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大学英语六级阅读理解

大学英语六级阅读理解
大学英语六级阅读理解

2012年6月英语六级考试标准阅读练习(01) 1

第一篇(Unit one Passage 1)

I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.

Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he’s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.

Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

1.Which of the following is true?

A.Fun creates long-lasting satisfaction.

B.Fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness.

C.Happiness is enduring whereas fun is short-lived.

D.Fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness.

2.To the author, Hollywood stars all have an important role to play that is to __.

A.rite memoir after memoir about their happiness.

B.tell the public that happiness has nothing to do with fun.

C.teach people how to enjoy their lives.

D.bring happiness to the public instead of going to glamorous parties.

3.In the author’s opinion, marriage___.

A.affords greater fun.

B.leads to raising children.

C.indicates commitment.

D.ends in pain.

4.Couples having infant children___.

A.are lucky since they can have a whole night’s sleep.

B.find fun in tucking them into bed at night.

C.find more time to play and joke with them.

D.derive happiness from their endeavor.

5.If one get the meaning of the true sense of happiness, he will__.

A.stop playing games and joking with others.

B.make the best use of his time increasing happiness.

C.give a free hand to money.

D.keep himself with his family.

2012年6月英语六级考试标准阅读练习(02)2

第二篇(Unit one Passage 2)

Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the middle of this century, men’s and women’s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.

In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the

economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. In addition, many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier. Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.

In terms of numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence spread to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns. Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on “overtime” work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.

In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women’s liberation, produced additional economic and social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers. Most of them still took traditional women’s jobs as public school teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work, banking, dentistry, and construction work. Women were asking for equal work, and equal opportunities for promotion.

Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women. Naturally, there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

1.Which of the following best express the main idea of Paragraph 1?

A.Women usually worked outside the home for wages.

B.Men and women’s roles were easily exchanged in the past.

C.Men’s roles at home were more firmly fixed than women’s.

D.Men and women’s roles were usually quite separated in the past.

2.Which sentence best expresses the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A.The first sentence.

B.The second and the third sentences.

C.The fourth sentence.

D.The last sentence.

3.In the passage the author proposes that the counterculture___.

A.destroyed the United States.

B.transformed some American values.

C.was not important in the United States.

D.brought people more leisure time with their families.

4.It could be inferred from the passage that___.

A.men and women will never share the same goals.

B.some men will be willing to exchange their traditional male roles.

C.most men will be happy to share some of the household responsibilities with their wives.

D.more American households are headed by women than ever before.

5.The best title for the passage may be ___.

A.Results of Feminist Movements

B.New influence in American Life

C.Counterculture and Its consequence

D.Traditional Division of Male and Female Roles.

2012年6月英语六级考试标准阅读练习(03)3

第三篇(Unit one Passage 3)

Recent research has claimed that an excess of positive ions in the air can have an ill effect on people’s physical or psychological health. What are positive ions? Well, the air is full of ions, electrically charged particles, and generally there is a rough balance between the positive and the negative charged. But sometimes this balance becomes disturbed and a larger proportion of positive ions are found. This happens naturally before thunderstorm, earthquakes when winds such as the Mistral, Hamsin or Sharav are blowing in certain countries. Or it can be caused by a

build-up of static electricity indoors from carpets or clothing made of man-made fibres, or from TV sets, duplicators or computer display screens.

When a large number of positive ions are present in the air many people experience unpleasant effects such as headaches, fatigue, irritability, and some particularly sensitive people suffer nausea or even mental disturbance. Animals are also affected, particularly before earthquakes, snakes have been observed to come out of hibernation, rats to flee from their burrows, dogs howl and cats jump about unaccountably. This has led the US Geographical Survey to fund a network of volunteers to watch animals in an effort to foresee such disasters before they hit vulnerable areas such as California.

