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1、开放英语3期末复习题及作业答案(三)IV阅读理解1 选择题阅读理解IOnce the king of India fell ill and sent for his doctor. The doctor came, examined him and said, “You will be well again in a few days if you take bulls milk.” The king was very surprised, for he had never heard of a bull that gave milk. “How is it possible?” he ask
2、ed. “Order Gulbo, the scholar, to get it for you. He can do anything.” The doctor was an enemy to Gulbo, and thought this would be a way of making him suffer. When the king told Gulbo what the doctor had said and ordered him to get bulls milk, Gulbo immediately understood what the doctor was trying
3、to do. When he got home he sat thinking how to get out of the difficulties. His daughter, seeing him worried, asked what was the matter. On hearing what the king had asked for, she said, “Dont worry, father, Ill help you.” The next day she took some old clothes, went to the bank of the river near th
4、e palace, and chose a place below the kings bedroom window. In the middle of the night, when everyone was in bed, she started to do her washing. She made so much noise that the king could not sleep. The king got very angry and set a guard to find out what was the matter. The soldier found the girl,
5、and led her to the king. “Why do you wash your clothes here at night?” asked the king. The girl pretended to be afraid and said, “I had to wash clothes at night. This afternoon my father had a baby. I was busy all day because of that. Then I found there were no clean clothes for the baby, so I had t
6、o come and wash them now.”“What!” cried the king, “Are you trying to make a fool of me?Who ever heard of a man having a baby?”“Well, if the king himself orders someone to get bulls milkfor him, why cant a man have a baby?”The king smiled and said, “You must be Gulbos daughter. Goand tell your father
7、 that he may keep the bulls milk for hisbaby.”1. According to the doctor in the story, the kings illness can be cured by _. B. drinking bulls milk 2. The doctor told the king to ask Gulbo to find bulls milk because he _. B. hated Gulbo very much3. How did Gulbo feel after getting the kings order? A.
8、 He was upset. 4. Why did Gulbos daughter wash clothes below the kings bedroom window at night? D. Because she wanted the king to notice her.5. From the dialogue between the king and the girl, we know that after hearing the girls story, the king _.D.understood the girls meaning阅读理解IIPeople all over
9、the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollutionis caused either by mans release of completely new and often artificial (人造的) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质)，such as oil from
10、 oil tankers into the sea.Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three of
11、four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which cant be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metal and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of u
12、s not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excessuse and careless disposal (处理) of the products we use in our daily lives.1. The main cause
13、 of pollution is _A .the release of artificial or natural substances into the environment2. Much of the pollution could be controlled if only C. all sides concerned would make more efforts3. Food packages, bottles and tins for drinks can cause B. both a4. Which of the following can not help solving
14、the problem of pollution? B. Eating.5. What does the underlined word “litter” mean in paragraph 2? C. bits of waste things 阅读理解IIIThousands of years ago, in the middle of an ocean, miles from the nearest island, an undersea volcano broke out. The hotliquid piled higher and higher and spread wider an
15、d wider. In this way, an island rose up in the sea. As time went on, hot sun and cool rains made the rock split and break to pieces. Sea waves dashed against the rock. In this way, soil and sand came into being. Nothing lived on the naked soil. And then the wind and birds brought plant seeds, spider
16、s and other little creatures there. Only plants could grow first. Only they, in sunlight, could produce food from the minerals of the soil, water and air. While many animals landed on the island, they could find no food. A spider spun its web in vain, because there were no insects for its web to cat
17、ch. Insects couldnt stay until there were plants for them to eat. So plants had to be the pioneer life on this new island.1. The passage centers on _. D. how life began on a volcano-produced island2.According to the passage, the island got its first soil from_ C. its own rock 3.The word “naked” (in
18、para. 3) could be replaced by which of the following? D. bare 4.The order of coming into being on the island is _. A. soil, plants and animals5. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE ? C. Insects could not live on the island without plants. 阅读理解IVIn the last 500 years, nothing abo
19、ut people not their clothes, ideas, or languages has changed as much as whatthey eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians. The Spanishintroduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly b
20、ecame fashionable. In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today. The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousa
21、nds of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the“Potato Famine”of 1845-6, and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America. There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the Worlds larg
22、est grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400s. According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a goatherd name Kaldi noticed that his goats were at
23、tracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the “wide-awake” feeling that one-third of the worlds population now starts the day with.1. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years? A. Food 2. “Some” in “Some still exist to
24、day” means _. C. some shops3. Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” because D. the potato harvest was bad4.Coffee originally came from_C. Ethiopia5.The Arabic legend is used to prove that _D.coffee drinks were first made by Arabs阅读理解VCrime Prevention Initiatives The chances th
