2013年在职MPA英语阅读理解强化练习及答案2
The kind of music, song, and dance a people generates, with its characteristic rhythm and beat, forms one of the best indexes of its cultural style, and in America, the dominant musical styles are blues, swing and jazz. The lyrics to this music are often foolishly sentimental and sometimes non-sensical, but frequently they embody a wild and earthy humor, or a sad and tragic strain. As distinguished from most American popular tunes, American hot music is not written to be danced to. Yet there is an internal beat in jazz which relates deeply to dance: the movements of the body interpret the music's intent better than words can. When there is dancing, however, the dances break away from a formal pattern and, at their bat, keep with the improvisation (即兴) of the music. Unlike earlier American folk dances, which are collective, so-called ballroom dancing is performed by couples. Each couple is comparatively alone, not being well enough acquainted with the other couples on the dance floor to join them. But, in the swing dancing, as the music mounts the partners separate to execute complicated solo variations and then rejoin each other. As the music approaches one of its climaxes, the dancers pay the musicians the tribute(赞美) of gathering around to cheer them on. In popular dance and music, Americans come closer to reaching a native idiom of religious feeling than they do in any other aspect of their lives.
1. The main idea of the passage is that _____.
[A] popular dance and music are an important aspect of American life
[B] the American hot music is different from most American popular tunes
[C] modern dancing is different from earlier American folk dances
[D] all of the above
2. The difference between American hot music and most American popular tunes is that _____.
[A] the lyrics to hot music are nonsensical
[B] most American popular tunes are written to be danced to
[C] there is not internal beat in hot music
[D] hot music can not be interpreted by dance
3. According to the passage,the swing dancing _____.
[A] collective
[B] performed by couples
[C] individual improvising
[D] gathering around the musician
4. Which is the relationship between jazz and dance?
[A] Both the music and the dance have formal pattern.
[B] The dances always keep the music to interpret it.
[C] Jazz has nothing to do with dance.
[D] Jazz can be interpreted by dance,though not so well as by words.
5. In the swing dancing,the musicians _____.
[A] cheer the dancers on
[B] gather around the dancers
[C] execute complicated variations
[D] were gathered around by the dancers
参考答案：A B C D B
In these days of technological triumphs, it is well to remind ourselves from time to time that living mechanisms are often incomparably more efficient than their artificial imitations. There is no better illustration of this idea than the sonar system of bats. Ounce for ounce and watt for watt, it is billions of times more efficient and more sensitive than the radars and sonars designed by man. Of course, the bats have had some 50 million years of evolution to refine their sonar. Their physiological mechanisms for echo location, based on all this accumulated experience, therefore merit our thorough study and analysis. To appreciate the precision of the bats' echo location, we must first consider The degree of their reliance upon it. Thanks to sonar, an insect-eating bat can get along perfectly well without eyesight. This was brilliantly demonstrated by an experiment performed in the late eighteenth century by the Italian naturalist Lazure Spallanzani. He caught some bats in a bell tower, blinded them, and released them outdoors. Four of these blind bats were recaptured after they had found their way back to the bell tower, and on examining their stomachs' contents, Spallanzani found that they had been able to capture and fill themselves with flying insects. We know from experiments that bats easily find insects in the dark of night, even when the insects emit no sound that can be heard by human ears. A bat will catch hundreds of soft-bodied, silent-flying moths in a single hour. It will even detect and chase pebbles tossed into the air.
1. The passage is mainly about _____.
[A] living mechanisms and their artificial imitations
[B] the remarkable sonar system of bats
[C] the deficiencies of man-made sonars
[D] the experiment of "blind-bats"
2. Where of the following statements is true?
[A] Living mechanisms are always more efficient than their artificial imitations.
[B] Bats rely on their sonar system as well as eyesight to eat insects.
[C] The sonar system of bats has had 50 million years to be refined.
[D] People have discovered the bats' sonar system thousands of years age.
3. Lazzoro Spallanzani demonstrated that a bat can get along well without eyesight through _____.
[A] He caught soem bats and blinded them and released them.
[B] Four of these blind bats found their way back.
[C] He recaptured the four returned bats.
[D] The stomachs' of the blind bats found to be fill with flying insects.
4. Bats find insects in the dark of night with the help of _____.
[A] echoes
[B] eyesight
[C] sound waves
[D] none ofthe above
5 Implied but not stated _____.
[A] Pebbles tossed into the air make no sound that can be heard by human ears
[B] A bat will catch hundreds of months in a single hour
[C] Insect-eating bats are totally blind
[D] The sonar system of bats is as good as man-made sonar
参考答案：B C D D A
It is plain that in the year 2000 everyone will have at his elbow several times more mechanical energy than he has today.