Conversely, when large numbers of negative ions are present, then people have a feeling of well-being. Natural conditions that produce these large amounts are near the sea, close to waterfalls or fountains, or in any place where water is sprayed, or forms a spray. This probably accounts for the beneficial effect of a holiday by the sea, or in the mountains with tumbling streams or waterfalls.

To increase the supply of negative ions indoors, some scientists recommend the use of ionisers: small portable machines, which generate negative ions. They claim that ionisers not only clean and refresh the air but also improve the health of people sensitive to excess positive ions. Of course, there are the detractors, other scientists, who dismiss such claims and are skeptical about negative/positive ion research. Therefore people can only make up their own minds by observing the effects on themselves, or on others, of a negative rich or poor environment. After all it is debatable whether depending on seismic readings to anticipate earthquakes is more effective than watching the cat.

1.What effect does exceeding positive ionization have on some people?

A.They think they are insane.

B.They feel rather bad-tempered and short-fussed.

C.They become violently sick.

D.They are too tired to do anything.

2.In accordance with the passage, static electricity can be caused by___.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/ad7895726.html,ing home-made electrical goods.

B.wearing clothes made of natural materials.

C.walking on artificial floor coverings.

D.copying TV programs on a computer.

3.A high negative ion count is likely to be found___.

A.near a pound with a water pump.

B.close to a slow-flowing river.

C.high in some barren mountains.

D.by a rotating water sprinkler.

4.What kind of machine can generate negative ions indoors?

A.Ionisers.

B.Air-conditioners.

C.Exhaust-fans

D.Vacuum pumps.

5.Some scientists believe that___.

A.watching animals to anticipate earthquakes is more effective than depending on seismography.

B.the unusual behavior of animals cannot be trusted.

C.neither watching nor using seismographs is reliable.

D.earthquake

2012年6月英语六级考试标准阅读练习(04)4

第四篇(Unit one Passage 4)

A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political

values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions, and psychology. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors—or of people very different from our own—can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offer us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books.

In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective: it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly “political” artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May 1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic images were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to express the horror of war. Meanwhile, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros—as well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martines—depicted these Mexican artists’ deep anger and sadness about social problems.

In the same way, art can r eflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls. By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are unholy.

1.More can be learned about a culture from a study of art history than general history because art history__.

A.show us the religious and emotions of a people in addition to political values.

B.provide us with information about the daily activities of people in the past.

C.give us an insight into the essential qualities of a time and a place.

D.all of the above.

2.Art is subjective in that__.

A.a personal and emotional view of history is presented through it.

B.it can easily rouse our anger or sadness about social problems.

C.it will find a ready echo in our hearts.

D.both B and C.

3.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A.Unlike Francisco Goya, Pablo and several Mexican artists expressed their political opinions in their paintings.

B.History books often reveal the compilers’ political views.

C.Religious art remained in Europe for centuries the only type of art because most people regarded the Bible as the Holy Book.

D.All the above mentioned.

4.The passage is mainly discussing__.

A.the difference between general history and art history.

B.The making of art history.

C.What can we learn from art.

D.The influence of artists on art history.

5.In may be concluded from this passage that__.

A.Islamic artists have had to create architectural decorations with images of flowers or geometric forms.

B.History teachers are more objective than general history.

C.It is more difficult to study art history than general history.

D.People and stories from the Bible were painted on churches and other buildings in order to popularize the Bible.

2012年6月英语六级考试标准阅读练习(05)5

第五篇(Unit 2 Passage 1)

If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world’s busiest air route between London and Paris have a flight on their hands.

The Eurostar train service linking the UK and French capitals via the Channel Tunnel is winning customers in increasing numbers. In late May, it carried its one millionth passenger, having run only a limited service between London, Paris and Brussels since November 1994, starting with two trains a day in each direction to Paris and Brussels. By 1997, the company believes that it will be carrying ten million passengers a year, and continue to grow from there.

From July, Eurostar steps its service to nine trains each way between London and Paris, and five between London and Brussels. Each train carries almost 800 passengers, 210 of them in first class.

