公共英语二级阅读理解专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
公共英语二级阅读理解专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Force of habit is a powerful thing. How else can I explain why I spend $200
per month for a package of the Internet, TV, and telephone—most of which I don’ t
really need? My wife and I make most calls on our cell phones. We don’t watch much
TV and nearly everything we want we could get online. So why not just pay for the
Internet and forget the rest. My answers are totally unreasonable: I’ m 49 years
old: this is how I’ ve always done things: change is hard. Most of the U. S. population
is in this same situation. Nielsen recently reported that although online video(视频)viewing has risen 35 percent in the past year, 99 percent of TV viewing is still
done on a traditional TV. But that is not the case for younger people, like my friend
Dan Frommer, a 27-year-old writer for a Website. Frommer pulled the plug(插座)on
cable(有线的)TV in May 2008 and instead gets shows from the Internet by a
Macintosh computer connected to his LCD television. He cannot get everthing he’ d
like to see, but he has saved $1,500 on cable-TV bills. The next generation—today’ s
young people—will likely never sign up for cable TV at all. This is terrible news
for cable companies. For decades they have had a wonderful business model, running
the tollbooth(收费站)that stood between you and the shows. Now the Internet
provides a way to get around the tollbooth, and cable companies are faced with a
problem: do they welcome the Internet and try to make money online, or do they fight
the Internet and try to delay the damage? The answer is to do both: delaying the trend
with one hand while racing to develop workable Internet business models with the
other. Problem is, even if the tollbooth stays up, it probably won’t make as much
money. The rule is that when the Internet hits an industry, wherever you used to make
dollars, you now make cents. For cable companies, the good old days may soon be
over.
1． Why do most people still watch traditional TV?
A．They have signed up for it.
B．They have no other choices.
C．They are in the habit of doing so.
D．They fail to see what they really like.
正确答案：C
解析：推理题。题干意为“为什么大多数人还看传统电视?”从文章第二段“Change is hard．Most of the US population is in the same situation．改变太难。大多数美国人都是这样”可以得知，大部分人还看传统电视是出于习惯。故C为正确答案。
2． What do younger people usually do nowadays?
A．Write for a website.
B．Get connected with cable TV.
C．Make money on the Internet.
D．Use the Internet instead of cable TV.
正确答案：D
解析：推理题。题干意为“如今的年轻人一般都干什么?”从文章第二段“But
it is not the casefor younger people不过年轻人的情况并非如此”可以得知，年轻人和年龄大的人习惯不同，不看传统电视，习惯于通过网络看节目，故D为正确答案。
3． According to the text, cable companies are threatened by______.
A．population growth
B．people’ s old habits
C．online video viewing
D．cable company tollbooths
正确答案：C
解析：推理题。题干意为“根据文章内容，有线电视公司受到谁的威胁?”从文章内容来看，当今的年轻人不再喜欢看传统电视，习惯于通过网络看节目，故C为正确答案。
4． What is the problem faced by cable companies?
A．How to improve tollbooths.
B．How to make more money online.
C．How to survive in an Internet age.
D．How to design attractive programs.
正确答案：C
解析：概述题。题干意为“有线电视公司面临的问题是什么?”从文章内容来看，有线电视受到网络冲击，营业额在变小，年轻的观众不再订阅有线电视，因此有线电视公司面临生存的问题，故C为正确答案。
The way people in the US travel to and from work has changed a lot in the
last fifty years. Before the Second World War, most people lived in the town or the
city where they worked. Almost everyone either walked to work or used a good
inexpensive transportation system. Many of these systems were electrified and ran on
tracks, so they used very little energy. After 1945, the United States government
built many new roads and highways. People moved farther and farther from the cities
where they worked because they could drive their cars on these new roads from their
suburban(郊区的)homes to work in the city. Some of the big car makers also bought
the electrified transportation systems so they could destroy them. As people stopped
using public transportation, cities spent less money to fix old buses and trains or to
buy new ones. Public transportation got worse and worse. In the late 1960s,
people found out that the increase in the use of cars led to many problems. There were
always too many cars for the highway system, and terrible traffic problems developed.
People were spending hours in traffic jams getting to and from work every day. In
addition, the air in many cities became dirty because of pollution from millions of
cars, and many people died in traffic accidents. As people began to get worried
about how the use of cars was hurting the environment, cities began to spend more
money on public transportation again so fewer people would have to drive cars.
翻译硕士英语阅读理解专项强化真题试卷5(题后含答案及解析)
翻译硕士英语阅读理解专项强化真题试卷5 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Edward Lisson, the famous scientist, had been honored in the countries all
over the world for his research into the working of the human brain, in particular the
part played by memory. It is a curious fact, however, that he himself was extremely
absent-minded. The following story was told about him. It seems that all his life
Edward had wanted to become an expert fisherman, but owing to his work, he was
unable to satisfy his desire completely until he retired. Accordingly, on Sunday shortly
after he retired, he set out, equipped with fishing rod and tackle, a straw basket and
some suitable bait, and dressed in an oilskin , sou’wester and waders just in case. He
was prepared to enjoy a day’s fishing, a subject about which he had read much and
done little. He found a clear, running stream lined with pebbles, baited his hook,
公共英语一级阅读理解专项强化真题试卷15(题后含答案及解析)
公共英语一级阅读理解专项强化真题试卷15 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Mara was going to stay with her friend Fanny for three days. A week before
her trip, she called Fanny to tell her when the train would arrive. Fanny asked Mara to
wait for her at the west entrance(入口)of the railway station. The train arrived
early. Mara didn’t know the station very well and instead of going to the west
entrance, she went out of the north entrance and waited for Fanny there. Fanny
checked at the information desk and found that the train had already arrived. She
looked round near the west entrance of the station but couldn’t see Mara anywhere.
