3894國開電大?？啤独砉び⒄Z1》歷年期末考試(第三題閱讀理解選擇題)題庫[排序考試版]

1、 3894國開電大?？评砉び⒄Z1歷年期末考試（第三題閱讀理解選擇題）題庫排序考試版說明：試題已經(jīng)排序，根據(jù)首字母音序查找試題及答案。試題Air pollution 內(nèi)部資料People and air pollution are often in the same places. This means that cities with large populations have the biggest problem of dirty air. Air pollution is caused by many different things. A major kind of air poll

2、ution is the gas from cars. Statistics （統(tǒng)計(jì)資料）show that 93 percent of all auto trips are within cities.Another major kind of dirty air is the burning of coal and oil for energy. This energy is needed to make electricity. Of course, much more electricity is used in the city than in the country.On the

3、average, we throw away more rubbish than the year before. The burning of rubbish makes air pollution even worse. Many major industries are also responsible for the dirty air in the around cities. The fumes（煙）from iron, steel, chemical, and petrol production add particles （微粒）to the air.The effects o

4、f air pollution range from mild headaches to death. The levels of pollution found in heavy traffic may cause headaches for loss of clear vision. Wherever coal and oil are used for fuel, fumes may kill trees and plants and cause metal to corrode（腐蝕）.In some of the larger cities, these fumes endanger

5、the lives of human beings by contributing to lung diseases and causing early death.The key point of the passage is that.答案the causes and the effects of air pollution are both found in citiesWhat is the purpose of this passage?答案to persuade people to stop polluting the airWhy is air pollution more gr

6、ave in the city than in the country?答案Because there are much more gas fumes from cars and burning of coal and oil for energy in the city than in the country.The fumes from coal and oil may cause metal.答案to corrodeIn larger cities, the fumes from coal and oil may contribute to .答案lung diseases試題An e

7、book （also referred to as an electronic book, e Book, or e-book） is a digital version （版本）of a print book that you download and read. But if you want to read an e book, you must have an E book Reader, which is a kind of free software used by your computer. Make sure you have installed the appropriat

8、e Reader before you download your e book from the Internet. The software allows you to turn the words on the screen into the size you like. It also helps you turn pages and change your viewing options（計(jì)算機(jī)屏幕上的閱讀選擇）.E books area fun alternative to regular books. You can download them to any computers

9、and create your own library of hundreds of titles. If you load them onto your portable computer, you can take them with you when you travel - Some e books are even interactive!Best of all, when you order an e book, their is no waiting and no shipping charges. The amount of time it takes to download

10、your e book depends on the speed of your connection and the size of your e book. 2018 年1月試題、內(nèi)部資料From this passage, we learn that an e book.答案can be read directly from the InternetThe E book Reader is used for.#M downloading an e book from the InternetFrom this passage, we can learn that.答案you can re

11、ad an e book on a laptop when you travelWhich of the following statements is TRUE?答案The downloading time is decided by the e book s size.The passage is mainly about.答案a new kind of book-the E books試題An old lady in a plane had a blanket （毯子）over her head and she did not want to take it off. The air h

12、ostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, “I have never been in a plane before, and I am frightened. I am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again! v Then the captain came. He said, “Madam, lam the captain of this plane. The weather is fine, there are no clouds

13、 in the sky, and everything is going very well. ” But she continued to hide. 2019 年 7 月試題So the captain turned and started to go back. Then the old lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “I am sorry, young man, but I dont like planes and lam never going to fly again. But I 11

14、say one thing, She continued kindly, “You and your wife keep your plan every clean!vAn old lady had.答案a blanket over her headShe dicin t want to .答案takeoff the blanketspoke to her.答案The air hostessThe old lady had never beenbefore.答案in a planeThe woman didnt like planes and she was never going .答案to

15、 fly again試題Building a house costs quite a lot of money. Suppose you plan to build a house. Your first step will be to find a right piece of land.Your choice will depend on many different things. You will probably try to find a sunny place, with pleasant surroundings（環(huán)境）near shops and bus stops, not

16、 too far from your friends and the place where you work. 2020 年 1 月試題、2020年7月試題、內(nèi)部資料Next you will find a good builder, and together with the builder you will workout a plan. The builder will draw the plan. It will show the number of rooms, their position and size, and other parts, which must be noti

