新视野大学英语 Reading Unit 3- 4 (编号：ReadingUnit3-4)

Part 1 Multiple Choice(每小题：1 分)Directions: Choose the best answer from the four choice s marked A, B, C and D.1.This diploma (毕业文凭) ________ that you have completedhigh school.A. entitlesB. certifiesC. securesD. approves2.If the rain doesn't stop, people will be faced ________ seriousflooding.A. toB. aboutC. withD. by3.The article ________ China's educational achievementsduring the past 20 years and outlined its development plansfor the new century.A. predictedB. witnessedC. highlightedD. intensified4.The manager promised to have my complaint ________.A. looked throughB. looked intoC. looked overD. looked after5.He is watching TV? He's _______ to be cleaning his room.A. knownB. supposedC. regardedD. considered6.I have already commented that colours will not show upunless the ________ of the light is sufficiently great.A. intensityB. densityC. intentionD. temperature7.It is well-known that the retired workers in our country are__________ free medical care.A. involvedB. associated withC. entitled toD. assigned to8._________ I admit there are problems, I don't agree that theycan not be solved.A. AsB. WhileC. ForD. Despite9.No educational system is perfect. Each one has its_________.A. bordersB. frontiersC. limitsD. limitations10.The editor _______ the article to make it fit the spaceavailable in a magazine.A. cut downB. cut offC. cut awayD. cut out11.To say that someone's work is not good is to find fault________ it.A. ofB. onC. atD. with12.We must _______ that the telegram arrives in time.A. secureB. ensureC. assureD. cure13.No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get the _______ ofhis opponent.A. superiorityB. betterC. victoryD. best14.The businessmen are _________ over the sale of thediamonds.A. arguingB. discussingC. bargainingD. negotiating15.I'd like to take __________ of this opportunity to thank you allfor your co-operation.A. askedB. benefitC. occasionD. advantage16.He does not ________ his workmates and there are oftendisagreements between them.A. go on withB. put up withC. get along withD. keep up with17.Although the pay is not good, people usually find social work________ in other ways.A. payableB. respectfulC. gratefulD. rewarding18.I'm in no ________ this evening to listen to popular music.A. feelingB. attitudeC. moodD. tendency19.Jack will ________ his nervousness once he's in front of thecamera.A. get awayB. get offC. get throughD. get over20.I didn't know what to do but then an idea suddenly ________to me.A. happenedB. enteredC. occurredD. hit21.He has been ________ of murdering the Japanese visitor.A. blamedB. chargedC. accusedD. arrested22.We've ________ salt. Ask Mrs. Jones to lend us some.A. run away withB. run downC. run offD. run out of23.Regardless ________ his appearance, he is innocent.A. toB. inC. ofD. for24.Nobody knows the age of the earth ________ certain.A. byB. inC. withD. for25.The government is believed to be considering ________ a lawmaking it a crime to import any kind of weapon.A. to passB. have passesC. passedD. passing26.Some newly-married couples think that it will give them asense of achievement to properly rear a child and to see him or her ________ to be a useful person.A. fall outB. turn outC. carry outD. take out27.The university is now making efforts to make the supply anddemand of information more ________ and to protectstudents' rights with legal advice.A. transparentB. visibleC. applicableD. practical28.The scientists have been ________ the necessary funds fortheir research program.A. deniedB. ignoredC. neglectedD. refused29.The little boy and the dog ________ each other as soon asthey met.A. took afterB. took toC. took inD. took up30.Peopleexpecttechnologyto________a lot________the qualityof life.A. owe... toB. contribute...forC. owe....forD.contribute...to交卷!Part 2 Reading Comprehension (MultipleChoice)(每小题：1 分)Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choosethe best answer from the four choice s marked A, B, C and D.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.During the long vacation I was accepted as a trainee busconductor. I found the job fiercely demanding even on a short routewith a total of about two dozen passengers. I pulled the wrongtickets, forgot the change and wrote up my log (行程记录) at theend of each trip in a way that drew hollow laughter from theinspectors. The inspectors were likely to check at any time. Aconductor with twenty years' service could be dismissed if aninspector caught him accepting money without pulling a ticket.It was hot that summer: 100° Fahrenheit (华氏) every day. Insidethe bus it was 30° hotter still. It was so jammed inside that my feetweren't touching the floor. I couldn't blink (眨眼睛) the sweat out ofmy eyes. There was no hope of collecting any fares.In these circumstances I was scarcely to blame. I didn't even knowwhere we were, but I guessed we were at the top just before MarketStreet. I pressed the bell, the doors closed, and the bus surgedforward. There were shouts and yells from down the back, but Ithought they were the angry cries of passengers who had not