统考大学英语A阅读理解题库文档格式.docx

1、The puritan religion. C：Colonial womens employment. D：Education in the colonies.答案：C（2）、According to the passage, where in colonial North America were there the fewest women?Puritan communities. Seaports. Frontier settlements. Capital cities. （3）、It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans

2、 were _.uneducated hardworkinggenerouswealthy B（4）、According to the passage, Puritans believed that an unmarried adult woman should be _.financially responsible for herself returned to Englandsupported by her family trained to be a nurseA（5）、According to the passage, what did the Puritans expect fro

3、m married women?They should adopt needy children. They should assist in their husbands trade or business.They should work only within their own homes.They should be apprenticed. 2、Halloween （October 31） is a holiday widely celebrated with different names in many countries. Although it originated as

4、a religious holiday, it has lost its religious connections in the United States. It is now celebrated largely as a childrens day, and many American children look forward to it for days and weeks beforehand.The orange pumpkin is harvested at this time of year and is hollowed out, a funny face cut int

5、o it, and a candle placed inside as decorations in the window. City folks, nowadays, sometimes use paper pumpkins for decorations. Some years ago, the holiday was celebrated by dressing up in strange and frightening costumes and playing tricks on ones neighbors and friends, such as ringing door bell

6、s, throwing bits of corn on the window panes, and in other ways making minor disturbances. More recently, children come to the door to have friends and neighbors admire their costumes and guess who they are behind the false faces and receive treats of candy, fruit or cookies. They say, Trick or Trea

7、t, meaning I will play a trick on you if you do not give me a treat. This practice has even more recently developed into a significant international activity. Instead of or along with candy, the children collect money for UNICEF （United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund）. This special c

8、ollection of money by children for needy children throughout the world is known as UNICEF Trick or Treat. Begun only recently, it results in several million dollars each year contributed to UNICEF. The collection box is orange, reminiscent of the pumpkin.（1）、What does Halloween originate from?A chil

9、drens day.s trick.A religious day.A UNICEF day.（2）、What is the symbol of Halloween?Pumpkin CandleCostumesMoney（3）、The holiday was celebrated in the following ways some years ago EXCEPT _.putting on strange and frightening costumes receiving treats of candy, fruit or cookiesplaying tricks on ones nei

10、ghbors and friendsringing door bells（4）、Why do children collect money in the Halloween?They love money.They want to get enough money to buy themselves candy.The adults are willing to give them money.They want to help other children.D（5）、The collection box is dyed orange because _.children love orang

11、eorange stands for happinessorange is the color of pumpkinsorange is loved by adults3、Human needs seem endless. When a hungry man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat, when a manager gets a new sports car, a big house and pleasure boats dance into view.The many needs of mankind might be

12、 regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of needs, another level appears.The first and most basic level of needs involves food. Once this level is satisfied, the second level of needs, clothing and some sort of shelter, appears. By the end of World War I

13、I, these needs were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.By 1957 or 1958 this third level of needs was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s, a fourth level of needs appeared: the life-enriching level.

14、 While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, that is, the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called luxury items. Among them are vaca

15、tion trips, the best medical and dental care, and recreation. Also included here are fancy goods and the latest styles in clothing.On the fourth level, a lot of money is spent on services, while on the first three levels more is spent on goods. Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of n

16、eeds as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level?A fifth level would probably involve needs that can be achieved best by community action. Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance

17、, crime, and prejudice. After filling our stomachs, our clothes closets, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.（1）、According to the passage, man will begin to think about such need

18、s as housing and clothing only when _.he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelterhe has saved up enough moneyhe has satisfied his hungerhe has learned to build houses（2）、It can be inferred from the passage that by the end of World War II, most Americans _.lived in povertywere very richhad the

19、good things on the first three levelsdid not own automobiles（3）、Which of the following is NOT related to physical satisfactionA successful career.A comfortable home.A good meal. A family car.（4）、What is the main concern of man on the fourth level?The more goods the better.The more items the better.T

20、he more mental satisfaction the better.The more earnings the better.（5）、The author tends to think that the fifth level _.would be little better than the fourth level may be a lot more desirable than the first fourcan be the last levelwill become attainable before the government takes actions4、Though

21、 some people have suggested that women should return to housework in order to leave more jobs for men, the idea has been rejected by both women and men in public opinion polls. Lately some union officials have suggested that too many women are employed in type of work more suitable for men and that

22、women should step aside to make way for unemployed young men. They argue that women - especially women in their childbearing years actually delay economic development and result in lower productivity, poor quality and inefficiency.To solve the problem, they have suggested that the working women stay

23、 at home while their husbands or brothers were given double wages. They argue that under these circumstances, families would retain their same level of income, and women could run the house and raise children much better.The suggestion has been rejected by 9 out of 10 people polled. A hundred person

24、s in a big city were questioned last summer. Out of 50 women, 46 said they were unwilling to leave their jobs, no matter what the situation was. The other 4 said they would like to return home if their jobs could be taken by their sons or daughters. Of 50 men polled, only 6 said they would like to s

25、ee their wives give up their jobs, if it meant higher wages for themselves.Some other people have suggested another way called phased employment theory. The theory suggests that a woman worker take leave from her job when she is seven months pregnant and stay off the job until her baby reaches the a

26、ge of 3. It suggests that women on leave receive75 percent of their normal salary and be allowed to return to work after the 3-year period. This will benefit children, women, their families and the society. Some of those polled, both women and men, felt the idea is a good one. It definitely seems to be more acceptable than the suggestion that women return to home forever.（1）、Some union officials have suggested that women should return home because _.all of them are employed in unsuitable types of worktheir participation in work has a bad influence