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1、Part 2 Reading Comprehension（MultipleChoice）（每小题：1分）Directions:Read the following passages carefully and choosethe best answer from the four choices marked A,B,C and D.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.Coffee is one of the most popular（流彳亍的）drinks throughout theworld today.In
2、fact,according to some estimates,over 30%of alladults in the world drink coffee at least once a day on the average.Coffee contains a kind of drug called caffeine（咖啡因）.Caffeine isa chemical that stimulates（刺激）the nerves of the body.Drinkingcoffee tends to make people a little bit more awake-at least
3、for ashort time-because of this stimulating effect on the nervoussystem（系统）.A cup of coffee has,on the average,about 3%caffeine in it.One story of the discovery of the coffee plant relates to this effect ofcaffeine.According to the story,coffee was discovered in EastAfrica.The story says that coffee
4、 was first found by a goat farmernamed Kaldi.This was about the year 850.Kaldi was leading his animals through the mountains and the goatswere stopping repeatedly to eat the plants near the path.Suddenly,some of the goats started jumping up and down in a very strangeway.Kaldi figured out that the go
5、ats were acting this way because of theplants they were eating.Kaldi himself tried eating some of thegreen beans（豆荚）that the goats had been eating.He,too,felt thestimulating effect of the beans.Kaldi wanted to prove what had happened,so he picked some ofthe beans and took them back to his home villa
6、ge,where he toldhis story.The green bean got the name Kaffa and later coffeebecause the beans were discovered in a place called Kaffa inAfrica.Then for years,people used to eat a few of the green Kaffa beanswhen they were in the mountains and needed extra energy to dotheir work.It was later found th
7、at the coffee beans could be pickedand then dried until they turned brown,and then they could bestored.If the beans were dried and stored,they could be used atany time.1,What is caffeine?A.A kind of seed.cC B.A kind of plant.C C.A kind of drug.D.A kind of nut.2.What is the purpose of drinking coffee
8、?,.A.To become more awake.E已 B.To become more healthy.C.To become more happy.一 D.To become more clever.3.Coffee was first found by a._ A.doctorc B.farmerEL C.druggist（药剂师）_ D.chemist（化学家）c4.How did the goats react after eating the plants?已 A.They fell asleep.B.They could not find their way home.C.Th
9、ey started jumping up and down.D.They wanted to eat more.5.Why did the green bean get the name HKaffa?A.Because Kaldi loved his home village very much.匕B.Because Kaldis goats loved the green bean very much.La白 C.Because the beans were discovered in a place by thisname.D.Because the beans could be pi
10、cked and dried.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday,September 2nd,1666.The servants（女仆）were up very late on theSaturday evening,getting everything ready for the next day,andwhile they were busy they saw the glow of a
11、fire start in the sky.By3 oclock on the Sunday morning,the glow had become so brightthat one of the servants,Jane,woke her master to see it.Pepyswent to the window to watch it.It seemed fairly far away,so after atime he went back to bed.When he got up in the morning,it lookedas though the fire was d
12、ying down,though he could still see it.Sohe set to work to tidy（整理）his room and put his things back wherehe wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything.While he was doing this,Jane came in to say that she had heardthat the fire was a bad one:three hundred houses had been burneddown in the
13、night and the fire was still burning.Pepys went out tosee for himself.He went to the Tower of London and climbed up ona high part of the building so that he could see what washappening.From there,Pepys could see that it was,indeed,a badfire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning.Some
14、one told him that the fire had started in a bakers house inPudding Lane（小巷），and then the flames（火焰）had quicklyspread to the other houses in the narrow lane.So began the GreatFire of London,a fire that lasted nearly five days,destroyed most ofthe old city and ended,so it is said,at Pie Corner.6.The s
15、ervants were up very late because.A.they were chattingB.they were having a partyC.they were preparing for a dinnerD.they were watching a fire7.Pepys went back to bed becauseA.he was not interested in chatting about a fireB.he did not think the fire was anything specialC.the fire was far awayD.the fi
16、re had died down8.When Pepys was tidying his room and things,Jane came inand told him that.A.the fire was dying downB.the fire had been put outC.the fire was a bad oneD.no flame could be seenThe fire startedA.on London BridgeB.in a bakers houseC.because the lane was too narrow for people to come inD
17、.because people could not get enough water to put it out10.Pie Corner was.A.the site of the Tower of LondonB.the site of the Great Fire of London匹 C.the place where the fire ended D.the place where Pepys lived匕Questions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.In the United States 84 college
