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东北农业大学成人教育学院考试题签
大学英语Ⅳ（
A
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一、
阅读题（每题
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分，共
40
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Directions:
There are
4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions
or unfinished
statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A. B. C. and D.
You
should decide on the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the center.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the
following passage:
In a moment of
personal crisis, how much help can you expect from
a New York taxi driver? I began
studying this question and found the
answers interesting.
One morning I got
into three different
taxis and
announced, “Well,
it’s my first day
back in New
York in seven years. I’ve
been prison.” Not a single driver replied, so I
tried again. “Yeah, I
shot
a
man
in
Re
no.”
I
explained,
hoping
the
driver
would
ask
me
why,
but
nobody
asked.
The
only
response
came from a Ghananian driver, “Reno?
That is in Nevada?”
Taxi
drivers were uniformly (
一致地
)
sympathetic
when I said I’d just been
fired. “This is
America,” a Haitian
driver said. “One door is closed. Another is
open.” He argued against my plan
to
burn down my boss’s house
,
“If you do something silly and they put
you away, you cannot look for
another
job.”
A
Pakistani
driver
even
turned
down
a
chance
to
profit
from
my
lo
ss
of
hope:
He
refused
to take me to the middle of the George
Washington Bridge, a $$20 trip. “Why you want to go
there? Go
home and relax. Don’t worry.
Take a new job.”
One
very
hot
weekday
in
July,
while
wearing
a
red
skin
mask
and
holding
a
stuffed
(
塞满的
)
pillowcase
with the word
“BANK” on it, I tried hailing(招呼
) a
taxi five times outside different banks. The
driver picked me up every time. My ride
with Guy Caaude Thevenain, a Haitian driver, was
typical of
the superb
(
一流的
) assistance I received.
“Is anyone following us?”
“No,” said the driver, looking in his
rearview mirror at traffic and me.
“Let’s go across the park,” I said. “I
just robbed the bank there. I got $$
25,000.”
“$$25,000?” he
asked.
“Yeah, you think it
was wrong to take it?”
“No
, man. I w
ork
8 hours and I earn just $$70. If I can do that, I
do it too.”
As we approached
86, Lexington Street, I pointed to the Chemical
Bank.
“Hey, there’s another bank,” I
said, “Could you wait here a minute while I go
inside?”
“No,
I
can’t
wait.
Pay
me
now.”
H
is
reluctance
may
have
something
to
do
with
money
—
taxi
drivers
think the rate for
waiting time is too low, but I think he wanted me
to learn that even a bank robber
can’t
expect unconditional support.
1.
From the Ghanaian
driver’s response, we can infer
that
________.
A. he was not caring about
the killing
B. he was
frightened to hear what the writer said
C. he thought the writer was a criminal
D. he thought the writer
was crazy
2. Why did the Pakistani
driver refuse to give the writer a ride?
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A. He
didn’t want to help
the writer get over his career crisis.
B. He was in a hurry to go home and
relax.
C. The place was far away.
D. He thought the writer was going to
kill himself.
3.
What is the
author’s interpretation of the driver’s reluctance
“to wait
outside the Chemical
Bank”?
A. The
driver thought that the rate for waiting time was
too low.
B. The driver thought it wrong
to support a taxi rider unconditionally.
C. The driver was frightened and wanted
to leave him as soon as possible.
D.
The driver did not want to help a suspect to
escape from a bank robbery.
4. Which
of the following statements is true about New York
taxi drivers?
A. They are ready to help
you do whatever you want to.
B. They
refuse to pick up those who would kill themselves.
C. They are sympathetic with those who
are out of work.
D. They work only for
money.
5. The passage mainly discusses
___________________.
A. how
to please taxi riders
B.
how to deal with taxi riders
C. the attitudes of taxi drivers
towards riders in personal trouble
D. the attitudes of taxi drivers
towards the government
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the
following passage:
Is there enough oil
beneath the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge
(
保护区
) (ANWR) to help secure
America
’
s energy
future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has
argued that tapping ANWR
’
s
oil
would help ease
California
’
s electricity
crisis and provide a major boost to the
country
’
s energy
independence.
But no one
knows
for sure
how much
crude
oil lies
buried
beneath the
frozen earth, with
the
last
government
survey,
conducted
in
1998,
projecting
output
anywhere
from
3
billion
to
16
billion
barrels.
The oil industry
goes with the high end of the range, which could
equal as much as 10% of U. S.
consumption for as long as six years.
By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from
the reserve
for the next two to three
decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut
back on imports equivalent
to
all
shipments
to
the
U.
