专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷97
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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 choo the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
The development of Jamestown in Virginia during the cond half of the venteenth century was cloly related to the making and using of bricks. There were veral practical reasons why bricks became important to the colony. Although the forests could initially supply sufficient timber, the process of lumbering was extremely difficult, particularly becau of the lack of roads. Later, when the timber on the peninsula had been depleted, wood had to be brought from some distance. Building stone were also in short supply.However, as clay was plentiful, it was inevitable that the colonists would turn to brick-making. In addition to practical reasons for using brick as the principal construction
material, there was also an ideological reason. Brick reprented durability and permanence. The Virginia Company of London instructed the colonists to build hospitals and new residences out of brick. In 1662, the Town Act of the Virginia Asmbly provided for the construction of thirty-two brick buildings and prohibited the u of wood as a construction material. Had this law ever been successfully enforced, Jamestown would have been a model city. Instead, the residents failed to comply fully with the law. By 1699, Jamestown had collapd into a pile of rubble with only three or four habitable hous.
1. What is the subject of this passage?
A. The reasons for brick-making in Jamestown.
B. The cau of the failure of Jamestown.
C. The laws of the Virginia colonists.
D. The problems of the early American colonies.
2. Which of the following was NOT a reason for using bricks in construction?
A. Wood had to be brought from some distance.
B. There was considerable clay available.
C. The lumbering process depended on good roads.
D. The timber was not of good quality.
3. It can be inferred from the passage that Jamestown was established on______.
A. a rocky peninsula with a small forest area
B. a barren peninsula near other towns
C. an uninhabitable peninsula with few natural resources
D. a wooded peninsula with clay soil
4. It can be inferred that the Virginia Asmbly, by passing a law regarding building construction, hoped to______.
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A. increa the manufacture of bricks
B. prevent the destruction of trees in the area of Jamestown
贝瓦故事C. establish a city that would be an example for the future
D. discourage people from ttling in Jamestown
5. According to the passage, what eventually happened to Jamestown?
A. It was practically destroyed.
B. It became a model city.
C. It remained the at of government.
D. It was **pleted.
In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (饮料) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass a
nd plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products, but becau few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it would be buried in landfills(垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few us for cond hand plastic. Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc. As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply parating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a cond life—and until economic arrangements exist to give that cond life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for ud materials. Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more cloly at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids payi
ng for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
6. What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?
电池激活A. **panies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles.
B. Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling.
C. A fee should be charged on ud containers for recycling.
D. Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them.
7. The returned plastic bottles in New York ud to______.
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A. end up somewhere underground
B. be turned into raw materials
C. have a cond life value
父亲节的由来简短D. be parated from other rubbish
8. The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is______.
A. to ll them at a profitable price
B. how to turn them into uful things
C. how to reduce their recycling costs
D. to lower the prices for ud materials
9. Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish becau______.
A. local governments find it easy to manage
B. recycling has great appeal for the jobless
C. recycling caus little pollution
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D. other methods are more expensive
10. It can be concluded from the passage that______.
A. rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw materials
B. local governments in the U. S. can expect big profits from recycling
C. recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentally
D. landfills will still be widely ud for waste disposal
Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive the experiences in nightmares (噩梦). Now Americ
古杜an rearchers think they are clo to developing a pill, which will help people forget had memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly era (抹去), the effect of painful memories. In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the rearch has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erad. The rearch has caud a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories. "Some memories can ruin people's lives. **e back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They **e with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "This could relieve a lot of that suffering." But tho who are against the rearch say that it is very dangerous to change memories becau memories give us our identity (特质). They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past. "All of us can think of bad events in
our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. I' m not sure we want to wipe tho memories out," said Rebecca Dresr, a medical ethicist.
