2023年电大历届网考英语之阅读理解.doc

A
10…A public Key: BCDCB
21…A man was Key: CDDAC
22…A young boy Key: ABDBD
32…A traveler Key: BCADA
23…A bag is useful Key: DBCBA
55…A City of the World---Most people DABDB
58…A million Key: DCBDD
45…A friend of Key: CBDAD
18…A characteristic of Key: ABDAB
3…A foreigner’sKey DBDAC
18…As she walked Key: ABDBD
48…As price and Key: ABDAB
57…As long as the Key: DBCDA
27…An old man Key: CDBBC
43…An English traveler Key: BADAD
41…Americans enjoy. Key: CDBCB
20…After having lived Key: ABBBC
B
46…Before you go Key: CBBAD
63…Bill turned the Key: BDABD
6…Britain and France Key DDADC
14…By definition, heroes Key: CDDCB

C
42…Computers are Key: BCABC
61…Cars are lots of fun Key: CACBB
7…Community service is Key BCADB

F-H
30…Foulsham House. Key: DBADC
39…For several years Key: BCDAC
9…Here is a story Key: ADBDC
17…Have you ever Key: BADBC
12…How men first Key: DCDBA
I
1…It was very cold Key: ABBCC
6…If you ask Daniel Key: ACDBD
24…If you ask most Key: DDCBA
60…If you do not Key: CCCCB
49…In Sydney there Key: CADDC
2…In the United State Key BBBDB
51…I am going Key: BADDA
11…It has been Key: CCDCB
26…Language is always Key: DBBAD
10…Laws have been Key: ABDCB

M-N
4…My friend’s Key: ABCBD
37…My grandparents Key: CDCBD
16…Mr. White. Key: BAADC
19…Mr. and Mrs. Key: DCCBA
44…Mr. Young Key: CBADB
36…Martin Key: CDBAA
13…Many people Key: BCBAC
29…New York is one Key: BDBCC
40…Nowadays, any Key: DDAAB

P
25…Pepys and his Key: CCCBC
54…Pubs are supposed Key: BCADD
56…Pearl Carlson was Key: CABBD
9…Paper is one of the Key BAABC
16…Places to stay in Key: ABDBB

S
35…Social customs Key: DCACA
38…She is a cute,. Key: DBDCC
4…Sixteen-year-old Key DCCDA
15…Shyness is the Key: BABCB

T
3…There was once Key: BCDAD
5…There are three Key BDCCC
15…The Chinese Key: BCDAC
47…The world Key: DACDB
50…The ideal Key: ADABB
59…The dark Key: BCBBB
62…The aim Key: CBDCA
1…The French Key CBDDD
7…These days, Key: BBACC
5…Three men Key: DBCCB
34…Tibet is among Key: BAACB
33…Tom arrived Key: BACDD
W
2…Why is it that Key: ADCAB
11…We are busy Key: CBACD
17…What makes a? Key: BCACD
14…What is the? Key: ACCCD
53…What must you Key: DADBC
28…When you have Key: DDCAB
52…When weather is Key: ADADC
8…When John and Key DCBBD

O-J-R-L
8…Ours is a big worldKey: BCDBB
13…Jack Brown, Key: CDBBA
31…Ramon was very Key: ABCCA
12（表格）：Lovely dog aged 5 Key: DBCDB

Passage 1
It was very cold last Sunday. Paul and his friends Allen, Bill and Betty went to the lake after breakfast. They began to skate on the ice. Paul skated better than his three friends. He skated fast and didn’t know a piece of ice was broken. He fell into the water. His friends were afraid and called for help. Just then two workers walked there and heard them. They ran there quickly and helped the boy come out of the water. Then they took him to a hospital. Paul and his parents thanked them very much.
1. When did the children go skating?
A. After breakfast. B. Before supper. C. After lunch. D. At lunch.
2. How many children skated on the lake?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
3. Who skated best of all the children?
A. Allen did. B. Paul did. C. Bill did. D. Worker did.
4. Why did Paul fall into the water?
A. Because he skated fast. B. Because he was not good at skating.
C. Because he didn’t know the ice there was broken. D. Because he skated slow.
5. Who helped Paul?
A. His friends. B. His parents. C. Two workers. D. Betty.
Key: ABBCC

Passage 2
Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communication technology is a step back from the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every imaginable contact between human beings becomes automatic by machine, the alienation quotient goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person anywhere. Directory assistance is almost always fully automatic by machine. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the worker when you … swipe （刷卡）your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Placing money at the bank? … talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when can just put your credit card into the ATM?
Pretty soon you won’t have the hard task of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some grocery chains are usually a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing?
1. The writer’s attitude towards advances in communication technology may be described as ____?
A. critical B. unconcerned C. positive D. uninterested
2. If his mom has a question, he _______.
A. will find ways to reach her B. will locate her e-mail address
C. will try to get her a voice machine D. will leave her the answer through voice mail
3. Judging from the context, the word “alienation” in line 2, paragraph 2 means ______.
A. relationship B. closeness C. strangeness D. stress
4. With the rapid development of high technology, people don’t need to _______.
A. see or talk to one another B. say good morning to workers
C. make eye contact with clerks D. completely rely on manpower
5. It can be inferred that the writer _________.
A. is pleased with the modern pace of life B. feels more separated from others
C. doesn’t want anyone to bother him D. sings the praised of communication technology
Key: ADCAB

