华中师大《阅读1》练习测试题库及答案

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《阅读1》练习测试题库及答案

I. Vocabulary:

A．Directions: These exercise give you practice using clues from a reading passage. Use your general knowledge, your knowledge of stems and affixes, and information form the entire text below to guess the meaning of the following words. Then match the words with the probable explanations.

Passage 1: Think Positive!

If you are an optimist, you probable look at life a little differently than many other people. Partly cloudy to you means mostly sunny. If you lose your map and don't know where you are, you think of it as a chance to enjoy some sightseeing. When you lose your job, you think of it as a chance to change careers.

You have probably taken a few digs from pessimist: They call you "unrealistic"; they say you see the world "through rose-colored glasses "instead of "the way it really is." They say you're a dreamer.

Pessimism is often portrayed as the sign of the intellectual, and optimism as the philosophy of the fool. V oltire said optimists maintain "that all is well when things are going bad." Novelist James Branch Cabell said, "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true.

But new scientific research suggests that optimists may know something we can all learn from. The research links optimist to health and well-being; optimists tend to be healthier and happier.

1. optimist a. connects

2. sightseeing b. a person who sees things in a positive way and

expects things to go well

3. digs c. insists

4. pessimist d. seeing the places of interest in a location

5. portrayed e. claim

6. maintain f. negative comments

7. proclaims g. described

8. links h. people who expect things will go badly

Passage 2: Dumping Health Risks on Developing Nations issued the Victoria Declaration, a 44-page world-wide plan for reducing health problems. It included several recommendations. First, governments should adopt laws that would end advertising and other types of promotion of tobacco products. Governments should work for a multinational ban on tobacco exports; tobacco exporting should be stopped. Finally, a tobacco fund would be created in each country that would be funded by a tobacco sales tax. Every time people bought tobacco, they would be contributing to the fund. This money would be used for creation of a smoke-free society.

"While smoking has slowly but declined in the United States since 1964, the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that smoking in developing countries has increased steadily," says John W. Farquhar, professor of medicine and director of the Standford University Center for Research in Disease Prevention. WHO estimates that 550, 000 of the 5,500,0000 people in the world will die prematurely of smoking and its effects.

Farquhar says that politically, morally, and educationally, the thrust of future programs must be to help developing countries. These countries must receive the support they need to create programs that strive toward the same results that are finally being reached in the developed world. According to Farquhar, we should ensure that the developed world not look at emerging nations as a dumping ground for products, such as tobacco, that they no longer want, that is, products that are becoming less marketable in the developed world. To Farquhar, pushing dangerous products onto other counties just because they cannot be sold in the developed world is unjust.

9. adopt a. able to be sold

10. promotion b. a place to which unwanted things are sent

11. ban c. to accept formally and put into effort

12. fund d. gone down

13. tax e. developing