国家开放大学电大专科《英语阅读3》2022-2023期末试题及答案试卷号：2157

1、国家开放大学试题国家开放大学电大专科英语阅读(3)2022-2023期末试题及答案(试卷号:2157)Part 】Read PaMagr I and decide the morning of the following words with the help of (he context. The panigniph in which the word sppeam bi Indicated In brackets Write A. B» <>r C on your answer hrc<. (30 potnUr 3 points each)1Agin* Crhb

2、 in Chinn1 MAgmgtM myji Alex Kalche« Head of thr ProtfrAmrne on Aging at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine* "i the number one proldctn in the world. And i( it in not addroned nowt there will be ncriouR conscqucncciu " It in fhc number one problem1* bccnuur the numbera

3、 of people over 60 and particularly those over 80 urc growing fa«U The rapid auinff trend in (liiriA fs populnlion aI»o poncn immrdiiitc chiillrnKeii to Chincne society- How can Chinn Ucr thin rhullcngr? A the social structure chonKeB in terms of drm<)Kmphic!i« no will tradition.2

4、In 1959 there were 200 million people over 60 in the world# uccounting (or 8 percent of the total population It ir predicted that in China by 2000 . the numbrr of retired pcoplr will be scvcrnl times that of the mid-90"t. In 2020 they will hnvc incrrniird by several time* aRAin. The problem in

5、th«t as more and more people Itvc longer and thrir number* increanc both m actual numbcni and rrlntivr to the? general populatione there will bt? fewer people io cre for them. The dependency rutio* am it called in aIao it (fee ted by the fnct thnt women > who have been the irAditional CArcta

6、kcm of the elderlyt «re bccomiriH more carccr-oricnrrd and arc not at home to care for their purcntiu3 Onr solution is Mrnior hom、 Tradnionnlly it considered a Chinrjic virtnr (orchildren (o uke core of their parrnu. But if people are workinH long hour*t older purentB (eel lonely At home* At se

7、nior citixcn cent rent they cmi grt good enrv from thewhonrc a I no willing to li»trn to ihrir utorieik et When I firm came hcret I complnincd about my daughterdcciaiont But gradually< I began to like thin pl" Wei Wonkuei* 86e MicL MThe nurso arc more timtiwt? than a hou»e rnuid. a

8、nd the food is tfoode " Wei AtnyitiK ai the Pcixin Senior Citisona Centre in Nanahi Dintrieh There arc only thrrr ncnior centres inthe Dong)mdu Neighbourhood in Nnnuhi DiMtwt. which in not enough (or morr than 20.000 people over the ngc of 60. However« the netghliourhucMl h.A about 15<0

9、00 laid-of( women wurkern who nrc caRer (or job., and the urea expects to open ncvcrnl new cent rm in the near future# Thein not only encouraning individunU to run senior cilucnf» homentbut the government h»el( in building centres#4 Some nay thnt thrs< homes tsolute the elderly from the

10、 rest of society and that keeping an intcrKcncrationttl bond in nccessnry for a richt wi»r MKicty. Another moclrl which help* oid proplc to live more independently is known om Mcarc in the community. " A unique example of thin in the °S()S lirll* for the Elderlyw nyitrm which wmm intr

11、oduced in (hangqinu Neighbourhood tn thr Western District tn 1996. und hna proved AUccenAiuL Fnmilira were encouraged to volunteer to form mutual help "pairL with elderly people who had no children nearby to cure (or them. Belin were affixed nt the bedside of lonely nnd ill ncfiior citisenfi an

12、d connected to the hornr of the "pair houMchold> " When the bell thr helper kcmjb at once In May 1997. the Beijing Committee (or the Elderly hud emerxoncy belb inntalkd in 297 home* in Beijing10 districts5 Although larger sociAl wcHmtc nysteru reform nerds to be undrrtakent thrive chang

13、esin the UnditionAl way of curing for old pcoplr uhow a ( hinn which ready nnd willing to deni with chnnge in a creative wny. Now ihflt MoverpopulationK «ndAging cnnin11 nre necn prublcmt by modern nocicty world-wide9 it in importnnt thnt the elderly are not ignored# alienated or nii>trcntcd

