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公共英语-公共英语五级分类模拟题 阅读理解 阅读理解1小学二年级阅读理解小学三年级阅读题训练阅读理解二年级一年级语文猴子捞月亮 (六) 公共英语五级分类模拟题阅读理解(六) 练习五 Part A Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Text 1 The purpose of the home was to rehabilitate patients as far as possible, so that they could face the harsh realities of life outside hospital. Most of them not only suffered from some form of nervous disease but had other handicaps as well. (There were those who were deaf, those who were partially blind, those who were partially paralyzed.) For most of them, the hospital had been their refuge for some time and the idea of being rehabilitated was somewhat frightening. They doubted their own capabilities, and were nervous of the effort which would be required from them. The home contains within a research unit which is mainly concerned with overcoming the technical problems which arise from the patient's physical disabilities. Full rehabilitation involves a need for a patient to be as independent as possible physically. It is in the research center that all types of electronic equipment are pioneered, much of it exceedingly delicate and complex. One of the things I found astonishing as I watched what was going on in the workshop was the ease with which the patients became accustomed to the equipment. This of course has the dual effect of making them physically independent and giving them the psychological satisfaction of having mastered a difficult problem. And this extra confidence is, of course, a further step towards rehabilitation. While I was there, I was fortunate enough to be able to talk to a couple of patients (or rather ex-patients) who had been fully rehabilitated and who had come back for the weekend to visit their friends. One, a former physical education teacher who suffered from paralysis from the waist down, was now teaching general studies in a primary school. After his accident, he told me, he had had a complete nervous breakdown and had indeed tried to commit suicide several times. "But when I got here, I realized that there was still some things I could do, and that there were people worse off than me who were out in the world doing them," he said. "Yes, I expect I shall get depressions again. You can't completely cure that kind of thing. But they'll pull me out of it, at least I know that now." I asked him if he felt that everyone in the home could be rehabilitated. "Well, of course, one can't really tell. There are some people in here with really terrible problems. But I should say that about 70% of them will be fully rehabilitated by this time next year." And that is a fantastic claim, but from my observation of what is going on, may well be substantiated. 1、 The "home" in this text refers to A. the hospital. B. the refuge camp. C. the research center. D. the place away from reality. 2、 What does the author mean by rehabilitate? A. to cure nervous diseases. B. to overcome physical disabilities. C. to train to get used to a new situation. D. to restore tO a relatively normal life. 3、 The research unit aims to help people to A. invent complex electronic equipment. B. become physically independent. C. gain confidence about themselves. D. master difficult problems. 4、 What is true about the teacher mentioned in paragraph 3? A. He was recovered from the paralysis. B. He realized that he was luckier than others. C. He thought highly of the rehabilitation place. D. He had a car accident and almost killed himself. 5、 According to the author, the teacher's claim of the percentage of full rehabilitation is A. optimistic. B. underestimated. C. groundless. D. realistic. Text 2 Only a man who hates himself and loves humanity could possibly become an actor, but to become an actor doing plays for live television is without doubt the most ghastly torture ever invented for the acting profession. So, at least, a well-known actor has stated and I am quite prepared to believe it. Consider for yourself. For one thing the unseen audience may number millions. If you forget your lines there is no hope whatsoever of being prompted and the only resource left to you is that of mouthing silently at the cameras in the vain hope that thousands of viewers will think that the fault is in their sets rather than that the actor is incompetent. There is a story told by a famous actor of his experiences in this field which gives me intense pleasure whenever I read it. The types of part he usually plays are generally somewhat stiff-upper-lip typically British parts. He was due to act in a live television show where the script was of indifferent quality, rehearsals had been sketchy and a great deal more attention had been paid to the trappings of the production than to its actual quality. He claims himself that acting live on television scares him stiff. However, on this occasion he was determined to give as good an impression as possible of the "stiff-upper-lip". He was acting a part where the costume was fairly simple and his idea of making a "calm and collected" impression was to leave the main items (coat, briefcase and beret) in the little hut he had been assigned as a dressing room and stroll about the stage five minutes before the performance was due to start, apparently totally unprepared. This worked beautifully. Everyone naturally, from the producer to the humblest stage-hand, begged him to get ready. "Two minutes will be quite enough," he stated calmly, puffing at an enormous cigar. Two minutes before the live show was due to start he strolled to the dressing room and tried to open the door. It was locked. He then describes himself as being changed into a gibbering nervous wreck, shouting and screaming for help. He finally went on the set with his coat on back to front and covered with woodshavings from having had to break down the door. He forgot his lines and the cool Englishman with the iron nerve he was supposed to be playing turned into, as he describes it, a furtive little man with a dirty coat, a stammer and a nervous twitch. He has now decided that live television is not for him, a fact which will hardly surprise the reader. 