goton. Too late I realized that they were coming from within the bus.The automatic doors at the back of the bus had closed around anold lady's neck as she was getting on. Her head was inside the bus.The rest of her, carrying a shopping bag was outside. I knew noneof this at the time.When I at last signaled the driver to stop, he crashed to a halt and opened the automatic doors. The woman dropped to the road. Unfortunately, the car behind turned out to be full of inspectors. Since it would have made headlines if a university student had almost half-killed a woman of an advanced age, I was given the opportunity to leave quietly.1.What do we learn about the inspectors in the first paragraph?A. They found the writer amusing.B. They never wore uniforms.C. They were feared by employees.D. They distrusted older employees.2.Why was the writer unable to do his job properly?A. He wasn't tall enough.B. The buses were too fast.C. People avoided paying.D. He couldn't move.3.The old lady in the incident described ________.A. was injuredB. faintedC. was draggedD. hit her head4.When the incident with old lady happened, ________.A. the writer had already decided to give up the jobB. the writer's employers wanted to avoid publicityC. the writer was offered the chance to continueD. the consequences were as the writer expected5.What is the writer's attitude now to the job?A. He feels responsible for the incident that ended it.B. He thinks that he was unfairly treated by the inspectors.C. He is ashamed that he was incapable of doing it properly.D. He believes that it was an impossible job to do well.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.Urban (城市的) life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and rewards against dangers and stress; its moving force is, in the broadest sense, money. Opportunities to make money make competition stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities, where opportunities are greatest. Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity (人所不知) of urban life, but today's ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever; there is much evidence that its extent has a direct relationship to the size of communities. City dwellers (居民) may become trapped in their homes by the fear of crime around them.As defense against these developments, city dwellers tend to use various strategies to try and reduce the pressures upon themselves: contacts with other people are generally made brief and impersonal; doors are kept locked; telephone numbers may be ex-directory (未列入电话号码簿的); journeys outside the home are usually hurried, rather than a source of pleasure.Inner areas of cities tend to be abandoned by the more successful and left to those who have done badly in the competitive struggle or who belong to minority groups; these people are then geographically trapped because so much economic activity has migrated to the suburbs and beyond.Present-day architecture and planning have enormously worsened the human problems of urban life. Old-established neighborhoods have been ruthlessly (无情地) swept away, by both public and private organizations, usually to be replaced by huge, ugly,impersonal structures. People have been forced to leave their familiar homes, usually to be re-housed in tower blocks which are inconvenient, and fail to provide any setting for human interaction or support. The destruction of established social structures is the worse possible approach to the difficulties of living in a town or city. Instead, every effort should be made to conserve (保护) the human scale of the environment, and to retain familiar landmarks.6.According to the author, living in a city causes stress becausethere are so many people who are ________.A. anxious to succeedB. in need of helpC. naturally aggressiveD. likely to commit crime7.The author thinks that crime is increasing in cities because________.A. people do not communicate with their neighborsB. criminals are difficult to trace in large populationsC. people feel anonymous thereD. the trappings of success are attractive to criminals8.The majority of people who live in inner cities tend to quit fromthe inner areas because they ________.A. dislike having to travel far to workB. have been forced by circumstances to do soC. don't like the idea of living in the suburbsD. have turned against society9.Architectural changes have affected city life by ________.A. scattering long-established communitiesB. giving the individual a say in planningC. forcing people to live on top of each otherD. making people move to the suburbs10.The author's general argument is that urban life would beimproved by ________.A. moving people out of tower blocksB. restoring old buildingsC. building community centersD. preserving existing social systemsQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparent's farm in Suffolk. I think it was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone: she taught me the names of wildflowers and got me interested in looking at the countryside, so it seemed obvious to go on to do Zoology at university.I didn't get my first camera until after