Form paragraph 1, we know that in America _ A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man _22. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainlybecause ___ B. she takes pride in what she can do herself.23. The expression “wait on table”in the second paragraph means”____D. serve customers in a restaurant __”.24. The author’s attitude towards manual（体力的）labor is __A .positive ___.25. Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?____ B. American Attitude toward Manual Labor.___A foreigner’s first impression of the U.S.21. Which of the following statements is wrong ? -----D . Americans are impolite to their business colleagues .22 . In the fourth paragraph ,“a highly priority ”means ______ . B. a first concern23 . Americans evaluate a business colleagues ____ . D . by learning about their past performance24 . This passage mainly talks about _____] A . how Americans treasure their time25 . We can infer from the passage that the author’s tone i n writing is __C . appreciative _After her husband had gone to work, Mrs. Richards sent her children to school11. The reason for Mrs. Richards' excitement that day was that12. Mrs. Richards went downstairs with the costume on so as13.The man who was knocking at the door was14. What did the man do after he knocked on the front door?A scientist who wants to predict the way in which consumers （消费者）11. According to the passage, if one wants to predict the way spend their money, he should _______C. carry out investigations on consumer behavior and get data on consumers incomes and money spending motives12. According to paragraph 2, one traditional assumption is that people with ________ incomes borrow most.C. decreasing13.According to paragraph 2, research surveys have proved that _________B. rising prices may make people put off their purchase of certain things14. From the results of the surveys, the writer of this article _________B. concludes that the consumers always expect prices to remain stable15. Which of the following statements is always TRUE according to the surveys mentioned in the passage？C. The price condition has an influence on consumer behavior "Are you the happiest man in the world?" When asked this question,11. According to the author, most people would _____ they are the happiest in the world.D. not think that12. The author thinks that people quite often compare themselves with ______.C. anyone we think is happier13. What is not true about the young man the author once met with?B. Everything goes effortlessly right for him.14. After talking with the young man about the Internet, the author realizes _____.A. that he is mistaken in thinking nothing unhappy existed in the latter’s life15. The significant conclusion the author draws about happiness is that ______.D. true happiness lies in struggling to be happyAs our cell phones get smarter, smaller and faster, and enable users to connect11. The author believe that the mobile phone has already turned into the next computer to some extent, since ____.B. more and more of today’s mobile phones have computer like feathers12. PC supporters believe that ____ in the future.D. mobile phones will not replace the computer13. Fans of the mobile phones think ___ in the future.C. new techniques will solve the limitations of the mobile phone14. In the sentence of the second paragraph, “…but the figure has been doubling each year, the world figure”refers to ____.A. the five percent of the overall mobile phone’s market share15. In America, the main buyers of the smart phones are ____.C. business peopleBenjamin Disraeli,⑴a miniature world thanks to its great cultural diversity⑵many young people are immigrants from different backgrounds⑶40%⑷young people feel at ease with a large number of diversified cultures⑸the cultural diversity in LondonBill cooper is portfolio manager of the 13billion value thustfunds ……..⑴for nine years running ⑵through his fathers explanation ⑶one can make money through buying stocks⑷hard work ⑸only indicated that one was ready to start his careerBill cooper …CADBCBy definition, heroes and heroines are men and women distinguished by16. The passage mainly deals with __ C. heroes and icons ___.17. Heroes and heroines are usually ___ D. all of the above ____.18. Which of the following statements is wrong? D. Heroes and heroines can only emerge in war times.19. Beautiful young Diana Spencer found her genuine love C. just before her death ___.20. What is more likely to set an icon’s status? B. Tragic and early deathBritain and France are separated by the English Channel21. For centuries , the relationship between Britain and France is D . a mixture of love and hate22 . The war in Iraq does_ D . both good and harm ___ to therelationship between France and Britain .23 . The British are not so friendly to A . Germany ; America ___and the French are not so friendly to ___ .4 . ____ are more interested in having holidays in D . British people …France ______ .25 . what does the last sentence mean? C. France and Britain are nearneighbors , and this will help balance the relationship betweenthem .Bill Cooper is portfolio (证券投资) manager of the6. In the sentence of the first paragraph, “He is the only fund manager to perform the best for nine years in a row”, the phrase “for nine years in a row”means7. It was ______ that Bill learned his finance ABC when he was only nine years old.8. It was the idea that ________thatattracted the young boy.9. From the passage, we know that Bill’s success liesin his _____.10. Bill Cooper soon learnt after his graduation that a university degree ______ .“But I just paid $ 1.69 for this bottle of wine last week. How come the price is now $ 2.25?.6. Fromthe first paragraph, we know that the speaker is ____.7. The three factors mentioned in the passage cause8. The supply of wine has remained the same partly because9. Whatdoes “production costs”refer to in the last10. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to ____.Blocks of “high -rise” flats have been built in large numbers in London and11. There was a big housing problem after the Second World12. Blocks of “high -rise” flats were thought to be the ideal solution to the housing problem, because13. The sentence “Hundreds of the vast blocks had been built before anyone began to doubt about whether they were good solutions or not.” me ans _______.14. The author takes a well-known British architect as an example to show us that _______.15. What is the greatest danger for people living in a high-rise according to some experts? Bicycle tour(旅行) and raceA bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27(Sat. & Sun.). At 5:30 a. m.,11. The main purpose of announcing the above events is to give information about ______.C. things to do for the weekend12. If you take part in the bike tour, you will ride for________.D. 110 kilometres13. The underlined word "leg" in "Bicycle tour and race” probably means ________. D. part of the tour14. What is special about the rock climbing competition? B. You can watch it without paying.15. If you want to find something to do for Saturday afternoon, which telephone number will you call? C.5012372 Children in the UK ……⑴five for 11 years ⑵all of above ⑶five years ⑷over 20%⑸Both A and BCynthia woolly is calld theMichael Jordan of women…⑴ the best professional woman baskbetball well ⑵the team leader of a basketball team ⑶ at a disadvantage ⑷ she doesn’t want the yonger ⑸ providing them eith a betterCrime Prevention Initiatives……AT HOME⑴how to avoid the crimes both at home and in the street ⑵never leave the keys to workmen since they can easily make copies ⑶go to public places ⑷Because it’s convenient for us to report to the police in casethere is a burglary.⑸we cannot part with the money when being attacked Crine preven …ABDCACommunity service is an important component of education h 11 . what is the purpose of the talk ? B . To interest students in a new community program .12 . What is the purpose of the program that the speaker describes ? C .to offer tutorials to elementary school students .13 . What does Professor Dodge do ? A . He advises students to participate in certain program .14 . What should students who are interested in the tutorials do ? D. talk to Professor Dodge15 . Whom do you think the speaker addresses ? B . students Crime Prevention InitiativesThe chances that you will1). This passage mainly focuses on _ A. how to avoid crimes both at home and in the street2). If you want to guarantee your safety at home, you should ______B. never leave the keys with workmen since they can easily make copie___.3). Based on the passage, if you notice someone following you, it's better for you to __ D. go to public places4). Why should you have a telephone in the bedroom? C. Because it'sconvenient for us to report to the police in case there is a burglary. 5). From the passage, we can infer that we might be victims if __ A. we cannot part with the money when being attackedCynthia Woolly is called the Michael Jordan of women’s basketball.6．From the first sentence of this passage, we know thatCynthia Woolly is in America.7．Cynthia Woolly is now______.8．From the passage, we can come to the conclusion that CynthiaWoolly must have started her life______.9．Which of the following statements is not true of Cynthia 10．The rightthing that Cynthia Woolly believes she is doingfor the younger generation of her family is ______ according to the passage.A ．giving them a lot of money Did you know there are some very special dogs⑴ all of the above people ⑵100000⑶the charity ⑷buy newspaper from the shop ⑸neighbourdear folks :I ’ve been here fou about three weeks…⑴ looks very different form what she expected ⑵ it is the cheapest ⑶ to keep up in a different learning bnvironment ⑷ less confident in making ⑸ lanzhouDear Folks … DACBD Dear Folks,I’ve been here for about three weeks and already11. according to Yichen, New York12. Yichen lives in a13. The most difficult thing at the moment for Yichen in her learn14. Yichen seems to be ______ friends with America students. 15. On her arrival in New York, Yichen compares things and Dear editor,Teachers in some secondary schools in Britain are worried that their job11. Teachers in some secondary school in Britain are worried, for ____.D. there is no discipline in the classroom12. According to the letter writer, modern teaching techniques ____.A. encourage pupils to play a lot instead of learning 13. The letter writer believes that ___ are responsible for problem children ’s bad behavior. D. all of the above14. The letter writer seems to believe very strongly in ____ to restore discipline at school. C. physical punishment15. The best title for this passage might be B. Restore Order in School Dear Uncle Ric,We were very sorry to hear that you are in hospital again, 6. It is certain that Uncle Ric is in hospital ________. A. again after having fully recovered from an operation 7. It is ___ who wants to study history. C. James's eider brother8. In the second paragraph, the sentence he is sitting some examinations. Means that Malcolm is ______. D. going to take some examinations9. From the letter, we know that James wants to become a professional player, ______.B. but Robin, his mother, does not like the idea 10. This is a _______. B. private letterEvery day, the news of the world is relayed ⑴D ⑵D ⑶D ⑷B ⑸B East London has traditionally …⑴hss always been a home for immigrants ⑵jobs ⑶mainly in Eastlondon ⑷used to be a cheap place to live in ⑸it has good …… Everybody knowns that words ……⑴ways for communication ⑵Either with words or without words ⑶A cry for help ⑷you can leave you car there ⑸H Everyday …DBDBBEvery day, the news of the world is relayed to people by1). People learn about what happens in the world through ____ D. both A and B2). According to the passage, the expression "no man is an island" means that __ D. every man belongs to some society3). The passage suggests that newspapers have been published for about ____ D. 400 years4). According to the author, people in today's world __ B. are affected more