1、大学生英语竞赛 B 类英语专业-阅读理解(二)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section A(总题数：3，分数：15.00)What Is a Cyclone?Cyclones are huge revolving storms caused by winds blowing around a central area of low atmospheric pressure. In the northern hemisphere, cyclones, called hurricanes or typhoons, blow
2、in an anti-clockwise direction. In the southern hemisphere, these tropical storms are known as cyclones, whose winds blow in a clockwise direction.Cyclones develop over warm seas near the Equator. Air heated by the sun rises very swiftly creating areas of very low pressure. As the warm air rises, it
3、s moisture condenses into massive thun-derclouds. Cool air rushes in to fill the void that is left, but because of the constant turning of the Earth on its axis, the air is bent inwards and then spirals upwards with great force. The swirling winds rotate faster and faster, forming a huge circle whic
4、h can be up to 2,000 km across. At the centre of the storm is a calm, cloudless area called the eye, with no rain, and fairly light winds. As the cyclone builds up it begins to move, and is sustained by a steady flow of warm, moist air. The strongest winds and heaviest rains are found in the towerin
5、g clouds which merge into a wall about 20-30 km from the storms centre. Winds around the eye can reach speeds of up to 200 km/h, and a fully developed cyclone pumps out about two million tons of air per second. This results in more rain being released.Cyclones are dangerous for people living around
6、tropical areas. The most destructive force of a cyclone is the fierce winds. These winds are strong enough to topple fences, sheds, trees, power poles and caravans easily. A cyclone typically chums up the sea, causing giant waves and surges of water known as storm surges which rush inland with deadl
7、y power, flooding low-lying coastal areas.Fill in each blank in no more than three words according to the passage.What Is a Cyclone?DefinitionLarge circling storms with strong winds blowing around a central area.LocationThese storms form near the (56) over open water. They are called hurricanes and
8、typhoons inthe northern hemisphere, and cyclones in the southern hemisphere.1. The warm moist air rises and tunas into thunderclouds.2. Cool air flows in to fill the (57) left by the rising air.3. The earths movement makes the air bend inward and (58) upwards. The swirling windsrotate faster and fas
9、ter.Causes4. As the cyclone builds it begins to move.Elements A. Towering clouds become a wall around the storms centre.B. Winds circling the eye can reach (59) C. Heaviest rainfall is in the “Wall“.Effects Winds canknockovertrees, houses, fences, power poles, etc.Chums up the sea into giant waves a
10、nd (60) which cause flooding.（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Miss Rita Cohen, a tiny, pale-skinned girl who looked half the age of Seymours daughter, Marie, but claimed to be some six years older, came to his factory one day. She was dressed in overalls and big ugly shoes, and a bush of
11、wiry hair framed her pretty face. She was so tiny, so young that he could barely believe that she was at the University of Pennsylvania, doing research into the leather industry in New Jersey for her masters degree.Three or four times a year someone either phoned Seymour or wrote to him to ask permi
12、ssion to see his factory, and occasionally he would assist a student by answering questions over the phone or, if the student struck him as especially serious, by offering a brief tour.Rita Cohen was nearly as small, he thought, as the children from Maries third-year class, whod been brought 50 kilo
13、metres from their rural schoolhouse one day, all those years ago, so that Maries daddy could show them how he made gloves, show them especially Maries favourite spot, the laying-off table, where, at the end of the process, the men shaped and pressed each and every glove by pulling it carefully down
14、over steam-heated brass hands. The hands were dangerously hot and they were shiny and they stuck straight up from the table in a row, thin-looking, like hands that had been flattened. As a little girl, Marie was captivated by their strangeness and called them the “pancake hands“.He heard Rita asking
15、, “How many pieces come in a shipment?“How many? Between twenty and twenty-five thousand.“She continued taking notes as she asked, “They come direct to your shipping department?“He liked finding that she was interested in every last detail. “They come to the tannery. The tannery is a contractor. We
16、buy the material and they make it into the right kind of leather for us to use. My grandfather and father worked in the tannery right here in town. So did I, for six months, when I started in the business. Ever been inside a tannery?“Not yet.“Well, youve got to go to a tannery if youre going to writ
17、e about leather. Ill set that up for you if youd like that. Theyre primitive places. The technology has improved things, but what youll see isnt that different from what youd have seen hundreds of years ago. Awful work. Its said to be the oldest industry of which remains have been found anywhere. Si
18、x-thousand-year-old relics of tanning found somewhere-Turkey, I believe. The first clothing was just skins that were tanned by smoking them. I told you it was an interesting subject once you get into it. My father is the leather scholar; hes the one you should be talking to. Start my father off abou
