1、公共英语一级-阅读理解题(五)及答案解析(总分：53.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、第一节 短文理解 1(总题数：7，分数：35.00)BIf you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everyone knows this, and nobody would think of questioning this fact. Yet there are many p
2、eople who do not seem to know that memory (记忆) works in the same way. When someone says he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by often exercising it.If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault (过错). But if he tells us that h
3、e has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame (责怪), and few of us think that it is as much his own fault as if it was his arms or legs that were weak.Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read and write usually have better memories than people who can? This is because th
4、ose illiterate people have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember dates, prices, names, songs and stories; so their memory is being exercised all the time.So if you want a good memory, learn from those people: practise remembering.（分数：5.00）(1).The
5、 more you use your arms or legs, the stronger your memory will become.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).If a persons father has a poor memory, he will have a poor memory, too.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).“Illiterate people“ means people who cannot read or w
6、rite.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).People can have good memories by practising remembering things.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).People who can read and write usually have poorer memories than those who cannot.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.
7、B.C.CBob Shafran was happy. He was at a new school, and the other students were friendly. “Hi, Bob!“ they said. But some students said, “Hi, Eddy!“ Bob didnt understand. He asked another student, “Why do some students call me Eddy?“Oh, thats easy to explain,“ the student said. “Eddy Galland was a st
8、udent here last year. Now he goes to a different school. You look like Eddy. Some students think that youre Eddy.“Bob wanted to meet Eddy Galland. He got Eddys address from a student and went to Eddys house. Eddy opened the door. Bob couldnt believe his eyes. He looked just like Eddy! Bob and Eddy h
9、ad the same color eyes and the same smile. They had the same dark hair. They also had the same birthday.Bob and Eddy found out that they were twin brothers. Soon after the boys were born, one family took care of Bob and another family, Eddy. Bobs family never knew about Eddy, and Eddys family never
10、knew about Bob.Bob and Eddys family story was in the newspaper. There was a photo of Bob and Eddy next to the story. A young man named David Kellman saw the photo in the newspaper. David couldnt believe his eyes. He looked just like Bob and Eddy! He had the same color eyes and the same smile. He had
11、 the same dark hair. He had the same birthday.Later David met Bob and Eddy. When Bob and Eddy saw David, they couldnt believe their eyes. David looked just like them! Bob and Eddy are not twins. Bob, Eddy, and David are triplets.（分数：5.00）(1).Before the story happened, Bob and Eddy studied at the sam
12、e school.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).Soon after Bob was born, the Shafran family took him in.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).Bob and Eddy found out from the newspaper that they had another brother named David.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.
13、B.C.(4).Bob, Eddy and David had the same mother. She died soon after they were born.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).“Triplets“ means three children born of the same mother at the same time.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.FHave you ever seen people dance? Some da
14、nces are fast and others are slow. Peoples feet move when they dance. They keep on moving until the music stops.People have enjoyed dancing for a very long time. This story is about a different kind of dance. It is a dance without people or music. Yet this dance is one of the oldest in the world. It
15、 is the dance of bees.If you have ever watched bees, you know that they are very clever. They also work hard looking for food and bringing it back to their home. The home of bees is called a bee-hive. Here they make the honey. Where does the honey come from?Bees live on food from flowers. When a bee
16、 rests on a flower, it tries to go to its center. There it takes in as much food as its body can hold. Then it carries the food back to the hive. At the hive, bees change the food from flowers into honey. Then they fly away for more food like that.How does the bee tell others to find the sweet flowe
17、rs? It tells them by dancing.（分数：5.00）(1).People cannot dance without moving their feet.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).The dance of bees is different only because it is the oldest in the world.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).The bees carry their food on the
18、ir backs.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).The bees have different ways to make honey.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).Dancing is the way bees tell each other where to find flowers.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say（分数：1.00）A.B.C.AJohn was the only son of a very
19、rich American businessman(商人). Usually he was taken to school by the driver in his fathers beautiful car, before the driver took Johns father to his office. One evening his father told him that he had to go to the airport early the next day, so he would need the car at the time when John had to go t
20、o school. He said that Johns mother, who had another car, would still be in bed at the time he had to leave the house.“Well, how will I get to school if you need your car and Mummy is still in bed?“ John asked. His father thought this was a good opportunity (机会) to teach him a lesson about how hard
21、life was for the less fortunate (幸运的) people of the world, so he answered, “Youll go in the same way as every other child in the world goesby a taxi./（分数：5.00）(1).John usually went to school in his fathers car.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).Johns father couldnt drive himself.A.
22、 Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).Johns mother couldnt send him to school because she would still be sleeping.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).John was not a very good student at school.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).Johns father thought mos
23、t children went to school by taxi.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.ERubys day in the summerRuby usually gets up at 7 a.m., with a cup of tea to wake her up. She leaves home at 7:45 to get to her college at 8 a.m. as she swims everyday in the pool (游泳池) there.She usually gets back hom
24、e by 9 a.m. Then she starts her homework. She does a lot of other things as well, like writing letters and gardening, and she often has to go to see people sometimes during the day.She has a quick brunch at about 11 in the morning, and she likes to have an evening meal with the family between 6 p.m.
