现代远程教育本科英语统考试题（五）上

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第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

Passage One

Roast is very famous in Brazil (巴西). Customers just sit, waiting for waiters to send them all kinds of meat. If you like, you take one; if you don’t, the waiters pass you. If you don’t give any messages of no more sending, they will go on sending you meat.

One day when I was in Brazil, I went to a restaurant to try the roast. After I took my seat, the waiters gave me the sign (牌子) with the color “red” on one side and “green” on the other. I said “thank you”, then the waiters began to serve me. My plate was already full, but the waiters still kept on serving me more. I thought I had to eat more quickly. But to my surprise, the waiters still kept on serving more. (51) Then a waiter found out the reason. He helped me to turn the sign over, with the red outside. When I finished, I found the waiter didn’t serve me, just passed me. If I didn’t call them, they didn’t take a look at me. Do you know why? It’s just like the traffic lights (交通信号灯) in the street. How wonderful!

1. The story took place in __________.

A. China B. Britain C. America D. Brazil

2. The waiters gave me a sign _________.

A. after I went into the restaurant

B. after I took my seat

C. when I tried the food

D. when my plate was full

3. What colors did the sign have?

A. Red and green. B. Red. C. Green. D. Yellow.

4. My plate was already full, but the waiter still kept on _________.

A. serving less B. wanting more

C. serving more D. passing me

5. The sign on the table is just like _________ in the street.

A. a gesture B. a menu C. an advertisement D. traffic lights

Passage Two

Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, there were only a few thousand people in the world. (52) These people moved from place to place. They moved over the land, hunting (捕猎) animals for food.

No one knows how or where these people learned to grow food. But when they did, their lives changed. They didn’t have to look for food any longer. They could stay in one place and grow it.

People began to live near one another. And so the villages grew. (53) Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big.

When machines came along, life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.

Today, some people are moving back to small towns. This is strange, isn’t it?

6. Long long ago, there were __________ thousand people in the world.

A. a lot of B. only a few C. many D. much

7. When people moved over the land, they __________.

A. hunted animals for food B. fished for food

C. always ate vegetables D. lived together

8. The villages grew very big because _________.

A. gold was found there B. people wanted to get rich overnight

C. cities were so competitive D. many people came to work in the villages

9. The cities grew very big because __________.

A. more and more people came to work in the factories and lived around

B. villages needed more people

C. people liked to move here and there

D. life in the villages changed

10. What is happening today?

A. The cities are growing smaller.

B. Villages are growing bigger.

C. Some people are moving back to small towns.

D. People are moving to big cities.

Passage Three

Basketball is still a young game. It’s over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they couldn’t play outdoors, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.

Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play at. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors, and the court (院子) was not very large.

Dr Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. (54) It was played between two teams. To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first Dr Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit basket instead. That’s why the game got its name.

11. The students felt unhappy because __________.

A. they often fought each other B. they had no time to play

C. they didn’t like to play D. they couldn’t play outdoors

12. Who asked Dr Naismith to invent a new game?

A. His friends. B. His children. C. Some teachers. D. Some students.

13. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. When they played this game, the students needed to kick the ball.

B. When they played this game, the students needed to run and jump.

C. When they played this game, the students needed to pass the ball.

D. When they played this game, the students needed to throw the ball.

14. To _________, the ball had to be thrown into the basket.

A. win the game B. make a score

C. lose the game D. lose a score

15. The game got its name from __________.

A. the ball itself B. the basket itself

C. both the basket and the ball D. neither the basket nor the ball

Passage Four

The English language is different from any other languages. Yet English words don’t stay the same. It is always changing. New words are needed for new inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use, or older words are used in a new way.

English can change by borrowing words from other languages. “Tomato” was borrowed from Mexico. “Coffee” came from Turkey, and “tea” came from China. Now new space words are borrowed from other countries, too.

New words also come into use by putting two words together. “Postman and grandfather” are examples. (55) The names of people can also become new words. Our “sandwich” was named after a man called Sandwich.

16. This passage is mainly about __________.

A. borrowing words from other languages

B. the English language

C. how to put two words together

D. how names of people become English words

17. The English language needs new words for new _________.

A. films and TV plays B. stories and books

C. space and universe D. inventions and ideas

18. From the passage we can see that the English language ___________.

A. stays the same B. is always changing C. is very new D. is borrowed

19. The word _________ came into use by putting two words together.

A. spaceship B. sandwich C. coffee D. tomato