14、> but ruthcr trranurcd for lheir grriH store of rxperirncee I hrMc arc problems that need thoughtful »olulionmQurstlocift 1 10 arc l>M«cd on PmMigc LL Addressed (puniRniph 1)A. dijicuMHcdlit solved (: named.2< coiixequenceji (parARraph i ).A rcauhsB. rcAtonsC> prohlemji3. accou

15、ntin|( for (pnrn|(raph 2) A. ftiving rxplanAtion* C> taking upcure for (pnrnKraph 2)A- likeG pay attention to5. n fleet cd (pnrnKraph 2>A< infliirnccd( incrcnurd6. willing (paragraph 3)A. eftgerprrpuredIt coming fromK uke mre o(K drcrrAnetiB. urihftppy7. attentive (paragraph 3)A. cnrclrssC.

16、 hard-workiriR& run (paragraph 3)A. joinC move faxt9. isolate. from (pAragrAph 4 >A rparnte. . fromC< fake. from10. mintreated (paragraph 5)A. treat wellC treat bndlyPart UB. caringB. manageK prevent. fromB. trrnt ntrchillyKcud Passage 2 and choose cither A . B or (: to complete cnch of th

17、e following stntcmcntK WriteA. B or C on your answer Sect. (30 points. 3 points each)Passage 2 l>ata on Ocean Eloor*I At the waterf« edge c( Balhmorc Harbor* two freshly painted grny ships await to be *enl out °n their next mission. These are the workhorses of the Information Revolution

18、They are wiring the world to meet the explosive and ecminftly limitless demand (or Internets voice and video services> projected to be a $ 1 trillion-a-year global murket by20。0. The two whips. C< S Global Link and its companion the C S Global Manner arc among the most technologically advanced

19、 vessels in the business of laying underjicn fiber-optic communications cnbks. They are part of a worldwide fleett owned by Tye。 International Ltd. thut has installed more transoceanic fiber than any other company-2 Mont of the worldf s telephone and Internet traffic courses through these hair-thin

20、capillaries of glass# which stretch from one continent to another along the ocean (loon In constant pulses of light > coded in the computer language of ones and zerojit they flash millions of phone callst electronic mail messages> video clips and World Wide Web pAges at light speed.3 Undersea

21、fiber-optic cables have become one of the most crucial components of todays communicntion»-based global economy despite mid-1960s predictions that satellites would make earthbound long-distance communications obxolcte4 "Mosi people really do not realize the amount of telephone cables that

22、are undersea> and thnt their calk actuolly go through them." said Rob Jones captain of the C. S Global Link. There are 228.958 milcA (368.472 kilometers) of fiber-optic cable on the floors of the world、seat enough to encircle Earth Almost 10 timest according to KMI Corp, of Rhode Island Anot

23、her 177. 717 miles of cable are planned for installation worldwide by 2000 KMI estimates*5 Thn! figurr dorM not count thr most anihitiout program. Project Oxygen, which backers dtrribe an a $14 billion MSuper Internet- that would puy out 198.844 miles of mainly undersea fiberoptic cable touching 175

24、 countries. Oxygen nlrcady has the backing of 30 intrrnAtional tele cammunication providers find in scheduled for completion in 2003. project Oxygen m "the inont ambitioun project of communications in the 20th Etitury," mid President John Kestrel of KM1. The intcrnci tn n Tnnjor driver of

25、the cxpnnMion. Thr seconddriver i、the need (or video tranHninwuonn.6 Global dercKulAtiun of tckcommunicaTiun mnrkct* i* playing n key ml in thr ubnea fiber boom. Phone compHnieK around the world arc rapidly going private «nd KOvernmentA are opening their marketii ta compciiUon. Chinmc officuih&

26、#171; (or rxAmpkt c|eVerly phyed 14 comprtitoni off each other tn bim io build the first link between China nndthe United Staxes ami then ultimately told them nil to share the $ 1 billion contract.7 Phrascn nuch ns "quantum leap" and orders of magnitude frequently come up in dt$cnion»

27、 about advances in undersea fiber optics In 1998. when glass fibers began (o rrphcc copper in telecommunicaTionf people stopped talking in terms of hundreds of simult/incous phone calh per cable and started talking about tens of thousands Scientists at companies such as Cicnu Corp, of Maryland have

