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6）

阅读理解B（6）

26、Herman had worked for the bank of Ruritania for ten years and was still only a clerk. He was not satisfied with the position and wanted to find something better. Yet he did not want to lose his position in bank before he had got another one, so he prepared a letter about himself, with the words "HELP! I AM A PRISONER OF THE BANK OF RURITANIA!" in big letters across the top. Then he sent it to several other banks, asking them for a job.

A few days later, one of these letters came into the hands of Herman's boss at the bank; someone had given it to him at a party. The next morning, Herman's boss asked him to come into his room and said, "Herman, I have some very good news for you. The bank of Ruritania is setting you free!"

1）、Herman was not happy because he was in prison in the bank.

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答案：B

2）、Herman did not want to leave the Bank of Ruritania immediately because he had not found a better job yet.

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B.F

答案：A

3）、He wished some other bank to give him a better job.

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答案：A

4）、A few days later, Herman's boss found one of these letters in his office.

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答案：B

5）、The boss asked Herman to come into his room as he decided to fire him.

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答案：A

27、One day a teacher was giving her young students a lesson on how the government works. She was trying to explain the principle of income tax.

"You see," she began, speaking slowly and carefully, "each person who works must pay part of his or her salary to the government. If you make a high salary, your taxes are high. If you don't make much money, your taxes are low."

"Is that clear?" she asked. "Does everyone understand the meaning of income tax?" the students nodded.

"Are there any questions?" she asked. The students shook their heads.

"Very good," she said, "now, I would like you to take a piece of paper and write a short paragraph on the subject of income tax."

Little Joey was a slow learner. He had lots of problems with his study, but this time at least he seemed to understand the assignment（任务）. He grabbed his pen, and after a few minutes, he handed the teacher the following composition:

Once I had a dog. His name was Tax. I opened the door and in come Tax.

1）、They were having a lesson.

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答案：A

2）、A person who works and gets paid must pay some money to the government.

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B.F

答案：A

3）、The person who makes a high salary pays low taxes.

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答案：B

4）、The assignment was to write a composition about income tax.

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答案：A

5）、Joey understood the lesson well.

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答案：B

28、In 1963 the leader of the Labor Party made a speech explaining plans for the Open University. The Open University is an educational system which would make use of television, radio and correspondence courses. Many people laughed at the idea, but it became part of the Labor Party's program to give educational opportunity to those people who had not had a chance to receive further education. The Open University has been a great success in one respect. About 6,000 students of all ages get degrees every year. It is disappointing, however, that the great majority of students are from middle-class, educated backgrounds. But there also have been a number of men and women in prison, who have taken courses successfully and obtained degrees.

Students of the Open University receive their lessons and lectures in their homes, by means of special TV and radio programs. More than 40,000 people applied, but only 25,000 people could be accepted for the first courses in 1970. By 1980 there were about 60,000 undergraduates. Written work is corrected by part-time teachers who meet their students once a month to discuss their work with them and to set them on the right track. Science students are given mini-laboratories which can be set up in their own homes.

1）、The Open University is a distance educational system.

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答案：A

2）、About 6,000 students were there by 1980.

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B.F

答案：B

3）、About 6,000 students graduated from the Open University in Britain every year.

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答案：A

4）、Group discussions in class are not included in the teaching activities of the Open University.

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答案：A

5）、The Open University is successful in Britain.

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答案：A

29、In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there were many orphansthere. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children.

His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home, and he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children's Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in 1949. This is how the SOS Children's Village started. The letters SOS stand for "Save Our Souls." This means "Please help us!". An SOS Children's Village gives help to orphans.

Hermann Gmeiner's idea for helping orphans soon spread all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children's Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages. Today the children from the first village are grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children's Villages.

In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest villages have 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks for them and makes comfortable, happy home for them. The children go to school, they go out with their friends and they go into town.

1）、An orphan is a child ,who has no parents.

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答案：A

2）、Gmeiner built the first SOS Children's Village with the money people gave him.

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答案：A

3）、There are about 30 houses in the biggest SOS Children's Village.

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答案：B

4）、We can conclude from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from the orphans themselves.

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答案：B

5）、A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them.

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答案：A

30、Time spent in a bookshop can be most pleasant, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. You soon focus on some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent too much time there and must hurry off to keep some forgotten appointment.

This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is the main attraction of a bookshop. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can range round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the greeting, “Can I help you?” You needn't buy anything you don't want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished reading. Then, and only then, are his services necessary.

Once a medical student had to read a textbook which was far too expensive for him to buy. He couldn't obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in a bookshop. Every afternoon, therefore, he would go to the shop and read a little of the book at a time. One day, however, he was disappointed to find the book missing from its usual place. He was about to leave, when he noticed the owner of the shop making a gesture to him with his hand. Expecting to be scolded, he went towards him. To his surprise, the owner pointed to the book which was put away in a corner. “I put it there in case anyone had a desire to buy it!” he said, and left the delighted student to continue his reading.

1）、Time spent in a bookshop can be most pleasant only when you are a book-lover.

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答案：B

2）、A bookshop is of much attraction because it allows you to forget all your problems and worries.

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B.F

答案：B

3）、In a good bookshop an assistant should always follow you.

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答案：B