大学英语2阅读题.docx

Part 2 Reading Comprehension （Multiple Choice）（每小题：1分）Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.Coffee is one of the most popular （流行的）drinks throughout the world today. In fact, according to some estimates, over 30% of all adults in the world drink coffee at least once a day on the average.Coffee contains a kind of drug called caffeine （咖啡因）.Caffeine is a chemical that stimulates （刺激）the nerves of the body. Drinking coffee tends to make people a little bit more awake-at least for a short timebecause of this stimulating effect on the nervous system （系统）.A cup of coffee has, on the average, about 3% caffeine in it.One story of the discovery of the coffee plant relates to this effect of caffeine. According to the story, coffee was discovered in East Africa. The story says that coffee was first found by a goat farmer named Kaldi. This was about the year 850.Kaldi was leading his animals through the mountains and the goats were stopping repeatedly to eat the plants near the path. Suddenly, some of the goats started jumping up and down in a very strange way.Kaldi figured out that the goats were acting this way because of the plants they were eating. Kaldi himself tried eating some of the green beans （0荚）that the goats had been eating. He, too, felt the stimulating effect of the beans.Kaldi wanted to prove what had happened, so he picked some of the beans and took them back to his home village, where he told his story. The green bean got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee" because the beans were discovered in a place called Kaffa in Africa.Then for years, people used to eat a few of the green Kaffa beans when they were in the mountains and needed extra energy to do their work. It was later found that the coffee beans could be picked and then dried until they turned brown, and then they could be stored. If the beans were dried and stored, they could be used at any time.1. What is caffeine?C A. A kind of seed.C B. A kind of plant.U C. A kind of drug._ D. A kind of nut.c2. What is the purpose of drinking coffee?_ A. To become more awake.EC B. To become more healthy.仁 C. To become more happy. D. To become more clever.c3. Coffee was first found by a._ A. doctorc. B. farmerEL C. druggist （药剂师） D. chemist （化学家）c4. How did the goats react after eating the plants?U A. They fell asleep.8. They could not find their way home.C. They started jumping up and down.D. They wanted to eat more.5. Why did the green bean get the name MKaffa"? A. Because Kaldi loved his home village very much.8. Because Kaldi*s goats loved the green bean very much.匹 C. Because the beans were discovered in a place by this name.U D. Because the beans could be picked and dried.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd,1666. The servants （女仆）were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, the glow had become so bright that one of the servants, Jane, woke her master to see it. Pepys went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked as though the fire was dying down, though he could still see it. So he set to work to tidy （整理）his room and put his things back where he wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything.While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard that the fire was a bad one: three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. Someone told him that the fire had started in a baker's house in Pudding Lane （小巷），and then the flames （火焰）had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.6. The servants were up very late because.A. they were chattingB. they were having a partyC. they were preparing for a dinnerD. they were watching a firePepys went back to bed becauseA. he was not interested in chatting about a fireB. he did not think the fire was anything specialC. the fire was far awayD. the fire had died down8.When Pepys was tidying his room and things, Jane came in and told him that.A. the fire was dying downB. the fire had been put outC. the fire was a bad oneD. no flame could be seenThe fire startedA. on London BridgeB. in a baker's houseC. because the lane was too narrow for people to come inD. because people could not get enough water to put it out10.Pie Corner wasA. the site of the Tower of LondonB. the site of the Great Fire of LondonC. the place where the fire endedD. the place where Pepys livedQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.In the United States 84 colleges now accept just women. Most of these colleges were established in the 19th century; they were designed to offer women the education they could not receive anywhere else. At that time major universities and colleges accepted only men. In the past 20 years many young women have chosen to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a result some women's colleges decided to accept men students too. Others, however, refused to change. Now these schools are popular （流行的）again.The president of Trinity College （三一大学）in Washington, D.C. said that by the end of the 1980s women began to recognize that studying at the same school with men did not mean women were having an equal chance to learn. The president of Smith College in Massachusetts says a women's college permits women to choose classes and activities freely. For example, she says that in a women's college a higher percentage of students studies mathematics than in a college with both men and women.Educational experts say men students in the United States usually speak in class more than women students do. In a women's college, women feel freer to say what they think. Women's schools also bring out leadership capabilities in many women. Women are represented everywhere. For example, at a women*s college every governing office is held by a woman. Recent studies reportedly show that this leadership continues after college. American women who went to women's colleges are more likely to hold successful jobs later in life.11. Women's colleges were established toC A. give women the same right of education that men enjoyB. make changes to the traditional educational system （系统）C. defy men's privilege （特权）in societyD. train women in particular fields12. Studying at the same school with men does not mean口 A. women can do the same thing as men匠 B. that women are given the same chance as menC. women are allowed more freedom to develop themselvesU D. the present educational system does not allow other choices13. According to the passage, in women's schoolsU A. women are freer than if they study at the same school with men B. women could do anything they wantL.JC. they teach things peculiar to womenD. men are openly challenged14. Which one of the following statements is NOT true about women's college?A. Women feel freer to say what they think.C B. More women can participate in the management of the college. C. A very high percentage of women will become leadersE later.U D. Women are more likely to be successful in their later careers.15. The title of this passage is most likely to be.A. Female Education in the United States_ B. Women's Schools in the United StatesE_ C. Women Should be Given the Same Education as Menc_ D. Education in AmericacQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialog.Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females. However, this number changes a great deal, and by the age of maturity （成熟），the number of young men is about the same as that of young women. And among 70-year old people, there are twice as many women as men. But this great universal （普遍性）truth is changing. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that for the first time there will be too many boys in those crucial 侄关紧要的）years when boys are searching for a mate. What is even more troubling is that the survival of so many boys has removed a chance for natural selection （选择）to do its work. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the difference in weight is due to genes （基因），a force of change has gone.There is another way to commit evolutionary （进化的）suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Except in some religious communities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of children. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have disappeared.For us, this means that people will no longer experience the physical changes that other living things do; our bodies are as perfect as they are ever going to be. Strangely, we have been able to make great advancements without physical change. In the past 100,000 yearseven the past 100 years-our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We managed to make such changes because of technology and social systems.Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of the process of change; they "look at living beings like a dog looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond their comprehension." No doubt we will be shocked at the ugliness of the 20th century way of life. But however amazed future people may be at how far from perfection we were, those future people will look just like us.16. According to the author, what was the danger a man had to face in the past?_ A. Lack of mates.c_ B. Strong competition.匠 C. Lower chance of living to maturity.i D. Genes.c17. The sentence "There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide" perhaps meansC A. there is another way to stop the society from making progress8. you can kill yourself by another meansU C. there is another factor to prevent us from evolving D. we have to find a way to do something18. Women except are having relatively smallnumbers of children. A. those who live to be very oldU B. those who live in religious communitiesC. those who have the advantage of technology D. those who live in poor countries19. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolvingbecause.匠 A. life has been improved by technological advancementB. the number of female babies has been decliningC. we have reached the highest stage of evolution白 D. the difference between wealth and poverty （贫穷）is disappearing20. What is this passage mainly about?A. The change in the numbers of boys and girls._ B. Ways of continuing man*s evolution._ C. The evolution future of nature.c1P. D. Human evolution going nowhere.EQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the same passage or dialog.A little noticed change has been taking place in our time-world. The arrival of digital （数字的）time has been changing the way we act and think. I believe that it has put us to a higher level of anxiety, with greater expectations of efficiency.The old, round, hand-moved time still kept a certain connection to the natural flow of things, to the roundness of the earth, and to the changes of light and seasons. Old, round time was outside ourselves, far enough removed from us so we could ignore it if we so chose.It is not so with digital time, which is a beat. It beats instead of turning. It makes a sound like the sound of the heart and thus places itself smoothly into the body. More and more, we mistake its regular beat for our own, thus mistaking the demands of the world for our wishes.Before wrist watches, time used to live in towers in the centers of towns. At that distance, it could be seen by everybody, but only if they so wished. It took an effort, an actual visit to "time". But then something happened. Time began to live with us, and now it is beginning to live in us.I remember what it was like to be a child, absorbed in the endlessly changeable thing of time. For me there was only child time, divided meaninglessly and quite painfully by the orders of the parents into Bedtime, Wakeup Time, and School Time. But within each of those divisions （分割），Eternity still ruled. Later, of course, they managed to infect me with the anxious demands of clock time. Very soon, all that remained was the anxiety of that which was exact. The fast beats of the timepiece （时钟）cut Eternity to pieces.Occasionally, I stop long enough to recall the times of childhood, but not often enough. Like everybody else, I am helpless before the new technologies. Time is a virus, and it is growing stronger.21. Digital time has changed how we act and think by A. allowing us to work with more efficiencyB. giving us more time to do what we like匹 C. causing us to be more anxiousD. having us expect more of others22. The author thinks that the old clocksC A. are somehow linked with the seasonal changes8. stay closer to people than a digital watch. C. are connected with human's handsc_ D. work better than a wrist watchc23. Before watches, clocks were located.A. everywhere for everyone to seeB. wherever a person wishedC. on the wristD. in the center of town24.25.In the author's early childhood memory,A. time was a concrete thingB. time seemed to have no endC. he fought against his parents' idea of timeD. he enjoyed the anxiety of precision （精确）The author's attitude towards time in the modern world isA. positiveB. unclearC. negativeD. in the middleQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the same passage or dialog.The University of London is one of Britain's largest centers for higher education, with a name for international education. Located in one of the world's most dynamic侑活力有生气的）cities, we can offer international students a wide and exciting cultural life, as well as the very best course choice and teaching. We offer our international students the ability to study and improve their command of English, to ensure they get the best from the course of their choice.International students