考过真题—电大 会计学-学位英语阅读理解

(一)Most people feel stress at some time in their lives. Some people like this pressure and work better because of it.

Other people

1. Which is NOT a correct statement about stress? A. Stress is the cause of our discomfort and should be avoided by everyone.

2. According to the passage, people under stress may do all of the following EXCEPT ______. C. Cry

3. The author cites the example of crying baby in order to ______. D. support that stress comes from how people regard the stress

4. According to the passage, stress can be caused by all the following EXCEPT . A. a critical event

5.The tone of the passage is _B. informative

What kind of home you need to prepare for your dog will depend on what kind of dog it is. Some dogs will spend most of their time

1.According to the writer's suggestions, dogs should be fed __

B. regularly with balanced food.

2. Why is exercise important to the dogs?B. It helps to develop friendly character and working skills.

3. What does pet (paragraph 4) mean?

B. The dog

4. This passage discusses the following except ____D. training of a dog.

One morning a young woman, who has recently lost her first job, was examining the advertisements in the paper in search of

1. What must the woman do to know the way of making money? C. Send a postal for five pence and an envelope with a stamp and her address.

2. According to the story, her mother A. didn't believe the ad. and didn't want her to do so

3. What was the easy way? D. To learn from the advertiser.

4. This passage is ____B. a humor.

That "Monday morning feeling " could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping (气喘) for breath.

1. What is the "Monday morning feeling "? B. It's a feeling of pain in the chest which makes people sweat and gasp.

2. According to the research from Germany and Italy, "Monday morning feeling"

A. has something to do with heart attacks.

3. What can we infer from Dr. Willich 's opinion on "Monday morning feeling" and heart attacks? B. "Monday morning feeling" is not enough to explain the cause of heart attacks.

4. What did Dr. Willich suggest? A. We should learn to enjoy our work.

More than 2,500 years ago, a man in India

made a discovery. He discovered the cause of

unhappiness and its cure. The man

1. According to the passage, Siddhartha

Gautam was . C. the founder of a great

religion

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Siddhartha had a happy childhood.

3. Why did Siddhartha sit under the tree for 49

days? B. He tried to work out the truth of life.

4. Which can be the best title of the passage?

A. The Founder of a Great Religion

For thousands of years people dreamed of

having ability to fly. Mythology and folklore are

filled with tales of supernatural

1. Which of the following is true? A. People

have always hoped to fly since ancient times.

2. Which of the following is a great change

brought by flying? B. People can reach any place

in the world within 24 hours.

3. What does the word "tropical" (paragraph 3)

mean? C. The southern hot area. 4. The

development of aviation provided people with .

D. more job chances

Few countries will admit officially that they

employ spies. However, from time to time, a spy

is caught and the public

1.How many men got out? B. Three.

2.2. How were they dressed?

C. They dressed in heavy black coats.

3. They kept looking_____. B. over the side

4.

What were they doing in that cold morning?

A. They were exchanging spies.

you have decided to raise a dog. Keep in

mind that a dog, is a living creature that will

become attached to your home. With

1. According to the writer's suggestions, dogs

should be fed ____ B. regularly with balanced

food.

2. Why is exercise important to the dogs?

B. It helps to develop friendly character and

working skills.

3.What does pet (paragraph 4) mean?

B. The dog

4.This passage discusses the following except

_ D. training of a dog.

While plant and animal species are

disappearing at a rapidly increasing rate

throughout the world, scientists note

1.What is the best title for this passage?

B.Protecting Endangered Species

2.The number of elephants killed illegally

A. African countries agreed to establish

3.In Africa, the number of elephants killed illegally

in 1983 and 1984 was__C__ √C.135

000=89000+46000.

4.The number of mountain gorillas has remained

___√C.Rwanda developed an important business

that depends on protecting

5.The phrase短语"the wild"荒野in Paragraph 5

refers to ___

√C.the wild nature

In 1848, gold was discovered in

California; from all over the nation,

thousands of young men set out出发for

1.This article as a whole is about _A_.

A. how people got blue jeans

2.While not stated in the article, you can tell

that __B. Levi found riches in the gold fields

3.The word this in the first paragraph, last

sentence, refers to___C. many people

looking for gold

4.Levi used strong blue cotton cloth to make

pants because ___C. miners wanted pants

which could stand rough work

5.Which of the following sentences is not

correct? C. It was in California that blue

jeans first became popular

Culture shock might be called an

occupational disease of people who have

been suddenly transplanted abroad, Like

1.According to the passage, culture shock

C. is actually not a disease

2.According to the passage, culture shock

results from ___ A. the sudden change of the

social atmosphere and customs

3.Which one of the following may not be the

symptoms征兆of culture shock? C. You

suddenly forget what a word means.

4.How would a person who stays abroad most

probably react when he or she is frustrated by

the culture shock according to the passage?

A. He is most likely to refuse to absorb the

strange environment at first.

5.This passage is most likely taken from _?_

D. an essay on human customs

The English names of the months of

the year come from Latin拉丁. January1,

March3, May5,and June6 were all named

1. What do people often do in the first month

of the year? D. Both A and C.

2. The second month of a year is named

February probably because ___ C. it is time

to consider spring cleaning

3. Regarding the origin of the name of the

second month of a year, the author is .

A. not very sure

4. According to the passage, which of the

following is TRUE? A. It is frequently

rainy and stormy in March in most of North

America.

5. Which of the following statements might

be the topic sentence of this passage?

B. The English names of the months of the

year are from Latin.

Rote-learning (死记硬背), spoon-fed

education, produces a brand of kids that

don't know what to do when entering

1. According to the author, the future doesn't

need ___ D) followers追随者

2. In the author's view作者观点, how can

students learn well? D) Combine listening

with looking and doing.

3.What does the author mean by "The

changing speed of information is frightening"?

B. What we learned today may not be useful

4.What does the last sentence of the passage

tell us? B. Students may have to do jobs

which have not yet been invente

5.The author's attitude towards rote-learning is

___B) disapproving