阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　According to Alvin Toffler, author of the best seller Future Shock, America has become a throwaway society. Cardboard milk containers and rockets are only two examples. Such products are created for short - term or one - time use. They are becoming more numerous and more important to modem living. Toffler thinks that man's relationships with things will grow increasingly temporary.

　　As proof of this trend (趋势), Toffler gives examples of such products as disposable diapers (一次性尿布), kleenes (面巾纸), and non - returnable bottles. Vegetables are encased in plastic sacks. They can be dropped into a pan of boiling water and thrown away after the meal. TV dinners are cooked in throwaway trays. They are even served in them.

　　All these things are quickly used up. Then they are ruthlessly eliminated (永远消除). In Toffler's view, the American home has become little more than a large processing (加工) plant. Toffler further believes that his countrymen are developing throwaway values to go with their throwaway products. He says that easy disposability leads to shorter man - thing relationships. People were once linked with a few objects for a long time. Now they are linked with a series of objects for brief period.

1．Which of the following best expresses the main idea of this passage?

[　　]

A．Introduce Alvin Toffler's best seller Future Shock.

B．Discuss the throwaway problem in America.

C．Analyse(分析) the relationship between man and things.

D．Describe the throwaway products made in USA.

2．What proves that man's relationship with things will grow increasingly temporary?

[　　]

A．Poor quality leads to the short - term use of products.

B．People do not like one - time use products.

C．Products tend to be disposable.

D．People refuse to use disposable objects.

3．What does Toffler mean by saying the American home has little more than a large processing plant?

[　　]

A．In America there are a large number of plants in the neighbourhood.

B．The American home is like a big consuming (消费) factory.

C．The American home is becoming a small processing factory.

D．Each home is a plant where processing of products is done.

4．Which of the statements is implied by the author?

[　　]

A．Throwaway products are widely used because they are easily produced.

B．Using throwaway products is too wasteful.

C．Throwaway products play an important role in American society.

D．Throwaway objects should be stopped.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　The biggest safety - threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, but the man with the portable computer in business class. In the past 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100 incidents that have been caused by electromagnetic interference (电磁干扰). The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts point the blame at portable computers, radios and cassette players and mobile telephones.

　　RTCA, an organization which advises the aviation (航空) industry, has recommended that all airlines ban (禁止) such devices from being used during “critical” stages of flight, particularly take - oft and landing. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during the flight. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines. And although some airlines forbid passengers from using such equipment during take - off and landing, most are reluctant (勉强) to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during the flight.

　　The difficulty is predicating how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircraft's computers. Experts know that portable devices give out radiation, which affects wave lengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication. But, because they have not been able to reproduce these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing whether the interference might be dangerous or not.

　　The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable (易受损的) to interference raises the risk that terrorists may use a radio system in order to damage navigation equipment.

1．The passage above mainly talks about ________.

[　　]

A．a new rule for airlines

B．the disadvantages of electronic devices

C．a possible cause of aircraft crashes

D．safety measures for air flight

2．Over 100 air- crash incidents have taken place during the past fifteen years, the reason is probably that ________.

[　　]

A．they may have been caused by the damage to the radio system

B．they may have taken place during the take - off and landing

C．they were proved to have been caused by the passengers' portable computers

D．the pilots are not expert at electromagnetics

3．Few airlines wish to entirely forbid passengers to use electric devices because ________.

[　　]

A．they don't believe in such a danger as radio interference

B．the harmful effect of them is yet to be proved

C．most passengers don't want to take a plane which doesn't allow the use of radios or cassette players

D．they will take other safety measures

4．It can be inferred from the passage that the writer ________.

[　　]

A．is in favor of forbidding passenger's use of electronic devices completely

B．hasn't formed his own opinion on the problem

C．regards it as unreasonable to forbid using electric devices during the flight completely

D．strongly believe that air incidents are caused by electromagnetic interference

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　When I was a boy, I belonged to the Boy Scouts, so I used to go camping every summer, and once something happened which I have never been able to explain.

　　We were camping in a place above a river. After arriving, we all rushed down to the river to have a swim. Standing by the river, we noticed that it was surrounded by cliffs (悬崖). If someone wanted to reach the river at this point, he had to walk past our camp.

　　Several days later, the scoutmaster had to he away for a day. That afternoon, we had supper early. We were sitting round the fire, eating and talking, when a man walked past and went down towards the river. We all felt that this man looked very strange, but, because each of us was afraid of looking very stupid, no one said anything.