18、s now accept just women.Most ofthese colleges were established in the 19th century;they weredesigned to offer women the education they could not receiveanywhere else.At that time major universities and collegesaccepted only men.In the past 20 years many young women havechosen to study at colleges th
19、at accept both men and women.As aresult some womens colleges decided to accept men students too.Others,however,refused to change.Now these schools arepopular（流行的）again.The president of Trinity College（三一大学）in Washington,D.C.said that by the end of the 1980s women began to recognize thatstudying at t
20、he same school with men did not mean women werehaving an equal chance to learn.The president of Smith College inMassachusetts says a womens college permits women to chooseclasses and activities freely.For example,she says that in awomens college a higher percentage of students studiesmathematics tha
21、n in a college with both men and women.Educational experts say men students in the United States usuallyspeak in class more than women students do.In a womenscollege,women feel freer to say what they think.Womens schoolsalso bring out leadership capabilities in many women.Women arerepresented everyw
22、here.For example,at a womens college everygoverning office is held by a woman.Recent studies reportedlyshow that this leadership continues after college.American womenwho went to womens colleges are more likely to hold successfuljobs later in life.11.Womens colleges were established toA.give women t
23、he same right of education that men enjoyB.make changes to the traditional educational system（系统）C.defy mens privilege（特权）in societyD.train women in particular fields12.Studying at the same school with men does not mean区 A.women can do the same thing as menC B.that women are given the same chance as
24、 menU C.women are allowed more freedom to develop themselves亡 D.the present educational system does not allow otherchoices13.According to the passage,in womens schools匹 A.women are freer than if they study at the same school withmen B.women could do anything they want匕C.they teach things peculiar to
25、 womenD.men are openly challenged14.Which one of the following statements is NOT true aboutwomens college?A.Women feel freer to say what they think.口区 B.More women can participate in the management of thecollege.C.A very high percentage of women will become leaderslater.白 D.Women are more likely to
26、be successful in their latercareers.15.The title of this passage is most likely to be.A.Female Education in the United States_ B.Womens Schools in the United StatesE_ C.Women Should be Given the Same Education as Men_ _ D.Education in AmericacQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialo
27、g.Being a man has always been dangerous.There are about 105males born for every 100 females.However,this number changesa great deal,and by the age of maturity（成熟），the number ofyoung men is about the same as that of young women.And among70-year old people,there are twice as many women as men.Butthis
28、great universal（普遍性）truth is changing.Now,boy babiessurvive almost as well as girls do.This means that for the first timethere will be too many boys in those crucial（至关紧要的）yearswhen boys are searching for a mate.What is even more troubling isthat the survival of so many boys has removed a chance for
29、 naturalselection（选择）to do its work.Fifty years ago,the chance of a babysurviving depended on its weight.A kilogram too light or too heavymeant almost certain death.Today it makes almost no difference.Since much of the difference in weight is due to genes（基因），aforce of change has gone.There is anoth
30、er way to commit evolutionary（进化的）suicide:stayalive,but have fewer children.Except in some religiouscommunities,very few women have 15 children.Nowadays thenumber of births,like the age of death,has become average.Mostof us have roughly the same number of children.Again,differencesbetween people and
31、 the opportunity for natural selection to takeadvantage of it have disappeared.For us,this means that people will no longer experience thephysical changes that other living things do;our bodies are asperfect as they are ever going to be.Strangely,we have been ableto make great advancements without p
32、hysical change.In the past100,000 yearseven the past 100 yearsour lives have beentransformed but our bodies have not.We managed to make suchchanges because of technology and social systems.Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of the process ofchange;they look at living beings like a dog lo
33、oks at a ship,as atsomething wholly beyond their comprehension.No doubt we willbe shocked at the ugliness of the 20th century way of life.Buthowever amazed future people may be at how far from perfectionwe were,those future people will look just like us.16.According to the author,what was the danger
