大学英语三级考试阅读训练.pdf

College English 2010 02 College English 大学英语三级考试阅读训练 北 京何 珊 Directions There are 4 passages in this section Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are four choices marked A B C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter with a single line through the centre Passage 1 1Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light Without him the world might still be a dark place However the electric light was not his only in vention He also invented the phonograph the motion picture camera and over 1 200 other things About every two weeks he created something new 2Thomas A Edison was born in Milan Ohio on February 11 1847 His family moved to Port Huron Michigan when he was seven years old Surprisingly he attended school for only two months His mother a former teacher taught him a few things but Thomas was mostly self educated His natural curiosity led him to start experimenting at a young age with electrical and mechanical things at home 3When he was 12 years old he got his first job He became a newsboy on a train that ran between Port Huron and Detroit He set up a laboratory in a baggage car of the train so that he could continue his experiments in his spare time Unfortunately his first work expe rience did not end well Thomas was fired when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the baggage car 4Thomas then worked for five years as a telegraph operator but he continued to spend much of his time on the job conducting experiments He got his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity However the vote recorder was not a success In 1870 he sold another invention a stock ticker for 40 000 A stock ticker is a machine that automatically prints stock prices on a tape He was then able to build his first shop in Newark New Jersey 5Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other but thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways It kept conversations short so that he could have more time for work He called himself a two shift man because he worked 16 out of every 24 hours Sometimes he worked so intensely that his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat 6Thomas Edison died at the age of 84 on October 18 1931 at his estate in West Orange 笤考试专栏笤 45 College English 2010 02 College English New Jersey He left numerous inventions that improved the quality of life all over the world 1 Thomas Edison did things in this order that A he became a telegraph operator a newsboy and then got his first patent B he became a newsboy got his first patent and then became a telegraph operator C he got a patent became a telegraph operator and then became a newsboy D he became a newsboy a telegraph operator and then got a patent 2 Edison considered his deafness A a disadvantageB a blessing C something from a priestD a necessity 3 Of all Edison s inventions was probably the most important for civilization A the vote recorderB the stock ticker C the light bulbD the motion picture camera 4 The main idea of this passage is A Thomas Edison was always interested in science and inventions and he invented many important things B Thomas Edison could not keep a job C Thomas Edison worked day and night on his experiments D Deaf people make good inventors because they can focus without the distraction of spoken conversation Passage 2 1Sophia Fowler Gallaudet was the deaf wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet who founded the first permanent public school for the deaf in Hartford Connecticut She did not allow her deafness to prevent her from leading a full life She was educated raised a family ran a busy household and helped to found Gallaudet College 2Sophia Fowler was born deaf near Guilford Connecticut on March 20 1798 At that time there were no schools for the deaf in America However Sophia had a good mind She used her intellect and learned many skills by watching the people around her She learned to cook and sew and became a modest gay and charming young lady 3Sophia was nineteen years old when her parents learned that a school for the deaf had been founded in Hartford Connecticut She entered the school in 1817 and stayed there un til the spring of 1821 While she was there the principal of the school Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet fell in love with her and asked her to marry him Sophia did not hesitate and married him in 1821 4As Mrs Gallaudet she continued to charm the people she met She was eager to learn 笤考试专栏笤 46 College English 2010 02 College English from every social situation Through her contact with the many visitors to her home she was actually able to continue her education 5Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet died in 1851 leaving his wife to make a life without him However her eight children did not leave her without support With the help of her grown children she continued to keep house for those children that had not yet married 6In 1857 Mrs Gallaudet s youngest son Edward Miner Gallaudet became principal of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf in Washington D C He was only 20 years old at the time but his ambition was to establish a college for the deaf His mother shared his dream and work She often met with members of Congress and other prominent men in order to gain support for her goals Through them she helped to obtain funds to found and maintain Gallaudet College 7Mrs Gallaudet served as matron