2018年12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5）

阅读理解（5）

21、Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communication technology is a step back from the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.

As almost every imaginable contact between human beings becomes automatic by machine, the alienationquotient goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person anywhere. Directory assistance is almost always fully automatic by machine. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the worker when you can swipe (刷卡) your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Placing money at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborhood when you can just put your credit card into the ATM?

Pretty soon you won't have the hard task of making eye contact at the grocery store. Some grocery chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those annoying clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing.

1）、The writer's attitude towards advances in communication technology may be described as critical.

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B.F

答案：A

2）、If his mom has a question, he will leave her the answer through voice mail.

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B.F

答案：A

3）、Judging from the context, the word "alienation" in paragraph 2 means strangeness.

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答案：A

4）、With the rapid development of high technology, people may not need to make eye contact with clerks.

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答案：A

5）、It can be inferred that the writer is pleased with the modern pace of life.

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B.F

答案：B

22、Now, you'll be coming back here to brush up your English, so you'll want to make as much conversation as possible. Whatever you do, don't stay in a place full of overseas students, especially if they come from our country. This is fatal. Don't believe all the stories you hear about how unfriendly the English are. It's just that many of them are a little shy, and they have this idea about minding their own business. In a train, or restaurant, for example, or anywhere else they will talk to you; but you must break the ice first. Then see them talk! Any subject will do--the weather, their dogs,food. Pardon me, not any subject. Don't be nosy (爱打听的) about their private life, their incomes and expenditures, or their ages. These English worship (尊重) their privacy. Avoid religion too. The best place to talk is in pubs, but as you are a girl, go with someone else, and don't go to the pubs in Piccadilly, Leicester Square and so on. Find one near where you are living and go there regularly. Someone's bound to talk to you. Oh! Make sure to let them see you are a foreigner. Pretend to have difficulty in ordering, or something. That should be easy enough.

1）、The writer suggests that they had better not stay in a place where there are a lot of young people.

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B.F

答案：B

2）、According to the passage, we should believe the English aremostly friendly.

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B.F

答案：A

3）、We can talk about anything with English except their dogs.

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B.F

答案：B

4）、According to the passage, if you want to talk with the English, usually you have to talk to them first.

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B.F

答案：A

5）、The best place to talk to the English is in a restaurant.

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B.F

答案：B

23、Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."

"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.

Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more."

The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?"

"Burnt yesterday evening."

1）、Mr Brown told his son that he would be back in a month.

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B.F

答案：B

2）、Mr Brown wrote the words down on his son's pocket.

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B.F

答案：B

3）、A man came to visit the boy's father on the fifth day.

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B.F

答案：A

4）、The man was very surprised because he thought the child's father was dead.

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答案：A

5）、The paper was burnt.

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B.F

答案：A

24、Fred was a young soldier in a big camp. During the weekthey always worked very hard, but it was Saturday, and all the young soldiers were free, so their officer said to them, "You can go into the town this afternoon, but first I am going to inspect （检查）you."

Fred came to the officer, and the officer said to him, "Your hair is very long, go to the barber（理发师） and then come back to me again."

Fred ran to the barber's shop, but it was closed because it was Saturday. Fred was very sad for a few minutes, but then he smiled and went back to the officer. "Are my boots clean now, sir?" he asked.

The officer didn't look at Fred's hair. He looked at his boots and said, "Yes, they're much better now. You can go out, and next week, first clean your boots, and then come to me!"

1）、In the first paragraph "during the week" means from Monday to Friday.

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B.F

答案：A

2）、You can go into the town this afternoon before I inspect you.

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B.F

答案：B

3）、The officer asked Fred to have his hair cut short.

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B.F

答案：A

4）、Fred smiled because his boots were very clean.

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答案：B

5）、The officer made a mistake. He should have inspected his boots instead of hair.

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B.F

答案：B

25、One Thursday evening Mr. Watson left his car in front of his house as usual, but when he came down next morning to go to his office, he found that his car was missing. He called the police and told them what had happened. He also asked them whether they help to find the car for him.

When Mr. Watson came back from his office that evening, the car was in the usual place outside the home. He examined it carefully to see whether it was broken and found two tickets on one of the seats, and a letter which said, “We are sorry we took your car because of something important. The two tickets are for you to enjoy yourselves at the weekend.”

Mr. and Mrs. Watson went to the theatre with the two tickets on Saturday night and they had a good time. When they got home, they found that thieves had taken almost everything they had in their home.

1）、Mr. Watson usually went away from his car on Thursday night.

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B.F

答案：B

2）、Mr. Watson called the police to ask them for the car.

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B.F

答案：B

3）、The car was stolen in the morning.

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B.F

答案：B