25、    We continue our program for students in other countries who want to study in the United States. Last week, we talked about the University of Southern California. Students at U.S.C. get to experience life in America's second-largest city, Los Angeles, on the West Coast. This week, we discuss another school with a large number of foreign students. It is all the way across the country, in New York City.

    New York University has forty-eight thousand students. More than four thousand of them are from outside the United States.

    NYU offers many different programs of study. Also, students get to experience life in America's largest city. In fact, Gail Szenes tells us that NYU is the coolest school in the United States. Her opinion may have something to do with her job: she is director of the International Student Office at NYU.

 

(1)、The largest city in the United States is ________.

A：Los Angeles

B：New York City

C：West Coast

D：California

答案：B

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(2)、The word "coolest" in the third paragraph probably means ________.

A：coldest

B：worst

C：best

D：biggest

答案：C

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(3)、NYU is short for _______.

A：the University of Southern California

B：New York University

C：International Student Office

D：the United States

答案：B

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(4)、About _________ of the students in New York University are from other countries.

A：15%

B：20%

C：2%

D：9%

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(5)、This passage is mostly about _________ in the United States.

A：student numbers

B：school life

C：two universities

D：foreign students

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

26、    To me, music is food and water. I can't live without it. I know this is not true for everybody. Many people don't listen to music and they can get along quite well. But music is everywhere in our life. For example, when you watch films or TV plays, do you find them interesting if there is no music? You would find them boring. And when you are waiting for the train or the plane, you would like music because it makes the time seem shorter.

    It is true that music is everywhere in our life. Some people like to sit by the sea and listen to the sound of the sea. Some enjoy listening to the singing of birds. Those sounds are some kinds of music. So music has meaning for everyone in some way or other. Of course, it has special meaning for people like me. We spend our lives playing or writing music.

    Someone said, "Through music a child goes into a world of beauty, learns to take care of others and makes his mind and body strong." Music is an important part of our lives.

 

(1)、The passage tells us that the writer ________.

A：likes to sit by the sea

B：is not interested in music

C：likes to travel by plane

D：likes music very much

答案：D

难度：1

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(2)、The word "boring" in the first paragraph means ________.

A：interesting

B：not interesting

C：tiring

D：foolish

答案：B

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(3)、Music is important to ________.

A：some people

B：everyone

C：nobody

D：the writer only

答案：B

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(4)、Listening to music can ________ when you are waiting for the train.

A：make time fly quickly

B：help you save time

C：make time short

D：make you feel time passes more quickly

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(5)、Which of the following is true?

A：The writer likes to write music every day.

B：The writer becomes strong through music.

C：Most people like to listen to the sound of the sea.

D：Music has some kind of meaning to everyone.

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

27、    Do you like traveling? When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the BBC. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been set up.

    Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who made the clock when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not only large, but is very exact as well. People have the clock checked twice a day.

    On the BBC, you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones (麦克风) are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down.

 

(1)、Big Ben is ________.

A：a famous builder in London

B：a famous painter in England

C：a famous singer in the world

D：a famous clock in the world

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(2)、The Houses of Parliament were ________.

A：burn down in 1834 and rebuilt the next year

B：never burnt down at all

C：rebuilt before the clock was set up

D：burnt down in 1834 after the clock was made

答案：C

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(3)、Benjamin Hall is ________.

A：a big hall

B：a would-famous clock

C：an engineer of the new Houses

D：the person who made the clock

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(4)、Big Ben is famous all over the world because ________.

A：it is big

B：it is old

C：it tells exact time

D：both A and C

答案：D

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(5)、Which of the following is NOT true?

A：We can hear the clock striking on BBC.

B：The microphones of BBC are connected to the clock tower.

C：Big Ben failed to give the correct time twice.

D：Big Ben was checked twice a day.

答案：C

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

28、    As late as 1800, women's only place was in the home. The idea of women in the business world was unthinkable. Men thought that no woman could do a good job outside the home. When the well-known Bronte sisters began writing books in 1846, they had to sign their books with men's names instead.

    Teaching was the first profession open to women after 1800. But even that was not an easy profession for women to enter because most schools and colleges were open only to men.

    Hospital nursing became a respectable job for women only after Nightingale became famous. Seeing that she was not only a nurse but also a rich and well-educated woman, people began to believe it was possible for women to nurse the sick and still be "ladies". Miss Nightingale opened England's first training school for nurses in 1860.

    The invention of the typewriter in 1867 helped to bring women out of the home and into the business world. By 1900, thousands of women were working at real jobs in schools, hospitals and offices in both England and America. Some women even managed to become doctors or lawyers. The idea that women could work in the business world had been accepted.

 

(1)、The first job outside the home for women was ________.

A：teaching

B：nursing

C：business

D：law

答案：A

难度：1

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(2)、It was believed in 1800 that ________.

A：women could do as well as men

B：no women could do well in the jobs outside homes

C：women could be good writers

D：teaching was the right job for women.

答案：B

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(3)、The first training school for nurses was set up in _______.

A：1867

B：1800

C：1860

D：1900

答案：C

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(4)、Women began to work in offices after _______.

A：1900

B：1860

C：1867

D：1800

答案：C

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C

 

(5)、Which of the following is NOT true?

A：Nightingale was rich and well-educated.

B：The Bronte sisters used their true names when they published their books.

C：Women could be good nurses.

D：Women could work in the business world.

答案：B

难度：1

知识点：阅读理解部分\辅导书\书C