阅读理解练习一

阅读理解练习一

Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C

or D.

Text 1

An increasing number of scientists have found that anything that gives you pleasure may be

more than just fun. Pleasure and humor might help us live longer, fight off illness, and cure drug

addiction. "Science has generally neglected pleasure and humor to concentrate on negative things

like depression and illness," said Dr. William Fry, a psychiatry professor at Stanford University

Medical Center in California. "But there's a growing realization of just how powerful pleasure is."

For example, rearch shows that smiling and laughing can actually strengthen your immune

system, reduce stress and physical pain, and even help cancer patients. One rearch project at

Loam Linda University showed the beneficial effects of laughter on the body. In the study, ten

medical students were hooked up to veral machines and spent an hour watching a funny

videotape of a man smashing watermelons with a hammer.

Rearchers were not trying to prove that smashing watermelons is a funny thing to do. They

already knew that the volunteers would probably howl with laughter. What the rearchers wanted

to find out was how grinning, chuckling, and howling affected the volunteers as they watched the

video.

The rearchers were delighted to discover that small but important changes were taking

place in the volunteers' bloodstream as they giggled or roared with laughter. Their blood showed

incread production of white blood cells (the blood cells that defend us against infection and

dia). At the same time, a decrea was noticed in the levels of chemicals that stop the immune

system from working properly.

Studies such as this em to show that you should laugh, chortle, and howl as much as possible!

You will increa your chances of living a long, healthy life, That's what one rearcher means

when he says, "He who laughs, lasts. For years we've thought that laughter and other forms of

pleasure were good for you. Now it's a physiological reality.'

Text 1 译文

越来越多的科学家发现，任何乐事带来的不仅仅是乐趣。快乐和幽默可以使我们增寿、

抵御疾病和治疗药物成瘾。“科学家们一直以来忽略了快乐和幽默的作用，而重视研究负面

的东西，比如,失落和疾病。”威廉·弗莱博士这样说到，“但是也越来越多地认识到快乐的

强大力量。”

比如，一项研究表明微笑和大笑实际上可以提高你的免疫系统能力、减轻压力和病痛，

甚至还可以帮助癌症患者。罗姆林达大学的一项研究项目证明了这些在人身体上笑的有益作

用。在这项研究中，十名和几台机器连接的医科学生要花一个小时观看一部一个人用锤子砸

西瓜的有趣录像。

研究者们并非是要了解砸烂西瓜是件趣事。他们知道这些志愿者们很可能会笑得大叫出

来。他们最终想要了解的是咧嘴笑、咯咯地笑和大笑出声是如何影响这些观看录像的学生。

研究者们高兴地发现了当这些学生咯咯笑或狂笑时在他们的血流里发生了一些小但是

很重要的变化。他们的血液产生了更多的白血细胞（这种细胞帮助我们抵御感染和疾病）。

同时，阻止免疫系统正常运行的化学物质含量减少了。

这样的研究表明了你应该尽可能地大笑、咯咯地笑或狂笑出声！你长寿、健康的机率会

大大增加。这也是一位研究者想要说的：“笑的人才会持久。很多年来我们都认为笑或其他

表示快乐的形式都会对你有好处。现在，这是一个生理上的现实了。”

46. According to the text pleasure and humor might _______.

〖A〗 cure cancer

〖B〗 cure infectious dias

〖C〗 help people concentrate

〖D〗 help people quit smoking

答案：〖D〗

释疑：第一段中提到pleasure and humor might help us live longer, fight off illness, and cure drug

