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开放英语3期末复习题及作业答案(三)IV阅读理解1 选择题阅读理解IOnce the king of India fell ill and sent for his doctor. The doctor came, examined him and said, “You will be well again in a few days if you take bulls milk.” The king was very surprised, for he had never heard of a bull that gave milk. “How is it possible?” he asked. “Order Gulbo, the scholar, to get it for you. He can do anything.” The doctor was an enemy to Gulbo, and thought this would be a way of making him suffer. When the king told Gulbo what the doctor had said and ordered him to get bulls milk, Gulbo immediately understood what the doctor was trying to do. When he got home he sat thinking how to get out of the difficulties. His daughter, seeing him worried, asked what was the matter. On hearing what the king had asked for, she said, “Dont worry, father, Ill help you.” The next day she took some old clothes, went to the bank of the river near the palace, and chose a place below the kings bedroom window. In the middle of the night, when everyone was in bed, she started to do her washing. She made so much noise that the king could not sleep. The king got very angry and set a guard to find out what was the matter. The soldier found the girl, and led her to the king. “Why do you wash your clothes here at night?” asked the king. The girl pretended to be afraid and said, “I had to wash clothes at night. This afternoon my father had a baby. I was busy all day because of that. Then I found there were no clean clothes for the baby, so I had to come and wash them now.”“What!” cried the king, “Are you trying to make a fool of me?Who ever heard of a man having a baby?”“Well, if the king himself orders someone to get bulls milkfor him, why cant a man have a baby?”The king smiled and said, “You must be Gulbos daughter. Goand tell your father that he may keep the bulls milk for hisbaby.”1. According to the doctor in the story, the kings illness can be cured by _. B. drinking bulls milk 2. The doctor told the king to ask Gulbo to find bulls milk because he _. B. hated Gulbo very much3. How did Gulbo feel after getting the kings order? A. He was upset. 4. Why did Gulbos daughter wash clothes below the kings bedroom window at night? D. Because she wanted the king to notice her.5. From the dialogue between the king and the girl, we know that after hearing the girls story, the king _.D.understood the girls meaning阅读理解IIPeople all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollutionis caused either by mans release of completely new and often artificial (人造的) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质)，such as oil from oil tankers into the sea.Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three of four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which cant be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metal and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excessuse and careless disposal (处理) of the products we use in our daily lives.1. The main cause of pollution is _A .the release of artificial or natural substances into the environment2. Much of the pollution could be controlled if only C. all sides concerned would make more efforts3. Food packages, bottles and tins for drinks can cause B. both a4. Which of the following can not help solving the problem of pollution? B. Eating.5. What does the underlined word “litter” mean in paragraph 2? C. bits of waste things 阅读理解IIIThousands of years ago, in the middle of an ocean, miles from the nearest island, an undersea volcano broke out. The hotliquid piled higher and higher and spread wider and wider. In this way, an island rose up in the sea. As time went on, hot sun and cool rains made the rock split and break to pieces. Sea waves dashed against the rock. In this way, soil and sand came into being. Nothing lived on the naked soil. And then the wind and birds brought plant seeds, spiders and other little creatures there. Only plants could grow first. Only they, in sunlight, could produce food from the minerals of the soil, water and air. While many animals landed on the island, they could find no food. A spider spun its web in vain, because there were no insects for its web to catch. Insects couldnt stay until there were plants for them to eat. So plants had to be the pioneer life on this new island.1. The passage centers on _. D. how life began on a volcano-produced island2.According to the passage, the island got its first soil from_ C. its own rock 3.The word “naked” (in para. 3) could be replaced by which of the following? D. bare 4.The order of coming into being on the island is _. A. soil, plants and animals5. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE ? C. Insects could not live on the island without plants. 阅读理解IVIn the last 500 years, nothing about people not their clothes, ideas, or languages has changed as much as whatthey eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians. The Spanishintroduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today. The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the“Potato Famine”of 1845-6, and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America. There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the Worlds largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400s. According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a goatherd name Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the “wide-awake” feeling that one-third of the worlds population now starts the day with.1. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years? A. Food 2. “Some” in “Some still exist today” means _. C. some shops3. Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” because D. the potato harvest was bad4.Coffee originally came from_C. Ethiopia5.The Arabic legend is used to prove that _D.coffee drinks were first made by Arabs阅读理解VCrime Prevention Initiatives The chances that you will be a victim of violent crime are low. But you can avoid risk in the following ways.AT HOME You should make sure your house or flat is secure.Always lock the door from the inside at night, but you mustkeep the key nearby, so that you can use it to get out quicklyif there is a fire. You must never give keys to workmen as they caneasily make copies. If you wake up and hear a burglar, stay quietly inbed. Pretend you are asleep. If you feel more confident,switch on the light and make a lot of noise; even if you areon your own you should call out loudly to an imaginarycompanion, so that the burglar thinks you are not alone andruns away. You should have a phone or a mobile in your bedroomto alert the police immediately. If you come home and think you see signs of abreak-in, you shouldnt go in, the burglar may be inside. Youshould go to a neighbour and call the police.ON THE STREETAt night: Always walk facing the traffic, so that a car cannotpull up behind you. You mustnt go through parks or woods. If you think someone is following you, cross the roadone or two times. If he or she continues to follow you, go toa pub or other public place. Always carry your bag close to you, but carry yourhouse keys in your pocket so that you can open the doorquickly. If someone attacks you - remember your safety is moreimportant than your property.1. This passage mainly focuses on A. how to avoid the crimes both at home and in the street2. If you want to guarantee you are secure at home, you should B. never leave the keys to workmen since they can easily make copies3. Based on the passage, if you notice someone following you,its better for you to B. go to public places4. Why should you have a telephone in the bedroom? C. Because its convenient for us to report to the police in case there is a burglary.5. From the passage, we can infer that we might be victims if _.A. we cannot part with the money when being attacked 阅读理解VIAn Extraordinary Change of Direction Molly Wilson had been a dancer and a mother for many years when she decided to sail round the world to raise money for charity. As a child she had trained as a ballet dancer, but at 15 she had grown too tall for classical ballet, so she became a member of a pop dance team. She got married, and after she had children she retired from show business to bring them up. They grew up, and when they were 18 they left home. She says, “When I decided to do the round-the-world race, my husband thought I was bored because the children had left home. He was also worried because I had never sailed before. I was not bored, but I had met some people who told me about the race. They had taken part in it, but they had only done one section, say, from New Zealand to Australia. I wanted to do the wholeten-month journey.” Before Molly left she did a lot of training, but it hadnt prepared her for the worst weather which they experienced. She tells one story. “One night the sea was very rough and it was very cold. I had gone downstairs when a huge wave smashed into the boat and injured two men on the deck. One of the men couldnt move because he had broken his leg. They were taken to hospital by helicopter. That was the worst time.” By the end of October last year, she had raised more than ?50,000 for charity. She says, “Sometimes I ask myself, what did I do? How did I do it? But then I think, its the same as being a dancer. Before I left on the trip, I had trained hard. I had got very fit and had prepared myself completely. Then on the trip I was simply a good team member.”1. What does the word “extraordinary” mean in the title? B. very unusual and surprising 2. The sentence “my husband thought I was bored ” in Para. 4 meant that my husband thought I felt A. dissatisfied because I had nothing better to do at home3. The word “section” in Para. 4 most probably means here C. part of the route of sail 4. Which of the following is nearest (closest) in meaning to “rough” in the sentence “One night the sea was very rough ”in Para. 5? C. not smooth because of huge waves 5. The last paragraph suggests that _A. the qualities she needed for the trip were the same as those for a dancer阅读理解VIIThere have been changes in all sorts of different areas of British society. In recent years in the UK we have had a verylarge increase in the number of couples who get divorced. After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces. The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly.But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married. At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years. Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who arent married or are born to lone parents. There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a woman rather than a man. The average family size now in the UK is 1.8 children per couple, which means that theres been quite a decline in the birth rate in the UK along with other European countries.1. What does the passage mainly discuss? C. The increasing divorce rate in the UK. 2. During the last ten years, A. the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK3. According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to B. soar (急剧上升) 4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? A. The highest divorce rate was around 1969. 