IV．阅读理解（3）

（十一）

Like everyone else working at the Limerick nuclear-power (核能) plant, Stanley Watras had to pass through the monitors (监测器) before leaving the building. Most of his co-workers passed through without a problem, but Watras, an engineer, continually set off alarms (警报). Some days he was found to be carrying six times more radiation (辐射物) than normal. Neither Watras nor his co-workers could understand where he was picking it up.

Then one day Watras went through the door at Limerick and turned and walked backthrough the monitors without ever entering the power block. Yet the machines still said he wascarrying radiation. “If I wasn’t picking up radiation at work, there was only one place it couldbe coming from. My house.”

When scientists came to test the Watrases’ home in the countryside, they found out whatwas the matter. The house contained so much radon (氡) that living in it for a year was like being exposed (暴露) to 260,000 chest X-rays. In the year the Watrases had spent there, they had increased their chances of getting lung cancer (癌症) by 13 or 14 percent.

The next day the Watrases took down their Christmas tree, put their clothes in some bagsand moved into a nearby hotel. “It was terrible,” says Watras.

The owner of the Limerick plant took charge of dealing with the Watrases’ radon problemas an experiment. Scientists studied every corner of the house. When the ground was dug up,they found that under the house there was a uranium(铀)-bearing rock.

1. It was because_____that Stanley Watras was carrying six times more radiation than normal.

A. he worked at a nuclear-power plant

B. there was something wrong with the monitors

C. he lived in a house in the countryside

D. his house was built on a uranium-bearing rock

2. The monitors at the gates of the plant building gave alarms.

A. only when Watras was leaving the building

B. whenever Watras’s co-workers were leaving the building

C. only when Watras was passing through one day

D. whenever Watras was passing through them

3. Watras understood he was picking up radiation at home as.

A. he always set off alarms when passing through the monitors

B. most of his co-workers passed through the monitors without problem

C. he proved one day he wasn’t picking up radiation at work

D. scientists found out his house contained radiation

4. The Watrases moved into a hotel because.

A. they had been exposed to 260,000 chest X-rays

B. they might have got lung cancer

C. the house contained too much radon

D. scientists found under his house there was a uranium-bearing rock

5. Which of thefollowing is true, according to the passage?

A. The Watraseswill get lung cancer.

B. The Watraseswill have more chances to get lung caner than ordinary people.

C. The Watraseswill not get lung cancer at all

D. The Watrasesdo not worry about theirhealth.

（十二）

Go and watch the baby when he is asleep. See how his chest(胸膛) rises and falls, then rises and falls again.

He does not know what he is doing, but he breathes as perfectly as the oldest and wisestman in the world. He began to breathe when he was born, and he will not stop until he dies;still he does it without thinking about it.

See how long you can hold your breath and be comfortable.

In some places men dive in the ocean for pearls (珍珠). They pick up shells (贝壳) that hold the pearls, and the longer they stay under water the more pearls they can find. For thisreason they hold their breath as long as they possibly can. Yet even these pearl divers cannotgo without breathing for a long time.

Watch to see how many times a man draws his breath every minute. Some men breathe fifteen times a minute; an elephant breathes only eight times. It was told that a mouse breathes ahundred and twenty times each minute.

No one needs to tell us that what we breathe every minute every day is air. It is aroundus everywhere, like a wonderful ocean that we cannot see. It also stretches far above us and above the clouds.

If you blow on your hand, you feel the air even though you cannot see it. So, too, whenthe wind blows, you do not see it, but you feel it rushing past.

Our breathing takes oxygen out of the air.

1. Which of the following is not true?

A. A baby can breathe as perfectly as anybody

B. A baby can breathe without thinking about it.

C. A wise man can’t breathe better than a baby.

D. A baby breathes worse than old people.

2. Pearl divers can hold their breath____.

A. for a long time

B. as long as it is necessary

C. as long as they want

D. when they stay under water

3. It is said that a mouse breathes______.

A. two times each second

B. eight times each second

C. fifteen times each minute

D. fifty times each minute

4. We cannot see air,______.

A. and we cannot breathe it

B. and we cannot feel it, either

C. but we can feel it

D. but we can touch it

5. In the first paragraph, it reads “his hest rises and falls, then rises and falls again”, this means that the man _____.

A. is ill.

B. is going to die

C. is breathing

D. is going to speak

（十三）

A young woman rode with her new husband in a wagon (四轮马车). They came to a log cabin (小棚屋). The man shouted and a little boy came running out of the cabin. Sarah, the young woman, got down from the wagon, opened wide her arms and held the boy close.

“Hello, Abe Lincoln,” she said. “I think we’ll be good friends.”