by whatever happens in the other parts of the world5). Today the publishing of newspapers and magazines is more economical because _ B. new inventions are changingthe techniques of newspaper publishing ___________.Every day, the news of the world is relayed to people by over 300 million11). People learn about what happensin the world through ____ 12). According tothe passage, the expression "no man is 13). The passage suggests that newspapers havebeen published 14). According to the author, people in today's world15). Todaythe publishing of newspapers and magazines is more economical because ____________.Each morning his radio wakes him up with gentle music; 6. Bob hears gentle music on his radio ______. C. in order to wake up himself in the morning 7. Bob warms the cat's mat _____ when he's out at work.. A. by controlling his home computer system 8. What statement is TRUE according to the passage? A. He has a security system and a video phone as well as a satellite system at home.9. Bob uses his cellular phone to check ____. C. whether the coffee percolator is switched on 10. The central control of his house can be used to switch off the television or the computer_______.D. if children stay up too late or waste their time Good children must be good students at school. They should work hard6. The most suitable title for this passage would be ____. C. What Good Children Should Be7. One important ability good children are supposed to develop is _____.A. to think independently8. Good children should ____.B. care for their parents, brothers and sisters9. When there is disagreement between parents and children, good children should try to ____.D. Listen to their parents’ opinions10. In the last paragraph, the sentence “They never take it for granted that they are always in the right” means they never ______.D. accept it as a matter of fact that they are always right Hello, new students! This is a message from the Students Union Committee.⑴B ⑵A ⑶A ⑷A ⑸CHELLO …BAAACHow men first learnt to invent words is unknown;21. The origin of language is __ D . a problem not yet solved22 . What is true about words ? C . They are simply sounds23 . The real power of words lies in their _ D . representative function ___24 . By “association” , the author means _ B . a joining of ideas in the mind ____25 . Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT trueA . He is no more than a master of wordsHello, new students! This is a message from the1). What does the word "scared" mean in the second paragraph? B. frightened2). What does the word "grants" mean in the third paragraph?A. money given by the government to support the students' study, which they needn't pay back3). The sentence "But if you are struggling to make ends meet, …at weekends" in the third paragraph implies_________.A. if you are short of money, you can find a part-time job in the restaurants and bars in your spare time4). From the fifth paragraph, we can infer that in order to overcome the stress of living faraway from home, _________.A. it's better for new students to talk to their parents over the phone from time to time5). This passage is written for the purpose of ____ C. offering new students some advice about their university life _____.How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, 11. According to paragraph 2, the writer thinks that ________.A) life for a child is comparatively easy.12. After a child grows up, he ________.D) should be able to take care of himself.13. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?A) People are often satisfied with their life. 14. The main idea of the passage is ________.D) one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life.15. The paragraph following the passage will most probably discuss ________.C) joys and pains of old people.I have two jobs growing up and they all help share my life…⑴how to talk and behave properly ⑵working in different occupations⑶challenging⑷joining a baseball game ⑸never be faraid of taking risksI was 15 when I walked into ..⑴he happended to walk into the shop and got in by chance⑵it helped him understand the world and himself ⑶proud of himself⑷perauding his boss to let him do the story on tv⑸it helps people make sense of the worleIn the last 500 years, nothing about people⑴Food⑵some shops⑶the potato harvest was bad⑷Ethiopia⑸coffee drinks were first made by ArabsI had two jobs growing up and they all helped shape my life.⑴B ⑵D ⑶A ⑷C ⑸CI had two …BDACCIn the united …CDCAAIt has been reported that in colleges across the United States16 . What is soap opera ? C . The daytime serial dramas on TV17 . What can be the best titles of the passage ? C . Soap opera fans18 . Which are not the reason why the soap opera suddenly becomes “in” according to the passage ? D . Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles .19 . What can we learn from the passage ? C. Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now . 20 . What message does the author want to convey to us ? B. The people’s favorites to drama works change along with the times .In the United States ,16 . What is the main idea of this passage ?B . The role of time in social life over the world .17 . What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours ?B . A matter of life or death .18 . Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend ?B . at 4:00 pm .19 . Which of the following statements is true according to the passage ?D . Promptness is valued highly in American life .20 . From the passage we can safely infer that _________B . the meaning of time differs in different parts of theworld .I had two jobs growing up and they all helped shape my life.1). The author thinks what he has learned from his first job is __ B.how to talk and behave properly2). The phrase "people from all walks of life" in the third paragraph means people _____ D. working in different occupations 3). The author thinks his second job is ____ A. challenging4). The author compares his second job to __ C. joining a baseball game5). The business lesson the author gets from selling shoes is ____ C. never be afraid of taking risksI had two jobs growing up and they all helped shape my life. 6. The author thinks what he has learned from his first job7. The phrase "people from all walks of life" in the third paragraph means people __________.______.10. The business lesson the author gets from sealing shoesI was 15 when I walked into McCarley Bookstore and began to look over the titles11．How did the author get the job in McCarley Bookstore?12．According to the author, selling books was one of the mostsatisfying job experiences, because______. 13．After he helped the fearful lady looking for books on cancer, the author was______.14．The author decided to help the poor boy by ______. D ．visiting the boy in the recovery room after the operation 15．The main reason that the author thinks his present jobis the same as the one in the bookstore is ______.In the United States, 30 percent of the grown-up populationhas a “weight problem”6. What kind of physical problem domany grown-up Americans have? ____.7. Based on the information given in this article, suppose there are 500 grown-up Americans, about howmany of them have . Are there scientific facts to support thateating too much is the cause of the" weight problem"?9. Compared with the grown-up Americanstoday, The Americans of 1910 ______.10. What have some modem medical and scientific researchers reported to us?I never used to go anywhere without the car.6. When the prices of gas doubled in this year, the author decided _______.7. In the sentence “It’s all a question ofhabit really,” the pronoun “It” refers to ____________. 8. To go to the newsagent’s to get hisnewspaper, the author ____________.9. We know from the passage that the author ____________.10. The last sentence of the passage suggeststhat ____________.I used to think education was the most important thing in my life .6. From this passage, we know that the author ______. C. realizes that it is more important to really develop oneself than just to store knowledge7. By saying that she is “a junior student” in her college, the author means that she is _____. A. a student in her third year in college8. The author thinks the awards she has received ______. D. don’t necessarily reflect her real self9. The author fears that she will be of no use to society, mainly because ______.B. she does not know how to communicate with others 10. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage, when the author says that she wants to find a part time job?D. She wants to get some shelter from the real world. Insomnia or sleeplessness is a common complaint of women as they the evening, etc. 6. The word "insomnia" meansA) having trouble falling or staying asleep.7. How many possible causes of sleeplessness are mentioned in the second paragraph?B) Six8. The expression "Second on the list" in the second paragraph meansB) The second most important cause of sleeplessness. 9. Concerning the use of sleeping pills, which of the following statements is true?D) Sleeping pills should be used in a very small amount.10. Which of the following does not fit with sleep hygiene?A) Make a rule to go to bed at a specific time every day. In recent years many countries of the world have been faced with the problem of11. According to the author, many factories of the world have been faced with the problem of ____.B. how to increase productivity12. Job variety can ____.B. make the workers’ life more pleasant13. It is not easy for the workers to get the freedom to do their job in their own way because ____.C. modern machinery must be operated in a particular way14. According to experiments, if a car factory wants the workers to contribute more to the product they are making, it should ____.B. change a large production line into many small ones15. What is probably the best way to make the workers more productive, according to the author?B. Making jobs more interestingJohn Preston lives in a flat in north London.⑴A ⑵C ⑶B ⑷C ⑸DJohn Preston lives in a flat in north London.1). What does the word "replaced" mean in the sixth line in paragraph1 ? A. renewed2). The word "shabby" in the last line of paragraph 1 means ___ C. in bad condition ______.3). The word "drawback" most likely means ____ B. disadvantage4). The sentence "we have a list of things to do as long as your arm" means ___ C. we have quite a few things to do _.5). Which of the following is TRUE about June and Pete's house? D. It generally please themJohn Parker is an Englis language teacher. He was always good at languages at school career.6. From the passage, we know for sure that John Parker ____.7. John Parker enjoyed teaching adult students because ____.8. In the first paragraph, the sentence “…he met someone by chance…” means ____.9. The first sentence in the second paragraph “Since then he has specialized in this work.”Means that John Parker has __.10. Which of the following statements is not true? ___.Lillian hanson , a college student .⑴she hadn’t got enough money⑵to further her education at college⑶that she is 73 years old ⑷they were deeply moved by her spirit⑸cares for study very much"Listen, that's not right." …..⑴D ⑵D ⑶B ⑷C ⑸ALearning styles …DDBCAListen …DDBCALaws have been written to govern the use of American national11 . How do Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag ? A . By making laws12 . What is the regulation regarding the raising of the American National Flag ? B . It should be raised quickly by hand13 . How should the American National Flag be displayed at an unveiling ceremony ? D . It should be carried high up in the air14 . what do we learn about the use of the American National Flag ? C . There are precise regulations and customs to be followed .15 . What is Americans’attitude towards their National Flag ? B . Respect"Listen, that's not right." "Look,1). Which of the following learners is NOT mentioned in the passage?D. Sensory learner.2). Which of the following is NOT true about the visual learners? D. They remember people's names quickly.3). Which of the following describes best the auditory learners? B. They prefer to listen rather than watch.4). From the fourth paragraph, the kinaesthetic learner tends to __ C. do more physical exercises5). According to the passage, the drawback of being a visual learner is ____ A. he cannot concentrate on thingsLillianHanson, a college student, expects to graduate6. Mrs. Hanson couldn’t go to college immediately after she graduated from high school because _____.7. Mrs. Hanson wanted to borrow money from the bank _______.8. In the college, what makes Mrs. Hanson different from her classmate is ______.B. that she has a family of nine children9. The computer students welcomed Mrs. Hanson warmly because ______.10. Mrs. Hanson is the sort of person who ________.。