19、t gloves and helhalk for two days. Thats typical, by the way: glovemen love the trade and everything about it. Tell me, have you ever seen anything being manufactured, Miss Cohen?“I cant say I have.“Never seen anything made?“I saw my mother make a cake when I was a child.“He laughed. She had made hi
20、m laugh. An innocent with spirit, eager to learn. His daughter was easily 30cm taller than Rita Cohen, and fair where she was dark, but otherwise Rita Cohen had begun to remind him of Marie. The good-natured intelligence that would just waft out of her and into the house when she came home from scho
21、ol, full of what shed learned in class. How she remembered everything. Everything neatly taken down in her notebook and memorised overnight.“Ill tell you what were going to do. Were going to take you right through the whole process. Come on. Were going to make you a pair of gloves and youre going to
22、 watch them being made from start to finish. What size do you wear?/（分数：5.00）(1).What was Seymours first impression of Rita Cohen?A. She reminded him of his daughter.B. She was rather unattractive.C. She did not look like a research student.D. She hadnt given much thought to her appearance.（分数：1.00）
23、A.B.C.D.(2).What did Seymours daughter like most about visiting the factory?A. Watching her father make gloves. B. Helping to shape the gloves.C. Making gloves for her school friends. D. Seeing the brass hands.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Seymour says that most tanneries today _.A. have been running for ove
24、r a hundred yearsB. still use traditional methodsC. are dependent on older workersD. are located in very old buildings（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What does Seymour admire about his father?A. His educational background. B. His knowledge of history.C. His enthusiasm for the business. D. His skill as a glove
25、maker.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).When she was a schoolgirl, Marie _.A. was hard-working and enthusiastic B. was intelligent but lazyC. easily forgot what she had learned D. made her parents laugh（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.The warden led us in single file along a narrow line of paving-slabs that ran past the huts. E
26、very so often, four steps led to a front door. We could hear people inside, shouting at children.“The overcrowding has to be seen to be believed,“ he said as he shook his head forlornly. We squeezed to one side as a sullen woman passed us, carrying a bucket of coal. She had the look of someone who w
27、as old before her time.The warden went up the last set of steps, opened the door with a jangling bunch of keys, took one off the ring and handed it to me.“There you are. Home Sweet Home. Theres a bath in that hut by the trees; get the key from me when you want one,“ he said, and he came down the ste
28、ps, leaving us room to go up. “I hope you can make a go of it,“ he said. “At least weve got you a bit of furniture.“We walked into a square “cell“ with a table and two chairs and a two-seater settee. No two of anything were the same; it all looked like furniture from a charity shop, which I suppose
29、it was. There was a double hotplate on top of a low cupboard, and a dead black stove against the back wall with a scuttle beside it containing a few lumps of fuel. The adjoining “cell“ had a double bed with a pink plastic mattress cover, glistening like wet salmon. There wag a cupboard that hung ope
30、n because the door catch had gone. Inside the cupboard were two meagre blankets.The bedroom was freezing. I struggled to shut the top flap of the window, but it was jammed open by rust. There were bits of yellowing sellotape all round the wall near it, where previous inmates had tried to block the d
31、raught with cardboard.I sat on the bed with my head in my hands, wondering how long we would have to spend here before we found a real home, and noticing, as I glanced sideways into the front room, that a thin film of dust was blowing under the front door.We took the plastic cover off the mattress b
32、ecause it looked worse than the stains underneath. The blankets smelled, but we had to keep warm somehow.We had been in this place exactly a week when, on returning in the evening, we went up to our front door and heard childrens voices and a transistor radio. We peered round the door at a jumble of
33、 people and things and colours. The people turned round and we all looked at each other. The muddle resolved itself into a huge woman and a little man, and two small children. They had a lot of stuff, mostly carrier bags and laundry bags with clothes spilling out, and a couple of buckets full of kit
34、chen equipment which wed have been glad to have ourselves.They didnt want to share with us any more than we did with them, but thats what the warden had told them to do. We argued about it, though it seemed ridiculous to quarrel over accommodation which none of us really wanted anyway.QUESTIONS: （分数
35、：5.00）(1).The warden seems to think that the couples accommodation is _.A. cosy B. unpleasant C. spacious enough D. well furnished（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The main thing the author notices about the furniture is that _.A. it looks or smells dirty B. most of it is in poor conditionC. it is very cheap D.
