1、专升本英语（阅读）-试卷 49 及答案解析(总分：12.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.Part III Reading ComprehensionDirections: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark
2、 your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.（分数：2.00）_2.“Surfing the Internet can be as addictive as drugs, alcohol or gambling.“ a university of Pittsburgh researcher said last month. In a study of almost 400 men and women in Canada, researchers found Internet addiction
3、hooked people into spending 40 hours or more a week online, most often involved in role-playing games or engaging in chat room discussions. One 17-year-old boy was so addicted to Internet activities that his parents had to admit him to a drug-alcohol rehabilitation hospital for 10 days for treatment
4、. One woman, described by friends, family and children as the perfect homemaker, wife and mother, became so addicted to the Internet that she would not cook, clean or do the laundry and was neglecting her children and husband because she was spending as many as 12 hours a day talking to acquaintance
5、s on the Internet. Finally her husband said, “choose me or the computer.“ She divorced him. Psychologist Kimberly Young, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburghs Bradford Campus, found that 76 percent of the subjects in the study spend an average of 40 hours a week on the I
6、nternet. Of the 396 people who met Youngs criteria for addicted Internet users, 157 were men, 239 women. The men were younger with an average age of 29, the women averaged 43 years of age. The largest group of addicted users of the Internet were people who were not working outside the home: that is,
7、 homemakers, students, and those who were disabled or retired. In a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, 82 percent of the addicted users said they had slowly drifted into their addictions. Young described the Internet as any online system such as
8、America online, CompuServe, Prodigy, computer bulletin board systems or the Internet itself, accessed by an Internet Provider.What does this passage mainly talk about?（分数：2.00）A.Internet can be as harmful as drugs.B.Internet is very important nowadays.C.People are easily addicted to Internet.D.Women
9、 are more easily addicted to Internet3.Following divorce, life for you and your children can be unnecessarily complicated by a variety of problems you simply hadnt foreseen. Yet once you understand how and why your life has changed after divorce, and what you can do about it, you can gain a fresh pe
10、rspective and move in the direction of improving your life. Richard Crawford was only six years old when his mother, a beautiful 32-year-old woman, first brought him to me. She claimed that Richard had “problems“ adjusting to the divorce shes acquired only five months previously. But after several s
11、essions, she tearfully confessed that bringing Richard to see me was only an excuse to get help for herself. “I felt shy at first about telling you the truth, but I simply have to get the whole thing off my mind. Since I divorced Clive about five months ago, my lifes collapsed. I feel so depressed,
12、lonely, rejected, and afraid of the future!“ “And now you feel the divorce was a big mistake?“ I asked. “Yes. But I was the one who wanted the divorce, and now I feel so miserable and depressed. I guess Im too mixed up to think in a clear way.“ She replied. “Its very common for somebody to realize g
13、radually that life after a divorce can be more hurtful, in so many unexpected ways, than the life they endured with their former spouse(配偶). Right now things looked pretty grim and hopeless. But youll survive, and hopefully, start a new and better life for yourself and Richard.“ You should not use R
14、ichard as an excuse not to be socially active. Youve a right to build a new life for yourself, to change your style of living to suit your new circumstances. Your self-confidence can be built up again through happy, pleasant, rewarding social experiences with new friends, new hobbies, and a new life
15、 style. Dont let guilt feeling stand in your way.In this selection, the author mainly talked about_.（分数：2.00）A.how Mrs. Crawford had divorced her husbandB.how the mother and her son felt after the divorceC.what a single mother should do to adjust to the new life after divorceD.his sympathy for a wom
16、an who was divorced by her husband4.One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards but recognition of some sortpreferably measurable. If the boy turns out to be a preacher, instead
17、 of a businessman, thats all right. But the bigger his church and congregation, the more successful he is judged to be. A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded
18、 as signs of Gods love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settled. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement. There was the determination of the immigrant to gain in the new world what had b
19、een denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off the immigrant onus(负担) by still more success and still more rise in the fluid, classless society. Brothers didnt compete within the family for the favor of the parents as in Europe, but strove for success in the outer
20、 world, along paths of their own choosing.What is the main idea of the passage?（分数：2.00）A.Americans place a high valuation upon success.B.There are many ways to gain success in America.C.How success is measured in America.D.The Puritan believe in success.5.Exchange a glance with someone, and then lo
21、ok away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer, and you have made a different statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a persons gaze without being intim
22、ate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up (打量) and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person si
23、gnals the possibility of interaction, you need to emit a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contact, which sociologist Erving Goffman(1963) calls “a dimming of the lights“. You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passengers eyes
24、. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself. If you hold eye contact for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and
25、the situation. For instance a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, and then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again. But if one man gives another man a 3-second-plus stare, he signals “I
26、 know you,“ “I am interested in you,“ or “You look peculiar and I am curious about you.“ This type of stare often produces hostile feelings.The passage mainly discusses_.（分数：2.00）A.the limitation of eye contactB.the exchange of ideas through eye contactC.proper behavior in various situationsD.the ro
