阅读理解训练题67.doc

阅读理解训练题（六十七）
A
　　The Fourth “21th Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition is to be held in Shanghai.
　　Organizers: China Daily and Shanghai Broadcasting Network.
　　Co-ordinater: China University English Speaking Association （CUESA）.
　　Co-sponsors （联办单位）: English Speaking Union （ESU）, Lotus Software （China）Co. Ltd. , Times Publishing Group of Singapore, Hilton Shanghai, Pearson Education, Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press.
　　Date: March 26 （ Friday）, 1999.
　　Place: Hilton Shanghai.
　　Competition Format （形式） : Each student will present a prepared speech on the given topic, followed by a three -minute off - hand speech and a three - minute question and answer period with the judges.
　　Prepared speech period: six minutes.
　　Q & A period: three minutes.
　　Speech topic: People and Nature: In search of harmony （和谐）in a new age ＋ your personal opinion. （Topice for the off hand speech will be given on the day of competition）.
　　Prizes: Besides books and certificates （证书）, the top two winners will be offered scholarships（奖学金） to travel to the annual international English -speaking competition which will be held by the English Speaking Union in London in May, 1999. The third and fourth place winners will be offered a study trip to Singapore, sponsored by the Times Publishing Group. The fifth through 10th place winners will be offered cash prizes. All the competitors will receive certificates from the English Speaking Union and book prizes provided by Pearson Education and Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press. The teachers of the top winners will also receive a one - year membership to the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language（IATEFL）
　　56．The main purpose of this passage is ________.
　　A. to invite you to take part in the competition
　　B. to tell you some information of the competition
　　C. to help to improve your spoken English
　　D. to show you how to win the competition
　　57．Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the Shanghai English Speaking Competition?________.
　　A. Where and when it will take place.
　　B. Its program.
　　C. What each winner will be offered.
　　D. The number of its competitors.
　　58．Suppose you get the sixth place, you’ll________ .
　　A. travel to London for free.
　　B. become a one - year member of IATEFL
　　C. get some money , some books and a certificate
　　D. get a chance to study in Singapore
　　59．An “off- hand speech”is________.
　　A. a speech not longer than three minutes
　　B. a speech without preparation
　　C. a speech with a piece of paper in hand
D. a speech which is well prepared

B
　　Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a liability.
　　While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
　　Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success.
　　Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.
　　All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
　　Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the “manly”qualifies required.
　　This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候选人）. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
　　The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
　　60．The word “liability” most probably means ________.
　　A. disadvantage　B. advantage　　　C. misfortune　　 D. trouble
　　61．Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness________
　　A. turns out to　be a disadvantage to men
　　B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women
　　C. has as little effect on men as on women
　　D. affects men and women alike
　　62．It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often________.
　　A. practical　　　B. supportive　　 C. old – fashioned　D. one - sided
　　63．The author writes this passage to ________.
　　A. give advice to job - seekers who are attractive
　　B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive
　　C. demand equal rights for women
D. state the importance of appearance

C
　　Some people believe that international sport brings about good will between the nations and that ff countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sport encourages international brotherhood. Not only was there the terrible incident with the murder of athlets, but the Games were also ruined by those incidents caused mainly by minor national contests.
　　One country received its second - place medal with great anger after the hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were certain that one of their goals should not have been dismissed and that the opposite side’s victory was unfair. Their manager was angry when he said: “This wasn’t hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Society are finished. ”The president of the society said later that such words could result in the pause of the team for at least three years.
　　The American basketball team announced that they would not give away first place to Russia, after a fighting end to their contest. The game had ended in quarrel. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play, A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player beat it into the basket. It was the first time the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. The judges discussed the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand. The American players then decided not to receive the silver medals.
　　Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played for honors or money rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that sportsmen should compete as individuals , or in non national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages dangerous nationalism.
　　64．According to the author, recent Olympic Games have ________.
　　A. brought about goodwill between the nations
　　B. made only false national pride
　　C. hardly showed any international friendship
　　D. led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred
　　65．What did the manager mean by saying, “… Hockey and the International Hockey Society are finished”? ________.
　　A. His team would no longer take part in international games
　　B. Hockey and the society are both ruined by the unfair decisions
　　C. There should be no more hockey matches organized by the society
　　D. The society should be dismissed
　　66．The author gives the two examples in paragraphs 2 and 3 to show________.
　　A. how false national pride leads to undesirable incidents in international games
　　B. that sport men have been more troublesome than they used to be
　　C. that competitiveness in the games discourages international friendship
　　D. that unfair decisions are common in Olympic Games.
　　67．What conclusion can be drawn from the passage? ________.
　　A. The organization of the Olympic Games must be improved
　　B. Athletes should compete as individuals in the Olympic Games
　　C. Sport should be played competitively rather than for the love of the game
D. International contests lead to misunderstanding between nations.

