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1、同济大学博士生英语综合考试阅读理解复习题 - 1 Drunken-driving sometimes called Americas socially accepted form of murder - has bee a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade. A drunken driver is usua

2、lly defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol contentor roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American macho image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so man

3、y well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless acpanied by educational programmes to help young people to develop attitudesTough new laws have led to incr

4、eased arrests and tests and in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was intoxicatedand later drove off the road,

5、 killing a nine-year-old boy. As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the experimentThey forget that legal prohibition didnt stop drinki

6、ng, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution. 1. Drunken driving has bee a major problem in America because _. A) most Americans are heavy drinkers B) Americans are now less shocked by road accidents C) accidents att

7、ract so much publicity D) drinking is a socially accepted habit in America 2. Why has public opinion regarding drunken driving changed? A) Detailed statistics are now available. B) The news media have highlighted the problem. C) Judges are giving more severe sentences. D) Drivers are more conscious

8、of their image. 3. Statistics issued in New Jersey suggested that _. A) many drivers were not of legal age B) young drivers were often bad drivers C) the level of drinking increased in the 1960s D) the legal drinking age should be raised 4. Laws recently introduced in some states have _. A) reduced

9、the number of convictions B) resulted in fewer serious accidents C) prevented bars from serving drunken customers D) specified the amount drivers can drink 5. Why is the problem of drinking and driving difficult to solve? A) Alcohol is easily obtained. B) Drinking is linked to organized crime. C) Le

10、gal prohibition has already failed. D) Legislation alone is not sufficient. DBDBD 2 Los Angeles-Bill Joy is not a Luddite. He is not afraid of new technology. As founder and chief scientist of the Silicon Valley pany, he has been on the vanguard of the high tech revolution for 20 years. But recently

11、 Joy took a glimpse into the future and it scared him to death. What he saw was a world in which humans have been effectively supplanted by machines; a world in which super powerful puters with at least some attributes of human intelligence manage to replicate themselves and develop their own autono

12、my and people bee superfluous and risk being extinct. A) the name of a place where science is underdeveloped. B) the name of a country. C) the name of an organization which aims to advocate developing the new technology. D) the name of a party which protest at developing science. 2. From the passage

13、, we know that it is that scared Bill Joy to death? A) robots have been practically running the world. B) humans are actually at the mercy of the machines. C) humans are facing a fatal situation that the machines are out of control gradually and the machines will overwhelm the whole world. D) humans

14、 will be exiled from the earth by the machines and they have to explore another fixed star. 3. What does the sentence last paragraph, line 5) indicate? C) Humans have to devote themselves to save the whole world by containing and wrecking the machines. D) It is right time for humans to dominate the

15、high developing technology effectively and handle it skillfully. 4. Bill Joy realized the situation that _. A) the day when the world controlled by the machines is just round the corner B) the human world is on the edge of an exceeding danger 5. Which of the following can best describe the authors a

16、ttitude towards the future relationship between humans and machines? A) Optimistic. B) Pessimistic. C) Confident. D) Indifferent. DCDBB 3 The study of philosophies should make our own ideas flexible. We are all of us apt to take certain general ideas for granted, and call them mon sense. We should l

17、earn that other people have held quite different ideas, and that our own have started as very original guesses of philosophers. We need a philosophy, then, to help us to tackle the future. Agnosticism easily bees an excuse for laziness and conservation. Whether we adopt Marxism or any other philosop

18、hy, we cannot understand it without knowing something of how it developed. That is why knowledge of the history of philosophy is important to Marxism, even during the present critical days. 1. What is the main idea of this passage? A) The main idea of this passage is the argument whether philosophy will ultimately be solved by science or not. B) The importance of learning philosophies, especially the history of philosophy. C) The difference between philosophy and science. 第 7 页 共 7 页