25、at you will be a victim of violent crime are low. But you can avoid risk in the following ways.AT HOME You should make sure your house or flat is secure.Always lock the door from the inside at night, but you mustkeep the key nearby, so that you can use it to get out quicklyif there is a fire. You mu
26、st never give keys to workmen as they caneasily make copies. If you wake up and hear a burglar, stay quietly inbed. Pretend you are asleep. If you feel more confident,switch on the light and make a lot of noise; even if you areon your own you should call out loudly to an imaginarycompanion, so that
27、the burglar thinks you are not alone andruns away. You should have a phone or a mobile in your bedroomto alert the police immediately. If you come home and think you see signs of abreak-in, you shouldnt go in, the burglar may be inside. Youshould go to a neighbour and call the police.ON THE STREETAt
28、 night: Always walk facing the traffic, so that a car cannotpull up behind you. You mustnt go through parks or woods. If you think someone is following you, cross the roadone or two times. If he or she continues to follow you, go toa pub or other public place. Always carry your bag close to you, but
29、 carry yourhouse keys in your pocket so that you can open the doorquickly. If someone attacks you - remember your safety is moreimportant than your property.1. This passage mainly focuses on A. how to avoid the crimes both at home and in the street2. If you want to guarantee you are secure at home,
30、you should B. never leave the keys to workmen since they can easily make copies3. Based on the passage, if you notice someone following you,its better for you to B. go to public places4. Why should you have a telephone in the bedroom? C. Because its convenient for us to report to the police in case
31、there is a burglary.5. From the passage, we can infer that we might be victims if _.A. we cannot part with the money when being attacked 阅读理解VIAn Extraordinary Change of Direction Molly Wilson had been a dancer and a mother for many years when she decided to sail round the world to raise money for c
32、harity. As a child she had trained as a ballet dancer, but at 15 she had grown too tall for classical ballet, so she became a member of a pop dance team. She got married, and after she had children she retired from show business to bring them up. They grew up, and when they were 18 they left home. S
33、he says, “When I decided to do the round-the-world race, my husband thought I was bored because the children had left home. He was also worried because I had never sailed before. I was not bored, but I had met some people who told me about the race. They had taken part in it, but they had only done
34、one section, say, from New Zealand to Australia. I wanted to do the wholeten-month journey.” Before Molly left she did a lot of training, but it hadnt prepared her for the worst weather which they experienced. She tells one story. “One night the sea was very rough and it was very cold. I had gone do
35、wnstairs when a huge wave smashed into the boat and injured two men on the deck. One of the men couldnt move because he had broken his leg. They were taken to hospital by helicopter. That was the worst time.” By the end of October last year, she had raised more than ?50,000 for charity. She says, “S
36、ometimes I ask myself, what did I do? How did I do it? But then I think, its the same as being a dancer. Before I left on the trip, I had trained hard. I had got very fit and had prepared myself completely. Then on the trip I was simply a good team member.”1. What does the word “extraordinary” mean
37、in the title? B. very unusual and surprising 2. The sentence “my husband thought I was bored ” in Para. 4 meant that my husband thought I felt A. dissatisfied because I had nothing better to do at home3. The word “section” in Para. 4 most probably means here C. part of the route of sail 4. Which of
38、the following is nearest (closest) in meaning to “rough” in the sentence “One night the sea was very rough ”in Para. 5? C. not smooth because of huge waves 5. The last paragraph suggests that _A. the qualities she needed for the trip were the same as those for a dancer阅读理解VIIThere have been changes
39、in all sorts of different areas of British society. In recent years in the UK we have had a verylarge increase in the number of couples who get divorced. After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces. The rate increased steadily and in recent years
40、has increased much more rapidly.But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married. At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the la
41、st 10 years. Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who arent married or are born to lone parents. There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a w
42、oman rather than a man. The average family size now in the UK is 1.8 children per couple, which means that theres been quite a decline in the birth rate in the UK along with other European countries.1. What does the passage mainly discuss? C. The increasing divorce rate in the UK. 2. During the last
43、 ten years, A. the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK3. According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to B. soar (急剧上升) 4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? A. The highest divorce rate was around 1969. 5. The last paragraph tel
44、ls us D. the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now阅读理解VIIISome people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. Theiranswer is the bicycle, or “bike”. In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New Yor
45、k City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines. For several years this group has been trying to ge
46、t the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders have to use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.Bu
47、t no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea - they say it will slow traffic. Some storeowners on the main streets say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too farfrom downtown to travel by bike. The city government has not ye
48、t decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. Only on weekends, Central Park is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.1. According to the passage, bicycles _D.are the solution to some city problems2. The idea of special bicycle lanes is most favored by_B. some bike riders3. “Bicycle lanes” in t
