英美报刊选读期末考试题

I.

Read the following short passages and choose the best answer.

(20 % )

Passage

1

GENEVA-A

38-year-old

Spanish

man

briefly

hijacked

抢劫

a

French

airliner

on

Majorca

Sunday

and

threatened

to

blow

it

up

to

protest

抗议

France's

plans

to

resume

nuclear

testing,

then

surrendered in

投降放弃

Geneva without a struggle after releasing 298 passengers and crew. An

official at Geneva's Cointrin Airport described the man as unbalanced.

a

．

A Spanish man hijacked a French airline to protest France's nuclear testing.

b. A Spanish man who had threatened to blow up a French airline surrendered in Geneva.

c. A Spanish man who had hijacked a French airline surrendered in Geneva.

Passage 2

TOKYO-When

Compaq

Computers

康帕电脑

and

Dell

Computer

invaded

进入

the

Japanese

market three years age with personal computers selling for half the price of the local varieties

当

地品种

,

rival

竞争对手

Japanese

companies

braced

for

trouble

准备应付动乱

.

But

instead

of

killing the Japanese personal computer industry, the American onslaught

猛攻

liberated

放纵

it.

Proceed

by

what

is

known

as

the

“Compaq

Shock

康帕冲击

,”

Japanese

manufacturers

have

become fiercer competitors, cutting their prices drastically. The result has been a boom in sales

that is benefiting the Japanese manufacturers as much as the Americans.

a. American and Japanese computer companies compete to win the Japanese market.

b. “Compaq Shock,” has benefited Japanese market.

c.

Fierce

competition

between

American

and

Japanese

computer

companies

has

helped

the

computer sales boom in Japan.

Passage

3

PARIS-A bomb

炸弹

exploded at a crowded street market in Paris near the Place de la Bastille

Sunday morning, leaving four people slightly hurt. The police said that the bomb, packed into a

pressure

cooker

and

hidden

in

a

bag

under

a

vegetable

stand,

did

not

cause

greater

damage

because of a malfunction.

功能失常

But the incident clearly left a deep impact on Government

officials

who

are

facing

what

they

believe

to

be

a

campaign

of

terrorism

directed

by

Islamic

militants

from

Algeria.

Police

did

not

immediately

link

the

bomb

to

three

devices

planted

in

recent weeks, which killed seven and wounded scores of others in Paris.

a

．

A bomb blast at a Paris market hurt four people.

b. four people were injured in a crowded street market in Paris..

c. Terrorists planted in bomb in Paris that wounded

Passage

4

UNITED NATIONS-The United Nations has run out of money to pay its regular operating expenses

and

is

being

forced

to

borrow

from

peacekeeping

funds,

which

are

also

strained,

an

American

accounting expert in charge of financial management here told a General Assembly committee

Tuesday.

a. UN is short of cash.

b. UN is borrowing from peacekeeping funds.

c. UN cannot pay regular operating expenses.

Passage

5

Eight

people

were

killed

as

forest

fires

ripped

through

eastern

Spain

on

Monday,

destroying

thousands hectares of land and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials said.

a

．

Forest fires destroyed land and killed 8 people.

b. Hundreds of people were forced to leave their land because of forest fires.

c. Eight people died in for fires that hit eastern Spain.

II.

Read the following news and choose the best answer. ( 60% )

Passage 1

Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to

get

rid

of

it.

But

the

designers

of

the

Johnstown

campus

of

the

University

of

Pittsburgh

set

themselves the opposite problem

–

how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection

system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs

电灯

and

refrigerators

冰箱

as

well.

The

system

works

so

well

that

no

fuel

is

needed

to

make

the

campus's six buildings comfortable.

Some

parts

of

most

modern

buildings

–

theaters

and offices

as

well

as

classrooms

–

are

more

than

sufficiently

heated

by

people

and

lights

and

sometimes

must

be

air-conditioned

even

in

winter . The technique of saving heat and redistributing it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern

buildings recover heat, but the University's system is the first to recover heat from buildings and

reuse it in others.

Along the way, Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student

studies,

the

more

heat

his

body

gives

off.

Male

students

send

out

more

heat

than

female

students, and the larger a student is, the more heat he produces . It is tempting to conclude that

the

hottest

prospect

for

the

Johnstown

campus

would

be

a

hard-working

overweight

male

genius.

1. What is characteristic of the buildings on Johnstown campus of the University of Pittsburgh?

B

A. They are more comfortable to live in than other buildings.

B. They collect body heat to regulate the temperature inside.

C. They use light bulbs to heat the classrooms.

D. They consume less fuel to keep the classrooms cool.

2. According to the passage, the technique of heat recovery is used __D______.

A. to provide a special form of air- conditioning

B. to provide heat for the hot water system

C. to find out the source of heat

D. to collect heat and reuse it

3. The phrase “the hottest prospect” in this passage refers to __

C______.

A. the person who suffers most from heat

B. the person who needs more heat than others

C. the person who gives off most heat

D. the person who make better use of body heat

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true according the passage?C

A. The harder a student works, the more heat he or she produces.

B. The bigger a student is, the more heat he or she sends out.

C. A girl student sends out more heat than a boy student.