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　　專升本英語考試閱讀理解專項練習(xí)

　　專項練習(xí)范文

　　There are two main changes comparing with the past. First, there are new definitions of what man can achieve, of what a human standard of life should be. In recent times this has been particularly true since technology has consistently broadened man's potential, it has made a longer, healthier, better life possible. Thus, in terms of what is technically possible, we have higher aspirations. Those who suffer levels of life well below those that are possible, even though they live better than medieval knights(中世紀騎士) or Asian peasants, are poor.

　　Related to this technological advance is the social definition of poverty. The American rich in Hong Kong or in the sixteenth century are poor here and now in the United States. They are dispossessed in terms of what the rest of the nations enjoy, in terms of what the society could provide if it had the will. They live on the fringe, the margin. They watch the movies and read the magazines of affluent (豐富的)American, and these will tell them that they are internal exiles.

　　And finally, one of the reasons that the income figures show fewer people today with low incomes than 20 years ago is that more wives are working now, and family income has risen as a result. In 1940, 15% of wives were in the labor force ;in 1957 the figure was 30%. This means that there was more money and, presumably, less poverty. Yet a tremendous growth in the number of the impoverishment of home life, of children who receive less care, love, and supervision. This one fact, for instance, might well play a significant role in the problems of the young in America. It could mean that we have made an improvement in income statistics at the cost of hurting thousands and thousands of children. If a person has money but achieves this through mortgaging the future, who is to say that he or she is no longer poor?

　　題目

　　1. In recent times, as far as technology is concerned, those who are poor .

　　A. live better than Asian peasants

　　B. lead better lives than medieval knights

　　C. cannot achieve the living standard that technology can make

　　D. have no aspiration

　　2. In the second paragraphthey are internal exiles" implies .

　　A. their internal feelings are different from the rest of nation

　　B. they are discriminated by the rest of the nation

　　C. they are excessively lonely than people in other countries

　　D. they can't enjoy what the rest of the nation do concerning what the society provides

　　3. The so-called American poor can only be defined by .

　　A. technology

　　B. American social background

　　C. the living standard in the U. S.

　　D. the living standard of Hong Kong

　　4. More women are working in America, which means .

　　A. improvement of all aspects of people's lives

　　B. fewer people are poor in the U. S. today

　　C. the nation's economy grows rapidly

　　D. the rising of family incomes

　　5. Which of the following sentences best describes the last paragraph?

　　A. Women are playing a less important role in educating children.

　　B. It's really unnecessary for women to work.

　　C. Improvement in income at the cost of the happiness of children doesn't mean rich.

　　D. Problems of the young will be solved if women do not work.

　　參考答案

　　1. 【精析】C。事實細節(jié)題。C選項所表達的意思與第一段最后一句中的u ... suffer levels of life well below those that are possible”一致，故選C。A、B雖然正確，但不是就技術(shù)而言的，所以排除;D為干擾項,原文第 四句中出現(xiàn)了“we have higher aspiration”，但這里的we是一個寬泛的概念，不是只針對富人或窮人而言的，跟題 干所問的不相干。

　　2. 【精析】D。詞義理解題。將線索定位在第二段最后一句中的“they are internal exiles”就可以得出D 項正確。A、B是根據(jù)internal exiles的字面意思得出的錯誤理解;C是對exile的錯誤理解。

　　3. 【精析】C。事實細節(jié)題。從文章第一段最后一句及第二段可知,美國所謂的窮人是以美國本身的生 活水平來劃分的。第二段第一句“對于貧窮的社會定義是和這種科技進步聯(lián)系在一起的”，這里講的是定義 “貧窮，，時需要考慮到科技進步的因素，因此科技只是影響，，貧窮”的一個因素而不是決定因素，所以排除A;B 項從字面上看講得通，但文中未提到社會背景方面的內(nèi)容,而且生活標(biāo)準僅是社會背景的一個方面;D項“香港 的生活標(biāo)準”顯然不對。

　　4. 【精析】D。事實細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第三段第一句:婦女參加工作的結(jié)果是家庭收入增加可知答案應(yīng) 選D。A項是說人民生活各個方面的提高，與原文內(nèi)容不符;選項B中的poor沒有具體交代是哪一方面，在一 個國家的不同時期，是否“貧窮”的標(biāo)準是不同的，更多婦女參加工作，家庭收入增加，木能直接得出貧窮人口 更少的結(jié)論;C項原文未提及。

　　5. 【精析】C。主旨大意題。第三段中說婦女參加工作使得家庭收入增加,但卻以傷害成千上萬兒童的 幸福為代價。最后一句是對該段的總結(jié)，也為該段的主旨,與選項C相符。A項這一說法本身正確，但不全面; B“婦女有沒有必要出去工作”和D“如果婦女不工作就可以解決孩子的問題”原文未提及。

　　全文翻譯

　　與過去相比,有兩個主要的變化。第一,一個人能夠做到什么、應(yīng)該擁有的生活標(biāo)準有了新的定義。在最 近，因為技術(shù)的發(fā)展拓寬了人的潛力使得這一切變得格外真實,它可能使人們更長壽、更健康、更好地生活。因 此,由于技術(shù)上的可行性，我們擁有了更高層次的愿望。，那些實際生活水平低于他們可能達到的生活水平的人 們是貧窮的，即使他們生活得比中世紀的騎士或亞洲農(nóng)民要好。

　　與技術(shù)進步相關(guān)的是社會對于貧窮的定義。在香港或在十六世紀富裕的美國人在現(xiàn)在的美國屬于窮人。 相對國家其余的人所享有的財富以及假如社會愿意時所能提供的財富而言，他們是貧窮的。他們生活在美國 的邊緣。他們觀看富裕的美國人的電影和閱讀他們的雜志，這些只能告訴他們，他們都是內(nèi)地的流放者。

　　最后，收入統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)顯示，與20年前相比低收入者越來越少的其中一個原因是現(xiàn)在越來越多的妻子也在 工作，促使了家庭收入的上漲。在1940年,15%的妻子在工作,1957年這一數(shù)字為30%。這意味著人們有更多 的錢,據(jù)推測貧困可能減少，但是家庭生活貧困的數(shù)目卻在大量增加，兒童更加缺乏關(guān)心、愛護和監(jiān)管。這一事 實可能在美國年輕人的問題中起了重要的作用。這可能意味著，我們在收入數(shù)字上得到了提高,但卻以傷害成 千上萬的孩子為代價。如果一個人的錢是通過透支未來而獲得的，誰能說他或她不再是貧窮的呢?