2018年9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、If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm. Young people do not have to go to school. They can do many activities outside, like playing sports and swimming at the beach or the pool. They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights. People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer. These are some of our favorites.

One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin's opera “Porgy and Bess.” He wrote the music in nineteen thirty-five. The opera takes place in the southern United States. It opens with these words: “Summertime and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.” Leontyne Price sings the song.

The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school. The songs are about having fun, swimming in the ocean, driving in cars. However, for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games. Some of them had to work to earn money.

1）、Americans like summer because the weather is warm.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

2）、People wrote and recorded so many songs about summer.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

3）、"Porgy and Bess" was written by Leontyne Price.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

4）、There are 1950 or 1960 songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

5）、An appropriate title for the passage is "Songs about Summer".

A.T

B.F

答案：A

17、One day, Mr. Black went into a restaurant. He put his coat on a chair near the door. There was nothing in the pockets of his coat. After he had his meal, he went to take his coat back. He found there was much money in one of his pockets. “Whose is this?” he thought. He saw a waiter near the door, so Mr. Black said to him, “Somebody put a lot of money in my coat. I have no time to wait for him. I have to go. Take it, please. When he comes back, give it to him.” The waiter took it and went away. At the moment, another man came with a coat just like Mr. Black's. “I'm sorry,” said the man. “I took your coat and you got mine. Please give me my coat and the money.” Mr. Black answered, “I gave the money to the waiter. He'll give it to you.” Mr. Black called the manager, but the manager said, “We have no waiters here. We only have waitresses. He must be a thief!”

1）、Mr. Black went out to put his coat on a chair.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

2）、After his meal, Mr. Black didn't take back his coat.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

3）、Mr. Black gave the money to the waitress.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

4）、The two coats looked the same.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

5）、The "waiter" is a thief.

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B.F

答案：A

18、When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses.

What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples - people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.

One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.

1）、Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?

A.Selling home furnishings.

B.Renting furnished apartments.

C.Selling used furniture.

D.Renting home furnishings.

答案：D

2）、Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?

A.Because the furniture they get in this way is new.

B.Because it saves them a lot of money.

C.Because it saves them much trouble and money.

D.Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.

答案：C

3）、What can you infer from the passage?

A.The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.

B.Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.

C.Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.

D.People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.

答案：B

4）、Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?

A.Rent or Buy?

B.A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.

C.Furnished Apartments.

D.A New Idea.

答案：B

5）、Young people liked renting home furniture because_________.

A.they have less money

B.they don’t want to buy old furniture

C.the new furniture is of good quality

D.they don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture

答案：D

19、Once there were two brothers who were twins. They looked exactly alike. They both have the same dark brown hair ,blue eyes and beautiful teeth. They were both 5 feet, 10 inches tall and both weighed 150 pounds.

They not only looked alike but also behaved alike on the telephone. Not even their family could tell the difference. They dressed alike, listened to the same music, and read the same books. They even laughed at the same jokes.

When they were twenty three, they both got married and a year later both had sons. The years went by and as they began to grow old , they both wore glasses and eventually (最后)they both became bald.

Then one day, one of the brothers got sick and died. A few days later, a man stopped the other twin on the street.

"Excuse me for asking," he said, "but was it you or your brother who died ?"

1）、It was not easy to tell the two men from each other because they were twins.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

2）、The twin brothers had different colored hair.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

3）、"They both became bald" means they got sick.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

4）、The only difference between the twins was one got sick and died.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

5）、The man stopped the other twin on the street because he didn't know which of them died.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

20、It was Monday. Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it: “Give my dog half a pound of meat. ” Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently: “Take this to the butcher and he's going to give you your lunch today.”Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady's handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once. At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more. The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon still with a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers. But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at six o'clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself, “This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so much meat to eat today? ”Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it!

1）、Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite kindly.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

2）、The dog seemed to know that the paper Mrs. Smith gave it might do much harm.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

3）、The butcher did not give any meat to the dog before he felt sure that the words were really written by Mrs. Smith .

A.T

B.F

答案：A