阅读理解A

阅读理解A1、Throughout the colonial period there was a remarkable shortage of women, which varied with the regions and was always greatest in the frontier areas. This shortage enhanced women's status and position and allowed them to pursue different careers. The puritans regarded idleness as a sin, and believed that life in an underdevelopment country made it necessary that each member of the community performed an economic function. Thus work for women was not only approved but also was regarded as a civic duty. Puritan town councils expected widows and independent women to be self-supporting. There was no social prohibition against married women working; on the contrary, wives were expected to help their husbands in their trade and won social approval for doing extra work in or out of the home.(1)、What does the passage mainly discuss?C：Colonial women's employment.(2)、According to the passage, where in colonial North America were there the fewest women?C：Frontier settlements.(3)、It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans were ______.B：hardworking(4)、According to the passage, Puritans believed that an unmarried adult woman should be ______. A：financially responsible for herself(5)、According to the passage, what did the Puritans expect from married women?B：They should assist in their husbands' trade or business.2、Halloween (October 31) is a holiday widely celebrated with different names in many countries. Although it originated as a religious holiday, it has lost its religious connections in the United States. It is now celebrated largely as a children's day, and many American children look forward to it for days and weeks beforehand.(1)、What does Halloween originate from?C：A religious day.(2)、What is the symbol of Halloween?A：Pumpkin(3)、The holiday was celebrated in the following ways some years ago EXCEPT ______.B：receiving treats of candy, fruit or cookies(4)、Why do children collect money in the Halloween?D：They want to help other children.(5)、The collection box is dyed orange because ______.C：orange is the color of pumpkins3、Human needs seem endless. When a hungry man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat, when a manager gets a new sports car, a big house and pleasure boats dance into view. (1)、According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothing only when ______.C：he has satisfied his hunger(2)、It can be inferred from the passage that by the end of World War II, most Americans ______. D：did not own automobiles(3)、Which of the following is NOT related to "physical satisfaction"?A：A successful career.(4)、What is the main concern of man on the fourth level?C：The more mental satisfaction the better.(5)、The author tends to think that the fifth level ______.B：may be a lot more desirable than the first four4、Though some people have suggested that women should return to housework in order to leave more jobs for men, the idea has been rejected by both women and men in public opinion polls. Lately some union officials have suggested that too many women are employed in type of work more suitable for men and that women should step aside to make way for unemployed young men. They argue that women - especially women in their childbearing years actually delay economic development and result in lower productivity, poor quality and inefficiency.(1)、Some union officials have suggested that women should return home because ______.B：their participation in work has a bad influence on the economic development(2)、Some union officials have suggested that if women resign their jobs, ______.C：the male employees in their families should receive double wages(3)、According to the passage, the suggestion that women should return to housework was ______. A：opposed by most men and women(4)、According to the passage we can see "phased employment" means ______.D：women are allowed to take leave from their jobs during their childbearing years(5)、Based on the "phased employment" theory, during a woman's leave from her job ______.B：her family's income level will be a little lower than it normally is5、Many studies have identified a strong link between suicide and diagnosable mental illness, especially depression. So, because women suffer from depression at a much higher rate than men, they would seem to be at higher risk for suicide. Yet, women actually commit suicide about one-fourth as often as men.(1)、What is the passage mainly about?C：Reasons for women's lower risk of committing suicide.(2)、Females get better treatment for their depression perhaps because ______.C：they may discuss their feelings with a doctor and be cooperative(3)、The word "inclusive" in paragraph 4 probably means ______.A：comprehensive(4)、It is implied that a man can reduce his chance of committing suicide if he ______.D：changes the way he thinks about problems and interact with others(5)、When a man suffers from depression, it is typical of him to ______.B：consider just his feelings when he makes a decision6、Here is one woman's story of balancing home and career. Rachel always dreamed of having a large family and an interesting career. She now has four children and works full-time.(1)、What can we learn about Rachel from "I really have two full-time jobs"?C：She is a wife and mother with a full-time job.(2)、We can infer from Rachel's own words that ______.D：she feels stress from the combined roles of worker and of wife and mother(3)、According to the passage, which of the following is the consequence of women's role overload? A：They have difficulty balancing home and career.(4)、The best explanation of "the lion's share" in the last paragraph is ______.A：the largest part(5)、The main purpose for the writer to cite Bird's study is ______.B：to show career women take up more housework than their husband7、The judgment of the Englishman by all other European peoples is that he is the most suspicious, the most reserved, the most unfriendly, the coldest-hearted of all western peoples.