2018年4月中国人民大学网络教育统考专升本大学英语B模拟题及答案（阅读理解4）

阅读理解B（4）

16、Have you ever felt your mind getting confused after a sleepless night? You couldn't come up with an original thought no matter how hard you tried.

You were probably right if you thought that was caused by a lack of sleep. Dr. Home, a sleep researcher in England, studied 24 college students. One group got their normal eight hours of sleep. The other group didn't get the smallest amount of sleep－they stayed awake all night. The next day, Dr. Home tested the students. He asked them questions that required creative and original thinking. One of the questions was "How many uses can a cardboard box be put to?"

The results? The wide-awake students did well on the tests. The tired students did poorly. Research has already shown that tired people can do okay on tests of routine thinking, like simple addition. But Dr. Home tested creative thinking only.

As part of his study, he offered an amount of money as a reward to the sleepy students if they did well. But even this encouragement wasn't enough to help the students overcome their tiredness. They still did poorly. Dr. Home believes that the cerebral cortex－the part of the brain where thinking takes place－may get worn out during waking hours. Sleep may help to repair the brain overnight. Without any sleep, he emphasizes, "even if you concentrate harder, you cannot do better."

This study gives people something to think about, especially people like hospital workers and airline pilots, who must stay awake all night and then make emergency decisions.

1）、According to the passage, the confusion of your mind is possibly due to the lack of sleep.

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答案：A

2）、Tired people can do everything EXCEPT telling other people their names.

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答案：B

3）、The purpose for Dr. Home to offer a lot of money to the sleepy students is to encourage them to do better.

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答案：A

4）、Students might be better instructed in their work after reading this passage.

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答案：B

5）、A foolish man with good sleep may answer creative question well.

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答案：B

17、Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice.

Of course, it is important for teenagers to have a nice and warm family. It is also very necessary for them to have one or several good friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the telephone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children's friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of "which friends to choose" is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the following questions?

-- Who chooses your friends?

-- Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

-- Have you got a good friend your parents don't like?

-- Why do parents want to choose friends for you? …

You can always discuss these questions with your friends.

1）、Many teenagers think their family members know them better than their parents do.

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答案：B

2）、When brothers and sisters fight with each other, their friends are able to help them.

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答案：A

3）、When teenagers stay alone, the usual way of talking together is to discuss something with their family members.

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答案：B

4）、To the teenagers, friends are different from their parents in that they can talk to their friends about something that they won't tell their parents.

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答案：A

5）、The writer himself is not very sure how teenagers should choose friends.

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答案：A

18、Paul, a salesman from London, was driving past a sports car parked outside a supermarket when he saw it start to roll slowly down the hill. Inside the car were two young girls on the passenger seat but no driver. Paul stopped quickly, jumped in front of the sports car and tried to stop it, pushing against the front of the car. Another man, who was standing nearby, got into the car and put on the hand brake(手刹), saving the girls from injury. It was at this point that Paul noticed his own car rolling slowly down the hill and going too fast for him to stop it. It crashed into a bus at the bottom of the hill and was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled away to a garage. As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame. He was so busy chasing his car that he did not get the name of the driver of the sports car who just came out of the supermarket and drove away without realizing what had happened.

1）、Paul got out from his car quickly because he felt hot in his car.

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答案：B

2）、A car at the bottom of the hill was badly damaged.

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答案：B

3）、The driver of the sports car was in the garage when the accident happened.

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答案：B

4）、The man standing nearbywas to blame for the accident.

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答案：B

5）、Nobodywas injured in the accident.

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答案：A

19、A bag is useful and the word "bag" is useful, too. It reminds us of an interesting phrase, i.e. "to let the cat out of the bag". In meaning it is the same as "to tell the secret". And there is an old interesting story about it.

Long ago,when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, most of the time they would just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags instead of chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. The woman begged to see the chicken. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man's secret was out and everyone knew it.

Now when someone lets out(泄露)a secret, he "let the cat out of the bag". And that is the story where the interesting phrase comes from.

1）、The phrase "to let the cat out of the bag" came from an interesting story.

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答案：A

2）、The woman wanted to buy a black cat.

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答案：B

3）、The farmers put cats into their cloth bags instead of chickens because cats were cheaper than chickens.

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答案：A

4）、In "… everyone knew it " at the end of the second paragraph, "it" refers to "the cloth bag".

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答案：B

5）、John "lets the cat out of the bag" means that he makes everyone know a secret.

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答案：A

20、It was difficult to find jobs in the north of England at that time. When John lost his job, he found that he could not get a new one. He soon spent all his money, so he went to the south of the country, as people said it was easier to find work there. The easiest way to go there was to take a train. Soon John got on a train.

The train started. There were not many people on the train. Suddenly a man with a gun came in. He went up to John and said, "Your money, or your life!"

"But I've got no money, sir,"John answered. He looked sad.

"Then why are you so afraid?"asked the man with a gun angrily.

"I thought you wanted to see my ticket, and I had no money to buy one."said John.

1）、John went to the south of England when he spent all his money.

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答案：A

2）、John thought he could get a new job in the south.

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答案：A

3）、When a man with a gun came, John was afraid because he had no ticket.