28、more than quadrupled fiber-cable capacity by using lasers to split light into colors9 sending diTa through each path in a process called "wrive division multiplexing* " The newest【mn牛Atomic cable can handle 2. I million voice conversations at one rime 一 or hundreds of ihousnnd of com press

29、ed video imAgesu The (hin®*(L & project will handle 4 million odk at once-8 Lucent Technology Inc , one of the I aiding fiber optic companies* unveiled the latent brenkthrougha The ability to trnnmit as many as 10 million calls over a single fiber by dividing the strand into 80 separate wav

30、elengths of light instead of 16. Lucent says the cablets 400-Rigabit (billions of computer instruction! per second) sperd is enough to curry the world's Internet traffic at any given time on one fiber. One voice phone call requires 6U000 bits. Is there any limit to the capacity increase? */bsolu

31、tely not." said Neil Tagnrc# Project Oxygen's founder and an undersea fiber veteran "There is in sight."9 And as the boom in fiber-optics continucA# the com of GIht dccTca*、. Each voice circuit tn n pre (ibcr tran«-Atlantic cable tn 1987 com about $ 40.00 annually to build an

32、d muintAin* Mr. Kessler said Today> the cost has dropped to roughly to $ 100 to $200 per circuit he said< The plunging costs* combined with deregulation and competition in phone mArketx. have made distance meaningless in communicaiioiui and the price of cnlh.10 Aboard rhe C. & Globa】 Link.

33、 Captain Jones remains very busy. The ship returnedto Blatimorr from thr Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean after dropping 2t000 miles of cable from Bomlmy to Malnysia as part of another major project > called Fiber Link Around thr Glebe Fkforc Bombay, it helped to lay Atlantic Crossings covering 3. 55

34、7 of Gher-opiic cables ot an average speed of 6 knots over 21 dnyiL It takes than two monthn to innixill n Atbintic cablc> Shipn u»c computcm tliAt nrc prournmrnrd to follow ti itpccilk rouir iiMinn nlob«l pOftitioninR natrllitr nAvigatinn MyNtcrnM< I hr routrn arc cho»rn nhcr r

35、nrefill undersell topotfraphical Aurvryn tht cnniiidcr such (nrtorM nn undvrwuter rrirthqiinkc canyonn and shipping and huhirig routcn> "If Rlubul link、cuntmur to |(raw they hnve in the last decode iE koiiik to get kind of crowded down thereJones.Questions 1120 arr based on Pasnge 2.1L Tyco

36、Intrrnnfionnl Ltd. A. i compuny which owns many shipuB. is « telephone and Internet companyC is a company in charge of Project Oxygen12 Rob JonesA. is captain of the Q S Global MarinerB. is captain of the C. S. Global LinkG ib President of KMI13. There arr of h be rep tic cubic on the floors of

37、 the worldsK. 228.958 kilometersB. 177.717 kilometer*C« 368.472 kilometern14. Project OxygenA. is a project of communications >n the 21jii centuryK in described as "Super Internet1" by its bockcr»G already han the backing of 175 countriesI5> were used for telccommunidtionn

38、in 1998.A. Optic fibcruK Copper cablesC Glos fiberb16. Thr newest trnnn Allnntic cablr enn hnndlc nt one time.A> 2. 4 million voice converiuiiionhIk hundreds of compressed video imngcMC. 2. 4 million calls17. One voice phone call requircnA. 400-gigahitB. 16 billion biuC 64.000 bits18. Neil Tagarc

39、 is>A. President of Tyco Intcrnntional LtdK captain of the G S. Global LinkC founder of Project Oxygen19. Which oft the following is NOT true? A Captain Jones has nothing to do after bonrding the C. S Global l.ink<B. The C S. Global Link returned to Baltimore from the Arabinn Sea and Indian Oc

40、ean.Fhe C. S Global Link dropped 2.000 miles of cable from Bombay to Malaysia20. It takesto install a tran»*Atlantic cabl&A less than 21 daysB. less than 2 monthsC more 2 monthsPart DIRead Passage 3 and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for fa

41、lse on yoar an«wcr sheet. (20 points> 2 points each)Psvaaicc 3Mario w lucky dog?】 On his fifty-fifth birthday the President decided to release some prisoners of the same age as a gesture oi goodwill Not too manyt but one> Bay from each of the twenty or lhiy overcrowded prisons in the smal

42、l slate* They would have to be carefully selected »q ah not to give trouble once they were out< men perhaps who had been ho long in prison that they had ceased to have any real contact with the outside world# None of them was to be told in advance of his lihrrty.2 Mijrio was therefore ntomsh

43、rd when he was called to the (iovernor 9 olficc one morning and told he was to be net Cree next day. He had spent almost three quarters of hiu lile in RaoL working out a life nentener fur stabling a policeman io death* He was a dull-witted man with no reiationft living nnd nu friends except his pris

44、on3 The followinR morning wa» clear nnd bright. Mario was given no opportunity to say goodbye to nnyonct but n guard escorted him to the prison gaten nnd wished him good luck. Alone< hr »cr off up the long white road leading to the town> The traffic< the noic* the absence of the s

45、ecure prison walls terrified him. Presently he sat down by the side of the road to think a liulr. After he had thought for n long rimrt far his brnin worked slowly he 函ne to a decision. Hr remained where he wm. wmting patiently until at Inst he ww a police car approaching. When it was near enough, h

46、e darted out into the road> obliging it to stopwi.h .呻d ofHehnd W汕 him 成血顷。wh.eh he had been allowed xo w -w some wooden figures (or the pnson church. When the young police。伍心赋。心 lhc 叫 d5d曲 to 血w whas wrong. M.no subbed him very、,呻心血血 right canQuestions 2130 are based on321. The President decided

47、 to release some prmoncr* because hr thought H would loo good aa a sign of kindnesn.22. The pri»oncr» chotcn to l»r relca»e<i were men who had alwayn been well behaved.23. Mana wah antoninhcd bcc«U!«e he had brrn tohl his rrlrac bvfarchand.24. From the pasmg we undcr

48、utnnd thni Mario had been in prison *11 hi oduh25. When hr w in the road outside the prison Mnrio found that hr lerrihed u(hcinK «lonr>26. Mario thought (or n lonR lime. bccnui»e hr w,n dull-witted rnn.27. When Mano dished into the rond. the pal心 car stopped28. The knife thnt Mario rnrr

49、trd hod been used lo cut firrwoud for the prinun29. Mnrio finally decidrei lo Mtub the policeman bccaune he wanted to hf »rnl to PMinagain.30. From Manova rxAmpIc* we can my thn! I hr PrrMcIrnt Muccccdrd in hm plnn.Purt ftHead Phmmkv I und iinwrr thr following qurMhmM. Mnkr your uniwrni ii、丽rt

50、und cw poMlblc. (20 polnl»t 4 polnli each)Piiwi好 4The Plcn»urm M Fitting| Thr first man who cooked hi» focxl* inniead of citing it r/iw lived m> long thm wr have no idrA who he wm t*r whirr he lived. We do know, however, thnt (or thouwtnch of ycum. food wm nlwayt enten cold mid rnw

51、. Perhaps thr (iE cookrd food wa> hmd lurddcnully by m forest fire or by the molten bivw from an erupting volcano. No doubi. when pvoplr (imt u»ted food that hod been cooked they found n tMted better. Hawwer # «vrn after thin discovery. c(x>kr<l food munt hnvc remained rarity unti

52、l man learned how to mke nd control fire.2 krly pcopIcM who lived in hot regions could depend on (he heat of the aun to cook thrir footL For rjuiniple* tn thr druert Arean of the soulhwcMtern United StAtes* the Indmn% cooked their food by placing it on flat Mone in the hot nun. They cooked piece* of

53、 meat nd thin c«kc» of corn mnl in thifi fashion.3 We enn iniagine lhai ihr eflrlicst kitchen utensil wns a Mtick to which a piece of meat could be attached and held over n fire. luiter thia Mtick wax replaced by an iron rod or Mpit which could be turned frequently to cook the meat on all sides.I ( cukmR 'ood in water was impojiiblc before mnn learned to muke water containrr th" <ould not hr drMroyed by fire. I'he firar cooking potN were reed or urn baskets in which »oupn and «tcwa could be cooked. Am early 1600 B.