There will be advances in biological knowledge as far-reaching as those that have been made in physics. We are only beginning to learn that we can control our biological environment as well as our physical one. Starvation has been predicted twice to a growing world population: by Malthus in about 1800, by Crookes in about 1900. It was headed off the first time by taking agriculture to America and the second time by using the new fertilizers. In the year 2000, starvation will be headed off by the control of the diseases and the heredity(遗传) of plants and animals—by shaping our own biological environment.
Now I come back to the haunting theme of automation. The most common species in the factory today is the man who works or minds a simple machine—the operator. By the year 2000, the repetitive tasks of industry will be taken over by the machines, as the heavy tasks were taken over long ago; and the mental tedium will go the way of physical exhaustion. Today we still distinguish, even among repetitive jobs, between the skilled and the unskilled; but in the year 2000 all repetition will be unskilled. We simply waste our time if we oppose this change; it is as inevitable as the year 2000 itself.
1. The article was written to _____.
[A] warn us of the impending starvation
[B] present facts about life in the near future
[C] oppose biological advances
[D] warn of the evil side of automation
2. Advances in biological knowledge were _____.
[A] kept pace with advances in physics
[B] been responsible for the invention of new machines
[C] surpassed those in physics
[D] lagged behind those in physics
3. According to the passage,starvation _____.
[A] can be predicted
[B] is unavoidable
[C] can be prevented
[D] is mainly caused by poor agriculture
4. Repetitive tasks in industry lead to _____.
[A] physical exhaustion
[B] mental stimulation
[C] mental exhaustion
[D] extinction
5. If the predictions of this writer are realized,the demand for the unskilled workers in the twenty-first century will be _____.
[A] very high
[B] very low
[C] the same as today
[D] constantly rising
参考答案：B D C C B
What are the specific traits that will assist executives to climb the ladder of success? Opinions vary widely. Given approximately equal qualifications and circumstances, some claim the success factor is largely a matter of luck — being in the right place at the right time. Others speak of an almost crazy devotion to work, combined with a degree of ruthlessness. One "expert" maintains that it's undoubtedly a matter of how much education your mother had.
To make it big, executives must possess four basic skills:
First, drive. Business success takes an unusual amount of energy. A successful executive—almost by definition—is a striver. He will get tense when he is not striving.
Second, people sense. Some say being able to judge people is more important than a high IQ. The skill can be instinctual(本能的), but in most cases it is painstakingly learned.
Third, communications ability. Different executives make themselves understood in different ways. Some transmit ideas best face to face; others are masters of the telephone call; still others are persuasive writers. One way or another, they all communicate clearly.
Fourth, calm under pressure. No businessman will get very far if he chokes up.
1. Some people claim that besides hard work,the success also requires _____.
[A] equal qualifications
[B] specific traits
[C] much education
[D] a degree of cruelty
2. According to the passage,a high IQ is _____.
[A] instinctual
[B] painstakingly learnt
[C] inborn
[D] more trivial than people sense
3. The successful executives must _____.
[A] transmit ideas face to face
[B] depend on telephones
[C] be persuasive writers
[D] express themselves distinctly
4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
[A] Every businessman possesses these four skills.
[B] When a triver stops his devotion to work,he will feel quite at ease.
[C] These basic skills are not instinctual at all.
[D] Mother's education has undoubted effect on her child's success.
5. What's the main idea of the passage?
[A] Four skills for successful executives.
[B] Some opinions about the success.
[C] Specific traits for successful executives.
[D] Qualifications and circumstances for climbing the ladder.
参考答案：D D D D C
Cigarette smoking is believed by most research workers in this field to be an important factor in the development of cancer of the lungs and the throat and is believed to be related to cancer of the bladder(膀胱) and the oral cavity(口腔). Male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than non-smoking males.
Female smokers are thought to be less affected be cause they do not breathe in the smoke so deeply. The majority of physicians and researchers consider these relationships proved to their satisfaction and say. "Give up smoking. If you don't smoke, don't start". Some competent physicians and research workers - though their small number is dwindling(减小) even further-are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking on health. They consider the increase in respiratory (呼吸的) diseases and various forms of cancer may possibly be explained by other factors in the complex human environment - atmospheric pollution, increased nervous stress, chemical substances in processed food, or Chemical pesticides that are now being used by farmers in vast Quantities to destroy insects and small animals. Smokers who develop cancer or lung diseases, they say, may also, by coincidence, live in industrial areas, or eat more canned food. Gradually, however, research is isolating all other possible factors and proving them to be statistically irrelevant. While all tobacco smoking affects life expectancy and health, cigarette smoking appears to have a much greater effect than cigar or pipe smoking. However, nicotine(尼古丁)consumption is not diminished by the latter forms, and current research Indicates relationship between all forms of smoking and cancer of the mouth and throat. Filters and low tar(焦油) tobacco are claimed to made smoking to some extent safer, but they can only marginally reduce ,not eliminate, the hazards.