addiction，但文章并没有提到能够治疗癌症、医治传染病和使人精力集中。所以A, B, C 答

案都不对。Smoking可以认为是一种drug addiction,所以答案应是 〖D〗。

47. In Dr. William Fry's opinion scientists ______ .

〖A〗 have paid enough attention to the effect of laughter

〖B〗 have neglected depression and illness

〖C〗 have preferred pleasure and humor to depression and illness

〖D〗 have realized the importance of pleasure in people's lives

答案：〖D〗

释疑：第一段中提到Dr. William Fry讲"But there's a growing realization of just how powerful

pleasure is"。文章也提到科学家忽略了pleasure的作用，而重视研究depression和illness。

所以〖A〗、〖B〗和〖C〗肯定是错误的。

48. Laughter helps to fight off illness becau _______.

〖A〗 it increas blood flow in human body

〖B〗 it helps the production of blood cells

〖C〗 it can strengthen the immune system and reduces physical pain

〖D〗 it can reduce chemicals in human blood

答案：〖C〗

释疑：这一题是逻辑推理题。Laughter能够有助于抵御疾病，其原因必须是直接原因。抵御

疾病的直接原因应是免疫系统能力的提高和减轻病痛，所以答案应是〖C〗。

49. In the text the rearchers were trying to find out ___.

〖A〗 how the ten students would laugh

〖B〗 why the ten students laughed

〖C〗 how laugh would affect the students

〖D〗 why smashing watermelons was funny

答案：〖C〗

释疑：第三段中提到科学家实验的目的并非是要了解砸烂西瓜是否有趣，他们最终是要了解

笑是如何影响这些接受实验的学生。

50. The best title for the text would be ________.

〖A〗 Laughter-A Powerful Medicine

〖B〗 Laughter-An Illness Killer

〖C〗 Laugh and Live Long

〖D〗 A Psychological Reality

答案：〖A〗

释疑：本文的核心是讲笑能帮助抵御疾病。所以?quot;有效的药物"来形容笑是比较合适的。

而killer（杀手）一词有些言过其词了，〖C〗和〖D〗离题材又太远了。

Text 2

Thomas Alva Edison, the American inventor, was born in 1847. Even as a child , he was

always curious and always trying to invent new things. He was not a good student in school, but

by the time he was a teenager, he had already had veral jobs: store owner, telegraph operator,

and inventor. He also had done lots of chemistry experiments on his own.

However, what Edison really wanted to do was rearch. He established his first laboratory in

Menlo Park, New Jery, and later he t up another one in West Orange, New Jery. In the

laboratories, he enjoyed trying to come up with solutions to problems that no one el had been

able to solve.

One of his most exciting and difficult challenges was to create the electric light bulb. Today,

it's very simple and easy to produce thousands of light bulbs a day. But Edison and his assistants

had to work night and day to come up with just the right materials to make the first working light

bulb. They tried over a thousand times to put together the right metals to create an electric bulb

that would work for more than just a few conds.

Once Edison had created this first working electric light, he came up with a way to produce

light bulbs in quantity. His dream was to light up all of New York City. With this goal in mind, he

constructed the world's first commercial electric power plant on Pearl Street in New York City.

It wasn't long before veral other businessmen t up their own electric companies joined

together and organized a few large companies that mass-produced all electrical equipment

according to the same standards. The outcome of all this was that Edison lost control of the

companies he had originally t up. This didn't stop him, however. He continued inventing things.

In fact, he went on to invent the phonograph (or record player) and he improved techniques ud

in the making of the first motion pictures.

When Edison died in 1931, he wasn't as rich as he could have been, but he was very famous.

Many people were inspired by his story.

