北京成人本科学士学位阅读理解题(一)
(总分90,考试时间90分钟)
Passage 1
Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe (订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read newspapers?
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings-battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown (推翻) or killed-took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news was pasd by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other uful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book review
s, stories and, of cour, advertiments. The bigger ones are put in by **panies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For tho who produce newspapers, advertiments are also very important. Money earned from advertiments makes it possible for them to ll their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
(1) Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion as well as a small but very popular ction on jokes and cartoons (漫画).
1. A few hundred years ago news did not______.
A. receive attention B. travel fast
烟蒂 C. spread to other countries D. take long to reach other countries
2. In the past, news was______.
A. nt by telegraph B. pasd from one person to anotherenter your code
C. nt by letter D. nt by telephone
Passage 2
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Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. (2) They were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, its glow had become so bright that Jane woke her husband to watch it. Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown and went to the window to watch it. It emed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked, as though the fire was dying down, though he could still e some flames. So he t to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one; hundred hous had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to e for himlf. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the buildings so that he could e what was happening. From there, Pepys c
ould e that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the hous on London Bridge were burning. The man of the Tower told him that the fire had started in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane; the baker's hou had caught fire from the over-heated oven and then the flames had quickly spread to the other hous in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.
3. What was Pepys doing when his wife told him about the fire?
A. He was asleep.
B. He was writing something.
C. He was putting things back.
D. He was looking out of the window.
4. In the ntence "Pepys slipped on his dressing gown", "to slip on" can be replaced by______.
高二英语单词>disguid A. to be wearing B. to be pushing
affidavit C. to take off D. to put on
5. Why did the flames spread quickly?
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B. The hous were clo together.
C. The baker did nothing to stop it.
D. The baker's hou was burning quickly.
圣诞歌词Passage 3
长宽高英文A scientist who wants to predict the way in which consumers (消费者) will spend their money must study consumer behavior. He must obtain data both on the resources of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money spending.
(3) If an economist were asked which of three groups borrow most--people with rising incomes, stable incomes, or decreasing incomes, his probable answer would be tho with decreasing incomes. Actually, in the years 1947-1950, the answer was people with rising incomes. People with decreasing incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us that traditional assumptions (假设) about earning and spending are not always reliable. Another traditional assumption is that if people who have money expect prices to go up they will hasten to buy. If they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But rearch surveys have shown that this is not always true. The expectations of price increas may not stimulate buying. One typical attitude was expresd by the wife of a mechanic in an interview at a time of rising prices. "In a few months," she said, "we'll have to pay more for meat and milk; we'll have less to spend on other things. "Her family had been planning to buy a new car but they postponed this purcha. Furthermore, the ri in prices that has already taken place may be disliked and buyer's resistance may be produced. This is shown by the following **ment. "I just don't pay the prices; they are too high."
