山西省普通专升本选拔考试英语阅读理解综合练习题阅读理解51篇

山西省普通专升本选拔考试英语阅读理解综合练习题

Passage 1

Sometimes there are questions in our minds which we would like to ask people,but we are too shy or embarrassed(为难的) At other times we feel it is wrong to trouble others with our problems,or are prevented from asking by our fear of being criticised.

Often there need be no such fear because other people have undergone(经历)the same questionings,do us or worries as ourselves,and many adults or teenage friends are only too pleased to share their knowledge or experience with ,in many cases they also learn something,and much unnecessary worry is prevented.

You may use this Question Time to ask anything about life that you don't understand,or any question of a personal or general nature that has either troubled you for some time or arisen order to protect your feelings,which you may not want exposed,write the question down (in capitals if you wish) on a slip of paper without your name on fold the paper and hand it to your teacher who will sort the questions out at home before the lesson takes will respect the fact that the questions are

asked in confidence(秘密地);they should,however,be sensible and honest ones.

During the lesson the teacher will read out a question,and then call upon one ort wo volunteers from the class to offer their opinions before giving his class should regard both questions and answers and the discussion that arises from them as confidential to avoid breaking the trust the questioner has placed in the lesson,and to make possible further discussion of similar problems on another is also helpful to remember that the answers given represent only one or two points of view—someone else might answer them quite differently.

we have questions,but we would not like to ask people because____

are not sure about our questions

are afraid of being criticised

are afraid of being in difficulty

only believe in ourselves

author suggests that in order not to be known,you should _______

to avoid asking questions

the question paper without the name on it to your teacher

the questions with your group

the questions out at home and then tell them to your teacher author tells us that _______

class we should value the speakers' questions or answers to show our trust

public we may learn something to avoid unnecessary worry

's better to write your questions down than to ask them orally

those who ask questions in confidence are sensible and honest

Passage 2

Chinese Mainland,Hong Kong,Taiwan Join Hands in SARS Research

The World Health Germanization says the number of SARS(非典型性肺炎)cases worlide has reached 2, half of the affected patients have recovered,new cases are still being reported and

the cause of the disease has still not been Chinese mainland,Hong Kong and Taiwan are all among the 23 countries and regions trying to cope with the epidemic(传染病).

South China's Guangdong Province is one of the areas hardest hit by 's also where the first case of the disease was say the situation in Guangdong has steadily improved with a sharp downturn in the number of affected far,over 83 percent of the patients have recovered and been released from hospital.

“First of all,we need to understand that SARS is an epidemic and the human immunity(免疫性) to the disease is therefore ,from what we have experienced and observed,there is no reason to disease's infectiousness(传染性)is being weakened as it passes from one group to another.”said hong Nanshan,director of Guangdong Team for SARS Prevention and Treatment.

The director says the key to fighting the disease now lies in finding the cause and developing a vaccine(疫苗).This calls for concerted cooperation within the international medical far,the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong have been working well together.

The SARS situation in Taiwan offers a more reassuring far a little over 20 people have been affected,with no deaths medical experts say this is in part due to effective quarantine(隔离) of suspected mainland cooperation with the island has so far been confined to the individual level.

“We have cooperated with the US Center for Disease Cont rol and the Hong Kong Health Taiwan officials have been to Hong Kong to learn from the region's all,Hong Kong is now the epicenter(中心) of SARS and has developed some effective ways to diagnose(诊断) the disease.”said hang Cangneng from Taiwan Xinguang Hospital.

Experts from the mainland and Taiwan are pushing for greater cooperation(合作) in the joint seminar by all three sides will be held later this relating to the virus's profile and the cause will be discussed at length to shed light on the remaining questions about the disease.

1The passage mainly tells us ___________

is a disease which can not be controlled

mainland,Hong Kong and Taiwan will cooperate so as to deal with SARS

mainland,Hong Kong and Taiwan are the areas hardest hit by SARS to prevent and treat SARS

2. SARS is a disease _______________

can be dealt with very easily

infectiousness is weakened when it passes from one area to another

does not endanger patients' lives

passed from other countries to China

3. According to the passage,we know that half of the patients with SARS died________

the passage was written there were about 2,960 people with SARS in Guangdong

are not more than 20 patients with SARS in Taiwan and no deaths were reported

would like to cooperate with Chinese mainland and Hong Kong to deal with SARS

4. The underlined word“ panic”in Paragraph 3 is closest to

________ in meaning.

angry surprised

Passage 3

Clive Walker is chairman of the Wilderness Trust of Southern Africa,founder of the Lapalala Wilderness School,an exhibiting wilder life artist and author of several natural history such,Walker is recognised as one of South Africa's foremost conservationists(环保人士)—and allround(多才的)good guy.