I'd graduated, when I was due to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. My father didn't know anything about photography, but he bought me an Exacta, which was really quite a good camera for the time, and I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones (海葵) and starfish (海星). I became keen very quickly, and I learnt how to develop and print.I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who will alter things deliberately: you don't pick up sea creatures from the middle of the shore and take them down to attractive pools at the bottom of the shore without knowing you're doing it.There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behaviour towards wild animals and it's a problem that more and more people are going to wild places: while some animals may get used to cars, they won't get used to people suddenly rushing up to them. The sheerpressure of people, coupled with the fact there are increasingly few places where no-one else has photographed, means that over the years, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographers.Nevertheless (然而), wildlife photographers play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime (消遣), as it is to many people, it is also something that plays a very important part in educating young and old alike.11.The author decided to go to university and study Zoologybecause ________.A. she wanted to improve her life in the countrysideB. she was persuaded to do so by her grandmotherC. she was keen on the natural worldD. she wanted to stop moving around all the time12.How is the author different from some of the other wildlifephotographers she meets?A. She tries to make her photographs as attractive aspossible.B. She takes photographs which record accurate naturalconditions.C. She likes to photograph plants as well as wildlife.D. She knows the best places to find wildlife.13.The author now finds it more difficult to photograph wildanimals because ________.A. there are fewer of themB. they have become more nervous of peopleC. it is harder to find suitable placesD. they have become frightened of cars14.According to the author, wildlife photography is importantbecause it can make people realize that ________.A. photography is an enjoyable hobbyB. we learn little about wildlife at schoolC. it is worthwhile visiting the countrysideD. it is important to look after wild animals15.Which of the following describes the author?A. Proud.B. Sensitive.C. Aggressive.D. Disappointed.Questions 16 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialog.Real policemen, both in Britain and the United States, hardly recognize any resemblance (相似) between their lives and what they see on TV-if they are even able to watch TV.The first difference is that in real life a policeman has been trained in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court.He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty-or not-of stupid, petty (不重要的) crimes.Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he's arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks-where failure to produce results reflects on the standing of the police-little effort is spent on searching.A third big difference is between the drama detective and the real life ones. Detectives are subject to two opposing pressures: first, as members of a police force they always have to behave withabsolute legality (合法); secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways.If the detective has to deceive the world, the world often deceives him. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simplemindedness-as he sees it-of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of stamping out crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives feel, is that nine-tenths of their time is spent re-catching people who should have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical.16.It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law________.A. so that he can catch criminals in the streetsB. because many of the criminals he has to catch aredangerousC. so that he can justify his arrests in courtD. because he has to know nearly as much about law as aprofessional lawyer17.The everyday life of a policeman or detective is ________.A. exciting and mysteriousB. full of dangerC. devoted mostly to routine mattersD. wasted on unimportant matters18.When murders and terrorist attacks occur the police________.A. prefer to wait for the criminal to give himself awayB. work hard to track down the criminalsC. try to make a quick arrest in order to keep up theirreputationD. usually fail to produce results19.The real detective lives in an unusual moral climate because________.A. he is an expensive public servantB. he must always behave with absolute legalityC. he is obliged to break the law in order to preserve itD. he feels himself to be cut off from the rest of the world20.Detectives are rather cynical because ________.A. nine-tenths of their work involves arresting peopleB. hardly anyone tells them the truthC. society does not punish criminals severely enoughD. D too many criminals escape from jail。