of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf now Kendall Demonstration School and Gallaudet College for nine years This included two years as head of the department that taught many of the household skills that she had learned as a child such as cooking and sewing She retired only when her health began to fail 8During her last years Mrs Gallaudet spent the winters in Washington D C and the rest of the year traveling and visiting her children and grandchildren She died on May 13 1877 Gallaudet has preserved her memory by naming Fowler Hall which was originally a women s dormitory and is now part of the graduate school in her honor 5 According to the passage Sophia continued her education after she finished school by A reading a lot of booksB meeting and interacting with people C being at Gallaudet CollegeD learning from Thomas Gallaudet 6 After her husband died she finished raising her children and then she A moved to Washington D C B spent her winters in Washington and the rest of the year visiting her children and grand children C became sick D helped her son to establish a college for the deaf 7 Sophia studied at the school for the deaf in Hartford Connecticut A for ten yearsB from 1817 to 1851 C from 1817 to 1821D from 1798 to 1803 8 We can assume from this passage that A Sophia believed that deaf people should have equal rights to education and employment B Sophia thought that deaf people were better off living with a relative who could take care 笤考试专栏笤 47 College English 2010 02 College English of them and support them C Sophia wished that she could have visited deaf schools in Europe D Sophia always wanted a dormitory to be named after her Passage 3 1Most people don t know the true story of the little boy who came to be known as Dou glas Craig He was found wandering around the streets of Washington D C He could not hear or speak He did not know his name or how old he was He had no home At night he huddled in doorways and slept Sometimes people pitied him and gave him food and cloth ing If not he ate what he could find in garbage cans 2It is said that a man named Craig found the little boy and took him to Dr E M Gal laudet at Gallaudet College Dr Gallaudet gave him the first name of Douglas and the last name of Craig after the man who found him The little boy became Douglas Craig 3Dr Gallaudet placed Douglas in the Kendall School and he stayed there until he was old enough to work He spent his life working in and around the halls of Gallaudet Conse quently all of the students who lived on Kendall Green during the days of Douglas Craig knew him They have told enough stories about him to fill a book 4Douglas grew to become a tall strong man He was probably the best handy man that Gallaudet had ever had He had many duties such as picking up mail at the post of fice mowing grass raking leaves tending the flower beds raising and lowering the heavy drop curtain on the stage for plays in the chapel and carrying notes from the boys to the girls Clearly he was a familiar sight on campus 5For years Douglas lived in a room over the stable which once stood near the Ely Cen ter He liked to collect junk and the stable loft was full of old tin bath tubs bed springs clothes and stove pipe hats that other people had given to him He once raised rabbits guinea pigs and white rats in the stable yard 6Douglas actively sought a wife during his life at Gallaudet It is said that he asked all of the black cooks in the college kitchen to marry him For a time he courted a black wom an from Baltimore Since his courtship required letter writing and he was illiterate he had a student in the college act as his private secretary Though that relationship did not work out he did finally marry Later in life he married a black deaf woman from Washing ton The wedding and reception took place in a church near the college and most of the college faculty and teachers of the Kendall School were present Douglas was dressed for the occasion in a full dress suit with a white tie and white gloves 7The happy couple went to Baltimore for a honeymoon but the honeymoon only lasted for one day Their plans were cut short when Douglas pocketbook containing about 300 笤考试专栏笤 48 College English 2010 02 College English was either lost or stolen 8Douglas never got very far from Washington D C Gallaudet College was his world He went to Norfolk Virginia once on a vacation but he did not know what a vacation was He spent the entire time working around the docks of Norfolk He came home with a pocketful of money and told everyone that he had a fine vacation 9Douglas last public duty was to raise the flag to the top of the new flagpole in front of College Hall He was very feeble at the time and sat in a big armchair during the cere monies He died on February 11 1936 but left a legend at Gallaudet that would live forever 9 The main idea of the story is that A Craig liked women B Gallaudet is the best place for an orphan to grow up C Craig was an orphan and no one ever found out exactly what happened to his family D Craig a man with an unusual background worked at Gallaudet for many years 10 It is most likely that Craig enjoyed working at Gallaudet because A Gallaudet was a good place to collect junk B he found it easy to communicate with people C people felt sorry for him so he didn t have to work hard D he didn t have a home 11 Craig and his new wife s honeymoon did not last long because A their money was lost or stolen B Craig missed Gallaudet