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大学英语复习思考题Part I. Reading Comprehension题目答案及解析 Eddie was a carpet fitter, and he hated it. For ten years he had spent his days sitting, squatting, kneeling or crawling on floors, in houses, offices, shops, factories and restaurants. Ten years of his life, cutting and fitting carpets for other people to walk on, without even seeing them. When his work was done, no one ever appreciated it. No one ever said Oh, thats a beautiful job, the carpet fits so neatly. They just walked all over it. Eddie was sick of it. He was especially sick of it on this hot, humid day in August, as he worked to put the finishing touches to todays job. He was just cutting and fixing the last edge on a huge red carpet which he had fitted in the living room of Mrs. Vanbrughs house. Rich Mrs. Vanbrugh, who changed her carpets every year, and always bought the best. Rich Mrs. Van- brugh, who had never even given him a cup of tea all day, and who made him go outside when he wanted to smoke. Ah well, it was four oclock and he had nearly finished. At least he would be able to get home early today. He began to day-dream about the weekend, about the Saturday football game he always played for the local team, where he was known as Ed the Head for his skill in heading goals from corner kicks. Eddie sat back and sighed. The job was done, and it was time for a last cigarette. He began tapping the pockets of his overalls, looking for the new packet of Marlboro he had bought that morning. They were not there. It was as he swung around to look in his tool- box for the cigarettes that Eddie saw the lump. Right in the middle of the brand new bright red carpet, there was a lump. A very visible lump. A lump the size of a packet of cigarettes. Blast! said Eddie angrily, Ive done it again! Ive left the cigarettes under the blasted carpet ! He had done this once before, and taking up and refitting the carpet had taken him two hours. Eddie was determined that he was not going to spend another two hours in this house. He decided to get rid of the lump another way. It would mean wasting a good packet of cigarettes, nearly full, but anything was better than taking up the whole carpet and fitting it again. He turned to his toolbox for a large hammer. Holding the hammer, Eddie approached the lump in the carpet. He didnt want to damage the carpet itself, so he took a block of wood and placed it on top of the lump. Then he began to beat the block of wood as hard as he could. He kept beating, hoping Mrs. Vanbrugh wouldnt hear the noise and come to see what he was doing. It would be difficult to explain why he was hammering the middle of her beautiful new carpet. After three or four minutes, the lump was beginning to flatten out. Eddie imagined the cigarette box breaking up, and the crushed cigarettes spreading out under the carpet. Soon, he judged that the lump was almost invisible. Clearing up his tools, he began to move the furniture back into the living room, and he was careful to place one of the coffee tables over the place where the lump had been, just to make sure that no one would see the spot where his cigarettes had been lost. Finally, the job was finished, and he called Mrs.Vanbrugh from the dining room to inspect his work. Yes, dear, very nice, said the lady, peering around the room briefly. Youll be sending me a bill, then? Yes madam, as soon as I report to the office tomorrow that the job is done. Eddie pickedup his tools, and began to walk out to the van. Mrs. Vanbrugh accompanied him. She seemed alittle worried about something. Young man, she began, as he climbed into the cab of his van,laying his toolbox on the passenger seat beside him, while you were working todav, you didnt by any chance see any sign of Armand, did you? Armand is my parakeet. A beautiful bird, just beautiful, such colors in his feathers . I let him out of his cage, you see, this morning, and hes disappeared. He likes to walk around the house, and hes so good, he usually just comes back to his cage after an hour or so and gets right in. Only today he didnt come back. Hes never done such a thing before, its most peculiar . No, madam, I havent seen him anywhere, said Eddie, as he reached to start the van. And saw his packet of Marlboro cigarettes on the dashboard, where he had left it at lunch time . And remembered the lump in the carpet . And realised what the lump was . And remembered the hammering . And began to feel rather sick . 