1、大学生英语竞赛 B 类英语专业-阅读理解(一)及答案解析(总分：90.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section A(总题数：7，分数：80.00)Trendy Solar Radio/Crank Radio Stylish as It Is UsefulThis crank AM/FM radio can be charged in three different ways-by crank, solar power or with an AC wall adapter. Just 30 seconds of winding provides 3
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7、h is exactly what makes it so appealing.（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_（分数：5.00）(1).The survey of stress on Chinese white-collar workers was co-conducted by the Beijing HealthProtection Association and the Chinese Medical Doctors Association.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Forty-six percent of thos
8、e interviewed did occasional exercise and felt that property prices are the major pressure.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).The ratio of housing prices to family income in China is lower than the usual standard.Fill in each blank with no more than three words to complete the sentences according to the passage.（
9、分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Commercial property prices have increased by _ percent according to the survey.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Wang Ke, who took part in the survey, bought her apartment by borrowing money from_ for the down payment and paying a monthly mortgage.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_Lisa Tyler was weary after a l
10、ong, hard day at the pottery factory where she works, but as she approached her home in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent, her heart lightened; soon she would behaving a nice cup of tea, putting her feet up and watching Friends, her favourite TV series. But first, she needed to change out of her wo
11、rk clothes and pick up her three-year-old son from his grandmothers house nearby.As Lisa walked up her garden path, she noticed a light flashing on and off in an upstairs bedroom. A shiver went down her back. What if it was a burglar? Quietly, she crept round to the back of the house to see if there
12、 was any sign of a break-in. Sure enough, a window was open and someones coat was hanging on the gatepost!Well, 26-year-old Lisa didnt fancy coming face to face with a burglar, so she ran to a neighbours house and rang the police. As she sat waiting for the police to arrive, Lisas curiosity got the
13、better of her and she decided to go back and see what was going on. Thats when she saw a leg coming out of the downstairs front window. It was a man climbing out. Lisa gasped in shock. The burglar was carrying her portable television!At this point, Lisa saw red. She didnt have many possessions and s
14、hed saved long and hard to buy that set. Besides, nobody was going to stop her watching Friends.“Oh no, you dont.“ she muttered under her breath, as fury swelled inside her. Without even stopping to think, she across the garden and started shouting at the burglar, “Give me my TVdrop it now!“Ignoring
15、 her, the man fled across the garden, so Lisa threw herseff at him and successfully rugby-tackled him to the ground. The burglar struggled to escape, but Lisa hung on like the best kind of guard dog, despite being punched and kicked. As she looked up, she realized that she recognized the burglars fa
16、ce. She was so surprised that she lost her grip and the burglar got away, leaving the TV behind in the garden.By the time the police and her father arrived, Lisa was in tears. “I cant believe you were so foolish, Lisa,“ scolded her father. “You could have been killed.“I know, but at least he didnt g
17、et my TV.“ she replied.Lisa later remembered the name of the burglar, who had been in the same year as her at school. He was later caught and jailed for 15 months after committing a burglary and assault. In May last year, Lisa was given a Certificate of Appreciation by Staffordshire police for her “
18、outstanding courage and public action“. In the future, however, she intends to leave household security to a new member of her family, Chan, who is a real guard dog.Direction: Answer the questions in no more than 10 words.（分数：5.00）(1).What first led Lisa to think there was a burglar in her house?（分数
19、：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Why didnt Lisa wait in her neighbours house until the police arrived?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).What does “Lisa saw red (in the 4th paragraph)“ most probably mean?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What did the burglar do when Lisa shouted at him?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).How did Lisa help to catch the burglar
20、 later?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_Melting GlaciersSeveral glaciers in the Alps have already disappeared in as few as 40 year. In the Patagonian ice fields of Argentina, some glaciers have receded one and one-half kilometers in the last 13 years. In the Himalayan Mountains, glaciers are melting so fast that run
21、off sometimes floods the surrounding areas. Their fate is a preview of the future of other glaciers on Earth.The shrinking of the worlds glaciers will have massive consequences for communities that depend on ice melt for their water. In the short-term, these consequences may appear beneficial. For e
22、xample, extra water from glaciers means that hydroelectric dams will run at maximum power. In the long run, however, the melting of Earths glaciers could be catastrophic. Todays extra hydroelectric power has been stolen from the future. Communities with ample power now may have none after the glacie
23、rs have melted and have stopped filling reservoirs. Likewise, water for irrigation, drinking, transportation, and nuclear power stations will slow to the levels provided solely by rainfall. The loss of ice will increase sea levels worldwide.Temperature change and a lack of snow is causing the retrea
24、t of the glaciers. According to many scientists, our plant is getting warmer. In the Alps, for example, temperatures have risen an average of 1-1.5 degrees Celsius(1.8-3 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1850. During the same period, Alpine glaciers in Switzerland have lost about half of their volume. Likew
25、ise, temperatures have changed in the Tien Shan Mountains in southern Kazakhstan. Researchers there have discovered a small rise in temperature, 0.5 degrees Celsius, over the last 50 years and even this is enough to reduce glaciers dramatically over time.As temperatures have increased, precipitation
26、 has decreased. Glaciers no longer build up during snowy winter months which also contributes to their decrease in size over in the long run.The warming of our globe is often blamed on human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, especially in industrialized nations. Automobile emissions and
