大學(xué)英語3期末考試題閱讀題題庫急加da-an!.doc

1、大學(xué)英語3-期末考試題-閱讀題題庫急加DA-AN!第一次 Why do smokers tend to weigh less than nonsmokers and gain weight when they ve up the habit? Contrary to “common knowledge”, nonsmokers do not generally eat more than smokers, nor do they eercise less, studies find.Research performed on smokers at rest indates that notin

2、e (尼古丁) itself can increase basal metabol (新陳代謝的) rates, meaning smokers burn more energy than nonsmokers during periods of inactivity.But surveys suggest most smokers smoke not while completely at rest, but while performing light activities such as desk work that can increase metabol rates by two o

3、r three times.Unless notines metabol effects increase proportionally with metabol rates, its influence on weight might be insignifant.Now a study shows that notines effects on body-fuel consumption indeed increase proportionally with increases in activity.“These results indate that the metabol effec

4、t of notine may play a greater part in accounting for body-weight differences between smokers and nonsmokers than was previously believed,” says Kenneth A.Perkins and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medine.The researchers gave a notine nose spray to individuals performing li

5、ght work in this case riding an eercise bycle modified to allow easy riding while subjects remain seated in a comfortable armchair.The activity raised resting metabol rates two to three times.By analyzing air breathed out, the researchers calculated energy consumption in the armchair byclists before

6、 and after ving the nose spray and compared the relative changes with subjects in the control group ven placebo (（試驗(yàn)藥物用的）無效對(duì)照劑) nose sprays.Relative to their baseline bycle ependitures, individuals in the notine group epended considerably more energy than did those in control group while doing the s

7、ame amount of work.With notine, Perkins says, “Its as if the body is becoming much less effient in using its stored energy.” While the results may seem discourang to smokers whod like to quit without gaining weight, Perkins notes that walking an etra mile a day should make up for the difference in m

8、etabol effiency.And he says smokers would have to gain “well more than 50 pounds” to counterbalance the health risks of continued smoking. 1.What might “common knowledge” say about smokers and nonsmokers? A)  Smokers eat more and eercise more than nonsmokers.B)  Smokers eat less and eercis

9、e less than nonsmokers.C)  Smokers eat less and eercise more than nonsmokers. D)  Smokers eat more and eercise less than nonsmokers. 答案：C 2.When might notine influence smokers weight signifantly? A)  When Notines metabol effects and metabol rates increase at the same rate. B)  Wh

10、ile smokers are eercising.C)  While smokers are at rest.D)  When Notines metabol effects increase proportionally with the amount of light activities. 答案：A 3.The word “subjects” in the fourth paragraph means .A)  people under medal treatment B)  researchers C)  people undergo

11、ing an eperiment D)  addted smokers 答案：C 4.What have the researchers found out in their study? A)  People in the armchair epended more energy than people doing desk work.B)  People in the control group breathed out more air.C)  People without notine nose spray are becoming much l

12、ess effient in using energy.D)  People in the notine group consumed more energy. 答案：D 5.Why do the study results seem discourang to some smokers according to the passage? A)  Because they want to gain weight to tackle the health risks of continued smoking.B)  Because they want to quit

13、 smoking and still keep fit. C)  Because they want to walking an etra mile a day to lose some weight.D)  Because they want to keep fit without having to quit smoking. 答案：B A certain amount of controversy has been caused by the publation of a new report by a team of educationalists headed b

14、y Pro.B.J.Smith.The report claims to have statistal evidence that children who attend a number of different schools through their parents having to move around the country are more than normally vulnerable to a vious cycle of low academ achievement.There are also indations, says Professor Smith, of

15、an unusually high rate of psychologal dismay among such children.The professor, who has long suspected that the effect on children whose parents travel to different parts of the country in search of work has not been suffiently researched, stresses that this is not merely an epression of prejude.“We

16、 are not dealing here with opinions,” he says, “Its true, my personal feeling is that for childrens well-being, they should stay in one school.However, our findings are based on research and not on any personal attitudes that I or my colleagues may have on the subject.” Capt.Thomas Muller, an Army l

17、ecturer for the past 20 years and himself a father of two, said, “Ive never heard such rubbish.As far as Im concerned, absolutely no harm is done to the education of children who change schools regularly as long as they keep to the same system as in our Army school.In my eperience and Ive known quit

18、e a few of them Army children are as well-adjusted as any others, if not more so.What the Professor doesnt ear to reciate is the fact that in such situations children will adapt much better than adults.”   When this was put to Professor Smith, he said that at no time had his team suggested that

19、 all such children were backward or dismayed in some way, but simply that in their eperience there was a clear tendency.  “Our findings indate that while the etremely bright child can cope with regular emotional turbulence without harming his or her general academ progress, the majority of chil

20、dren suffer from constantly having to enter a new learning environment.” 6.What does Professor Smiths report suggest? A)  Children shouldnt change schools too often. B)  Children who have to move around the country are better at academ achievement.C)  Children attending many schools h