Text 2 译文

美国发明家汤姆斯·埃瓦·爱迪生生于1847年。当他还是个小孩子的时候就总是好奇，

还总努力发明一些新东西。在学校里他不是一个好学生，但是在他还是一个少年的时候他就

有了几份工作：店主、报务员和发明者。他还独自完成了许多化学实验。

然而，爱迪生真正想要做的是研究。他在新泽西州曼罗园林建立了他第一个实验室，

后来他又在新泽西州奥兰治建立了另外一个。在这些实验室里，他享受着自己想出那些没人

能解决的问题的办法。

他最刺激的和最难的挑战之一就是发明电灯。现在一天生产成千上万的灯泡是非常简单

容易的。但是爱迪生和他的助手们却为了找出使第一盏灯亮的合适的材料而日日夜夜的工

作。他们为把那些合适的材料装配起来使得电灯可以超过几秒钟亮而试了上千次。

爱迪生一发明了第一盏亮灯，就提出要大量生产电灯的方法。他的梦想是要点亮整个纽

约城。怀着这个目的，他在纽约的珍珠街建立了世界第一个商业性的发电站。

不久，其他几个商人建立了他们自己联盟的电力公司，还组建了几个大公司按照同样的

标准大量生产电力设备。所有这些的结果就是爱迪生对他原先建立的公司失去控制。但是这

并没有阻止爱迪生。他继续发明。事实上，他继续发明了电唱机，并改进了拍摄第一部影片

的设备。

爱迪生1931年去世时，他本应更富有些，但是他非常著名。许多人都被他的故事所激

励。

51. According to the text Edison was the first to ________.

〖A〗 discover electricity

〖B〗 invent light bulb

〖C〗 combine all the electric companies

〖D〗 light up New York

答案：〖B〗

释疑：答案在第三段可以找到。

52. The last paragraph implies that Edison _______.

〖A〗 was not successful as a businessman

〖B〗 did not create enough inventions

〖C〗 could not compete with other electric companies

〖D〗 wasted a lot of money

答案：〖A〗

释疑：这是一道推断暗含意思的题。最后一段讲到"he wasn't as rich as he could have been"（他

本应更富有些）。这是个虚拟语气，说明爱迪生没有挣到该挣的钱。作者表现出为爱迪生感

到不平的态度。言外之意也认为爱迪生在商业运作上不如发明创造那样成功。

53. Edison became a famous inventor although ________.

〖A〗 he failed in business

〖B〗 he was not rich

〖C〗 he lost control of the company he t up

〖D〗 he was not a good student in school

答案：〖D〗

释疑：该题部的是"虽然爱迪生„但他还是变成了一个伟大的发明家"。这是个让步从句，在

选答案时肯定要选和"成为发明家"相矛盾的前提。选项 （在学校学习时他学习并不好）是

最合适的选择。选择其他答案，其结果都不合科逻辑。

54. Electric companies were joined together becau ________.

〖A〗 their standards were different

〖B〗 tho companies wanted to be more competitive

〖C〗 there was the need to unify electric standards

〖D〗 Edison could not control his company

答案：〖C〗

释疑：根据文章中提到的"This problem was solved in the 1880s when many of the companies

joined together and organized a few large companies that mass-produced all electrical equipment

according to the same standards", 答案是〖C〗。

55. The following are inventions of Edison's except ________.

〖A〗 electricity equipment

〖B〗 light bulb

〖C〗 record player

〖D〗 motion picture

答案：〖D〗

释疑：文章中提到了爱迪生improved techniques ud in the making of the first motion pictures

（改进了拍摄第一部影片的设备），但不是发明了电影。其他几项都是他的发明，所以，答

案是〖D〗。

Text 3

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, summed up the four chief qualities of money some 2,000

years ago. It must be lasting and easy to recognize, to divide, and to carry about. In other words it

must be, "durable, distinct, divisible and portable". When we think of money today, we picture it

either as round, flat pieces of metal which we call coins, or as printed paper notes. But there are

still parts of the world today where coins and notes are of no u. They will buy nothing, and a

traveler might starve if he had none of the particular local "money" to exchange for food.

Among isolated peoples, who are not often reached by traders from outside, commerce

usually means barter. There is a direct exchange of goods. For this kind of simple trading, money

is not needed, but there is often something that everyone wants and everybody can u, such as

salt to flavor food, shells for ornaments, or iron and copper to make into tools and vesls. The

things-salt, shells or metals-are still ud as money in out-of-the-way parts of the world today.

Salt may em rather a strange substance to u as money, but in countries where the food of

the people is mainly vegetable, it is often an absolute necessity. Cakes of salt, stamped to show

their value, were ud as money in Tibet until recent times, and cakes of salt will still buy goods in

Borneo and parts of Africa.

Metal, valued by weight, preceded coins in many parts of the world. Iron, in lumps, bars or

rings, is still ud in many countries instead of money. It can either be exchanged for goods, or

made into tools, weapons or ornaments. The early money of China, apart from shell, was of

bronze, often in flat, round pieces with a hole in the middle, called "cash". The earliest of the are

between three thousand and four thousand years old-older than the earliest coins of the eastern

Mediterranean.

