1、MBA（英语）阅读理解练习试卷 3 及答案与解析一、Section III Reading ComprehensionDirections: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.0 Some houses are designed to be smart. Others have smart designs. An example of the second t
2、ype of house won an Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects. Located on the shore of Sullivans Island off the coast of South Carolina, the award-winning cube-shaped beach house was built to replace one smashed to pieces by Hurricane Hugo 10 years ago. In September 1989, Hugo st
3、ruck South Carolina, killing 18 people and damaging or destroying 36,000 homes in the state. Before Hugo, many new houses built along South Carolinas shoreline were poorly constructed, and enforcement of building codes wasnt strict, according to architect Ray Huff, who created the cleverly-designed
4、beach house. In Hugos wake, all new shoreline houses are required to meet stricter, better-enforced codes. The new beach house on Sullivans Island should be able to withstand a Category 3 hurricane with peak winds of 179 to 209 kilometers per hour. At first sight, the house on Sullivans Island looks
5、 anything but hurricane-poor. Its redwood shell makes it resemble “a large party lantern“ at night, according to one observer. But looks can be deceiving. The houses wooden frame is reinforced with long steel rods to give it extra strength. To further protect the house from hurricane damage, Huff ra
6、ised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings-long, slender columns of wood anchored deep in the sand. Pilings might appear insecure, but they are strong enough to support the weight of the house. They also elevate the house above storm surges. The pilings allow the surges to run under the hou
7、se instead of running into it. “These swells of water come ashore at tremendous speeds and cause most of the damage done to beach-front buildings,“ said Huff. Huff designed the timber pilings to be partially concealed by the houses ground-to-roof shell. “The shell masks the pilings so that the house
8、 doesnt look like its standing with its pant legs pulled up,“ said Huff. In the event of a storm surge, the shell should break apart and let the waves rush under the house, the architect explained.1 After the tragedy caused by Hurricane Hugo, new houses built along South Carolinas shoreline are requ
9、ired（A）to be easily reinforced.（B） to look smarter in design.（C） to meet stricter building standards.（D）to be designed in the shape of cubes. 2 The award-winning beach house is quite strong because（A）it is strengthened by steel rods.（B） it is made of redwood.（C） it is in the shape of a shell.（D）it i
10、s built with timber and concrete. 3 Huff raised the house 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings in order to（A）withstand peak winds of about 200 km/hr.（B） anchor stronger pilings deep in the sand.（C） break huge sea waves into smaller ones.（D）prevent water from rushing into the house. 4 The main
11、 function of the shell is（A）to strengthen the pilings of the house.（B） to give the house a better appearance.（C） to protect the wooden frame of the house.（D）to slow down the speed of the swelling water. 5 It can be inferred from the passage that the shell should be（A）fancy-looking.（B） waterproof.（C）
12、 easily breakable.（D）extremely strong. 5 On average, American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet. Involvement in sports, in particular,
13、 rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, childrens leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%. “Children are affected by the same time crunch that affects their parents,“ says Sandra
14、 Hofferth, who headed the recent study of childrens timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner“ households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22
15、 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.) All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. “Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself,“ says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School. U
16、nstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing “free time“watching television. But that, believe
