1、专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷 89 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.1 “Surfing the Internet can be as addictive as drugs, alcohol or gambling.“ a university of Pittsburgh researcher said last month. In a study of almost 400 men and women in Canada, researchers found Internet addiction hooked people into spending 40 hours or more a week online, most of
3、ten involved in role-playing games or engaging in chat room discussions. One 17-year-old boy was so addicted to Internet activities that his parents had to admit him to a drug-alcohol rehabilitation hospital for 10 days for treatment. One woman, described by friends, family and children as the perfe
4、ct homemaker, wife and mother, became so addicted to the Internet that she would not cook, clean or do the laundry and was neglecting her children and husband because she was spending as many as 12 hours a day talking to acquaintances on the Internet. Finally her husband said, “choose me or the comp
5、uter.“ She divorced him. Psychologist Kimberly Young, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburghs Bradford Campus, found that 76 percent of the subjects in the study spend an average of 40 hours a week on the Internet.Of the 396 people who met Youngs criteria for addicted Inte
6、rnet users, 157 were men, 239 women. The men were younger with an average age of 29, the women averaged 43 years of age.The largest group of addicted users of the Internet were people who were not working outside the home: that is, homemakers, students, and those who were disabled or retired.In a pr
7、esentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, 82 percent of the addicted users said they had slowly drifted into their addictions.Young described the Internet as any online system such as America online, CompuServe, Prodigy, computer bulletin board systems or
8、 the Internet itself, accessed by an Internet Provider.What does this passage mainly talk about?（A）Internet can be as harmful as drugs.（B） Internet is very important nowadays.（C） People are easily addicted to Internet.（D）Women are more easily addicted to Internet.2 Following divorce, life for you an
9、d your children can be unnecessarily complicated by a variety of problems you simply hadnt foreseen.Yet once you understand how and why your life has changed after divorce, and what you can do about it, you can gain a fresh perspective and move in the direction of improving your life.Richard Crawfor
10、d was only six years old when his mother, a beautiful 32-year-old woman, first brought him to me. She claimed that Richard had “problems“ adjusting to the divorce shes acquired only five months previously. But after several sessions, she tearfully confessed that bringing Richard to see me was only a
11、n excuse to get help for herself. “I felt shy at first about telling you the truth, but I simply have to get the whole thing off my mind. Since I divorced Clive about five months ago, my lifes collapsed. I feel so depressed, lonely, rejected, and afraid of the future!“And now you feel the divorce wa
12、s a big mistake?“ I asked.“Yes. But I was the one who wanted the divorce, and now I feel so miserable and depressed. I guess I m too mixed up to think in a clear way.“ She replied.“Its very common for somebody to realize gradually that life after a divorce can be more hurtful, in so many unexpected
13、ways, than the life they endured with their former spouse(配偶). Right now things looked pretty grim and hopeless. But youll survive, and hopefully, start a new and better life for yourself and Richard. “You should not use Richard as an excuse not to be socially active. Youve a right to build a new li
14、fe for yourself, to change your style of living to suit your new circumstances. Your self-confidence can be built up again through happy, pleasant, rewarding social experiences with new friends, new hobbies, and a new life style. Dont let guilt feeling stand in your way.In this selection, the author
15、 mainly talked about_.（A）how Mrs. Crawford had divorced her husband（B） how the mother and her son felt after the divorce（C） what a single mother should do to adjust to the new life after divorce（D）his sympathy for a woman who was divorced by her husband3 One thing almost everyone is agreed on, inclu
16、ding Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards but recognition of some sortpreferably measurable. If the boy turns out to be a preacher, instead of a businessman, thats all right. But the bigger his church and congregation, t
17、he more successful he is judged to be.A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of Gods love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to
18、 be settled. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement.There was the determination of the immigrant to gain in the new world what had been denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off
19、the immigrant onus(负担) by still more success and still more rise in the fluid, classless society. Brothers didnt compete within the family for the favor of the parents as in Europe, but strove for success in the outer world, along paths of their own choosing.What is the main idea of the passage?（A）A
20、mericans place a high valuation upon success.（B） There are many ways to gain success in America.（C） How success is measured in America.（D）The Puritan believe in success.4 Exchange a glance with someone, and then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second l
21、onger, and you have made a different statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a persons gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted?
22、 To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up (打量) and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to emit a signal telling others you wan
23、t to be left alone. So you cut off eye contact, which sociologist Erving Goffman(1963) calls “a dimming of the lights“. You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passengers eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will mak
24、e the other person exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself. If you hold eye contact for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and the situation. For instance a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. The
25、y typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, and then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again. But if one man gives another man a 3-second-plus stare, he signals “I know you,“ “I am interested in you,“ or “You look peculiar and I am curious about you
26、.“ This type of stare often produces hostile feelings. The passage mainly discusses _. （A）the limitation of eye contact（B） the exchange of ideas through eye contact（C） proper behavior in various situations（D）the role of eye contact in interpersonal communication5 In the second half of year, many pow
27、erful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean seas. Of these, only about a half a dozen generate the strong, circling winds of 75 miles per hour or more that give them hurricane status, and several usually make their way to the coast. There they cause millions of dollars of damage, an
28、d bring death to large number of people.The great storms that hit the coast start as innocent circling disturbances even thousands of miles out to sea. As they travel aimlessly over water warmed by the summer sun, they are carried westward by the trade winds. When conditions are just right, warm, mo
29、ist air flows in at the bottom of such a disturbance, moves upward through it and comes out at the top. In the process, the moisture in this warm air produces rain, and with it the heat that is converted to energy in the form of strong winds. As the heat increases, the young hurricane begins to swir
30、l in a counter-clockwise motion.The average life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost more power than we can imagine. The energy in the heat released by a hurricanes rainfall in a single day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six mo
31、nths. Water, not wind, is the main source of death and destruction in a hurricane. A typical hurricane brings 6 to 12 inch downpours resulting in sudden floods. Worst of all is the powerful movement of the sea the mountains of water moving toward the low-pressure hurricane center. The water level ri
32、ses as much as 15 feet above normal as it moves toward shore.Which of the following best summarizes the passage?（A）The HurricaneIts Harms anti Benefits.（B） The Benefits of Hurricane.（C） The Hurricane and Its Great Energy.（D）The Disaster Caused by Hurricanes.专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷 89 答案与解析一、Part III Reading C
33、omprehensionDirections: 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.1 【正确答案】 C【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案】 C【知识模块】 阅读理解3 【正确答案】 A【知识模块】 阅读理解4 【正确答案】 D【知识模块】 阅读理解5 【正确答案】 C【知识模块】 阅读理解