电大网考英语阅读理解部分
阅读理解A开头：A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too DBCBA A characteristic of American ABDABA dolphin(海豚) is always well D AB D AA film was at the Circle Five Ranch DBB A DA foreigner’s first impression of the U.S. DB D A CA few years ago it was common to speak A A DB CA friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. CDDCDA friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. CBDADA friend’s grandfather came to America from AADDBA story is told about a soldierB D A B BA Group of frogs were traveling DBC C AA guide dog is a dog especially trained to .ACDCAA young man who lived in LondonB AC B DA young boy was playing with a ball in the street ABDBD A Romanian man plans to complain C C DB BA pretty ,well-dressed young lady AABDCA public house which was recently bought by Mr. BCDCB A tired-looking young ladyC A B C DA traveler came out of the airport（飞机场）BCCDAA traveler came out of the airport. BCADAA very old lady won a millionB DCD DA very new, young officer was CABBDA Japanese is sitting near the windowB A DC AA Laxyer ,an astist and a musician A A C C BA man came into a pet shop CB A B DA man got into a train and found himself sitting BCA BBA man was telling one of his friends why CDDACA million tourists go to Barcelona CB B D DA million tourists go to Barcelona every BDD Acting is such an over-crowded A D DB DAccording to a Xinhua News Agency B C D C DAll over the world people enjoy sports D A D D AAll big cities are quite simlar A C B A DAlbert Einstein had a great effect on CDCBCAlmost every family buys as C A D C AAlthough English is not as old C D D C CAlthough the United states covers C C A B CAfter having lived for over twenty D C B D CAfter having lived for over twenty years in the ABBBC Americans is business are like people who CBADC Americans are big tippers C C D B AAmericans enjoy sports. The three national CDBCB Americans with small families own D A B C A Americans, like many people elsewhere DBACCAmy Tan,the American-born daughter C B D D CAre some people born clever, and CCABBAustralia is nearly as large as B C A B DAs price and building costs keep rising A B D A BAs long as the sun shines, DBCBAAs long as the sun shines, the earth will DBCDAAs she walked round the large shop ABDBDAt some time in your life you may C D B A BAn old man died and left his son a lot of money CDBBC An English traveler found himself in BADADB、Ｃ、Ｄ、Ｅ、Ｆ开头：Baths and bathing have long B B B A CBackground music may seem harmless D A C B D Beauty has always been regarded as A B D D CBefore you go to another country it is a great help CBBAD Britain and France are separated D D A D CBob was happy. He was at new school B C A A CBy definition, heroes and heroines CDDCBBill turned the key in the heavy lock and ADDBDCan tress talk? Yes , but not in words B C B A DCars are lots of fun, but they could also be CACBB Community service is an important B C A D B computers are useful machines B A A B C Computers are useful machines. They can BCABC Computers can injure you. Most other CBBACChildren in the United States are C C A C CChina’s former volleyball star lang ping BDBB DClowns like to make people laugh. DDACDDear mrs.huggett you may remember D B D A BDown-to-earth means being honest C B C A DDown the entrance hall of B B C C DDieting to lose weight has become C D C A CDr.Harvey Gates,the noted scientist B D C D CDriving a car at high speed D A B C ADo you know Yahoo? A D C A DDuring the meal,you’d better be careful C D B C AE-mail is one of the biggest threats CADBE-mail is one of the biggest threats (威胁)Earthquakes may rightly be ranked D C A B C Education is the United States B A C A BEducation is not an end ,but a means to D A D B CEvery country has its heroes ADBCCEveryone knows what a needle is B C A C CEverybody talks about the weather B A D A DEvery day our world becomes smaller D D D A CFifty volunteers were alphabetically在其中C B D C A From the time I was a little C D A D DFred was a young soldier in a big camp B B A C B Foulsham House is a fine, large house DBADCFor any Englishman,there can never C A C A BFor several years, Americans have enjoyed BCDACG、H开头：Grandma was a wonderful story-teller D A C A BGreat changes have been made in BDCDCHow often one hears children DDCBBHow to apply for a free mailbox A D B C AHow men first learnt to invent words DCDBAHave you eaten too much over D C A C AHave you ever listened to young children BADBCHere is a piece of history B C A C BHere is a story told about an American general ADBDC Herman had worked for the bank of Ruritania BBCDDHigh in the Swiss Alps D B B A CI开头：I am going to tell you a story about two BADDAI began to smoke when I was in high C B B D AI can’t count how many times C D B C AI was very disappointed not to B A C B AI was due to take my driving B A D C BI love Charles Barkley like a A D A B BI often find myself trying to explain D C A B BI often dreamed about piss when I was D D C B DI never used to go anywhere without C D B B A If you like looking at more places A B B A DIf you are like most learners C A A D BIf you travel by air across ABDCBIf you travel by air across the center of . AADCBIf you do not use your arms or your B D B A CIf you do not use your arm or your legs CCCCBIf you've been joining in D A C B AIf you ask Daniel Radcliff who acted Harry ACDBDIf you ask most Americans, they would say their DDCBAIf we were asked exactly what D D D B AIf U.S software companies don’t pay D D A B CIn any society that needs child labor D A D C BIn the last 500 years,nothing about A C D A BIn the water around New york city C D A C BIn the eighteenth century young D A A B CIn the world, soccer or football A D B D CIn the United States 84 colleges A B A D BIn the United States, it is not customary B B B D BIn the united states, it is not normal D A A B AIn recent years progress in medical B A D C AIn learning a foreign language B A D C DIn sixteenth-century France C D A D BIn Sydney there is a special long-distance CADDCIn 1801,Thomas Jefferson was the A D C A BIn 1896,Einstein went to Zurich to D A A B DIn 1920, barely out of his teens C A B D BIn 1933 an unknown American called BDACBIn 1939 two brothers ,Mac and Dick C B D A AIn England ,people like to talk about A C A A DIn England,people often talk about the A B A B CIn earlier days few people C A A C AIn Europe many people died during C C B D DIt is a fine spring day A little bird sits A B B B CIt is now commonly known that AIDS C C A D BIt looks like a mobile phone B A D B CIt was Monday. Mrs. Smith’s dog C A A D AIt was very cold last Sunday ABBCCIt has been reported that in CCDCBJ、L、开头：Jack Brown, an office worker, livers in Washington. CDBBA Jean-Michael lourdis was a promising B A C D CJean is a bright young woman who comes DABBA Johnson doesn’t have his own car A B B A DJohn parker is an English language D C A B CJust four decades ago some 700 D C A D BJust four decades ago some 700 million BBCABLast Friday a storm tore through B B D B DLaws have been written to govern A A D C BLanguage is always changing. 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There lived a very D B A C CMark Twain was famous as a writer C A B C DMartin Luther King was a black minister, CDBAAMan has always wanted to fly D B A C CManagers of most businesses want D D C AMarriage is still a popular institution D D B A DMadison Avenue in New York is a well-known C D A A DMy Aunt Edith was a widow(寡妇) B C A D AMy brother , Henry, has an excellent BC A D DMy friend’s grandfather came to America ABCBDMy grandparents can be good fun. CDCBDMy husband and I got married B C C B DMy parents ran a small restaurant C B A D DMy secret for staying is simple. BADDCMy secret for staying young is simple. CADDCMy wife and I spent two weeks B D B C CMr. White lived in a small village. 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DCACA Soldiers and other military people D C D A BSome of the notebooks George D B C A DSome people argue that the pressure A C B B CSome pupils usually have their B C C C DSome psychologists belive that mental D B B A CSix people were travelling in a DDABCSixty-year-old grandmother. Fiona McFee DCCDA Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in D C C D ASince their strongest connection CBCDBSt. Valentine’s Day is a day B B C D DStarted in 1636 ,Harvard University B A C C ASylvester and I are watching television D A BCDShe is a cute, quiet girl. As a daughter, DBDCCShyness is the cause of much BABCBT开头：The angry woman stood by the station B B B C BThe aim of students who came to school C B B C AThe aim(目的) of students who came to CBDCAThe climate of any place is the kind A A C D CThe Chinese New Year is now known as the Spring BCDAC The dark smoke that comes out of stacks B C B B B The dark smoke that comes out from BCBBBThe French Revolution broke out in 1789 C B D D DThe first 01ympic competition D B C A BThe first true piece of sports B A D C CThe first English window was just B A D A CThe first Monday in September is Labor Day6.When is the American Labor Day?答案：the first Monday in September7. Which day shows that a new school semester will begin in America?答案：The first Monday in September8. Which of the following statements is the reason why the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona began classes in August?答案：The earlier start time enables students to take semester exams before winter vacation.9. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?答案：American public schools will start after the American Labor Day.10. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? 