(1)、The Englishman is characterized as ______.D：cold-hearted and unfriendly(2)、According to the author, the main factor which has shaped the English character is a ______ one. A：geographical(3)、Certain other English qualities such as courage, energy, and honor are ______.B：praised by Europeans(4)、It seems that it is most difficult to ______ an Englishman.C：make friends with(5)、The Englishman prefers ______ to ______.B：justice, kindness8、The purpose of this part of the book is to help you become more efficient in reading byspeeding up the process generally. Most people can learn to cover material much faster than they do now while maintaining a high level of comprehension.(1)、The passage is taken from .D：a book on reading(2)、Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit from reading according to the passage?D：Improvement of reading helps readers get outlines of daily news.(3)、This passage mainly discusses .B：the importance of improving reading skills and how to calculate reading rate (4)、"reading efficiency" in Paragraph 2 means .B：the ability of reading fast with a good understanding(5)、Reading speed can be calculated by .B：dividing the total number of words a reader read by the time he spends on reading9、 A nineteenth-century French dramatist remarked that the only difference between animals and human beings is that people drink when they are not thirsty and make love in any season. The sociologist's definition of the difference is more scientific: only human beings have the ability for creating and transmitting culture. More than any other species, human animals are able to surpass their biological limitations by sharing ideas and passing on what they learn to future generations.(1)、From a sociological point of view, the difference between humans and animals is . C：humans can pass on their culture from generation to generation(2)、One of the problems that both humans and animals must face is .B：they have to raise their young in whatever living conditions(3)、In face of problems of existence, animals .B：only respond repeatedly in the fixed way(4)、Beavers can build dams as home .B：in an instinctive way(5)、Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?B：Humans have much greater ability to solve problems with new methods.10、Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey.(1)、The author believes that sporting activities ______.B：have actually developed from hunting(2)、In a football game what is equal to the prey in hunting is ______.C：The goalmouth(3)、For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.B：cooperating hunters(4)、The word "operation" (Paragraph 4) refers to ______.B：hunting(5)、Which of the following best summarizes the idea of the passage?D：Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern man to exercise hunting skills which his forefathers developed for survival11、September is the ninth month of the year. However, the word September comes from the Latin word septem, which means "seven". This is because long ago a different calendar was used in which September was indeed the seventh month. When Julius Caesar, leader of Rome, changed the calendar, he made September the ninth month.(1)、The best title for this passage should be ______.B：The Month of September(2)、From this passage you may infer that before Julius Caesar, November might have been the______.B：ninth month of the year(3)、September is a productive time because ______.D：it is the harvest time for farmers(4)、We may come to the conclusion that______.A：the Brazilians celebrate their Independence Day earlier than the Chileans(5)、September is sometimes written in English as ______.C：Sept12、Many teachers believe that the responsibility for learning lies with students. If a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with the information in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or give an examination. (Courses are not designed merely for students to pass exams.) The ideal student is considered to be one who is encouraged to learn for the purpose of learning, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Some students may be frustrated with teachers who do not believe it is necessary to grade every assignment. Sometimes homework is returned with short written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, students should learn the material assigned.(1)、What does the author mean by saying that "Courses are not designed merely for students to pass exams"(paragraph 1)?D：The purpose of designing courses is not only for passing exams(2)、According to Paragraph 2, students in the United States should ______ .A：depend more on themselves than on professors(3)、If students need the advice from their teachers, they should ______B：go to their teachers' office(4)、Students who ______ in the United States are considered good ones.B：have the desire to learn by themselves(5)、American professors may be required to spend part of their time ______ other than teaching. C：doing research work13、Many American women are earning money outside their homes today. Among women who are eighteen to sixty-four years old, fifty percent have jobs.(1)、After reading the short article we know that .B：half of the women aged 18 to 64 in the U.S have jobs(2)、of the working women in American have been to universities.A：Near one third(3)、of the working women and go to work by them.C：Eighty percent; have cars(4)、The report for advertisers offers to them.D：written; a new look of women(5)、Why are American women fond of advertisements? Because .C：they can be shown against different backgrounds14、Standing alone at Brown's party, Anna Mackintosh thought about her husband Edward, establishing him clearly in her mind's eye. He was a thin man, forty-one years of age, with fair hair that was often untidy. In the seventeen years they'd been married he had changed very little: he was still nervous with other people, and smiled in the same shy way, and his face was still almost boyish.