Reading Comprehension 2
Questions 1 - 5 are bad on the following passage:
It has been shown that children who smoke have certain characteristics. Compared with non-smokers they are more rebellious, their work deteriorates as they move up school, they are more likely to leave school early, and are more often delinquent and xually precocious. Many of the features can be summarid as anticipation of adulthood.
There are a number of factors which determine the ont of smoking, and the are largely psychological and social. They include availability of cigarettes, curiosity, rebelliousness, appearing tough, anticipation of adulthood, social confidence, the example of parents and teachers, and smoking by friends and older brothers and sisters.
It should be much easier to prevent children from starting to smoke than to persuade adults to give up the habit once established, but in fact this has proved very difficult. The example t by people in authority, especially parents, health care workers, and teachers, i
亚当舒尔曼s of prime importance. School rules should forbid smoking by children on the premis. This rule has been introduced at Summerhill School where I spent my schooldays.
There is, however, a risk of children smoking just to rebel against the rules, and even in tho schools which have tried to enforce no smoking by corporal punishment there is as much smoking as in other schools. Nevertheless, banning smoking is probably on balance beneficial. Teachers too should not smoke on school premis, at least not in front of children.
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1. In this passage the author puts an emphasis on _____.
A) the effect of smoking among children
B) the difficulty in preventing children from smoking
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C) the reasons why children start smoking
D) the measures to ban smoking among children
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1. B)文章第一段提及学童抽烟的危害（A）；第二段述及其原因（C）；而第三段及第四段则侧重讲述防止学童染上抽烟恶习之难，即使采取一些措施（D），也未必收到预期的效果。故 B）项内容显然是文章的侧重点。
2. Which of the following is a common characteristic of young smokers?
A) Disobedience
B) Laziness
C) Lack of intelligence
D) Vanity
2. A）第二段第二句谈及“rebelliousness”是青少年抽烟的心理因素之一，而第四段又提到孩童抽烟“just to rebel against the rules”，故在四个选项中仅 disobedience切合此意。其它三点，文章均未提及。
3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A) Some children start to smoke out of curiosity.
B) Many children start to smoke becau they want to appear mature.
C) In order to have fewer children smokers, parents, teachers and health care workers should not smoke.
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D) It is not as difficult to prevent children from starting to smoke as to disuade adults from smoking.
3. D) 选项A)、B）、C）的内容在文章中皆有所提及，而选项D）的含意正好和作者的观点相反，故not true。
4. The writer concludes that school rules to forbid smoking _____.
A) should be introduced, for it really works at the school where he once studied.
B) should not be introduced, for it may cau disturbance.
C) should be introduced though it may not work effectively.
D) needn't be introduced as long as teachers don't smoke in front of children.
neeaielts4. C）文章最后一段即阐明此点。
5. The author's attitude towards his writing is _____.
A) objective
B) emotional
C) criticalbanggo
D) indifferent
5. A)本文笔调客观，不带有主观褒贬或个人感情色彩。
Questions 6 - 10 are bad on the following passage:
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When astronaut Neil Armstrong t foot on the moon for the first time, on July 20,1969, it reprented one of the most inspiring achievements in man's history to million
s of people throughout the world. But to a small organization called the International Flat Earth Rearch Society, it was nothing more than a piece of cleverly stage-managed science-fiction trickery.
And Armstrong's historic words when stepping down from the Eagle module onto the dusty lunar surface about 240,000 miles from earth - "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" - was a phra that could have come only from the pen of a scriptwriter.
As for the pictures reputedly taken in space showing the earth to be a rotating sphere, well, they were just too ludicrous for words. The sun,say the Flat Earthers,circuits the earth instead of the earth revolving around the sun - a notion that most people take for granted.
The society, who membership is currently estimated to be about 1,400, dismiss much of accepted modem thinking about the shape of the earth as sheer nonn and is convinced that the entire human race is being subjected to the greatest hoax in history.
From its headquarters in Lancaster, California, the society wages a war of words through newsletters and pamphlets against the evils of science.
考研英语官方答案 The society was founded about 1800 in Great Britain and the United States and, says its American president Charles Johnson,was descended from the Zetetic society, which took its name from an ancient Greek philosophical school of skeptics. It survived under this name until 1956, when its general cretary, Samuel Shenton,of Kent, England, changed the name to the prent title.
