网络统考-大学英语B-电大统考-远程教育-阅读理解.doc

阅读理解B

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 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 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.
白先生住在一个小村庄。他的父母没有足够的钱，送他到学校。他帮助他们做一些在领域。但他不喜欢生活在贫穷的地方。他十六岁时，他到镇上，发现在工厂工作。三年后他成为高大强壮。所以他被送往非洲作为一个士兵。他在那里呆了五年，获得了一些钱。然后他回到了英国，网店买了一个在一个小城镇。没有人在镇到非洲去，除了他。他希望他们认为他是一个著名的人，他们会尊重他。孩子们经常问他告诉他们一些故事和他在非洲的生活。
One day a few children asked him to tell them something about the animals in Africa. He told them how he 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 rare animal, sir?"
有一天，几个孩子让他告诉他们一些关于非洲动物。他告诉他们他是打老虎和大象。他的故事使他们所有人的警察和工人去听他的。这使他快乐。只是一个男人谁教地理学在中学经过那里。他停下来听了他一会儿，然后说，“请你告诉我们一个罕见的动物，先生？”
"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!"
“当然，”特纳先生。”有一天，我遇到了一个犀牛（犀牛）河边……”
“请等一下，先生，”那人说。”没有任何犀牛在非洲在所有！”
“这是罕见的，只是因为没有！”
(1)、Mr. White 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。怀特希望得到尊重因为他在镇子中知道的最多。
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. 孩子们经常问他告诉他们一些有趣的事因为他知道的比镇上的其他人知道的多。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(4)、All people believed Mr. White except the children.
A：T
B：F答案：B
(5)、Mr. White wouldn't like to admit that he was wrong. 白先生不愿意承认自己是错的
A：T
B：F答案：A
2、Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
路德金是一个黑人牧师，他在1950年代和1960年代成为一个伟大的民权运动的领袖。
King was born on January 15, 1929 inAtlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from BostonUniversity, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil relights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best known speech "I Have a Dream" before the Lincoln Memorial. The "dream" is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. Thus, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.
金1929年1月15日出生在亚特兰大，佐治亚。他年轻时，他受梭罗和印度领袖圣雄甘地的非暴力抵抗想法的强烈影响。收到博士（哲学博士）来自波士顿大学后，他成了一个政治和宗教领袖的非暴力的运动1955。1963年8月28日，他带领250000多美国人游行在华盛顿争取公民权利法律保障所有人的平等，林肯纪念馆发表了他最著名的演讲“我有一个梦想”之前。“梦”是一个梦想的友爱和平等为黑色和白色。因此，他被授予诺贝尔和平奖1964，但四年后他被谋杀了。
Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Luther King's honor. He lives in people's hearts forever.
虽然他死了，他收到美国人的极大的尊敬和爱戴，不论是黑人还是白人。1968国会投票决定，每年一月的第三个星期一是一个联邦假日这是路德金的荣誉。他永远活在人民心中。
(1)、Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.
A：T
B：F答案：A
(2)、Martin Luther King was a black minister only.路德金是一只黑色的部长。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(3)、Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.路德金的一天是一个联邦假日超过40年。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(4)、The underlined word "delivered" in the second paragraph could be replaced by "gave".划线单词“交付”在第一段可以改成“给”。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(5)、The best title for this passage is "Civil Rights Law".这篇文章的最佳标题是《民权法》
A：T
B：F答案：B
3、 Let's watch the weather forecast on television. We may go to Scotland, we may go to Wales or London. We can decide after the forecast.
让我们看电视上的天气预报。我们可以去苏格兰，我们可以去威尔士或伦敦。我们可以预测后决定。
"Good morning, and here is the weather forecast for tomorrow. Northern Scotland will be cold, and there may be snow over High Ground. In the north of England it will be a wet day and rain will move into Wales and the Midlands during the afternoon. East Anglia（英格兰） will be generally dry, and it will be a bright clear day with sunshine, but it may rain during the evening. In the southwest it may be foggy during the morning, but the afternoon will be clear. It may be windy later in the day."
“早上好，这里是明天的天气预报。苏格兰北部将会很冷，会有雪从很高的地方。在英国北部，这将是一个下雨天，雨会转移到威尔士和中部地区的下午。东（英格兰）通常会干，这将是一个明亮的晴天的阳光，但在晚上可能下雨。在西南部可能是雾在早上，但下午会清楚。它可能是当天晚些时候有大风。”
(1)、The speaker is planning to go traveling within the country.说话者在打算去旅行的国家。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(2)、The speaker can fly to Northern Scotland tomorrow morning, because it won't be foggy there tomorrow.  
演讲者能飞到苏格兰北部的明天，因为明天那里不会有雾。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(3)、It will be a bright clear day in East Auglia tomorrow. 东英格兰明天是晴朗的天气
A：T
B：F答案：B
(4)、The forecast mainly tells us the whole country will have fine weather tomorrow.