The airlines estimate that they will initially lose around 15%-20% of their London-Paris traffic to the railways once Eurostar starts a full service later this year (1995), with 15 trains a day each way. A similar service will start to Brussels. The damage will be limited, however, the airlines believe, with passenger numbers returning to previous levels within two to three years.

In the short term, the damage caused by the 1 million people-levels traveling between London and Paris and Brussels on Eurostar trains means that some air services are already suffering. Some of the major carriers say that their passenger numbers are down by less than 5% and point to their rivals-Particularly Air France-as having suffered the problems. On the Brussels route, the railway company had less success, and the airlines report anything from around a 5% drop to no visible decline in traffic.

The airlines’ optimism on returning traffic levels is based on historical precedent. British

Midland, for example, points to its experience on Heathrow Leeds Bradford service which saw passenger numbers fold by 15% when British Rail electrified and modernized the railway line between London and Yorkshire. Two years later, travel had risen between the two destinations to the point where the airline was carrying record numbers of passengers.

1.British airlines confide in the fact that__.

A.they are more powerful than other European airlines.

B.their total loss won’t go beyond a drop of 5% passengers.

C.their traffic levels will return in 2-3 years.

D.traveling by rail can never catch up with traveling by air.

2.The author’s attitude towards the drop of passengers may be described as__.

A.worried.

B.delighted

C.puzzled.

D.unrivaled.

3.In the passage, British Rail (Para 6) is mentioned to__.

A.provide a comparison with Eurostar.

B.support the airlines’ optimism.

C.prove the inevitable drop of air passengers.

D.call for electrification and modernization of the railway.

4.The railway’s Brussels route is brought forth to show that__.

A.the Eurostar train service is not doing good business.

B.the airlines can well compete with the railway.

C.the Eurostar train service only caused little damage.

D.only some airlines, such as Air France, are suffering.

5.The passage is taken from the first of an essay, from which we may well predict that in the following part the author is going to__.

A.praise the airlines’ clear-mindedness.

B.warn the airlines of high-speed rail services.

C.propose a reduction of London/Paris flights.

D.advise the airlines to follow British Midland as their model.

2012年大学英语六级模拟试题:阅读篇6

Without most people realizing it, there has been a revolution in office work over the last ten years. Before that time, large computers were only used by large, rich companies that could afford the investment. With the advancement of technology, small computers have come onto the market which are capable of doing the work which used to be done by much larger and more expensive computers, so now most smaller companies can use them.

The main development in small computers has been in the field of word processors, or WP's as they are often called. 40% of British offices are now estimated to have a word processor for both secretary and manager. The secretary is freed from a lot of routine work, such as re-typing letters and storing papers. He or she can use this time to do other more interesting work for the boss. From a manager's point of view, secretarial time is being made better use of and money can be saved by doing routine jobs automatically outside office hours.

But is it all good? If a lot of routine secretarial work can be done automati?cally , surely this will mean that fewer secretaries will be needed. Another worry is the increasing medical problems related to work with visual display units. The case of a slow loss of sight among people using word processors seems to have risen greatly. It is also feared that if a woman works at a VDU for long hours, the unborn child in her body might be killed. Safety screens to put over a VDU have been invented but few companies in England bother to buy them.

Whatever the arguments for or against word processors, they are a key feature of this revolution in office practice.

26. Ten years ago, smaller companies did not use large computers because_______.

A. these companies had not enough money to buy such expensive computers

B. these computers could not do the work that small computers can do today

C. these computers did not come onto the market

D. these companies did not need to use this new technology

27. According to the writer, the main feature of the revolution in office work over the last ten years is_______.

A. the saving of time and money

B. the use of computers in small companies

C. the wide use of word processors

D. the decreasing number of secretaries

28. It is implied but NOT directly stated in the passage that with the use of word processors _______.

A. some secretaries will lose their jobs

B. routine jobs can be done automatically outside office hours

C. medical problems related to work with a VDU have increased

D. using word processors, secretaries can get more time to do more interesting work for their bosses

29. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. There are both advantages and disadvantages in using a word processor.

B. The British companies care much for the health of the people using word processors.

C. The technology in the field of computers has been greatly advanced over the last ten years.

D. Using world processors, secretaries can get more time to do more interesting work for their bosses.

30. It can concluded from the passage that_______.

A. safety screens are of poor quality

B. working at a VDU for a long time is good for one's health

C. more and more British offices will use word processors

D. British companies will need fewer and fewer managers

2012年大学英语六级模拟试题:阅读篇7

40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.

In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.

The Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can't enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.

21. The first games for the disabled were held______after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrived

in England.

A. 40 years

B. 21 years

C. 10 years

D. 9 years

22. Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in______.

A. New York

B. London

C. Rome

D. Los Angeles

23. In Paragraph 3, the word "athletes" means______.

A. people who support the games

B. people who watch the games

C. people who organize the games

D. people who compete in the games

24. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an early organizer of the games for the disabled.

B. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is an injured soldier.

C. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is from Germany.

D. Sir Ludwig Guttmann is welcomed by the British government.

25. From the passage, we may conclude that the writer is ______.

A. one of the organizers of the game for the disabled

B. a disabled person who once took part in the games

C. against holding the games for the disabled

D. in favor of holding the games for the disabled

2012年大学英语六级模拟试题:阅读篇8

It is well known that when an individual joins a group he tends to accept the group's standards of behavior and thinking. Many illustrations (例证) could be given of this from everyday life, but what is of particular interest to psychologists is the extent to which people's judgments and opinions can be changed as a result of group pressure. Asch and others noticed that people in a group will agree to statements that are contrary to the evidence of their senses. It would be a mistake to think that only particular changeable people are chosen to take part in experiments of this type. Usually highly intelligent and independent people are used.

In a typical experiment, this is what may happen. The experimenter asks for volunteers to join a group which is investigating visual perception. The victims are not, therefore, aware of the real purpose of the experiment. Each volunteer is taken to a room where he finds a group of about seven people who are collaborating(合作) with the experimenter. The group is shown a standard card which contains a single line. They are then asked to look at a second card. This has three lines on it. One is obviously longer than the line on the first card, one is shorter and one the same

length. They have to say which line on the second card is the same length as the line on the standard card. The other members of the group answer first but what the volunteer does not know is that they have been told to pick one of the wrong lines. When his turn comes he is faced with the unanimous (一致的) opinion of the rest of the group—all the others have chosen line A but he quite clearly sees line B as correct. What will he do? According to Asch, more than half of the victims chosen will change their opinion. What is equally surprising is that, when interviewed about their answers, most explained that they know the group choice was incorrect but that they yield to the pressure of the group because they thought they must be suffering from an optical illusion, or because they were afraid of being different.

26. The psychologists are particularly interested in_______.

A. the changes in the attitudes of the people

B. the degree of changes of people's opinions

C. the result of the experiment

D. the difference in people's characters

27. People who are usually chosen to take part in the experiments are_______.

A. stubborn and independent

B. intelligent

C. ignorant and docile

D. capable of reasoning

28. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The experimenter and all the members of the group except the victim know the purpose of the experiment.

B. All of them know the purpose of the experiment.

C. Only the experimenter knows the purpose of the experiment.

D. Only the victim knows the purpose of the experiment.

29. More than half of the victims changed their opinion because_______.

A. someone in the group changed their opinion

B. they thought their eyes must be deceived

C. they thought the group choice was correct.

D. they had been told about the answer

30. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to_______.

A. illustrate the influence of the group's pressure on individual's behavior

B. invite more volunteers to join in Asch's experiment

C. tell the audience how to perform psychological experiment

D. encourage people to act against the group's opinion

2012年大学英语六级模拟试题:阅读篇9

I have had just about enough of being treated like a second-class citizen, simply because I happen to be that put-upon member of society—a customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and post offices, railway stations, airports and the like, the more I'm convinced that things are being run solely to suit the firm, the system, or the union. There seems to be a harmful new motto (格言) for so-called "service" organizations—Staff Before Service.

How often, for example, have you queued for what seems like hours at the Post Office or the supermarket because there weren't enough staff on duty to man all the service grilles (栅门) of checkout counters? Surely in these days of high unemployment it must be possible to recruit cashiers and counter staff. Yet supermarkets, hinting darkly at higher prices, claim that enshrouding all their cash registers at any one time would increase overheads. And the Post Office says we cannot expect all their service grilles to be occupied "at times when demand is low. "

It's the same with hotels. Because waiters and kitchen staff must finish when it suits them, dining rooms close earlier or menu choice is curtailed. As for us guests, we just have to put up with it. There's also the nonsense of so many so friendly hotel night porters having been dismissed in the interests of "efficiency" (i. e. profits) and replaced by coin guzzling machines. Not to mention the coldness of the tea-making kit in your room: a kettle with an assortment of teabags, plastic milk cartons and lump sugar. Who wants to wake up to a raw teabag? I don't, especially when I am paying for "service".

21. The writer feels that nowadays a customer is_______.

A. one who is well served

B. unworthy of proper consideration

C. classified by society as inferior

D. the victim of modern service

22. In the writer's opinion, the quality of service is changing because_______.

A. the customer's demands have changed

B. the organizations receive more consideration than the customers

C. the customers' needs have increased

D. the staff are less considerate than their employers

23. According to the writer, long queues at counters are caused by ____.

A. difficulties in recruiting staff

B. inadequate staffing arrangements

C. staff being made lazy

D. lack of co-operation between the staff

24. Service organizations claim that keeping the checkout counters manned would result in

A. a rise in the price for providing services

B. demands by cashiers for more money

C. insignificant benefits for the customers

D. the need to purchase expensive equipment

25. The disappearance of old-style hotel porters can be attributed to the fact that______.

A. few people are willing to do this type of work

B. machines are more reliable than human beings

C. the personal touch is less appreciated nowadays

D. automation has provided cheaper alternatives

2012年大学英语六级模拟试题:阅读篇10

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.

We listened to each other and the interest was not put-on; it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and—we were even willing to admit—we loved each other.

Today, the family roundtable has moved to the local fast-food restaurant and talk is not easy, much less encouraged.

? Grandma, who used to live upstairs, is now. the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four-year-old.

So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as "What have you been doing, Bobby?" have been replaced by "I'm busy, go watch television. "

And watch TV they do; count them by the millions.

But it's usually not children's television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children's hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.

Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past

into Starsky and Hutch. That's where you find our kids, over five million of them, at 10 p. m. , not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission.

Television, used well, can provide enriching experiences for our young people, but we must use it with some sense. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean, the dishwasher turns itself off.

Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond!

Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on

the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene (干涉). Nonintervention may be a wise policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not be wise at all.

26. From the first two paragraphs one may infer that the writer's a attitude towards "the old days" is______.

A. preferring

B. hating

C. being tired of

D. disappointing

27. The working parent is not willing to listen to her (his) four-year-old child talking about

his sandbox games because she (he) is______.

A. boring

B. very tired

C. busy

D. angry

28. According to the writer, the responsibility for the kid's watching adult television and watching it for a long time should be undertaken by______.

A. the television stations

B. the society

C. TV programs

D. their parents

29. If we use television with some ______television can provide our young people with

much knowledge.

A. instruction of experts

B. judgment of our own

C. direction of engineers

D. indication of teachers

30. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. Parental nonintervention will not be praised.

B. Nonintervention may be a good policy in international affairs.

C. Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence

on the children.

D. Parents need to intervene.

2011年12月英语阅读理解篇练习题(11)

The main part of this chapter will deal directly with the technical and artistic limitations and resources that make television unique. But some important differences between television and

other forms of literature need mentioning before we begin.