Nowadays, coins and notes have supplanted nearly all the more picturesque forms of money,

and although in one or two of the more remote countries people still hoard it for future u on

ceremonial occasions such as weddings and funerals, examples of primitive money will soon be

found only in muums.

Text 3 译文

希腊哲学家亚里世多德在2000年前总结了货币的四个主要特点。它必须耐久、容易辨

认、可以用整数除尽、容易携带。换句话说就是，耐用的、有明显区别的、能够用整数除尽

的、便于携带的。我们想到货币时，我们想象它是圆的、平的金属片，我们称它为硬币，或

者是印刷的纸币。但是今天世界上仍有一些地方硬币和纸币都没用。它们不能买任何东西。

一个旅行者如果没有特殊的当地“钱”换取食物，他可能会饿死。

在不和外界商人接触的隔绝国家，贸易通常是易货贸易。这儿有物物之间的直接交换。

对于这种简单的贸易，钱是不需要的，但是总是存在一些人人想要的和人人能用的东西，比

如，用于调味的盐、用于装饰的贝壳和用于做工具和器皿的铁和铜。这些东西，盐、贝壳和

金属，今天仍在世界的偏远地区当作钱使用。

盐作为钱大概看起来很奇怪，但是在食物以蔬菜为主的国家它完全是一个必需品。直到

最近西藏还把用盐做成的蛋糕作为钱在西藏使用，这些蛋糕被压成不同大小来表示他们的价

值。用盐做的蛋糕在婆罗州和非洲的部分地区仍可以买东西。

由重量决定价值的金属先于世界上许多国家的硬币产生。做成小方块的、棍状的、环状

的铁仍在许多国家代替钱在使用。它可以换成货物，也可以做成工具、武器或装饰品。中国

最早的钱除了贝壳就是铜，铜通常被做成中间有一个洞的平的圆片，称为“现钱”。这些最

早的钱是在3000年到4000年前——早于东地中海最早的钱币。

如今，尽管在一两个比较偏远的国家有些人仍贮藏那些别致的钱用于以后的一些礼仪场

合，比如，婚礼和葬礼，硬币和纸币还是取代了它们。原始货币会很快在博物馆中看到。

56. According to Aristotle money must ______.

〖A〗 be easy to carry

〖B〗 be strong enough and last long

〖C〗 be able to be divided without remainder

〖D〗 bear all the qualities above

答案：〖D〗

释疑：Aristotle讲钱应?quot;durable, distinct, divisible and portable：（耐用的、有明显区别的、

能够用整数除尽的、便于携带的）。选项 〖A〗〖B〗和〖C〗都不全面。

57. In some parts of the world ______.

〖A〗 money cannot buy goods

〖B〗 money is not needed for the exchange of goods

〖C〗 money is ud in barter terms

〖D〗 money is ud to flavor food

答案：〖B〗

释疑：在世界有些地方人们采用易货贸易（以货换货,不需要货币），所以答案选择〖B〗 。

58. In Tibet the value of "salt money" is determined by __.

〖A〗 the weight of the cake of salt

〖B〗 the size of the cake of salt

〖C〗 the value stamped on the cake of salt

〖D〗 the quality of the salt

答案：〖B〗

释疑：答案可以在第三段中找到。

59. The early money of China was _______.

〖A〗 older than the earliest coins of the eastern Mediterranean

〖B〗 not as old as the earliest coins of the eastern Mediterranean

〖C〗 made of copper

〖D〗 made of iron

答案：〖A〗

释疑：答案可以在第四段中找到。

60. The best title for the text would be _______.

〖A〗 Early Money

〖B〗 Money

〖C〗 Coins and Notes

〖D〗 History of Money

答案：〖B〗

释疑：从文章总体看，它既讲到历史，也讲到现在。既讲到钱币，也讲到非钱币的货物交换。

所在还是选择比较带有泛泛概念的"Money"作题目还是比较合适的。