国家开放大学电大专科《英语阅读(2)》2020-2021期末试题及答案(试卷号：2156)

1、国家开放大学电大专科英语阅读(2)2020-2021期末试题及答案(试卷号：2156)Part 1Questions 110 are based on Passage 1. (30 points9 3 points each)Passage 1When Betty Burwood won the national lottery, she and her husband. Bill, moved into a beautiful big bungalow and she bought herself a very expensive pearl necklace.The following s

2、ummer, the Burwoods decided to throw a party. Early on the afternoon of the party * Betty took her new silk dress out of the wardrobe and put her expensive pearl necklace on her dressing-table ready to put on in the evening. Then, she went to see how the preparations for the party were going.The cat

3、ering company had just arrived - a cook, Mrs. Moore, and her two helperst Nancy and Harriet. They were all in the kitchen unpacking the piles of boxes which they had brought with them. Soon, the fourth member of the team, Charlie Chivers, arrived on his bicycle.By six o'clock，everything was read

4、y. The garden looked magnificent - with small round tables and colorful chairs and sun shades. The food and drink was all laid out in the kitchen t ready to be brought out when the guests arrived.At ten past six, Betty went to her bedroom to get ready. She showered and put on her best silk dress. It

5、 was when she was brushing her hair that she realized that her pearls were not on the dressing-table. "Bill," she said, "have you moved my pearls?" "No, dear," answered Bill，uwhere were they?" "I put them on the dressing-table this afternoon and theyfre not he

6、re now. ” “Are you sure?” asked Bill. "Maybe you put them down somewhere else, or maybe youfve moved them. 99For a quarter of an hour they searched for the missing pearls, but couldn't find them anywhere. It was then that they decided they must call the police.Soon, Inspector Morgan arrived

7、 and started to question all the suspects.Read Passage 1 and then try to give short answers to Questions 15. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. Why could Betty afford an expensive necklace?2. Why did she take her necklace out early in the day?3. How many people were there in the catering comp

8、any?4. What do you think was in the boxes?5. Did the Burwoods call the police after they couldn't find the pearls?Read Passage 1 again and then fill in the following blanks numbered 6一10 with the information from the passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.When Betty won the lotteryThe c

9、ouple moved into a big (6) and Betty boughta pearl necklace.The following summerThe Burwoods wanted to (7) On the afternoon of the partyThe wife took her new dress out of the wardrobe and put the necklace on the dressing-table.By 6：00Everything was prepared. The garden appeared to be(8) with small r

10、ound tables and colorful chairsand sun shades.At 6：10Betty went to the bedroom to get ready. While she (9) , Betty realized that the necklace was missing.At (10) The couple failed to find out the pearls and then they made up their minds to call the police.After a whileThe police arrived and began to

11、 inquire all the suspects.Part UQuestions 1120 are based on Passage 2. (30 points, 3 points each)Passage 2This is a short passage about Dave 9 the Disk Doctor.Call the Disk Doctor!1 Desperate computer users who 'lose' the data from their disks can get in touch with experts who, for a fee, wi

12、ll recover the lost information. One of these experts is Dave Smith> who, some years ago, set up a company called Dave's Disk Doctor Service Ltd. Dave and a few of his friends work from home and give all the money they earn to charity. The fees are always the same, no matter how precious the

13、data on the disk is. Some people, however, are so grateful that they send extra money to Dave or to the charities his company supports. One oil company offered him £1,000 for his help and a vet sent him a blank check.2 It would be hard to put a value on the things rescued by the Disk Doctor. Th

14、ere have been disks containing medical research, television scripts, manuscripts of whole books, a comedian's joke collection, a solicitorJ s papers for a court case, and even Margaret Thatcher's itinerary for a visit to eastern Europe. For this last case, Dave was asked if he would go in pe

15、rson to Mrs. Thatcher's office 'for security reasons'!3 Disks are usually sent to the Disk Doctor by post, but sometimes people are in such a hurry that they can't wait for the post. Radio scripts have had to be rushed by taxi to Dave's house because they were needed for broadcas

16、ting the next day, for example. When the material has been recovered, the disk is returned to the sender with a diagnosis and a prescription for avoiding the problem in future. One grateful client, an author, put a 4thank you' to Dave in the front of his book. 4 Dave saved me from a cardiac arre

17、sty, he wrote. 'But', says Dave, 4 most people don't take any notice of the doctor's advice!'Read Passage 2 and decide whether the following statements are True or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet.IL Compute

18、r users can get back their lost data from their disks without any payment in Dave's company.12. The company named Dave's Disk Doctor Service Ltd is set up by Dave Smith.13. Dave and his friends earn a large amount of money, but they spend none.14. According to the different value of the data