21、ave caused a certain amount of controversy.D)  Children who attend different schools are more vulnerable to vious diseases. 答案：A 7.What does Professor Smith think of the findings of the research? A)  They are proved by the research. B)  They are just based on his personal feeling.C) &

22、#160;They may merely be an epression of prejude.D)  They are based on personal attitudes. 答案：A 8.What does Capt.Thomas Muller think of children who change schools regularly? A)  They can actually deal with the new environment better than adults. B)  They do no harm to the education.C)

23、  They find it diffult to keep to the same system.D)  They are generally ill-adjusted. 答案：A 9.How does Professor Smith defend himself again Capt.Thomas Muller? A)  He suggests that children having regular emotional turbulence do not harm their academ progress.B)  He argues that o

24、nly a few children will suffer from channg schools regularly.C)  He stresses that the majority of children tend to suffer from constantly adapting to a new learning environment. D)  He believes that etremely bright child likes to enter a new learning environment. 答案：C 10.What does the pass

25、age mainly talk about? A)  How army children get used to a new learning environment.B)  Whether children would be affected by channg schools regularly. C)  The procedure Professor Smith followed to conduct a study.D)  The opinions people have about children who often change schoo

26、ls. 答案：B Recently there has been a tendency to sympathize with thieves whose operations have been carried out on a grand scale, and no attempt whatever has been made to hold them responsible.Some of the most thievish (像竊賊的) transactions have flourished and are still flourishing.Their success and the

27、ir wealth are the only things recognized.They are honored as financiers and men of affairs, looked up to and respected.  In reality they are nothing more and nothing less than a lot of merciless and heartless thieves.Fraud is fraud and cheating is cheating despite the artist manner in whh it is

28、 committed or the size of the scale upon whh it is operated.  It is time these men were classed properly and placed where they rightly belong, for they are no better than the miserable sneak-thief who steals a penny from a blind mans dog.  For the past two or three years working people who

29、 have made sacrifes to save a few pennies have been cheated most unmercifully.Their hard-earned savings have been stolen from them by every possible scheme from the obvious looting (打劫) of a bank to the higher and more artist method of legalized high risk, comple financial products.Men high up in th

30、e financial world have lent their names to some of the most shady and notorious schemes that ever dishonored a community or a people.Because of this the most diligent and economal (節(jié)儉的) Ameran people have been induced to place their hard-earned and carefully guarded savings in what they were led to

31、believe was a safe investment, only to find out when too late that they had fallen into the hands of a gang of etremely respectable cheats.They cannot recover what they have lost.  The thief is too powerful to be affected by the law while the vtim is too weak to put its machinery in motion.It m

32、ay be that the law is defective, or it may be that those having its machinery in charge are influenced by the wealth of the transgressors (違犯者).Whatever or whhever it is that is responsible ought to be investigated and the evil remedied. 11.What does the tendency mentioned in the first paragraph ref

33、lect? A)  People encourage some of the most thievish transactions to flourish.B)  People only respect success and wealth without any moral judgment. C)  People prefer to carry out operations on a grand scale.D)  People have made attempt to hold thieves responsible. 答案：B 12.How di

34、d working people lose their hard-earned savings? A)  They lent their money to men high up in the financial world.B)  They were cheated by the bank. C)  They were unlucky in investment.D)  They were robbed by the thieves nearby. 答案：B 13.When the writer says “a gang of etremely res

35、pectable cheats” in Paragraph Four, it is implied that .A)  they are well-educated but ill-behaved B)  they are respectable in artist cheating C)  they are cheats with respectable goals D)  they are not well-educated but respected 答案：A 14.What could be a possible reason for the t

36、hieves to escape from law according to the passage? A)  They are powerful enough to ignore the law.B)  There are defects in the law. C)  They are wealthy enough to compensate the vtims.D)  The vtim is too weak to investigate them. 答案：B 15.It can be inferred from the passage that

37、.A)  there are too many thieves and robbers B)  industrious and honest people should be highly paid C)  moral standards are always upheld D)  any thief should be punished 答案：D     People often ask whh is the most diffult language to learn, and it is not easy to ans

38、wer because there are many factors to take into consideration.Firstly, in a first language the differences are unimportant as people learn their mother tongue naturally, so the question of how hard a language is to learn is only relevant when learning a second language.      A na

39、tive speaker of Spanish, for ele, will find Portuguese much easier to learn than a native speaker of Chinese, for ele, because Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, while Chinese is very different, so first language can affect learning a second language.The greater the differences between the secon

40、d language and our first, the harder it will be for most people to learn.Many people answer that Chinese is the hardest language to learn, possibly influenced by the thought of learning the Chinese writing system, and the pronunciation of Chinese does ear to be very diffult for many foreign learners

41、.However, for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language, learning writing will be less diffult than for speakers of languages using the Roman alphabet.      Some people seem to learn languages readily, while others find it very diffult.Teachers a

42、nd the circumstances in whh the language is learned also play an important role, as well as each learners motivation for learning.If people learn a language because they need to use it professionally, they often learn it faster than people studying a language that has no direct use in their day to d

