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7）

阅读理解（7）

31、In 1889 all Paris admiredthe Eiffel Tower. It was the engineering wonder of the world. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel had completed his masterpiecein steel.

Steel as a building material was then still new. The 984-foot tower was a lacy（网眼状的）network of girders（支架）. There were thousands of steel pieces. Two and a half million rivets（铆钉） joined them.

From four corners, the legs of the tower slope inward. They rise to form a pointed top. Lifts carry visitors to three platforms at different heights. On a clear day, countryside sixty miles off is viewed from the top platform（平台）.

As Eiffel planned, his structure is a landmark（地标）of Paris. It is even higher today. A station later constructed for radio and television has added almost fifty feet to the original height of the tower.

1）、The Eiffel Tower was completed in 1899.

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答案：B

2）、The tower named after its builder.

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答案：A

3）、The tower was an engineering wonder because of its location.

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答案：B

4）、The article describes the tower as being lacy.

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答案：A

5）、To reach the top platform, sightseers use lifts.

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答案：A

32、Foulsham House is a fine，large house of the l790s. It stands by the River Byre，in twenty-five hectares (公顷) of the best farmland in the southwest.

The house was built by Smithson，and the story goes back to George，the son of King of Whales，who fell in love with the beautiful Lady Kitty，at one of the first Foulsham's wild woods (野外) parties. Many years ago many great men rode on the hills about Foulsham House, and many fine girls took tea in the Green Room.

The house has eight bedrooms，three bathrooms，two living-rooms，and a dining-room with a real Adam fire-place. Its library has a good view over the park and the river. All rooms are light and airy，with good，high windows，and wood floors.

At the back of the house there is room for four cars. The third Foulsham once kept horses there. In many other ways，this house of the l790s meets the needs of the 1990s.

If you wish to know more about Foulsham House，write to:

Harvey. Platt，Longford & Sons 6，Castle Green，Gilham，Byreside.

1）、Foulsham House is a house with a history of more than two hundred years.

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答案：A

2）、We learn from the reading that Smithson built the house for wild woods parties.

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答案：B

3）、The sentence "Its library has a good view over the park and the river" means " The park and the river can be seen clearly from the library ".

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答案：A

4）、The third Foulsham often rode his horses at the back of the house.

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答案：B

5）、We can infer (推断) that Harvey wants to sell the house.

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答案：A

33、Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant. He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, "Here are two bottles of poisonand some nice food in the house. You must take of them." With these words, he went out.

But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished, so he drank the poison to kill himself.

1）、In the story, only the rich man liked wine and good food very much.

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答案：B

2）、The rich man knew that it was the cat that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

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答案：B

3）、The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because he wanted to kill the cat.

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答案：B

4）、In fact, the servant ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

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答案：A

5）、From the story, we know that the servant is very clever.

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答案：A

34、In 1920, barely out of his teens, Alfred Hitchcock went to work for an American film company which had opened a studio in Islington, London. His first job at the studio was writing captions （脚本） for silent movies. Within two years, he was writing scripts（剧本） and working as an assistant director.

For the rest of the 1920s, Hitchcock worked on one film after another in Britain and Germany. Filming was often a rough-and-ready（匆忙做成的） affair and the assistant director was required to step in and plug gaps. A cameraman went missing, Hitchcock became a cameraman. A scene needed rewriting, Hitchcock rewrote it. Someone needed to be in charge of money when the film crew was on location, Hitchcock looked after the money.

At the same time, this being the era of silent movies, Hitchcock was learning the language of cinema: telling a story－not through dialogue, but through visual images（视觉影象）. This led to his success later.

When he began to direct his own films, first in Britain and later in Hollywood, he was determined to make films that held the audience's attention and kept tension（紧张感）. He succeeded. Hitchcock's ability to put you on the edge of your seat makes him one of the greatest makers of suspense（悬念） movies.

1）、Alfred Hitchcock's first job at the studio was writing captions for silent movies.

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答案：A

2）、According to the context, “step in and plug gaps” (in Line 3, Para. 2) means asking for one's help.

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答案：B

3）、Telling a story through dialogue prepared Hitchcock for his success later.

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答案：B

4）、He was determined to draw the audience's attention and keep tension in his film-making.

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答案：A

5）、He had taken up different jobs before he succeeded.

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答案：A

35、In the autumn of 1935, when I was a young man, I was travelling in the Northwest of India. One evening, after hunting in the forest all day, I was returning alone to the place where I had put up my tent. It was getting dark and I was walking along a narrow path. On my right was a wide river; on my left, a thick, dark forest. Suddenly I saw two green eyes looking at me from among the trees. A tiger was getting ready to jump on me.

What could I do? Should I jump into the river and hope to save my life by swimming? I looked to the right. In the river there was an immense crocodile waiting to welcome me with its mouth wide open.

I was so frightened that I shut my eyes. I heard branches moving as the tiger jumped. I opened my eyes. What do you think had happened？The tiger had jumped right over me and was now in the jaws of the crocodile. That's a true story, believe it or not!

1）、The story happend in the summer of 1935.

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答案：B

2）、The man started hunting in the morning that day.

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答案：A

3）、The man was too frightened to run away.

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答案：A