17、ced, such as windows, doors, and electric outlets. The builder will workout how much money is needed to build your house. He will workout the cost of the wood, bricks, the glass, and everything else that must be used in building the house. Later on, when he starts to build, this estimate（預(yù)算）must be

18、corrected and revised （修訂）.His estimate is based on existing prices, but prices of such things may change, and many other things may happen between the time when he makes the estimate and the time when he builds the house.When the builder gives his estimate, you may wish to change your plan. （You ma

19、y also wish to change your builder, if his estimate is too high!） You may find that the house you wanted at first costs too much, or that you can spend a little more and add something to your plan. The builders estimate depends on the plan, but the final plan depends on the builders estimate. TOC o

20、1-5 h z The best title of this passage is答案Planning a HouseThe first thing for a person to build a house is答案to find a suitable piece of landThe phrase “draw the plan” in Paragraph 2 means.答案making a picture of a building or a roomWhen the builder starts to build a house, his estimate wil have to be

21、 corrected and revisedbecause.答案the prices of building materials and the expenses of labor maybe different from the original prices and expensesWhat is the relationship between the estimate and the plan?答案The estimate and the plan depend on each other.試題Cars are an important part of life in the Unit

22、ed States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor he doesnt feel really poor when he had a car.Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably dicin t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made

23、the United Stated a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.There are three main reasons why the car becomes so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and che

24、apest form of transportation. With a car people can go anyplace without spending a lot of money.The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in t

25、he country as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans do

26、nt like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will n

27、ot be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas. TOC o 1-5 h z We can learn from this passage that Americans.答案travel a lot in their carsWhich of the following statements is TRUE?答案An American will feel poor unles

28、s he has a car.In the writers opinion, cars are popular in the United States mainly because.答案Americans like to plan their own timeA nation on wheels in the second paragraph means that.答案the United States produces most of the cars in the worldThe real solution to the gas shortage problem is.答案to mak

29、e gas-saving cars試題Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. Most of the crashes result from distracted driving一not paying attention to the road.內(nèi)部資料Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree. He was one of the nations more than thirty thousand victims of traff

30、ic crashes in 2008. Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent involved drivers age fifteen to twenty.Ryans father, Thomas Didone, is a police captain in Marylan. It was an inexperienced, immature driver driving at night with a carload of kids. He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it

31、 ended up causing one death and some seriously injured. He shares the story of his sons death to help educate teens and their families about distracted driving.Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company says the number one cause of 3 distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone. He says ta

32、lking on the phone or reaching for it is like drinking four beers and driving. If youre texting while driving, you are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isnt.Government and private groups are using public service announcements and events to bring more attention

33、 to the problem. For example, the insurance industry recently held a safety event for teen drivers. At first, nineteen-year-old Kevin Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children. He also avoided orange cones representing the edge of the road. Then

34、, as part of the test, he started texting. He hit several cones and at least one doll. Thats what really opened up the experience for me to prove how bad it is to really text and drive.Debbie Pickford of Allstate Insurance says teens are especially at risk from distracted driving 一and not just becau

35、se they lack experience on the roads. According to the research, teens dont really have fully developed brains until they re twenty-five years old. You put those two things together and you get a much, much higher risk. A new law proposes a graduated driver licensing system. Graduated means teenager

36、s start with restrictions like on night driving and numbers of passengers. They could not get a full driver s license until age eighteen.According to the passage, is the most likely to lead to a traffic accident whileyou are driving.答案texting on the mobile phone TOC o 1-5 h z We can learn from the s

37、econd paragraph that.答案over 30,000 victims have died from traffic crashes so farA safety event held by insurance industry was meant to.答案draw enough attention to teenagers1 distracted drivingThe passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about.答案measures to be takenOf all the following,

38、which is the best title for the passage?答案Distracted Driving 一Lets Avoid!試題Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, “Im going to fly to New York next week because Ive got some work there. ” “Where are you going to stay there?v his wife asked. I dont know yet. Dick answered. Ple

39、ase send me your address from there in a telegram, ” his wife said. All right, ” Dick answered. 2020 年 9 月試題He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

40、In the evening he dicin t have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o clock and said, “Now Im going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner.He found a taxi and the driver said, uWhere do you want to go? But Dick didnt remember the name and address of his hotel.uWhich hotel are my th

41、ings in?” he said, “And what am I going to do tonight?But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in i the wrote, “Please send me my address at this post office. ”Dick flew to New York because.答案he got work thereW

