大学英语B统考电大网考英语B20119月阅读理解B

1、阅读理解B 试卷中的题目说明 阅读理解（共10小题；每小题3分，满分30分）此部分共有2篇短文，在第一篇短文后有5个正误判断题，从每题后的两个选项中选出正确答案；在第二篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出正确选项。1、 Mr. White lived in a small village. His parents hadn't enough money to send him to school. He had to help them to do something in the fields. But he didn't like to live

2、 in the poor place. When he was sixteen, he got to the town and found work in a factory. Three years later he became tall and strong. So he was sent to Africa as a soldier. He stayed there for five years and got some money. Then he came back to England and bought a shop in a small town. No people in

3、 the town went to Africa except him. And he hoped they thought he was a famous man and that they could respect him. The children often asked him to tell them some stories and his life in Africa. One day a few children asked him to tell them something about the animals in Africa. He told them how he

4、fought with the tigers and elephants. His stories surprised them all and some policemen and workers went to listen to him. It made him happier. Just a man who taught geography in a middle school passed there. He stopped to listen to him for a while and then said, "Could you please tell us a rar

5、e animal, sir?" "Certainly," said Mr. Turner. "One day I met a rhinoceros（犀牛） by a river" "Please wait a minute, sir," said the man. "There aren't any rhinoceros in Africa at all!" "It's rare just because there aren't any!" (1)、Mr. W

6、hite was born in a farmer's family.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Mr. White hoped to be respected because he was the richest man in their town.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、The children often asked him to tell them something interesting because he knew more than any other person in the town.A：T B：F答案：A(4)、All people believed

7、Mr. White except the children.A：T B：F答案：B(5)、Mr. White wouldn't like to admit that he was wrong.A：T B：F答案：A2、 If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. These great forests are the oceans of trees. There are thousands and

8、thousands of different kinds of plants and animals. However, the world's forests are getting smaller all the time. We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farmland. Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years. What will happen if t

9、hey disappear? If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world. In a lot of places the new farmland will soon look like the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot. Perhaps the climate of the world w

10、ill change. This will be dangerous for everyone in the world. That is why we must take care of our forests. (1)、The passage mainly tells us about the importance of taking care of plants.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Forests are homes for different kinds of animals.A：T B：F答案：A(3)、The need for more wood and more lan

11、d help to protect our forests.A：T B：F答案：B(4)、We'll have more and greater forestsn in 20 or 30 years in some people's view.A：T B：F答案：B(5)、The writer thinks it necessary to protect the forests.A：T B：F答案：A3、 What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, li

12、ke the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear. We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough

13、. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理学家) think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more li

14、kely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent. Parents should also be careful with what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always t

15、elling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as "That was a very clever thing you did." or "You are such a smart child

16、." (1)、The word "intelligent" in the 1st paragraph probably mean bright.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、According to the context we can guess that a genius is a normal person while an idiot is a funny person.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、A person born with a good brain and putting it into active use is more likely t

17、o become a genius.A：T B：F答案：A(4)、It is better for parents to praise and encourage their children more often.A：T B：F答案：A(5)、Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.A：T B：F答案：B4、 A man got into a train and found himself sitting opposite a woman who seemed to be about thirty-five

18、 years old. Soon they began talking to each other, and the man said to her, "Do you have a family?" "Yes, I have one son," the woman answered. "Oh, really?" said the man. "Does he smoke?" "No, he's never touched a cigarette," the woman replied. &

19、quot;That's good," the man continued. "I don't smoke either. Tobacco is very bad to one's health. And does your son drink wine?" "Oh, no," the woman answered at once. "He's never drunk a drop of it." "Then I congratulate you, ma'am," t

20、he man said. "And does he ever come home late at night?" "No, never," his neighbor answered. "He goes to bed immediately after dinner every night." "Well," the man said, "he's a wise young man. How old is he?" "He's six months old today.