1. Male smoking are more affected by smoking than female ones because _____.
[A] Male smokers smoke more than female ones
[B] Male smokers are more likely to be affected by smoking
[C] Male smokers breath in the smoke deeper than female ones
[D] Male smokers are more likely to be affected by other factors in hormone environment
2. According to the passage,cigarette can do harm to all the following EXCEPT _____.
[A] lung
[B] mouth
[C] heart
[D] eye
3. The author's attitude towards smoking is _____.
[A] critical
[B] approving
[C] questioning
[D] subjective
4. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
[A] More and more research work believe the effect of cigarette smoking on health.
[B] Filters and low tar tobacco can not get rid of the hazard.
[C] Cigarette smiking has a greater effect on health than.
[D] All forms of tobacco smoking affects life expectancy and health.
5. The authors purpose of writing the passage is to _____.
[A] offer advice on how to give up smoking
[B] explain the influence of cigarette smoking on health
[C] list the factors that can cause cancer
[D] compare the opinions on the effect of smoking
参考答案：C D A C B
Representatives of Callahan Media Associates (CM [A] announced today that the news agency would attempt to buy the National Broadcasting System (NBS), the second largest television and radio network in the United States. Ronald Callahan, son of Jessica Callahan, who started CMA, told reporters that he expects his company's offering price to be high enough to win out over other offers. He indicated that NBS executives had already discussed reorganization plans that might result from a CMA takeover.
A native of the United Kingdom, Jessica Callahan began to buy newspapers, magazines, and radio stations in the United States eight years ago, and CMA now owns or controls more than fifteen news organizations here. Before she became a leader in media in this country, she had established her family-owned company as one of the most important forces in British TV and newspapers. Callahan started her news career more than twenty-five years ago, and she had worked as a reporter on three different papers when she took the job of editor of England's Birmingham Herald(伯明汉先驱报), a newspaper that had been experiencing financial difficulties for several years. Her success in raising the news reporting standards as well as making the Herald into a profitable business gained Callahan the attention and respect of the British news establishment. By the time she was 35, she had become a publisher and started CMA, which is now one of the largest media organizations in the world.
Callahan had never visited the United States before she came to Miami and became the publisher of the Miami Journal almost eight years ago, but she had been reading the newspaper for several years, and she said that she liked the paper's style. After she had owned the Journal for just over a year, she bought a small radio station in Georgia, and in the next five years she went on to acquire news organizations in several different parts of the country.
If CMA becomes the owner of NBS, for the first time it will have control over a nationwide TV network. In an interview last week, Philip Rosen, the president of NBS, said that he was not very happy about the purchase. He agreed that Callahan and CMA had done a lot to help American newspapers become more financially secure, but he expressed fears that the new management was going to make news coverage on NBS irresponsible. He stated that he hoped he could remain with NBS but said that this might not be possible.
1.The writer thins that CMA's offer to buy the National Broadcasting System is probably _____.
[A] the only one
[B] a good one
[C] unacceptably low
[D] of great competition
2. Jessica Callahan captured the confidence of the press after she became the editor of Birmingham Herald because _____.
[A] she was experienced
[B] she had strong financial background
[C] since then it started to make money
[D] she enjoyed good popularity
3. Jessica Callahan has never _____.
[A] visited the United States
[B] owned a national TV network
[C] worked as an editor
[D] read the Miami Journal
4. The attitude of NBS top executive to the CMA takeover was that _____.
[A] he was opposed to the purchase
[B] he hoped the takeover would bot affect the system's fame
[C] he was afraid NBS would suffer serious financial loss
[D] he could not leave his present position
5. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
[A] Jessica Callahan---a Successful Woman
[B] CMA---from British to USA
[C] CMA Buying NBS?
[D] CMA's Attractive Offer to NBS
参考答案：D C C B B
Cigarette smoking is believed by most research workers in this field to be an important factor in the development of cancer of the lungs and the throat and is believed to be related to cancer of the bladder(膀胱) and the oral cavity(口腔). Male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than non-smoking males.