答案：Labor Day and American Public schoolsThe fourth Thursday in November A C B D BThe French Revolution broke out CBDDDThe residents of 24 acacia Grove were B B D A CThe resources of the library can D C D A CThe small black ants that we see running B A B C DThe totol area of land on earth is about A B D C AThe wearther somes to be everybody’s D A C B CThe word horsepower was first used two. CDDABThe world is not hungry, but it is thirsty. DACDBThe ideal teacher may be young or old ADADBThe market is a concept, If you are C D D A BThe modern sailing ship was developed A CB A BThe most important use of B C A D AThe moon looks near,B A D B CThe number of speakers of English in D A D B CThe University of London CACBDThe University of salford was B C B D AThe United States is a large country A A C D BThe Great wall of china is the longest A B C B DThe year was 1932. Amelia Earhart D C C D BThere are many misunderstandings B A C D DThere are many kind of ants in the world C B D C A There are three kinds of goals: B D C C CThere are stories about two U.S. C D C D BThere are different ideas about A A B D CThere are different ways in C B A A CThere was once an ant that was very thirsty. BCDADThere was once a large, fat woman who had CDCADThere were once many sheiks（阿拉伯的酋长）who DADCD These days, children often think of superheroes BBACC Three men traveling on a train began DBCCBThose tiny, little hairs above C A B D CTress are useful to man in D C C C BTwo year ago,my husband B B C A ATwo clever children-peter A B B D CTom arrived at the bus station quite early BACDD Tom saw an advertisement In the newspaper B C D C D Tom smith was a writer. He wrote B C D A BTom is a little boy, and he is only seven CADBCToday we examine what school are B B C A B Technology today has stolen D A C B ATime spent in a bookshop can C A C B ATibet is among the most popular places BAACB Thanksgiving is celebrated every year C C D B A Thousands of years before Columbus B D B D BU、V开头：Until 1983,Tillison Lake had been B D C D AUntil a few years ago,vans were B B C A CVisitors to Britain are sometimes surprised CDADB Very few people were coming to eat . CCADAW、Ｙ开头：We are busy talking about and using the Internet, CBACD We were sorry that we had to C A A D BWe say that aperson has good manners C C D A BWe can make mistakes at any B C C C AWang Yani was born in 1975 in B C C A BWhen did you last see a polar bear D D B C AWhen I begin to look back on all B C D B AWhen I was about 12,I suddenly B C A B DWhen I was a boy, I belonged to BACDCWhen I visited the Netherlands CDBAD DBBCAWhen Dean Arnold got his first B A C D AWhen George finished his studies B C A B DWhen John and Victoria Falls D C B B DWhen we can see well, we don’t B A B A CWhen we see well ,we do not think C A D D BWhen weather is hot, you go to BDADCWhen weather is hot, you go to a lake ADADCWhen my fifteen-year-old son A B B B AWhen Mrs.Joseph Groeger died C B B A DWhen Li Chen got marriedC A D C BWhen he took office D A B A BWhen you are in England,you must be B A C B C When you have a post-office box, the postman DDCAB When bill was very young D A C A BWhat is the best way to learn a language? ACCCDWhat must you do when you receive D A D B CWhat makes a person a scientist? B C A C DWhat should you think about in B B D D AWhy was Bastille important to the D A D C DWhy is it that the more connected ADCABWhile plant and animal species are B A C A BWilliam Henry Harrison, the ninth D B C A DWeather has a great influence on people. BCAAC Yesterday I was downtown and decided B C A B D Younger people and older people CBCCD。
电大网考英语阅读理解1---精品管理资料
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电大网考B阅读理解(10个阅读理解)Word版
阅读理解1. When I begin to look back on all friends whom I have had, I quickly came to the conclusion that Jerry was the most important and had the greatest effect upon my life. His family moved to my block when I was only 10. Jerry was 15 at the time, but the fact that he was so much older than me seemed to make no difference to him. I was very glad that he liked me. We took long walks together, on which he would tell me stories he had heard form TV and radio programs.But as months went by, a change came into our friendship. Jerry almost stopped coming by the house, and every time I went to his house or telephoned, he put me off with some excuses such as “I'm studying now” or “I've got some jobs to do for Mum”. When we passed on the street, he would still give me a warm smile and friendly wave with a “Hi, kid”, but he would hardly ever stop to talk. Finally I realized that he was no longer interested in me and that his taste had changed.I noticed him with a girl once in a while and several times saw him going out in his family's car on a Friday or Saturday night. I simply couldn't understand what was so great about girls and parties.But I was hurt when he finally made me know that our friendship was at an end. Of course he didn't really mean to hurt me, but it was a long time before I realized that it was an age problem that caused the break. There were a world of differences between the ideas and interests of a 17-year-old and a 12-year-old. Now that I'm over sixteen myself, I realized this, and the hurt I got then has become happy memories of the good times we were once together. I wonder if millions of other boys and girls have had a similar experience.(1).When the writer and Jerry first met, Jerry was ______.答案(B)A. 10 years oldB. 5 years older than the writerC. of the same age as the writerD. the writer's classmate(2).Their friendship lasted for ______.答案(C)A. a few yearsB. a few weeksC. a few monthsD. a few hours(3).Jerry stopped playing with the writer because ______.答案(D)A. the writer had changedB. he was busy with his studyC. he has some jobs to doD. he was not interested in the writer(4).When a change came in their friendship, the writer ______.答案(B)A. accepted it at onceB. couldn't understand his friend for a long timeC. stopped visiting his friendD. started going to parties with girls(5).The main idea of the passage is that ______.答案(A)A. the age difference plays a part in friendshipB. friendship is the most important thing for childrenC. many boys and girls have a similar experience as the writerD. “friends are made in wine and tested in tears”2. 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.”Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. “Do you have a job for me?” he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, “Is it a kind of a detective （侦探） job?” I answered yes, and then began his work.He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said, “Time for rest!” he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won.The next morning, he arrived early, “I want to finish these books,” he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy's home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her son's first concern, she said, was leaving the library. “Who will find the lost books?”he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye. Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different.Do you know who he is? This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.(1).Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates?答案(C)A. Because the teacher found the librarian quite busy.B. Because Bill Gates wanted to find a job.C. Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.D. Because the library needed a new worker.(2).What do you know from the passage?答案(B)A. Library work was very difficult for Bill Gates.B. Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.C. The librarian was too busy to have a rest.D. His mother hoped that Bill Gates would stay for his job.(3).The sentence "He picked up the idea immediately" means that ______.答案(A)A. he learned that system quicklyB. he collected that system quicklyC. he lifted up that system quicklyD. he improved that system quickly(4).What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library?答案(D)A. Finding the lost cards.B. Learning the system.C. Helping the worker with everything in the library.D. Finding books with wrong cards.(5).How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area?答案(C)A. Sad.B. Pleasant.C. Worried.D. Interested.3. In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a BBQ restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips. Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise（特许经营）other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate the menu. The equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches （拱门）.Today McDonald's is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonald's had over $ 1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.(1).We may infer from this passage that _______.答案(D)A. Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to KrocB. The location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-inC. Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurantsD. Ray Kroc was a good businessman(2).The passage suggests that _______.答案(A)A. creativity is an important element of business successB. Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothersC. Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray KrocD. California is the best place to go into business(3).In the second sentence of the third paragraph, the word “unique” means _______.答案(A)A. specialB. attractiveC. financialD. peculiar(4).This passage mainly talks about _______.答案(C)A. the development of fast food servicesB. how McDonald's became a billion-dollar businessC. the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonaldD. Ray Kroc's business talent(5).Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except _______.答案(B)A. a drive-inB. a cinemaC. a theaterD. a BBQ restaurant4. No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish reached India. The Indians, in turn, may have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. The Persians called their dish Sharbat, from which our word sherbet（冰冻果子露） comes. Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found the Chinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, ices became popular, first in Venice and then throughout Italy.In 1533, when Catherine de Medicis left Italy to marry the future King Henry Ⅱof France, she took her cooks with her. They made desserts the French had never tasted before. Among them was “ice cream”. For each day of the wedding festivities Catherine's cooks prepared a different flavor of her favorite dessert-“ice cream.”At first ice cream was a luxury in France. Only rich people had money to buy it. Then, in 1660, a young man from Sicily, Francisco Procopio, arrived in Paris. He opened a shop that sold ice cream at prices people could afford. Procopio's“ice-cream parlor ” became so popular that other shops were opened.About 1640, King Charles I introduced ice cream to England. He had heard it was popular in Italy and France. He served ice cream for dessert at a banquet. The surprise dish was a great success. The King ordered his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a secret. Charles felt that only royalty should serve the dessert. But the secret soon leaked out. Ice cream quickly became popular in England too.(1).Ice cream was unknown in France until ________.答案(A)A. 1533B. 1660C. 1640D. 1774(2).Ice cream was introduced to England by ________.答案(C)A. Catherine de MedicisB. Francisco ProcopioC. King Charles ID. Marco Polo(3).What will be probably discussed in the paragraphs following this passage?答案(D)A. Marco Polo's travel in the world.B. Development of ice cream in France.C. Development of ice cream in England.D. Development of ice cream in America or other countries.(4).Marco Polo's remark shows that he traveled in _______.答案(A)A. ChinaB. IndiaC. PersiaD. Italy(5).This passage is mainly about ________.答案(D)A. Marco Polo's travelB. one of Chinese inventionsC. Catherine's marriageD. the history of ice cream5. We say that a person has good manners if he or she behaves politely and is kind and helpful to others. Everyone likes a person with good manners but no one likes a person with bad manners. “Yes”, you may say , “ but what are good manners? How do I know what to do and what not to do?”People all over the world agree that being well-mannered really means being kind and helping others, especially to those older or weaker than ourselves. If you remember this, you will not go very far wrong.Here are some examples of the things that a well-mannered person does or does not do.He never laughs at people when they are in trouble.Instead, he tries to help them. He is always kind, never cruel, either to people or to animals. When people are waiting for a bus, or in a post office, he takes his turn.He does not push to the front of the queue. In the bus, he gives his seat to an old person or a lady who is standing. If he accidentally bumps into someone, or gets in their way, he says, “excuse me” or “I'm sorry”.He says “please” when making a request, and “thank you” when he receives something. He stands up when speaking to a lady or an older person, and he does not sit down until the other person is seated. He does not interrupt other people when they are talking. He does not talk too much himself. He does not talk loudly or laugh loudly in public. When eating, he does not speak with his mouth full of food. He uses a handkerchief when he sneezes or coughs.(1).Which of the following is considered as being well-mannered? 答案(C)A. Laughing at the weakerB. Behaving impolitelyC. Helping older peopleD. Being kind to ourselves(2).If you try to be kind and helpful to others, you ______.答案(C)A. will make a mistakeB. will be completely wrongC. will be considered very politeD. will not be regarded as being well-mannered(3).When waiting for a bus, a well-mannered person should ______.