电大网考英语阅读理解1

二、阅读理解（Passage 1，正误选择）(考1篇，15分）
A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This was in 1868, before they
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A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind person。

Dogs chosen for such training must show good…
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A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is…
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A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents。

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A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée（未婚妻）。

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After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new …
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Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's liberation movement in the United States。

She was…
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Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like to invite friends to their homes for an evening of food,.。

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An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for his journey back home.
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Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded…
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Can trees talk？Yes, but not in words。

Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate with…
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Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world。

An Arab traveller in India in the year 900 wrote that it was…
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China's former volleyball star Lang Ping has been invited to coach the US women’s national team for the…
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Clowns（小丑）like to make people laugh。

They paint their faces and put on funny noses。

Sometimes they put on…
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Computers can injure you. Most other injuries happen suddenly。

For example，if you fall off a bike and break…
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Computers are very important to modern life. Many people think that in the future computers will be used…
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Do you want to know something about the history of weather? Don't look at the sky. Don’t look for old weather…
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Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed。

China has banned free…
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Everyone knows what a needle is. Of course there are needles for sewing machines，needles for injection，…
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For several years，Americans have enjoyed teleshopping－watching TV and buying things by phone。

Now …
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Grandma was a wonderful story-teller，and she had a set of priceless, individually tailored stories with 11。

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Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground？They are always boasting。

They say things…
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If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers…
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In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney。

He had an unusual…
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In 1920，barely out of his teens, Alfred Hitchcock went to work for an American film company which had opened..
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In Sydney there is a special long-distance running race called the City to Surf. The race takes place on the …
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It was Monday。

Mrs. Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house. Mrs. Smith took a 11。

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Jean—Michael Lourdis was a promising young pianist. But when the young man played, it seemed to him，
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Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest 。

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Large modern cities are too big to control。

They impose their own living conditions on the people who live in .。

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Last Friday a storm tore through two villages in the New Territories destroying fourteen homes. Seven others …
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Let’s watch the weather forecast on television. We may go to Scotland, we may go to Wales or London. We can…
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Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day？When he wanted to steal…
Man has always wanted to fly。

Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem。

One of them，…
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Martin Luther King was a black minister，who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s…
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Many people now keep animals as pets。

Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Other
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Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters．One Sunday,Mrs。

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Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class。

The story said: "Were you ever in a hospital …
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Mr. White lived in a small village。

His parents hadn't enou gh money to send him to school. He had to help…
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Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would get sick if he…
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Nancy and Peter McCall like sports。

In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski。

They are planning…
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No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon（外科医生) and part of it taken out 11。

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No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been…
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Now, you'll be coming back here to brush up your English，so you’ll want to mak e as much conversation as ...
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Oil is so important that it is sometimes called ”black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes from oil…
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On February 14th many people in the world celebrate an unusual holiday，St. Valentine’s Day，a special day for…
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One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school，a teacher came to me. She had a student who finished…
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One way that scientists learn about man is by studying animals, such as mice and monkeys. The scientists in this…
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Our child’s behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what h e has done。

Our reactions help to …
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People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it。

People's …
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Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red, green，。

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Some British and American people like to invite friends and colleagues for a meal at home。

You should not be…
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Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up…
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The climate of any place is the kind of weather it usually has over a long period of time。

The kind of homes we…
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The fourth Thursday in November is called Thanksgiving Day. In the United States，it is an annual occasion to…
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The Spring Festival together with the winter holidays often means sharing cakes，candies and other delicious food.。

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The year was 1932。

Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single—engined .。

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There are many kinds of ants in the world that always live in companies. They are the most hard-working …
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There was once a large，fat woman who had a small，thin husband. He had a job in a big company and was…
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There was once an ant that was very thirsty。

It ran here and there looking for some water…
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There was once a man in South America who had a parrot(鹦鹉)，a pet bird that could imitate（模拟）human 。

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These days, children often think of superheroes（超级英雄) as cute（帅气的)，cool and strong supermen. A poor，…
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Today the official language of the United Sates and most of Canada is English. However, French almost became 11。

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Two years ago，my husband bought me a bike。

If you live in a town，it is often faster than a car and you don’t …
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Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner didn't know what to do…
When you want to go shopping,decide how much money you can spend for new clothes。

Think about the kind…
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Younger people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about life，work and…
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