(1)、What made Anna feel inadequate in her life?C：Her inability to have children.(2)、Why did Anna stand alone at the party?(3)、Anna started to get angry because .B：her husband had usually been more thoughtful4)、Why did Edward want Anna to attend the party?C：He thought it good for her to associate with the Browns.(5)、Which of the following statements is NOT true?D：It was exactly half an hour after the party began that Edward arrived at the Browns' party.15、 A good teacher means many things to many people. In my own experience, I think that the people I respect the most and think about the most are those who demand the most discipline from their students.(1)、What is the main idea of this passage?C：A good teacher should be strict.(2)、The teacher put up the sign over her classroom door ________.B：to tell her students that they should study hard(3)、What does the word "oratory" in the second paragraph mean?D：The art of delivering speeches.(4)、What did the students expect to have when their teacher had broken her arm?C：Fewer written exercises.(5)、It can be inferred from the passage that the author thinks _______.B：students will benefit much from discipline in the long run16、When Pilar Jiménez got married in 1961, she knew her marriage would last. "Back then, no one separated," says the 71-year-old lady. "Marriage was for life." Indeed, her husband and she lived happily until he passed away two years ago. But if her marriage was typical of its time, so are those of her 10 children: five of them are now divorced.(1)、The story of Pilar Jiménez and her children leads to ______.B：the situation of divorce rate in Spain(2)、The word "skyrocket" (paragraph 2, line 2) means ______.D：to go up fast(3)、According to Augustín García-Gasco, the rising divorce rate is resulted from _______.B：the government separating from the religion(4)、The website is mentioned to show that ______.C：divorce is likely to become ordinary in Spain(5)、It can be inferred that many European countries have ______.A：increasing divorce rates17、For some time I've had a church member provide me with a rose to pin on the lapel of my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that became routine (平常的). One Sunday, however, what I considered ordinary became very special.(1)、The author considered the flower ordinary because ______.C：he had the rose pinned on his suit every Sunday(2)、The boy asked the author to _____.B：give the flower to him(3)、Who did the boy live with at last?D：His granny.(4)、Which of the following is true?B：The boy got the beautiful bouquet instead of the flower.(5)、In the last paragraph, "cherish it" means to _____.A：regard it as precious18、Teachers have become especially important to the future of public education in the U.S. But with the number of teachers increasing, the nation faces another problem －the shortage of teaching talents (人才). That's why hundreds of school districts across the country are looking for ways to attract, reward and keep good teachers. One of the most popular ideas is the system of merit pay, which aims to measure the quality of teachers' work and pay teachers according to the results of the measurement.(1)、The best title for the passage is ______.C：Ways to Reward Good Teachers(2)、The traditional system is supported by unions because they think _______.A：teachers can be treated equally in this way(3)、In devised systems, test scores are traced back to teachers in order to _____.B：measure their competence and help them make progress(4)、The sentence "… such programs have already backfired in some states (paragraph 3)" shows that the programs____.D：have some disadvantages(5)、The author's attitude towards merit pay is _______.A：favorableB：critical19、The West begun to take more notice of the East. The fifth volume of an enormous workre-assessing the Chinese contribution to science and technology is to be published next year. The first volume, which was published twenty years ago, set the tone for the whole work. In it, evidence was given to show that many inventions which, until then, western historians had claimed for Europe, were made first in China. The attempt to rewrite the intellectual history of the world was not received without protest by some reputable historians. However, the evidence that has been presented so far in the first four volumes has persuaded many historians who were skeptical at first. China's invention ofpaper, printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder has never been disputed, but this new history has added advanced bridge design, mechanical clocks, paddle boats and many other inventions to the list.(1)、How many volumes have been published so far?B：Four.(2)、What is special about the first volume?C：It demonstrates that the Chinese made many inventions.(3)、In the first paragraph, the word "skeptical" means ______.A：doubtful(4)、Which of the following inventions in NOT made by the Chinese?B：Motor cars.(5)、The best title for this passage isD：China's Inventions20、England is not a big country: from north to south and from east to west it is only about three hundred miles across. But for a small country it has a surprising range of climate. People who have never visited England, or who have visited only one part of it, often make the mistake of thinking that it is a cold and wet country. Except for the summer months of June to September; this is probably true of the North of England and the Midland. In the south, however, the climate is much more pleasant. One result is that when people retire form a job in the north, they often prefer to move down to the milder south.