答案(D)A. try to stand in the front of the lineB. line up in a queueC. give his seat to a ladyD. stand where he is and wait for his turn(4).According to this passage, a polite person ______.答案(A)A. will not break into other's conversationB. will do most of the talking when speaking with othersC. will sit down before an older person doesD. will not speak without his mouth full of food when eating(5). The word "accidentally" (Line 5, Para. 4) means ______.答案(B)A. on purposeB. by accidentC. in an accidentD. willingly6. A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fianc ée （未婚妻）. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond… but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fianc ée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him. The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: "When the servant enters the room, he will drop it."On the birthday of his fiancée the young man was very excited.Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody's face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.(1).The story took place ______.答案(B)A. in FranceB. in EnglandC. in GermanyD. in the United States(2).Which of the following is true?答案(A)A. The young man's family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich.B. A rich young man fell in love with a beautiful girl.C. The young man loved the girl but the girl didn't love him.D. The young man had enough money to buy a beautiful vase.(3).Why did the young man want to buy a present for the girl?答案(C)A. He wanted to give her a Christmas present.B. He fell in love with her.C. Her birthday was coming soon.D. They were going to get married.(4).Why did the shop manager come to talk to the young man?答案(B)A. He looked very excited.B. He looked pale and sad.C. He was poorly dressed.D. He said he wanted to buy a beautiful vase.(5).On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because ______.答案(D)A. the girl was in love with himB. the girl looked beautifulC. the girl was happy and gayD. he was not sure whether his trick would be seen through7. Our child's behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. Our reactions help to determine whether our child will repeat his behavior or whether he will do something different. This statement is a very important part of a principle of behavioral psychology. The principle states that a behavior is influenced or affected by how the environment ---- people, places and things ---- immediately responds to the behavior. Perhaps without realizing it, you have used this principle many times.On the occasion when you told your child what a good boy he was after he cleaned up his room, you used the principle. When you sent your child to his room for fighting with his brother, you used the principle. When I gave Kim a cookie after she started to cry, I used the principle. In each of these examples, a particular behavior occurred first ---- cleaning up a room, fighting, and crying.In addition, there was a reaction to each behavior ---- the child was praised, sent to his room, or given a cookie. By these actions, we have influenced the previous behaviors and have helped to determine whether those behaviors will occur again in the future.(1).What is the lecture mainly about?答案(C)A. Children and environmental protection.B. Children's behavior and fighting.C. Children's behavior and our response.D. Children and principles.(2).On what kind of principle is the lecture based?答案(B)A. A principle in chemistry.B. A principle in behavioral psychology.C. A principle in physics.D. A principle in geology.(3).Who do you think the audience at this lecture might be?答案(D)A. Teachers.B. Doctors.C. Social workers.D. Parents.(4).According to the lecture, why was the child sent to his room?答案(A)A. As a kind of punishment.B. As a kind of reward.C. As an experiment on the principle.D. As an example of the principle.(5).What does the lecturer mean by "environment"?答案(C)A. Rooms, cookies and toys.B. Water, air and forest.C. People, places and things.D. Family, school and friends.8. If you've been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English.Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are "talking" online ─ many of them are talking at the same time.It's fast: trying talking to six people once. It's convenient: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers.And it requires very simple language. There's neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste precious time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB (=be right back) will do?Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in).Interested in whom you're talking to? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal.If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF (=on the floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (=rolling on the floor laughing).And when it's time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to go) or TTYL (=talk to you later).People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation is going too.(1).When people are online, they talk by ______.答案(D)A. using body languageB. drawing some strange picturesC. making phone callsD. making use of an especially short form of English(2).The Internet makes many people in the world ______.答案(A)A. talking at the same timeB. discover their friends and relativesC. pick out good things to buyD. find out about some problems in society(3).The sentence “There's neither time nor space for explanations” means that ______.答案(C)A. people should use words properlyB. people should know what time it is when they are talkingC. people online have to express themselves in a simple wayD. people should communicate in a funny way(4).If you get 19/M/HK as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.答案(B)A. the person who is talking to you is 19 from Hong Kong and he is highB. you are talking to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong KongC. you are talking to 19 boys from Hong Kong at the same timeD. the boy from Hong Kong has been online for 19 minutes(5).Which of the following is a way to save online time?答案(A)A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.B. Many people draw pictures.C. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.D. People never use the "shift" key.9. Until 1983, Tillson Lake had been a lovely weekend and vacation place for many families. Then everything changed. During the Fourth of July weekend, residents woke up one morning to find that the lake had disappeared.Some people didn't believe what they were seeing. They looked again, but to their amazement they found they had been right the first time. The lake was simply no longer there. In its place was a big muddy hole, 30 feet deep. It was as if the lake had been a giant bathtub and someone had pulled the plug.The lake's owner, Joseph Unanue, did indeed pull the plug. That's exactly what happened. The dam that held back the water to form the lake was falling apart, so government officials ordered him to repair it. They issued him a permit to lower the dam level “five feet or more.”He did much more. Mr. Unanue found repairs to the dam would cost $100,000. He didn't want to spend that much, so he opened the dam and lowered the water level until the lake was completely emptied. People living above the dam ended up with no lake. People living below the dam ended up with tons of mud and lots of dead fish. Everyone involved was angry with Mr. Unanue.Area residents believed Mr. Unanue acted out of spite（恶意）. They said he wanted to get back at them because the town wouldn't let him develop an amusement park on the lakeshore. When he couldn't build his park, he just went away and took his lake with him.(1).The lake was compared to a bathtub because _________. 答案(D)A. it was in the shape of a bathtubB. the water was warm and cleanC. people got clean in itD. it could be emptied out(2).Mr.Unanue emptied out the lake because __________. 答案(C)A. the lake was too fullB. he got a permit to do soC. he didn't want to fix the damD. the fish were all dying(3).Neighbors think Mr. Unanue is _________. 答案(D)A. a man difficult to understandB. well within his fightsC. tired of swimmingD. a bad man with ill will(4).The situation could be changed by __________. 答案(A)A. repairing the damB. planting some treesC. buying some new boatsD. cleaning up the dead fish(5).The story is mainly about _________. 答案(B)A. a lake that everyone likedB. a bad-tempered man and his lakeC. a lake that had be repairedD. people who lived near a lake10. Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, greater than what only a few other men have achieved. An American university president once commented that Einstein had created a new outlook, a new view of the universe. It may be some time before the average mind understands fully the identity of time and space and so on-but even ordinary men understand now that the universe is something larger than ever thought before.By 1914 the young Einstein had gained world fame. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited opportunities for study, but soon his peace and quiet were broken by the First World War.Einstein hated violence. The misery of war affected him deeply, and he sat unhappily in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.In the years following World War I honors were increasingly heaped on him. He became the head of the Kaiser Whihem Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Noble Prize, and he was honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism when he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.(1).The main idea of Paragraph 1 is ______.答案(C)A. the time when people know EinsteinB. the feeling of an American college presidentC. the change in human thought produced by EinsteinD. the difficulty of Einstein's thought to teachers(2).According to the American university president, ______.答案(D)A. everyone understands Einstein's theory todayB. Einstein achieved more than any other scientists in historyC. The theory of relativity can be quickly learned by everyoneD. Our ideas about the universe are different today because of Einstein(3).According to Paragraph 2, Albert Einstein ______.答案(C)A. was a famous chemistB. headed a research instituteC. was famous in the worldD. enjoyed reading about war(4).According to the passage Einstein did his greatest work ______.答案(B)A. during World War IB. when he was youngC. when Naziism roseD. between 1906-1915(5).It may be concluded that ______.答案(C)A. Albert Einstein was forced to serve in the German armyB. Albert Einstein had no other interests besides scienceC. Germans usually have a high respect for scienceD. his reputation was ruined because of his work during World War I。
