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6）

阅读理解B（6）

26、The market is a concept. If you are growing potatoes for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the manager of the local supermarket. In either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying potatoes, you will stop producing them.

If your sister looks after a sick person to make money, she is also producing for the market. If your brother is a steelworker or a bus driver or a doctor, he is producing goods or services for the market.

When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, gas station and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery lorry, he is buying your labor in the labor market.

The market may seem to be something abstract（抽象的）. But for each person or business who is making or selling something, it's very real. If nobody buys your potatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It's telling you that you are wasting energies and resources in doing something that market doesn't want you to do.

1）、If your sister looks after a sick person to make money, she is working in a hospital.

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答案：A

2）、You are buying from the market when you do some window-shopping.

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答案：B

3）、The word ''real'' in the second sentence of the last paragraph most probably means ''important''.

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答案：B

4）、You will probably get the message about how to grow your potatoes when nobody buys your potatoes.

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答案：B

5）、The best title for the passage would be "What Is the Market".

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答案：A

27、An old man was going home late one night with his horse and cartafter a day's hard work. When he was not far from his house, the light on the cart went out. He tried but could not mend it. He was near his home, and so he went along the road without a light. When a policeman saw this, he stopped the old carter.

"Where is your light?" asked the policeman. "No man may take a cart along the road at night without a light. You know that. You have broken the law." "I had a light, but it has just gone out," said the old man.

"I don't believe that story," said the policeman. He took out a book and got ready to write. "What's your name and where do you live?" he asked.

"Please don't take my name," said the old man. "My home is just there. You can see it from here. I had a light nearly the whole way. I haven't come far without a light."

"You came all the way without a light. What's your name?"

The carter quickly took the policeman's hand and put it down on top of the light. The light was still hot and burnt the policeman's hand. The policeman jumped and he was very angry. "Now, what do you think?" said the carter. "Did I come all the way without a light?"

1）、In the passage the word "cart" is something pulled by a horse.

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答案：A

2）、The old man drove home very late every night.

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答案：B

3）、The policeman stopped the old man at the traffic lights.

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答案：B

4）、The cart was stopped by the policeman because the light on the old man's cart was not on.

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答案：A

5）、The carter asked the policeman to touch the light.

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答案：B

28、One day a man and his daughter were going out for a walk. The man had put on a pair of odd shoes, one with a thick sole(鞋跟) and one with a thin sole. As he came out to the street, he felt very uncomfortable.

Turning to his daughter, he said: "Why should one of my legs be longer than the other one?" The daughter looked at her father's legs and said, "You have put on two odd shoes!"

When he heard this, the man was very happy and thought to himself: "What a bright daughter I've got!" Then he asked his daughter to go back to the house and got him another pair of shoes.

When the daughter went back to the house, all she could find was one shoe with thick sole and one with thin sole. Taking the shoes to show her father, she said, "It's no use changing! These shoes are also odd, one with a thick sole and one with a thin sole."

The man listened and thought to himself: "It can't be helped. I might as well wear the ones I have on now." So they went for their walk.

1）、The man thought that his daughter was clever.

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答案：A

2）、It was the father that found the reason for it.

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答案：B

3）、The daughter came back, bringing a pair of odd shoes with her.

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答案：A

4）、The man should have changed one of his shoes, I think.

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答案：A

5）、Both the man and his daughter were foolish enough.

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答案：A

29、We are busy talking about and using the Internet，but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time，computers were large and expensive. Computer network didn't work well. If one computer in the network broke down，then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working，information could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on working on the time.

At first the Internet was only used by the government，but in the early 1970s，universities，hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However，computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s，computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing”in the Internet more convenient.

Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. Sending e-mail is more and more popular among students.

The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people's life.

1）、The Internet has a history of more than fourty years.

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答案：A

2）、A new network system was set up to make computers cheaper.

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答案：B

3）、At first the Internet was only used by the government.

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答案：A

4）、Software made "surfing"the Internet more convenient.

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答案：A

5）、Today it's still not easy to get on-line.

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答案：B

30、I've loved my mother's desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother，"But the desk, "she'd said again, "is for Elizabeth."

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry, I knew she loved me, she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.

They never happened and a gulfopened between us, I was "too emotional", but she lived "on the surface".

As years passed and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me. I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment. Then little interest and, finally, peace.

It seemed that nothing happened. I couldn't be sure that the letter had even got to mother.

I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told me, as she'd never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside－a photo of my father and a one-page letter. Folded (折叠) and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks. In any way you choose, mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

1）、The writer began to love her mother's desk after mother died.

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答案：B

2）、The passage shows that mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter.

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答案：A

3）、The word "gulf" in the 4th paragraph means part of the sea going far in land.

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B.F