(1)、The distance from the center of England to the south coast is about ______.C：one hundred and fifty miles(2)、England is a country ______.D：with a variety of climates(3)、According to the passage, ______.A：flowers and vegetables from Devon are on the market one month earlier(4)、In the north of England and the Midland, ______.D：only the summer is not cold and wet(5)、In winter, people in Devon and Cornwall ______.A：hardly see any snow21、You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！(1)、Stuntmen earn their living by ______.B：performing their special skills(2)、When a stuntman falls from a high building, ______.D：his safety is generally all right(3)、Which of the following is the main factor of a successful performance?B：Exactness.(4)、What can be inferred from the author' s example of the Norwegian stuntman?A：Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.(5)、What is the main idea of the last paragraph?D：Girls start to enter into this job.22、In 776 BC, the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus. The Greeks emphasized physical fitness and strength in their education of youth. Therefore, contests in running, jumping, discus and javelin throwing, boxing, and horse and chari(1)、Which of the following is NOT true?A：The winners placed olive wreaths on their shoulders.(2)、Why were the Olympic Games held?B：To honor Zeus.(3)、Approximately how many years ago did these games originate?D：2800 years.(4)、Which of the following contests was NOT mentioned?C：Skating.(5)、What conclusion can we draw about the ancient Greeks?B：They were very athletic.23、"You're trying to control my life," says my nine-year-old son. "I don't know why you think you can do that, but you can't." I received this bit of information after I asked Gabriele to put his dirty socks in the basket. And I get no sympathy from my mother, who says, "You let him have his way from the beginning."(1)、The author's way of treating her son ____________.A：is shared by many parents(2)、It can be inferred from the passage that __________.C：today's children enjoy more freedom than the previous generation(3)、According to the passage, to have "discipline" means that parents should ___________.B：teach their children to understand the rules(4)、If Ronda Radice is the parent who has "bucked the trend", which of the following can also be cited as the example for"bucking the trend"?D：Parents maintain authority over their children.(5)、The main point of the passage is to __________.B：analyze the problems faced by today's parents24、A report consistently brought back by visitors to the US is how friendly, courteous and helpful most Americans were to them. To be fair, this observation is also frequently made of Canada and Canadians, and should best be considered North American. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment. For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence.(1)、In the eyes of visitors from the outside world, ___________.D：most Americans are ready to offer help(2)、It could be inferred from the last paragraph that ___________.A：culture exercises an influence over social interrelationship(3)、Families in frontier settlements used to entertain strangers ___________.C：to add some flavor to their own daily life(4)、The tradition of hospitality to strangers ___________.B：is generally well kept up in the United States(5)、What's the author's attitudes toward the American's friendliness?A：Favorable25、There's a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Internet and track her city's public transit system. When asked why she used the wireless Internet so frequently, she replied, "What are you talking about? I don't know anything about this wireless Internet stuff. I just know the bus is here."(1)、The author uses the story of an old Finnish woman to indicate that __________.C：many people are unaware of the function of the new appliances being used(2)、The word "saturate" (Para. 3) most probably means _________.D：fill(3)、According to the text, WAP is a __________.C：means of exchanging information(4)、We can infer from the passage that the mobile Internet is different from the previous Internet in that the former __________.B：has no need for wire appliances(5)、What is the attitude of the author towards the future of mobile Internet?C：Optimistic26、Imagine your sitting on your front garden admiring the shining sun when your neighbor comes with that annoying car with the noisy sound and the exhaust pipe blowing out this horrible black smoke. What are you going to do about it?(1)、Exhaust from cars is ________.B：pollutive(2)、In author's view, it is_____ to make cars be friendly to environment.A：impossible(3)、_____ will be the major victims in the car accident.B：Children(4)、Cars caused some social problems except_____.C：employment(5)、Which of the following is not true as to handling car problems?B：Using a car in the restricted area.27、Since World War II, there has been a clearly discernible trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin dating in the first stages of adolescence, "go steady" through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. However, emotional maturity is no respecter of birthdays; it does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even in three-score years and ten.(1)、According to this article the trend toward early marriages __________.C：is one that could be clearly seen(2)、The author suggests that many of today's early marriages are a result of __________.A：escapism(3)、More often than not, early marriage will __________.C：intensify one's problems(4)、The author states that the home as an institution is __________.D：probably not capable of being what many young people expect it to be(5)、Many young people who marry early believe that __________.B：they have found the true center of life's meaning。