　　We ate rather slowly, talking as long as possible. After finishing, we collected our plates together so that we could take them to the river where we always washed them. But no one moved towards the river- we stood looking at each other ashamed. Then all shouting at once, we began talking about the man who had walked past us. We agreed how strange he looked and we wandered what he could be doing by the river. We knew that he could only return by passing through our camp.

　　An hour passed. Then one of the boys suggested we should creep (悄悄移动) down by the river so that we could see what the man was doing. Moving very slowly and keeping in the shadow, we crept down towards the bank. One boy climbed a tree so that he could see everything clearly. He called to us that there was no one there, so we ran down to the bank, looking everywhere carefully. We could not understand where the man had gone.

　　When it got dark, we went back to our camp feeling bewildered. We told the scoutmaster what had happened in the evening. Smiling, he doubted that we had seen the man, but finally suggested we go and look again. We did, but there was no one there.

　　Many years have passed, but I still remember it as if it were yesterday. What did we see? I do not know.

1．The writer in the text mainly tells us ________.

[　　]

A．the story of his childhood

B．a strange camping experience

C．about a stranger by the river

D．about a good place for camping

2．Why did the boys eat their supper slowly?

[　　]

A．They wanted to delay going to the river bank.

B．They were waiting for their scoutmaster.

C．They had a supper earlier than usual.

D．They were talking while eating.

3．The word “bewildered” in the text probably means ________.

[　　]

A．ashamed

B．nervous

C．unable to understand

D．eager to know something

4．The writer still remembers the event because ________.

[　　]

A．the boys acted foolishly

B．the camping place is beautiful

C．there has been no explanation for the event

D．he particularly enjoyed his camping that summer

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Tens of thousands of baby penguins (企鹅) face starvation after two giant icebergs broke off the Antarctic ice sheet and blocked their parents' way to feeding areas.

　　Adelie and emperor penguins nesting on the Ross Island are now forced to walk long distances over the icebergs to obtain food for their chicks, born during the November-December breeding (繁育) season.

　　“The penguins are having to walk 50 km further than usual to reach the sea,” said Dean Peterson. The flightless birds travel on land at just one to two km per hour.

　　The problem could halve (平分) the chick survival (存活) rate at the three Adelie penguin colonies on Ross Islandestimated at 130,000 breeding pairs. In all Antarotica, there is an estimated three million Adelie penguin breeding pairs.

　　Around 12,000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins, the largest penguin species at up to four feet tall, are also affected.

　　The icebergs broke from the vast Ross Ice shelf, south of New Zealand, in March 2000 and are now sandwiched between Ross Island and Franklin Island, 93 miles to the north.

　　Scientist Peterson estimated that penguins were taking days to make the round trip to the sea to fish, and then back to their nests to regurgitate (反刍) food for their chicks.

　　“At that point they were quite tired and probably don't have much to regurgitate,” he said. Penguins already have long odds on reaching adulthood, with only 10 percent surviving beyond adolescence(青春期).

　　“We are probably looking at halving that againwe are sitting down at maybe the five percent rate,” Peterson said, adding some penguins already appeared to be leaving the Ross Island to breed elsewhere.

　　Penguins come ashore to breed and then take it in turns to leave the nest to fetch fish and other sea food to feed their young.

　　Researchers say large blocks of the Antarctic ice sheet are breaking off for several reasons, including global warming.

　　Emperor and Adelie penguins are limited to Antarctica. The emperors weigh up to 66 pounds while Adelie penguins are much smaller, weighing around 11 pounds.

1．After the long trip, the mother penguins ________.

[　　]

A．are too tired to feed their young

B．can't bring up much to feed their young

C．are too hungry themselves

D．have already ate up all the food

2．The underlined phrase “have long odds on” probably means ________.

[　　]

3．From what scientist Peterson said, we can infer that ________.

[　　]

A．the survival rate of penguins is dropping

B．there are few penguins left on Ross Island

C．the present situation can cause the penguins to die out

D．penguins usually have a high survival rate

4．Which of the following best supports the main idea of the passage?

[　　]

A．Global warming caused the icebergs to break off.

B．The long trip made mother penguins too tired to feed their young.

C．The change of weather affects penguins.

D．Broken icebergs endanger penguin chicks.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and self - conscious; that is, they are concerned with their own appearance and actions. Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?

　　It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people unfavorably. A person's self - concept is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people's reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a deep effect on all areas of their lives.

　　Shy people have low self - esteem (respect), are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance that they are doing “the right thing”. Shy people are very sensitive to criticism. It makes them feel inferior(自卑).