6、 According to the author what kind of person could become an actor on live television? A. One who is talented in aging. B. One who wants to be well-known. C. One who is prepared to be tortured. D. One who hates the aging profession. 7、 The type of part the actor (referred to from paragraph 3 onwards) usually takes is A. a cool calm Englishman. B. atypical British upper-class. C. an unqualified British actor. D. an Englishman with stiff expressions. 8、 The actor did not go to get his main items in advance in order to A. show his superb performance. B. exhibit the character of the part he played. C. give a good impression of himself to the audience. D. scare everyone from the producer to the stage-man. 9、 After finding the door of the hut was locked, the actor A. was shocked. B. was close to panic. C. lost his temper. D. felt helpless. 10、 The Englishman the actor played on the stage must look A. funny and nasty. B. frightened and depressed. C. cool and relaxed. D. delighted and excited. Text 3 In no small measure, the epidemic of paranormal -beliefs beliefs beyond the range of scientific explanation -is due to the rapid emergence of the mass media on a global scale. These media have virtually replaced the schools, colleges, and universities as the chief conveyors of information. The days of the lone scientist conducting research in the lab or of the isolated scholar writing a paper or book for a limited audience have been bypassed. Today new ideas are popularized -whether half or fully baked -and they are broadcast far and wide even if they have not been sufficiently tested. Apparently the chief interests of most media corporations are entertainment rather than information, profit rather than truth, selling products rather than contributing to the sum of human knowledge. Accordingly, paranormal ideas are pandered to a gullible public and the line between fiction and reality is blurred. The public is often confronted with sensational accounts of hidden realms, and pseudoscience is mistaken for genuine science. Even reputable publishers prefer to publish books touting paranormal claims rather than dispassionate scientific critiques. Why is it that of the thousands of pro-astrology, pro-psychic, or proUFO books published, very few are skeptical? "They don't sell," is the response of the hallelujah choir within the publishing industry a sad commentary on our times. The skeptics thus have a vital role to play: to educate the public about the nature of science and to attempt to persuade media producers and directors that they have some responsibility to develop an appreciation for scientific rationality. One of the roles of CSICOP is to challenge the views of pseudoscience pouring forth daily from the media. It is clear that we cannot operate within the cloistered confines of the academy, but need to enter into the public arena. In monitoring the media, we surely have not sought to censor producers or publishers; we only wish for some balance on their part in presenting paranormal claims, and for some role for skepticism about these claims. Largely because of the media, large sectors of public opinion simply assume that psychic powers are real, that it is possible to modify material objects merely by the mind, that psychics can help detectives solve mysteries, and that we can abandon the clinical tests of medical science and heal patients by miraculous means. The number of paranormal, occult, and sci-fi television programs is increasing. Our objection is that "docudramas" are not labeled as fictionalized accounts but touted as fact. In regard to the many talk shows that constantly deal with paranormal topics, the skeptical viewpoint is rarely heard; and when it is permitted to be expressed, it is usually sandbagged by the host or other guests. 11、 It can be inferred from the text that most people who have no doubts about paranormal phenomena are probably A. ignorant of genuine science. B. enthusiastic about mass media. C. inclined to believe things readily. D. fond of psychic powers themselves. 12、 Scientifically unexplainable ideas are accepted widely because A. they have overwhelmed the world through media. B. mass media have in fact functioned as schools. C. scientists do not write papers or books for a limited audience. D. the public are interested in ideas which are not fully tested. 13、 According to the text, the main function of media institutions should be A. entertaining the audience.B. making profit. C. selling information. D. educating the public. 14、 We can learn from the text that being a skeptic one may feel A. unable to play their roles. B. like the lone voice in the wilderness. C. it's easier to influence the public than the publishers. D. they have more responsibilities than the media. 