北语19秋《阅读》（II）作业2答案

1、19秋阅读（II）作业2试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)1.I held onto the rail with a feeble grip and began to descend the (treacherous) steps.A.wickedB.trickyC.insecureD.complicated答案:C2.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-yea

2、r-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when sh

3、e battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers' overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the wint

4、er evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the "working" day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;

5、never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherit

6、ed,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：The white landlord angered the narrator's mother by ( )A.telling her not to let her children go to schoolB.fighting with herC.driving her children out of schoolD.being rich答案:A3.New measurements taken from sleeping people explain,at

7、 least in part,why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid storylines.The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of dreams but leave open the possibility that some useful personal meaning can be extracted from them.The main purpose of dreams,however,the authors of the new study belie

8、ve,is to test whether the brain has had enough sleep and,if so,to wake it up.The new results show that in sleep,the frontal lobes of the brain are shut down.In the absence of activity in these lobes,which integrate other information and make sense of the outside world,the sleeping brain's images

9、 are driven by its emotional centers.The content of these dreams may be vivid and gripping but lacks coherence.The new results are consistent with the theory that memories are consolidated during sleep.From the pattern of activity that was recorded,"it seems that memories already in the system

10、are being read out and filed in terms of their emotional salience,with is an extremely interesting idea,"said Dr.J.Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School.The new measurements were made by applying the technique known as PET scanning to sleeping subjects.The biologists focused on the two forms o

11、f sleep,known as slow-wave sleep and REM sleep.REM sleep,so named because of the rapid eyeball movements that occur then,takes palce about four times during the night and is the phase from which the most vivid dreams are recalled. 问题：According to the passage,all of the following are ture except that

12、 ( )A.the technique,PET scanning,leads researchers to focus on two forms of sleepB.the content of the dreams is not very consistent and seems very boringC.in REM sleep,rapid eyeball movements occurD.a man's sleep can have 2 forms:slow-wave sleep and REM sleep答案:B4.For a few minutes he (tapped) t

13、he switch after each flash.A.touchedB.snappedC.pressedD.painted答案:C5.Into the humble home of Armand Bernaud,in the Grande Rue,Dieppe,(suspense)and the shadow of death were invited.A.uncertaintyB.suspicionC.hardshipsD.expectation答案:A6.Everyone who eats in Carman's Country Kitchen in South Philade

14、lphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant's discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn't meeting women,sh

15、e put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:"Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break."Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn't have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman's.Bereft at the thought of no mo

16、re buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn't just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby r

17、estaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel's pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again."It was incredible,"she says."There's a sense about Carman that is just can-do,"says regular Kevin Vaughan."I

18、t's infectious." 问题：What was infectious about the restaurant?A.the spirit of helping othersB.the food servedC.the efficiency of workD.the desire of regular diners答案:A7.Surprisingly,she'd slept,though her mind was (churning) when she went to bed.A.sharpB.confusedC.a total blankD.agitated

19、答案:D8.From there, 3 days of magnificent (trekking) through great scenery had brought us to the village of Kumjung.A.travellingB.sightseeingC.palyingD.driving答案:A9.The National Sleep Foundation site also contains useful information on helping you to knit up "the ravell'd sleeve of care,"

20、;as Shakespeare once (aptly) described a good night's sleep.A.rightlyB.keenlyC.humorouslyD.clearly答案:A10.Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees belo

21、w zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth's shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon's temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth

22、,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：The surface of the moon is probably ( )A.rock that stores heatB.rock that does not store heatC.dust tha

23、t stores heatD.dust that cannot store heat答案:D11.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mo

24、untains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cre

25、am a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：Marco Polo is known as ( )A.the inventor of ice creamB.a traveler to ChinaC.a royal cookD.a Roman emperor答案:B12.Although American civilization took over and replaced the fronti

26、er almost a century ago,the heritage of the frontier is still very much alive in the U.S.today.The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotions and imaginations of the American people.Americans continue to be fascinated by the frontier because it has been a particularly important force in shaping t

27、heir national values.The frontier experience began when the first colonists settled on the east coast of the continent in the 1600s.It ended about 1890 when the last western lands were settled.The American frontier consisted of the relatively unsettled regions of the country.Here,both land and life

28、were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part.As one frontier area was settled,people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area.By settling one frontier area after another,Americans moved across an entire continent,2,700 miles wide. 问题：Compared with the eastern pa

29、rt of the country,the unsettled frontier land and life were ( )A.rugged and unbearableB.rough and primitiveC.more civilized and interestingD.dull and primitive答案:B13.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovere

30、d.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said tha

31、t King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：The selection says that most Americans ( )A.think that ice

32、cream was an American ideaB.think that ice cream is very newC.know that ice cream is very oldD.do not know what ice cream is答案:A14.Our party of 4 old-timers, of whom I, at 71,was the oldest,had (convened) a week earlier in Kathmandu,the capital,and had met our journey leader Nancy Jo there.A.walkedB

33、.stayedC.restedD.gathered答案:D15.New measurements taken from sleeping people explain,at least in part,why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid storylines.The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of dreams but leave open the possibility that some useful personal meaning can be ext

34、racted from them.The main purpose of dreams,however,the authors of the new study believe,is to test whether the brain has had enough sleep and,if so,to wake it up.The new results show that in sleep,the frontal lobes of the brain are shut down.In the absence of activity in these lobes,which integrate

35、 other information and make sense of the outside world,the sleeping brain's images are driven by its emotional centers.The content of these dreams may be vivid and gripping but lacks coherence.The new results are consistent with the theory that memories are consolidated during sleep.From the pat

36、tern of activity that was recorded,"it seems that memories already in the system are being read out and filed in terms of their emotional salience,with is an extremely interesting idea,"said Dr.J.Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School.The new measurements were made by applying the techniqu

37、e known as PET scanning to sleeping subjects.The biologists focused on the two forms of sleep,known as slow-wave sleep and REM sleep.REM sleep,so named because of the rapid eyeball movements that occur then,takes palce about four times during the night and is the phase from which the most vivid drea

38、ms are recalled. 问题：Accoding to this study,the purpose of the dreams is to ( )A.test if the brain has had enough sleepB.show the dreams bizarre but vivid storylinesC.prove the correctness of the Freudian interpretation of dreamsD.extract some useful personal meanings from the dreams答案:A16.In the (ha

39、ze) I saw two of my trek mates.A.thin mistB.lightC.heavy smogD.darkness答案:A17.No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, es

40、pecially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies squeezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judsons slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chi

41、cago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a street railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker)in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slot

42、ting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took 22 years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical.问题：Before Judson invented the zipper, people found buttoning clothes to be ( )A.interestingB.easyC.comfortableD.burdensome答案:D18.I (groped) my way to a door,opened it,and instantly began to cough.A.walkedB.trampedC.jumpedD.felt答案:D19.I quickly washed up, then joined the boiled potato (feast).A.partyB.meetingC.mealD.achievement答案:C20.Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition and variety,ho