大学英语C阅读理解

黄老师

大学英语C阅读理解C
1、    There are more than 6,000 million people on the earth and about 2,500 languages. Of these languages only about twelve are used by more than 50 million people. Here are the names of some languages which have very wide use: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese etc. All these languages have more people speaking them today than ever before. A hundred and fifty years ago there were only about twenty million people who talked English, for example. Now there are at least two hundred and fifty million, and there may be many, many more.
1）、There are about 50 million languages in the world.
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2）、German is widely spoken in the world.
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3）、150 years ago, only about 2,000,000 people spoke English.
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4）、English language has the most speakers.
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5）、We know that now there are many more people speaking English than before.
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2、       Americans usually eat three meals a day.  Breakfast often comes before eight o'clock in the morning. Usually they have eggs, some meat, bread, fruit juice and coffee. Lunch is between twelve and one o'clock. It is like a light meal and working people must take lunch with them or get it near their working place. Children in school take sandwiches, fruit and cakes with them or have lunch in school. Supper, the main meal, is between six and eight in the evening. People cook it carefully. They may have meat, chicken, fish, or beef. They may also have potatoes or rice, vegetables or salad. The drink is coffee, tea or milk. Then comes the dessert. For example, something like ice cream.
1）、Americans have breakfast before eight o'clock.
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2）、Lunch is the most important meal in a day.
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3）、The word “light” in this story means useful.
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4）、Students have lunch in school.
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5）、Milk comes last in supper.
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3、    Most people get the weather information from radio and television reports. They wear clothes according to the weather report. The radio and television stations usually get the reports from weather experts (专家). But one radio station in America gets the weather reports from an unusual kind of weather expert called Sundy. In fact Sundy is a dog，and he can only tell whether there will be rain or not. Every morning，his owner tells the radio announcer (广播员) Sundy's weather report. Then the announcer tells his listeners.
    How does Sundy tell his owner? If he stays at home in the morning，it will rain. If he goes outside, it will not rain. Sundy's reports are often more correct than those weather experts'. He is a good weather dog in summer.
    Many people like to listen to the weather report that the dog's owner told. The dog is also a star.

1）、Sundy is an animal.
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2）、Most people know the weather information from weather experts.
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3）、If Sundy doesn't go outside，it means it will be cold.
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4）、Sundy's owner works for a television station.
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5）、Sundy is unusual because he is very helpful.
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4、The lunar (阴历的) New Year always starts between January the twenty-first and February the twentieth.
Before New Year’s Day, people do a good cleaning to their houses.  On the last day of the old year, there is a family dinner. All members of the family except married daughters try to come for their meal. After the dinner, they stay late to welcome the New Year.
The New Year Celebration keeps on for a few days. On the morning of the first day, children and unmarried people go to visit their elders. After that, people pay New Year calls to each other and give each other gifts.
During the festival all the main streets are full of people, and if you can get onto a bus without having to fight your way in, you’re really lucky!
1）、As we know, January 1 is ____.
A.the lunar New Year Day   
B.not a holiday
C.the Spring Festival
D.New Year’s Day

2）、What day is the lunar New Year’s Eve?
A.Between December 1 of the old year and January 1 of the New Year.
B.Before January 19.
C.Between January the 21st and February the 19th.
D.After February the twentieth.

3）、People do their houses a good cleaning during the last few days of the old year ____.
A.to welcome family members
B.to welcome the New Year
C.to say goodbye to the old year
D.to welcome married daughter and their husbands

4）、It’s the custom ______.
A.to stay up to welcome the New Year on the lunar New Year’s Eve
B.to stay up late to welcome the New Year on New Year’s Day
C.not to go to bed on December the thirtieth
D.not to go to bed on the lunar New Year’s Day

5）、In this passage the writer tells us how people celebrate _____.
A.the New Year
B.the last day of the old year
C.the lunar New Year
D.New Year’s Day

5、Jane's mother was about seventy, and Jane and her husband wanted to give the old lady a nice present for her birthday. She liked taking tea, so Jane bought a small electric machine（电器）. It could make tea and then wake you up in the morning. She brought it to her mother on her birthday, and showed her how to use it.
"Before you go to bed, put tea and water in it," she explained to her mother, "and don't forget to turn the electricity on. When you wake up in the morning, your tea will be ready."
   After a few days , the old lady telephoned her daughter and said,"Jane, there is one thing I don't understand. Why do I have to go to bed to make tea? Can't I have tea in the afternoon or in the evening?"




1）、On her birthday Jane's mother got a machine to make tea for her.

