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9）

阅读理解B（9）

41、All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.

Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer.

Games and sports often grow out of people's work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday life; they use them in their sports, too.

Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.

Some sports or games go back to thousands of years ago, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person's character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.

1）、According to this passage we know that people began to play about one hundred years ago.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

2）、The writer didn't tell us in this passage that basketball was invented in America.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

3）、People all over the world enjoy sports because sports are interesting.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

4）、From this passage we can see that according to the author sports and games are significant to our life in many respects.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

5）、The writer's attitude towards sports is positive.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

42、One day a bookseller（书商）let a big box of books fall on his foot. "Go to see the doctor," said his wife. "No, "he said. "I'll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I'll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I'll have to pay him."

On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.

"You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it," said the doctor.

He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. "Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night," he said.

"Thank you," said the bookseller. "And now, sir, here are your books."

"How much?" said the doctor.

"Two pounds."

"Good," said the doctor. "I shall not have to pay you anything."

"Why?" asked the bookseller.

"I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds. And I came here, didn't I?"

1）、What happened to the bookseller one day?

A.He lost a box of books.

B.His foot was wounded by a box of books.

C.He lent the doctor a box of books.

D.He sold out all his books.

答案：B

2）、The bookseller's wife asked him ______.

A.to go out for some medicine

B.to send somebody for a doctor

C.to go to see the doctor

D.to wait for the doctor to come

答案：C

3）、The bookseller didn't take his wife's advice because ______.

A.he was afraid of the doctor

B.he didn't like to take medicine

C.he couldn't walk by himself

D.he didn't want to pay the doctor

答案：D

4）、The doctor paid ______ for the books.

A.one pound

B.two pounds

C.nothing

D.something

答案：C

5）、The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end.

A.more

B.less

C.the same amount of

D.no

答案：A

43、Today Newton is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats in it. They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or woman walking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.

The Government ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn't kill many. The Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They killed thousands of rats everyday. A Government officer put all the dead rats in a big pile. Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.

After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the Government office. The Government officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the Government didn't pay any more money.

1）、Newton is a place which ______.

A.used to be very clean

B.is no longer a city

C.is very clean

D.will be very clean

答案：C

2）、When the Government first ordered the people to kill rats, the people ______.

A.asked for some money for each dead rat

B.stole dead rats from the pile

C.were too lazy to kill many rats

D.killed nearly all the rats quickly

答案：C

3）、The people killed rats ______.

A.to get money from the Government

B.to help the Government make the city clean

C.to make the Government officer happy

D.to protect（保护）their cats and dogs

答案：A

4）、A deep hole was dug so that ______.

A.the rats couldn't come out to attack people at night

B.people could take rats from it easily

C.people would kill more rats

D.nobody could take any rats from the pile

答案：D

5）、What is the best topic for this passage?

A.How to Kill Rats

B.Newton一A City of Rats

C.How Newton Became a Very Clean Place

D.How Newton Became a Famous City

答案：C

44、A man came into a pet shop carrying a parrot（鹦鹉） in a birdcage, "I want to return this bird." he said.

The owner guessed the man came to complain that the bird couldn't talk. "Sir," he said, "we guarantee（保证） that all our parrots can talk. However, we can't guarantee when they will talk. It's all spelled out on your sales receipt."

"No, no, you don't understand," the customer said. "The bird talks, I just don't like his attitude."

Puzzled, the store owner said, "You're right. I don't understand, explain it to me."

The customer said, "I bought the bird a week ago. Every morning, I stood in front of his cage and asked, 'Can you talk?' I did the same thing every evening. For six days, I got no response. Then, this morning, I shouted at the bird, 'can you talk, you stupid creature? Can you talk?'"

The customer glared at the parrot. The owner asked, "So, what happened?"

"That bird looked at me and said, 'I can talk all right. Can you fly?'" the customer said.

1）、A man came into a pet shop to return a parrot he had bought.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

2）、The owner thought the man came probably because the bird was sick.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

3）、The customer disliked the parrot because of his voice.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

4）、The parrot kept silent for six days.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

5）、In the parrot's answer, “Can you fly?” hurt the customer very much.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

45、Peter and Jenny were walking home from school along the street. Suddenly they heard a big noise.

"Come on! That sounds like an accident. Let's see what's happened."

They ran to where the noise came from. As soon as they got there, they could see what had happened. A small car had knocked into the side of a truck. The accident had happened in a quiet street with only four houses in it. Peter and Jenny were the first ones to reach the accident. No other people came. "We must be the only ones who saw the accident," said Jenny. They found that both the car driver and the truck driver were hurt.

"Peter," said Jenny, "run back down the road to Mrs. Jones' house. Ask her to call the policemen and the ambulance（救护车）. Hurry, I'll stay here."

Peter ran as fast as he could.

There was nothing Jenny could do but wait. She knew that when people were hurt in an accident, they shouldn't be moved.

It was not long before the police car and the ambulance arrived. The policemen got the car door open and they carried the man out. Then they got the truck driver out. The men weren't seriously hurt. But they were both taken to hospital. The policemen thanked Peter and Jenny. "You were good. You acted so quickly when you saw the accident. Thank you for all your help."

1）、The accident happened in a quiet street one school afternoon.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

2）、Only the truck driver was hurt in the accident.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

3）、Jenny called the policemen.

A.T

B.F

答案：B