2020年成人高考专升本英语考前押题与答案(阅读理解)

四、阅读理解

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Passage One

Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class,conservative,educated and still be truly black. Once, during an Abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life. "If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice. "

James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare. She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family. Now she discovers another child is on the way. How would you counsel that woman, asked James.

"Have an abortion," the woman responded. "That child would have a very poor quality of life. "

"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said. "The woman I described was my mother. I was the fifth of six children born into poverty. And, in case you're interested,the quality of my life is just fine!"

第36题　"To move the tables" means__________.

A.to move the tables　B.to carry the tables away

C.to gain courage　D.to gain an advantage after having been at a disadvantage

答案：D

第37题　James' father__________.

A.divorced his wife　B.liked to drink　C.deserted his family　D.B and C

答案：D

第38题　James' mother__________.

A.was educated　B.was conservative　C.was poor　D.A and B

答案：C

第39题　James' family led a__________life when she was born.

A.miserable　B.happy　C.well-off　D.hardly

答案：A

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Passage Two

When I was about 12 I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings. Week by week her list grew: I was skinny, I wasn't a good student, I was boyish, I talked too loud, and so on. I put up with her as long as I could. At last, with great anger, I ran to my father in tears.

He listened to my outburst quietly. Then he asked, "Are the things she says true or not?"

True? I wanted to know how to strike back. What did truth have to do with it?

"Mary, didn't you ever wonder what you are really like? Well, you now have that girl's opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said. "

I did as he directed and discovered to my surprise that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn't change ( like being skinny), but a good number I could and suddenly wanted to change.

For the first time in my life I got a fairly clear picture of myself.

I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it.

"That's just for you," he said. "You know better than anybody else the truth about yourself, once you hear it. But you've got to learn to listen, not to close your ears in anger or hurt. When something said about you is true you'll know it. You'll find that it will echo inside you. "

Daddy's advice has returned to me at many important moments.

第40题　What did the girl's enemy like to do?

A.Talking with her.　B.Pointing out her weak points.

C.Reporting to the teacher.　D.Quarrelling with her.

答案：B

第41题　What did the girl do when she could no longer bear her enemy?

A.She turned to her father.　B.She cried to her heart's content.

C.She tried to put up with her again.　D.She tried to be her friend.

答案：A

第42题　Why did the girl's father ask her to make the list?

A.He wanted to keep the list at home.

B.He didn't know what the girl's enemy had said.

C.He wanted the girl to talk back.

D.He wanted her to check if she really had these weak points.

答案：D

第43题　What can we infer from reading the passage?

A.The girl benefited from her father's advice.

B.The girl was very often angry with her father.

C.The girl's father loved other people's advice,

D.The girl was easily hurt by her father ,

答案：A

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Passage Three

Researchers have found that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is important to human beings. This type of sleep generally occurs four or five times during one night of sleep lasting five minutes to forty minutes for each occurrence. The deeper a person's sleep becomes, ~the longer the periods of rapid eye movement.

There are physical charges in the body to show that a person has changed from NREM( non-rapid eye movement) to REM sleep. Breathing becomes faster, the heart rate increases, and, as the name implies, the eyes begin to move quickly,

Accompanying these physical changes in the body is a very important characteristic of REM sleep. It is during REM sleep that a person dreams.

第44题　According to the passage,, how often does REM sleep occur in one night? __________

A.Once　B.Twice　C.Four or five times　D.Forty times

答案：C

第45题　The word "deeper" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following? __________

A.heavier.　B.louder.　C.stronger.　D.Happier.

答案：A

第46题　Which of the following shows that a person is NOT dreaming in his sleep?__________

A.His eyes begin to move.　B.His breathing-becomes faster.

C.His heart rate increases.　D.His eyes stop moving.

答案：D

第47题　The subject of this passage is__________.

A.why people sleep　B.the human need for REM sleep

C.the characteristic of REM sleep　D.physical changes in the human body

答案：C

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Passage Four

Man's first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.

It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.

第48题　The wheel is important because__________.

A.it was man's first real invention　B.all transportation depends on it

C.every machine depends on it　D.both B and C

答案：D

第49题　The wheel is called__________.

A.simple　B.complicated　C.strange　D.unusual

答案：D

第50题　It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because__________.

A.it led to .many other inventions　B.man had no use for it then

C.there were no wheels in nature　D.all of the above

答案：D

第51题　The wheel was probably invented by__________.

A.a group of early hunters　B.the first men on earth

C.a great prehistoric thinker　D.the man who made the first cart

答案：A

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Passage Five

Even plants can run a fever, especially when they're under attack by insects or disease. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away--straight up. A decade ago, adapting the infrared (红外线) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide (杀虫剂) spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don't have pest (害虫) problems.

Even better, Paley's Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-code map showing where plants were running" fevers". Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.

The bad news is that Paley's company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works~ "This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States", says George Oerther of Texas A&M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agricultrue, thinks re- mote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

第52题　In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to__________.

A.locate the problem areas　B.drew a color-ceded map

C.measure the size of the affected area　D.estimate the damage to the crops

答案：A

第53题　Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by__________.

A.transforming poisoned rain　B.consulting infrared scanning experts

C.resorting to spot-spraying　D.detecting crop problems at an early date

答案：C

第54题　Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are__________.

A.sprayed with pesticides　B.in pour physical condition

C.facing an infrared scanner　D.exposed to excessive sun rays

答案：B

第55题　The application of infrared scanning technolgy to agriculture met with some difficulties due to__________.

A.the lack of official support　B.its high cost

C.its failure to help increase production　D.the lack of financial support

答案：D