19、 on the disk, people need to pay different amount of money for saving them.15. Most people will take notice of the disk doctor's advice after the disk is repaired*Read Passage 2 again and find a word/phrasc, which is similar in meaning to each of the following. The paragraph in which the word/ph

20、rase appears is indicated in brackets. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.16. hopeless (paragraph 1)17. thankful(paragraph 1)18. to save(paragraph 2)19. lawyer(paragraph 2)20. to keep from happening(paragraph 3)Part QI True or FalseQuestions 2130 are based on Passage 3. (20 points, 2 points each

21、)Passage 3How does TV affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who carefully choose the shows that they watch. Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world； there are high-quality programs that help us understand many fields of study： science, medicine, the arts, and so on. M

22、oreover, TV benefits very old people who can't often leave the house, as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers non-native speakers the advantage of daily informal language practice； they can increase their vocabulary and practice listening.On the other hand, there are several serious dis

23、advantages to TV. Of course> it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time, but in some countries, people watch the TV for an average of six hours or more a day. Many children stare at a TV screen for more hours each day than they do anything else, including studying and sle

24、eping. It's clear that the TV has a powerful influence on their lives and that its influence is often negative. Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of TV, a personJ s brain “relaxes” the same way that it does just before the person falls asleep. Another effect of TV on the human b

25、rain is that it seems to cause poor concentration. Children who view a lot of TV can often concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes； they can pay attention only for the amount of time between commercials.Another disadvantage is that TV often causes people to become dissatisfied wi

26、th their own lives. Real life does not seem as exciting to these people as the lives of actors on the screen. To many people, TV becomes more real than realityt and their own lives seem boring. Also, many people get upset or depressed when they can't solve problems in real life as quickly as TV

27、actors seem to. On the screen, actors solve serious problems in a half-hour program or a thirty-second commercial.Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven thousand murders on the TV. He or she begins to believe that there is nothing strange about fights, killings, and other kinds

28、 of violence. Many studies show that people become more violent after certain programs. They may even do the things that they saw in a violent show.The most negative effect of the TV might be people's addiction to it. People often feel a strange and powerful need to watch TV even when they don&#

29、39;t enjoy it. Addiction to a TV screen is similar to drug or alcohol addiction： people almost never believe they are addicted. Read Passage 3 and decide whether the following statements are True or False. Write T for Trueand F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sh

30、eet.21. TV programs are definitely helpful to anyone.22. There are positive as well as negative effects of TV on our lives.23. TV can help improve one's foreign language.24. Watching a lot of TV won't affect our concentration at all 25. Some children spend more time watching TV than studying

31、 and sleeping.26. The lives of people in TV shows seem to be very exciting.27. TV programs can help people solve problems as quickly as the actors.28. TV violence makes some people, especially children, take violence in real life for granted.29. One of the symptoms of addiction to television is a st

32、rong desire to watch it even if the program is not interesting.30. The passage mainly discusses the advantages of TV.Part IV Short AnswersQuestions 3135 are based on Passage 4. (20 points, 4 points each)Passage 4A Dangerous PlacePaula had always wanted to go to New York and now she had the chance at

33、 last. She was a journalist, and her newspaper was sending her there to do a series of articles on the city. But before she left her home in London, several friends warned her to be careful and not to go out alone at night in New York. "It's a dangerous place. People get robbed or even kill

34、ed in broad daylight!" they told her.But once she got there, she was only afraid of exhaustion. It was so stimulating and exciting a city that she never got any sleep. It took her two weeks to do the articles and she had to interview a lot of people, but she enjoyed every minute. She completely

35、 forgot all her friends' warnings until the day before she went back to London. It all began in a bar.She was having lunch there when she suddenly felt someone was watching her. She looked up and noticed a man sitting at a table opposite her. He was staring at her, but looked away- She noticed t

36、hat he had a scar on his cheek. He was about 30, and had short, curly hair.Paula was not worried at all then. She had to go to an airline office to book her flight home. She wanted an afternoon flight instead of a morning one. On her way there, she stopped to look at something in a shop window. To h

37、er surprise, she saw the man following her； she could see his reflection in the glass. He had stopped just behind her. Suddenly she felt afraid. She walked on. Then she stopped and looked behind her again. But this time she could not see him.Just then she noticed she had come to the airline office-

38、She went in. After she had finished her business, she decided to phone a friend from a telephone booth there. She was carrying a small, portable but very expensive tape recorder. It was in a black case. She kept her money and passport in the case as well. But the booth was so cramped that she had toleave the case outside. When she came out, it had disappeared. She was stunned. Then she saw the red-haired man hurrying out of the office. He had the case in his hand. She shouted, but it was too late.Read Passage 4 and answer the following q