专升本英语阅读

1、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that its painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that youre “hot“. Thats true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body tempera。

2、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The “balance of nature“ is not an empty phrase. Nature provides a population to occupy a suitable environment and cuts down surplus population to fit the available food supply. One means of reducing surplus population is predators(食肉动物); others are parasites(寄生虫)and diseases. Also, population density produces nervous disorders and even drives animals to mass migrations, like t。

3、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features(特写)as well, from editorial page to feature article and interviews to criticism of books, art, theater, and music. A n。

4、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The ancient Chinese called jade the stone of immortality. It has been used as adornment by women for thousands of years.Cutting and polishing the raw stone is a tedious process. It often takes months. After initial cutting, a piece is ground to its desired formbeing passed from rough to smooth grindstones. “Our job is to subtract; we cannot add,“ smiles an experienced carver.。

5、the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1 If women are mercilessly exploited(剥削)year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to thi。

6、e the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.As a result, many people avoid the very at。

7、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 Tom had once worked in a city office in London, but now he was out of work. He had a large family to support , so he often found himself in difficulty. He often visited Mr. White on Sundays, told him about his troubles, and asked for two or three pounds.Mr. White, a man with a kind heart, found it difficult to refuse the money, though he himself was poor. Tom had already recei。

8、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 As he closed his service station at 1:20 one Sunday morning, Tony Payseur set on the ground a metal cash box containing $7,000. At home a short while later, he reached in the back of his car for the box. It was missing.Realizing that he must have left it outside the station, Payseur speeded back. The box was gone. Sunday morning, although he felt ill, Payseur went to work with。

9、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The ancient Chinese called jade the stone of immortality. It has been used as adornment by women for thousands of years.Cutting and polishing the raw stone is a tedious process. It often takes months. After initial cutting, a piece is ground to its desired formbeing passed from rough to smooth grindstones. “Our job is to subtract; we cannot add,“ smiles an experienced carver.。

10、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 Psychology and sociology are both categorized as social sciences, and both study human behavior. However, psychology is the study of individual behavior, whereas sociology is the study of group behavior.Psychology deals with the possible problems an individual might have in social interaction with other individuals, but the main concern of sociology is the ways that different 。

11、e the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The physicist investigating the relationship between time and space, the chemist exploring the properties of a new substance , the biologist probing the mysteries of the continuity of life, and the anthropologist (人类学家) searching for human origins share a common trait , curiosity. Not that non-scientists are not curious; most people possess this characteristic. The scientist,。

12、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The appeal of advertising to buying motives can both negative and positive effects. Consumers may be convinced to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement. For example, some advertisements have appealed to people s desire for better fuel economy for their cars by advertising automotive products that improve gasoline mileage . Some of the pro。

13、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The standardized educational or psychological tests that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with i。

14、e the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 It seems clear that literature has become more and more a female activity. In bookstores, at conferences or public readings by writers, and even in university departments dedicated to the humanities, the women clearly outnumber the men. The explanation traditionally given is that middle-class women read more because they work fewer hours than men, and so many of them feel tha。

15、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 While a new school term is about to begin, perhaps we should reconsider the matter of examinations. In July, two writers(Letters to the Editor)praised the cancellation of exams because they believe “tests don t tell the whole story.As a teacher who has worked in four countries, I have had the experience that a student who earns good marks is generally a good student, and 。

16、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 Acting is such an overcrowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young person thinking of going on the stage is “ Don t!“ But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act, although the chances of his becoming famous are small. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama school. Usually only students who show promise and tale。

17、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions and psychology. In addition, in。

18、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1 There is much discussion today about whether economic growth is desirable at an earlier period; our desire for material wealth may have been justified. Now, however, this desire for more than we need is causing serious problems. Even though we have good intentions, we may be producing too much, too fast.Those who criticize economic growth argue that we must slow down. They bel。

19、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The traditional American Thanksgiving Day celebration goes back to 1621. In that year a special feast was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists who had settled there had left England because they were denied of religious freedom. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in coming across the ocean.The ship that carried them was called the Mayflower. The Nor。

20、 the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.0 The United States is a country made up of many different races. Usually they are mixed together and can t be told one from another. But many of them still talk about where their ancestors came from. It is something they are proud of.The original Americans, of course, were the Indians. The so-called white men who then came were mostly from England. But many came from other。