The new mother with the smiling face went to work at once. She washed Abe and hissister and tidied (整理) their hair. And that night she threw away the boy’s mattress (床垫) of leaves and gave him a soft mattress and enough blankets to keep him warm at night.

Sarah wove cloth and made new shirts for Abe. She made him new deerskin trousers andeven deerskin shoes.

Maybe, if she hadn’t come to the cabin, he wouldn’t have lived to be a man. When Abe’sfather told him not to go to school any more and help on the farm, Sarah took Abe’s part against his father. Abe would rather read than eat, and when his father told him to stop, Sarahsaid, “Let the boy read.”

In 1830 the day came when Abe would leave home to work in New Salem. For the lasttime she had taken Abe’s part against his father. For the last time she had kept the cabin quietso that Abe could read.

More than twenty years later, when Abe, who had then become famous, was going tomake a speech in a nearby town, Sarah went there just to watch him. In the crowd she tried tomake herself small, but he saw her and, in front of everybody, got out of his carriage and wentover and put his arms around her and kissed her. Yes, that was her Abe.

“He loved me truly,” she said later.

1. Which of the following is not true?

A. The young woman in the wagon was Abe’s new mother.

B. The man in the wagon was Abe’s new father.

C. The little boy was the young woman’s new son.

D. The little boy running out of the cabin was Abe.

2. What did Sarah do as soon as she got to the new home?

A. She washed the children and tidied their hair

B. She made a comfortable bed for the boy

C. She made new shirts for the boy

D. both A and B, but not C

3. If Sarah hadn’t come to the cabin,_____.

A. Abe’s father wouldn’t have told him not to go to school

B. Abe wouldn’t have helped his father on the farm

C. Abe wouldn’t have had so much time to read

D. Abe’s father wouldn’t have told him to stop reading

4. Sarah said Abe loved her truly because______.

A. Abe saw her in the crowd though she tried to make herself small

B. Abe didn’t forget her 20 years later

C. Abe kissed her in front of everybody

D. Both A,B and C

5. From the passage, we can conclude that_____.

A. Abe’s father was cruel to him.

B. Abe’s new motherwas very kind to him.

C. Abe’s new mother often quarrelwith his father

D. Abewould live with his new mother but not his father

（十四）

Joe and Helen Mills had two small children. One was six and the other four. They always resisted going to bed, and Helen was always complaining (抱怨) about this and asking Joe for help. But as he did not come home until after they had gone to bed during the week, he was unable to help except at weekends.

Joe considered himself a good singer, but really his voice was not at all musical. However, he decided that, if he sang to the children when they went to bed, it would help them to relax, and they would soon go to sleep.

He did this every Saturday and Sunday night until he heard his small son whispered to his younger sister, “If you pretend that you’re asleep, he stops.”

1. The children always resisted going to bed, which_______.

A. made Helen suffer a lot  B. satisfied their mother

C. Helen was not satisfied with  D. gave Helen much trouble

2. The husband couldn’t help the wife to look after the children______.

A. because he returned from work too late

B. since his voice sounded like a singer’s

C. except on Saturday and Sunday

D. for he did not come home until after the children had gone to bed at weekends

3. Joe worked_______.

A. all the week including Saturday and Sunday

B. during the week including the weekends

C. every day but Saturday and Sunday

D. every week except on Sunday

4. Which of the following conclusions can we draw from the above story?

A. Joe’s song did help the children to relax.

B. With Joe’s help, the children went to sleep.

C. The wife must be thankful to her husband for the great help.

D. The children were so tired of their father’s voice that they pretended to be asleep.

5. This joke tells about_______.

A. Joe and Helen  B. Helen’s trouble

C. Joe’s foolery  D. the bright idea of the two small children

（十五）

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy—five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s playground.

As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy—five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

1. Johnson became a rich man through______

A. doing business. B. making whisky. C. cheating. D. buying and selling land.

2. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson______

A. had no children. B. was a strange man.

C. was very fond of children. D. wanted people to know how rich he was.

3. Many people wrote to Johnson to find out ________.

A. what kind of whisky he had. B. how to live longer.

C. how to become wealthy. D. in which part of the neck to have an injection.

4. The newspaperman_______.

A. should have reported what Johnson had told him.

B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had.

C. was eager to live a long life.

D. should have found out what Johnson really meant.

5. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ______.

A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.

B. he needed an injection in the neck.

C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.

D. there was something wrong with his neck.

答案

（十一）

1-4:DDCCB

（十二）

1-4:DDACC

（十三）

1-4:BDCDB

（十四）

1-4:CCCDC

（十五）

ACDDA

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