S.
from
Saudi
Arabia.
Sounds
good.
An
oil
boom
would
also
mean
a
multibillion-dollar
windfall
(
意外之财
)
in
tax
revenue,
royalties
(
开采权使用费
)
and
leasing
fees
for
Alaska and the Federal
Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling
say, damage to the environment
would be
insignificant.
“
We
’
ve
never had a documented case of an oil rig chasing
deer out onto the
pack
ice,
”
says Alaska State
Representative Scott Ogan.
Not so fast,
say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of
government estimates, the National
Resources
Defense
Council
says
there
may
be
no
more
than
3.2
billion
barrels
of
economically
recoverable
oil
in
the
coastal
plain
of
ANWR,
a
drop
in
the
bucket
that
would
do
virtually
nothing
to
ease
America
’
s
energy problems. And consumers would
wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because
drilling
could begin only after much
bargaining over leases, environmental permits and
regulatory review. As
for
ANWR
’
s
impact
on
the
California
power
crisis,
environmentalists
point
out
that
oil
is
responsible
for only 1% of
the Golden State
’
s
electricity output
—
and
just 3% of the nation
’
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6.
What does President Bush
think of tapping oil in ANWR?
A.
It will
increase America
’
s energy
consumption.
B.
It will exhaust the
nation
’
s oil reserves.
C.
It will help
reduce the nation
’
s oil
imports.
D.
It
will help secure the future of ANWR.
7.
We learn from the second paragraph that the
American oil industry ________.
A.
shows little interests in tapping oil
in ANWR
B.
expects to stop
oil imports from Saudi Arabia
C.
tends to exaggerate
America
’
s reliance on
foreign oil
D.
believes that
drilling for oil in ANWR will produce high yields
8.
Those against oil
drilling in ANWR argue that_______.
A.
it will drain the oil reserves in the
Alaskan region
B.
it can do
little to solve U. S. energy problems
C.
it can cause serious
damage to the environment
D.
it will not have much commercial value
9.
What do the
environmentalists mean by saying
“
Not so
fast
”
(Line 1, Para. 3)?
A.
Don
’
t be too
optimistic.
B.
Don
’
t expect fast
returns.
C.
The oil drilling
should be delayed.
D.
Oil
exploitation takes a long time.
10. It
can be learned from the passage that oil
exploitation beneath ANWR
’
s
frozen earth ________.
A.
involves a lot of technological
problems
B.
remains a
controversial issue
C.
is
expected to get under way soon
D.
will enable the U. S. to be oil
independent
Questions 11 to
15 are based on the following passage:
Although suicide rates around the world
are about three times higher for men than women,
evidence
is mounting that in developing
countries in Asia, suicide is far more common
among young women than
men.
In a study this week in The Lancet
medical journal, researchers give the first
picture of suicide
among
young
people
in
India.
In
a
region
near
Vellore
in
southern
India,
more
than
twice
as
many
young
women
aged
10
to
19
committed
suicide
as
men
in
the
same
age
group. The
study
found
the
average
suicide
rate
for
women
in
that
age
group
was
148
per
100,000,
compared
with
58
suicides
per
100,000
men. Globally,
the suicide rate for men is about 24
per 100,000, and about 6.8 per 100,000 for women.
Experts say the latest study was based
on too few suicides to be certain the observed
rates are
valid, but added that the
research shows suicide is vastly underreported in
the developing world.
One
of
the
major
differences
between
suicide
in
the
West
and
in
developing
countries
is
the
method.
It is known from studies in the West
that more women than men attempt suicide, but
fewer succeed.
Usually, women in
Western countries attempt suicide by slashing
their wrists or swallowing pills,
both
methods that are treatable. In rural India, the
methods are hanging, poisoning with lethal
insecticides that are banned in many
other parts of the world and setting oneself on
fire. All three
are difficult to
survive.
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Some of the pesticides, widely kept in
rural homes, kill within three hours. For women
trying to
kill themselves in the
countryside, where there is no transportation and
sometimes no roads, it is
often too
late by the time they reach a hospital.
There are a few theories why young
Asian women are committing suicide at such a high
rate.
“It
could
be
because
of
lack
of
education,
conflicts
surrounding
the
issue
of
arranged
marriages,
love
failures,
dowries
and
things
like
that,”
said
Dr.
Lakshmi
Vijayakumar,
who
runs
the
Sneha
Suicide
Prevention Center in
Chennai, in the Madras region of India.
Overall in India, male suicides start
to outnumber the women as they get older, said
Vijayakumar,
who was not involved with
the latest study.