1. Why did Eddie hate being a carpet fitter? A The pay was too low. B He didnt like working alone. C No one appreciated his work. D It was backbreaking work.2. Why was Eddie called Ed the Head by his friends? A Because he had a large head. BBecause he was a very intelligent carpet fitter. C because of his football skills. D Because he was very proud and self-important.3. What did Eddie want to do when he had finished fitting the carpet? A He wanted to have a cigarette. B He wanted to hammer the carpet flat. C He wanted to look for Mrs. Vanbrughs lost bird. D He wanted to start work in the dining room.4. Why didnt Eddie remove the carpet to take out the thing that was causing the lump? A He couldnt take the carpet up once he had fitted it. BIt would take too long to remove the carpet and refit it. C He didnt need the cigarettes because he had some more in the van. D He intended to come back and remove the lump the next day.5. Mrs. Vanbrugh was worried that A fitting the carpet was going to be too expensive B Eddie had been smoking in the house C her bird was missing Dshe couldnt find her husband ArmandCCABCIn 1933 little had changed in the everyday lives of the vast majority of rural Tennessee Valley people since the turn of the century. Electricity was known on only three farms in a hundred light came from a kerosene (煤油) lamp, refrigeration from a cool spring or cellar, and heat from a fireplace or wood-burning stove.The simple act of getting water required back-breaking labor. The family with a good spring near the back door was fortunate indeed. Hand-dug wells provided water for many families. Buckets or tubes had to be lowered to the bottom of the well, 30, 40, or 50 feet down, and the water pulled to the surface by rope. Monday was washday, and a busy day it was. Gallons of water had to be carried from the closest source, often a nearby stream. Fire was mad e under a cast-iron pot to boil the clothes, which were then scrubbed and rinsed by hand before being hung out to dry. The warm, soapy water left over was used to wash the spring house, outdoor toilet, animal quarters, or anything else needing a good cleaning. The rinse water was used on the flowers. Nothing so hard obtained was wasted.Every member of the family, young and old, had work to do. Women were responsible for most of the chores around the house. During peak planting and harvesting seasons, they also joined their husbands and sons in the fields. The well-off and the poor shared in common many of the same chores.1. According to the passage, only three percent of families had _.A. running waterB. refrigeratorsC. electric lampsD. bathrooms2. For many families getting water was _.A. helped by government aidB. a hard jobC. easy because water was always close byD. helped by the building of a new water system3. The rinse water form the washing of clothes was used on _.A. gardeningB. the toiletC. floorsD. automobile4. Women were responsible for _.A. the work in the fields during busy seasonsB. most of housework during harvesting seasonsC. both house work and farming during busy seasonsD. the hard work in the field all the year round5. “The well-off and the poor shared in common many of the same chores” means _.A. “ The poor had to do more everyday tasks”B. “ Both the rich and the poor had to do the most difficult work”C. “ Only the poor had to do as many of the same chores”D. “ Both the rich and the poor had to do as many of the same everyday tasks”CBACDIt was because of my letters (which Malcolm X wrote to people outside while he was in jail) that I happened to stumble upon starting to acquire some kind of a homemade education. I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote . And every book I picked up had few sentences which didnt contain anywhere from one to nearly all the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary - to study, to learn some words. I requested a dictionary along with some notebooks and pencils from the Nor- folk Prison Colony school. I spent two days just turning uncertainly the pages of a dictionary. Id never realized so many words existed! I didnt know which words I needed to learn. Finally, just to start some kind of action, I began copying. In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my notebook everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back to myself everything Id written in the notebook. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting. I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words - immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but Id written words that I never knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words whose meanings I didnt remember. Funny thing, from the dictionarys first page right now, that aardvark springs to my mind. The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. I was so fascinated that I went on - I copied the dictionarys next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history. Actually, the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopedia. Finally, the dictionarys A section had filled a whole notebook - and I went on into the Bs. That was the way I started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed. I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left the prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldnt have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.1. Malcolm X had trouble writing letters and reading books because A he was not given free time B it Was too dark in his cell C he didnt know enough words D he needed eyeglasses2. How much of the dictionary did Malcolm eventually copy? A As. B As and Bs. CA through P. D All of it.3. Malcolms way of learning new words was to . A first copy out on paper B open up the dictionary at random to a word he didnt know C study them right off the dictionary page D recite them silently to himself4. Malcolm says that to know and imagine the new world that books opened up for him, a person would A have to read the same books he did B have to read many books C have to be in prison D have to be as ignorant as he was when he began5. Having books to read and knowing how to read them, Malcolm says that A he became truly free even though in prison B he was still bored and restless occasionally C he felt like an educated manD he gained the admiration of his fellow prisonersCDABALike most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting .It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so mush more exciting .You need not worry If you lack money .This is how I experimented with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me,I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper.One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back,though the return often comes in an unexpected form.One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home,though it was addressed to me at my office.I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation.More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting.I was told at the window that there no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list.As I was about to leave,the postmaster appeared in the doorway.He had overheard(无意中听到)our conversation .“Wasnt it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home? ”I said yes.“Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you.You dont know what a letter like that means to us.We usually get nothing but complaints”21. From the passage, we understand that_ A. the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties B. the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers C. the author received the same education as most people during his childhood D. the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting22. According to the author,_ A. giving means you will have less money B. the excitement of giving can bring you money C. you dont have to be rich in order to give D. when you give away money,you will be rich23. The author would make the suggestion to the storekeeper_ A. in writing B. in person C. in the window display D. about the neighborhood24. When the author needed a post-office box,_ A. he had to put his name on a waiting list B. he wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation C. many people had applied for post-office boxes before him D. he asked the postmaster to make one for him25. In reply to the postmasterquestion,the author said_ A. it was the special delivery B. it was the post-office box C. it was the note of appreciation he wrote D. it was he who wrote him a letter a year ago1.A. 根据原文的第二句话：“我直到快40岁才发现原来馈赠可以使得人生有趣多了”，所以我们可以断定A是正确的。2.C. 根据原文大意我们可以看出：馈赠是不需要很有钱的。3.B. 根据原文可以看出：作者将亲自去向店主建议。4.C 原文说：“我的名字排在一长串等待呼叫的名单后面”，因此我们可以推测出：在我的前面有很多申请邮箱的人，故选C.5.D. 原文中有此暗示。当邮局局长问他那封信是否是他写的时候，他承认了。所以正确选项是D.Mrs. Brown had a small garden behind her house, and in the spring she planted some vegetables in it. She looked after them carefully, and when the summer came, they looked very nice.One evening Mrs. Brown looked at her vegetables and said, “Tomorrow I am going to pick them, and then we can eat them.”But early the next morning, her son ran into the kitchen and shouted, “Mother, mother! Come quickly! Our neighbors ducks are in the garden and they are eating our vegetables”.Mrs. Brown ran out ,but it was too late! All the vegetables were finished! Mrs. Brown cried, and her neighbor was very sorry, but that was the end of the vegetables!Then a few days before Christmas, the neighbor brought Mrs. Brown a parcel. In it was a beautiful, fat duck, and on it was a piece of paper with the words, “Enjoy you vegetables!”1.Where was Mrs. Browns garden?A. In front of her house. B. In the middle of her house.C. Behind her house. D. On the left side of her house. 2.What was she planning to do with the vegetables the nexc t day?A. To feed ducks. B. To sell them in a market.C. To throw them away. D. To pick them.3.Why did Mrs. Browns son shout the next morning?A. He saw their neighbors ducks in their house.B. The ducks ran out of the garden.C. He was afraid of the ducks.D. He saw their neighbors ducks eating their vegetables in the garden.4.What did Mrs. Browns do when she heard her son shouting?A.She ran out of the house.B.She still stayed in the house.C.She was shouting, too.D.She called her neighbor.5.What words were written on a piece of paper?A. Enjoy you vegetables. B. Thanks for your vegetables.C. Merry Christmas. D. Happy birthday.1.C. 根据文章的第一句话“布郎夫人的房屋后面有一个小花园”，可以确定C是对的，其他都与原文不符。2.D. 根据原文的第二段说“明天我要去把菜摘了，我们可以美美地吃一顿了”，可以确定D是最合适的。3.D. 原文第三段当中儿子告诉母亲说“我们邻居家的鸭子在咱家园子里吃菜呢”。所以只有D与原文的意思相符。4.A. 原文第四段说“布郎夫人跑了出去，但是太晚了”，显然A与原文的意思是相符的。5.A. 见原文的最后一句话。Not all language is verbal. Some of our communication occurs without words. We often use our entire bodies for communication. We may raise our eyebrows (眉毛) to indicate surprise. Perhaps we nod our heads to show that we agree with something. There are hundreds of nonverbal signals that can be used to communicate. These signals are part of language, and they are governed by rules in the same way that our spoken language is. For this reason, people who speak different languages often use different nonverbal signals as we