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公共英语一级阅读理解模拟试题汇总公共英语一级阅读理解模拟试题（1）Antinuclear DemonstrationPolice fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt tobreak up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever stagedin the United States.More than 135,000 demonstratorsconfronted police on the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to providepower to most of southern New Hampshire.Organizers of thehuge demonstration said,the protest was continuingdespite the police actions.More demonstrators werearriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities tocancel the project.The demonstrator had charged that theproject was unsafe in the densely populated area,wouldcreate thermal pollution in the bay,and had no acceptablemeans for disposing of its radioactive wasters.Thedemonstrations would go on until the jails and the courtswere so overloaded that the state judicial system wouldcollapse.Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there wouldbe no reconsideration of the power project and no delayin its construction set for completion in three years.“This project will begin on time and the people of thisstate will begin to receive its benefits on schedule.Thosewho break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage theproject will be dealt with according to the law,“he said.And police called in reinforcements from all over the stateto handle the disturbances.The protests began before dawn Friday when severalthousand demonstrators broke through police lines aroundthe cordoned-off construction site.They carried placardsthat read No Nukes is Good Nukes,“wSunpower,NotNuclear Power,and Stop Private Profits from PublicPeril.They defied police order to move from the area.Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge theprotestors who had come prepared with their own gas masksor facecloths.Finally gas-masked and helmeted policecharged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators oneby one.The protestors did not resist police,but refusedto walk away under their own power.Those arrested wouldbe charged with unlawful assembly,trespassing,anddisturbing the peace.1.What were the demonstrators protesting about?APrivate profits.EBNuclear Power Station.ECThe project of nuclear power construction.DPublic peril.2.Who had gas-masks?A Everybody.EBA part of the protestors.ECPolicemen.ED Both B and C.3.Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reasonfor the demonstration?APublic transportation.BPublic peril.EC Pollution.EDDisposal of wastes.4.With whom were the jails and courts overloaded?AWith prisoners.BWith arrested demonstrators.CWith criminals.EDWith protestors.5.What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumpertoward the power project and the demonstration?A stubborn.Binsistent.Cinsolvable.D remissible.公共英语一级阅读理解模拟试题（2）Superconducting MaterialsThe stone age,The I ron Age.Entire epochs have beennamed for materials.So what to call the decades ahead?The choice will be tough.Welcome to the age of superstuff.Material science-once the least sexy technology-isbursting with new,practical discoveries led bysuperconducting ceramics that may revolutionizeelectronics.But superconductors are just part of thepicture：from house and cars to cook pots and artificialteeth,the world will someday be made of different stuff.Exotic plastics,glass and ceramics will shape the futurejust as surely as have genetic engineering and computerscience.The key to the new materials is researchers increasing ability to manipulate substances at themolecular level.Ceramics,for example,have long beenlimited by their brittleness.But by minimizing themicroscopic imperfections that cause it,scientists aremaking far stronger ceramics that still retain suchqualities as hardness and heat resistance.Ford Motor Co.now uses ceramic tools to cut steel.A firm called Kyocerahas created a line of ceramic scissors and knives that staysharp for years and never rust or corrode.A similar transformation has overtaken plastics.High-strength polymers now form bridges,ice-skatingrinks and helicopter rotors.And one new plastic thatgenerates electricity when vibrated or pushed is used inelectric guitars,touch sensors for robot hands and karatejackets that automatically record each punch and chop.Even plastic litter,which once threatened to permanentlyblot the landscape,has proved amenable to moleculartinkering.Several manufacturers now make biodegradableforms；some plastic six-pack rings for example,graduallydecompose when exposed to sunlight.Researchers aredeveloping ways to make plastics as recyclable as metalor glass.Besides,composites-plastic reinforced withfibers of graphite or other compounds-made theround-the-wor1d flight of the voyager possible and haveeven been proved in combat：a helmet saved an infantrymans life by deflecting two bullets in the Grenada invasion.Some advanced materials are old standard with a newtwist.The newest fiberoptic cable that carry telephonecalls cross-country are made of glass so