开放英语3阅读理解-判断题

阅读理解-判断题

1.A funny thing happened on the \vay to the communication revolution: we stoppedtalking to

each other.

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2.John Preston lives in a flat i n north London. He tnoved there after his wife died fouryears

ago to be closer to his daughter' s family , and because his big detached house andgarden were

too much work for him as he got older.

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Passage 1

Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would get sick if he continued like that, so she often tried to get him to take a vacation.

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1. Mr. Young was the owner of a private business.

2. Mrs. Young worried about her husband's business.

3. Mrs. Young was afraid that her husband's vacation might be spoilt.

4. The secretary didn't explain in her letter what had happened to Mr.Young's business, because she didn't want to spoil Mr. Young's vacation

5. You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid secretary.

Passage 2

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend. I'd like to bring him home with me."

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1. The soldier called his parents from San Francisco after having fought in Vietnam.

2. The soldier told his parents that he wanted them to meet his friend in the army.

3. His father considered his plan unacceptable.

4. A few days later the parents were told by the police that their son had killed himself.

5. The son killed himself because he was unable to find a job.

Passage 3

People often say tha t the Englishman's home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes.

1. The home matters greatly to Englishmen.

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2. They love houses more than gardens.

3. you want to tell others the space belongs to you

4. He placed his briefcase on the table.

5. The writer tried to get back his space by taking all his papers out.

Passage 4

In 1920, barely out of his teens, Alfred Hitchcock went to work for an American film company which had opened a studio in Islington, London. His first job at the studio was writing captions （脚本）for silent movies.

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1. Alfred Hitchcock's first job at the studio was writing captions for silent movies.

2. According to the context, "step in and plug gaps" (in Line 3, Para. 2) means asking for one's help.

3. Telling a story through dialogue prepared Hitchcock for his success later.

4. He was determined to draw the audience's attention and keep tension in his film-making.

5. He had taken up different jobs before he succeeded.

Passage 5

We 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.

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1. The Internet has a history of more than forty years.

2. A new network system was set up to make computers cheaper.

3. At first the Internet was only used by the government.

4. Software made "surfing" the Internet more convenient.

5. Today it's still not easy to get on-line.

Passage 6

Three 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 KEY: AAABB

1. The underlined word "thermos" in Chinese means

2. That the three men could not agree on what the world's greatest wonder was because they all had

3. The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful things in the world because they had