1、国家公共英语二级（阅读理解）练习试卷 26及答案与解析 0 Few people now remember the sinking of the great passenger ship Colossus exactly sixty years ago. The number of people who were actually saved from her was small, and some of those have died in the years since, so that those who are still alive today can be counted on t
2、he fingers of one hand. Then you will easily understand why I have been asked to write about that sad day in 1912. The Colossus, then she hit an iceberg in thick fog in the North Atlantic Ocean, she actually disappeared in less than twenty minutes, taking nearly fifteen hundred people with her. My o
3、wn life was saved by my youth. Being only a boy of fourteen, I was one of those lucky women and children who, according to custom, were allowed to get away first from the sinking ship. The selfless crew packed some sixty of us into a small boat and lowered it into the angry sea. But during the ships
4、 last minutes more and more passengers, as their last hope of escaping death, threw themselves wildly into the sea and tried to get on aboard our boat, with the result that it finally turned over and we all found ourselves struggling for our lives in the water. But I was strong enough to swim for th
5、ree hours in the icy water before a passing ship picked me up. 1 This passage was written in _. （ A） 1912 （ B） 1960 （ C） 1972 （ D） 1982 2 The writer was asked to write the story because _. （ A） he was on another ship nearby when Colossus hit the iceberg （ B） he was only a boy of fourteen when the ac
6、cident took place （ C） he was now the only person alive who had seen the ship sink （ D） he was one of those few passengers who were still alive today 3 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? （ A） No more than five passengers were saved. （ B） The author was seventy-four y
7、ears old when he wrote about the accident （ C） All of those passengers who jumped from the sinking ship died in the water. （ D） Many of those passengers who threw themselves into the sea got on aboard the boat. 4 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? （ A） A small nu
8、mber of people were saved from the ship. （ B） The authors life was saved because a young man helped him. （ C） The authors life was saved because he was young and strong. （ D） A passing ship picked him up at last after he struggled in the sea for three hours. 4 An office is the “Brain“ of a business.
9、 In an office, figures (数字 ), lists and information are collected and arranged to tell the managers or heads of the business what has happened and what is happening in their shops or factories. Information comes into an office in all sorts of ways, but the main items of information come in regularly
10、. It is part of the job of the clerks to collect, sort out and classify that information and to put it into such a form that it is easily interpreted (说明 ) and understood. Offices not only collect information but also classify it. This work of collection is common in an office from the sorting of ma
11、il every morning to the accountants (会计 ) work in finding out the final figure for the years profit. Classification always requires the arrangement of the same kind of information in lists or columns. For this work, as in all office work, correctness, accuracy and speed are necessary. These are the
12、essentials of classifying. There is no value, however, in collecting figures which mean nothing. Figures are guides which should help managers make decisions. The interpretation of figures should tell where success or failure lies, where profit comes and where losses occur. On the basis of this info
13、rmation, a choice is made and a series of such choices may make a policy. A firm which has three factories may find, for instance, from its figures, that one factory is losing money. Then the firm is faced with these choices: a change of manager, a cut in production, an increase in production, or cl
14、osure (关闭 ) of the factory. Whichever one of these decisions is taken becomes the policy. A policy means a plan of action. It is clear that a decision leading to a policy can only be as good as the information on which it is based. Consequently there is a constant search for more and more exact info
15、rmation on the part of the management, which wants to have all the necessary facts before it can make the best decision. 5 What is the function of figures in a business according to the passage? （ A） They provide guides for the managers. （ B） They are policy choices for the managers. （ C） They lead
16、to the increase in production. （ D） They determine the profits of a business. 6 How do clerks deal with the information which comes into an office according to the passage? （ A） They put the information into computers. （ B） They make decisions on the information. （ C） They sort out and classify the
17、information. （ D） They send the information to the manager immediately. 7 From the passage it can be concluded that office work should be _. （ A） imaginary and creative （ B） patient and careful （ C） exciting and fast （ D） accurate and speedy 8 According to the passage, from the valuable figures coll
18、ected managers can get the following information EXCEPT _. （ A） where success is （ B） where failure is （ C） how to wait for a chance （ D） whether to change policies 9 In order to make the best decision, management may ask the office to _. （ A） give all the necessary information （ B） work out a plan
19、of action （ C） provide little information （ D） make a series of choices 国家公共英语二级（阅读理解）练习试卷 26答案与解析 【知识模块】 阅读理解 1 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 阅读理解 2 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 阅读理解 3 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 阅读理解 4 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 阅读理解 【知识模块】 阅读理解 5 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 阅读理解 6 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 阅读理解 7 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 阅读理解 8 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 阅读理解 9 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 阅读理解