transparent thata piece of 100 miles thick is clearer than a standard windowpane.But new materials have no impact until they are madeinto products.And that transition could prove difficult,for switching requires lengthy research and investment.It can be said a firmer handle on how to move tocommercialization will determine the success or failureof a country in the near future.1.How many new materials are mentioned in thispassage?A TwoBThreeCFourDFive2.Why does the author mention genetic engineering andcomputer science?ATo compare them with the new materials.BTo show the significance of the new materials onthe future world.CTo compare the new materials to them.DTo explain his view point.3.Why is transition difficult?ABecause transition requires money and time.BBecause many manufacturers are unwilling to changetheir equipment.CBecause research on new materials is verydifficult.DBecause it takes 10 years.4.Where lies success of a country in the New Age ofsuperstuff?AI t lies in research.BI t lies in investment.CI t lies in innovation.DI t lies in application.公共英语一级阅读理解模拟试题（3）The Neutrality of American in the Early World War I IThe establishment of the Third Reich influenced eventsin American history by starting a chain of events whichculminated in war between Germany and the United States.The compete destruction of democracy,the persecution ofJews,the war on religion,the cruelty and barbarism ofthe Nazis,and especially the plans of Germany and herallies,Italy and Japan,for world conquest caused greatindignation in this country and brought on fear of anotherworld war.While speaking out against Hitlers atrocities,the American people generally favored isolationistpolicies and neutrality.The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and1936 prohibited trade with any belligerents or loans tothem.In 1937 the President was empowered to declare anarms embargo in wars between nations at his discretion.American opinion began to change somewhat afterPresident Roosevelts quarantine the aggressorw speechat Chicago(1937)in which he severely criticized Hitlers policies.Germany s seizure of Austria and the MunichPact for the partition of Czechoslovakia(1938)alsoaroused the American people.The conquest ofCzechoslovakia in March,1939 was another rude awakeningto the menace of the Third Reich.In August,1939 came theshock of the Nazi-soviet Pact and in September the attackon Poland and the outbreak of European war.The UnitedStates attempted to maintain neutrality in spite ofsympathy for the democracies arrayed against the ThirdReich.The Neutrality Act of 1939 repealed the arms embargoand permitted“cash and carry”exports of arms tobelligerent nations.A strong national defense program wasbegun.A draft act was passed(1940)to strengthen themilitary services.A Lend Act(1941)authorized thePresident to sell,exchange,or lend materials to anycountry deemed necessary by him for the defense of theUnited States.Help was given to Britain by exchangingcertain overage destroyers for the right to establishAmerican bases in British territory in the WesternHemisphere.In August,1940 President Roosevelt and PrimeMinister Churchill met and issued the Atlantic Charterwhich proclaimed the kind of a world which should beestablished after the war.In December,1941,Japanlaunched the unprovoked attack on the United States atPearl Harbor.Immediately thereafter,Germany declaredwar on the United States.1.One item occurring before 1937 that the author doesnot mention in his list of actions that alienated theAmerican public wasAthe burning of the Reichstag.BGerman plans for conquest.CNazi barbarism.Dthe persecution of religious groups.2.The Lend-Lease Act was designed toAhelp the British.Bstrengthen the national defense of the UnitedStates.Cpromote the Atlantic Charter.Davenge Pearl Harbor.3.American Policy during the years 1935-1936 may bedescribed as beingA watchful.Bisolationist.C peaceful.Dindifferent.4.The Neutrality Act of 1939Apermitted the selling of arms to belligerentnations.Bantagonized Japan.Cpermitted the British to trade only with theAllies.Dled to Lend-Lease Act.5.We entered the war against GermanyAbecause Germany declared war.Bbecause Japan was an ally of Germany.Cafter Germany had signed the Nazi-soviet Pact.Dafter peaceful efforts had failed.公共英语一级阅读理解模拟试题（4）Antarctica and EnvironmentAntarctica has actually become a kind of space station-a unique observation post for detecting importantchanges in the world（s environment.Remote from majorsources of pollution and the complex geological andecological systems that prevail elsewhere,Antarcticamakes possible scientific measurements that are oftensharper and easier to interpret than those made in otherparts of the world.Growing numbers of scientists therefore seeAntarctica as a distant-early-warning sensor,wherepotentially dangerous global trends may be spotted beforethey show up to the north.One promising field ofinvestigation is glaciology.Scholars from the UnitedStates,Switzerland,and France are pursuing sevenseparate but related projects that reflect their concernfor the health of the West Antarctic I ce Sheet-a concernthey believe the world at large should share.The Transantarctic Mountain,some of them more than14,000 feet high,divide the continent into two verydifferent regions.The part of the continent to the“east”of the mountains is a high plateau covered by an ice sheetnearly two miles thick.