大学英语阅读理解B.doc

阅读理解B42、 There was once an ant that was very thirsty. It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any. Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it. The ant drank the water, which saved its life. The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings. The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds. Why are you sad? asked the ant. Im the prisoner of a giant. the girl told the ant. He wont let me go until Ive made three separate heaps of grain, barley（大麦）and rye（黑麦）out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together. That will take you a month! the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds. I know, the girl cried, and if I havent finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper! Dont cry, the ant said, my friends and I will help you. Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds. The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go. Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life. (1)、The ant was playing when it ran here and there.A：TB：F答案：B (2)、The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.A：TB：F答案：B(4)、The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、The ants friends saved the girls life.A：TB：F答案：A 43、 If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. These great forests are the oceans of trees. There are thousands and thousands of different kinds of plants and animals. However, the worlds forests are getting smaller all the time. We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farmland. Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years. What will happen if they disappear? If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world. In a lot of places the new farmland will soon look like the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot. Perhaps the climate of the world will change. This will be dangerous for everyone in the world. That is why we must take care of our forests. (1)、The passage mainly tells us about the importance of taking care of plants.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、Forests are homes for different kinds of animals.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The need for more wood and more land help to protect our forests.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、Well have more and greater forestsn in 20 or 30 years in some peoples view.A：TB：F答案：B (5)、The writer thinks it necessary to protect the forests.A：TB：F答案：A 44、 Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner didnt know what to do. The food in his restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there. Then he did something that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant was always full of men and their lady friends. Whenever a gentleman came with a lady, a smiling waiter gave each of them a beautiful menu. The menus looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter handed to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine; while the menu that he handed to the lady gave a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was! (1)、The waiter gave a beautiful menu to the guests when a gentleman and his lady friend came into the restaurant.A：TB：F答案：B (2)、The menus for the guests were the same on the outside but different inside.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The male guest could remain calm when he ordered dish after dish because he was rich.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、The lady thought of her friend very generous after a meal at this restaurant.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、The story mainly suggests that people like to go to expensive restaurants.A：TB：F答案：B 45、 After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new neighborhood. He surprised his landlord by telling him that he was leaving because he could not afford to buy any more chocolate. It all began a year ago when Albert returned home one evening and found a large dog in front of his gate. He was very fond of animals and as he happened to have a small piece of chocolate in his pocket, he gave it to the dog. The next day, the dog was there again. It held up its paws and received another piece of chocolate as a reward. Albert called his new friend Bingo. He never found out the dogs real name, nor who his owner was. However, Bingo appeared regularly every afternoon and it was quite clear that he preferred chocolate to bones. He soon grew dissatisfied with small pieces of chocolate and demanded a large bar a day. If at any time Albert neglected his duty, Bingo got very angry and refused to let him open the gate. Albert was now at Bingos mercy and had to bribe him to get into his own house! He spent such a large part of his weekly wages to keep Bingo supplied with that in the end he had to move somewhere else. (1)、Albert lived there for many years. A：TB：F答案：B (2)、Albert was moving because he did not like the place. A：TB：F答案：B (3)、Albert and the dog became friends a year ago. A：TB：F答案：A(4)、The dog visited Albert every day because it wanted the chocolate. A：TB：F答案：A (5)、Albert had to bribe him means he had to take care of him. A：TB：F答案：B 46、 Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives. A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.(1)、The best title for this passage is Language and Culture. A：TB：F答案：A (2)、According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learning its body language. A：TB：F答案：B (3)、According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language. A：TB：F答案：B (4)、To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. A：TB：F答案：A (5)、Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures. A：TB：F答案：B 47、 Taking away a citys rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we cant eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish. In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside the city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage（污水，排水）system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places. To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then youd never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump. In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything except the metal.Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus（腐殖质）, which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow. (1)、You can most probably read this kind of passage in a telephone book.A：TB：F答案：B (2)、The main idea of the passage is to tell people to take useful things out of rubbish.A：TB：F答案：B (3)、The underlined word sewage in the second paragraph means laundry.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again to feed plants.