21、 But he will grow up to be a gentleman," the woman replied proudly.(1)、The man and the woman are talking about the woman's son. A：T B：F答案：A(2)、The woman thinks her son will be a gentleman. A：T B：F答案：A(3)、The conversation took place on a train. A：T B：F答案：A(4)、The word "disappointed"

22、; probably best describes the man's feeling at the end of the conversation. A：T B：F答案：B(5)、The woman is so proud of her son that she does not really understand what the man's questions mean. A：T B：F答案：B5、 Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would

23、get sick if he continued like that, so she often tried to get him to take a vacation. At last she managed to persuade him to do so, and she hoped that he would be able to enjoy his vacation without any disturbance, so before they left, Mrs. Young went to see her husband's secretary. She said to

24、her, "My husband needs a vacation very much, so whatever happens, please don't bother him with telegrams and letters about business problems while we are away. Just wait till we get back." After Mr. and Mrs. Young had been away about a week, Mr. Young received a letter from his secreta

25、ry which said, "Something terrible happened to your business, but I'm not going to bother you with it while you are enjoying your vacation."(1)、Mr. Young was the owner of a private business. A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Mrs. Young worried about her husband's business. A：T B：F答案：B(3)、Mrs. Young w

26、as afraid that her husband's vacation might be spoilt. A：T B：F答案：A(4)、The secretary didn't explain in her letter what had happened to Mr.Young's business, because she didn't want to spoil Mr. Young's vacation.A：T B：F答案：A(5)、You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid

27、 secretary. A：T B：F答案：A6、 Here is a story told about an American general who was a very important figure in the American army during the First World War. Everybody in the United States knew him and many people wished to have a picture or something of his in their homes. Soon after the war the genera

28、l returned to Washington. One day he went to a dentist and had six teeth pulled out. A week later the general heard that his teeth were being sold in shops at $5 each. On each of the teeth there was a label with the name of the general and words: "buy these teeth and show them to your friends a

29、t home." The general got angry. He rushed to his office and ordered six officers to go around the city and buy all his teeth. The officers went out and visited every shop in the capital. They were away from the office all day. In the evening they returned and put on the table in front of the ge

30、neral the teeth they had bought. They had collected 175 teeth. (1)、Many families wanted to have a signature of the general. A：T B：F答案：B(2)、The general came back to Washington after the First World War. A：T B：F答案：A(3)、The general ordered his men to look for all his teeth and buy all of them. A：T B：F答

31、案：A(4)、The fact that the general's name was on the label of each tooth shows that the general was famous. A：T B：F答案：A(5)、The teeth they collected most probably cost $1150.A：T B：F答案：B7、 The word "horsepower" was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world's first

32、 widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the wo

33、rk his steam engine could do. He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air on one minute. His engine could lift a 33-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine. (1)、The pass

34、age says that Watt made the first widely used steam engine. A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Watt wanted to find a way to lift a 3300-pound weight. A：T B：F答案：B(3)、He made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of a horse. A：T B：F答案：A(4)、One horsepower would equal the weight of one horse. A：T B：F答案：B(5)、The po

35、ssible title for this passage is The Origin of the Term "Horsepower". A：T B：F答案：A8、 Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red, green, yellow, or black. There have been snowflakes of almost every color. Think how it would seem

36、to have colored snowflakes coming down all around you. Black snow fell in France one year. Another year grey snow fell in Japan. It was found that the snow was mixed with ashes. This made it look dark. Red snow had come down in other countries. When this happened, the snow was mixed with red dust. M

37、ost snow looks white, but it is really the color of ice. Snow is ice that comes from snow cloud. Each snowflake begins with a small drop of frozen water. More water forms around this drop. The way the water freezes gives the snowflakes its shape. No two snowflakes are ever just the same size or shap

38、e. Sometimes the snowflakes are broken when they come down. Other snowflakes melt as they fall. All snowflakes are flat and have six sides, if they are not broken or melted. When the air is cold and dry, the falling snowflakes are small and hard. If the air wet and warm, the snowflakes are big and s

39、oft. Would you be surprised to see snowflakes as big as your head falling from the sky? It happened once in the United States. It could happen again. (1)、The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、No two snowflakes are just the same size, but all

40、snowflakes are hard.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、Snowflakes begin with cloud.A：T B：F答案：B(4)、The bigger the snowflakes are, the softer they are.A：T B：F答案：A(5)、Black snow fell only in European Countries.A：T B：F答案：B9、 Hobbs was an orphan. He worked in a factory and every day he got a little money. Hard work changed

