阅读题
Passage 1
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time, people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did, they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人)found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it . She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
43、This passage mainly discusses____.
A. the history of tea drinking in Britain.
B. how tea became a popular drink in Britain.
C. how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea.
D. how tea-time was born.
44、Tea became a popular drink in Britain____.
A. in the 18th century.
B. in the 16th century.
C. in the 17th century.
D. in the late 17th century.
45、People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because ____.
A. it tasted like milk.
B. it tasted more pleasant.
C. it became a popular drink.
D. Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea.
46、We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of____.
A. a famous French lady.
B. the ancient Chinese.
C. the upper(上层的) social class.
D. people in Holland.
Passage 2
Have you ever been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time.
“On the contrary,” says Linda Giambra, an expert in psychology, “daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldn’t get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day. You can’t possibly do all your thinking with a conscious (有意识) mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states of mind have silent dialogues.”
Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.”
Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. It is easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in your life and find out a possible way of dealing with them.
Daydreams cannot be predicated (预料). They move off in unexpected directions which may be creative( 创造性的 ) and full of ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.
47、The writer of this passage considers daydreams____.
A. hard to understand.
B. important and helpful.
C. harmful and unimportant.
D. the same as sleep dreams.
48、The writer quoted( 引用 ) Linda Giambra and Eric Klinger to____.
A. point out the wrong ideas of early experts.
B. list two different ideas.
C. support his own idea.
D. report the latest research on daydreams.
49、Which of the following is TRUE?
A. An unconscious mind can work all the problems out.
B. Daydreaming can give artists and scientists’ ideas for creation.
C. Professor Eric Klinger has a better idea than Linda Giambra.
D. Early experts didn't understand what daydreams were.
50、What is the main difference between daydreams and sleep dreams?
A. People have daydreams and sleep dreams at different times.
B. Daydreams are the result of unconscious mind while sleep dreams are that of conscious mind.
C. Daydreams are more harmful.
D. Daydreams are more helpful in solving problems.
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