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阅读理解训练题（七十七）
A
　　I woke up with a big headache, and my head felt like it was burning. But I knew Jane was having a big party the weekend after this, and I knew she’d invite me if I saw her in school. So I was ready for school no matter how I felt.
　　My mother said that I had a temperature of 101 and that I should go back to bed. I told her I would have a big Spanish test I couldn’t miss. I also explained that I was working on a project in social studies and that I had to give a report today. But she said that I sounded not just sick, but crazy, and that I had better go back to bed.
　　56．What is the real reason the author wants to go to school?
　　A. To see Jane.
　　B. To take a test in Spanish.
　　C. To show that he isn’t sick.
　　D. To give a report in social studies.
B
　　Several days ago, a Beijing - based IT company fired about 400 people overnight. No one had expected the job cuts, which broke with traditional ways of letting go of workers in China. Moreover, what was special about this case was that the day before the 400 were fired, they all received from their boss a gift - the book “Who Moved My Cheese?”.
　　The book - a bestseller in the US - is being used by men and women to deal with changes in their lives and work. Some large organizations, including Coca- Cola, Kodak and General Motors, ask their employees to read it in order to encourage them to be active towards changes.
　　Cheese is something related to everyone’s livelihood - our jobs, the industries we work in, relationships and love as well.
　　With China’s official entry into WTO, the whole nation will face up to more changes and challenges. So what should we do once this “cheese” on which we are so dependent is moved?
　　“Whatever challenges and changes we meet, we should face up to them bravely” Jiang Hengwei, a civil servant said after reading the book.
　　Professor Yang in Renmin University of China agrees. “We should change our way of thinking. The coming competitive foreign companies and products provide us with great chances to learn from them and improve our own products to meet international standards and be more competitive.”
　　“With hard work and wisdom, we will create a much larger and better piece of cheese. ”Zhang smiled confidently.
　　57．The whole passage is about________.
　　A. a bestseller in the US
　　B. what people think about China’s entry into the WTO
　　C people’s attitude toward changes and challenges
　　D. how a book influences the Chinese workers
　　58．The company in Beijing gave each of the 400 fired workers a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese” in order to________.
　　A. be more competitive with foreign firms
　　B. find an excuse for their job cuts

　　C. let the workers make a living on their own
　　D. encourage the fired workers
　　59．The work “cheese”in the passage can refer to________.
　　A. something we depend on for a living
　　B. a most important kind of food
　　C. change or challenge
　　D. way of life
　　60．From what Hengwei and Professor Zhang Yang said, we can know that________.
　　A. they have different opinions on changes and challenges
　　B. people are not afraid of competition from foreign companies
　　C. the Chinese people are ready to face any changes and challenges
　　D. they are both greatly encouraged by the book
C
　　The law is a great mass of rules, showing when and how far a man is possible to be punished, or to be made to hand over money or property to his neighbors, and so on. These rules are contained in books. A lawyer learns them mainly by reading books.
　　He begins by doing little else than read, and after he has prepared himself by. say. three years’study practice, still, all his life long and almost every day, he will be looking into books to read a little more than he already knows about some new questions which he has to answer.
　　The power to use books, then. is a special skill which the would - be lawyer ought to possess. He ought to have enough flexibility（灵活性）to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words. He ought to have some readiness in finding what a book contains, and something of an instinct （直觉）for where to look for what he wants.
　　But although this is the power of which he will first feel the need, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to recite it; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life. His business is to try eases in court and to advise men what to do in order to keep out or get out of trouble.
　　61．The first thing a law student has to do is to________.
　　A. read books
　　B. hand over money
　　C. practice law
　　D. answer questions
　　62．After three years of reading________.
　　A. he can study law
　　B. he can stop reading
　　C. he still has to continue reading
　　D. he is able to give clever answers
　　63．The major business of a lawyer is________.
　　A. to discuss the material he has read
　　B. to advise people who have law problems
　　C. to learn about real life
　　D. to study the law
　　64．According to the passage, a good lawyer should know how to________.
　　A. understand and use what he reads
　　B. be convenient in everything
　　C. collect ideas from different sources
　　D. use power in the court
　　65．Which is the most important to a would - be lawyer?
　　A. To possess a lot of books.
　　B. to have enough flexibility when collecting ideas from printed words.
　　C. To be ready to find out what a book contains.
　　D. To be able to use his book knowledge in the right way in his future business.
D
　　Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Song tang Hospital, a care clinic for the aged and dying patients, during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21．
　　Thirty student volunteers from the university’s School of International Studies sat at the beds of the patients in their specially
　　- decorated“ care huts”. They talked with them and gave massages （按摩）to patients kept in their beds.
