第四部分：阅读理解

(六)

Many American women are earning money outside their homes today. Among women who are eighteen to sixty-four years old, fifty percent have jobs.

In general, working women have had more education than those staying at home. Of those who work, thirty-two percent have attended college, compared with twenty percent of those who do not have jobs.

Among women with jobs, eight out of ten drive a car to work, and eight percent took a vacation away from home during the past year. Much of their traveling was by air.

These figures come from a report which was written for advertisers, the report shows a new picture of women today. For example, it tells advertisers that fifty-one percent of all American women have traveled by air——along with fifty-nine percent of all American men.

The lesson for American business is that many women now have other interests besides their homes. They like advertisements which show women in office, planes, and cars.

1._____ percent of working women are aged from eighteen to sixty-four.

A. Fifty-four  B. Fifteen   C. Forty-five   D. Fifty

2. According to this passage what is true about the working women? ______.

A. They are better-educated than those without jobs

B. They are richer than those who do not have jobs

C. They are better-dressed than those without jobs

D. They are better treated by husbands than those without jobs

3. What is implied but not clearly stated in the talk? ______.

A. Women without jobs seldom have vacations away from home

B. Women without jobs usually receive no education

C. Women without jobs usually badly treated by their husbands

D. Much of the traveling made by the working women was by air

4. The report was written for _____.

A. businessmen   B. traveling agencies  C. tourists   D. advertisers

5. What is the lesson for American business?_______.

A. American women like to travel much today.

B. American women like to work today

C. American women have other interests besides their homes

D. American women have bigger purchase power now

(七)

Many a young person tells me that he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases they are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”

The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose work is never rewarded. When I left a 20 year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used typewriter and felt like a good writer.

After a year I still hadn’t got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who did wondering. What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

1.The passage is meant to ____.

A.warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience

B.advice young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer

C.show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame

D.encourage young people to pursue a writing career

2.What can be concluded from the passage?

A.Good writers often find their work interesting and rewarding

B.Writer’s success depends on luck rather than on effort

C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation

D.The chances for a writer to become successful are small

3.Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career? ______.

A.He wasn’t able to produce a single book

B.He hadn’t seen a change for the better

C.He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year

D.He found his dream would never come true

4.“…people who did wondering. What if?” refers to “those_____.”

A.who think too much of the dark side of life

B.who regret giving up their career halfway

C.who think a lot without making a decision

D.who are full of imagination even upon death

5.“Shadowland” in the last sentence refers to _______.

A.the wonderful land one often dreams about

B.the bright future that one is looking forward to

C.the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached

D.a world that exists only in one’s imagination

(八)

In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools built specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain itself, are named after Martha Berry, herself a daughter of a Georgian mountaineer.

Martha Berry was born in 1866. Luckier than most Georgian mountain children, she received an education. But she never forgot other children of the mountains whose parents couldn’t afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started a school for these children. It was housed in a single small log cabin and was attended by only five pupils. Now, eighty years later there are a score of Berry Schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and a waiting list of about five thousand.

Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors for what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she was named one of the twelve most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children till her death in 1942.

1.The Berry Schools have a history of ______.

A. half a century    B. about a quarter of a century

C. over a century   D. less than a century

2. How many years of her life did Martha Berry devote to working for the mountain children? _____.

A. 40 years   B. 36 years   C. 29 years   D. 76 years

3. The Berry Schools have expended ______.

A. 20 times  B. 200 times   C. 1000 times   D. 5000 times

4. In Mount Berry there are now ______.

A. enough schools for all the local children

B. still not enough schools for all the local children

C. more than enough schools for all the local children

D. schools for local children as well as children from other parts of the U. S.

5. Martha Berry was named one of the twelve most important women in the U. S. because ______.

A. she had received many medals and honors

B. she had never stopped working till her death

C. she had helped develop one of the most backward areas in the U.S.

D. she had helped set up some of the most advanced schools in the U.S.

（九）

We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago and I decided to buy a car because we had sold the one we had in England before leaving. Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was ready. I had tried out a model like it before, but as I was not yet used to driving in this city my wife did not want me to collect it on my own. So we went together to fetch it. We paid for the car. They told us that there was enough petrol to take us to a garage, where we could fill up. The nearest garage to the office was about 100 yards away and we got there safely. But when I turned into the main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars facing towards me. I got out of their way as fast as I could by backing into the garage once more and the man behind me shouted at me. “It’s such a problem to remember to drive on the right, isn’t it?” my wife said. “Yes, if only I had a few lessons for practice,” I replied. “You’d be sorry if you had an accident on the first day, wouldn’t you?” while we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in good English, “Would you mind telling me when you are thinking of leaving? Or are you going to sit in your car all the day?”

1.According to the passage the writer and his wife are most probably _____.

A. Spanish  B. German   C. French   D. Englishmen

2. The wife did not want the writer to go and fetch the new car alone because ______.

A. he was not familiar with the city

B. he could not drive cars very well

C. he was not used to driving in that car

D. she wanted to see the new car

3. The word “problem” underlined means _____.

A. something difficult   B. something strange

C. question   D. something interesting

4. From the passage we may infer that in England, people drive ______.

A. on the right   B. in the middle

C. on the left   D. none of the above

5. The man behind them shouted at them because_____.

A. the writer and his wife drove on the wrong side

B. the writer and the wife were foreigners

C. the writer drove his car so bad

D. they stayed in the garage for so long a time

（十）

Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, “You work hard, and make a lot of money, and then the government takes most of it. I want easy work that gives me lots of money and that the government doesn’t know about.”

So he became a thief——but he did not do the stealing. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.

One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house outside the town.

It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.

When he went back to Jim, he said, “That family can’t have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there.”

1.The word “intelligent” in the first sentence is closest in meaning to “_____”

A. clever  B. honest   C. interesting  D. modest

2. What Jim said can be said to be _____.

A. an excuse  B. a lie  C. a joke  D. a truth

3. Jim did not do the stealing, ______.

A. so he was not a thief in fact

B. because was less intelligent than others

C. but he made stealing plans and gave orders

D. for he was afraid of being caught

4. Where did one of the thieves go to do the stealing?

A. To the village   B. To the country

C. To the city   D. To the town

5. It can be concluded from the story that _______.

A. Jim and his men didn’t rob the family

B. the family they were going to rob was not rich in fact

C. the thief sent to the beautiful house was foolish enough

D. the young man and the girl were husband and wife

答案：

（六）1-5:DAADC

（七）1-5:ADBBC

（八）1-5:CABBC

（九）1-5:DAACD

（十）1-5:AACBC

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