In the first place, since the literature of television is transmitted simultaneously to millions of people, its creators are subject to limitations of theme, language, and style. In general, the wider

the base of the audience, the greater the degree of restriction imposed on the creator, and no contemporary literary form has a more massive audience than television.

In the second place, the line that separates commercial interests from literary interests in television is less distinct than in most other literary forms. To be sure, the publisher of novels and the producer of stage plays are concerned with making money. But in television the advertiser, the man who pays the bill, is primarily concerned with the sale of a commercial product rather than an artistic one. At the same time, selling products and presenting high quality programs are not necessarily incompatible motives. There are, in fact, numerous examples of sponsors who have done both simultaneously.

We must remember, too, that the literature of television, unlike most types of literature, is highly ephemeral (短暂的) in character. At the moment, the libraries of television are its "reruns", but even so, a particular show must be seen at a specific time or it cannot be seen at all. As a result, studying or teaching about television presents certain problems not found in the study of other types of literature, except the legitimate stage.

21. Since the literature of television is sent out to millions of people at the same time, its creators are likely to have the following limitations EXCEPT_______.

A. subject

B. choice of words

C. the place where they transmit television program

D. expression by means of words

22. According to the author the creators of television have the greatest degree of restriction in theme, language, and style, this is because_______.

A. television has a large number of audiences

B. television can only last a short period of time

C. television combines commercial interests and literary interests

D. both A and B

23.The sentence " selling products and presenting high quality programs are not necessarily incompatible motives" could be paraphrased as_______.

A. the purposes of selling products and presenting high quality programs can be realized at the same time

B. the motives of selling products and presenting high quality programs can not be matched

C. selling products overweighs presenting high quality programs

D. presenting high quality programs overweighs selling products

24. Which of the following most correctly summarizes the main idea of the passage?

A. The limitations and resources of television.

B. The differences between television and other forms of literature.

C. Television has a more massive audience than other literary forms.

D. Television has a very short life.

25. This passage has probably been taken from a_______.

A. newspaper ad

B. magazine

C. public speech

D. book

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26. Which of these sentences best describes the writer's point in Paragraph 1?

A. To some extent, intelligence is given at birth.

B. Intelligence is developed by the environment.

C. Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

D. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.

27. It is suggested in this passage that_______.

A. unrelated people are not likely to have different intelligence

B. close relations usually have similar intelligence

C. the closer the blood relationship between people, the more different they are likely to be in intelligence

D. people who live in close contact with each other are not likely to have similar degrees of intelligence

28. Brothers and sisters are likely to_______.

A. have similar intelligence

B. have different intelligence

C. go to the same university

D. go to the same factory

29. In Paragraph 1, the word "surroundings" means_______.

A. intelligence

B. life

C. environments

D. housing

30. The best title for this article would be_______.

A. On Intelligence

B. What Intelligence Means

C. We Are Born with Intelligence

D. Environment Plays a Part in Developing Intelligence

答案:

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A. homing pigeons and their training

B. how to buy a homing pigeon

C. protection of homing pigeons against the threat of extinction

D. liberation of homing pigeons

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A. They are kept in a trap.

B. They enter their first race.

C. They begin a training program.

D. They get their wings clipped and marked.

3. According to the passage, the difference between a homing pigeon and an ordinary one is_______.

A. the span of the wings

B. the shape of the eyes

C. the texture of the feathers

D. the size of the brain

4. The author mentions all of the following attributes that enable a homing pigeon to

return home EXCEPT_______.

A. instinct

B. air sacs

C. sensitive ears

D. good eyes

5. Why does the author mention bees, ants, toads, and turtles in the last paragraph?

A. To describe some unusual kinds of pets.

B. To measure distances traveled by various animals.

C. To compare their home-finding abilities with those of homing pigeons.

D. To interest the reader in learning about other animals.

答案

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