41、him thin and weak. He wanted to borrow a lot of money to learn to paint pictures, but he did not think he could pay off the debts. One day a lawyer said to him, "One thousand dollars, and here is the money." As Hobbs took the package of notes, he was very dumbfounded（惊呆了的）. He didn't k

42、now where the money came from and how to spend it. He said to himself, "I could go to find a hotel and live like a rich man for a few days, or I give up my work in the factory and do what I'd like to do: painting pictures. I could do that for a few weeks, but what would I do after that? I s

43、hould have lost my place in the factory and have no money to live on. If it were a little less money, I would buy a new coat, or a radio, or give a dinner to my friends. If it were more, I could give up the work and pay for painting the pictures. But it is too much for one and too little for the oth

44、er." "Here is the reading of your uncle's will," said the lawyer, "telling what is to be done with this money after his death. I must ask you to remember one point. Your uncle has said you must bring me a paper showing exactly what you did with his money, as soon as you have

45、spent it." "Yes, I see. I will do that," said the young man.(1)、He wanted to borrow money because he wanted to learn to paint pictures.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、With the money he got, Hobbs first planned to have a happy life for a few days.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、What Hobbs was asked to do was nothing bu

46、t to buy some pictures.A：T B：F答案：B(4)、What Hobbs really loved to do was painting pictures.A：T B：F答案：A(5)、The best title for the passage.A：T B：F答案：B10、 Elvis Aron Presley, was often called "the king of rock music", died on August 16th, 1977, at the age of forty-two. He left a great influenc

47、e on popular music, and millions of fans. During his lifetime, Elvis sold more than four hundred million records. After Presley died, many of his records rose quickly. When Presley died, many mourners journeyed to Memphis, Tennessee, Presley's home, to pay their last respects. While most of thes

48、e fans knew a lot about the songs of Elvis, few of them knew the story of how Elvis had his first record which was for his mother. He paid four dollars to a small Memphis recording shop, and recorded two songs. The songs were "My Happiness" and "That's Where Your Heartaches Begin&

49、quot;. Sam Philips, who owned the shop where Elvis made the record, liked Presley's songs. He said he would call him some day. About a year later, Philips did call and ask him to cut a record. This first record had "Blue Moon of Kentucky"on one side, and "That's All Right, Mam

50、a"on the other. (1)、The passage is mainly about how Elvis Presley began his career.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Mourners are usually record-producers.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、Without the record for his mother, Elvis might not have become a star.A：T B：F答案：A(4)、When Presley died, people went to Memphis for his mother

51、9;s story of life.A：T B：F答案：B(5)、The passage shows that many people loved Elvis.A：T B：F答案：B11、 Three men traveling on a train began a conversation about the world's greatest wonders. "In my opinion," the first man said, "the Egyptian pyramids（埃及金字塔）are the world's greatest won

52、der. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And remember: the people who built them had only simple tools. They did not have the kind of machinery that builders and engineers have today." "I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful," the second

53、 man said, "but I do not think they are the greatest wonder. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the moon and brought them back safely. In seconds，they carry out mathematical calculations that would take a person a hundred years to do." He tu

54、rned to the third man and asked, "What do you think is the greatest wonder in the world？" The third man thought for a long time，and then he said, "Well，I agree that the pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too. However, in my opinion, the most wonderful th

55、ing in the world is this thermos." And he took a thermos out of his bag and held it up. The other two men were very surprised. "A thermos?" they exclaimed. "But that's a simple thing." "Oh, no，it's not, "the third man said. "In the winter you put in a

56、hot drink and it stays hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether it's winter or summer？" (1)、The underlined word "thermos" in Chinese means "保温瓶".A：T B：F答案：A(2)、That the three men could not agree on what the world'

57、;s greatest wonder was because they all had different ideas.A：T B：F答案：A(3)、The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful things in the world because they had been built with very simple tools.A：T B：F答案：A(4)、The third man thought a thermos was the most wonderful thing in the world becaus

58、e it cost less than a computer.A：T B：F答案：B(5)、The third man was not very clever because he could not think of anything to say.A：T B：F答案：B12、 In the world, soccer or football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every

59、four years. To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called "Dream World Cups" in Japan. The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a blue bright sky. They wished each foot