27、 industrial waste are increasing the quantity of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, possibly causing increased temperatures. However, scientists have not definitively tied human activity to the current temperature rise.Some scientists argue that global warming may be a normal trend of the Earths te
28、mperature violations. One theory argues that we are near the end of a so-called “Little Ice Age“, and that the retreat of the glaciers is a natural result of this cycle. Whether natural or produced by humans, there is little hope for the immediate future of glaciers as we know them.Direction: Comple
29、te the summary below by choosing no more than three words from the passage.（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_My entry into Black womens history was unexpected but agreeable. In the preface to Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, I recount the story of exactly how Shirley Her
30、d (who, in addition to teaching in the local school system, was also president of the Indianapolis chapter of the National Council of Negro Women) successfully provoked me into changing my research and writing focus. Although I dedicate this volume to her and to her best friend, fellow club woman an
31、d retired primary school teacher Virtea Downey, I still blush at the fact that I went to graduate school to become a historian in order to contribute to the Black Struggle for social justice and yet met her request to write a history of Black women in Indiana with reluctance. I had never even though
32、t about Black women as historical subjects with their own relations to a states history, and I thought her invitation and phone call extraordinarily intrusive. Only later did I concede how straightforward and reasonable had been her request to redress a historical omission. Black women were conspicu
33、ous by their absence. None of the social studies texts or state histories that Herd and Downey had used to teach their students made mention of the contributions of Black women. Since historians had left them out, Herd reasoned, only a “real“ historian could put them in, and since I was the only ten
34、ured Black women historian in the state of Indiana at that time, the task was mine.Herd rejected my reservations and completely ignored my admonitions that she could not call up a historian and order a book the way you drive up to a fast-food restaurant and order a hamburger. In spite of my assertio
35、ns of ignorance about the history of Black women in Indiana and my confession of having never studied the subject in any history course or examined any manuscript sources pertaining to their lives, Herd persevered. Black women, as historical subjects and agents, were as invisible to me as they had b
36、een to school textbook writers.Undaunted by my response, Herd demanded that I connect (thankfully without perfect symmetry)my biology and autobiography, my race and gender, my being a Black women, to my skill as a historian, and write for her and for the local chapter members of the National Council
37、 a history of Black Women in Indiana. I relented and wrote the book, When the Truth Is Told: Black Womens Culture and Community in Indiana, 1875-1950, as requested. In the process, I was both humbled and astounded by the array of rich primary source materials Herd, Downey, and the other club women h
38、ad spent two years collecting. There were diaries, club notes, church souvenir booklets, photographs, club minutes, birth death, and marriage certificates, letters, and handwritten county and local histories. Collectively this material revealed a universe I never knew existed in spite of having live
39、d with Black women all of my life, and being one myself. Or perhaps more accurately, I knew a universe of Black women existed. I simply had not envisioned its historical meaning.（分数：5.00）(1).The primary purpose of the passage is to show how the author _.A. discovered Black womens history when she wa
40、s in graduate schoolB. became a historian to help Black people in America achieve social justiceC. developed her research skills by undertaking a challenging projectD. came to view Black women as a worthy subject for historical analysis（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why did the author initially respond to Her
41、ds request “with reluctance“?A. Because she knew that historians should avoid controversial subjects.B. Because there were too many other projects requiring her attention.C. Because she viewed Herds request as irrelevant and presumptuous.D. Because she knew that Herd had not been to graduate school.
42、（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The author compared Herds demanding a history book to _ to indicate that she did not generally undertake projects on request.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The author believed that historians should conduct research in areas in which they had expertise so she asserted that she was _ about
43、the project.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).Herd and the other club women spent two years collecting _ to prove that Black women contributed to society historically.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_For most average exercisers and athletes, sports drinks are not only a waste of your money, but more importantly, can actually wors
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45、reshing liquid (95 percent water) extracted from young, green coconuts that have not reached maturity.If you exercise for 30 minutes a day at a moderate to high intensity, fresh, pure water is the best thing to help you stay hydrated. Its only when youve been exercising for longer periods, such as f
46、or more than 60 minutes, or in the heat, or at extreme intensity levels, where you are sweating profusely, that you may need something more than water to replenish your body in order to keep your bodys proper electrolyte balance. If your electrolytes fall out of balance, you can suffer severe medica
47、l problems. That is because electrolytes are inorganic compounds that become ions in solution and have the capacity to conduct electricity. They are important for electrical signaling-and of course your brain, heart, muscles and nervous system are all bioelectrical systems.Besides plain water, cocon
48、ut water is one of the best and safest options to rehydrate yourself after a strenuous workout. If you need the electrolytes, it will provide them. If you dont need them, then it certainly wont hurt you. And as youre learning, coconut water has a mountain of other health benefits in addition to rehydration, which no commercial sports drink in the world can provide. Depending on how much salt youve lost through sweating, you might even add a tiny pinch of natural Himala
