2017年成人学位英语考前冲刺试题及答案（13）_第2页

　　Part II Reading Comprehension

　　Directions: There are 3 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 on Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　Passage One

　　Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

　　I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.

　　I wasted a lot of time looking for the typical village.Yet no such thing exists.Conditions vary too widely.But the villages I stayed in had much in common poverty, ignorance.Often the villagers themselves were puzzled suspicious.Why had I come I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had

　　changed.I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else.But to understand how three quarters of the world’s people live，and how their future might affect ours.I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.

　　In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains.I took the bus from town along a bumpy(崎岖不平的)road，then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river.After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to catch my breath，there was a magnificent view.

　　After several hours’ walk the village came into view.

　　31.After the writer had arrived in India

　　A)he spent a year writing about the place he lived in

　　B)he took quite a long time finding a suitable place to live.

　　C)he spent years looking for a certain village.

　　D) he lived in a Himalayan community for many months.

　　32.While looking for a“village”the writer found

　　A) he was searching for the impossible.

　　B) all the village were exactly the same.

　　C) the villagers made him feel confused.

　　D) the village asked him a lot of questions.

　　33.Before coming to India the writer

　　A) had been a successful politician.

　　B) had made a decision to do no more work.

　　C) had been dismissed from his job.

　　D) had written articles for publication.

　　34.The writer decided to change his way of life because

　　A)he no longer found his work interesting.

　　B)he wanted to live a peaceful life in the countryside.

　　C)he wanted to find out more about the Third World.

　　D) he thought living in a small community would be rewarding.

　　35.The village the writer finally chooses to live in

　　A) was situated at the end of a bumpy road.

　　B) had a letter climate than those in the plains.

　　C) was a short walk from the river.

　　D) had a magnificent view of the river.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 36 to 40 arc based on the following passage.

　　Natural gas began with the plant and animal life of the earth’s prehistoric seas.Dead organisms settled on the ocean floor and were covered by layers of mud，silt(淤泥)，and the layers of mud，silt，and sand were compressed into solid rock.As millions of years passed，these rock layers bucked shifted.and accumulation

　　of gas and oil were displaced and became trapped beneath masses of nonporous rock.

　　Primitive man discovered natural gas quite by accident.The temple fires of Baku on the Caspian Sea(里海)were fired by natural gas seeping(渗漏)from rock fissures(裂缝)，and worshipers(礼拜者，崇拜者)of hire journeyed to Baku from ad afar away as India.The mysterious“burning springs”in North America and elsewhere were also evidence of escaping gas，probably ignited by lighting.

　　The first industrial application of natural gas was made by the Chinese.Gas transported by bamboo pipes was burned to evaporate brine and produce salt.Today there are some twenty—six thousand industrial uses for natural gas，and new uses are constantly being developed.

　　Gas manufactured from coal was first produced early in the seventeenth century

　　Because of its elusive nature, it was called ghost, meaning “ghost”-hence, some

　　day ,our word gas.

　　36.The original material for natural gas were prehistoric .

　　A)plant life B)animal life C)minerals D)both a and b

　　37.The natural forces acting on the material were .

　　A)decay B)heat C)pressure D)all of the above

　　38.Over time，layers covering these materials changed to

　　A)rock B)oil C)mud D)all of the above

　　39.The occurrence of natural gas at Baku was once linked with

　　A)medicine B)religion C)chemistry D)geology

　　40.The probably cause of the “burning springs” is given as .

　　A)earthquakes B)heat C)lighting D)pressure