考过真题―电大会计学-学位英语阅读理解

1、(一Most people feel stress at some time in their lives. Some people like this pressure and work better because of it.Other people1. Which is NOT a correct statement about stress? A. Stress is the cause of our discomfort and should be avoided by everyone.2. According to the passage, people under stres

2、s may do all of the following EXCEPT _. C. Cry3. The author cites the example of crying baby in order to _. D. support that stress comes from how people regard the stress4. According to the passage, stress can be caused by all the following EXCEPT . A. a critical event5.The tone of the passage is _B

3、. informativeWhat kind of home you need to prepare for your dog will depend on what kind of dog it is. Some dogs will spend most of their time1.According to the writer's suggestions, dogs should be fed _B. regularly with balanced food.2. Why is exercise important to the dogs?B. It helps to devel

4、op friendly character and working skills.3. What does pet (paragraph 4 mean?B. The dog4. This passage discusses the following except _D. training of a dog.One morning a young woman, who has recently lost her first job, was examining the advertisements in the paper in search of1. What must the woman

5、do to know the way of making money? C. Send a postal for five pence and an envelope with a stamp and her address.2. According to the story, her mother A. didn't believe the ad. and didn't want her to do so3. What was the easy way? D. To learn from the advertiser.4. This passage is _B. a humo

6、r.That "Monday morning feeling " could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping (气喘 for breath.1. What is the "Monday morning feeling "? B. It's a feeling of pain in the chest which makes people sweat and gasp.2. According to the research from Ger

7、many and Italy, "Monday morning feeling"A. has something to do with heart attacks.3. What can we infer from Dr. Willich 's opinion on "Monday morning feeling" and heart attacks? B. "Monday morning feeling" is not enough to explain the cause of heart attacks.4. What

8、did Dr. Willich suggest? A. We should learn to enjoy our work.More than 2,500 years ago, a man in Indiamade a discovery. He discovered the cause ofunhappiness and its cure. The man1. According to the passage, SiddharthaGautam was . C. the founder of a greatreligion2. Which of the following statement

9、s is true?A. Siddhartha had a happy childhood.3. Why did Siddhartha sit under the tree for 49days? B. He tried to work out the truth of life.4. Which can be the best title of the passage?A. The Founder of a Great ReligionFor thousands of years people dreamed ofhaving ability to fly. Mythology and fo

10、lklore arefilled with tales of supernatural1. Which of the following is true? A. Peoplehave always hoped to fly since ancient times.2. Which of the following is a great changebrought by flying? B. People can reach any placein the world within 24 hours.3. What does the word "tropical" (para

11、graph 3mean? C. The southern hot area. 4. Thedevelopment of aviation provided people with .D. more job chancesFew countries will admit officially that theyemploy spies. However, from time to time, a spyis caught and the public1.How many men got out? B. Three.2.2. How were they dressed?C. They dresse

12、d in heavy black coats.3. They kept looking_. B. over the side4.What were they doing in that cold morning?A. They were exchanging spies.you have decided to raise a dog. Keep inmind that a dog, is a living creature that willbecome attached to your home. With1. According to the writer's suggestion

13、s, dogsshould be fed _ B. regularly with balancedfood.2. Why is exercise important to the dogs?B. It helps to develop friendly character andworking skills.3.What does pet (paragraph 4 mean?B. The dog4.This passage discusses the following except_ D. training of a dog.While plant and animal species ar

14、edisappearing at a rapidly increasing ratethroughout the world, scientists note1.What is the best title for this passage?B.Protecting Endangered Species2.The number of elephants killed illegallyA. African countries agreed to establish3.In Africa, the number of elephants killed illegallyin 1983 and 1

15、984 was_C_ C.135000=89000+46000.4.The number of mountain gorillas has remained_C.Rwanda developed an important businessthat depends on protecting5.The phrase短语"the wild"荒野in Paragraph 5refers to _C.the wild natureIn 1848, gold was discovered inCalifornia; from all over the nation,thousands

16、 of young men set out出发for1.This article as a whole is about _A_.A. how people got blue jeans2.While not stated in the article, you can tellthat _B. Levi found riches in the gold fields3.The word this in the first paragraph, lastsentence, refers to_C. many peoplelooking for gold4.Levi used strong bl

17、ue cotton cloth to makepants because _C. miners wanted pantswhich could stand rough work5.Which of the following sentences is notcorrect? C. It was in California that bluejeans first became popularCulture shock might be called anoccupational disease of people who havebeen suddenly transplanted abroa

18、d, Like1.According to the passage, culture shockC. is actually not a disease2.According to the passage, culture shockresults from _ A. the sudden change of thesocial atmosphere and customs3.Which one of the following may not be thesymptoms征兆of culture shock? C. Yousuddenly forget what a word means.4

19、.How would a person who stays abroad mostprobably react when he or she is frustrated bythe culture shock according to the passage?A. He is most likely to refuse to absorb thestrange environment at first.5.This passage is most likely taken from _?_D. an essay on human customsThe English names of the

20、months ofthe year come from Latin拉丁. January1,March3, May5,and June6 were all named1. What do people often do in the first monthof the year? D. Both A and C.2. The second month of a year is namedFebruary probably because _ C. it is timeto consider spring cleaning3. Regarding the origin of the name o

