居里夫人的故事阅读作文之大学生阅读英语作文

大学生阅读英语作文

【篇一：大学英语阅读理解】

阅读理解一：

arthur miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of

the greatest dramatists

of the 20th century. millers father had moved to the usa from

austria hungary,drawn

like so many others by the great american dream. however, he

experienced severe

financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the

great depression of the

early l930s.

millers s most famous play, death of a salesman , is a

powerful attack on the american

system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its

insistence on money and social

status as indicators of worth. in willy loman, the hero of the

play, we see a man who has

got into trouble with his worth. willy is burnt out and in the

cruel world of business there

is no room for sentiment: if he cant do the work, then he is no

good to his employer, the

wagner company, and he must go. willy is painfully aware of

this, and at loss as to what

to do with his lack of success. he refuses to face the fact that

he has failed and kills himself

in the end.

when it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with

enthusiastic reviews, and

it won the tony award for best play, the new york drama critics

circle award, and

the pulitzer prize for drama. it was the first play to win all three

of these major awards.

miller died of heart failure at his home in roxbury, connecticut,

on the evening of february

10,2005,the 56th anniversary of the first performance of death

of a salesman on broadway.

1. why did arthur miller s father move to the usa?______

a. he s

uffered from severe hunger in his home country.

b. he was attracted by the great american dream.

c. he hoped to make his son a dramatist.

d. his family business failed.

2. the play death of a salesman _______.

a. exposes the cruelty of the american business world

b. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company

c. talks about the business career of arthur miller

d. focuses on the skills in doing business

3. what can we learn about willy loman?______

a. he treats his employer badly.

b. he runs the wagner company.

c. he is a victim of the american system.

d. he is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.

4. what is the text mainly about?______

a. arthur miller and his family.

b. the awards arthur miller won.

c. the hardship arthur miller experienced.

d. arthur miller and his best-known play.

答案：

bacd

参考翻译：

20

世纪。米勒的父亲已经从奥地利匈牙利移居美国，绘制

像许多其他的

“

伟大的美国梦

”

。不过，他经历了严重的

当他的家族企业是毁在了大萧条时期的经济困难

早

l930s

。

米勒最著名的发挥，推销员之死，是美国强大的攻击

系统凭借其积极的做生意的方式及其对金钱和社会的坚持

没有空间感悟：如果他不能做的工作，那么他是没有好他的雇主，

瓦格纳公司，他必须去。威利痛苦地意识到了这一点，并在无所适

从

做他的缺乏成功。他不肯面对事实，他已经失败，杀死自己

到底。

当它在

1949

年首次上演，该剧是迎接热情的评论，和

< br>

它赢得了托尼奖最佳戏剧，纽约戏剧批评家奖，并

普利策戏剧奖。这是第一次发挥赢得所有这三个重要奖项。

米勒在他的家在罗克斯伯里，康涅狄格死于心脏衰竭，对日晚

10,2005

，在百老汇推销员之死的首场演出

5 6

周年。

阅读理解（二）

when i lived in spain, some spanish friends of mine decided to

visit england by car.

before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find

accommodation (

住所

). i

suggested that they should stay at bed and breakfast houses,

because this kind of

accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak

english with the family.

my friends listened to my advice, but they came back with

some funny stories.

we didnt stay at bed and breakfast houses, they said, because

we found that most

families were away on holiday.

i thought this was strange. finally i understood what had

happened. my friends spoke

little english, and they thought vacancies meant holidays,

because the spanish word

for holidays is vacaciones. so they did not go to house where

the sign outside said

vacancles, which in english means there are free rooms. then

my friends went to

house where the sign said no vacancles, because they

thought this meant the people

who owned the house were not away on holiday. but they

found that these houses were

all full. as a result, they stayed at hotels!

we laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in

reading other signs. in

spanish, the word diversion means english, it means

that workmen are

repairing the road, and that you must take a different

my friends saw the word

diversion on a road sign, they thought they were going to

have d, the road

ended in a large hold.

english people have problems too when they learn foreign

languages. once in paris,

when someone offered me some more coffee, i said thank you

in french. i meant that i

would like some more. however, to my surprise, the coffee pot

was taken away! later i

found out that thank you in french means no, thank you.

1. my spanish friends wanted advice about _____.

[ ]

a. learning english

b. finding places to stay in england

c. driving their car on english roads

d. going to england by car

2. no vacancies in english means _____.

[ ]

a. no free rooms

b. free rooms

c. not away on holiday

d. holidays

3. when someone offered me more coffee and i said thank you

in french, i _____.

[ ]

a. didnt really want any more coffee

b. wanted them to take the coffee pot away

c. really wanted some more coffee

d. wanted to express my politeness

4. i was surprised when the coffee pot was taken away

because i _____.

[ ]

a. hadnt finished drinking my coffee

b. was expecting another cup of coffee

c. meant that i didnt want any more

d. was never misunderstood

答案：

bacb

程。

在他们离开之前，他们问我的意见如何找到住宿（住所）

。我

建议他们应该留在

“

床和早餐

”

的房子，因为这种

住宿给外国游客的好机会讲英语的家庭。

我的朋友听了我的意见，但他们带回来一些有趣的故事。

“

我们没有停留在床和早餐的房子，

”

他们说，

“

因为我们发现，大多

数

家庭外出度假。

“

我认为这是奇怪的。我终于明白发生了什么事。我的朋友说话

一点英语，他们认为空缺的意思假期

，因为西班牙语单词

对于

“

假期

”

是

“ vacaciones ”

。因此，他们没有去房子里的符号表

示外

“ vacancles

，这在英文的意思是有免费的客房。然后我的朋

友去

房子里的牌子上写着

“ no vacancles

，因为他们认为这意味着

人们

谁拥有房子并没有外出度假。但他们发现，这些房子都是

全部爆满。因此，他们住在酒店！

我们笑了一下，并约在阅读其他标志犯了错误我的朋友。在

西班牙语，单词

“

引水

”

是指

英语，这意味着工人是

修复道路，你必须采取不同的

我的朋友 看到这个词

上一个路标

“

引水

”

，他们认为他们将不得不

d

，道路

在

一个大抱结束。

英国人也有问题，当他们学习外语。一次在巴黎，

当有人给我一些更多的咖啡，我说法语

“

谢谢

”

。我的意思是我

想多一些。然而，出乎我的意料，咖啡壶被抢走了！后来我

发现在法语中的意思是

“

谢谢你

” “

不，谢谢你。

”

阅读理解（三）：

an increase in students applying to study economics at

university is being attributed to

（归因于）

the global economic

crisis awakening a public thirst for knowledge about how the

financial system works.

applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were

up by 15% this january, according to ucas, the universities and

colleges admissions service. a. spokesman for the royal

economic society said applications to do economics at a-level

were also up.

professor john beath, the president of the society and a

leading lecture at st andrews university, said his first-year

lectures-which are open to students from all departments

—

were drawing crowds of 400, rather than the usual 250.

“there are a large number of students who are not economics

majors, who would like to learn something about it. one of the

things i have done this year is to relate my teaching to

contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t traditionally

done. ” he added.

university applications rose 7% last year. but there were rises

above average in several subjects. nursing saw a 15% jump,

with people’s renewed interest in caters in th

e pubic sector

（部门）

, which are seen as more secure in economic crisis.