　　I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up. said Deng Yetao, 20, a third - year student. “But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies. They are afraid of the coming death. Their loneliness is worse than physical pains.”
　　“Even though they are suffering a lot, the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us. Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosophies to share. Instead of doing them a favor, I felt I was gaining a valuable lesson. Said Mao Xiaohua, another third - year student.
　　Mao talked with two elderly patients for a whole afternoon. The fact that most of the patients in the 80 - room clinic are aged people with diseases which will lead to death soon made the volunteers’ hearts heavy.
　　Ninety - one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic, according to a survey by the hospital.
　　Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their programmer. A total of 330, 000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital. Many continue to offer services in their spare time. Some of them volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives.
　　Yin Hang, a student from Beijing Medical College, said he felt“ the glory of life” as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness（昏迷）while he was holding his hands.
　　66．Youth volunteers from Beijing University went to Songtang Hospital to________.
　　A. pay a visit to the aged
　　B. talk to the aged
　　C. show their love for the aged
　　D. help the aged out
　　67．What the aged are most worried about is________.
　　A. loneliness
　　B. death
　　C. physical pains
　　D. wealth
　　68．The underlined sentence probably means________.
　　A. I taught myself a lesson by talking to them
　　B. I learned something important instead of only helping them
　　C. I only wanted to get something rather than do them a favor
　　D. I was glad to have given them a favor
　　69．When volunteers know most of the aged people are dying patients, they feel________ .
　　A. sad　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. disappointed
　　C. satisfied　　　　　　　　　　　 D. worthless
　　70．After reading the passage, we know________.
　　A. the youth are fond of doing popular things
　　B. they Second Youth Service Day is started by the Chinese government
　　C. 91% of the aged in China are facing death
　　D. the volunteers are taking an active part in the activity
E
　　They are among the 250, 000 people under the age of 25 who are out of work in the Netherlands, a group that explains the cause of 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed. A storm of anger boils up at the government -sponsored（政府资助的）youth center, event among those who are continuing their studies.
　　“We study for jobs that don’t exist, ” Nicollets Steggerda, 23, said.
　　After thirty years of prosperity, unemployment among 10 member nations of the European Community has reached as much as 11 percent, affecting a total of 12.3 million people, and the number is climbing.
　　The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent. The title of a rock song“ No Future” can now be seen written on the brick walls of closed factories in Belgium and France.
　　Recent surveys have found that the increasing argument in the last few years over the deployment（部署）in Europe of North Atlantic Treaty Organization missiles and the possibility of nuclear war have clouded European youths' confidence（信心）in the future.
　　One form of protest （an action that shows disagreement ）tends to put the responsibility for a country’s economic troubles on the large numbers of “guest workers” from Third World nations, people welcomed in Western Europe in the years of prosperity.
　　Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic success and general stability, seem to be similar to Americans more than they do their own parents. Material enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation , even the right, to a standard of living that they see around them.
　　“And so we pass the days at the discos, or meet people at the cafe, and sit and stare, ” said Isabella Cault. “There is usually not much conversation. You look for happiness. Sometimes you even find it.”
　　71．Unemployment in the Netherlands has affected________.
　　A. about 0.6 million people
　　B. 250, 000 people
　　C. less than half of the population
　　D. one million people
　　72．What Nicollete Steggerda said （Para. 2）means that________.
　　A. what the students learn is more than necessary
　　B. the students cannot get work after graduation
　　C. the students’aim in study is not clear
　　D. school education is not sufficient（enough）
　　73．What does the underlined word“prosperity” most probably mean?
　　A. advance in politics
　　B. economic troubles
　　C. political crisis（危机）
　　D. achievements in economy
　　74．British youths________.
　　A. have pity on the unemployed on the Continent
　　B. have been the first to show their disappointment over joblessness
　　C. care about unemployment in France and Belgium
　　D. are trying to find work on the Continent
　　75．It seems that young Europeans________.
　　A. are more like Americans than their elders in their way of thinking
　　B. look more like Americans than their elders do
　　C. expect more from Americans than from their elders
　　D. look upon life as their elders do

阅读理解训练题（七十七）答案
56．A　提示：作者发烧很厉害，还是坚持去学校，其实是为了看Jane．
57．C　
58．D　
59．A　
60．C　
61．A　
62．C　
63．B　
64．A
65．D　提示：作为一个律师要不断地学习，而且要把所学的知识应用到实际生活中。
66．C　
67．A　
68．B　
69．A　
70．D　
71．A　
72．B　
73．D
74．B　提示：第四段第一句话说明英国年轻人已经受了很长一段时间的失业的折磨，后来这种折磨人的心情传遍整个大陆。
75．A
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