预测主要是告诉我们整个国家都将明天天气晴朗。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(5)、You can infer from the passage that none of the places offers ideal weather tomorrow for travel.
你可以推测，有没有的地方提供了理想的天气明天的旅行
A：T
B：F答案：A
4、 Nancy and Peter McCall like sports. In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski. They are planning ski trip for this weekend, but they don't know about the weather. It's 7:30 now, and they are listening to the weather report on the radio. The weatherman is giving the weather forecast for the weekend.
南希和麦考尔都喜欢运动。在夏天他们游泳，在冬天他们滑雪。他们打算这个周末去滑雪，但是他们不知道天气。现在是7点30，他们在听收音机的天气预报。气象预报员正在播报天气预报周末。
"Friday is going to be cold and cloudy, but it's not going to rain. The temperature is going to be in the thirties. It's going to snow Friday night and maybe Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are going to be clear, cold and sunny. "
“星期五将会是寒冷，多云，但不会下雨。气温将在30。天会下雪的星期五晚上或星期六早晨。星期六下午和星期日都会清楚，冷和阳光。”
Now Nancy and Peter are excited. The weather is going to be perfect for a ski trip. They are going to have a wonderful weekendin the mountains.
现在，南希和兴奋。天气将会是一个完美的滑雪之旅。他们将有一个美好的周末在山中。
(1)、Nancy and Peter listened to the weather forecast for the weekend.
A：T
B：F答案：A
(2)、Nancy and Peter are planning a trip to the village for the weekend. 南希和彼特打算去乡村度周末。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(3)、It is going to snow Friday night according to the weather forecast. 这是星期五晚上的雪根据天气预报
A：T
B：F答案：A
(4)、The weather will be warm and rainy on Sunday. 天气会暖和和多雨的星期日。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(5)、Nancy and Peter often do sports.
A：T
B：F答案：A
5、 Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would 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 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 secretary which said, "Something terrible happened to your business, but I'm not going to bother you with it while you are enjoying your vacation."
杨先生经营着自己的生意和工作很难。他的妻子担心他会生病，如果他继续这样，所以她经常设法让他去度假。她终于设法说服他这样做她希望他能够享受他的假期没有任何干扰，所以他们离开之前，杨太太去看了她丈夫的秘书。她对她说，“我的丈夫太需要一个假期，所以无论发生什么事情，在我们离开请不要打扰他与电报和信件业务问题。等到我们回来。”
后先生和杨太太走了大约一个星期，杨先生收到了一封来自他的秘书说，“可怕的事情发生在你的生意，但我不想麻烦你了，你享受你的假期。”
(1)、Mr. Young was the owner of a private business. 杨先生是拥有一个私人企业。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(2)、Mrs. Young worried about her husband's business杨太太担心她丈夫的生意。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(3)、Mrs. Young was afraid that her husband's vacation might be spoilt.杨太太很害怕，她丈夫的假期可能被破坏了
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.
秘书没有解释她在信中所发生的mr.young业务，因为她不想破坏杨先生的假期。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(5)、You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid secretary.你可以从故事知道杨先生有个愚蠢的秘书。
A：T
B：F答案：A
6、 A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is haunted (闹鬼的). He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. James had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost (鬼) must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have come in for a free drink, he shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept it even if he gives it away.
这栋公寓杰姆斯最近才买的打算出售。他要卖掉它是因为它闹鬼。他告诉我，他一个晚上也睡不好是因为他听到了奇怪的声音从酒吧。次日早晨，他发现门被椅子堵上了，家具也被感动。虽然杰姆斯先生把灯关在上床睡觉之前，他们在早上。他还发现了五只空的威士忌瓶子，鬼（鬼）必在前一天晚上喝。当我暗示说一定是村里有些人进来偷酒喝，他摇摇头。村民告诉了他那他们会不接受它即使他白送人。
(1)、Mr. James was the owner of the public house. 杰姆斯先生是业主的公共屋。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(2)、Mr. James had not turned off the lights that night. 杰姆斯先生没有关灯，晚上
A：T
B：F答案：B
(3)、Mr. James built the house. 杰姆斯先生建造的房子
A：T
B：F答案：B
(4)、Mr. James found sixty empty bottles. 杰姆斯先生发现了六十个空瓶子。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(5)、The writer of the passage believes Mr. James' story. 作家的的文章相信杰姆斯先生的故事
A：T
B：F答案：B
7、 After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new neighborhood. He surprised his landlord by telling him that he was leaving because he could not afford to buy any more chocolate.