She began to think that Mara must have missed the train. Mara waited at the north
entrance, but she couldn’t see Fanny. She decided that Fanny was not coming to meet
her after all. So she walked across the road to the bus station and asked for the bus to
公共英语二级阅读理解真题练习及答案
公共英语二级阅读理解真题练习及答案
阅读理解
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William Kunz is a computer genius(天才).When he was just
11, Kunz started writing soft-ware programs, and by 14 he had
worked out his own computer game.As a high school first-yearstudent in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a science fair
for a program he wrote.In his thirdyear, he took top prize in an
international science and engineering fair for designing a
program toanalyze and sort DNA patterns.
Kunz went to attend Carnegie Mellon, one of the nation' s
highest-ranked universities in computer science.After college he
got a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing software used
bycompanies around the world.
Three years later, Kunz is in his first year at Harvard Business
School.He left software engineering partly because he earned
much less than his friends who were going into law or business.
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阅读理解
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In the 1900's, American townspeople usually washed and
brushed their teeth and combed their hair in the kitchen. Or they
kept a water pitcher (大水罐)and a wash basin in their rooms and
took care of these things there.
The bathtub was a wash tub(澡盆)filled with water from the
stove. If you were small enough you could sit down by drawing
your knees to your chest. Otherwise, you washed yourself
standing up. Often all the women and girls in the family bathed
together. Then the men and boys did. In most families this was
Saturday night because Sundays they went to church.
A small number of families did have running water. But that
depended on whether there was a water system where they lived
and on whether they could afford the plumbing(水管设施). Some
people had bathtubs in their homes as early as 1895. But many
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第一部分听力
第一节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A.、[B1、C.三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Holiday plans.
B. Moving to New York.
C. A party with old friends.
2. What is the woman going to do on Sunday?
A. Go to the beach with the man.
B. Have a dinner with her family.
C. Receive' some guests at home.
3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues.
B. Neighbors.
C. Strangers.
4. What do we know about John's new job?
A. It is well paid.
B. It is near his home.
C. It has long working hours.
5. What does Kate promise to do?
A. Answer phone calls for Jim.
B. Go to a meeting with Jim. C. Send a message to Jim.
第二节听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有2至4个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
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一、3.阅读理解(10题)
1.America has had many Presidents who have been famous all over the world.
People from other countries know the names Washington, Kennedy and so on.
However, many men who have served as President of the United States have
not been famous in other parts of the world. One example is J.Q .Adams, the
sixth man to serve as U.S.President.
Very little happened while Adams was President. It was an unhappy time for
him, and he wasn't very effective, when his term ended, he went back to the
Congress and served as a representative sentative(众议院议员). While he was
in Congress, people began to respect him more than they had done while he
was President. Adams was strongly against slavery and tried to outlaw it in
Washington D.C.People began to look back on his presidency with a different
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Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work,
especially when you are a thin 14-year-old boy. That was me in
1940-the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s
Pennsylvania Railway Station.
After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other
fellows were overcharging passengers. I’d like to join them, thinking,
Everyone else is doing it.
When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do.
You give an honest day’s work, he said, looking at me straight in his
eye. They are paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do
that.
I followed my dad’s advice for the rest of that summer and have
lived by his words ever since.
Of all the jobs I’ve had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania
Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to
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公共英语二级阅读理解专项试题
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国家公共英语(二级)笔试模拟试卷51(题后含答案及解析)
国家公共英语（二级）笔试模拟试卷51 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. 听力 2. 英语知识运用 3. 阅读理解 4. 写作
听力
第一节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
听力原文：M: How much is this stamp?W: I paid 6 pence for this stamp.
1． How much money is this stamp?
A．6 pences.
B．6 penny.
C．6 pence.
正确答案：C
解析：该对话中女士说这张邮票花了她6便士。这道题是考察单词pence和penny的运用。Penny是单数，如一便士a/one penny，或者one P;二便士是two
pence，或者two P。[A]选项是错误拼写，没有pences这种表达法；[B]选项penny是单数，不能是6 penny，此项是干扰项；[C]选项pence是复数，可以说6 pence，所以正确答案为 [C]选项。 知识模块：听力数字推理题
听力原文：M: Which one do you prefer the look of?W: Well, the Toyo’s got a
nicer shape. But I like the color of the Smith better.
2． What does the woman mean?
A．She prefers the color of the Smith.
B．She prefers the Toyo.
C．She doesn’t like the Smith.
正确答案：A
解析：该对话中女士说Toyo有个比较漂亮的外形，但她更喜欢Smith的颜色。这里But和better是解题关键。[A]选项表示她更喜欢Smith的颜色； [B]选项表示她更喜欢Toyo，信息不全面；[C]选项表示她不喜欢Smith，意思与原文是相悖的。所以正确答案为[A]选项。 知识模块：听力归纳总结题
公共英语二级阅读理解专项强化真题试卷7(题后含答案及解析)
公共英语二级阅读理解专项强化真题试卷7 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Do you remember the Millennium (千禧年) Goals? When world leaders
celebrated the year 2000 with a serious promise to reduce poverty (贫穷) and hunger,
check the spread of AIDS, get boys and girls into school, and improve public health,
all by 2015? Well, three years down the road, and the UNDP’s yearly collection of
facts and figures already shows that if we carry on as we are, the only goal likely to be
met is that for reducing poverty by a half, and that is entirely due to the success of one
country--China. It is so vast that the fast-growing economy in China lifts millions of
people above the poverty line, even though in Africa, Latin America and the former
Soviet Union, people have actually been getting poorer. Otherwise, progress is
good only in parts. East Asia should meet its goal of reducing hunger by a half by