15、 CSICOP is probably an organization which aims at A. developing public appreciation for science. B. establishing approaches to the examinations of unusual claims. C. encouraging critical thinking among the producers or publishers. D. monitoring the media by presenting scientific proofs. Part B It is not uncommon for distinguished scientists in the twilight of their careers to turn their hand to philosophy. Unfortunately, the failures among such endeavors are generally acknowledged to outnumber the successes, and Wilson's contribution to the genre must on the whole be consigned to the majority. 16. ______ Wilson does, however, intend to present a thesis, the thesis that all knowledge is unified. The key concept he exploits, borrowing from the 19th century philosopher William Whewell, is consilience. For Whewell, consilience meant seeking principles with as wide an explanatory reach as possible. Its meaning in Wilson's text is somewhat indefinable: Sometimes it seems only to mean that different kinds of phenomena have something to do with one another. Sometimes it marks the insistence that there is a seamless web of cause and effect. Quite often it also seems to mean some strong doctrine of physicalist reductionism, though no such doctrine is ever spelled out in any kind of detail. 17. ______ For example, one of the most notorious topics from Sociobiology is the development of the idea that differences in magnitude of contribution to the reproductive purpose will lead to the evolutionary selection of sexually differentiated behavioral dispositions. Broadly, the idea is that males will pursue the maximum volume of reproductive output, whereas females will aim to produce a smaller quantity of high quality offspring. This will lead males to seek as many mates as possible, while females can be expected to look carefully for a high quality mate with the resources to spend on her offspring. 18. ______ Having established the relevance of biology to human concerns, Wilson advances his claim for consilience with science in chapters on the social sciences, on the arts, and an ethics and religion. Some of Wilson's views in these areas seem decidedly eccentric. 19. ______ The chapter on ethics and religion is even more perplexing than I have so far suggested. Wilson sees ethics as involving a fundamental divide between the transcendentalist and the empiricist, the former but not the latter holding moral values to be independent of contingent facts about human nature. Imaginary representatives of these extreme positions are used to present their arguments, but what actually emerges is a debate almost entirely concerned with the existence of God. Although Wilson may be right that "the mixture of moral reasoning employed by modern societies are...a mess," he offers nothing likely to improve this situations. The book concludes with a worthy plea for environmental awareness, but since this had little connection with the earlier themes I will not discuss it. 20. ______ The first printing of this book ran to 56,500 copies, and I was left wondering how people with more rigorously worked out views on such topics might come to command a comparable audience. A. Wilson examines important topics and he writes agreeably, if not always clearly. But the central thesis of the book is vague, the arguments presented generally difficult to discern, and many.of the opinions expressed are quite eccentric. B. When RA. Poucher published in 1867 a large volume modestly entitled The Universe, he explained in the introduction that the title was intended merely to indicate that he "had gathered from creation at large, often contrasting the smallest of its productions with the mightiest." I was reminded of this work while reading E. O. Wilson's book Consilience, much of which struck me as more of a compendium of scientific fact and speculation than any systematically worked out philosophical theme. C. Wilson's well-known book Sociobiology, published in 1975, presented claims for the genetic determination of a wide variety of behavioral traits of humans as well as other animals, and some of its central ideas get rehearsed here. At the same time, Wilson is greatly concerned to refute charges of crude genetic determinism, and he devotes a lot of space to discussing the interactions between genes and environment. But in the end, the lesson does not seem quite to have gotten through. D. In his book, Wilson wants to convince us that biology is a necessary ingredient of the arts, ethics, and so on.There is a very modest thesis possible here that humans do have some kind of nature and that this nature has something to do with why we like certain kinds of art and why certain social structures would not suit us.The problem here is that finding something interesting to say calls for some sophisticated philosophical work, and Wilson does not do the sort of work necessary. E. Thus in the present bookWilson remarks that reproductive asymmetries between the sexes "predict patterns of mate choice and courtship ...," without seeing any need to worry about interactions with culture. But in fact if development is a matter of interaction between genes and environment, it is not clear that any such predictions follow. F. It is important to note, however, that if we were totally different kinds of organisms, we might not mind being enslaved. But it is absurd to suppose that consilience in Wilson's more aggressive sense of reduction has any relevance here. Part C Note: When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order. Some choices may be required more than once. A=Audi A3 B=Honda Civic C=Rover 216 Which car... ? has a driver seat that can be adjusted to suit most people? 