【渝粤题库】陕西师范大学200461英语阅读（一） 作业（高起专、高起本）

《阅读(一)》作业
I.Reading Comprehension　
Direction: There are 12 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C,D. You should decide on the best choice and write the answers on the answer sheet.
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. 
Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. In one second, light travels about 300,000km, but sound travels only 0.334km.You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke come from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.
This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light which you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km per minute. In some cases (在某种情况下), the light from one of tonight’s stars started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we cannot say, "The stars are shining tonight. "We have to say, “the stars look pretty, they were shining four years ago but their light has only just reached earth.”

1. Light speed is ____ than sound speed.
   A. millions times faster 　 B. a million times slower
   C. about millions of times faster　 D. about a million times faster
2. If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you’ll find out that _.
   A. you can hear the gun before you see the smoke
   B. sound does not travel as fast as light
   C. the sound of the gun will reach you before the man fires his gun
   D. sound travels about a million times faster than light
   3.Sunlight obviously ____ than the light of the moon.
   A. has to travel a greater distance B. moves less quickly
   C. travels much more quickly 　 D. is less powerful
   4.The scientific way of saying “the stars are shining tonight” should be .
   A. the stars have been shining all the time
   B. the stars seen tonight will be shining four years later
   C. the stars were shining long ago but are seen tonight
   D. the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago
   5.The light of the nearest star you see tonight has been ____ for years
   A. on the earth　　 B. on the moon　
   C. away from the sun　　 D. away from the star
   Passage 2
   Questions 6to 10 are based on the following passage. 
   Why the Doctor was Late
   One night about nine o’clock, Dr．Eyck, a surgeon, had a phone call from Dr．Haydon at the hospital in Clens Falls．The surgeon was asked to go there at once to operate on a very sick boy who shot himself while playing with a gun．
   The doctor was soon on his way to Clens Falls．It was 60 miles away．And it was snowing heavily in the city．The surgeon thought he could get there before 12 o’clock．
   A few minutes later, the doctor was stopped by a man in an old black coat．Gun in hand, the man ordered the doctor to get out．Then the man drove the car down the road, leaving he doctor in the falling snow．
   It was after two o’clock in the morning when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Clens Falls．Dr．Haydon told him that the boy had died an hour before．
   The two doctors walked by the door of the hospital waiting room．There sat the man in the old　black coat with his head in his hands．
   “Mr. Cunningham,” said Dr．Haydon to the man, “This is Dr．Eyck．He is a surgeon who came all the way from Albany to save your boy．”
   6．Dr ．Haydon asked Dr．Eyck to come to Clens Falls because _______ .
   A. he couldn’t find his father 　 B. the boy was not very serious
   C. the boy needed the help of a surgeon 　 D.Dr．Eyck knew the boy
   7．The surgeon was late because .
   A．the weather was terrible 　 B．he was stopped by the police
   C．Clens Falls was too far away 　 D．his car was taken away
   8．Choose the right order of the events given in the story _______ .
   a)．Dr．Eyck was asked to come to the hospital in Clens Falls
   b)．Dr．Eyck arrived at the hospital
   c)．The boy shot himself
   d)．The boy died
   e)．The man in an old black coat got to the hospital
   f)．Dr．Eyck was robbed of his car
   A．c,e,f,a,b,d B．a,c,f,d,b,e C．c,a,f,e,d,b D．a,c,e,f,d,b
   9．The boy could have been saved if _______ .
   A．he had not been sent to the hospital
   B．his father hadn’t arrived
   C．he hadn’t shot himself
   D．Dr. Eyck had arrived there two hours earlier
   10．The man who took the doctor’s car away was _______ .
   A.the boy’s father B.a policeman
   C.a stranger . D.an escaped prisoner
   Passage 3
   Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage. 
   Blameless
   I was a freshman in college when I met the Whites. They were completely different from my own family, yet I felt at home with them instantly. Jane White and I became friends at school, and her family welcomed me like a long-lost cousin.