34、 a man had toface in the past?_ A.Lack of mates.rB.Strong competition.C C.Lower chance of living to maturity.一 D.Genes.c17.The sentence There is another way to commit evolutionarysuicide perhaps means已 A.there is another way to stop the society from makingprogressB.you can kill yourself by another m
35、eansLx匹 C.there is another factor to prevent us from evolvingD.we have to find a way to do something18.Women except_numbers of children.are having relatively smallA.those who live to be very oldB.those who live in religious communitiesC.those who have the advantage of technologyD.those who live in p
36、oor countries19.The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolvingbecauseA.life has been improved by technological advancementB.the number of female babies has been decliningC.we have reached the highest stage of evolutionD.the difference between wealth and poverty（贫穷）isdisappearing20.What is t
37、his passage mainly about?A.The change in the numbers of boys and girls.B.Ways of continuing mans evolution.C.The evolution future of nature.D.Human evolution going nowhere.Questions 21 to 25 are based on the same passage or dialog.A little noticed change has been taking place in our time-world.Thear
38、rival of digital（数字的）time has been changing the way we actand think.I believe that it has put us to a higher level of anxiety,with greater expectations of efficiency.The old,round,hand-moved time still kept a certain connection tothe natural flow of things,to the roundness of the earth,and to thecha
39、nges of light and seasons.Old,round time was outsideourselves,far enough removed from us so we could ignore it if weso chose.It is not so with digital time,which is a beat.It beats instead ofturning.It makes a sound like the sound of the heart and thusplaces itself smoothly into the body.More and mo
40、re,we mistake itsregular beat for our own,thus mistaking the demands of the worldfor our wishes.Before wrist watches,time used to live in towers in the centers oftowns.At that distance,it could be seen by everybody,but only ifthey so wished.It took an effort,an actual visit to time.But thensomething
41、 happened.Time began to live with us,and now it isbeginning to live in us.I remember what it was like to be a child,absorbed in the endlesslychangeable thing of time.For me there was only child time,dividedmeaninglessly and quite painfully by the orders of the parents intoBedtime,Wakeup Time,and Sch
42、ool Time.But within each of thosedivisions（分害U）,Eternity still ruled.Later,of course,they managedto infect me with the anxious demands of clock time.Very soon,allthat remained was the anxiety of that which was exact.The fastbeats of the timepiece（时钟）cut Eternity to pieces.Occasionally,I stop long en
43、ough to recall the times of childhood,but not often enough.Like everybody else,I am helpless before thenew technologies.Time is a virus,and it is growing stronger.21.Digital time has changed how we act and think byA.allowing us to work with more efficiencyB.giving us more time to do what we likeC.ca
44、using us to be more anxiousD.having us expect more of others22.The author thinks that the old clocksC A.are somehow linked with the seasonal changesB.stay closer to people than a digital watchLJ.C.are connected with human*s handsr.D.work better than a wrist watch23.Before watches,clocks were l ocate
45、d.A.everywhere for everyone to seeB.wherever a person wishedC.on the wristD.in the center of town24.In the authors early childhood memory,.C A.time was a concrete thing.B.time seemed to have no endEC.he fought against his parents idea of time匕D.he enjoyed the anxiety of precision（精确）25.The authors a
46、ttitude towards time in the modern world is亡 A.positive_ B.unclearC C.negative一 D.in the middlecQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the same passage or dialog.The University of London is one of Britains largest centers forhigher education,with a name for international education.Locatedin one of the worl
47、ds most dynamic（有活力有生气的）cities,we canoffer international students a wide and exciting cultural life,as wellas the very best course choice and teaching.We offer ourinternational students the ability to study and improve theircommand of English,to ensure they get the best from the course oftheir choic
48、e.International students are assured of a successful and happy timewhile studying at the University of London.We have a StudentService office to help you at all times,and first year students areensured a place in halls of residence if desired.Your teacher willgive you personal instruction if require
49、d.Students can enjoythemselves in the free health center at any time.As a final point,we offer religious service rooms for those of allfaiths and as London is an international city,we can put students intouch with many religious groups in this area.Finally,with excellentair,rail,and road links to th
50、e rest of Britain,Europe,and the world,getting here is easy.26.The University of London is located in a cityA.well known for producing excellent professorsB.full of activity and energyC.where you can enjoy everything free of chargeD.that is quiet and peaceful all the time27.The University of London