1、专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷 96 及答案解析(总分：14.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart III Rea(总题数：5，分数：14.00)1.The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unstated, objectively selected fact. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is th
2、e most important assignment confronting American journalismto make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing as “ local“ news because any event in the international area has a local
3、 reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life. There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on (着手) interpretation, you are entering choppy(波浪起伏的) and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense. The opponents of int
4、erpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine himself to the “facts“. This insistence raises two questions: What are the facts? Are the bare facts enough? As to the first query(疑问) consider how a so-called “factual“ story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of
5、 these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. (This is an important decision because many readers do not
6、 proceed beyond the first paragraph.) This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three. Thus, in the presentation of a so-called “factual“
7、or “objective“ story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their research resources, their general background, and their “news neutralist,“ arrive at a conclusion as to the signifi
8、cance of the news. The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective processesas objective, that is, as any human being can be. The author is implying that_.（分数：2.00）A.in writing a factorial story, the writer must use judgmentB.the writer should limit him
9、self to the factsC.the writer should make the story interestingD.reporters slant their stories2.Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn t generally experience the atmospheric sound and lightning that can accompany those rains, it is still imp
10、ortant for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightening. The reason why these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning
11、 we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it s actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think we see, we d still insist that the sun rises in the morning
12、 and sets at night. Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, theres enough activity to produce abo
13、ut 100 lightning strikes on earth every second. Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes abou
14、t 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark. It can be concluded from the passage that_.（分数：2.00）A.we should not believe what we see or hearB.things moving downward are more noticeableC.peop
15、le often have wrong concepts about ordinary phenomenaD.adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomenaOur surroundings are being polluted faster than nature and mans present efforts cannot prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more indus
16、try, more cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. What can explain and solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by manby his desire for a modern way of life. We make “increasing industrialization“ our chief aim. So we are often ready to offer everything; clean
17、 air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the benefits of our modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, pollution has become a serious pro
18、blem. Isnt it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going and why? It makes one think of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker: “Ive some good news and some bad news. The good news is that were making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news
19、 is that were lost and don t know where we re going. “ The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when we speak of our modern society.（分数：4.00）(1).Man cannot prevent the world from being polluted because_.（分数：2.00）A.the population of the world is increasing fastB.people use too many man-made mat
20、erialsC.we have more and more industryD.we are producing more cars, trucks and buses(2).According to the passage, what does man value most among the following?（分数：2.00）A.Industry.B.Health.C.Clean air.D.The future of the children.3.Smith considered himself to have been very fortunate in life. From hi
21、s father he had inherited, at the age of seventeen, an easy-going disposition (性情) , five hundred pounds in cash from a life insurance policy, and a good mathematical brain. The first legacy had enabled him to endure without resentment(怨恨) the supervision of a reluctant and ill-tempered guardian(监护人
22、) ; the second had enabled him to use the scholarship he had won to a university; the third resulted in his gaining a science doctorate in his middle twenties. By the time he was thirty he was in the employ of a large engineering concern and running one of the experimental departments, a little surp
23、rised that he should be financially so well rewarded for pursuing his personal interests. At the age of thirty-two he had made his first trip abroad. It had been a success. To their delight, his employers discovered that, in addition to technical ability which earned the respect of all those whom he
24、 dealt with, he had the faculty(才能) of making himself popular, which was rare in a man of his particular qualifications. And so, in the years that followed, occasional trips abroad had become part of his working life. The excitement he felt on arriving in strange cities never dulled. He enjoyed meet
25、ing men of other nationalities and learning some knowledge of their languages, especially the former. It did not take him long to appreciate that all men were individuals and that none could truly be called “typical“ of his nation. It is suggested in the passage that men of Smiths qualifications_.（分
26、数：2.00）A.earned respect easilyB.were always successful in their careersC.traveled abroad quite oftenD.were not usually popular sociallyElectricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the radio.
27、At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and traffic to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many labor-saving devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside lamp and are fast asleep, electr
28、icity is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day, trains, trolley-buses, and trams take us to and from work. We rarely bother to consider why and how they rununtil something goes wrong. In the summer of 1959, something did go wron
29、g with the power-plant that provides New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life came almost to a standstill. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lift stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two
30、 floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting as the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered
31、 to stand by in case of emergency, they were just as confused and helpless as anybody else. Meanwhile, similar disorder prevailed in the home. New York can be stifling in the summer and this year was no exception. Cool, air-conditioned apartments became furnaces. Food went bad in refrigerators. Cake
32、s and joints of meat remained uncooked in cooling ovens, and people sat impatient and frightened in the dark as if an unseen enemy had landed from Mars. When the lights came on again, hardly a person in the city can have turned on a switch without reflecting how great a servant he had at his finger-
33、tips.（分数：4.00）(1).The passage suggests that most large modern cities_.（分数：2.00）A.would be better off without electricityB.are completely dependent on electricityC.need air-conditioned buildingsD.are terrible places to live in(2).After the night without electricity, _.（分数：2.00）A.people would no longe
34、r buy air-conditionersB.people would design something replaces air-conditionersC.people would pay more attention to the electricityD.people would think the disadvantages of the electricity专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷 96 答案解析(总分：14.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart III Rea(总题数：5，分数：14.00)1.The newspaper must provide for the re
35、ader the facts, unalloyed, unstated, objectively selected fact. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment confronting American journalismto make clear to the reader the problems of the day, t
36、o make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing as “ local“ news because any event in the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life. There is in journalis
37、m a widespread view that when you embark on (着手) interpretation, you are entering choppy(波浪起伏的) and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense. The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine himself to the “facts“. This insistence raises tw
38、o questions: What are the facts? Are the bare facts enough? As to the first query(疑问) consider how a so-called “factual“ story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten which he considers most import
39、ant. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. (This is an important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph.) This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the a
40、rticle shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three. Thus, in the presentation of a so-called “factual“ or “objective“ story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those invol
41、ved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their research resources, their general background, and their “news neutralist,“ arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news. The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective
42、 processesas objective, that is, as any human being can be. The author is implying that_.（分数：2.00）A.in writing a factorial story, the writer must use judgment B.the writer should limit himself to the factsC.the writer should make the story interestingD.reporters slant their stories解析：2.Although Apri
43、l did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn t generally experience the atmospheric sound and lightning that can accompany those rains, it is still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightening. The reason why t
44、hese two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes t
45、rick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it s actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think we see, we d still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night. Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jum
46、ping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, theres enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second. Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children
47、learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval between the flash and the crash to l
48、earn how close they were to the actual spark. It can be concluded from the passage that_.（分数：2.00）A.we should not believe what we see or hearB.things moving downward are more noticeableC.people often have wrong concepts about ordinary phenomena D.adults are not as good as children in observing certa
49、in natural phenomena解析：Our surroundings are being polluted faster than nature and mans present efforts cannot prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. What can explain and solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by manby his desire for a modern way of life. We make “increasing industrialization“ our chief aim. So we are often ready to offer everything; clean air, pure water, good food, ou
