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1、第二部分 阅读理解(1)（2013年04月网考）阅读的第一题2011年改为5个正误判断题，相对来说难度降低，投机几率提高，考前一天会在更新群内确定本部分范围，一般在20篇左右，建议强记，确保阅读的30分不丢。解题思路：正误判断题主要考查学生对文章的具体事实、信息的理解能力。一般是根据文章的事实或细节，给出一个句子，判断其正误。比较直接，难度相对较小。做此类题时，应先看题，后带着“问题”快速阅读短文，寻找所需要的信息。passage 1 long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. do you know what he did one day?

2、when he wanted to steal the bell on his neighbours door, he walked up to the door, took hold of the bell and pulled hard. the bell made a very loud noise. the thief was afraid and went home. then he sat down to think, i must do something about the noise, he said. he thought and thought. at last he h

3、ad an idea. ah, ill put some cotton in my ears. then i wont be able to hear the noise. the next day he went to the door of his neighbour, and took hold of the bell. this time he pulled even harder. the bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. with another hard pull he got the bell out.

4、 just then the neighbour came running out. steal my bell? ill teach you a lesson, the angry man shouted. and he hit the thief on the nose.the foolish thief did not know how the neighbour found out he was stealing the bell. why did he come out just then? he wondered.1 the thief was trying to get his

5、neighbours doorbell.a. t b. f2. the thief put some cotton in his ears so as not to hear anything.a. t b. f3. the neighbour ran out probably because he knew his doorbell was being stolen.a. t b. f4. the neighbour hit the thief to punish him for stealing.a. t b. f5. the thief thought the neighbour cou

6、ldnt hear the noise of the bell.a. t b. fkey：aaaaapassage 2miss grey lived in a small house. she was old and did not like noise at all, so she was very pleased when her noisy neighbor moved out. a young man moved in and miss grey thought the man seemed to be quiet.but at three oclock the next mornin

7、g, the noise of a dog woke her up. she thought she had never heard a dog there before. it must be the young mans dog. so she telephoned the young man, said something bad about the dog and then hung up the telephone before he could answer. nothing more happened until three oclock the next morning. th

8、en miss greys telephone rang, and when she answered, a voice said, “you telephoned me twenty-four hours ago. now ive rung you up to say that i havent a dog.”1. miss grey felt sorry when her noisy neighbour moved out. a. t b. f2. miss greys new neighbour was as noisy as the old one. a. t b. f3. some

9、noise woke her up in the early morning. a. t b. f4. she thought the new neighbour had brought a dog with him. a. t b. f5. the young man rang up miss grey in the early morning, because he wanted to punish her.a. t b. fkey：bbaaapassage 3yesterday evening, when i went to town with my mother, we met a s

10、trange old man. it was raining hard and we had no umbrella. we were trying to get into a taxi when he came up to us. he was carrying a nice umbrella and he said that he would give it to us for only a pound. he had forgotten his wallet, he said, needed taxi-fareto go back home. my mother didnt believ

11、e what he had said at first, and asked him a lot of questions. but the old man didnt get into a taxi. we followed him and found he went into a pub and bought himself a glass of whiskey with the pound. after he drank it, he put on his hat and took up one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off w

12、ith the new one. soon after that, he sold it again.1. the old man sold an umbrella to the writer and her mother.a. t b. f2. he gave it to them for only a pound because he had forgotten his wallet and needed taxi fare to go back home.a. t b. f3. the umbrella was worth more than one pound.a. t b. f4.

13、the old man sold his own umbrella.a. t b. f5. he was an honest man.a. t b. fkey：ababbpassage 4december 25th is christmas day. in most countries it is the most important day in the year. all the people come back to their homes to have the day with their parents or their children. on christmas day bel

14、ls ring everywhere. the ringing bells tell people christmas is coming. people sing and dance day and night. they have a good time. most families buy a christmas tree for their children. and there are some presents hanging from the tree here and there. people also put presents in childrens stockings.

15、 in many places, father christmas himself brings presents to them. he is a kind man and in red clothes. there is a big bag on his back. in it there are a lot of presents. christmas is also a day when people enjoy all kinds of food. but some poor people have no homes and have on food to eat. they die

16、 of cold and hunger(饥饿)on christmas day. 1. christmas is a very important day in some countries in a year. a. t b. f2. many people have a good time on christmas day. a. t b. f3. father christmas wears red clothes. a. t b. f4. there are a lot of christmas trees in father christmas bag. a. t b. f5. so

17、me poor people die on christmas day because they have no homes and no a. t b. fkey：baabapassage 5once upon a time there was a great greek hero, hercules. he was taller and stronger than anyone you have ever seen. on his shoulder he carried a club and in his hand he held a bow (弓). he was known as th

18、e hero of a hundred adventures.hercules served a king. the king was afraid of him. so again and again he sent him on difficult tasks. one morning the king sent for him and told him to fetch three golden apples for him from the garden of the singing maidens (歌女). but no one knew where the garden was.

19、so hercules went away. he walked the whole day and the next day and the next. he walked for months before he saw mountains far in the distance one fine morning. one of the mountains was in the shape of a man, with long, long legs and arms and huge shoulders and a huge head. he was holding up the sky

20、. hercules knew it was atlas, the mountain god. so he asked him for help.atlas answered, my head and arms and shoulders all ache. could you hold up the sky while i fetch the golden apples for you?hercules climbed the mountain and shouldered the sky. soon the sky grew very heavy. when finally atlas c

21、ame back with three golden apples, he said, well, you are going to carry the mountain for ever. im going to see the king with the apples. hercules knew that he couldnt fight him because of the sky on his back, so he shouted:just one minutes help. my shoulders are hurting, hold the sky for a minute w

22、hile i make a cushion (垫子) for my shoulders.atlas believed him. he threw down the apples and held up the sky.hercules picked up the apples and ran back to see the king.1. hercules was the tallest man in the world. a. t b. f2. hercules was given many difficult tasks because the king wanted to get rid

23、 of him. a. t b. f3. atlas was the giant who held up the sky. a. t b. f4. atlas got the golden apples for hercules because he wanted to be the king himself. a. t b. f5. hercules finally managed to get the apples by defeating atlas.a. t b. fkey：aaabbpassage 6“get up, the water is coming.” yan xinzhi,

24、 director of the neighborhood committee of chaoyang street, taiyuan, capital of shanxi province, would knock at the door of every household at midnight to have people collect water; otherwise, the tap water would soon run dry when everyone in the city got up and joined the “water rush” in the mornin

25、g. yan, an elderly lady about 60, had served as committee director for more than 20 years; her major work was to rouse her neighbors from their sleep to get water. as time went by, residents could not go to sleep before one oclock in the morning.chaoyang street was not the only street in taiyuan tha

26、t lacked water, and taiyuan was not the only city in china with water in short supply.niu maosheng, minister of water resources, told china today that more than 300 cities nationwide lack water; in 108 cities the situation has become critical. the annual deficit of water has reached 6 billion cubic

27、meters, leading to a loss of rmb 200 billion (approximately us $24 billion) in industrial output.1. as neighborhood committee director, the major part of yan xinzhis job was to wake up her neighbors at midnight to get water.a. t b. f2. the passage reveals that all the cities in china suffer from wat

28、er shortage.a. t b. f3. the passage is written by a water expert.a. t b. f4. the lack of water has lead to a loss of us $24 billion in industrial output.a. t b. f5. xian is another city with water in short supply.a. t b. f key：abbabpassage 7people who cannot tell all colors apart are said to be colo

29、r blind. most color-blind people can see yellow and blues, but confuse reds with greens. it is very rare for a person to be blind to all colors, but they may see everything in shades of black, white, and gray.it is interesting to note that many color-blind people dont even realize that they are colo

30、r-blind. they dont know that the colors they are seeing and naming are not the actual colors that people with normal vision can see. this can be particularly dangerous when a color-blind person confuses the red and green of a traffic light.color blindness is thought to be inherited (遗传). and althoug

31、h doctors have thought up tests to determine（测定）color blindness, there is no cure to treatment for it.1. a color-blind person can tell correctly red and green. a. t b. f 2. many color-blind people are unaware (没意识到) that they are color-blind.a. t b. f3. its especially dangerous for a color-blind per

32、son to cross a street when there are no traffic lights at the cross of the streets.a. t b. f4. a person who is color-blind is not allowed to drive.a. t b. f5. up to now, doctors have found a way to free a person from his color blindness.a. t b. fkey：babbbwhy do we like music? like most good question

33、s, this one works on many levels. we have answers on some levels, but not all.we like music because it makes us feel good. why does it make us feel good? in 2001, neuroscientists anne blood and robert zatorre at mcgill university in montreal provided an answer. using magnetic resonance imaging they

34、showed that people listening to pleasurable music had activated brain regions called the limbic and paralimbic areas, which are connected to euphoric reward responses, like those we experience from sex, good food and addictive drugs. those rewards come from a gush of a neurotransmitter called dopami

35、ne. as dj lee haslam told us, music is the drug.but why? its easy enough to understand why sex and food are rewarded with a dopamine rush: this makes us want more, and so contributes to our survival and propagation. (some drugs subvert that survival instinct by stimulating dopamine release on false

36、pretences.) but why would a sequence of sounds with no obvious survival value do the same thing?the truth is no one knows. however, we now have many clues to why music provokes intense emotions. the current favourite theory among scientists who study the cognition of music how we process it mentally

37、 dates back to 1956, when the philosopher and composer leonard meyer suggested that emotion in music is all about what we expect, and whether or not we get it. meyer drew on earlier psychological theories of emotion, which proposed that it arises when were unable to satisfy some desire. that, as you

38、 might imagine, creates frustration or anger but if we then find what were looking for, be it love or a cigarette, the payoff is all the sweeter.this, meyer argued, is what music does too. it sets up sonic patterns and regularities that tempt us to make unconscious predictions about whats coming nex

39、t. if were right, the brain gives itself a little reward as wed now see it, a surge of dopamine. the constant dance between expectation and outcome thus enlivens the brain with a pleasurable play of emotions.why should we care, though, whether our musical expectations are right or not? its not as if our life depended on them. ah, says musicologist david huron of ohio state university, but perhaps once