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2）、Jane told her husband how to use the machine.
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3）、Her mother told Jane she didn't know when to use the machine.

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4）、The machine can be used only in the morning.

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5）、We must have electricity（电力）to use an electric machine.

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6、Two sailors（水兵）who had just finished a long voyage（航行）went home to their village and decided to have a few drinks in the bar there. When they had had enough, they came out into the street to look for something amusing（有趣的）to do, but it was a very quiet place, and nothing interesting ever happened there, so they could not find anything.
But at last, while they were standing in the market-place outside the bar, they saw a village boy coming slowly towards them. He was leading a donkey by a rope, so the sailors decided that they would have a joke with the boy, "Why does your brother have to have a rope round his neck when he goes for a walk with you?"
     "To stop him from joining the navy（海军）," the boy answered at once.




1）、The two sailors came from the same village.

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2）、The bar they went was on a ship.


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3）、The village boy was drinking in the bar.


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4）、The sailors spoke to the boy because they wanted to make fun of him.


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5）、The boy's answer might make the two sailors quite unhappy.


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7、Mr. Jackson worked in a hospital. A lot of patients went to see him and he was very busy and had little time to have a rest in the day. One night, when he looked over the last patient, it was five to one. He was too tired to say a word and went to bed at once. When he fell asleep, a farmer began to knock at the door and got him up.
“My wife is ill,” shouted the farmer. “Please go and look her over.” Mr. Jackson had to go out with the farmer. It was the coldest night of the year and there was snow and ice on the road. The farmer lived far away from the city and they went through a forest, crossed two rivers and a mountain. After three hours, they got to the short, small house. And they were tired, cold and hungry.
The woman stayed in bed. She looked fine. Mr. Jackson looked her over carefully and found there was nothing serious with her. He became angry. He called the farmer out and said, “Your wife is strong and healthy, you know. Why did you ask me to come here late at night?” “I’m sorry, sir,” said the farmer. “My wife never does anything at home. I thought she was ill. We’re poor. In the day, when you are busy, I can’t go for you. If you come at night when you’re free, we’ll give you nothing.”
1）、It was _____ for Mr. Jackson to get to the farmer’s house.
A.difficult     
B.easy
C.fun
D.happy

2）、When Mr. Jackson and the farmer got to the house, it was _____.
A.five to one
B.two
C.three
D.about four

3）、Mr. Jackson was angry with _____.
A.the farmer
B.the woman
C.the weather
D.himself

4）、_____, so he fell asleep soon.
A.It was time to go to bed for Mr. Jackson
B.Mr. Jackson was very tired that night
C.Mr. Jackson felt unhappy that night
D.Mr. Jackson was angry that night

5）、The farmer went for Mr. Jackson very late at night because _____.
A.he wanted to play a joke on him
B.he was busy in the day
C.his wife was going to die
D.he wanted to save some money

8、Years ago, zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages. Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.
Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals’ habitats.
Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals’ wild habitats.
Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related with Asia elephants, are now extinct. There are no mammoths in the world today. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!
Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.
1）、Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can _____.
A.protect them
B.see them better   
C.feed them   
D.save them   

2）、Today, zoos keep animals _____.
A.in bigger cages   
B.at home   
C.in smaller cages   
D.in the forest   

3）、To protect animals, zoos _____.
A.are trying to keep all kinds of animals
B.are trying to free the animals
C.teach people more about animals
D.want people to feed the animals

4）、A mammoth is a kind of _____ that has gone extinct.
A.plant
B.bird
C.animal
D.tree

5）、An animal or a plant that is going extinct _____.
A.has more and more living members
B.comes into this world soon
C.becomes very dangerous
D.has fewer and fewer living members   

9、    Paul got on the bus to go to the town. It was very crowded, and he had to stand for about five minutes. Then some of the passengers got off. Paul sat down next to a fat lady. She had several shopping bags, and Paul didn't have much room on the seat. At last the bus got to the town. All the passengers started to get off. Paul was very polite, so he stood up to let the fat lady get off before him. She said, “Thank you.” Then she tried to get out of the seat with all her bags. But she couldn't move. She was stuck!
    Paul had to push the lady. The conductor pulled her. Finally they got her free but she wasn't pleased. “I'll write to the bus company,” she said. “I'll tell them not to make buses with such small seats.”
1）、The lady couldn't get out of the seat because the bus was very crowded.
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2）、Paul got a seat on the bus after five minutes.
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3）、Paul was very polite because he didn't take the seat and was always standing.
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4）、"... and Paul didn't have much room on the seat." The word "room" here means space.
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5）、“She was stuck!” in the story means she wasn't able to move or to get out.
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