21. ______ ? gives the most space for tall passengers in the back? 22. ______ ? has a convenient way to extend the space for suitcases? 23. ______ ? is most likely to suffer damage to the petrol supply in the ? case of frontal collision? 24. ______ ? offers the most easily tuned radio? 25. ______ ? would have passengers harmed by the luggages in the back 26. ______ ? in an accident? 27. ______ ? allows easy access to the back seats? 28. ______ ? has the best engine design in terms of saving money? 29. ______ ? has its handbook criticised? 30. ______ Audi A3 Most of our drivers said the A3 was their clear favourite in this group. They described it as refined and comfortable with good handling characteristics and light, precise steering. All the seats were comfortable and the front ones were easy to adjust. Most drivers liked the driving position, helped by a good range of steering wheel and seat height adjustments. The main instruments were clear and dashboard controls were well positioned. Mirror coverage was very good but our drivers complained that the view out of the rear was badly hindered by the high rear window line and thick pillars. Getting into the back seats was easy, thanks to a clever seat mechanism, which moves the seat up and forward as well as tilting the backrest. Rear legroom was reasonable but the rear seat was only barely wide enough for three adults. Luggage space was average for this class of car but you have to remove the rear head restraints to fold the rear seat. There were plenty of useful interior stowage spaces. All A3s come with an alarm and immobiliser as standard. Our "thief" got in through the doors in 20 seconds, But the radio was a nonstandard fit, which is likely to deter thieves. The hinges of the rear seats could release in an accident, allowing luggage to crash through into the passenger compartment. Also, the driver's knees could be damaged by stiff structures under the dash. Some parts of the fuel system and electrics would be vulnerable to damage in a frontal collision. Honda Civic Honda says its special VTEC engine has a winning combination of economy and performance, but our drivers found it a bit of a curate's egg. It was the most economical of the cars on test, but drivers found it sluggish at low revs, and its acceleration in fifth gear was slow, so overtaking normally meant having to shift down to fourth gear. The driving position was acceptable, but our panel criticised the restricted rear visibility the rear window was quite small. Drivers found the back rest supportive but it was not possible to make fine adjustments to the angle. The ride comfort was acceptable, but it wasn't as good as the Audi's or Rover's. The driver's seat didn't slide forward when it was tilted, making rear access awkward from this side. In the back, headroom and legroom was excellent but testers didn't find the seats particularly comfortable. The luggage space was small for this class of car, especially with the rear seats in place. However, folding the rear seat to increase luggage space was easy. Other points identified by our panel included well-placed minor controls, good mirror coverage, but fiddly radio controls. All Civics come with an immobiliser but no alarm. You may want to consider paying extra for an alarm, as our "thief" broke into through the doors in 13 seconds, and into the engine bay in just five seconds. There were stiff structures under the dash which could damage the driver's knees in an accident, though there was no problem on the passenger's side. The handbook (like the Audi s) provided advice on using child restraints. Rover 216 The 1.6-1itre engine had good power delivery at both high and low revs but some drivers complained that it was noisy at high revs. The brakes didn't have very good progression, but drivers like their positive feel. Ride comfort and the handling were praised. But drivers found it difficult to achieve a comfortable driving position. The driver's seat was not height-adjustable, and there was only limited space to rest your clutch foot. Some testers also found the seat backrest uncomfortable. Visibility was marred by the small mirrors. The rear view was also restricted by thick pillars and the small rear window. Getting into the back was tricky because the front seats did not slide forward when tilted. Once in the back, legroom and headroom were poor, and testers complained that their rear seat base was unsupportive. Luggage space was smaller than average for this class of car -this was compounded by a high boot sill and difficulties in folding the rear seat. But there were large pockets in the doors and rear side panels. The main radio controls were more convenient; they were mounted on the steering wheel so drivers didn't have to take their hands off the wheel to use them. Our Rover 200s came with an alarm, though this isn't standard on all versions. Our "thief" broke in through the doors in 15 seconds. Some of the electrics would be vulnerable in a frontal impact. The rear seat hinges could release in an accident, allowing luggage to crash through into the passenger compartment. Also, information in the handbook on using child restraints was inadequate. 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 : 练习五 Part A Text 1 1、A 2、D 3、B 4、C 5、A Text 2 6、C 7、A 8、B 9、B 10、A Text 3 11、C 12、A 13、D 14、B 15、A Part B 16、 17、 18、 19、 20、 Part C 21、 22、 23、 24、 25、 26、 27、 28、 29、 30、