公共英语三级分类模拟题351
(总分50,考试时间90分钟)
Section Ⅰ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Text 1
By far the **mon snake in Britain is the Adder. In Scotland, in fact, there are no other snakes at all. The Adder is also the only British snake with a poisonous bite. It can be found almost anywhere, but prefers sunny hillsides and rough open country, including high ground. In Ireland there are no snakes at all.
Most people regard snake bites as fatal misfortune, but not all bites are rious, and very few are fatal. Sometimes attempts at emergency treatment turn out to be more dangerous than the bite itlf, with amateurs heroically, but mistakenly, trying do-it-yourlf surgery and other unnecessary measures.
All snakes have small teeth, so it follows that all snakes can bite, but only the bite of the Adder prents any danger. British snakes are shy animals and are far more frightened of you than you could possibly be of them. The Adder will attack only if it feels threatened, as can happen if you take it by surpri and step on it accidentally, or if you try to catch it or pick it up, which it dislikes intenly, ff it hears **ing, it will normally get out Of the way as quickly as it can, but Adders cannot move very rapidly and may attack before moving if you are clo.funny是什么意思英文
The effect of a bite varies considerably. It depends upon veral things, one of which is the body weight of the person bitten. The bigger the person, the less harmful the bite is likely to be, which is why children suffer far more riously from snake bites than adults. A healthy person will also have better resistance against the poison.
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Very few people actually die from snake bites in Britain and though the bites can make some people very ill, there are probably just as many cas of bites having little or no effect, as there are of rious illness.
1. Adders are most likely to be found ______.
A. in wilder parts of Britain and Ireland
B. in Scotland nowhere el
C. on uncultivated land throughout Britain
D. in shady fields in England
2. If you are with someone who is bitten by an Adder you should ______.
残酷的意思A. try to catch the Adder
B. not attempt to treat the bite unprofessionally
C. not worry about the victim
辩论赛技巧D. operate as soon as possible
3. We are told that Adders are ______.
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A. normally friendly towards people
B. unlikely to bite except in lf-defence
C. aggressive towards anyone in their territory
D. not afraid of human beings
4. If an Adder hears you approaching, it will usually ______.
冠词A. move out of you paths
B. take no notice of you at all
promptingC. disappear very quickly
D. wait until you are clo and then attack
毛孔粗的原因5. How does the bite vary?
A. It depends on the age.
B. It depends on the big or small of the bite.
C. It depends on the body weight of the person.
D. It isn"t mentioned.
Text 2
John Lubbock, a British member of the Parliament, led to the first law to safeguard Britain"s heritage—the Ancient Monuments Bill. How did it happen?
By the late 1800s more and more people were visiting Stonehenge for a day out. Now a World Heritage Site owned by the Crown, it was, at the time, privately owned and neglected.
But the visitors left behind rubbish and leftover food. It encouraged rats that made holes at the stones" foundations, weakening them. One of the upright stones had already fallen over and one had broken in two. They also chipped pieces off the stones for souvenirs and carved pictures into them, says architectural critic Jonathan Glancey.英文字母顺序
It was the same for other pre-historic remains, which were disappearing fast. Threats also included farmers and landowners as the ancient stones got in the way of working on the fields and were a free source of building materials.
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Shocked and angry, Lubbock took up the fight. When he heard Britain"s largest ancient stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire was up for sale in 1871 he persuaded its owners to ll it to him and the stone circle was saved.
"Lubbock aroud national attention for ancient monuments," says Glancey. "At the time places like Stonehenge were just en as a collection of stones, ancient sites to get building materials."
"Lubbock knew they were the roots of British identity. He did for heritage what Darwin did for natural history."
But Lubbock couldn"t buy every threatened site. He knew laws were needed and tabled the Ancient Monuments Bill. It propod government powers to take any pre-historic site under threat away from uncaring owners, a radical idea at the time.
For eight years he tried and failed to get the bill through parliament. Finally, in 1882, it was voted into law. It had, however, been watered down; people had to willingly give their ancient monuments to the government. But what it did do was plant the idea that the state could prerve Britain"s heritage better than private owners.