36、nothing matches anything else（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The main reason the author feels cold in the bedroom is that _.A. there isnt enough fuel for the stove B. the window lets in a lot of draughtC. there arent enough blankets D. the door lets in a lot of draught（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What was the writers
37、feeling when he/she had looked around the accommodation?A. Despair. B. Contentment. C. Anger. D. Fear.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The four other people are in the accommodation because _.A. they find it quite comfortableB. they have been told to share their kitchen, equipmentC. they have been told to share
38、 the accommodationD. a week is up and it is their turn to live there（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.三、Section B(总题数：4，分数：25.00)ATTENTION, ALL NEW STUDENTSWelcome to West Lakes Institute of Technology. You are strongly advised to adhere to the following three basic rules on this, your first day, of the second semes
39、ter:（分数：5.00）(1).Where must students who have not paid their enrollment fees go first?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Where must students display their pre-admission student number?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).When will Marketing students get their student cards?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).What are students forbidden to do in t
40、he Main Hall?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).What do the student information kits help students to find?（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_（分数：5.00）(1).Change-2, Chinas second lunar probe, will be launched in October 2010, according to the chief designer of the nations first lunar probe.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(2).Change-2 is expected t
41、o provide high-resolution images of change-3s landing area.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).China wont be sending any women astronauts into outer space within 10 years.Fill in each blank in no more than three words to complete the sentences according to the passage.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).Chinas lunar exploration
42、programme consists of three stages: Change-2 and Change-3 are part of the _ phase, which is also the “_“ phase.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5)._ will be launched between 2010 to make preparations for the construction of Chinas first space station, which it aims to be in operation by the year _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_D
43、ay-dreaming SpotsFor some of us, coffee shops, pubs or public places where people are moving around are ideal spots for day-dreaming. Or, indeed, somewhere where there is running water, by a river or stream. The constant movement seems to stimulate thought and ideas in a way that perhaps a library o
44、r the solitude of a study does not. It may not be possible to hone the finished text sitting around in a noisy cafe, but the challenge of holding together thoughts against adversity, as it were, is a great galvanizing force. In the peace of ones home there are even more distractions, like the TV and
45、 the phone. People who are not familiar with the creative process may find it hard to accept that places like coffee bars are a source of stimulation. But why certain places and things motivate the creative individual and others do not is difficult to fathom.（分数：5.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项
46、1:_1 The rich keep getting richer. According to the latest Forbes ranking of the worlds richest people, there are now a record 946 billionaires around the world. They have made their money from everything from telecoms to steel to Chinese food.（分数：10.00）(1).Y, (for YES) if the statement agrees with
47、the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG for NOT GIVEN) if the information # not given in the passage.Rising property prices were the only reason for the 35% increase in the total wealth of the people on the list.（分数：1.00）A.
48、正确B.错误(2).Sir Philip Green lived a hard life when he was young and later became a publisher through his own hard work.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(3).The percentage of US billionaires in the list is falling.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(4).The founders of Google are married.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(5).Guy Laliberte has sold most of his Cirque du Soleil business.（分数：1.00）A.正确B.错误(6).look in the text and find these words or expressions. Paragraph numbers aregiven to help you.A noun meaning a list that shows the position/wealt
