2015年4月大学英语b统考题库阅读理解（4）

34、The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world. It is more than 6000 kilometres long, about 7 metres high, 5 to 6 metres wide. It is known to be the only one of the structures（建筑物） built by men on Earth that can be seen from the moon.
The Potala（布达拉宫） in Tibet, China, is the world’s highest palace. It is over 3 kilometres above the sea level.
The Great Pyramid（金字塔） in Egypt is the biggest burial（埋葬） place ever built. It is about 137 metres high, or about the height of 40－storey building. Each side of the Pyramid is about 230 metres long, or about as long as 2 city blocks.
The Sears Tower in Chicago, U.S.A., reaches a height of 443 metres. It has 110 storeys and covers a total floor space of 420,000 square metres. It is the tallest office building in the world.
1）、The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world because it is over six thousand kilometers long.
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2）、The biggest burial place that men ever built is in Tibet.
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3）、The Sears Tower is about one hundred and thirty seven metres high, so it is the tallest office building in the world.
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4）、The only one of the objects built by men on the earth that can be seen from the moon is the Great Wall.
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5）、The Potala is in China.
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35、 What is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn a second language in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say and tries to imitate what he hears. When he wants something he has to ask for it. He is using the language，talking in it，thinking in it all the time. If people had to use a second language all the time, they would learn it quickly.
We learn our own language by hearing people speak it，not by seeing what they write. We imitate what we hear. In school，though you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak，it is best to learn all the new words through the ear. You can read them，spell them and write them later.
1）、Everyone learns his mother language when he is a child.
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2）、A small child learns to speak by imitating what people say.
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3）、People can learn a language quickly if they imitate it.
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4）、It is best to learn new words through reading first.
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5）、The best way to learn a language is to use the language all the time.
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36、The word horsepower（马力） was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the first widely used steam（蒸气） engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring（测量） power.
Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.
He discovered that a horse could lift a 3,300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3,300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.
Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine.

1）、The passage says that Watt made the first widely used steam engine.
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2）、Watt made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of a horse.
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3）、Watt wanted to find a way to lift a 3300-pound weight.
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4）、One horsepower would equal the weight a horse could lift.
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5）、The title of the passage is “How the Term Horsepower Came into Being”.
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37、 When my husband was promoted, we put our house up for sale. Three weeks later, it was still on the market. I became a busy house keeper. Every room had to be kept tidy and dishes had to be washed and put away when used.
Then one day the doorbell rang unexpectedly at 8 a.m., sleepily I opened the door and saw our agent standing there with a couple from New York. “There was no time to call,” he explained, “the couple had to catch a plane home.”
The three people made their way past the dirty breakfast dishes on the kitchen table and into a bedroom with unmade bed. As I retreated（退却） into a bathroom to comb my hair, I heard the man say something to his wife. Then they both laughed.
Two days later, the agent phoned to tell me that the couple had bought the house. He repeated what the buyer had said when he handed over the check the following day, “That house has a warm, lived-in feeling, just like ours.”
1）、The husband got a higher position.
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2）、The agent called on the speaker so early in the morning because he had made an appointment with her for 8 a.m..
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3）、The couple laughed at her.
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4）、One day the doorbell rang unexpectedly at 8 a.m.
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5）、The agent finally bought the house.
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38、　　A tourist comes out of the airport. There are a lot of taxis, but the tourist asks every taxi-driver his name. He asks the third taxi. It costs ￡ 5 from the airport to the hotel. “How much does it cost for the whole day?” the tourist asks. “￡ 100,” says the taxi-driver. This is very expensive, but the tourist accepts the price.
The taxi-driver takes the tourist everywhere. He shows him all the monuments and all the museums. In the evening, they go back to the hotel. The tourist gives the driver ￡ 100 and says: “What about tomorrow?” The taxi-driver looks at the tourist, “Tomorrow? It’s another ￡ 100.” But the tourist says: “That’s O.K. If that’s the price, that’s the price. See you tomorrow.” The taxi-driver is very pleased.
The next day the taxi-driver takes the tourist everywhere again. They visited all the museums and the monuments again. And in the second evening they go back to the hotel. The tourist gives the taxi-driver another ￡ 100 and says: “I’m going home tomorrow.” The taxi-driver is very sorry. He likes the tourist and, above all, ￡ 100 a day is good money. “So you’re going home. Where do you come from?” he asks.
“I come from New York.”
“New York!” says the taxi-driver, “I have a sister in New York. Her name is Susanah. Do you know her?”
“Of course I know her. She gave me ￡ 200 for you.”
1）、The story takes place in New York.
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2）、The tourist is an American.
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3）、The tourist asks every taxi-driver his name because he is afraid of being cheated.
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4）、The taxi-driver is very pleased with the tourist for the good price.
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5）、We can conclude that the tourist is a cheat.
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39、A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée （未婚妻）. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond… but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.
The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: “When the servant enters the room, he will drop it.”
On the birthday of his fiancée the young man was very excited.
Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody’s face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.
1）、The story took place in the United States.
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2）、The young man’s family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich, according to the passage.