Once
the
women
have
children,
they
become
emotionally
and
psychologically
stronger
and
the
suicide
rate goes down, she
said.
11. According to the latest
research, the
average
suicide rate around the world
is ______
that
of the
developing
countries concerning about the gender factor.
A.
similar to
B.
the same as
C.
irrelevant to
D.
different from
12.
Comparatively speaking, the suicide rate around
the world for men is ______ higher than it for
women.
A.
more
than twice
B.
more than
three times
C.
twice
D.
more than one time
13. E
xperts’ attitude toward
the latest study in Vellore in southern India is
_____
__.
A.
totally agreeable
B.
opposite
C.
critical
D.
extreme
14. In rural India,
women often attempt suicide by the following means
except _______.
A.
poisoning
with pesticides
B.
setting
oneself on fire
C.
swallowing pills
D.
hanging
15.
The
factors influencing the phenomenon that young
Asian women are committing suicide at such a
high rate DO NOT include ________.
A.
education
B.
emotion
C.
egoism
D.
marriage issues
Questions 16 to 20 are
based on the following passage:
Like
many other small boys, I was fascinated by cars,
not least because my oldest brother was a
bit
of
a
car
guy
and
subscribed
to
cool
magazines
like
Car and Driver and
Motor Trend
.
Every
so
often,
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one
of
those
magazines
would
run
an
article
on
the
“
Car
of
the
Future.
”
They
featured
unconventional
styling and
things like small nuclear reactors as power
sources. Yet, frankly, my car
doesn
’
t do
anything
that
my
brother
’
s
Studebaker
didn
’
t
do.
It
goes,
it
stops,
it
burns
gasoline,
it
plays
music.
I still have to steer it, and it still
runs into things if I don
’
t
steer it carefully.
But guess what?
All of these things are subjected to change in the
not-so-distant future. It will
still
go
and
stop,
but
it
may
not
burn
gasoline,
I
may
not
have
to
steer
it,
and
it
may
be
a
lot
better
at not running into things.
Airbags
aren
’
t
the
be-all
and
end-all
in
safety.
In
fact,
considering
the
recent
news
about
people
occasionally being
killed by their airbags in low-speed collisions
(
碰撞
), they obviously still
need
some development. But they
aren
’
t
going
away, and in fact,
you
can
expect to see cars appearing with
additional, side-impact airbags,
something some European car manufacturers already
offer.
Better
than
systems
to
minimize
injury
in
the
event
of
an
accident,
however,
are
systems
that
minimize
the likelihood
of an
accident
happening in the first place. Future
cars
may be
able
to eliminate many
of the
major causes of accidents, including drunk-
driving, tailgating and sleepiness. Cars could be
equipped with sensors that can detect
alcohol in a driver
’
s system
and prevent the car from being
started,
for example. Many accidents are caused by people
following the car in front too closely. As
early as next year,
you
’
ll be able to buy cars
with radar-equipped control systems. If the radar
determines you
’
re
closing too quickly with the car in front, it will
ease up on the throttle. For
city
streets, expect other radar devices that will give
advance warning that the car in front of you
has slowed abruptly and you should step
on the brakes
—
or that may
even brake for you.
Will
cars
eventually
be
able
to
drive
themselves?
There
’
s
no
reason
to
think
it
won
’
t
be
technically
possible, and Mercedes is working on a
system that can brake, accelerate and steer a
vehicle down a
highway
on
its
own.
Nobody
really
expects
people
to
give
up
all
control
to
their
cars,
but
such
systems
could be used as failsafe systems to
keep cars on the road and bring them safely to a
stop even if
the driver suddenly became
disabled.
author was fascinated by
cars because__________.
A.
other small boys liked to own a car of
their own, too
B.
he read
exotic things about cars in his
brother
’
s magazines
C.
his oldest brother loved
to take him to places in his car
D.
he subscribed to cool car magazines
saying
“
my
car
doesn
’
t
do
anything
that
my
brother
’
s
Studebaker
didn
’
t
do,
”
the
author
means
that________.
A.
my car is far better than my
brother
’
s was
B.
my car is not as good as my
brother
’
s was
C.
not much has changed in the performance
of cars so far
D.
much
improvement has been made in the design of cars
recently
of the following statements
is true of airbags?
A.
They
are in need of further improvement.
B.
They are going to disappear gradually.
C.
They kill people instead
of protecting them in low-speed collisions.
D.
They are a standard
feature of European cars.
will future
cars do if the sensors detect alcohol in the
driver
’
s system?
A.
They will give a warning
in advance.
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