and wanted to come back early C they spent all their money D their baggage and clothing was lost or stolen 12 The sentence He did not know what a vacation was means A he did not know what the word vacation meant B he could not stop working even on a vacation C he hated vacations D he never took time off from work Passage 4 1In Glacier National Park which is in the Rocky Mountains of Montana there once roamed a little deaf Indian boy He loved to wander in the forest and made friends with the animals who lived there Since he loved animals he would observe them intently and learn their habits This little Indian boy s name was John Lewis Clarke 2John Lewis Clarke s grandfather was a graduate from West Point and a captain in the 笤考试专栏笤 49 College English 2010 02 College English U S Army He was married to the daughter of a Blackfoot Indian Chief and adopted by the tribe His son John Lewis Clarke s father also married an Indian princess the daughter of Chief Stands Alone Sadly John s grandfather was later killed by Indians of another tribe near Helena Montana John Lewis Clarke was not born deaf He became ill at a young age with scarlet fever Though he survived he could no longer hear the sounds that the forest animals made He could not hear his Indian friends when they called to him Scarlet fever had caused him to lose his hearing His Indian friends gave him the name Cutapuis Cu ta pu ee which means man who talks not 3Because John could not talk he could not tell his parents about his many animal friends in the forest and the exciting things that he saw but he found another way to ex press himself He made figures of them out of clay from the river banks Later when he was older he learned to carve things out of wood He loved to carve animals With an axe and a pocket knife he carved a life sized image of a bear from a cedar trunk The bear looked so real the only thing missing was its growl 4When John was old enough to go to school his parents sent him to the Fort Shaw Indi an School However since he needed special education he was transferred to a school for the deaf at Boulder Montana He also attended the School for the Deaf at Devil s Lake North Dakota When he was older he enrolled at St Francis Academy in Milwaukee Wis consin where he studied wood carving 5While he was still in his teens John returned to Montana and opened a studio He be gan to carve all the animals he had known very well in his childhood and offer them for sale He made models of animals out of wood clay and stone He painted pictures using water colors and oils and did excellent pen and ink drawings He began to make a name for himself as an artist 6John spent most of his 89 years at his home studio in Glacier Park Every year when the park season was over he continued his work in Great Falls Montana his second home Many important people bought John s work John D Rockefeller Jr the famous multimil lionaire was one of them John s work was on exhibit in many places in this country John died on November 20 1970 In his life time he literally carved his way to fame 13 John probably started to use American Sign Language as soon as A he became deafB he entered a school for the deaf C he could make figures out of clayD his Indian friends taught him 14 The subject of his artwork was mostly animals This is most likely because A the environment he grew up in influenced himB he was an Indian C it was his way of expressing ideasD he did not like people 笤考试专栏笤 50 College English 2010 02 College English 15 The sentence The bear looked so real The only thing missing was its growl means A John forgot to add one more thing B the bear was missing C the bear missed growling D the bear looked perfect except that it could not make any sound 16 During the course of his education John attended A two schoolsB only a residential school for the deaf C four different schoolsD a school in Maine 答案与解析 Passage 1 短文大意 Thomas Edison是伟大的发明家 他一生有1200多个重大发明 其中最重要的就 是电灯 Edison只上过两个月学 他坚持自学 异常勤奋 自称为 上两个班的人 two shift man 为现代文明做出了重大贡献 他的许多发明至今仍在造福人类 1 D 本题问 Edison从事的工作顺序如下 本题考查事件顺序 第3段说 他12岁时得到第一份工作 在火车上当 newsboy 报童 但后来被开除 第4段说 他干了5年telegraph operator 电报员 之后得到第一个patent 专利 可见答案应为选项D 2 B 本题问 Edison将自己的耳聋视为 本题为细节题 答案可在第5段第1句中直接找到 thought of his deafness as a blessing 然后讲述他为什么觉得耳聋反而是幸事的原因 故选项B为正确答案 3 C 本题问 在Edison所有的发明中 对人类文明可能最重要 本题为推测题 答案可从第1段第1 2两句推断 这两句说 爱迪生用他发明 的电灯照亮了世界 没有他 这个世界也许还在黑暗之中 这说明了电灯对世界的 重大影响 而选项A 记票机 B 证券报价机 和D 电影摄影机 对人类文明的影 响都不及电灯 另外 我们还可根据常识回答本题 也许你所在的任何房间里都有 电灯 但不一定有上文提到的其他几个发明 4 A 本题问 本文的主要思想是 本题是主旨题 选项B明显不对 因为爱迪生的第二个工作干了5年之久 选 项C本身正确 但并非本文的焦点 选项D也不正确 尽管爱迪生本人认为耳聋有 助于他的发明 但文章并没有提到耳聋对其他发明者也有帮助 选项A显然是正 确答案 适合做本文的主题句 Passage 2 短文大意 Sophia Fowler Gallaudet是一个聋哑人 但其残疾并没有妨碍她过上充实的生活 笤考试专栏笤 51 College English 2010 02 College English 她受过良好教育 养育了八个孩子 操持繁忙的家务 还帮助创建了Gallaudet学院 5 B 本题问 根据这篇短文 从学校毕业后 Sophia通过 继续学习 短文第4段第2 3句说 在每一个社会环境她都渴望学习 通过接触许多来家 的客人 她实际上能继续自己的教育 所以选项B 同人们接触 交往 为正确答案 6 D 本题问 丈夫去世后 她抚养孩子的任务结束 紧接着她 本题考查事件顺序 第5段说 丈夫去世后 在成年孩子帮助下 她继续为尚未 结婚的孩子料理家务 第6段结着说 她最小的儿子成了聋哑学校的校长 并希望 建立一所聋哑学院 她分享儿子的梦想 并为之努力 后来她经常同国会议员和其 他社会名流见面 从而得到他们的支持 最终帮助儿子实现了建立聋哑学院的梦 想 由此可见选项D正确 选项A B C都是文章第8段提到的事 但本题问的是 她紧接着干的是什么 故都不正确 7 C 题文问 Sophia在康涅狄格州哈特福德市聋哑学校 答案见第3段第2句 她在1817年进入该校 一直待到1821年春 故选项C 是正确答案 8 A 题文问 从这篇短文我们可设想 本题从文中无法直接得到答案 但可根据文章所提供的信息推测 选项B Sophia认为有亲属照顾和赡养的聋哑人生活会好一些 不可能正确 因为Sophia 自己耳聋 但却过着非常独立的生活 而且还协助建立学校帮助聋哑人自立 选项 C Sophia希望能访问欧洲的聋哑学校 文中未提及 也无法推测 选项D Sophia 一直想有一栋宿舍以自己的名字命名 也不可能是答案 文中最后说 她去世后 有一栋宿舍以她的名字命名 但推测不出她自己有这种愿望 只有选项A Sophia 认为聋哑人应该有受教育和就业的平等权利 正确 因为这