广西学位英语阅读理解模拟试题三

广西学位英语阅读理解模拟试题三

31省市学位英语网特别提示各位学员：

请同学们在听完讲课或者掌握了答题方法后再做练习,你会觉得英语很容易。

一定要认真做作业，动手能力和举一反三的能力，是衡量一个人素质的重要因素，也是掌握好英语的关键。

Passage 1

If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season .You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of year .A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876~1947), concluded from other men’s work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.

He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat .This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in summer than they are during the rest of year. It does mean, however，that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in summer.

Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in the spring man’s mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.

Fall is the next-best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking.

1. According to the passage, man’s intelligence________.

A. stays the same throughout the year

B. varies from day to day

C. changes with the season

D. changes from year to year

2. Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have _____.

A. a great effect on everyone’s intelligence

B. some effect on most people’s intelligence

C. some effect on a few people’s intelligence

D. no effect on most people’s intelligence

3. Ellsworth Huntington’s conclusion was based on _____.

A. variations of his own mental abilities from season to season

B. the result of research done by him and other scientists among peoples in different climates

C. detailed records of temperature changes in different places

D. detailed records of different ways of thinking among peoples in different climates

4. Why does the author say summer is a good time to take a long vacation from thinking ________?

A. Because a long vacation in summer helps to improve people’s mental power

B. Because people tend to be less creative during summer

C. Because summer is a good time for outdoor activities

D. Because mental exertion in the summer heat taxes too much of people’s energy

5. The central idea of this passage is ______.

A. man’s mental abilities change from season to season

B. man’s intelligence varies from place to place

C. man should take long vacation in summer

D. if you want to do creative thinking, go to a cool place

Passage 2

Today anymore will accept money in exchange for goods and services. People use money to buy food, furniture, books bicycles and hundreds of others they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds if things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money. In parts of Africa, Cattle were one of the earliest of money .Other animals were used as money too.

The first metal coins were made in China. They were around and had a square hole in the center. People strung them together and carried them from place to place. Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. The first coins in England were made of tin. Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money. Later, other countries began to make coins of gold and silver.

But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than paper money used today.

Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.

6. Which of the following can be cited as an example of the use of money in exchange for services?

A. To sell a bicycle for $20.

B. To get some money for old books at a garage sale.

C. To buy things you need or want.

D. To get paid for your work.

7. Where were shells used as money in history?

A. In the Philippines.

B. In China.

C. In Africa.

D. We don’t know.

8. Why, according to the passage, did ancient Chinese coins have a square hole in the center?

A. Because it would be easier to put them together and carry them around.

B. Because it would be lighter for people to carry from place to place.

C. Because people wanted to make it look nicer.

D. Because people wanted to save the expensive metal they were made from.