43、ay life.      arently, British diplomats and other embassy staff have found that the second hardest language is Japanese, whh will probably come as no surprise to many, but the language that they have found to be the most problemat is Hungarian.This does not mean that Hungarian i

44、s the hardest language to learn for everyone, but it causes British diplomat personnel, who are generally used to learning languages, the most diffulties.      Different cultures and individuals from those cultures will find different languages more diffult.In the case of Hungari

45、an for British learners, it is not a question of the writing system, whh uses a similar alphabet, but the grammatal compleity, though native speakers of related languages may find it easier, while struggling with languages that the British find relatively easy. 16.Why is it hard to say whh language

46、is the most diffult to learn? A)  Because it is only relevant when learning a second language.B)  Because differences between languages are unimportant.C)  Because people learn their mother tongue naturally.D)  Because many factors have to be considered. 答案：D 17.Who will find Por

47、tuguese much easier to learn? A)  A native speaker of Japanese B)  A native speaker of Hungarian C)  A native speaker of Spanish D)  A native speaker of Chinese 答案：C 18.What is the most problemat language to British diplomats and other embassy staff? A)  Japanese B)  Sp

48、anish C)  Hungarian D)  Chinese 答案：C 19.Why do many people think Chinese is the hardest language to learn? A)  Because the pronunciation of Chinese is diffult. B)  Because the grammar of Chinese is comple.C)  Because Chinese is not directly used in their life.D)  Becaus

49、e Chinese uses the Roman alphabet. 答案：A 20.What factors cannot affect learning a second language according to the passage? A)  each learners motivation for learning B)  neighboring countries C)  teachers and the circumstances D)  first language 答案：B     In 1976, kl

50、er wrote a My Turn about the overwhelming reaction to the character he played on the popular television sitcom (情景喜劇), “Hy Days”.The show was at its peak, and Fonzie was its superstar.In fact, Amerans related so strongly to the character that kler became arently permanently part of the countrys broa

51、d, etended family.Three decades later, fans still greet the actor with Fonzies signature thumbs-up sign and a long, drawn out “Aaay!”       “All these years later, the warmth I am treated with is unbelievable, and its all over the world,” kler says.He no longer receives the 50,00

52、0 fan letters a year that he got during “Hy Days”s orinal run, but they still come by the hundreds.And on the street, folks tend to have a common reaction.“They thank me for making them laugh for so long.They say, I grew up with you, or my children grew up with you, or, we sat and watched it togethe

53、r,” he says.      kler says his Fonzie days came back to him vividly as he read over his old My Turn.Cast on his 28th birthday, the Yale-trained performer had been a struggling actor, dreaming of fame.The dream turned real very qukly.“We were hardly on the air when this thing sta

54、rted to snowball, going from zero to 60 in about three seconds,” kler recalls.      Today, kler ves speeches to college students about living their dreams, focusing on how to become a successful actor.“If you are determined, have a sense of humor and never take your eye off what

55、it is you want, you can actually have it,” he says.      kler is also at work on his first childrens book, co-authoring with Lin Oliver.He was recently named eecutive producer of “Hollywood Squares” and produces the show “Intuition” on the Game Show Network.His net movie, “Holes”

56、, based on a childrens book, is scheduled for release this ter.In October 20, kler made his Broadway debut costarring with John Ritter in the show “The Dinner Party.”       But through it all, kler remains Fonzie.“I think he is the architect of my home, of my professional life, a

57、nd of my good fortune in the world,” kler says.“He literally is the foundation for everything that was to come.” 21.Whh of the follog is NOT mentioned as fans reaction to Fonzie? A)  Fans write lots of letters to kler for many years.B)  Fans thank kler when they meet him on the street.C) &

58、#160;Fans greet kler by imitating Fonzies signature.D)  Fans sit and watch the sitcom together with kler. 答案：D 22.Whh of the follog influences him most according to the author? A)  The television sitcom “Hy Days”. B)  The show “The Dinner Party”.C)  The movie “Holes”.D)  The

59、 show “Intuition”. 答案：A 23.Whh of the follog can be inferred from the passage? A)  kler spent long time struggling to make his dream come true.B)  successful actor must have a sense of humor.C)  Fans like kler as a superstar only for a few years.D)  Fonzie usually utters a long,

60、drawn out “Aaay!” in “Hy Days”. 答案：D 24.What does the word “snowball” in Paragraph three most probably mean?.A)  throw at B)  a ball made of snow C)  grow rapidly D)  melt easily 答案：C 25.Whh of the follog is the author primarily concerned with in this passage? A)  klers artl

61、e My Turn B)  Fans reaction to Fonzie played by kler C)  klers life as an actor D)  kler and his sitcom “Hy Days” 答案：D 第二次 We all laugh.We all hurt.We all make mistakes.We all dream, thats life.Its a journey.Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!

62、Staying positive through the cold season could be your best defense against getting ill, new study findings suggest.  In an eperiment that eposed healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a generally sunny disposition (性格) were less likely to fall ill.The fin