42、hy did his wife want a telegram from him?答案Because she didnt know his address yet.Where did Dick stay in New York?答案In a hotel.Who would send him the name and address of his hotel?答案His wife.Dick wanted to go back toin a taxi.答案his hotel試題High-speed rail is a type of rail transport that operates sig

43、nificantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks. While there is no single standard that applies worldwide, new lines in excess of 250 km/hr and existing lines in excess of 200 km/hr are widely considered to be high-speed,

44、with some extending the definition to include much lower speeds(e. g. 160 km/hr)in areas for which these speeds still represent significant improvements. The first such system began operations in Japan in 1964 and was widely known as the bullet train. High-speed trains normally operate on standard g

45、auge tracks of continuously welded rail on grade-separated right-of-way that incorporates a large turning radius in its design.內(nèi)部資料Many countries have developed high-speed rail to connect major cities, including Austria , Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South

46、 Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan. Only in Europe does HSR cross international borders. China has 16, 000 km of HSR, accounting for 60 percent of the world s total. While high-speed rail is usually designed for passenger travel, some high-speed systems also

47、 offer freight service.High-speed rail is a type of rail transport that operates significantly than traditional rail traffic.答案A. fasterAccording to the passage, which of the following is true?答案A. there is no single standard that applies worldwide.When did the first such system widely known as the

48、bullet train begin operations in Japan? 答案Cin 1946The underlined word freight at the end of the paragraph means.答案B. cargoThe best title of this passage would be.答案B the Bullet Train試題Housing is the living places for human beings. As the population keeps climbing, people in the city have to face the

49、 reality that housing is in short supply. To solve this problem, New York city planners are challenging tradition and starting to design more “micro units. ” 2018年1月試題、2019年7月試題、2020年1月試題、內(nèi)部資料Micros, also known as “hostel-style” apartments, usually offer less than 200 square feet (18.5 square meters

50、) in area. Could you imagine living in 150 square feet( 14 square meters) ?These units usually have only room for a bed, a table min-fridge and the basic living essentials.Why is the micro apartment so appealing?The reasons are rather straightforward.It is perfect for single people who dont have a l

51、ot of things. It can also meet the need of people who are short on cash but determined to live in their own places.Micro apartments are very common in cities like Tokyo and Hong Kong, where there are so many people living. Now this tiny housing solution is gaining ground in urban areas in the U. S.,

52、 and Canada.The micro apartment is an experiment in simplicity in American culture. So small-scale home life is part of a hot trend in U. S. real estate. Some people are proud of it. Some of them can find the humor and fun in their small places. But not everyone is in favor of the trend.According to

53、 the passage, the next big trend in U. S- real estate is答案micro apartmentAs the population keeps climbing, people in the city have to face the reality that.答案housing is in short supplyWhy is the micro apartment so appealing?答案It meets the need of someone.Micro apartments are very common in some citi

54、es like.答案TokyoHow do people think of the micro apartment?答案Not everyone is in favor of the trend.試題In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience （經(jīng) 歷）four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and th

55、en i trains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will be summer at this time of a day. 2019年1月試題In England, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter they can swim sometimes, and in

56、summer sometimes they should take warm clothes.When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella（傘） or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them.If you dont take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret（后悔）later in the day.Why

57、do people in England often talk about the weather?答案Because they may have four seasons in one day.From the story we know that whencome, there is a heavy rain.答案black clouds“People can also have summer in winter. ” Means “it is sometimes tooin winter. ”答案warmIn the sunny morning some English people u

58、sually take a raincoat or an umbrella with thembecause.答案it often rains in EnglandThe best title （標(biāo)題）for this passage would be .答案The Weather in England試題Londons River Thames has twenty-seven bridges. But Tower Bridge, the first bridge over the Thames as you travel to London from the sea, is the mos

59、t famous of them all. What makes Tower Bridge so exciting? Why do visitors come from all over the world to see it? The thing that is surprising about Tower Bridge is that it is open in the middle. It does this to let the big ships through to the Pool of London. If you are lucky enough to see the bri

60、dge with its two opening arms high in the air, you will never forget it.內(nèi)部資料On its north side stands the Tower of London itself. Although they look the same age, the Tower is almost a thousand years old, and Tower Bridge is only about one hundred, it was built in the 1890s. Byl850, everyone agreed t