北語19秋《閱讀》（II）作業(yè)4答案

1、19秋閱讀（II）作業(yè)4試卷總分:100 得分:100一、單選題 (共 20 道試題,共 100 分)1.I quickly washed up, then joined the boiled potato (feast).A.partyB.meetingC.mealD.achievement答案:C2.The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It

2、is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the

3、 Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,d

4、ates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 問題：At the Laba Fesival,people ( )A.worship all the d

5、eitiesB.eat a special gruel togetherC.cook a variety of food to mark the occasionD.begin preparations for the Lunar New Year答案:B3.Everyone who eats in Carman's Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Lu

6、ntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant's discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn't meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:"Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break."Last Se

7、ptember a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn't have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman's.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers

8、 pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn't just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel's pocket as she left.Just three

9、weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again."It was incredible,"she says."There's a sense about Carman that is just can-do,"says regular Kevin Vaughan."It's infectious." 問題：What happened last September?A.There was a fire which nearly destroyed the

10、restaurantB.Luntzel lost a coffeepotC.Carman could always turn bad news into good newsD.An insurance company offered to help答案:A4.My father was 17 when he left the farm in Cameron,N.C., and set off for Baltimore to apply for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company. When asked what he wanted to do, he s

11、aid,"Everything." He explained that his goal was to learn every job in the factory. Hed like to go to a department and find out what was done there. When the supervisor determined his work was as good as anyone elses, hed want to go to a different department and start over. The personnel p

12、eople agreed to this unusual request, and by the time H.T.Morris was 20, hed made his way through the huge factory and was working in experimental design for a fantastic salary. Whenever he went to a new department, he looked for the guys who had been around forever. These were the people novices us

13、ually avoided, afraid that next to them theyd look like the beginners they were. My father asked them every question he could think of. They liked this inquisitive young man and showed him shortcuts they had developed that no one else had ever asked about. These sages became his mentors. Whatever yo

14、ur goals, plan to network with those who know more than you. Model your efforts on theirs, adjusting and improving as you go. 問題：The veteran workers in the factory liked the authors father because the young man was ( )A.willing to look like a beginnerB.trying to avoid being around foreverC.intereste

15、d in his mentorsD.always asking questions答案:D5.You dont have to set up a foundation or spend hours raising money to help the environment.Joey Gordon-Levitt,16,does his part by simply collecting his newspapers,plastic,and cans-and have them recycled."Everyone should recycle,"the teen star s

16、ays.Singer and actor Better Midler goes a step further-She picks up other peoples garbage.For example,Midler has helped remove truckloads of trash from Fort Tryon Park in New York City.Such simple efforts at trash collection and reduction are catching on.Last year,the Environmental Protection Agency

17、 counted 7,500 recycling programs in the US. Thats up from just 1,000 programs in 1988.Almost half of the countrys population now lives in towns and cities with curbside recycling.So were on the right track to reducing trash.But we still have a long way to go.In 1994, about 40% of paper products and

18、 plastic soda bottles produced in this country were recycled. But only 2% of food packaging was recovered!We also have to work on creating more demand for recycled material.You can help by checking labels-and buying products made from recovered paper, plastic,and metal.Recycling saves resources like

19、 water and trees,and cuts down on air pollution.So what are you waiting for?Get to work taking care of our "rock.""If we dont,well all have to move to Mars,"says Gordon-Levitt."The only problem is that we dont know how to do that yet!" 問題： What is unusual about Better M

20、idler?A.she urges other people to take their garbage out of the cityB.she collects newspapers, plastic and cans like Gordon-LevittC.She picks up other peoples trashD.She helps the environment答案:C6.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me."I'm baffled,"he said.&

21、quot;A child has written an essay called The Properties of the Nucleus."His teacher can't understand it.Neither can I."I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test."

22、;What is Mars?"I asked.Most children his age say,"A chocolate bar."He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:"Can't you come up with something more difficult?"I had see

23、n gifted children before,but this boy was "off the map"as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark's principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstand

24、ing.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark's parents what they thought of him."He can be a pain in the neck,"his mother said."He asks such impossible questions,"she smiled."But we lo

25、ve him dearly."This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 問題："Off the map"here means that ( )A.the boy was not satisfir

26、ed with such an easy testB.the boy surpassed the other children in intelligence and emotionC.the boy's intelligence was too high to registerD.it was hard to assess how intelligent the boy was答案:C7.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was

27、expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few ti

28、mes a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers' overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.