27、le of eye contact in interpersonal communication6.In the second half of year, many powerful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean seas. Of these, only about a half a dozen generate the strong, circling winds of 75 miles per hour or more that give them hurricane status, and several u
28、sually make their way to the coast. There they cause millions of dollars of damage, and bring death to large number of people. The great storms that hit the coast start as innocent circling disturbances even thousands of miles out to sea. As they travel aimlessly over water warmed by the summer sun,
29、 they are carried westward by the trade winds. When conditions are just right, warm, moist air flows in at the bottom of such a disturbance, moves upward through it and comes out at the top. In the process, the moisture in this warm air produces rain, and with it the heat that is converted to energy
30、 in the form of strong winds. As the heat increases, the young hurricane begins to swirl in a counter-clockwise motion. The average life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost more power than we can imagine. The energy in the heat released by a hurricanes rainfall in a single
31、 day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six months. Water, not wind, is the main source of death and destruction in a hurricane. A typical hurricane brings 6 to 12 inch downpours resulting in sudden floods. Worst of all is the powerful movement of the sea th
32、e mountains of water moving toward the low-pressure hurricane center. The water level rises as much as 15 feet above normal as it moves toward shore.Which of the following best summarizes the passage?（分数：2.00）A.The HurricaneIts Harms anti Benefits.B.The Benefits of Hurricane.C.The Hurricane and Its
33、Great Energy.D.The Disaster Caused by Hurricanes.专升本英语（阅读）-试卷 49 答案解析(总分：12.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.Part III Reading ComprehensionDirections: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passages and cho
34、ose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.（分数：2.00）_解析：2.“Surfing the Internet can be as addictive as drugs, alcohol or gambling.“ a university of Pittsburgh researcher said last month. In a study of almost 400 men and wom
35、en in Canada, researchers found Internet addiction hooked people into spending 40 hours or more a week online, most often involved in role-playing games or engaging in chat room discussions. One 17-year-old boy was so addicted to Internet activities that his parents had to admit him to a drug-alcoho
36、l rehabilitation hospital for 10 days for treatment. One woman, described by friends, family and children as the perfect homemaker, wife and mother, became so addicted to the Internet that she would not cook, clean or do the laundry and was neglecting her children and husband because she was spendin
37、g as many as 12 hours a day talking to acquaintances on the Internet. Finally her husband said, “choose me or the computer.“ She divorced him. Psychologist Kimberly Young, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburghs Bradford Campus, found that 76 percent of the subjects in the
38、 study spend an average of 40 hours a week on the Internet. Of the 396 people who met Youngs criteria for addicted Internet users, 157 were men, 239 women. The men were younger with an average age of 29, the women averaged 43 years of age. The largest group of addicted users of the Internet were peo
39、ple who were not working outside the home: that is, homemakers, students, and those who were disabled or retired. In a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, 82 percent of the addicted users said they had slowly drifted into their addictions. Young d
40、escribed the Internet as any online system such as America online, CompuServe, Prodigy, computer bulletin board systems or the Internet itself, accessed by an Internet Provider.What does this passage mainly talk about?（分数：2.00）A.Internet can be as harmful as drugs.B.Internet is very important nowada
41、ys.C.People are easily addicted to Internet. D.Women are more easily addicted to Internet解析：3.Following divorce, life for you and your children can be unnecessarily complicated by a variety of problems you simply hadnt foreseen. Yet once you understand how and why your life has changed after divorce
42、, and what you can do about it, you can gain a fresh perspective and move in the direction of improving your life. Richard Crawford was only six years old when his mother, a beautiful 32-year-old woman, first brought him to me. She claimed that Richard had “problems“ adjusting to the divorce shes ac
43、quired only five months previously. But after several sessions, she tearfully confessed that bringing Richard to see me was only an excuse to get help for herself. “I felt shy at first about telling you the truth, but I simply have to get the whole thing off my mind. Since I divorced Clive about fiv
44、e months ago, my lifes collapsed. I feel so depressed, lonely, rejected, and afraid of the future!“ “And now you feel the divorce was a big mistake?“ I asked. “Yes. But I was the one who wanted the divorce, and now I feel so miserable and depressed. I guess Im too mixed up to think in a clear way.“
45、She replied. “Its very common for somebody to realize gradually that life after a divorce can be more hurtful, in so many unexpected ways, than the life they endured with their former spouse(配偶). Right now things looked pretty grim and hopeless. But youll survive, and hopefully, start a new and bett
46、er life for yourself and Richard.“ You should not use Richard as an excuse not to be socially active. Youve a right to build a new life for yourself, to change your style of living to suit your new circumstances. Your self-confidence can be built up again through happy, pleasant, rewarding social ex
47、periences with new friends, new hobbies, and a new life style. Dont let guilt feeling stand in your way.In this selection, the author mainly talked about_.（分数：2.00）A.how Mrs. Crawford had divorced her husbandB.how the mother and her son felt after the divorceC.what a single mother should do to adjus
48、t to the new life after divorce D.his sympathy for a woman who was divorced by her husband解析：4.One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards but recognition of some sortpreferably
49、 measurable. If the boy turns out to be a preacher, instead of a businessman, thats all right. But the bigger his church and congregation, the more successful he is judged to be. A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs
