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英语阅读（2）平时作业（二）班级：_ 学号：_ 姓名：_ 分数：_Part IPassage 1 If you want to make the room look smaller and warmer, use red. An experiment conducted in Norway showed that if you put people in red or blue rooms where the temperature is exactly the same they will turn the heating up for degrees higher in the blue room than in red room. And red is good for restaurants, especially fast food restaurants. This is because people eat more quickly when they are in a red room and so the restaurant can do more business. Pink is good for bedrooms, because it has a calming effect. And red and yellow are good in the hall because they make people feel welcome. Blue is suitable in places where you want people to feel relaxed. It also seems to push the walls back, so, if you want to make a room look bigger, try painting it blue. Green is often said to be the most calming color of all and is used in lots of hospitals. The green room is used to describe the room where actors wait before they go on to the stage. Some people say that yellow is stressful. They believe that this is why mentally disturbed people use it so much in their paintings. Other people say that it is good to use in a study, where we want the mind to be active and busy. Many people use yellow in kitchens and bathrooms to cheer themselves up.Try to fill in the following form with the missing information that youve found in passage 1.Try to fill in the following form with the missing information that youve found in passage 1.ColorsPlaces whichthe color suitsReasonsPink(1)It has a calming effect.redthe hall(2)green(3)Its the most calming colorbluesmall rooms(4)(5)the studyIt can make peoples mind active and busy.Passage 2 Every year around April, many thousands of wild beasts gather together on the Serengeti Plains in Tanzania in preparation for their long journey northwards. Although it is often referred to as The Migration”, this great movement of animals is an endless year-round trek dictated by the seasons and the search for fresh grass and water. By early July the long straggling columns of wildebeest, along with large numbers of zebra, begin to reach the Mara reserve. They can enter anywhere and once inside their movements are erratic according to where forage is best. However, the herds do have one or two favorite river crossing places and after the Mara grasses have been grazed to the ground, they use these to move northwards out of the reserve. Weak animals rarely survive the river crossings. Many are crushed to death by the sheer weight of numbers and some are eaten by huge crocodiles. In late September, the herds begin to reform for the journey back to the Serengeti Plains. They arrive three months later and begin calving.Try to find which word(s) in passage 2 may mean the following:6. moving at a particular time or season from one part of the world or of a country to another, usually in order to breed or to find new feeding grounds_7. decided_8. crops grown as food for cattle and horses_9. a large group pf animals of one kind that live together_10. to continue to live in spite of being in a situation in which they come close to death_Part IIPassage 31 In the ancient Olympics, there were just three lengths of running races. 2 The shortest race was called the stade or the dromos. The runners ran just one length of the stadium, starting with their toes in a groove on the starting line. This was considered the most important of the races, just as many people believe the 100 meters is the greatest race today. 3 The next distance was over two lengths of the stadium and was known as the diaulos. The runners had to run round a post at the far end of the stadium and then run back to where they had started. 4 The longest race was called the dolichos. The competitors had to run 20 or 24 lengths of the stadium. This race was always the first one to be run. 5 In all of three races, the runners went up and down, not round, the arena. If there were many computers for a single race, heats were run followed by the final. 6 Runners were allowed to compete at all throw distances and anyone who won the three events was known as a triastes. This greatest triastes of all was Leonidas of Rhodes. Having won all three running races in 164 BC, he went on to repeat this achievement in the next three Games. 7 In addition to these racing, there was a special race in which twenty-five runners wearing their helmets and leg armor and carrying their shields competed. Very often, they ran into each other or dropped their ships on the way. This was always the last race of the Games and caused great exciting among the crowd.Read passage 3 and you will notice that five of the words used in the last three paragraphs are incorrect. In each case, at least the first three letters are right but the rest are wrong. Write down the incorrect words in the left column and the corrected ones in the right column. Incorrect words Correct words11. _ _12. _ _13. _ _14. _ _15. _ _Read the passage again and judge whether the following statements are true or false. Indicate T for true and F for false.16. There were just two lengths of running races in the ancient Olympics.17. The second longest race was called the dolichos.18. The runners had to run one length of the stadium in the shortest race.19. Leonidas won six Games altogether in his life.20. The last race of the Games was always a special one with runners wearing their helmets and leg armor and carrying their shields.Part III Multiple ChoicesPassage 4Read the passage below and then choose the best answer to each of the questions 2130. Public buses running on Beijings streets are more eye-catching compared with their former dull color. However, five or six years ago, when many other Chinese cities began to decorate their public buses with colorful advertisements, Beijing remained unmoved, allegedly out of consideration for maintaining the stately grace of the capital. But Beijings lofty posture did not last long under the pressure of the market economy. Since 1993, most public buses have been wrapped in brightly colored ads, many featuring striking images. Public transportation companies were the first group benefiting from the move. The No. 300 Bus alone has annually turned over 4 million yuan of ad earnings to its company. At the same time, business people are happy to find a comparatively cheap, yet widely influential, advertising medium. Advertising on buses, form quickly accepted by Beijing residents, adds a new scenic line to the city, instead of damaging the capitals image. The Chinese attitude towards advertisements has changed greatly. Having vanished from sight for a long period, commercial ads reappeared in 1979, but they were cold-shouldered. Today, however, advertisements are increasingly entering daily life. More and more urban residents are becoming accustomed to acquiring shopping information in this way. In recent years, the Beijing TV Station has launched an advertising program, TV Market. The diverse, lively forms and practical contents have enabled it to gain high ratings. Advertising is no longer considered non-essential. It is now a major part of the tertiary sector, receiving special government attention. Advertising has even become one of the top 10 occupations in China. The Chinese advertising industry has maintained first place world-wide in terms of growth over the past 17 years. Advertising turnover has soared to 40 percent on a yearly basis, and the 1996 figure of over 30 billion yuan was more than 200 times that of 1981.21. (para. 1) The first sentence implies that the color of the buses ion Beijing _.A. was bright and prettyB. was not bright and colorful as todayC. is just as beforeD. is not as bright and pretty as before22. (para.1) Beijing didnt change the color of its buses because of _A. some cultural reasons B. some political reasonsC. some economic reasons D. some historical reasons23. (para. 1) The word “stately” means _.A. of a state or a c B. of the governmentC. impressive and dignified D. having no citizenship24. (para.2) Beijing had to change her attitude toward bus ads owing to _.A. some cultural reasons B. some political reasonsC. some economic reasons D. some historical reasons25. (para.3) “To turn over” here means _.A. to hand in or giveB. to fall overC. to change the position ofD. to think about in ones mind26. (para.4) Residents of Beijing accepted the ads on their buses because _.A. they make Beijing more beautiful and vividB. they didnt damage the image of BeijingC. they make a lot of money for the bus companiesD. both A and B27. (para.5) People have changed their attitude toward advertisement because _.A. the advertisements themselves have changedB. people miss the ads which had disappeared for longC. ads can make money for the cityD. the peoples attitude toward ads have changed28. (para.5) If somebody is cold shouldered, he _.A. feels cold on his shoulderB. is not welcomeC. doesnt like to be close to othersD. is tired29. (para.6) The main idea of this paragraph is carried by _A. Sentence 1 B. Sentence 2C. Sentence 3 D. Sentence 430. The purpose of this passage is _.A. to tell a storyB. to explain and make knownC. to argue or persuadeD. to describePart IV True or FalseRead the passage below and then decide which of the statements are TRUE and which are FALSE.Passage 5 After Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, many people wanted to come live in the new land. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a great many Europeans, especially the English, left their countries and settled along the Atlantic Coast of North America between Florida and Canada. Some came to make a better life for themselves. Others, particularly the Pilgrims, the Puritans, and the Quakers, came for religious freedom. A group of men who wanted gold and other riches from the new land formed what they called the London Company. They asked the king of England for land in America and for permission to found a colony. They founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, in 1607. They purchased ships and supplies, and located people who wanted to settle in America. The voyage to America took about eight weeks and was very dangerous. Often strong winds blew the wooden ships off course. Many were wrecked. The ships were crowded and dirty. Frequently passengers became ill, and some died. Once in America, the early settlers faced even more hardships.31. America was discovered in 1492.32. According to the text, the largest group of colonists must be the English.33. Most of the early colonists settled down in Canada.34. Some of the colonists went to the new land because their life at home was hard.35. Jamestown was set up by people who wanted gold.36. Jamestown was set up in 1670.37. It would take eighteen weeks for people to get from Europe to the new land.38. The trip to the new land was comfortable in those days.39. The ships in those days were made of wood.40. People had a nice life once they reached the new land.Part V Short AnswerRead the passage below and then give a short answer to each of the questions 4145. Passage 6 Wall Street is the banking center of New York City. But how did the street get its unusual name? To find out,