00595自考英语阅读试卷(答案全面)

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英语阅读(一) 试卷 （课程代码 00595 ）

PART ONE( 60 POINTS)

I. CAREFUL READING

Read the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answer and write it on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points, 2

points each)

Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

Failure is probably the most fatiguing experience a person ever has. There is nothing more exhausting than not succeeding--

being blocked, not moving ahead. It is an evil circle. Failure breeds fatigue, and fatigue makes it harder to get to work,

which adds to the fatigue.

We experience this tiredness in two main ways, as start-up fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep

putting off a task that we are forced to take up. Either because it is too tedious or because it is too difficult, we avoid it. And

the longer we postpone it, the more tired we feel.

Such start-up fatigue is very real, even not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The remedy is

obvious, though perhaps not easy to apply: willpower exercise. The moment I find myself turning away from a job, or

putting it under a pile of other things I have to do, I clear my desk of everything else and attack the objectionable item first.

To prevent start-up fatigue, always treat the most difficult job first.

Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Here we are willing to get started, but We can not seem to do the job right.

Its difficulties appear to be insurmountable and however hard we work, we fail again and again. The mounting experience

of failure carries with it an ever increasing burden of mental fatigue. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can- -then let

the unconscious take over.

1. Which of the following can be called an evil circle?

A. Success - zeal - success - zeal.

B. Failure - tiredness - failure - tiredness.

C. Failure - zeal - failure - tiredness.

D. Success 一exhaustion - success - exhaustion.

2. According to the passage, when keeping putting off a task, we can experience_______.

A. tiredness

B. performance fatigue

C. start-up fatigue

D. unconsciousness

3. To overcome start-up fatigue, we need_________.

A. toughness

B. prevention

C. muscles

D. strong willpower

4. The word insurmountable in the last paragraph probably means___________. A. unable to be solved B. unlikely to be understood C. unable to be imagined D. unlikely to be rejected

5. According to the passage ，which of the following statements is NOT true?

A .It is easier to overcome start-up fatigue.

B. Performance fatigue occurs when the job we are willing to take gets blocked.

C. One will finally succeed after experiencing the evil circle.

D. Fatigue often accompanies failure.

Passage 2

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Whenever I see anyone buying a National Lottery ticket I want to stop them and ask if they just know where their

money is going.

The lottery money is Posed to go to charity- but it makes me angry to see some of the so-called “good causes” it's being

used to support. Also, Camelot, the organizer, has made a profit of ￡10.8 million in five months. We hear now that a

lot of that money is booting the pay packets of the company’s bosses.

For the past 10 years I've been helping to raise funds for a cancer research charity called Tenovus. My husband, Sandy,

died from cancer 11 years ago- -he was only 51. There's been a long line of deaths in our family through cancer and it's

been devastating. I've also lost two sisters-in-law, my brother, Michael, my father in-law and my father. That' s apart

from several close friends.

The charity is 50 years old now and raises money mainly for breast cancer research. It also runs a support line for the

families of caner sufferer. Our local group rises money through dances, sales and coffee mornings, and all the funds go

directly 10 caner research. In 1933 Tenovus raised ￡3million---and half that money came from sales of our own lottery

tickets at supermarkets. But our income has dropped by half since the National Lottery was introduced.

I'm not against people playing the National Lottery, but they should think about what they`re doing. The chances of

winning the jackpot are so small; they might as well throw their money away. The Government tells us that the proceeds

are going to things like the arts and sports but what about the National Health Service? They should give some cash to

that, too. How can they justify spending ridiculous amounts of cash on so-called works of art- like displays of photos -or

buying up Winston Churchill's papers at a cost of ￡ 12 million?

So who really are the winners in the National Lottery? When I think of all that money people

could be donating to cancer research, I could weep. It' s time people realized how charities across the country are

suffering because of the National Lottery. It's disheartening and so infuriating.

6. The writer seems to hope that_________.

A. people will spend more money on the National Lottery

B. people will give more money to charity

C. most of the lottery money will go to charity

D. most of the lottery money will be used for cancer research

7. The reason why the writer raises funds for cancer research is that_________.

A. she herself is suffering from cancer

B. the cancer is the most frightening disease

C. a number of her relatives died of cancer

D. some cancer research needs more money than other research

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