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20XX年复习资料大学复习资料专业：班级：科目老师：日期：20XXXX年4月大学英语（B）网考真题阅读理解Passage 1There were once many sheiks (阿拉伯的酋长) who wanted to marry Queen Maura, for she was one of the most beautiful and powerful queens of Arabia.However, she did not like most of the sheiks, and soon there were only three left on her list of possible husbands. These three sheiks were all equally young and handsome, rich and strong. It was hard for the Queen to choose the best one.One evening, she disguised herself and went to where the three sheiks were having their evening meal. She asked them to give her something to eat.The first sheik gave her some stale (不新鲜的) food left over from the day before.The second sheik gave her a tough piece of old camel’s tail.The third sheik, whose name was Hakim, gave her some of the most tender (嫩的) and tasty meat.The next day, she invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She told her servants to give each sheik what he had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of tender and tasty meat,would not eat it unless the other two sheiks could share it with him.Queen Maura was certain which of the sheiks she wanted to marry.“Hakim is the most generous of you,” she told them, “so I want to marry him and he will become king.”1. What was Queen looking for?A. A sheik.B. A king.C. A man.D. A husband.2. Why did the Queen disguise herself?A. Because she didn’t want to be recognized by the sheiks.B. Because she wanted to get an evening meal.C. Because she wanted to get some hard food.D. Because she wanted to get some tasty food.3. What did she give the sheiks to eat the next evening?A. An evening meal.B. Some stale food.C. A plate of tender and tasty meat.D. Three different meals.4. Why didn’t Hakim want to eat his meal?A. Because he was not hungry.B. Because it was too tasty.C. Because the other sheiks had worse food.D. Because the other sheiks had better food.5. When did the Queen finally decide who to marry?A. When she went to see Hakim.B. The next evening after the meal.C. The next day.D. When Hakim refused to eat his meal.Passage 2Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner didn’t know what to do. The food in his restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there.Then he did something that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant was always full of men and their lady friends. Whenever gentleman came with a lady, a smiling waiter gave each of them a beautiful menu. The menus looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter handed to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine; while the menu that he handed to the lady gave a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was! 1. To whom did the waiter give a beautiful menu when a gentleman and his lady friend came into the restaurant?A. The gentleman.B. The lady.C. Both of them.D.Neither of them2. Were the menus for the guests the same?A. Yes, they were.B. They were the same on the outside but different inside.C. No, they weren’t.D. They were different on the outside but the same inside.3. Why could the male guest remain calm when he ordered dish after dish?A. Because the prices of the dishes were reasonable.B. Because he could have some discount.C. Because he was rich.D. Because he knew that the lady would like to share the cost with him.4. What did the lady think of her friend after a meal at this restaurant?A. She thought he wanted to impress her.B. She thought he only pretended to be generous.C. She thought he was very rich.D. She thought he was very generous.5. What does the story mainly suggest?A. Knowledge of customer psychology helps promote business.B. A restaurant owner should design different menus for differentguests.C. All men pretend to be generous before their lady friends.D. People like to go to expensive restaurants.Passage 3A man got into a train and found himself sitting opposite a woman who seemed to be about thirty-five years old. Soon they began talking to each other, and the man said to her, “Do you have a family?”“Yes, I have one son, ” the woman answered.“Oh, really?” said the man. “Does he smoke?”“No, he’s never touched a cigarette,” the woman replied.“That’s good,” the man continued. “I don’t smoke eithe r. Tobacco is very bad to one’s health. And does your son drink wine?”“Oh, no,” the woman answered at once. “He’s never drunk a drop of it.”“Then I congratulate you, ma’am,” the said. “And does he ever come home late at night?”“No, never,” his neighbor answered. “He goes to bed immediately after dinner every night.”“Well,” the man said, “he’s a wise young man. How old is he?”“He’s six months old today. But he will grow up to be a gentleman,” the woman replied proudly.1. What are the man and the woman talking about?A. What a wise young man should be like.B. What a young a man shouldn’t do.C. The woman’s son.D. The man’s son.2. How does the woman feel about her son?A. He is still too young to do anything bad.B. He is a very good boy.C. He will grow up to be a wise young man.D. He is born wise.3. Where does the conversation take place?A. On a train.B. At the wo man’s home.C. In the street.D.At the man’s home.4. Which of the following probably best describes the man’s feelingat the end of the conversation?A. Disappointed.B. Surprised.C. Amused.D. Annoyed.5. What can’t you learn from the conversation?A. The man didn’t expect that the woman has a young boy.B. The man believes in proper behavior for the young.C. The woman is so proud of her son that she does not really understand what the man’s questions mean.D. The woman is sure that her son won’t do all the things the man mentions then he grows up.Passage 4It can be dangerous to travel by sea. Ships sometimes sink（沉没）far away from land. When this happens, the sailors have to get into small boats. If another ship does not come and help them and they do not have enough food or water, they may die.Most people believe we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do, we shall be very ill because of all the salt in the water.A doctor called Alain Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could stay alive by drinking sea water and eating small fish, animals, and plants from the sea. On 20XXXX October 20XXXX53, he set out in a small boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He did not take any food or water with him.Every day Dr. Bombard drank just a little sea water. He also caught fish and they had water in them. He drank this water. He could not cook the fish, so he ate them as they were. He took small plants from the sea, which gave him more food.Dr. Bombard became hot, tired and quite ill, but after 65 days at sea he was still alive. He traveled 2750 miles from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other, and on 24 December 20XXXX53 he reachedBarbados.He lost 20XX kilos, but he showed that people can live on sea water and the animals and plants in the sea.1. Alain Bombard was____________.A. an old sailorB. a doctorC. a cookD. a fisherman2. He wanted to show that______________.A. sea water was dangerousB. sailors often diedC. people could drink sea water and not dieD. fish were good for people3. He went across__________.A. a large oceanB. a townC. a boatD. a ship4. Dr Bombard lived on___________.A sea water B. food that he cookedC. only fishD. sea water, fish, and small plants5. The story is about______.A. drinking sea waterB. a dying sailorC. a kind doctorD. eating good foodPassage 5Clowns like to make people laugh. They paint their faces and put on funny noses. Sometimes they put on a sad face but most of the timethey put on a happy face. They also wear funny clothes.小丑喜欢给大家带来欢笑。
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电大英语网考阅读理解阅读理解A.1. A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro AABBA2. A friend of mine was fond of drawing horses. He drew horses ABAAB3. A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind AABAB4. A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a ABAAA5. A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for ABBBB6. A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having ABAAB7. A young man who lived in London was in love with BABBB8. After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, BBAAB9. After retiring from 30 years of teaching, Ethell Pepper AABAB10. Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's ABBAA11. Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, greater ABBAB12. All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help BABAA13. Americans are big tippers（给小费者）. Generally ABAAB14. Americans enjoy sports. The three national sports are AABBB15. 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They can help people a lot in AABAB30. “Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning isD.31. Do you forget to turn off the lights and heaters when you BAABB32. Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? AAABB33. Do you want to know something about the history of weather? ABABA34. Down the entrance hall of BBBBA35. Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all ABABBE.36. Elvis Aron Preslay ABABA37. E-mail is one of the biggest threats to your home computer. AABAB38. Every child has a dream BBAAA39. Everyone knows what a needle is. Of course there BAABAF.40. Fifty volunteers were alphabetically divided into two equal AABBA41. For several years，Americans have enjoyed teleshopping －watching BABBA42. Foulsham House is a fine，large house of the l790s. It stands ABABAG.43. Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century AABBB44. Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of ABAAB45. Great changes have been made in family life because of AABBA46. 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二、阅读理解The French Revolution……. (190 words)11. What’s this passage about? 这篇文章主要讲了什么？ C. The French Revolution. 法国大革命12. Which did not happen in 1789? 以下那件事不是发生在1789年？B. The national economy was developing rapidly.国家经济快速发展。
13. Where were the political prisoners kept? 那些政治犯被关押在哪里？D. In Bastille.巴士底狱14. What does the underlined word ―abolished ‖ mean? 划了下划线的―abolished ‖这个词是什么意思？ D. Ended.废除。
15. What was NOT the effect of the Revolution? 以下那个不是法国大革命产生的效果？D. The king tried to control the national parliament.国王试图控制议会。
In the United States,……the sentence.(260 words)16. What is the main idea of this passage?___________ 以下哪项表达了本文的中心思想？B. The role of time in social life over the world.世界各地时间在社会生活中扮演的角色。
17. What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours?________________ 根据本文，如果你在某人睡觉时间打电话给他，意味着什么？B. A matter of life or death.这是一件事关生死的大事18. Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with yourfriend? 如果你想约你的朋友，以下哪个时间是比较恰当的？B. at 4:00 pm 下午4点。
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阅读理解1、（治理利用） As long as the sun shines, the earth will not run out of energy. The sun pours more energy on earth than we can ever use. Most of that energy comes to us as heat and light. Energy from the sun is(1)、What form does most of solar energy take to reach us? D：both A and B.(2)、Where does the word "solar" come from? B：Roman.(3)、Which of the following is NOT true of solar energy? C：It may cause pollution to the air.(4)、What are the problems facing scientists who want to use solar energy? D：both A and B.(5)、What is the writer's purpose of writing the passage?A：To give a brief introduction to solar energy. 2. Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, greater than what only a few other men have achieved. An American university president once commented that Einstein had created a new (1).The main idea of Paragraph1 is ______.答案(C)C. the change in human thought produced by Einstein(2).According to the American university president, ______.答案(D)D. Our ideas about the universe are different today because of Einstein(3).According to Paragraph 2, Albert Einstein ______.答案(C) C. was famous in the world(4).According to the passage Einstein did his greatest work ______.答案(B)B. when he was young(5).It may be concluded that ______.答案(C)C. Germans usually have a high respect for science3、(体力的) A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man － the man who has risen to the top through his own(1)、From paragraph 1, we know that in America __A_______.A：people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man(2)、According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because ____B_____.B：she takes pride in what she can do herself(3)、The expression "wait on table" in the second paragraph means "____D_____".D：serve customers in a restaurant(4)、The author's attitude towards manual(体力的) labor is __A_____.A：positive(5)、Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage? ___B_____.B：American Attitude toward Manual Labor4、 A million tourists go to Barcelona every year. They want to see Antonio Gaude's church. This unusual church has a strange history. Gaude was born in Spain in 1852. (1)、Which of the following titles best fits the passage? C：A Poor Architect's Unusual Works(2)、Which of the following is NOT true?B：Gaudi devoted most of his life to the building of the church(3)、Gaudi sometimes missed classes because ____ B：he had to work at the same time(4)、The church is unusual because ______. D：all of the above(5)、According to the passage, Gaude ______. D：both B and C5. A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée （未婚妻）. