大學(xué)英語閱讀理解練習(xí)題及答案　

1、 09 級 2 下大學(xué)英語閱讀理解練習(xí)題 下大學(xué)英語閱讀理解練習(xí)題 根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容，選擇正確的答案。錯選、多選，少選或未選均無分。 Passage one Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night

2、 on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle. Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then

3、 he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as b

4、efore. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something.

5、There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it ru

6、n through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine. Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to h

7、is problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Ja

8、ne Eyre. To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(無意識的), but still active part understands your experience

9、s and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can

10、 send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes ca

11、lled “secret messages to ourselves”. 1.According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.【 C 】 A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep B. much more hard-working than other inventors C. the f

12、irst person to design a sewing machine that really worked 2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.【 A 】 6. When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother________.【 D 】 A. would expect to work unt

13、il she died B. was usually expected to take up paid employment C. would be healthy enough to take up paid employment D. was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely 7. Many girls, the passage says, are now li

14、kely to ________.【 D 】 A. marry so that they can get a job B. leave school as soon as they can C. give up their jobs for good after they are married D. continue working until they are going to have a baby 8. Accor

15、ding to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.【 C 】 A. stay at home after leaving school B. marry men younger than themselves C. start working again later in life D. marry while still at school

16、Passage three Swimming is one of those activities that can be learned early in life. Little children can learn to swim as soon as they walk. In fact, you need the same skills in walking as in swimming. However, I believe

17、 that five is the best age to learn. By five or six, a child knows fear of water, a very important thing to know. It's wise to be afraid, to recognize true danger. Young ones understand that the water can sometimes

18、be very dangerous. To really benefit from swimming, every swimmer should learn, as soon as possible, these four basic strokes; butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, and crawl. I feel that one of these-the breaststroke-is d

19、ifferent from the others, since some young swimmers use this stroke naturally, without any training. In swimming there are certain rules every swimmer should follow: 1. Never swim alone! No matter how good you are in th

20、e water, don't risk drowning by swimming alone. If you swim by yourself , with no life guards or friends with you, you may get into trouble. 2. Don't go beyond your abilities. Most swimmers know enough not to

21、 swim too far from the bank or the beach, Showing off by doing dangerous tricks is no good. Swim safely and you will continue to swim and alive. 3. Don't smoke. Swimming depends on a healthy body; good lungs are par