17、it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If theyre spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids arent replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Lets face it, whos got
18、the time?6 By mentioning “the same time crunch“ (Para. 2) Sandra Hofferth means（A）children have little time to play with their parents.（B） children are not taken good care of by their working parents.（C） both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure time.（D）both parents and children have tro
19、uble managing their time. 7 According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is（A）quite convincing.（B） partially true.（C） totally groundless.（D）rather confusing. 8 According to the author a child develops better if（A）he has plenty of time reading and studying.（B） he i
20、s left to play with his peers in his own way.（C） he has more time participating in school activities.（D）he is free to interact with his working parents. 9 The author is concerned about the fact that American kids（A）are engaged in more and more structured activities.（B） are increasingly neglected by
21、their working mothers.（C） are spending more and more time watching TV.（D）are involved less and less in household work. 10 We can infer from the passage that（A）extracurricular activities promote childrens intelligence.（B） most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off.（C） efforts to get
22、 kids interested in reading have been fruitful.（D）most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children. MBA（英语）阅读理解练习试卷 3 答案与解析一、Section III Reading ComprehensionDirections: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on
23、ANSWER SHEET 1.【知识模块】 阅读理解1 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 细节题。文章第三段第二句话指出“all new shoreline houses are required to meet stricter， better enforced codes.”选项 C 中的 standard 与文中的code 是一个意思，都是说要依照更严格的标准，所以 C 正确。文中提到的enforced 是指 better enforced codes，修饰的是 code，而不是 house，所以 A 不对；文章列举的例子指的是第二类的房子，而第二类的房子是 smart designed，而
24、不是looks smart，所以 B 不对；文中只是说这所房子看上去像立方体，但没有强调所有的房子都要这样，所以 D 也不对。【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 细节题。文章第四段最后一句话指出，这些房子的木结构还用钢筋进一步加固了。这与 A 项符合。文中只是说房子是用红木做的，并没有说这是房子坚固的原因，所以 B 不对；文中说房子像一个壳，也没有说这是原因，所以 C也不对；文中只是说房子用钢筋进行了加固，没有提到房子用了混凝土，所以 D也不对。 【知识模块】 阅读理解3 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 细节题。根据第四段中的“The pilings allow the su
25、rges to run under the house instead of running into it.”可知，这种设计使浪潮不会冲向房子，这与 D项意思相符。抵抗飓风是房子的特点，但文中没有说这是因为抬高了房子，所以A 不对；B 只是文中陈述的一个事实，并不是文中指出的原因；文中没有提到 C。 【知识模块】 阅读理解4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 细节题。最后一段建筑师指出：shell 让房子显得更漂亮、更好看一些。这说明 B 正确。A、C、D 都是文中提到的内容，但都与题目的意思不符。 【知识模块】 阅读理解5 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 归纳题。文章最后一句话指出：在出现风暴时
26、，shell 会分开，让风浪在房子下面冲过。这与选项 C 中的 easily breakable 意思相符。A 项“看起来花哨”、B 项“防水”以及 D 项“极为坚固”都与文章的意思不符。 【知识模块】 阅读理解【知识模块】 阅读理解6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 词义题。根据上下文理解可知，引用 Sandra Hofferth 的话是作为例证，time crunch 是指前面的 “childrens leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%”。这与 C 项中“suffer from lack of leisure tim
27、e”意思相符。第二段讨论的是父母与孩子交流的时间问题，并不是 play 问题，所以 A 不对；第二段只提到父母与孩子交流时间的情况，父母由于工作原因与孩子交流时间少，并非对孩子照顾不周，所以 B 也不对；本文是在讨论 leisure time 问题，而不是 have trouble managing their time，所以 D 也不对。 【知识模块】 阅读理解7 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 细节题。根据第二段括号内那两句话(尤其是 Nevertheless 和 In contrast)可知，作者只是部分赞同 the reason given by Sandra Hofferth。这与 B
28、 的意思相符。作者既不是完全赞同，也不是全盘否定，所以 A、C 不对；作者并非认为 Sandra Hofferth 的理由模糊不清，所以 D 也不对。 【知识模块】 阅读理解8 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 细节题。第三段首先引用 T. Berry Brazelton 的话，接着指出：没有严格组织的游戏激励独立思考能力，有助于孩子与其伙伴发展友谊。这与 B 的意思相符。A 与第三段最后一句话的意思不符；C 恰好是作者不赞成的观点；作者没有提及孩子和工作中的父母交流的问题，所以 D 不对。 【知识模块】 阅读理解9 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 细节题。文章开篇就提出了作者关注的问题，即孩子们的
29、 free time越来越少，然后分析了其中的原因和弊端，指出：free time 的减少正是由于structured activities 的增多造成的。这与 A 的意思相符。第二段只是引用相关研究结果，并没有表明外出工作的母亲更加忽视孩子，所以 B 不对；从最后一段可知，孩子们将增加的 free time 的 1/4 用来看电视，并不表示把“把越来越多的时间用来看电视”，而且作者并未关注孩子看电视的时间问题，所以 C 不对；根据第一段第二句话可知，D 与作者的意思正好相反。 【知识模块】 阅读理解10 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 推论题。第四段指出：即使孩子们用在看电视的时间少了，他们也绝不会把这部分时间花在阅读上。这说明，家长认为，孩子应该多阅读。这与 D的意思相符。对孩子有益的是 unstructured play，而不是 extracurricular activities，所以 A 不对；B 与文章第四段第三句话的意思相反；C 与文章第四段第四句话的意思不符。 【知识模块】 阅读理解