居住在同一地区二十年以上之后，艾伯特被迫搬到一个新社区。他的房东惊奇的发现他说，他离开是因为他买不起任何更多的巧克力。
It all began a year ago when Albert returned home one evening and found a large dog in front of his gate. He was very fond of animals and as he happened to have a small piece of chocolate in his pocket, he gave it to the dog. The next day, the dog was there again. It held up its paws and received another piece of chocolate as a reward. Albert called his new friend "Bingo" He never found out the dog's real name, nor who his owner was. However, Bingo appeared regularly every afternoon and it was quite clear that he preferred chocolate to bones. He soon grew dissatisfied with small pieces of chocolate and demanded a large bar a day. If at any time Albert neglected his duty, Bingo got very angry and refused to let him open the gate. Albert was now at Bingo's mercy and had to bribe him to get into his own house! He spent such a large part of his weekly wages to keep Bingo supplied with that in the end he had to move somewhere else.
这一切始于一年前，艾伯特有天晚上回到了家，并发现一只大狗在他前面的门。他很喜欢动物，他碰巧有一小块巧克力在他的口袋里，他把它给狗。第二天，狗再一次在那里。它举行了爪子收到另一块巧克力作为奖励。艾伯特称他的新朋友“宾果”。他从来没有发现了狗的真实姓名，也不是他的主人是谁。然而，宾果经常出现每天下午和十分清楚的是，他更喜欢巧克力的骨头。他很快也不小巧克力和要求大量天吧。如果在任何时间，艾伯特玩忽职守，宾果游戏非常生气，不肯让他打开门。艾伯特现在在宾果的怜悯和贿赂他进入他的房子！他花了这么大的一部分，他每周工资保持宾果游戏提供，最后他不得不搬到别的地方。
(1)、Albert lived there for many years.艾伯特在那里住了很多年。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(2)、Albert was moving because he did not like the place.艾伯特是因为他不喜欢的地方。
A：T
B：F答案：B
(3)、Albert and the dog became friends a year ago.艾伯特与狗狗成为朋友一年前。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(4)、The dog visited Albert every day because it wanted the chocolate. 狗访问艾伯特的每一天都要巧克力
A：T
B：F答案：A
(5)、Albert "had to bribe him" means he had to take care of him. 艾伯特“行贿”就意味着他必须照顾他
A：T
B：F答案：B
8、Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed.
你还可以得到免费塑料袋的超市？事情已经改变了。
China has banned free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets, and people have to pay for using plastic bags. The rule started on June 1. It came because our country tried to make litter less. Making super-thin plastic bags has also been banned.
中国已禁止免费的塑料袋，在商店和超市，人们必须支付使用塑料袋。在六月一日开始的规则。这是因为我国试图使垃圾减少。制作超薄塑料袋也被禁止。
The Chinese once used about 3,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags a day, and they have caused pollution of the environment. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution because they are not easy to break and people throw them away here and there. So the Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.
中国曾经一天使用约3000000000塑料购物袋，他们导致了环境污染。塑料袋已成为污染的主要原因，是因为他们不容易打破，人们把它扔的到处都是。因此，中国鼓励人们自备购物袋。
What kind of shopping bag is the best to bring? Some students in Chongqing have a good idea. They make their own shopping bags. They use old clothes to make cloth bags, and send them to their parents as presents. They also ask their parents and friends to use cloth bags instead of plastic ones. They think it is their duty to protect the environment.
什么样的购物袋最能带来什么呢？一些学生在重庆有一个好主意。他们制造属于自己的购物袋。他们用旧衣服做布料袋，并寄给他们的父母的礼物。他们还同样让他们的父母和朋友用布袋而不是塑料。他们认为这是他们的职责，保护环境。
(1)、People in China have to pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets now. 中国人必须支付使用塑料袋，在商店和超市现在。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(2)、China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the environment. 中国制定这一规则，因为塑料袋对环境有害。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(3)、The Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.国家鼓励人们自备购物袋。
A：T
B：F答案：A
(4)、Some students in Chongqing buy cloth bags for their parents. 一些学生在重庆买的布袋父母
A：T
B：F答案：B
(5)、The main idea of the article is the bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution. 文章的大意是袋已成为塑料污染的主要原因
A：T
B：F答案：B
9、 Taking away a city's rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can't eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
带走一城市垃圾是一个很大的工作。每天卡车进入城市收集。大部分的垃圾的产生是由与东西不能吃或使用。如果我们保持这些东西，我们很快会有一大堆的垃圾。
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside the city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage（污水，排水）system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.
在一些城市垃圾收集后运到城市外的垃圾场。通常垃圾厂往往是放置在地面较低或有一个大洞。厨房的垃圾被粉碎成小块送入污水（污水，排水）系统。污水系统带走厕所用水，浴缸和其他地方得污水。
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you'd never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
保持小鼠和果蝇，一些地球是用来支付新倾倒垃圾。后来，草可以种植在垃圾填埋土地。最后，房子或一个学校可以建在那里，然后你永远不会知道，这个地方曾经是一个旧的垃圾堆。
In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything except the metal.Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus（腐殖质）, which look