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present (1).The story took place ______.答案(B) B. in England(2).Which of the following is true?答案(A)A. The young man's family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich.(3).Why did the young man want to buy a present for the girl?答案(C)C. Her birthday was coming soon.(4).Why did the shop manager come to talk to the young man?答案(B)B. He looked pale and sad.(5).On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because ______.答案(D)D. he was not sure whether his trick would be seen through6、（任务） A foreigner's first impression of the U.S. is likely to be that everyone is in a rush-often under pressure. City people appear always to be hurrying to get where(1)、Which of the following statements is wrong? ____D____D：Americans are impolite to their business colleagues.(2)、In the fourth paragraph, "a high priority" means ____B__ B：a first concern(3)、Americans evaluate a business colleague _D_D：by learning about their past performance(4)、This passage mainly talks about ___A__ A：how Americans treasure their time(5)、We can infer from the passage that the author's tone in writing is _C C：appreciative(5)、The story tells us __A____. A：how zero came to be used7、（明星） By definition, heroes and heroines are men and women distinguished by uncommon courage, achievements, and self-sacrifice made most for the benefits of others(1)、The passage mainly deals with __C______. C：heroes and icons(2)、Heroes and heroines are usually __D______. D：all of the above(3)、Which of the following statements is wrong? __D______D：Heroes and heroines can only emerge in war times.(4)、Beautiful young Diana Spencer found her genuine love __C___ C：just before her death(5)、What is more likely to set an icon's status? _B__ B：Tragic and early death.8、（周年纪念） Britain and France are separated by the English Channel, a body of water that can be crossed in as few as 20 minutes. But the cultures of the two countries(1)、For centuries, the relationship between Britain and France is ___D_____.D：a mixture of love and hate(2)、The war in Iraq does ___D_____ to the relationship between France and Britain.D：both good and harm(3)、The British are not so friendly to __A______ and the French are not so friendly to ________. A：Germany; America(4)、____D____are more interested in having holidays in ________.D：British people … France(5)、What does the last sentence mean? __C______C：France and Britain are near neighbors, and this will help balance the relationship between them.9、 Education in the United States is usually divided into four levels. These are early children, elementary, secondary and higher education. School attendance is.(1)、What topic does the passage mainly discuss? B：The four levels of American education.(2)、Is school attendance required in the USA?A：Yes, it is required in the whole country.(3)、At what level(s) are programs of technical and vocational courses offered?C：The 3rd and 4th levels.(4)、How many grades is the second level of the education divided into?A：Six or eight.(5)、What would most probably be talked about in the next paragraph?B：Post-graduate（研究生）education.10、 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented(1)、The origin of language is ___D_____. D：problem not yet solved(2)、What is true about words? ___C_____ C：They are simply sounds.(3)、The real power of words lies in their ___D_____.D：representative function(4)、By "association", the author means _B___.B：a joining of ideas in the mind(5)、Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true? ___A_____A：He is no more than a master of words.11. If you've been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English.(1).When people are online, they talk by ______.答案(D)D. making use of an especially short form of English(2).The Internet makes many people in the world ______.答案(A) A. talking at the same time(3).The sentence “There's neither time nor space for explanations” means that ______.答案(C)C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way(4).If you get 19/M/HK as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.答案(B)B. you are talking to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong Kong(5).Which of the following is a way to save online time?答案(A)A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.12.（拱门） In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses (1).We may infer from this passage that _______.答案(D)D. Ray Kroc was a good businessman(2).The passage suggests that _______A. creativity is an important element of business success(3).In the second sentence of the third paragraph, the word “unique” means _____A. special(4).This passage mainly talks about _______.答案(C)C. the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald(5).Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except _______.答案(B)B. a cinema13、 In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast,(1)、What is the main idea of this passage? __B______B：The role of time in social life over the world.(2)、What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours? ___B____ B：A matter of life or death.(3)、Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend? B：at 4:00 pm.(4)、Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? __D______D：Promptness is valued highly in American life.(5)、From the passage we can safely infer that __B_____.B：the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world14、 I often dreamed about Pisa when I was a boy. I read about the famous building called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when I read the word Pisa, I was thinking of (1)、This passage is about ___D___ D：Why the writer likes Pisa(2)、The writer used to think Pisa ___D___. D：the same as pizza(3)、The Leaning Tower of Pisa is ___C___. C：600 years old(4)、The writer ___B___. B：likes what the tower looks like(5)、The writer likes the Leaning Tower of Pisa because ______. D：it's imperfect15、 It has been reported that in colleges across the United States, the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera has suddenly become "in". Between the hours of 11 a.m.(1)、What is soap opera? ___C_____ C：The daytime serial dramas on TV.(2)、What can be the best title of the passage? __C______ C：Soap opera fans.(3)、Which are not the reasons why the soap opera suddenly becomes "in" according to the passage? ____D____ D：Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles.(4)、What can we learn from the passage? ___C_____C：Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now.(5)、What message does the author want to convey to us? ___B_____B：The people's favorites to drama works change along with the times.16、 If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak, when you start using themagain, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that.(1)、Someone can't have a good memory if ______. B：he doesn't use his memory(2)、If you don't use your arms or legs for some time, ______.D：they become weak and won't become strong until you use them again(3)、Which of the following is true?B：Your memory becomes weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice.(4)、Few people know that it is only __if a friend has a poor memory.B：his parents' fault(5)、The writer wants to tell us ______. C：how to have a good memory17、 In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience four seasons in one day. Inthe morning the weather is warm just like in spring.(1)、Why do people in England often talk about the weather?A：Because they may have four seasons in one day.(2)、From the story we know that when __B____ come, there is a heavy rain.B：black clouds(3)、The sentence "People can also have summer in winter." means "it is sometimes too ____A__ in winter." A：warm(4)、In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because ___B___.B：it often rains in England(5)、The best title for this passage is __C____. C：The Weather in England18、 Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63.To write six hundredand three, people wrote 6 3.The space between six and three(1)、Long, long ago people didn't know how to _B_____. B：write zero(2)、Long, long ago if they wrote two hundred-eight, people wrote __B____. B：2 8(3)、Later ___D___ was used to mean space. D：a dot(4)、People used circles __C____. C：not to forget the space(5)、The story tells us ___A___. A：how zero came to be used19、(药量) Look at the instructions on the bottle of the medicine and then choose the right answers.(1)、John should take __B____ a day. B：3 teaspoonfuls(2)、The medicine should be kept in ___A____. A：a fridge(3)、John should __A____ before he takes it. A：shake the medicine well(4)、When kids are __C____ years old, they cannot take this medicine.C：two(5)、John will __A__ the medicine when it is left after Dec.1st, 2002. A：throw away20 Laws have been written to govern the use of American National Flag, and to ensure proper respect for theflag. Custom has also governed the common practice in regard to (1)、How do Americans ensure proper respect forthe national flag? __A_A：By making laws.(2)、What is the regulation regarding the raising of the American National Flag? ___B______ B：It shouldbe raised quickly by hand.(3)、How should the American National Flag be displayed at an unveiling ceremony? ____D_____ D：It shouldbe carried high up in the air.(4)、What do we learn about the use of the American National Flag? ___C______C：There are precise regulations and customs to be followed.(5)、How are Americans towards their National Flag? ___B_____ B：Respect.21、（每秒六便士） Linda and David have traveled by air from London to Sydney, Australia．Linda has promisedher mother that she will ring her to let her know that(1)、Linda is telephoning home to ___B___. B：say that she and David have arrived safely(2)、Linda does not think it expensive to ring, because ___D___.D：she will speak from one side of the world to the other(3)、David says, "Nearly four pounds," because __A____.A：he wants to remind Linda of the cost of the call(4)、Mrs. Lee goes on talking for so long because __B___ B：she likes talking(5)、Linda stopped her mother by __D____.D：promising to write, and ringing off22、 Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or schools everyday by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to(1)、Which of the following statements is NOT true? ___B_____B：All the people who work in London prefer to live in the country.(2)、With the same money needed for____C____, one can buy a little house with a garden in the country. C：renting a small flat without a garden(3)、When the garden is in blossom, that one __B______ has been rewarded.B：having spent time working in the garden(4)、People who think happiness lies in the city life would feel that ____A___ if they had to live outside London. A：their life was meaningless(5)、The underlined phrase get away from in the 3rd paragraph refers to C：escape from23、 Mr Perkin stood at the bus-stop and watched the cars go by. Many of the cars were new Beta 400s, and most of them were yellow. Mr Perkin always wore the (1)、Mr Perkin wanted a new yellow Beta 400s because___C__ C：he liked to do the same as other people(2)、He drove to work in his new car___A___. A：the very next day(3)、He was satisfied with his new car because___B___.B：it was the same as other cars all around him(4)、People gave him a look because__D____.D：he was trying to open more than one car(5)、Mr Perkin had to wait until___A___.A：there was only one yellow Beta 400s in the car-park24. No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish (1).Ice cream was unknownin France until ________.答案(A) A. 1533(2).Ice cream was introduced to England by ________.答案(C) C. King Charles I(3).What will be probably discussed in the paragraphs following this passage?答案(D)D. Development of ice cream in America or other countries.(4).Marco Polo's remark shows that he traveled in _______.答案(A) A. China(5).This passage is mainly about ________.