北京师范大学网络教育———0492《大学英语三》阅读理解习题（38）

答案：A

4. One hundredyears had passed when Athens again held the Olympic Games.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

5. The spirit ofthe Olympic Games is peace, friendship and development.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

133. Nowsatellites are helping to forecast the weather. They are in space, and they canreach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere,because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to theweather stations. So meteorologists（气象学家）can see the weather of any part of the world. From thepictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.

Today, nearly five hundred weather stationsin sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures,the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find thatthe clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that theweather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, themeteorologists can say this.

So the weather satellites are a greathelp to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientistscould forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make goodforecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecastthe weather for a week or more ahead.

1. Satellitestravel above space.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

2. We use theweather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere because the weather formsthere.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

3.Meteorologists forecast the weather after they have compared new satellitepictures with earlier ones.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

4. Maybe we'llsoon be able to forecast the weather for five days.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

5. The main ideaof this passage is that satellites are now used in weather forecasting.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

134. Uncle Liand Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farmsare both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neitherof them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Mostvillagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and brokenhouses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy somemedicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city wereexpensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided tocarry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends andbought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to thecity on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried therewhen they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price. Theyfelt unhappy and returned to their village.

"I can't understand why wesustained (蒙受) losses inbusiness while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

"The tractor was too small "Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck nexttime!"

"I agree!" said Uncle Li."How foolish we were !"

1. Uncle Li andUncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because their farms are at thefoot of the mountain.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

2. The twofarmers carried the apples to the city to make a profit.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

3. The twofarmers had to sell their apples at a low price because a lot of apples hadbeen already carried to the city.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

4. Uncle Li andUncle Wang were unhappy because they lost again in business in the city.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

5. The twofarmers found out why they were poor.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

135. Swee Linhas an interesting hobby. She collects stamps. She spends a lot of time on herstamp collection after school hours. She has collected hundreds of stamps fromall over the world. They are all in color.

Swee Lin likesstamps with pictures of animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns thenames of many animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birdsfrom her school library. She learns many things about them.

Sometimes Swee Lin has many stamps ofthe same kind. She gives them to her friends. They then give her other stampsin return.

Swee Lin writes to friends in manycountries. She sends them stamps of her country. In return, they send herstamps of their countries. Swee Lin's father also gives her stamps. He bringsthem home from his office for her.

Many of Swee Lin's friends collect otherthings. Some collect coins and others collect matchboxes. But, all of them saythat Swee Lin's collection is the most interesting of all.

1. Swee spends alot of time on her hobby during school hours.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

2. Many of herstamps are in color.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

3. She learns alot about animals and birds from her stamps.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

4. SometimesSwee Lin has many stamps of the same kind. She then sells them to her friends.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

5. Hobby means doingthings one likes.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

136. AgnesMiller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's liberation movement inthe United States. She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892. She had a veryhappy life as a child. She was the only daughter and the youngest child offive. Her parents and her brothers always treated her as their favorite.

In 1896 the family moved to Chicago.Three years later they moved back to St. Louis where Agnes spent the rest ofher childhood. She enjoyed her years in school and was a very good student ofmathematics. She was also quite good as a painter.

It was when Agnes went off to collegethat she first learned that women were not treated as equals. She didn't likebeing treated unequally but she tried not to notice it. After graduating fromcollege she tried to get a job in her major field, physics. She soon found itwas almost impossible for a woman.

Agnes spent a full year looking for ajob. Finally she gave up in anger. She began writing letters to variousnewspapers. An editor in New York liked her ideas very much. He specially likedher style. He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties thatwomen had in finding a job. And there she began her great fight for equalrights for women.

1. Agnes parentstreated her as their favorite, which made her brothers sad.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A    此题答案应该是B

2. The Millersmoved back to Chicago in 1896.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

3. Agnes studiedmathematics when she was in college.

A. T                 B. F

答案：B

4. Agnes firstcame to realize that women were treated unequally when she started her collegelife.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

5. An editor inNew York liked both the ideas in her letters and her writing style.

A. T                 B. F

答案：A

137. Researchershave discovered a link between drinking and thinking. A moderate amount ofalcohol may help us keep our mental abilities as we age. Brain scans show alcoholabuse(酗酒) kills braincell. But little is known about the effects of life-long drinking. So moderatedrinkers may want to toast new findings from researchers at Duke, and IndianaUniversities. Dr. Joe Christian of Indiana Universities says men who have oneor two drinks each day retain slightly stronger comprehension skills than thenon-drinker or the heavy drinker. The doctor and his colleagues gave mentaltests to nearly 4000 male twins between the ages of 66 and 76. The moderatedrinkers had slightly better reasoning ability than his brothers who drink moreor less did. Other studies have found that alcohol in moderation can help theheart. But alcohol abuse can cause bone loss and other health problems. Thisstudy was presented at an alcoholism meeting in San Antonio.