29、She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the "working" day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own

30、 private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black

31、 woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 問題：The mother appeared to the narrator to be all of the following except ( )A.violentB.softC.patientD.loving答案:A8.But,watching through the window as Tim hurried through the (downpour) from pig barn to cattle shed,she knew

32、 the answer.A.stream of waterB.narrow pathC.heavy fall of rainD.big expanse答案:C9.Less commonly,they make mistakes with tragic (consequences).A.sequenceB.resultsC.influencesD.concern答案:B10.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 1

33、7-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,wh

34、en she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers' overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the

35、 winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the "working" day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thou

36、ghts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has in

37、herited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 問題：The white landlord angered the narrator's mother by ( )A.telling her not to let her children go to schoolB.fighting with herC.driving her children out of schoolD.being rich答案:A11.Curiosity (gripped) me.A.took hold ofB.surprised

38、C.got rid ofD.disappointed答案:A12.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my moth

39、er:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we

40、wore,even my brothers' overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the "working" day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her da

41、y began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not fa

42、mous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 問題：The goal of the narrator's research was to ( )A.show how black women's talent

43、has been stifledB.recall her own mother's good qualitiesC.praise all the working black mothersD.find reasons for the black woman's creativeness答案:D13.The inventor of spectacles probably lived in the town of Paris, Italy, around 1286, and was almost certainly a craftsman working in glass. But

44、 nobody knows his name. We only know this much about him because Friar Giordane preached a sermon one Wednesday morning in February 1306 at a church in Florence. "Its not yet 20 years since there was found the art of making eye-glasses which make for good vision," said the Friar."One

45、of the best arts and most necessary that the world has. So short a time is it since there was invented a new art that never existed. I have seen the man who first invented and created it, and I have talked to him." We know what Friar Giordane said because admirers copied his sermons down as he

46、gave them. The inventor of spectacles apparently kept the method of making them to himself. Perhaps he thought this was the best way of getting money from his invention. But the idea soon got around. As early as 1300, craftsmen in Venice,the centre of Europes glass industry, were making the new &quo

47、t;disks for the eyes".Spectacles at first were only shaped for far-sighted people. Concave lenses, for short-sighted people, were not developed until the late 15th century. Spectacles allowed people to go on reading and studying long after bad eyesight would normally have forced them to give up

48、.They were like a new pair of eyes. The inventor of such a valuable thing should be honored, everyone thought. But for centuries no one had any idea who the inventor really was. So all kinds of candidates were put forward: Dutch, English, German, Italians from rival cities. A fake memorial was erect

49、ed last century in a church in Florence to honor a man as the true inventor of spectacles-but he never even existed. 問題：The invention of spectacles appeared in the ( ) century in Europe.A.15thB.14thC.13thD.12th答案:B14.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me."I'm baf

50、fled,"he said."A child has written an essay called The Properties of the Nucleus."His teacher can't understand it.Neither can I."I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the int

51、elligence test."What is Mars?"I asked.Most children his age say,"A chocolate bar."He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:"Can't you come up with something more diffi

52、cult?"I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was "off the map"as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark's principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as int

53、ellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark's parents what they thought of him."He can be a pain in the neck,"his mother said."He asks such impossible questions,"she sm

54、iled."But we love him dearly."This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 問題：The principal was puzzled because ( )A.he was sh

55、ocked to see an eight-year-old boy interested in the nucleusB.he didn't believe an eight-year-old boy could write a scientific essay on the nucleusC.he could not understand the strange ideas of a gifted boyD.he could not understand the essay答案:B15.Surely a (telltale hole )in the melted wax would

56、 expose the end of the metal capsule concealed in the base of the candle.A.a hole that was able to be used in a taleB.a hole that revealed the secretC.a hoel that was able to tell a storyD.a hoel that appeared in a tale答案:B16.Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition an

57、d variety,however.One, loosely based on Freudian ideas,has presented an image of the vulnerable child:children are sensitive beings,easily damaged not only by traumatic events and emotional stress,but also by overdoses of affection.The 2nd model is that of the behaviorists,whose intellectual ancesto

58、rs,the empiricist philosophers,described the child's mind as a tabula rasa,or blank slate.The behaviorist model of child-rearing is based on the view that the child is malleable,and parents are therefore cast in the role of Pygmalions who can shape their children however they wish."Give me

59、a dozen healthy infants,well-formed,and my own specified world to bring them up in,"wrote J.B.Watson,the father of modern behaviorism,"and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might-doctor,lawyer,artist,merchant,chief, and yes,even begga

60、r man and thief!"The image of the vulnerable child calls for gentle parents who are sensitive to their child's inner-most thoughts and feelings in order to protect him from trauma.The image of the malleable child requires stem parents who coolly follow the dictates of their own explicit tra

61、ining procedures:only the early eradication of bad habits in eating,sleeping,crying,can fend off permanent maladjustments. 問題： According to the behaviorist model of child-rearing,parents ( )A.shouldn't give overdoses of affectionB.should know that children are sensitiveC.should be gentle to their childrenD.can train t