大学英语B-阅读理解答案

阅读理解B

42、Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil relights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best known speech "I Have a Dream" before the Lincoln Memorial. The "dream" is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. Thus, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.

Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Luther

King's honor. He lives in people's hearts forever.

(1)、Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.

A：T B：F

答案：A

(2)、Martin Luther King was a black minister only.

A：T B：F

答案：B

(3)、Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.

A：T B：F

答案：A

(4)、The underlined word "delivered" in the second paragraph could be replaced by "gave".

A：T B：F

答案：A

(5)、The best title for this passage is "Civil Rights Law".

A：T B：F

答案：B

43、A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is haunted (闹鬼的). He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. James had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost (鬼) must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have come in for a free drink, he shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept it even if he gives it away.

(1)、Mr. James was the owner of the public house.

A：T B：F

答案：A

(2)、Mr. James had not turned off the lights that night.

A：T B：F

答案：B

(3)、Mr. James built the house. A：T B：F

答案：B

(4)、Mr. James found sixty empty bottles.

A：T B：F

答案：B

(5)、The writer of the passage believes Mr. James' story.

A：T B：F

答案：B

44、Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry.

In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families can not be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.

In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consists only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those families free to move from job to job. (1)、The passage discusses influence of science and industry on American families.

A：T B：F

答案：A

(2)、Families of the past, the present and the future are described in the passage.

A：T B：F

答案：A

(3)、People no longer want to have children.

A：T B：F

答案：B

(4)、Grandparents will take the chief responsibility of raising children in the future.

A：T B：F

答案：B

(5)、Large families cannot fit in with a highly industrialized society.

A：T B：F

答案：A

45、My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it and I washed a lot of things.

Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them first and then told them what we were going to do that day.

When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the class broke out a roar!

They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would