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10）

阅读理解（10）

46、Take three basins(盆). Fill the first basin with water which is as hot as you are able to bear(承受) with your hands. In the second basin mix hot water with cold water. Fill the third basin with cold water from the tap(自来水管).

Now place the basins on the table. Put your right hand in the hot water. Put your left hand in the cold water. You will find that your right hand feels hot and your left hand feels cold. After twenty seconds move both your hands into the lukewarm(微温的) water. What do you feel? Your left hand feels warm and your right hand feels cold. But both hands are in the same basin of water.

1）、The writer is talking about cold water.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

2）、Three basins are needed in the experiment.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

3）、Your left hand feels warm and your right hand feels cold because they were in different basins of water a short time ago.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

4）、After putting your hand in the cold water, you put it in the hot water. You will find the water too hot for you to bear.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

5）、This experiment shows that one of our hands is stronger than the other.

A.T

B.F

答案：B

47、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

48、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

49、In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 pm. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it's a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.

In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures that treat time differently. Promptness is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U.S. no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour, it would be too impolite. A person, who is 5 minutes late, will say a few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence.

1）、What is the main idea of this passage? ________

A.It is not customary to telephone someone in the morning and in sleeping hours in the U.S.

B.The role of time in social life over the world.

C.If people are late, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible in the U.S.

D.Not every country treats the concept of time as the same.

答案：B

2）、What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours? _______

A.A matter of work.

B.A matter of life or death.

C.You want to see him or her.

D.You want to make an appointment with him or her.

答案：B

3）、Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend in the U.S. A.?

A.at 7:00 am

B.at 4:00 pm

C.at the midnight

D.at 4 am

答案：B

4）、Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? ________

A.In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.

B.No misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures about the concept of time.

C.It may be considered foolish to make an appointment well in advance in the U.S.A..

D.Promptness is valued highly in American life.

答案：D

5）、From the passage we can safely infer that _______

A.it’s a matter of life or death if you call someone in day time.

B.the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world.

C.it makes no difference in the U.S. whether you are early or late for a business party.

D.if a person is late for a date, he needn’t make some explanation.

答案：B

50、Mary was an English girl, but she lived in Rome. She was six years old. Last year her mother said to her, "You are six years old now, Mary, and you're going to a school here. you're going to like it soon, because it is a nice school."

"Is it an English school?"Mary asked.

"Yes, it is,"her mother said.

Mary went to the school, and enjoyed her lessons. Her mother always took her to school in the morning and brought her home in the afternoon. Last Monday her mother went to the school at 4 o'clock, and Mary ran out of her class.

"We've got a new girl in our class today, Mummy," she said. "She's six years old too, and she's very nice, but she isn't English. She's German."

"Does she speak English?"Mary's mother asked.

"No, but she laughs in English,"Mary said happily.

1）、Mary went to school in another country.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

2）、Maryliked her lessons.

A.T

B.F

答案：A

3）、Mary thought she could understand the girl only when she laughed.