5. The last paragraph tells us D. the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now阅读理解VIIISome people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. Theiranswer is the bicycle, or “bike”. In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines. For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders have to use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.But no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea - they say it will slow traffic. Some storeowners on the main streets say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too farfrom downtown to travel by bike. The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. Only on weekends, Central Park is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.1. According to the passage, bicycles _D.are the solution to some city problems2. The idea of special bicycle lanes is most favored by_B. some bike riders3. “Bicycle lanes” in the third paragraph probably means _C. special parts of the road for bicycle riders only4. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? D. In New York City, many people use bikes as theyhave special lanes.5. The best title for this passage is _ D Solution to Traffic Problem in New York第四部分 阅读理解阅读下列短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个正确答案，并在答题纸上写出所选的字母符号。Passage 1I was 15 when I walked into McCarley Bookstore and began to look over the titles of the books on the shelves. The man behind the counter, the owner of the bookstore, asked me if I would like a job. I needed to start saving for college, so I said yes. I worked after school and during summers for minimum wages and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I worked at many other jobs afterwards: I made coffee in the student union during college. I made maps for the U.S Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most satisfying. One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her everything we had and found other books we could order. She left the shop less worried and Ive always remembered the pride I felt in having helped her. Years later, as a television reporter, I heard about a poor child who was born with his fingers of the left hand linked together. His family could not afford the corrective surgery, and the boy lived in shame, hiding his left hand in his pocket. I persuaded my boss to let me do the story on TV. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the surgery for free. I visited the boy in the recovery room after the operation. The first thing he did was hold up his repaired hand and say, “Thank you.” I was overjoyed and filled with a strong sense of reward. At McCarley Bookstore, I always felt I was working for the customers, not just for the store. Today its the same. NBC news pays me the salary. But I feel that I work for the viewers, helping them make sense of the world. My working experience in McCarley Bookstore helped me find a good sense of the world, and most importantly, it helped me find a good sense of myself. 1. How did the author get the job in McCarley Bookstore? A.He happened to walk into the shop and got it by chance.2. According to the author, selling books was one of the most satisfying job experiences, because _.B. it helped him understand the world and himself3. After he helped the fearful lady looking for books on cancer, the author was D. proud of himself4. The author decided to help the poor boy by B. persuading his boss to let him do the story on TV5. The main reason that the author thinks his present job is the same as the one in the bookstore is C.it helps people make sense of the worldPassage 2Paper was invented by the Chinese in the first century AD. Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia - which now makes a great deal of the worlds paper - did not begin to make it until 1500. Most paper is made from wood. Paper-making is an important British industry and paper from Britain is sold to many countries such as Australia and South Africa. Some of the wood used in the British paper making industry comes from trees grown in Britain, but wood is also bought from other countries such as Norway. One tree is needed for every four hundred copies of a forty-page newspaper. If half the adults in Britain buy one daily paper, this uses up over a thousand trees a day. All over the world, trees are being cut down faster than they are being planted, so there may be a serious need for paper at the beginning of next century. When we think of paper, we think of newspaper, books, letters and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of paper is used for books and newspaper, etc. Paper is very good for keeping you warm. Each year, more and more things are made of paper. Now we hear that chairs, tables, and even beds can be made of paper. But the latest in paper making seems to be paper houses.1. Where was paper invented?A. In China. 2. Scandinavia began to make paper C. in 1500 3. Every four hundred copies of a forty-page newspaper will need B. one tree4. All over the world, trees are being cut down _ than they are being planted. D. faster5. The latest things made of paper are D. housesPassage 3We often use gestures to express our feelings, but the problem is that the gestures can be understood in different ways.It is true that a smile means the same thing in any language. So does laughter or crying . Fear is another emotion that is shown in much the same way all over the world. In Chinese and in English literature, a phrase like he went pale and began to tremble suggests that the man is either very afraid or he has just got a very big shock. However, he opened his eyes wide is used to suggest anger in Chinese whereas in English it mea