21、f thesecond month of a year, the author is .A. not very sure4. According to the passage, which of thefollowing is TRUE? A. It is frequentlyrainy and stormy in March in most of NorthAmerica.5. Which of the following statements mightbe the topic sentence of this passage?B. The English names of the mon

22、ths of theyear are from Latin.Rote-learning (死记硬背, spoon-fededucation, produces a brand of kids thatdon't know what to do when entering1. According to the author, the future doesn'tneed _ D followers追随者2. In the author's view作者观点, how canstudents learn well? D Combine listeningwith looki

23、ng and doing.3.What does the author mean by "Thechanging speed of information is frightening"?B. What we learned today may not be useful4.What does the last sentence of the passagetell us? B. Students may have to do jobswhich have not yet been invente5.The author's attitude towards rot

24、e-learning is_B disapprovingSince the late 1960s a growing number of women have expressed a strong dissatisfaction with any marriage1.Since the late 1960s more women have been dissatisfied with the marriage where in _D the wife only take care of the household2. What is the long-standing division of

25、labor 劳动分工between husband and wife in America? D Husband plays a superior role while wife plays an inferior role.3. Which statement is NOT true about the new type of marriage? C Wife earns the living while husband does housework.4.The women's attitudes toward marriage contribute to D all of the

26、above5.Which of the following can be the title for this passage? D The Equal Right Between Husband and WifeWhen all the animals of a species(种类 die out, the whole world loses. That is gone forever. Many people are worried about1 Joan Embary is a _A naturalist2 Many people are worried that _C may spe

27、cies in the animal world may die 3 Gorillas are _A gentle and shy文雅和害羞4 snakes蛇are_C the enemy of harmful insects5 It is implied but not stated that now many women work in zoos. because_B Joan Embery has set a good example for them. Joan EmberyIf you want to stay young, sit down and have a good thin

28、k. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who ers,1.The team of doctors wanted to find out A why certain people age sooner than others2. On what are their research findings based? C The study of brain volumes of different3. The doctor ' s tests show that _ D some people '

29、; s brains have contracted 4. The word "subjects" in paragraph 5 C persons chosen to be studied in an 5. According to the passage, which people seem to age slower than the others?A Lawyers. 律师Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but t

30、his ratio drops to near 1. According to the author, what was the danger a man had to face?2. The sentence "There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide" perhaps means3. The example of India interprets that4. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because_.5. What is

31、 the main idea of the passage?第1空答案C. Lower survival.第2空答案C. there is another factor to prevent us from evolving第3空答案B. natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor第4空答案A. life has been improved by technological advance第5空答案D. Human evolution going nowhere.How do the American office me

32、n andwomen dress themselves when they go to work?In certain kinds of businesses the1. According to the text, some women have towork in pants because _.2. "dress in good taste" (in Paragraph 3 may referto_.3. "The importance of grooming cannot beoveremphasized" (in Paragraph 4 may

33、 mostprobably mean _.4. It is suggested in the text that before leavinghome for work _ .5. Which of the following can be inferred from thetext?第1空答案A. pants are almost a necessity for theirwork第2空答案D. dress in proper and unobviousclothes第3空答案C. grooming should beoveremphasized because it is very imp

34、ortant第4空答案D. everyone make sure he or she isproperly dressed or made up第5空答案C. Both men and women may go to anevening engagement before returning home.The University of London is one of Britain'slargest centers for higher education, with aname for international education. Located inone of the w

35、orld's1.The University of London is situated at a city2.The University of London is famous for_.3.Whenever international students have anydifficulty in life, they can go to_ for help.4.The university assures the first year students that_.5.The main purpose of this passage isto_.第1空答案B. full of a

36、ctivity and energy第2空答案B. international education第3空答案C. the Student Service Office第4空答案A. they can have a place in halls ofresidence if they wish to第5空答案C. draw more international studentsCharlie Chaplin has broken all records inmaking people laugh. No one has so set a wholeworld laughing as the li

37、ttle man with1.All of the following about Charlie Chaplin aretrue except _.2.According to the author, Charlie Chaplin hasbeen popular with generation after generationbecause _.3.According to Charlie Chaplin's life historywriters, _ had a strong influence on thetype of films he made.4.According t

38、o the passage, which of the followingis true?5.This passage was _.第1空答案A. he was born in the USA第2空答案D. both B and C第3空答案D. his unhappy early years in the poorarea in London第4空答案D. Chaplin's films are thecombinations of funny and sad elements.第5空答案B. written about Charlie ChaplinA man on a lonel

39、y island can act as helikes because he has no one to considerexcept himself. But when Robinson Crusoediscovered footprints in the sand, he could1. A man on a lonely island can act as helikes, because _.2. Two strangers will never get along wellunless _.3. If you meet a tribe whose language youdon

40、9;t know, you can offer all the followingsEXCEPT _.4. The arrival of an important visitor issomething out of the ordinary, so they will .5. If you want to live well in a community,.第1空答案D. he feels it unnecessary toconsider others第2空答案C. they make peace with eachother or one defeats the other第3空答案A. teaching them your language第4空答案C. receive the visitor better第5空答案C. you should follow the rulesand conventions of society“the more you learn, t