D
　　ARIEL, West Bank: A suicide bomber blew up near Israeli soldiers outside a Jewish settlement in the West Bank yesterday, killing at least three people and wounding about 30 others, the settlement’s mayor and rescue workers said.
　　“A suicide bomber came and there were many soldiers…and he blew himself up.” said Ron Nachman, mayor of the settlement of Ariel. “Soldiers were among the casualties. ”People on the spot said the bomber blew up after soldiers eating at a food stand in a petrol station at the entrance of the settlement found him. According to some people on the spot accounts reported by Israeli media, a soldier shot and wounded the bomber, who then exploded.
　　The Magen David Adorn ambulance service said at least three people were killed and at least 30 wounded in the blast, which set the bomber burning at Ariel, about 25 kilometers east of Tel Avi v.
　　A fire brigade official said: “The bomber was still burning when we got there and we put out the fire immediatelly.”
　　Meanwhile, a blast shook homes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp early yesterday, damaging buildings but causing no injuries, Palestinian sources said. They said the bomb was planted outside the home of a member of Palestimian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction in Ain el-Hilwch camp, and exploded while the family was sleeping.
　　68．Some of people including ________were killed or wounded in the blast accident.
　　A. soldiers　　　　　　　　　　　 B. mayor
　　C. rescue workers　　　　　　　　 D. a fire brigade official
　　69．The suicide bomber blew himself up because________.
　　A. there was something wrong with his brains
　　B. a soldier shot and wounded him
　　C. he couldn’t see the settlement’s mayor
　　D. he wanted to make himself known
　　70．What does the underlined word “casuahies” probably mean in the second paragraph?________
　　A. sufferers　　　B. killers　　　　 C. passersby　　　D. losers
　　71．It can be concluded that the passage is most probably part of a （n）________.
　　A. announcement　　　　　　　　　B. advertisement
C. news report　　　　　　　　　　D. science research

E
　　In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple cameras. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his yard. That was the first photograph.
　　The next important date in the history! of photography was 1837. That year, Daguerre, another French, took a picture of his studio. He used a new kind of camera and a different process. In his pictures, you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest details. This kind of photograph was called a daguerreotype.
　　Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s process. Travelers brought back daguerreotypes from all around the world. People photographed famous buildings, cities and mountains.
　　In about 1840, the process was improved. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. The process was not simple. The photographers had to cary lots of films and processing equipment. But this did not stop the photographers, especially in the United States. After 1840s daguerreotype artists were popular in most cities.
　　Mathew Brady was a well - known American photographer. He took many pictures of famous people. The pictures were unusual because they were very life - like and full of personality （个性）.
　　Brady was also the first preson to take pictures of war. His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and ruined cities. They made the war seem more real and more terrible.
　　In the 1880s, new inventions began to change photography… Photographers could buy films readymade in rolls（卷）. So they did not have to make the film themselves. Also, they did not have to process the film immediately. They could bring it back to their studios and develop it later meaning that they did not have to carry lots of equipment. And finally, the invention of the small handheld camera made photography less expensive.
　　With the small camera, anyone could be a photographer. People began to use cameras just for fun. They took pictures of their families, friends and favorite places. They called these pictures“ snapshot”.
　　Photographs became very popular in newspapers in the 1890s. Soon magazines and books also used documentary photographs. These pictures showed true events and people. They were much more real than drawing.
　　Photography also turned into a form of art by the end of the 10th century. Some photographs were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other art forms.
　　72．The passage is mainly about ________.
　　A. the inventoin of cameras
　　B. a kind of new art - photography
　　C. the development of photography
　　D. the important dates in the history of photography
　　73．The first pictures of a war were taken by________.
　　A. a French photographer in the 1840s
　　B. an American photographer in the 1860s
　　C. a German reporter in the 1880s
　　D. a French artist in the 1890s
　　74．Photography can also be an art form because artists can ________.
　　A. take anything they like
　　B. keep a record of real life
　　C. take photos of the famous
　　D. show ideas and feeling in pictures
　　75．According to the passage, which of the followings shows the correct order? ________.
　　a．Photographs became popular in newspapers.
　　b．Photographers carried processing equipment while taking pictures.
　　c．The invention of small handheld cameras made photography easier.
　　d．Daguerre invented a kind of photograph called daguerreotype.
　　e．Brady took pictures of famous people.
　　A. e, a, d, b, c　　　　　　　　　　 B. d, b, e, c, a
　　C. b, e, c, a, d　　　　　　　　　　 D. d, c, e, a, b

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阅读理解训练题（六十七）答案
56．A　提示：本文类似广告，对奖励部分说得很详细，因此答案为A，鼓励人们参赛。
57．D　提示：纵观全文可知，没提到参赛人数。
58．C　提示：本文倒数第一段关于第五一第十名的奖励办法，相邻的两句，说得很清楚。
59．B　提示：“off-hand”意为“没准备的”，根据组织形式那一段提供的信息，前面提到了它的反义词“prepared speech”
60．A　提示：ability“能力”根据上下文应为其反义“没能力”也就是“劣势”。
61．B　提示：开始作者就提到了“女人漂亮成劣势”最后一段的实验更加证明了这点。
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