奥鹏远程网络教育大学英语b统考阅读理解

1、Paul couldn't sleep last night. （昨晚保罗睡不着。） He woke up early and sat up, and then he lay down again. He felt terrible. "I must be sick," he thought. "but I must study for that test."

He got up and looked for his history notebook. He finally found it under a pile of clothes on a chair. He went over his history notes, but he couldn't remember any of the facts in the notes. "What shall I do?" he thought. He felt terrible.

Just then Paul's telephone rang. He put down his notebook and picked up the telephone.

"Good morning," Jack's voice said, "You must be wrong about that test."

"What do you mean?" Paul asked weakly.

"We're not going to have the test today." Jack said. "I wrote down the date in my notebook. The test will be next Wednesday; it isn't today. How do you feel this morning?"

    "Fine," said Paul. "Just fine!" Suddenly he really felt fine.

1）、Paul felt uneasy (忧虑) because he was seriously ill.

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答案：B

2）、It seemed that Paul was good at history.

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答案：B

3）、Paul felt fine at once after the telephone call.

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答案：A

4）、“How do you feel this morning?” From this question we can see Jack knew Paul very well.

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答案：A

5）、We can guess from the passage that Jack is more careful than Paul.

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答案：A

2、Dear Professor Liu,

Please accept my greeting from New York. （尊敬的刘教授，请接受我来自纽约的问候。）I am just beginning my graduate (研究院) studies here at this university. It is the third week of classes now. My roommate, Tom, is also a graduate student like me. He is studying biology (生物学). He is from Houston. We are now on good terms.

Our dormitory (学生宿舍) is well equipped (配备). There are all kinds of electric home appliances（电器）. But we don't have a TV set. I am going to buy one this afternoon. The view on the window is pleasant, and the weather is hot in the summer right now. It is about 38 degrees outside the room. But we have air conditioning in the room, so I feel OK.

How are you getting on? Are you still working on your paper now?

Please say "Hello" to those who have taught me. I miss all of you very much.

Love

Wang Hui

1）、Wang Hui is writing to her former teacher.

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答案：A

2）、From the passage, we know that Wang Hui is a new graduate student in New York.

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答案：A

3）、Tom is from Houston.

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答案：A

4）、Wang Hui thinks her dormitory is too big.

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答案：B

5）、Wang Hui is going to move to another room.

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答案：B

3、In the UK, in business situations, when you meet someone for the first time you shake hands and say, "How do you do?".（在英国，在正式的商务场合，当你与某人第一次见面，会与对方握手并问候对方：“您好！”）This is not really a question, and the reply to it is another greeting such as "How do you do?" or "Hello" or "I'm very pleased to meet you" or, if you have met the person sometime before, "It's good to see you again".

    You don't shake hands every time you meet someone, you just greet them. If you are invited to someone's house for dinner, it is usual to take a present - some chocolates or flowers or, if you know them quite well, a bottle of wine. If you do not know the host well, don't be the last person to leave. Telephone the next day to thank the host for the meal. English people don't like to talk about personal things, and tend to avoid religion, politics and money.

    Good topics for small talk (闲谈) are the weather, holidays, weekend activities, gardens and architecture (建筑物), especially houses and homes. When you go to a pub or bar, it's usual to take turns to buy a drink for everyone in your group and pay for the drinks when you get them from the bar and before you drink them.

1）、The first paragraph tells us how to greet someone in business situations.

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答案：A

2）、If you are invited to someone's house for dinner, it's better to leave before the last guest leaves if you don't know the host quite well.

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答案：A

3）、English people don't like talking about money and marriage.

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答案：A

4）、In the last paragraph the sentence “…, it's usual to take turns to buy a drink for everyone in your group…” means it's usual to go Dutch (平摊费用).

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答案：B

5）、The subject matter of the passage is British way of greeting people.

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答案：B

4、The word “day” has two meanings. （单词“day”有两个意思。）When we talk about the number of days in a year，we are using “day”to mean 24 hours. But when we talk about day and night，we are using “day” to mean the time between sunrise and sunset. Since the earth looks like a ball，the sun can shine on only half of it at a time. Always one half of the earth is having day and the other half night. A place is moved from day into night and from night into day over and over by the spinning (旋转) of the earth. At the equator (赤道) day and night are sometimes the same length. They are each twelve hours long. The sun rises at 6 o'clock in the morning and sets at 6 o'clock in the evening. For six months the North Pole is tilted (倾斜) toward the sun. In those months the Northern Hemisphere (半球) gets more hours of sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere. Days are longer than nights. South of the equator nights are longer than days. For the other six months the North Pole is tilted away from the sun. Then the Southern Hemisphere gets more sunlight. Days are longer than nights. North of the equator nights are longer than days. Winter is the season of long nights. Summer is the season of long days.

1）、When the Western Hemisphere is having day，the Eastern Hemisphere is having night.

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答案：A

2）、A place is moved from day into night and from night into day over and over by the pulling of the earth.

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答案：B

3）、At the equator day is as long as night sometimes.

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答案：A

4）、When the North Pole is tilted toward the sun，the Northern Hemisphere gets less sunlight.

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答案：B

5）、When it is winter in China，the North Pole is tilted away from the sun.

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答案：A