北京师范大学网络教育———0492《大学英语三》阅读理解习题（13）
1. The writer may be a salesman.
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答案：B
2. He learned that there would be a concert last Friday over the radio.
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答案：B
3. He tried to go to the theatre every day but only managed to get thereone time.
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答案：B
4. He failed to get the ticket on Friday because the tickets had been soldout.
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答案：A
5. The underlined word "relieved" means "pleased".
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答案：A
45. My grandparents can be good fun. They are retired, so they don't workanymore. My grandfather is 68 and my grandmother is 67, but they are not tooold to be active. They exercise by playing golf and they go out for mealsand to the theater. Sometimes they take me out, too. We have a good time. Theyalso go on great holidays. Last year, they went to China and walked along theGreat Wall!
Sometimes, my grandparents like to criticize me. They think that childrentoday have an easy life. Life was very different when they were young and thereare many things about my life that they do not understand. They tell me, overand over, how they had to start work at 16. They know that I will go on touniversity and won't be getting a job until I am 22! They also think that Ihave too many possessions, such as mobile phones, computers and PSPs(掌上游戏机). When they were young, they did not have anything likethat. What they do not realize is that they cannot compare children at presenttime. They had the same kinds of things as the rest of people of their age, sodo I. It would be very strange if I only had the possessions that they had whenthey were my age.
1. My grandparents sometimes criticize me. One reason is that childrentoday have an easy life.
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答案：A
2. Grandparents don't work anymore because they are tired.
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答案：B
3. Grandparents had the same kinds of things as people of their age whenthey were young.
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答案：A
4. The sentence "but they are not too old to be active" meansthat they are old, so they are not active.
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答案：B
5. My grandparents don't understand many things about my life.
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答案：A
46. A young man who refused to give his name dived into the riveryesterday morning to save a twelve-year-old boy. The boy was in danger in theriver. He had been swimming in the river and caught his foot between twoconcrete posts under the bridge. He shouted out for help. At the time a youngman was riding across the bridge on his bicycle. He quickly got down and divedinto the river. He then freed the boy's foot and helped him to the river bankwhere a small crowd had collected. The boy thanked his rescuer sincerely, thenran off down the road. He was last seen climbing over a gate beforedisappearing over the top of the hill. The young man who was about 20 years ofage said, "I don't blame the boy for not giving his name. Why should he?If he wants to swim in the river, that's his business. And if I want to helphim, that's mine. You can not have my name either." He then ran back tothe bridge, got his bicycle and rode away.
1. The young man jumped into the river immediately when he saw the boy indanger.
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答案：A
2. The 12-year-old boy had his foot caught between two concrete posts inthe river.
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答案：A
3. The little boy thanked the young man after being rescued.
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答案：A
4. The young man heard "help" when he was running across thebridge.
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答案：B
5. The young man was about 24 years old.
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答案：B
47. Great changes have been made in family life because of science andindustry.
In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family hadmany children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived withgrandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industrybecame more important than agriculture in American life, families becamesmaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move offthe land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families can not bemoved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tendto have smaller families.
In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will berequired to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller.The typical family may remain childless and consists only of a man and a woman.A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. At thesame time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those familiesfree to move from job to job.
1. The passage discusses influence of science and industry on Americanfamilies.
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答案：A
2. Families of the past, the present and the future are described in thepassage.
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答案：A
3. People no longer want to have children.
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答案：B
4. Grandparents will take the chief responsibility of raising children inthe future.
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答案：B
5. Large families cannot fit in with a highly industrialized society.
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答案：A
48. Morgan Rees has always been a goodbusinessman. He used to own three petrol stations and was busy most of thetime. When he was 65, the normal retirement age, he decided that he didn't wantto stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when hewas nearly 68, his wife, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoytheir old age together. Reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son.
But he was unhappy. He didn't know what to dowith himself. Although he read a lot of books and he went on holiday tointeresting places with his wife, he was bored and began to get depressedbecause he hated being retired.
Then one day he saw an advertisement in thenewspaper and, without telling his wife, he bought a small crockery (陶器) factory. The next week he told his family.They were horrified and worried. They thought he was too old at 71 to startwork again.
He is now 76 and he has expanded the companyconsiderably. He has increased the number of staff from 6 to 24 and he hasfound many new customers for the products. He has developed the export marketand has improved profits by 200%. He has opened a new design office andemployed
