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1、电大网考B阅读理解个阅读理解阅读理解1.When I begin to look back on all friends whomI have had,I quickly came to the conclusion that Jerry was the most important and had the greatest effect upon mylife. His family moved to my block when I was only 10. Jerry was 15 at the time, but the fact that he was so much older th

2、an meseemed to make no difference to him. I was very glad that he liked me. We took long walks together, on which he would tell me stories he had heard form TV and radio programs.But as months went by, a change came into our friendship.Jerry almost stopped coming by the house, and every time I went

3、to his house or telephoned, he put me off with some excuses such as ” Im studying now” or ”Ive got somejobs to do for Mum” . Whenwe passed on the street, he would still give me a warm smile and friendly wave with a ”Hi, kid ” ,but he would hardly ever stop to talk. Finally I realized that he was no

4、longer interested in me and that his taste had changed. I noticed him with a girl once in a while and several times saw him going out in his familys car on a Friday or Saturday night. I simply couldnt understand what was so great about girls and parties.But I was hurt when he finally made me know th

5、at our friendship was at an end. Of course he didnt really mean to hurt me, but it was a long time before I realized that it was an age problem that caused the break. There were a world of differences between the ideas and interests of a 17-year-old and a 12-year-old. Now that Im over sixteen myself

6、, I realized this, and the hurt I got then has become happy memories of the good times we were once together. I wonder if millions of other boys and girls have had a similar experience.(1).When the writer and Jerry first met, Jerry was .答案(B)A.10 years oldB.5 years older than the writerC.of the same

7、 age as the writerD.the writers classmate(2).Their friendship lasted for . 答案 (C)A.a few yearsB.a few weeksC.a few monthsD.a few hours(3).Jerry stopped playing with the writer because .答案(D)A.the writer had changedB.he was busy with his studyC.he has some jobs to doD.he was not interested in the wri

8、ter(4).When a change camein their friendship, the writer 答案(B)A.accepted it at onceB.couldnt understand his friend for a long timeC.stopped visiting his friendD.started going to parties with girls(5).The main idea of the passage is that . 答案 (A)A.the age difference plays a part in friendshipB.friend

9、ship is the most important thing for childrenC.manyboys and girls have a similar experience as the writerD.” friends are made in wine and tested in tears ”2.One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school,a teacher came to me. She had a student who finished his work before all the others and

10、needed something more difficult forI said, ” Send him along. ”Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. ”Do you have a job forme?” he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been return

11、ed but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, ”Is it a kind of a detective （ 侦探 ） job? ” I answered yes, and then began his work.He had found three books with wrong cards by the time histeacher opened the door and said, ”Time for rest! ” he argued for finishing the finding

12、 job, but the teacher won.The next morning, he arrived early, ” I want to finish these books, ” he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boys home. At the end of a

13、 pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her sons first concern, she said, was leaving the library. ”Whowill find the lost books? ” he asked. Whenthetime came, it was hard to say goodbye. Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his stro

14、ng feeling of interest had made him different.Do you know who he is? This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.(1).Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job forBill Gates? 答案 (C)A.Because the teacher found the librarian quite busy.B.Because Bill Gates wanted to find a

15、job.C.Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.D.Because the library needed a new worker.(2).What do you know from the passage? 答案 (B)A.Library work was very difficult for Bill Gates.B.Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.C.The librarian was too b

16、usy to have a rest.D.His mother hoped that Bill Gates would stay for his job.(3).The sentence He picked up the idea immediately meansthat .答案(A)A.he learned that system quicklyB.he collected that system quicklyC.he lifted up that system quicklyD.he improved that system quickly(4).What was Bill Gates

17、 expected to do in the library? 答案(D)A.Finding the lost cards.B.Learning the system.C.Helping the worker with everything in the library.D.Finding books with wrong cards.(5).How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area? 答案 (C)A.Sad.B.Pleasant.C.Worried.D.Interested.3.In 1

18、939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then aBBQ restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they off

19、ered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was anotherfour cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformi

20、ty, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaura

21、nt was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal o

22、f the brothers fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise（ 特许经营 ） other copies oftheir restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate the menu. The equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches（ 拱门） .Today McDonalds is really a household name. Its name

23、sfor its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonalds had over $ 1billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business h

24、istory.(1).We may infer from this passage that . 答案 (D)A.Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to KrocB.The location the McDonalds chose was the only source ofthe great popularity of their drive-in C. Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants D. Ray Kroc

25、 was a good businessman(2).The passage suggests that . 答案 (A)A.creativity is an important element of business successB.Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothersC.Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray KrocD.California is the best place to go into busines

26、s(3).In the second sentence of the third paragraph, the word ” unique ” means . 答案 (A)A.specialB.attractiveC.financialD.peculiar(4).This passage mainly talks about . 答案 (C)A.the development of fast food servicesB.how McDonalds became a billion-dollar businessC.the business careers of Mac and Dick Mc

27、DonaldD.Ray Krocs business talent(5).Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except . 答案 (B)A.a drive-inB.a cinemaC.a theaterD.a BBQ restaurant4.No one knows who madethe first ice cream. Somepeople think that water ices and milk ices may have been madeby the Chinese between three thousa

28、nd and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish reached India. The Indians, in turn, may have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. The Persians called their dish Sharbat, from which our word sherbet( 冰冻果子 露 ) comes.Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, no

29、ted that he found the Chinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, ices became popular, first in Venice and then throughout Italy.In 1533, when Catherine de Medicis left Italy to marrythe future King Henry II of France, she took her cooks withher. T

30、hey made desserts the French had never tasted before. Among them was ”ice cream ”. For each day of the wedding festivities Catherines cooks prepared a different flavor of her favorite dessert- ” ice cream. ”At first ice cream was a luxury in France. Only rich people had money to buy it. Then, in 166

31、0, a young man from Sicily, Francisco Procopio, arrived in Paris. He opened a shop that sold ice cream at prices people could afford. Procopios ”ice-cream parlor ” became so popular that other shops were opened.About 1640, King Charles I introduced ice cream to England. He had heard it was popular i

32、n Italy and France. He served ice cream for dessert at a banquet. The surprise dish was a great success. The King ordered his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a secret. Charles felt that only royalty should serve the dessert. But the secret soon leaked out. Ice cream quickly became popular in England too.(1).Ice cream was unknown in France until . 答案 (A)A.1533B.1660C.1640D.1774(2).Ice cream was introduced to England by