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、We should take care of a used metal box by reusing and recycling it.A：TB：F答案：A 48、 Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red, green, yellow, or black. There have been snowflakes of almost every color. Think how it would seem to have colored snowflakes coming down all around you. Black snow fell in France one year. Another year grey snow fell in Japan. It was found that the snow was mixed with ashes. This made it look dark. Red snow had come down in other countries. When this happened, the snow was mixed with red dust. Most snow looks white, but it is really the color of ice. Snow is ice that comes from snow cloud. Each snowflake begins with a small drop of frozen water. More water forms around this drop. The way the water freezes gives the snowflakes its shape. No two snowflakes are ever just the same size or shape. Sometimes the snowflakes are broken when they come down. Other snowflakes melt as they fall. All snowflakes are flat and have six sides, if they are not broken or melted. When the air is cold and dry, the falling snowflakes are small and hard. If the air wet and warm, the snowflakes are big and soft. Would you be surprised to see snowflakes as big as your head falling from the sky? It happened once in the United States. It could happen again. (1)、The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、No two snowflakes are just the same size, but all snowflakes are hard.A：TB：F答案：B (3)、Snowflakes begin with cloud.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、The bigger the snowflakes are, the softer they are.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、Black snow fell only in European Countries.A：TB：F答案：B 49、 Oil is so important that it is sometimes called black gold. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil. Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them. We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this black gold. (1)、From this passage, we can know oil is a source of energy.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、According to the passage, we can tell that oil is found only under water.A：TB：F答案：B (3)、Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.A：TB：F答案：A (4)、Many things are made from oil.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、The main idea of the whole story is that oil is important for us but hard to find.A：TB：F答案：A 50、 Some British and American people like to invite friends and colleagues for a meal at home. You should not be upset (心烦意乱) if your English friends dont invite you home. It doesnt mean they dont like you. Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 p.m., and end at about 11. Ask your hosts what time you should arrive. Its polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a present. Do you want to be extra (特别地) polite? Say how much you like the room, or the pictures on the wall. But remember - not to ask how much things cost. Youll probably start the meal with soup, or something small as a starter (第一道菜), then youll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then a dessert (甜食), followed by coffee. Its polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it. Some people eat bread with their meal, but not everyone does. Before they take out their cigarettes after the meal, most people usually ask, Do you mind if I smoke here? Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short thank you letter. Perhaps it seems funny to you, but British and American people say, thank you, thank you, and thank you. all the time.(1)、If your English or American friends dont invite you to dinner at home, it doesnt show they dont like you.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、When you are invited to go to your friends home, you may go at any time.A：TB：F答案：B (3)、In England and America, its not polite to ask the price of something.A：TB：F答案：A (4)、In the passage, the order of the serving of a meal is meat or fish with vegetables-dessert-soup-coffee.A：TB：F答案：B (5)、Youd better write a short Thank you letter to your hosts or give them a call if you want to be extra polite.A：TB：F答案：A 51、 An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for his journey back home. As he knew that it would take him only two days to get to England, he decided that he could easily spend the time without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship. The man closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell. When dinnertime came, he didnt go to dinning room, saying that he was not feeling very well. The next morning he still didnt have breakfast and at lunchtime he again stayed in his room. But at dinnertime he was so hungry that he went to the dinning room and ate everything the waiter put in front of him. He got ready for the quarrel. Bring me the bill, he said. The bill, sir? said the waiter in surprise. There isnt any bill. On our ship meals are included (包括) in the money for the ticket, said the waiter.(1)、The story happened on a ship from Norway to England.A：TB：F答案：A(2)、The traveler didnt go to the dinning room first,because he had no money.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The traveler went to the dinning room to eat something because his friend had given him some money.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、The traveler had two meals on the ship.A：TB：F答案：B (5)、After the traveler finished eating, he came to know that travelers on the ship had free meals.A：TB：F答案：A 52、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, Im coming home, but Ive a favor to ask. I have a friend. Id like to bring him home with me. Sure, they replied, wed love to meet him. Theres something you should know, the son continued, he was injured pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine（地雷） and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to live with us. Were sorry to hear that, son. But, maybe we can help him find somewhere to live. No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us. Son, said the father, you dont know what youre asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden to us. We have our own lives to live, and we cant let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. Hell find a way to live on his own. At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building. The police believed he had killed himself. The grief-stricken（悲痛欲绝的） parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue（太平间） to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didnt know, their son had only one arm and one leg.(1)、The soldier called his parents from San Francisco after having fought in Vietnam. A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The soldier told his parents that he wanted them to meet his friend in the army.A：TB：F答案：B (3)、His father considered his plan unacceptable. A：TB：F答案：A (4)、A few days later the parents were told by the police that their son had killed himself. A：TB：F答案：A (5)、The son killed himself because he was unable to find a job. A：TB：F答案：B 53、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. Within two years, he was writing scripts（剧本） and working as an assistant director.For the rest of the 1920s, Hitchcock worked on one film after another in Britain and Germany. Filming was often a rough-and-ready（匆忙做成的） affair and the assistant director was required to step in and plug gaps. A cameraman went