He has fought to protect the black and white rhinoceros—targets for ruthless(无情的) hunters because their horn(角) gets high prices in Asian countries—and through the wilderness school,has taught thousands of children from South Africa and overseas about nature and conservation.

His latest project is an application to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Germanization(UNESCO) to have the Waterberg area in South Africa's Northern Province become a biosphere reserve(生物圈保护区).Walker believes the

future of conservation in South Africa lies in education and in private game reserves.

In 1981 Walker was point taking(定点导游) adults on wilderness that point,he decided he wanted to “do something for children”through the establishment of an environmental school.“Conita and I were prepared to look at children whose parents could afford it,and those children who came from backgrounds whose parents could never do that Conita and I set out to find a place that would be safe,sufficiently close to the main areas of Johannesburg and Pretoria,be malaria(疟病)free,have water and be benefit to education on the found this in the first year,30 children—10 of them blacks from Soweto—were present to visit the ,3,000 children a year spend time lucky enough to visit his wilderness school will see—among many species—white rhino,warthogs and red hartebeests.“What made it really bad was when I started mixing black children with white children.”When a neighbour reported Walker to the security police and at last he was asked at their notorious headquarters,Walker said“I told them that all I was trying to achieve was to give children of South Africa,regardless of their background,an understanding of conservation and awareness that our survival depends so much

on it.”

Walker survived the questioning after his point successfully,the school remained open—and at least 45,000 children and teachers have had the pleasure of experiencing the Lapalala Wilderness and its abundant wildlife over the past 19 years

1. Which of the following statements is true according to the text

A45,000 children and teachers a year spend time there to enjoy the pleasure of experiencing the Lapalala Wilderness.

the past 19 years,it was wholly only white people who could afford such a trip.

C. A special conservationist who tried to open up the Nature's attractions to the black people of South Africa ran into trouble.

D. Those lucky enough students in Walker's Wilderness School will see some

common species like as milu deer, African elephant and red

hartebeests.

2. What would be the best title for the text

Walker and His Wilderness Trust

Good Guy

Africa's Wildlife Kingdom

Wilderness

3. How many persons are exactly mentioned in the text

. .

Passage 4

Jonathan James looks like just another kid about to graduate from high this 19yearold Swede is anything but ordinary,from the computer in his parents' home he helps the US Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) find out the world's most wanted cyber criminals(网络犯罪分子).

Jonathan first made headlines when he and another Swede,Fredrik Bjoerck,found out the maker of the“Melissa”

virus(病毒)in March came to the aid of the FBI again on May 7,finding out the suspected(嫌疑的) sender of the dangerous I LOVE YOU” suspect was caught in Manila on May 8.

Jonathan's special skills are in hot demand as officials around the world express alarm at t he“virtual”crime between studying for final exams,hanging out with friends and refereeing his younger brother's football matches,the quiet,gentle teenager also gives lessons on security (电子安全)to large reads a lot and exchanges information with other computer experts to know much about the latest tricks of the hacker (黑客)trade.

Many companies have already tried to employ him,but he is not interested at the ,he plans to begin law school in the autumn at Sweden's Uppsala University and start up his own e-security company.

Although he works with the FBI now,his family insists he's just“a regular kid.“Jonathan is a great kid,he has his friends and he does a lot more than just p

lay with the computer,”his little sister Tessa said,adding that he helps the FBI bec ause “he likes to help”，

not because he's looking for fame and recognition.

When the world was hit by the “Love Bug”virus,Jonathan was too busy preparing a speech on e-security to look into the problem“Finally on May 7,I had some free time,so I began lookin g.”Within a few hours,he had found the suspect and emailed his method and results to the said his work on the “Melissa”virus,which took three weeks to solve,was a big help in finding the suspect so quickly“This time I knew exactly where to start,I knew wh at to disregard and what to look at.”1. The passage mainly wants to tell us that ————

kid helps FBI find out the most wanted cyber criminals

is really a quiet,gentle and ordinary boy

companies want the young computer expert to join in

cyber criminals will surely be found out wherever they are 2. The public started to know something about Jonathan just from ————

helping the US FBI to find out the sender of the dangerous“I LOVE YOU”virus

work together with Fredrik Bjoerck to find out the maker of the “Melissa”virus

little sister's talk about his good qualities as a regular kid and a good programmer

speech on e security to many computer companies after his fight against hackers

3 From Jonathan's success in finding out the sender of the dangerous“I LOVE YOU”virus we caninfer that——————-- there's a will,there's a way

is knowledge

work leads to success

is the mother of success

4. What do we know about Jonathan

is a good fame hunter with various abilities.

is such a brave fighter that any criminal will feel afraid. is an expert on security,not interested in running a company. is a regular kid but does something unusual.