　　They also find it difficult to be pleased by praises because they believe they are unworthy of praise. A shy person may respond to a praise with a statement like this one: “You're just saying that to make me feel good. I know it's not true.” It is clear that, while self - awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.

　　Can shyness be completely got rid of, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcome shyness with determination. It is important for people to accept their weakness as well as their strength, for example, not fair for them to label themselves inferior because they have to be realistic. Living on the impossible leads to a sense of inferiority.

　　Each one of us has his or her own characteristics. We are interested in our own personal ways. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our chances for a rich and fulfilling life.

1．The first paragraph is mainly about ________.

[　　]

A．the cause of shyness

B．the effect of shyness on people

C．the questions in the minds of shy people

D．the thoughts of shy people

2．According to the writer, self - awareness is ________.

[　　]

A．a weak point of shy people

B．the cause of unhappiness

C．a good characteristic

D．harmful to people

3．What is the shy people's reaction to praise?

[　　]

A．They feel it is not true.

B．They are very sensitive to it.

C．They feel they are worthy of it.

D．They are pleased with it.

4．We can learn from the text that shyness can ________.

[　　]

A．enable us to understand ourselves better

B．block our chances for a successful life

C．have nothing to do with lack of self - esteem

D．help to live up to our full development

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Here are some advertisements taken from a newspaper.

　　(1)

　　Dear Drew Carter,

　　Your first year on this earth has been a pleasure ride for all of us. We love you!

　　Love,

　　Dad and Mom and many friends.

　　(2)

　　Lawlis - Clarke

　　The Doctors Virgil and Marjorie Lawlis are pleased to announce the engagement (订婚) of their daughter Diane Susan to Mr. Robert Brent Clarke, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Clarke of Herford, Texas.

　　A spring wedding is planned in Houston.

　　(3)

　　Isbell - Foss

　　Mr. and Mss. Davis K. Isbell announce the marriage of their daughter Dang to Mr. Stanley Foss, son of Mrs. John Sipe of Ada, Minnesota.

　　The wedding will be early April at Abiding Love Lutheran Church.

　　(4)

　　Story - Kurio

　　Miss Stephanie Story and Mr. Warren Kurio were married February 5, at half past seven o'clock in the evening at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. The bride (新娘) is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbed Brule Story Jr. of Dallas. The groom (新郎) is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stanley Kurio of Austin.

1．What would be the best title for the first advertisement?

[　　]

A．Happy 1^st Birthday

B．One Year Old

C．Our One - Year - Old Son

D．We Love You

2．Lawlis and Clarke are going to get married ________.

[　　]

A．where Clarke's parents live

B．against their parents' will

C．to Lawlis's parents' joy

D．in a church

3．Who got or will get married in spring?

[　　]

A．Neither Lawlis and Clarke nor Isbell and Foss.

B．Either Isbell and Foss or Story and Kurio.

C．Neither Lawlis and Clarke nor Story and Kurio.

D．Not only Lawlis and Clarke but also Isbell and Foss.

4．Who are now a married couple?

[　　]

A．Dang Isbell and Foss.

B．Story and Kurio.

C．The text doesn't say.

D．Lawlis and Clarke.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Museums have changed. They are no longer places that one “should” go but to enjoy.

　　At a science museum in Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Children's Museum in New York, you can play an African drum. There are no “Do Not Touch” sign in some other museums in the USA.

　　More and more museum directors have realized that people learn best when they can become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, the visitors are encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover scientific rules for themselves.

　　The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also help people feel at home in the world of science. If people don't understand science, they will be afraid of it; and if they are afraid of science, they will not make the best use of it.

　　One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and spare time. Another cause is the growing number of young people in the population. Many of them are college students or college graduates. They see things in a new and different way. They want art that they can take part in. The same is true of science and history.

　　The old museums have been changing and the government is encouraging the building of new, modem museums. In the States and Canada, there are more than 6000 museums, almost twice as many as there were 25 years ago.

1．The directors of the museums have realized ________.

[　　]

A．people learn best when they look at something

B．visitors prefer to learn from museums

C．people are interested if they take part

D．the importance of scientific rules

2．Why has the growing population of young people caused the changes in museums?

[　　]

A．Because they are stronger.

B．Because they have less spare time.

C．Because they are better educated.

D．Because there are more young people.

3．Twenty - five years ago there were only about ________ museums in all the United States and Canada.

[　　]

4．Which of the following is not shown in Paragraph Two?

[　　]

A．People are encouraged to take part in what they are seeing.

B．People are enjoying themselves fully in modern museums.

C．People will understand science better by trying to discover the scientific rules themselves.