答案(D) D. the history of ice cream25、 On Christmas Eve─the night before Christmas Day─children all over Britain put a stocking at the endof their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually(1)、Christmas Eve is _D_____. D：the night before Christmas Day(2)、Father Christmas often puts presents __B____. B：into children's stockings(3)、Whenthe children ere very young,_A. A：they didn't know who Father Christmas was(4)、When the children are older, they __C____.C：know that Father Christmas is really their father(5)、Father Christmas comes into the house through the __A____. A：chimney26、 One day a man and his daughter were going out for a walk. The man had put on a pair of odd shoes, one with a thick sole(鞋跟) and one with a thin sole. As(1)、The man thought that his daughter was _B_____. B：clever(2)、It was the __B____ that found the reason for it. B：daughter(3)、The daughter came back, bringing ______ with her. B：a pair of odd shoes(4)、What do you think that the man should have done?C：He should have changed one of his shoes.(5)、What do you think of the man and his daughter?D：Either of them was foolish enough.27、 Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse. It was raining hard. The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to stay in a(1)、The old man felt very cold because _C___C：he had travelled in the heavy rain(2)、The people in the restaurant all ran out because _B_____.B：they wanted to see the horse eating fish(3)、Indeed, the horse can neither ____C__ nor ______ nor ______.C：sing ... dance ... eat fish(4)、All the people in the restaurant rushed out __D____ but ______.D：to see the horse eat fish ... the old man(5)、Why did the old man ask the waiter to take some fish to his horse? Because _C_____.C：he wanted to sit by the fire, but wasn't able to do so at first28.（侦探） 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 (1).Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates?答案(C)C. Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.(2).What do you know from the passage?答案(B)B. Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.(3).The sentence "He picked up the idea immediately" means that ______.答案(A)A. he learned that system quickly(4).What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library?答案(D)D. Finding books with wrong cards.(5).How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area? C. Worried.29. Our child's behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. Our reactions help to determine whether our child will repeat his behavior or whether he will do something different. (1).What is the lecture mainly about?答案(C)C. Children's behavior and our response.(2).On what kind of principle is the lecture based?答案(B)B. A principle in behavioral psychology.(3).Who do you think the audience at this lecture might be?答案(D) D. Parents.(4).According to the lecture, why was the child sent to his room?答案(A)A. As a kind of punishment.(5).What does the lecturer mean by "environment"?答案(C)C. People, places and things.30、（有道理的） Once there was something wrong with a machine in a factory. The workers could do nothing but turn to a German engineer for help, who drew a line(1)、The factory turned to the German engineer because _C______.C：the workers could not repair the machine(2)、The problem of the machine __D_____. D：was just a part(3)、According to the engineer, the finding of the problem cost __B__ B：$ 29,999(4)、The writer wants to tell us that _C___ C：the knowledge is worth money(5)、What is the best title of the passage? A：The Value of Knowledge31、 Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man. Wide spread use of written language would not have been possible without some cheap and practical(1)、What's the meaning for the word 'parchment'? ___B_____B：A kind of paper made from the skin of certain young animals.(2)、Which of the following is not mentioned about the invention of paper? __A______A：More jobs could be provided than before.(3)、When did the Egyptians begin to use paper widely? __A______A：Around 1400.(4)、Which of the following countries uses more paper for each person a year? B：Sweden.(5)、What is the main idea of this short talk? ___C____C：The invention of paper is of great significance to man.32、（护士） Pubs are supposed to be the Englishman's favorite meeting place, where he can get together witha few friends over a pint of beer and talk about football,(1)、For what do Englishmen go to the pubs?B：They go to meet and talk with their friends over some beer.(2)、What doesn't the speaker like about the pubs?C：The male-dominated atmosphere.(3)、What are many men dreaming of?A：Owning a pub and living like having a party every night.(4)、Which of the following can be learned from the passage?D：The speaker was once an armyman.(5)、What can you conclude from the passage?D：Different types of pubs in Britain cater to the taste of different types of men.33、（短促尖叫） Pearl Carlson was shaken awake at 3:30 a.m. by a forceful pull. King, the family dog, was trying to pull her out of the bed. Then she smelled smoke and heard(1)、Who was King in the story? C：The family dog(2)、According to the story the firstone whowas completely out of danger could be D：Pearl(3)、When the master's room caught fire, _______.B：the dog waked Pearl up(4)、After reading this story, we've learnt that the following statements could be reasonable except _______.B：the dog awoke mother first(5)、From this story it can be inferred that ______. D：The dog is man's best friend34、（临时住房） Places to stay in Britain are as varied as the places you visit. Whatever your budget is,the choice －from basic barn to small hotel, from tiny cottage(1)、In this passage the author mainly ___A_____.A：tells us where to stay while visiting Britain(2)、____B____ are mainly built for young visitors. B：Youth Hotels(3)、If you travel alone and want to know better about family life in Britain, you'd better stay in ____D____. D：B&Bs(4)、If you are interested in travelling with your friends but only with limited means, where is the better placefor you to stay? ____C____. C：Hostels(5)、Which of the following is NOT true according to the last part of the passage? _____B___. B：All pubsand inns offer visitors bed and breakfast35、 Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo. She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States. She spoke(1)、Maria's story happened ___D_____. D：when she arrived at the airport(2)、You believe that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to __C____ at the airport. C：check people's luggage(3)、"Why are you so upset?" Maria said to the man. She wanted to tell him that he should not be ___C_____. C：unhappy(4)、"Everyone was looking at him with disapproval." This sentence means that the people around felt ____D____. D：sorry for the man's manners(5)、The author mentioned Maria's age at the beginning of the story in order to show that ____A____. A：she was young but behaved properly36、 Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and self-conscious;that is, they are excessively concerned with their own(1)、What does the author try to prove by citing "what kind of impression am I making?" (Para. __B_B：People's shyness made them care too much about their appearance and actions(2)、According to the writer, self-awareness is ___A_____. A：a good quality(3)、When being praised, shy people feel that it is ___B_____. B：unreal(4)、Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? ___C_____C：Shyness can block our chances for a rich life(5)、It can be inferred from the passage that shy people __B______.B：should understand themselves in the right way37、 Six people were traveling in a compartment（包厢）on a train. Five of them were quiet and well behaved（举止）, but the sixth was a rude young man who was causing (1)、Of the six passengers in the compartment ___B___.B：one of them was rude and badly behaved(2)、When the rude young man got off the train __C____.C：the other five passengers didn't help him(3)、The young man hurried back because _D____.D：he heard a passenger shouting to him that he had left something behind(4)、The passenger who had called him back wanted __A____.A：to punish him for his bad behavior(5)、The writer is trying to tell us in the story that __C___.C：people with bad manners are not welcomed38、 There are three kinds of goals: short-term, medium-range and long-term goals.Short-term goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can(1)、Our long-term goals mean a lot __B______. B：If we complete the short-term goals(2)、New short-term goals are built upon __D______.D：the goals that have been completed (3)、When we completeeach step of our goals, ___C_____.C：we should build up confidence of success(4)、What is the main idea of this passage? ____C___ C：Different kinds of goals in life.(5)、Which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage? ___C_____C：Life is a static thing, thus we should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course of action.39、 Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. One day he went to the cinema. It is the first timefor him to do that. He bought a ticket and then went (1)、Tom wanted to buy __C____ when the girl asked him.C：the fourth ticket(2)、The big boy stopped Tom at the door because _A_____.A：it was the big boy's job(3)、The big boy was ___D___ at the cinema. D：a worker(4)、From the story we know __B____.B：the little boy knew nothing about the cinema(5)、Which of the following is NOT true in the passage?C：Tom was too young to make friends.40、（君主制） The French Revolution broke out in 1789. At the time France was in a crisis. The government was badly run and people's lives were miserable. King Louis(1)、What's this passage about? C：The French Revolution.(2)、Which did not happen in 1789? B：The national economy was developing rapidly.(3)、Where were the political prisoners kept? D：In Bastille.(4)、What does the underlined word "abolished" mean? D：Ended.(5)、What was NOT the effect of the Revolution?D：The king tried to control the national parliament.41、 The dark smoke that comes out of stacks(大烟囱) or from a burning dump(垃圾) contains tiny bits of solid or liquid matter. The smoke also contains many gases, most(1)、Which of the following is NOT true about the "black snow" incident?B：It happened there because air pollution in these countries was most serious.(2)、Who can be killed by air pollution?C：Those who suffer from respiratory illnesses.(3)、How many people died of air pollution in Pennsylvania in 1948? B：20.(4)、What are bronchitis and asthma? B：Lung disease.(5)、According to the passage, air pollution increases people's chance of getting ______?B：A lung disease.42. Until 1983, Tillson Lake had been a lovely weekend and vacation place for many families. Then everything changed. During the Fourth of July weekend, residents woke up one morning to find that (1).The lake was compared to a bathtub because _________. 答案(D)D. it could be emptied out(2).Mr.Unanue emptied out the lake because __________. 答案(C)C. he didn't want to fix the dam(3).Neighbors think Mr. Unanue is _________. 答案(D) D. a bad man with ill will(4).The situation could be changed by __________. 答案(A) A. repairing the dam(5).The story is mainly about _________. 答案(B) B. a bad-tempered man and his lake43、 What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different from those of others? The answer is "no". It is not the tools a scientist(1)、What makes a scientist according to the passage? __B__.B：The way he uses his tools(2)、"The scientist, however, goes one step further…". The author says this to show ___C_____. C：the difference between scientists and ordinary people(3)、A sound scientific theory should be one that ___A_____.A：works not only under one set of conditions at one time, but also under the same conditions at other times (4)、The author quotes the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate ____C____.C：that the investigations are important in science(5)、What is the main idea of the passage? ___D_____.D：Exactness and ways of using tools are the keys to the making of a scientist44、 When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished(1)、Which of the following has become one of America's fastest growing businesses? _____D___ D：Renting。