   In my family, it was always important to place blame when anything bad happened. “Who did this?” my mother would yell about a mess in the kitchen.
   “This is all your fault, Katharine,” my father would insist when the cat got out or the dishwasher broke.
   From the time we were little, my sister, brothers and I told on each other. We set a place for blame at the dinner table.
   But the Whites didn’t worry about who had done what. They picked up the pieces and moved on with their lives. The beauty of this was driven home to me the summer that Jane died.
   Mr. and Mrs. White had six children: three sons and three daughters. One son had passed away in childhood, which may be why the surviving five children remained so close.
   In July, the White sisters and I decided to take a car trip from their home in Florida to New York. The two oldest, Sarah and Jane, were college students, and the youngest, Amy had recently turned sixteen. The proud possessor of a brand-new driver’s license (驾照)，Amy was excited about practicing her driving on the trip. She showed off her license to everyone she met.
   The big sisters shared the driving of Sarah’s new car during the first part of the trip, but when they reached less populated areas, they let Amy take over. Somewhere in South Carolina, we pulled off the highway to eat. After lunch, Amy got behind the wheel. She came to an intersection (道路交叉点) with a stop sign. Whether she was nervous or just didn’t see the sign no one will ever know, but Amy continued into the intersection without stopping. The driver of a large truck, unable to brake (刹车) in time, plowed into our vehicle. Jane was killed instantly.
   I survived the accident with only a few bruises (伤痕). The most difficult thing that I’ve ever done was to call the Whites to tell them about the accident and that Jane had died. As painful as it was for me to lose a good friend, I knew that it was far worse for them to lose a child.
   When Mr. and Mrs. White arrived at the hospital, they found their two surviving daughters sharing a room. Sarah’s head was wrapped in bandages; Amy’s leg was in a cast (石膏). They hugged us all and cried tears of sadness and of joy at seeing their daughters. They wiped away the girls’ tears and teased a few giggles (咯咯笑) out of Amy as she learned to use her crutches (双拐).
   To both of their daughters, and especially to Amy, over and over they simply said, “We’re so glad that you’re alive.”
   I was astonished. No blame. No accusations.
   Later, I asked the Whites why they never talked about the fact that Amy was driving and had run a stop sign.
   Mrs. White said, “Jane’s gone, and we miss her terribly. Nothing we say or do will bring her back. But Amy has her whole life ahead of her. How can she lead a full and happy life if she feels we blame her for her sister’s death?”
   They were right. Amy graduated from college and got married several years ago. She works as a teacher of learning-disabled students. She’s also a mother of two little girls of her own, the oldest named Jane.
3. The writer of the article is _________.
   A. Mrs. White’s niece B. The Whites’ cousin
   C. Sarah’s friend at college D. Jane’s friend at school
4. In what way did the writer find the White family completely different from her own?
   A. Her parents were not as good-natured and loving as the Whites.
   B. Hers were very strict parents while the Whites were too permissive.
   C. When something went wrong the Whites didn’t blame their children for it.
   D. When something bad happened, her parents wanted the children to learn a lesson.
5. How did the accident occur?
   A. Amy ran a stop sign at an intersection and a truck crashed violently into their car.
   B. Amy wanted to impress her sisters and was driving too fast to see a coming truck.
   C. Amy was too nervous to brake in time when she saw a truck running towards them.
   D. Amy was an inexperienced driver and didn’t know what to do when she saw the sign.
6. Mr. and Mrs. White did not blame Amy for Jane’s death because _________.
   A. Amy was badly injured herself and they didn’t want to add to her pain
   B. they didn’t want Amy to live with a guilty conscience the rest of her life
   C. Amy was their youngest daughter and they loved her best
   D. they didn’t want to blame their children before an outsider
7. From the passage we can conclude that _________.
   A. Amy has never recovered from the shock
   B. The accident didn’t change Amy in the least
   C. As her head was severely damaged, Amy didn’t feel any guilt
   D. Amy has lived quite a normal life, but she can never forget Jane
   Passage4
   Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. 
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