25、 and 7 p.m. Everyone helps clear away (收拾干净) after dinner. By then its about 7:15 or 7:30 p.m.Ruby wants to be in bed early two or three times a week; at other times she goes to bed after midnight, but usually before 12:30.（分数：5.00）(1).It takes Ruby an hour to go to classes at the college everyday.A
26、. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).Ruby does her school work at home in the morning.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).Friends come to visit Ruby when she is not going out.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).“Brunch“ in paragraph 2. is most probabl
27、y a made-up word from “breakfast“ and “lunch.“A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).It seems that Ruby needs about seven hours sleep everyday.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.GOne morning during breakfast, Robert was reading a letter. “Look, dear,“ he said to his wife
28、Mary, “someone sent these two tickets for the play this evening. Wasnt that kind?“ “Who sent them?“ asked Mary. “Ive no idea,“ said Robert. “Theres a note in the envelope, but it says: Can you guess who sent these two tickets to you?“ “Well, never mind,“ said Mary, “I expect one of our friends wants
29、 to give us a surprise.“After dinner that evening, Robert and Mary put on their best clothes and went to the play. They had a wonderful evening and came home very grateful (感激) to the unknown friend who had given them the tickets. But when they got back to their flat (公寓), they found that a thief (窃
30、贼) had been there. In fact, everything they owned had been stolenfurniture, pictures, clothes, money and even the knives and forks in the kitchen. At the center of the kitchen table was another note. This one said, “Now can you guess who sent the tickets?/（分数：5.00）(1).After breakfast, Robert and Mar
31、y went to see the play at once.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).Robert and Mary enjoyed the play very much.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).They know that someday one of their friends will give them a nice surprise.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.
32、B.C.(4).A thief came to their flat while they were out.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).Finally, they knew who sent the tickets.A. Right. B. Wrong. EC. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.DEuropean mink (豹) once lived well along waterways throughout most of Europe. The fur (皮毛) of this sma
33、ll animal is soft and beautiful. But some people believed the fur of the American mink was better. Fur farmers took thousands of American minks to eastern Europe, and they quickly developed throughout Europe. In the wild, American minks drove the other animals away from the best hunting grounds. Now
34、 just a few hundred European minks are leftmaking them Europes most endangered (濒危) wild life. To save the mink, scientists are trying to keep a certain number living on an island in Baltic Sea. Without help, says David Macdonal of Oxford Universitys Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in England, t
35、he European mink is “heading for extinction (灭绝)./（分数：5.00）(1).Scientists think American mink has more useful fur.A. Right. B. Wrong C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).There are more American minks than European minks in England.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).Animal researchers f
36、ind European mink lives best along the Baltic Sea.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).It is possible that no European mink could be seen in Europe in the future.A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(5).The writer of the text is asking people to help European mink.A. Righ
37、t. B. Wrong. C. Doesnt Say.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.二、第二节 短文理解 2(总题数：4，分数：18.00)ICosmopolitan cities (国际大都市)New York, Tokyo, Paris, and other cosmopolitan cities are exciting places to live in. People from many countries live in these cities. There are many interesting things to see and to do. You can go to d
38、ifferent kinds of museums, theatres, films, and restaurants. You can also go shopping to buy things from all over the world.Of course, there are many problems in big cities, too. The cost of living is high, and there are too many people in some parts of the city. Too many people in a small place mak
39、es it hard to keep the city safe and clean. Every year many newcomers move to the cities to find jobs, to study at good schools, or to receive good medical care. However, sometimes these people cannot find work or a nice place to live in.Cosmopolitan cities have many good things about them and also
40、many bad things about them. Some people enjoy living in them; others do not. Before people move to a big city, they should think about the problems of living there.（分数：4.00）(1).Why do so many people from different countries live in the big cities?A. They can make friends from all over the world.B. T
41、hey can enjoy a lot of good things.C. They can go to expensive shops.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).What kind of people may find living in the big cities easy?A. Newcomers from different countries.B. Students studying in the good schools.C. People with good jobs and have enough money to spend.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3)
42、.What will be the biggest problem with the big cities?A. There are no jobs to find and no place to live in.B. The newcomers stop coming in large numbers.C. Good doctors decide to move out of the cities.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).Which of the following is a suggestion from the writer to people planning to li
43、ve in the big cities?A. Move to a better part of the city.B. Talk to people not interested in it.C. Think carefully about everything.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.FHow GREEN are you?You should.1. make sure that the paper and the glass you throw away will be kept in a proper place.2. use a bike or walk when you tra
44、vel short distance.3. take a bus when you travel long distance.4. use your own car less often.5. turn off the lights when you leave a room.You shouldnt.1. throw things away if they can be reused, repaired or recycled.2. turn on the lights when your room is still bright enough for you to work.3. make
45、 too much noise.4. throw wastes into a river.5. use more water than you need.（分数：4.00）(1).Which of the following can we learn from the text?A. We shouldnt travel long distance.B. We should save waterC. We should often repair our cars.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(2).What makes us LESS GREEN?A. Keeping the lights
46、on when we do not need them.B. Using water when necessary.C. Finding ways to reuse things instead of throwing them away.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(3).What does “recycled“ mean?A. Made better.B. Made fit to use again.C. Made more important.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.(4).Why should we try our best to be green?A. To have mor
47、e trees.B. To save our world.C. To make us richer.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.MMr Brown lived in a house less than two miles from his office. He was able to drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home in the middle of the day, he found that oars were parked on the road outside his house and there wa
48、s no room for his own. He had to drive two hundred meters more before he could find a place to park his oar. Then he had to walk back home. This made him very angry.Then, he set up a board in the garden facing the road. It had two words “No Parking“ on it, but nobody seemed to notice (注 意) it. If it
49、 was a blue board with the words “Police Notice: No Parking“, no car would be parked in front of his house. So, Mrs Brown suggested that he make one like the police notice (告示). Mr Brown said he was not the police and couldnt use the word “police“. But he decided he must find a way out and started thinking hard.Several days passed. Then one evening, he showed his wife a new blue board with the words “Polite Notice: No Parking“ on it. “Oh!“ Mrs Brown said. “You told me you werent going to use the word “police“, but this