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3）、The young man wanted to buy a present as a Christmas gift for the girl.
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4）、The shop manager came to talk to the young man, because he was poorly dressed.
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5）、On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because the girl was in love with him.
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40、 Many people go to school to receive an education. They learn languages, history, physics, chemistry, and math. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is more important to know how to study by oneself than to know only some facts or formulas (公式). It is in fact quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in math. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists before us didn’t get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. But they were all so successful and invented so many things for us. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school and they asked many questions. They worked hard all their lives, never wasting time. Above all, they knew how to use their brain.
1）、A student learns new things from school only.
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2）、A teacher should teach his students how to learn.
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3）、Great scientists learned everything from school.
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4）、The sentence “Their teachers only showed them the way” means that their teachers taught them how to learn.
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5）、The text talks about the importance of schooling.
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41、The residents of 24 Acacia Grove were dissatisfied with the condition of the property, so John Preston called a meeting to discuss things last week. At the meeting John suggested setting up a residents’ committee. Everyone was so worried and angry about the agent’s inactivity that they agreed, and they elected John as Chairman of the committee. Many residents said that they were tired of telephoning the agent and tired of complaining about the flats. Although the agent was responsible for the flats, they thought that he didn’t do enough. Therefore John was asked to write to the agent and say that they were disappointed with the management of the flats.
The next service payment was due at the end of the month. However, they agreed not to pay it until they were happy with the plans to improve the property. They decided to tell the agent that he must start the work within one month. They all went away very pleased with themselves.
1）、Why did John Preston call a meeting last week?
A.Because the residents were dissatisfied with the present residents’ committee.
B.Because the residents were dissatisfied with the bad management of the flats.
C.Because some residents requested to change the present residents’ committee.
D.Because he wanted to become Chairman of the committee.
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2）、Who elected John as Chairman of the committee?
A.The agent.
B.The residents.
C.The committee.
D.Acacia Grove.
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3）、What does the word “inactivity” mean in the third sentence in Para. 1?
A.Weakness
B.Progress
C.State
D.Lack of actions
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4）、What does the word “due” mean in the first sentence of Para. 2？
A.to be paid
B.proper
C.owed
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5）、When did they agree to pay the next service payment?
A.At the end of the month.
B.Within one month.
C.When they were happy with the plans to improve the property.
D.The agent would tell them.
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42、　　“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meaning.
“Cool”can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It’s cool. ” You may think, “He’s so cool, ” when you see your favourite footballer.
We all maximize (扩大) the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here’s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall they had visited. On one student’s paper was just the one sentence, “It’s so cool. ” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity (缺乏) of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”？ I can. And I think they are also very cool.
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2）、In paragraph one of the passage, the word “express” means “show”.
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3）、If you are unhappy with something, you may say, “It’s cool.”
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4）、The writer takes an example to show he is pleased with the way the word is used.
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5）、In the passage, the writer suggests that the word “cool”may not be as cool as it seems.
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43、 Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. The servants were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow (暗淡的光) of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o’clock on the Sunday morning, the glow had become so bright that one of the servants, Jane, woke her master to see it. Pepys went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked as though the fire was dying down, though he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard that the fire was a bad one: three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. Someone told him that the fire had started in a baker’s house in Pudding Lane, and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.
1）、The servants were up very late because they were watching a fire.
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2）、Pepys went back to bed because the fire was far away.
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3）、A lot of houses were burned down in the fire.
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4）、The fire started on London Bridge.
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5）、Pie Corner was the place where the fire ended.
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