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8）

阅读理解B（8）

36、Newspapers, along with reporting the news, educate, entertain, and give opinions. An important way of reading a large, big-city newspaper is to put it into different sections. Can you find these separate sections: world news, national and local news, sports, business, entertainment, opinions, ads? Does your paper have other sections?

News stories give facts, not the reporter's opinions. Some newspaper editorials (社论) come out with the writer's name, but many newspapers only carry editorials without putting the writers' names on.

You can be a better reader if you know what to expect in a newspaper. For example, you can expect headlines to leave out unnecessary words. You can expect to find the most important facts in the leading paragraph (the first paragraph) of a news story. You can expect important news items to be on the front page. You can expect less important items to be on the inside pages.

Most of all, the more you know about news of the present time, the more you will understand what is in the newspaper; important stories are generally presented one day and followed up on following days. So, an important way to read newspapers is reading one frequently.

1）、A good way to read a newspaper is to find separate sections and read according to your needs.

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答案：A

2）、To design ads might NOT be a newspaper reporter's work.

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答案：A

3）、From the text we know that newspaper headlines are what readers expect to read.

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答案：B

4）、If you are reading for major facts in the news stories, you should read the front page.

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答案：B

5）、The writer's suggestion to us is that we should read one newspaper frequently.

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答案：A

37、No 2 tennis player Jelela Jankovic from Serbia (塞尔维亚) has won her second title of the year. She became champion of the China Open on September 28.

Jankovic first practiced tennis when she was nine years old. After six months Jankovic played her first match.

It was the national championship for kids up to 10 years old. She came to the semi-finals (半决赛).

When she was 11, she won a national championship for girls up to 12 years old. In order to continue her career, Jelela left Serbia and went to the United States. At that time, she didn't speak any English. And her family did not come with her. It was a hard time.

"I did not know what I needed to do when I was going to school. I could not do my homework. When you have a difficulty, there is nobody to help you. So, you learn it the hard way," Jelela said.

However, it was a good learning experience for Jelela. "It makes me more independent and stronger as a person. I know how to do everything by myself so I don't have to depend on my parents or somebody else to do it for me," she said.

In the US, Jelela received better conditions for practice and development of her game. In 2000, she became a professional and has been shining on the tennis court ever since.

1）、Jelela started to play tennis at 9 year old.

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答案：A

2）、Jelela left her hometown at 12.

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答案：A

3）、She went to the US to get better tennis training.

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答案：A

4）、She liked US life at first.

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答案：B

5）、She become famous in the tennis field in 2000.

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答案：A

38、The AIDS virus has been around for a very long time, but the spread of the disease within the last twenty years or so on such a scale has caused real concern. It seems that in the 1980s the principal carriers of the disease were homosexuals (同性恋者), drug users and prostitutes(娼妓). Now it is becoming evident that heterosexuals (异性恋者) also spread the disease, that children can be born with the virus and that patients in hospitals are being infected too.

Just as the WHO fought the spread of children's disease throughout the world in the 1960s, so now they must again use education to fight this killer disease. The organization proposes to write newspaper articles and books, and to make videos and TV programmers. These will be translated into the major languages of the world so that as many people as possible can be educated about the danger of AIDS.

However, we are still faced with two big questions. Is educating the public enough if we are to control the spread of AIDS? Does the WHO have enough money and resources for hospitals throughout the world to help and care for sufferers? One fact is becoming clearer and that is that the WHO has not focused enough on the need to educate medical staff. There are still hospitals and health centers in some parts of the world which do not accept AIDS patients, while there are others where too little care is taken to prevent the spread of the disease.

1）、AIDS is a disease which has existed for a long time.

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答案：A

2）、People who use drugs are easily affected with AIDS.

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答案：A

3）、In WHO's opinion, more education will help most effectively in fighting against the spread of AIDS.

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答案：B

4）、From the passage, we can see that the writer is not happy about the TV programmers on AIDS.

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答案：B

5）、There are some hospitals in some parts of the world which do not accept AIDS patients.

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答案：A

39、Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, "As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives." A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.

1）、The best title for this passage is Language and Culture.

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答案：A

2）、According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learning its body language.

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答案：B

3）、According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language.

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答案：B

4）、To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.

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答案：A

5）、Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures.

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答案：B

40、Nancy and Peter like sports. In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski. They are planning a ski trip for this weekend, but they don't know about the weather. It's 7:30 now, and they are listening to the weather report on the radio. The weatherman is giving the weather for the weekend.

"Friday is going to be cold and cloudy, but it's not going to rain. The temperature is going to be in the thirties. It's going to snow Friday night and maybe Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are going to be clear, cold and sunny." Now Nancy and Peter are excited. The weather is going to be perfect for a ski trip. They are going to have a wonderful weekend in the mountains.

1）、Nancy and Peter listen to the weather forecast Thursday morning.

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答案：A

2）、Nancy and Peter are planning a ski trip in the mountains for the weekend.

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答案：A

3）、It is going to snow Friday night according to the weather forecast.

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答案：A