D．People should go to a museum to learn something.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time agoand decided it's not for you.

　　The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers there are, after all about 60 million of them, work with them, play with them, and get along with them very well.

　　And finally it's a pretty safe bet that you're open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and non-smokers or you wouldn't be reading this.

　　And those three things make you really important today.

　　Because they mean that yours is the voice not the smoker's, and not the anti-smoker's that will determine how much of society's efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us together.

　　For one sad result of the emphasis (强调) on building walls is the different uses of millions of dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, still strike the non-smoker as well as the smoker.

　　One famous health organization to cite (引用) but a single instance, now spends 98 cents of every publicly-contributed dollar on “education”, much of it in anti-smoking propaganda (宣传) and only 2 cents on research.

　　There will always be some who want to build walls, who want to separate people from people and to a certain degree, even these may serve society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, fairly speaking, helped to know choices more clearly.

　　But our guess, and certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greater number who know that walls can't stand long, and over the long run, we can serve society's interests better by tolerating one another and by working together.

　　Whatever advantage walls may have, they can never move our society toward fundamental solutions. People who work together on common problems, common solutions can.

1．What is the implied meaning of the word “wall” in the passage?

[　　]

A．Diseases striking nonsmokers as well as smokers.

B．Rules to forbid smoking.

C．Separation of smokers from nonsmokers.

D．Anti-smoking propaganda.

2．Which of the following statements is true about the millions of publicly-contributed dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases striking non-smokers as well as smokers?

[　　]

A．It emphasizes on building walls.

B．It is too much on “education”.

C．It is enough on research.

D．It is a sad result.

3．From the passage we can infer that ________.

[　　]

A．the majority of the adults are non-smokers

B．many walls will be built to separate the smokers and nonsmokers

C．smoking as a social problem has long been discussed, argued and researched

D．most of the adults (grown - ups) are in favour of smoking

4．According to the ending paragraph, the writer looks on anti-smoking wall-buiders ________.

[　　]

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。

　　Nuclear power's danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be described in one word: radiation.

　　Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can't be seen or heard or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can't detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can't sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things.

　　At very high levels radiation can kill an animal or human being out - right by killing masses of cells in important organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no level of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be significant. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outright, your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in an unusual way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many yeas.

　　This is another reason for some of the mystery; about nuclear radiation, serious damage can be done without the knowledge of the person at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak or easy to get serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.

Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.

1．According to the passage, the danger of nuclear power lies in ________.

[　　]

2．Radiation can lead to serious results even at lowest level

[　　]

A．when it kills few cells

B．if it damages few cells

C．though the damaged cells can repair themselves

D．unless the damaged cells can reproduce themselves

3．The word “absorbed” underlined in the last paragraph means here ________.

[　　]

4．Which of the following can be best inferred from the passage?

[　　]

A．The importance of protection from radiation cannot be overemphasized.

B．The mystery about radiation remains unsolved.

C．Cancer is mainly caused by radiation.

D．Radiation can hurt those who do not know about its danger.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。

　　Mauritius, an island country, lies 1,200 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, and just east of Madagascar, another African island country, which is larger by far than Mauritius. It covers 788 square miles and has a population of 1,100,000, about 750,000 Indians, 300,000 Clioers, 30,000 Chinese and 20,000 Whites included. They are living together peacefully.

　　The country can be divided into many parts with different climates all because of its peculiar terrains (地形). In the centre there are volcanoes several thousand feet high, and 90 percent of its arable land is covered with sugarcane.

　　There were no people living on the island before the Dutch landed on it in 1638. The Dutch abandoned it in 1710, and five yeas later, the French came and succeeded in planting sugarcane there. It was conquered by Britain in 1810.

　　Mauritius was extremely poor when it declared its independence in 1968. In the past ten years, obvious economic prosperity (繁荣) has shown itself in this island country.

1．The underlined words “abandoned it” in third paragraph means “________”.

[　　]

2．The right order that shows the history of Mauritius should be ________.

a. seized by the French

b. became its master

c. ruled by the Dutch

d. conqured by the British

[　　]

3．According to the passage all of the following statements are true except ________.

[　　]

A．Arable land covers 90 percent of the country's total area

B．It was the rule of foreigners that made the Mauritius people live in poverty

C．More than half of Mauritius population are Indians

D．Britain ruled the island longer than French and Hooland

4．Which of the following maps shows the right position of Mauritius?

(Mau＝Mauritius　　Ma: Madagascar　　A: Africa)

[　　]

A．

B．

C．

D．