Passage 3
There was once an ant that was very thirsty.
It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any.
Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.
The ant drank the water, which saved its life.
The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.
The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.
“Why are you sad?” asked the ant.
“I’m the prisoner of a giant.” the girl told the ant. “ He won’t let me go until I’ve made three separate heaps of grain, barley（大麦）and rye（黑麦）out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together.”
“That will take you a month!” the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.
“I know,” the girl cried, “and if I haven’t finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!”
“Don’t cry,” the ant said, “my friends and I will help you.”
Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.
The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.
Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.
1 What is an ant?
A. A small animal. B. An insect. C. A bird. D. A giant.
2. When did the drop of water fall on the ant?
A. When it was looking for food. B. When it saved the ant’s life.
C. When it was nearly dying. D. When it looked up.
3. Why was the young girl crying?
A. Because of her sadness. B. Because she saw the ant.
C. Because the giant would let her go. D. Because the giant had given her an impossible job to do.
4. What would the giant do if the girl failed to do the work?
A. He would eat her. B. He would let her go.
C. He would take her away. D. He would send her to prison.
5. Who or what saved the girl’s life?
A. The giant B. The ant C. The ant’s friends D. Her tears
Key: BCDAD

Passage 4
My friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed（移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.
“Start out at the end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end he’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”
1. Where do you think the old man came from?
A. Poland. B. Australia. C. Canada. D. Japan.
2. From the passage, we know if you want to get success in America, you should _________.
A. get help from your friends B. try to get it by yourself
C. know how a cafeteria works D. get up again if you fail
3. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The old man sat down opposite the woman so that she could take his order.
B. The old woman sat down opposite the old man so that she could serve him.
C. Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she told him how to get something to eat in the cafeteria.
D. Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she decided to pay the bill for him.
4. What does the word “it” in the third paragraph refer to?
A. The food served in the cafeteria. B. The success one wants to get.
C. The bill one has to pay in the cafeteria. D. The plate used in the cafeteria.
5. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. From Eastern Europe to America B. Eating in an American Cafeteria
C. How to Eat in a Cafeteria D. Life Is Like a Cafeteria in America
Key: ABCBD

Passage 5
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 wonder. 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 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 turned 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 thing 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 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 “_______”.
A. 电冰箱 B. 洗衣机 C. 电风扇 D. 保温瓶
2. That the three men could not agree on what the world’s greatest wonder was because _______.
A. they could not think of anything very wonderful B. they all had different ideas
C. they could not prove that their opinions were right D. the journey ended too soon
3. The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful things in the world because ____.
A. they were very beautiful

B. they were Egyptian
C. they had been built with very simple tools D. they could do mathematical calculations
4. The third man thought a thermos wa
s the most wonderful thing in the
world because _____.
A. it lasted longer than
the pyramids
B. it cost less than a computer
C. he thought it knew whether it was
winter or summer
D. the other two men were surprised
when he told them about it
5. The third man was not very clever
because ______.
A. he could not think of anything
to say
B. he did not understand how a thermos
works
C. he did not think the pyramids were
wonderful
D. he did not know anything about computers
Key: DBCCB

Passage 6
If you ask Daniel Radcliff who acted Harry Potter to pick a special moment from the last year of his life, you will find it almost impossible. “Oh, wow, that’s really difficult,” he says with a smile.
“There have been so many things, so many memories that at times it’s hard to recall them all,” says Daniel. “But I guess one of the best ones was the London premiere for the Philosopher’s Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.”
“But I’ve had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It’s been great.”
Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July, 2023. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.
Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.
1. How old was Daniel Radcliff in 2023?
A. 15 B. 16 C. 14 D. 13
2. What is Daniel Radcliff’s memory about the past year according to the passage?
A. He didn’t remember anything about it. B. He had so many bad memories about it.
C. There were amazing experiences in the past year.
D. There were not many unforgetable things in the past year.
3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a liking by Daniel?
A. Making friends. B. Being an actor. C. Being part of the team. D. Becoming a director.
4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Daniel’s parents are all film stars. B. Daniel’s parents influenced Daniel greatly.
C. Daniel has never had any influence from his parents. D. Daniel has brothers and sisters.
5. Daniel was born in _________.
A. New York B. Beijing C. Paris D. London
Key: ACDBD

Passage 7
These days, children often think of superheroes（超级英雄）as cute（漂亮旳）, cool and strong supermen. A poor, short and thin boy wearing glassed may not interest the kids today. Yet in less than 4 years, Harry Potter has taken the world by the storm. J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter, was a British single mother out of work and living on money given to her by the government. One day, when she was on a