“West of the mountain,the halfof the continent south of the Americas is also covered byan ice sheet,but there the ice rests on rock that is mostlywell below sea level.If the West Antarctic Ice Sheetdisappeared,the western part of the continent would bereduced to a sparse cluster of island.While ice and snow are obviously central to many-environmental experiments,others focus on the mysterious“dry valley”of Antarctica,valleys that contain littleice or snow even in the depths of winter.Slashed throughthe mountains of southern Victoria Land,these valleysonce held enormous glaciers that descended 9,000 feet fromthe polar plateau to the Ross Sea.Now the glaciers aregone,perhaps a casualty of the global warming trendduring the 10,000 years since the ice age.Even the snowthat falls in the dry valleys is blasted out by viciouswinds that roars down from the polar plateau to the sea.Left bare are spectacular gorges,rippled fields of sanddunes,clusters of boulders sculptured into fantasticshapes by 100-mi 1 e-an-hour winds,and an aura ofextraterrestrial desolation.Despite the unearthly aspect of the dry valleys,somescientists believe they may carry a message of hope of theverdant parts of the earth.Some scientists believe thatin some cases the dry valleys may soak up pollutants fasterthan pollutants enter them.1.What is the best title for this passage?AAntarctica and environmental Problems.BAntarctica：Earth s Early-Warning station.CAntarctica：a Unique Observation Post.DAntarctica：a Mysterious Place.2.What would the result be if the West Antarctic IceSheet disappeared?AThe western part of the continent would bedisappeared.BThe western part of the continent would be reduced.CThe western part of the continent would becomescattered Islands.EDThe western part of the continent would be reducedto a cluster of I slands.3.Why are the Dry Valleys left bare?AVicious wind blasts the snow away.BI t rarely snows.CBecause of the global warming trend and fiercewind.D Sand dunes.4.Which of the following is true?AThe Dry Valleysw have nothing left inside.BThe“Dry Valleysw never held glaciers.CThe“Dry Valleys”may carry a message of hope forthe verdant.DThe“Dry Valleysw are useless to scientists.公共英语一级阅读理解模拟试题（5）Contribution of CoeducationI magining being asked to spend twelve or so years ofyour life in a society which consisted only of members ofown sex.How would you react?Unless there was somethingdefinitely wrong with you,you wouldn,t be too happy aboutit,to say the least.I t is all the more surprisingtherefore that so many parents in the world choose toimpose such abnormal conditions on their children-conditions which they themselves wouldn t put up with forone minute!Any discussion of this topic is bound to question theaims of education.Stuffing children s heads full ofknowledge is far from being foremost among them.One ofthe chief aims of educations is to equip future citizenswith all they require to take their place in adult society.Now adult society is made up of men and women,so how cana segregated school possibly offer the right sort ofpreparation for it?Anyone entering adult society afteryears of segregation can only be in for a shock.A co-educational school offers children nothing lessthan a true version of society in miniature.Boys and girlsare given the opportunity to get to know each other,tolearn to live together from their earliest years.They areput in a position where they can compare themselves witheach other in terms of academic ability,athleticachievement and many of the extra-curricu1ar activitieswhich are part of school life.What a practical advantageit is(to give just a small example)to be able to puton a school play in which the male parts will be taken byboys and the female parts by girls!What nonsenseco-education makes of the argument that boys are clevererthan girl or vice-versa.When segregated,boys and girlsare made to feel that they are a race apart.Rivalry betweenthe sexes is fostered.In a coeducational school,everything falls into its proper place.But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-educationis the healthy attitude to life it encourages.Boys dont grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures-airy goddesses,more like book-illustrations to afairy-tale,than human beings.Girls don t grow upimagining that men are romantic heroes.Years of livingtogether at school dispel illusions of this kind.Thereare no goddesses with freckles,pigtails,piercing voicesand inky fingers.There are no romantic heroes with knobblyknees,dirty fingernails and unkempt hair.The awkwardstage of adolescence brings into sharp focus some of 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