1、专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷 56 及答案与解析一、Part III Reading ComprehensionDirections: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on th
2、e Answer Sheet.0 The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unstated, objectively selected fact. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment confronting American journalism
3、to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing as “ local“ news because any event in the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms,
4、indeed, of our very way of life.There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on (着手) interpretation, you are entering choppy (波浪起伏的) and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall conf
5、ine himself to the “facts“. This insistence raises two questions; What are the facts? Are the bare facts enough?As to the first query (疑问) consider how a so-called “factual“ story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restrict
6、ed, he selects the ten which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. (This is an important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph.) This is Judgment Numbe
7、r Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three.Thus, in the presentation of a so-called “factual“ or “objective“ story, at least three judgments are involved.
8、And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their research resources, their general background, and their “news neutralist,“ arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.The two areas of judgment, presentation of
9、the news and its interpretation, are both objective processesas objective, that is, as any human being can be.1 The author is implying that_.（A）in writing a factorial story, the writer must use judgment（B） the writer should limit himself to the facts（C） the writer should make the story interesting（D
10、）reporters slant their stories1 Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesnt generally experience the atmospheric sound and lightning that can accompany those rains, it is still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions ab
11、out thunder and lightening.The reason why these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashi
12、ng up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when its actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think we see, wed still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud,
13、 and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, theres enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.Parents can use thunde
14、r and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interv
15、al between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark.2 It can be concluded from the passage that_.（A）we should not believe what we see or hear（B） things moving downward are more noticeable（C） people often have wrong concepts about ordinary phenomena（D）adults are not as
16、 good as children in observing certain natural phenomena2 Our surroundings are being polluted faster than nature and mans present efforts cannot prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materia
17、ls.What can explain and solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by manby his desire for a modern way of life. We make “increasing industrialization“ our chief aim. So we are often ready to offer everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children.
18、 There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the benefits of our modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, pollution has become a serious problem.Isnt it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going and wh
19、y? It makes one think of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker: “Ive some good news and some bad news. The good news is that were making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that were lost and dont know where were going.“ The sad fact is that
20、 this becomes a true story when we speak of our modern society.3 Man cannot prevent the world from being polluted because_.（A）the population of the world is increasing fast（B） people use too many man-made materials（C） we have more and more industry（D）we are producing more cars, trucks and buses4 Acc
21、ording to the passage, what does man value most among the following?（A）Industry.（B） Health.（C） Clean air.（D）The future of the children.4 Smith considered himself to have been very fortunate in life. From his father he had inherited, at the age of seventeen, an easy-going disposition (性情), five hundr
22、ed pounds in cash from a life insurance policy, and a good mathematical brain. The first legacy had enabled him to endure without resentment (怨恨) the supervision of a reluctant and ill-tempered guardian (监护人) ; the second had enabled him to use the scholarship he had won to a university; the third r
23、esulted in his gaining a science doctorate in his middle twenties. By the time he was thirty he was in the employ of a large engineering concern and running one of the experimental departments, a little surprised that he should be financially so well rewarded for pursuing his personal interests.At t
24、he age of thirty-two he had made his first trip abroad. It had been a success. To their delight, his employers discovered that, in addition to technical ability which earned the respect of all those whom he dealt with, he had the faculty (才能) of making himself popular, which was rare in a man of his
25、 particular qualifications. And so, in the years that followed, occasional trips abroad had become part of his working life. The excitement he felt on arriving in strange cities never dulled. He enjoyed meeting men of other nationalities and learning some knowledge of their languages, especially the
26、 former. It did not take him long to appreciate that all men were individuals and that none could truly be called “typical“ of his nation.5 It is suggested in the passage that men of Smiths qualifications_.（A）earned respect easily（B） were always successful in their careers（C） traveled abroad quite o
27、ften（D）were not usually popular socially5 Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the radio. At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and traffic to move freely. Neon lighting u
28、sed in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many labor-saving devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside lamp and are fast asleep, electricity is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms a
29、ir-conditioned. Every day, trains, trolley-buses, and trams take us to and from work. We rarely bother to consider why and how they rununtil something goes wrong.In the summer of 1959, something did go wrong with the power-plant that provides New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life c
30、ame almost to a standstill. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lift stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. F
31、amous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting as the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to stand by in case of emergency, they were just as confused and helpless as anybody else.Mea
32、nwhile, similar disorder prevailed in the home. New York can be stifling in the summer and this year was no exception. Cool, air-conditioned apartments became furnaces. Food went bad in refrigerators. Cakes and joints of meat remained uncooked in cooling ovens, and people sat impatient and frightene
33、d in the dark as if an unseen enemy had landed from Mars. When the lights came on again, hardly a person in the city can have turned on a switch without reflecting how great a servant he had at his finger-tips.6 The passage suggests that most large modern cities_.（A）would be better off without elect
34、ricity（B） are completely dependent on electricity（C） need air-conditioned buildings（D）are terrible places to live in7 After the night without electricity, _.（A）people would no longer buy air-conditioners（B） people would design something replaces air-conditioners（C） people would pay more attention to
35、 the electricity（D）people would think the disadvantages of the electricity专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷 56 答案与解析一、Part III Reading ComprehensionDirections: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.【知识模块】 阅读理解1 【正确答案】 A【知识模块】 阅读理解【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案】 C【知识模块】 阅读理解【知识模块】 阅读理解3 【正确答案】 C【知识模块】 阅读理解4 【正确答案】 A【知识模块】 阅读理解【知识模块】 阅读理解5 【正确答案】 D【知识模块】 阅读理解【知识模块】 阅读理解6 【正确答案】 B【知识模块】 阅读理解7 【正确答案】 C【知识模块】 阅读理解