Female smokers are thought to be less affected be cause they do not breathe in the smoke so deeply. The majority of physicians and researchers consider these relationships proved to their satisfaction and say. "Give up smoking. If you don't smoke, don't start". Some competent physicians and research workers - though their small number is dwindling(减小) even further-are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking on health. They consider the increase in respiratory (呼吸的) diseases and various forms of cancer may possibly be explained by other factors in the complex human environment - atmospheric pollution, increased nervous stress, chemical substances in processed food, or Chemical pesticides that are now being used by farmers in vast Quantities to destroy insects and small animals. Smokers who develop cancer or lung diseases, they say, may also, by coincidence, live in industrial areas, or eat more canned food. Gradually, however, research is isolating all other possible factors and proving them to be statistically irrelevant. While all tobacco smoking affects life expectancy and health, cigarette smoking appears to have a much greater effect than cigar or pipe smoking. However, nicotine(尼古丁)consumption is not diminished by the latter forms, and current research Indicates relationship between all forms of smoking and cancer of the mouth and throat. Filters and low tar(焦油) tobacco are claimed to made smoking to some extent safer, but they can only marginally reduce ,not eliminate, the hazards.
1. Male smoking are more affected by smoking than female ones because _____.
[A] Male smokers smoke more than female ones
[B] Male smokers are more likely to be affected by smoking
[C] Male smokers breath in the smoke deeper than female ones
[D] Male smokers are more likely to be affected by other factors in hormone environment
2. According to the passage,cigarette can do harm to all the following EXCEPT _____.
[A] lung
[B] mouth
[C] heart
[D] eye
3. The author's attitude towards smoking is _____.
[A] critical
[B] approving
[C] questioning
[D] subjective
4. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
[A] More and more research work believe the effect of cigarette smoking on health.
[B] Filters and low tar tobacco can not get rid of the hazard.
[C] Cigarette smiking has a greater effect on health than.
[D] All forms of tobacco smoking affects life expectancy and health.
5. The authors purpose of writing the passage is to _____.
[A] offer advice on how to give up smoking
[B] explain the influence of cigarette smoking on health
[C] list the factors that can cause cancer
[D] compare the opinions on the effect of smoking
参考答案：C D A C B
The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks has been praised for deepening the significance of personal and social experiences so that these experiences become universal in their implication. She has also been praised for her "sense of form, which is basic and remarkable." Many of her poems are concerned with a Black community named Bronzeville, on the south side of Chicago. Her literary skill makes Bronzeville more than just a place on a map. This community, like all important literary places (Robinson's Tibury Town and Masters' Spoon River, for example), becomes a testing ground of personality, a place where the raw material of experience is shaped by imagination and where the joys and trials of being human are both sung and judged. The qualities for which Brooks's poetry is led are (as one critic has pointed out) "boldness, invention, a daring to experiment, and a naturalness that does not scorn literature but absorbs it."
Her love for poetry began early. At the age of seven. she "began to put rhymes together," and when she was thirteen, one of her poems was published in a children's magazine. During her teens she contributed more than seventy-five poems to a Chicago newspaper. In 1941 she began to attend a class in writing poetry at the South Side Community Art Center, and several years later, her poems began to appear in Poetry and other magazines. He first collection of poems, A Street in Bronzeville, was published in 1945. Four years later, Annie Allen, her second collection of poems, appeared. In 1950 Annie Allen was awarded a Pulitzer prize for poetry. A novel, Maud Martha, about a young black girl growing up in Chicago, published in 1953, was praised for its warmth and insights. In 1963 her selected Poems appeared.
1. The main subject of the passage is Gwendolyn Brooks's _____.
[A] personal background
[B] hometown
[C] literary achievements
[D] childhood
2. Why does the author mention Tibury Town and Spoon River?
[A] To give credit to tow great writers.
[B] To provide examples of important literary places.
[C] To suggest similarities between Brooks's style and that of other writers.
[D] To encourage the reader to read Robinson and Masters.
3. The author uses quotations in the first paragraph primarily to _____.
[A] help emphasize the significance of Brooks's poetry
[B] introduce biographical information about Brooks
[C] present opposing points of view about Brooks's work
[D] state little-known facts about Brooks's novel
4. According to the passage, Brooks's poetry was first published when she was _____.
[A] seven years old
[B] attending a class in writing
[C] in her teens
[D] an established novelist
5. Her novel was praised because _____.
[A] she wrote something about the Black people
[B] she had a good personality
[C] her works were shaped by imagination
[D] she had promoted social and personal experiences
参考答案：C B A C D