Passage 5

Former US Vice President Al Gore,who came close to winning the presidency two years ago,said he will not run in 2004,and probably will not have another opportunity to seek the White House.

Though Gore would have been a frightening Democratic(民主党的) main runner,his decision to give up the 2004 race probably helped his party's chances in the general election against President George ,Democrats said.

Many did not want to see BushGore Ⅱ.

“The last campaign was an extremely difficult one,” Gore told CBS TV show “60 Minutes”on Sunday.

While saying he still had the energy and drive to run again,Gore recognied,“There are a lot of p eople within the Democratic Party who felt exhausted(by the 2000 race)…who felt like,OK,‘I don't want to go through that again.’And I'm frankly sensitive to that feeling.”

In nearly two doen interviews after Gore announced his

plans,Democrats dutifully claimed their party had lost a top candidate,but one after another,they praised Gore for taking an early exit from a primary race he could have won,sparing them a repeat.

Gore,54,said he was making his decision“in the full understanding that it probably means that I will never have another opportunity to run for president.”

Party activists(激进主义分子)blamed Gore for losing despite a booming economy and eight years of a Democratic even lost his home state of Tennessee,a victory there would have given him the White House.

of the following can be the best title for this passage

Was Criticized Decides Not to Fight Bush in 2004

US Vice President Al Gore Gore and Gorge Bush

2. Why do you think Gore has decides not to run in 2004 according to this passage

he is quite old.

many people are against him.

he quite understands the feelings of a lot of Democratic members.

he doesn't want to be President of US.

was Gore's feeling when he made his decision

. . . .

Passage 6

Priscilla—Ouchida's “energy efficient”house turned out to be a horrible she and her engineer husband married a few years ago,they built a $ 100,000,three-bedroom home in sealed to prevent air leaks,the house was equipped with small doublepaned(双层玻璃) windows and several other energy saving began as soon as the couple moved in,'s eyes throat was constantly suffered from headaches and could hardly was as though she had suddenly developed a strange illness.

Experts finally traced the cause of her level of

formaldehyde(甲醛) gas in her kitchen was twice the maximum allowed by federal standards for chemical source of the gas Her new kitchen cabinets and wall to wall carpeting.

The Ouchidas are victims of indoor air pollution,which is not given sufficient attention partly because of the nation's drive to save problem itself isn't new.“The indoor environment was dirty long before energy conservation came along，”says Moschandreas,a pollution scientist at Geomet Technologies in Maryland.“Energy conservation has tend ed to accentuate the situation in some cases.”

The problem appears to be more troublesome in newly constructed homes rather than old in the days when energy was cheap,home builders didn't worry much about unsealed of such leaks,the air in an average home was repaced by fresh outdoor air about once an a result,the pollutants generated in most households seldom built up to dangerous levels.

1. It can be learned from the passage that the Ouchidas' house——

well worth the money spent on its construction

almost faultless form the point of energy conservation

to meet energy conservation standards

designed and constructed in a scientific way

2. What make the Ouchidas' new house a horrible dream

of fresh quality of building materials.

leakage in the kitchen. newly painted walls.

3. The word“accentuate” most probably means“.————“

were cracks in old houses not a big concern

indoor cleanliness was not emphasized.

energy used to be inexpensive.

environmental protection was given top priority.

they were technically unavoidable.

passage is most probably taken from an article entitled ————

conservation Building Crisis

Pollution Indoors in Building Construction

Passage 7

More and more private schools are being set up in China these days,ending the state monopoly of the country's educational private schools are still on the experimental stage and are much more expensive as compared with the public schools,there is no lack of application for enrollment.

People welcome private schools for good of all,those schools are relieving our government of part of the burdens of financing so many ,parents are willing to send their only child to better schools even if it costs having more money than the government funded public schools,those private schools can attract better can also offer better environments including superior living facilities and more advanced teaching ,adequate money doesn't guarantee good not well guided and properly disciplined,the privileged young children might turn out to be new aristocrats,and therefore unfit for our highly competitive modern society.

1. The private schools indeed have something better than the public schools but not——

condition

teaching equipments

2. Which are the reasons for people welcome the private school ————

a the government.

break the traditional educational system.

money is connected with higher quality of teaching.

don't need to take charge of children so much like before

hope their children act more wonderful.

,b,c ,c,d ,b,e ,c,e

3. The writer is likely to talk about———— in the next paragraph

schools have more advantages than we imagine

the private schools guide student to the right way

are some disadvantages in the private schools

the public schools compete with the private schools