1、国家公共英语五级（阅读理解）练习试卷 15及答案与解析 Part C Directions: Answer questions 71-80 by referring to the following games. Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once. 0 A = Passage One B = Passage Two C= Passage Three In which passage
2、Passage One Do you know what kind of people give drugs to their children? Do you still know where in the world people take drugs before going to work? The answers are simple ordinary people, just about everywhere. And the drug in question is caffeine. Scientists estimate that over 90 percent of the
3、 worlds population take caffeine daily. Adults drink it in tea and coffee. Children drink it in Coca Cola and similar soft drinks. It is also found in chocolate. As a result, most people in most places across the world at any one time are under the influence of the drug. Not surprisingly there have
4、been many scientific investigations into the exact effects of caffeine. Most agree that it stimulates the nervous system and helps the body make efficient use of food energy. This is why many people across Asia drink tea with food and why Westerners often eat their meals with a cup of coffee. The ge
5、neral result of caffeine is to make people more alter and focused. Unlike alcohol, caffeine dose not change your behavior. But it dose increase your ability to do things. Passage Two Both tea and coffee were introduced to the West around 300 years ago. The effect of these new drinks was immediately.
6、 In London, coffee houses were filled with people making plans, talking business and doing deals. The coffee houses themselves later developed into Londons financial center. And the deals done in the coffee houses were partly responsible for a rapid increase in British trade. History was moving in t
7、hat direction anyway. But the arrival of coffee speeded everything up. Weinberg and Bealer back up their claims with scientific research which shows that frequent use of caffeine causes people to grow new brain cells. They also point to research which shows that people with caffeine in their system
8、perform a range of tasks better than those without it. Without caffeine, would the human race come so far and so fast? Caffeine helped the West make a great leap forward a few hundred years ago. In China and Japan, it has been around for far longer than that in the form of tea. It could go back furt
9、her that people realize. The Japanese tea ceremony might be an example of what anthropologists call “ceremonial chemistry“. This is a practice amongst ancient and primitive peoples of taking mind altering drugs as part of religious festivities. Passage Three Tea has around 50% less caffeine in it th
10、an coffee, and there are real differences between tea and coffee drinking cultures. In Britain, the European tea drinking culture, workers have been known to do on strike to demand a ten-minute tea break in the working day. Tea gives people enough caffeine to help put up with a boring job or help th
11、em recover after a hard day. It is something to share with friends. You build relationships over a cup of tea. But you get results with coffee. Coffee gives you that extra dose of caffeine. It is associated with staying up all night to Finish a business plan or study for exams. When Starbucks opened
12、 their first coffee shops in China they got a lot of publicity. Much of this was because another fashionable foreign business had come to China. But maybe it was a symbol that coffee culture had arrived. From now on, everything was going to get faster. It is worth thinking about. But dont think for
13、too long. There is much work to be done. Drink up and get busy. 国家公共英语五级（阅读理解）练习试卷 15答案与解析 Part C Directions: Answer questions 71-80 by referring to the following games. Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once. 【知识模块
14、 阅读理解 1 【正确答案 】 C 【试题解析】 “Passage Three”的第一段倒数第四句陈述到 “You build relationships over a cup of tea ”，因此答案为 C。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 “Passage Two”的第二段第二句陈述到 “In China and Japan， it has been around for far longer than that in the form of tea ”，因此答案为 B。 【知识 模块】 阅读理解 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “Passage One
15、的第二段倒数第二句陈述到 “The general result of caffeine is to make people more alter and focused ”，因此答案为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “Passage Three”的第一段第二句陈述到 “In Britain， the European tea drinking culture， workers have been known to do on strike to demand a ten-minute tea break in the working day ”，文章中只
16、提到了英国人喝茶，因此答案为 C。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 “Passage Two”的第一段最后一句 “Without caffeine, would the human race come so far and so fast?”，反问的语气表达了肯定的含义，因此答案为 B。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “Passage One”的第一段陈述到 “It is also found in chocolate. ”，“It”指 “caffeine”， 因此答案为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】
17、 “Passage Two”的第一段陈述到 “But the arrival of coffee speeded everything up ”， 因此答案为 B。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 “Passage Three”的第二段中， Starbucks在中国开设了他们的第一家咖啡店， 这表明另外一种时尚的外国生意登陆中国，第三句陈述到 “But maybe it was a symbol the at coffee culture had arrived.” 因此答案为 C。 【知 识模块】 阅读理解 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “Passage One”的第一段陈述到 “Scientists estimate that over 90 percent of the worlds population take caffeine daily.”， 因此答案为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 “Passage Two”的第一段第三句陈述到 “In London, coffee houses were filled with people making plans, talking business and doing deals.”， 因此答案为 A。 【知识模块】 阅读理解
