网络教育大学英语B阅读理解Word格式.docx

1、 Certainly, said Mr. Turner. One day I met a rhinoceros（犀牛） by a riverPlease wait a minute, sir, said the man. There arent any rhinoceros in Africa at all!Its rare just because there arent any! （1）、Mr. White was born in a farmers family.A：T B：F答案：A（2）、Mr. White hoped to be respected because he was t

2、he richest man in their town.B（3）、The children often asked him to tell them something interesting because he knew more than any other person in the town.（4）、All people believed Mr. White except the children.（5）、Mr. White wouldnt like to admit that he was wrong.2、 If you travel by air across the cent

3、er of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. These great forests are the oceans of trees. There are thousands and thousands of different kinds of plants and animals. However, the worlds forests are getting smaller all the time. We are cutting down the trees becaus

4、e we need wood, and we need more farmland. Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years. What will happen if they disappear? If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world. In a lot of places the new farmland will soon look li

5、ke the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot. Perhaps the climate of the world will change. This will be dangerous for everyone in the world. That is why we must take care of our forests. （1）、The passage mainly tells us about the impor

6、tance of taking care of plants.（2）、Forests are homes for different kinds of animals.（3）、The need for more wood and more land help to protect our forests.（4）、Well have more and greater forestsn in 20 or 30 years in some peoples view.（5）、The writer thinks it necessary to protect the forests.3、 What ma

7、kes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still

8、not clear. We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists （心理学家） think that parents should play with their children

9、 more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent. Parents should also be careful with what they

10、 say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as That

11、was a very clever thing you did. or You are such a smart child.（1）、The word intelligent in the 1st paragraph probably mean bright.（2）、According to the context we can guess that a genius is a normal person while an idiot is a funny person.（3）、A person born with a good brain and putting it into active

12、 use is more likely to become a genius.（4）、It is better for parents to praise and encourage their children more often.（5）、Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.4、 A man got into a train and found himself sitting opposite a woman who seemed to be about thirty-five years old.

13、Soon they began talking to each other, and the man said to her, Do you have a family?Yes, I have one son, the woman answered.Oh, really?Does he smoke?No, hes never touched a cigarette, the woman replied.Thats good, the man continued. I dont smoke either. Tobacco is very bad to ones health. And does

14、your son drink wine?Oh, no, the woman answered at once. Hes never drunk a drop of it.Then I congratulate you, maam, the man said. And does he ever come home late at night?No, never, his neighbor answered. He goes to bed immediately after dinner every night.Well, the man said, hes a wise young man. H

15、ow old is he?s six months old today. But he will grow up to be a gentleman, the woman replied proudly.（1）、The man and the woman are talking about the womans son. （2）、The woman thinks her son will be a gentleman. （3）、The conversation took place on a train. （4）、The word disappointed probably best desc

16、ribes the mans feeling at the end of the conversation. （5）、The woman is so proud of her son that she does not really understand what the mans questions mean. 5、 Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would get sick if he continued like that, so she often tri

17、ed to get him to take a vacation. At last she managed to persuade him to do so, and she hoped that he would be able to enjoy his vacation without any disturbance, so before they left, Mrs. Young went to see her husbands secretary. She said to her, My husband needs a vacation very much, so whatever h

18、appens, please dont bother him with telegrams and letters about business problems while we are away. Just wait till we get back. After Mr. and Mrs. Young had been away about a week, Mr. Young received a letter from his secretary which said, Something terrible happened to your business, but Im not go

19、ing to bother you with it while you are enjoying your vacation.（1）、Mr. Young was the owner of a private business. （2）、Mrs. Young worried about her husbands business. （3）、Mrs. Young was afraid that her husbands vacation might be spoilt. （4）、The secretary didnt explain in her letter what had happened

20、to Mr.Youngs business, because she didnt want to spoil Mr. Youngs vacation.（5）、You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid secretary. 6、 Here is a story told about an American general who was a very important figure in the American army during the First World War. Everybody in the Unite

21、d States knew him and many people wished to have a picture or something of his in their homes. Soon after the war the general returned to Washington. One day he went to a dentist and had six teeth pulled out. A week later the general heard that his teeth were being sold in shops at $5 each. On each

22、of the teeth there was a label with the name of the general and words:buy these teeth and show them to your friends at home. The general got angry. He rushed to his office and ordered six officers to go around the city and buy all his teeth. The officers went out and visited every shop in the capita

23、l. They were away from the office all day. In the evening they returned and put on the table in front of the general the teeth they had bought. They had collected 175 teeth. （1）、Many families wanted to have a signature of the general. （2）、The general came back to Washington after the First World War

24、. （3）、The general ordered his men to look for all his teeth and buy all of them. （4）、The fact that the generals name was on the label of each tooth shows that the general was famous. （5）、The teeth they collected most probably cost $1150.7、 The word horsepower was first used two hundred years ago. Ja

25、mes Watt had made the worlds first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With

26、 this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do. He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air on one minute. His engine could lift a 33-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine. （1）、The passage says that Watt made the first widely used steam engine. （2）、Watt wanted to find a way to lift a 3300-pound weight. （3）、He made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of a horse. （4）、One horsepower wo