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大学英语（三）
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3
习
题及答案
一、阅读理解
April Fool’s Day is traditionally a day
to play practical jokes on others,
send
people on fool’s
errands
（差事）
, and fool the
unsuspecting. No
one knows how this
holiday began but it was thought to have
originated in France. The closest point
in time that can be identified as
the
beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in
France. New Year was
celebrated on
March 25 and celebrations lasted until April 1st.
When
New
Year’s Day as
changed from March 25 to January 1st in the
mid-
1560’s by King Charles
IX, there were some people who still
celebrated it on April 1st and those
people were called April Fools.
Tricks
performed on April Fool’s Day range from the
simple to th
e
elaborate.
Setting a roommate’s alarm clock back an hour is
common.
The news media even gets
involved. For instance, a British short film
once shown on April Fool’s Day was a
fairly detailed documentary
about
“spaghetti farmers” and how they harvest
thei
r crop from the
spaghetti trees. Whatever the prank,
the trickster usually ends it by
yelling to his victim, “April Fool!”
April Fool’s Day is a
“for
-fun-
only”
observance. Nobody is expected to buy
gifts or to take their
“significant
other” out to eat in a
fancy
restaurant. Nobody gets off
work or
school. It’s simply a fun little holiday, but a
holiday on which
one must remain
forever vigilant
（警惕的）
, for
he may be the next April
Fool!
Each country celebrates
April Fool’s differently. In France, the April
Fo
ol’s is called “April
Fish”. The French fool their friends by taping a
paper fish to their friends’ backs. In
England, tricks can be played only
in
the morning. If a trick is played on you, you are
a “noodle”.
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1.
April
Fool
’
s Day was first
celebrated in_________.
A
．
England
B
．
America
C
．
France
D
．
Rome
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2.
According
to the old calendar, April 1st was_________.
A
．
April Fool’s Day
B
．
New Year’s
Day
C
．
New Year’s
Eve
D
．
a regular day
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3.
Which is
NOT the custom of April
Fool
’
s Day?
A
．
Calling victims of tricks April Fools.
B
．
Playing tricks
on somebody.
C
．
Eating out with their family.
D
．
Celebrating
this day just for fun.
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4.
It can be
inferred that on April
Fool
’
s Day people tend to
______.
A
．
be on guard
B
．
feel annoyed
C
．
feel scared
D
．
be
at their best
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5.
It can be
concluded that ______.
A
．
those who are
mentally slow are called April Fools
B
．
people
have been celebrating
April Fool’s Day for well over five
centuries
C
．
the
celebration of April Fool’s Day is more or less
the same.
D
．
the celebration
of April Fool’s Day varies from country to
country
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The comprehension passages on this
course are designed to
help you
increase your reading speed. A higher reading
rate,
with no loss of comprehension,
will help you in other subjects as
well
as English, and the general principles apply to
any language.
Naturally, you will not
read every book at the same speed. You
would expect to read a newspaper, for
example, much more
rapidly than a
physics or economics textbook, but you can raise
your average reading speed over the
whole range of materials
you wish to
cover so that the percentage gain will be the same
whatever kind of reading you are
concerned with.
The reading
passages that follow are all of an average level
of difficulty for your
stage of
instruction. They are all about 500 words long.
They are about topics of
general
interest that do not require a great deal of
specialized knowledge. Thus
they fall
between the kind of reading you might find in your
textbooks and the
much less demanding
kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel.
If you read
this kind of English, with
understanding, at 400 words per minute, you might
skim
through a newspaper at perhaps
650-700, while with a difficult textbook you might
drop to 200 or 250.
Perhaps
you would like to know what reading speeds are
common among native
English-speaking
university students and how those speeds can be
improved.
Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A.,
for example, have shown that students without
special
training can read English of
average difficulty, for example, Tolstoy’s
War and
Peace
in
translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250
w.p.m. with about 70%
comprehension.
Minnesota claims that after 12 half-hour lessons,
once a week,
the reading speed can be
increased, with no loss of comprehension, to
around
500 w.p.m. It is further claimed
that with intensive training over seventeen weeks,
speeds of over 1000 w.p.m. can be
reached, but this would be quite exceptional.
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6.
According
to the passage, a higher reading rate of English
depends on
______.
A
．
a
large vocabulary
B
．
learning other
subjects well besides English
C
．
a good
comprehension of the reading texts
D
．
different
reading speeds for different types of texts
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7.
According
to the article, the reading passages on this
course are ______.
A
．
more difficult
than a textbook on a particular subject.
B
．
easier than a light novel
C
．
more demanding than news stories
D
．
of the same category as novels and
newspapers
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8.
You can
expect to read your textbooks ______.
A
．
more quickly
than you read the passages on this course
B
．
re
quickly than you read a newspaper
C
．
more slowly
than you read the passages on this course
D
．
faster than any other kind of material
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9.
For a book
of average difficulty the average untrained native
speaker at
the university of Minnesota
______.
A
．
reads at 500 w.p.m.
B
．
reads at 400
w.p.m.
C
．
reads at about
1,000 w.p.m.
D
．
reads at about 245 w.p.m.
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10.
An
untrained student
’
s reading
speed can be ______ with intensive
training over twelve weeks.
A
．
increased four
times
B
．
doubled
C
．
tripled
D
．
increased a
little
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二、单选题
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1. There is a _______ bear
in the room.
A
．
brown big
B
．
big
woolen brown
C
．
woolen big
brown
D
．
big brown
woolen
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2. By the time I graduate
from college, I ______ English for 10
years.
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