大英赛阅读大赛样题.docx

1、大英赛阅读大赛样题2016阅读大赛样题Part I Read and KnowIn Part I,you will read short texts of various kinds. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions. (Time allowed: 22 minutes)Questions 1-3 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)Directions: Read the following quotes. Match the quotes on the left wit

2、h the people on the right. Please note there are two extra options you do not need to use._1. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world._2.Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happine

3、ss._3.You cant connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.A. John LockeB. ArchimedesC. AristotleD. Immanuel KantE. Steve JobsQuestions 4 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read t

4、he text, and answer the question according to the text.To ensure the high standards of facilities we need to build new wards, laboratories and consulting rooms. In short, we need your help now. Complete the coupon today and rest assured that your donation is going to the best possible cause.4. Where

5、 is the piece of text taken from?A. an advertisement B. an instruction bookletC. a story D. a newspaperQuestions 5 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.Few corners of the world remain untainted by intrepid tourists, and their

6、impact is often devastating. Too frequently they trample heedlessly on fragile environments, displacing wildlife and local populations in their insatiable quest for unexplored locations.5. What is the best title for this text?A. The future of tourismB. The role of tourismC. The price of tourismD. Th

7、e benefits of tourismQuestions 6 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text.Buying and selling anything is your forte now. If you visit a jumble or car-boot sale or the like, a romantic encounter is more than probable! News linked t

8、o the family is brilliant!6. What type of text is this?A. A personal advertisement.B. A personal horoscope.C. A friends letter of advice.D. A written warning.Questions 7 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text. With our travel ag

9、ency, the holiday you book is the holiday you get. If you arrive and find weve failed to live up to our promises, let us know what the problem is within one day of your arrival. Well spend 24 hours doing everything possible to sort the problem out. In the unlikely event that we cant resolve your pro

10、blem and make you happy within 24 hours, well fly you home and give your money back.7. The text could best be described as _.A. a commitmentB. an appealC. a warningD. a vowQuestions 8 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text. The

11、new digital cameras are great fun and very easy to use. They let you review your pictures the moment you take them, so you can re-shoot right away if youre not satisfied. But remember, a digital camera is just a computer XXXX. Its not a replacement for your ordinary camera.8. What is the meaning of

12、the missing word (XXXX) in the text?A. “something that is poor quality”B. “an item that is not essential, something extra”C. “something expensive but good value for money”D. “a fashion which always remains popular”Questions 9 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes)Directions: Read the text, and answe

13、r the question according to the text.She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her. And loving the station as they did, it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mothers train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which

14、 was most unlikely.9. What can you say about their mothers train?A. It would probably be early.B. It would probably be on time.C. It would probably be late.D. It had been cancelled.Question 10 (Suggested completion time: 5 minutes)Directions: The bar chart shows the number and proportion of undernou

15、rished people in the developing regions, from 19901992 to 20142016. Answer the question according to the information in the chart.Source:The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report201510. Choose the INCORRECT description about the chart.A. Current estimates suggest that nearly one in nine individu

16、als do not have enough to eat between 2014 and 2016.B. Projections indicate that the 2015 MDG target is nearly reached, with 12.9 per cent of undernourished population.C. The situation noticeably improved during the years 1995-1999, but went down in the first five years of the new millennium.D. The

17、proportion of undernourished people in the developing regions has fallen by almost half since 1990.Part II Read and ReasonIn Part II, you will read short texts on different subjects. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions based on logical inference and reasoning. (Time allowed: 38

18、minutes)Question 11-12 (Suggested completion time: 10 minutes)Directions: Read the definitions of two types of logical fallacy. Answer the questions according to the definitions.Poisoning the WellPoisoning the well is a rhetorical technique and logical fallacywhere adverse information about a target

19、 is preemptively presented to anaudience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say. It uses theassociationof negativeemotionsto distract a subject from actualevidencein an argument.11. Which of the following provides a typical example of pois

20、oning the well?A. Thats my stance on funding the education system, and anyone who disagrees with me hates children.B. You are so weird. That meanswe are pretty much surethat your whole family is weird, too.C. God exists because the Bible says so. The Bible is inspired. Therefore, we know that God ex

21、ists.D. I dont care what you say. We dont need any more bookshelves. As long as the carpet is clean, we are fine.False DilemmaA false dilemma arises when we allow ourselves to be convinced that we have to choose between two and only two mutually exclusive options, when that is untrue. Generally, whe

22、n this rhetorical strategy is used, one of the options is unacceptable and repulsive, while the other is the one the manipulator wants us to choose. Whoever succumbs to this trap has thus made a choice that is forced, and as such, of little value.12. Which of the following provides a typical example

23、 of a false dilemma?A. Smoking is harmful to health, so you are supposed to quit smoking.B. If the government doesnt reduce public spending, our economy will collapse.C. You may as well avoid overeating, or else you might be obese in no time.D. You are the worst of the classmates; therefore, what yo

24、u say is incredible.Questions 13 (Suggested completion time: 4 minutes)Directions: Read the passage about syllogism. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of syllogism.Syllogism is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclus

25、ion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. It is perhaps todays most commonly accepted form of logical reasoning in aptitude tests. The most commonly used type of syllogisms is elucidated in a frequently used example:Premise 1: All men are mortal.Premise 2: Socrat

26、es is a man.Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.Now practice syllogisms for IQ tests.Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesnt necessarily represent the “truth” always.13. Valid ( ); Invalid ( )Premise 1: All human action is conditioned by circumstances.Premise 2: All human

27、 action involves morality.Conclusion: All that involves morality is conditioned by circumstances.Questions 14 (Suggested completion time: 4 minutes)Directions: Read the passage about contraposition. Decide whether the reasonings are Valid or Invalid based on the principles of contraposition.Inlogic,

28、contrapositionis a law that says that aconditional statementislogically equivalentto itscontrapositive. The contrapositive of the statement has its antecedent and consequentinvertedandflipped. The most commonly used type of contraposition is elucidated in the following example:Premise 1: If it is ra

29、ining, then there are clouds in the sky.Premise 2: There are no clouds in the sky.Conclusion: It is not raining.Now practice contraposition for IQ tests.Please note that the conclusion is based on logical reasoning and doesnt necessarily represent the “truth” always.14. Valid ( ); Invalid ( )Premise

30、 1: If he is not an American, he is not from Texas.Premise 2: He is from Texas.Conclusion: He is an American.Questions 15-17 (Suggested completion time: 6 minutes)Directions: Read the text about a science discovery. Answer the questions according to the text.Manipulating MemoryMemory is notoriously

31、malleable. Our recollections fade and take on new meanings; sometimes we remember things that never even happened. But15.Recently, however, scientists have started to grasp and tinker with memorys physical basis. Last year, in work evocative of films such asEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindand Inception, researchers discovered ways to manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics, a powerful technique that can trigger nerve cells in animals brains by zapping them with beams of laser light. In a series of experiments, they showed that they could delete existing memori