北京语言大学20春《阅读（II）》作业4【参考答案】

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熊猫奥鹏:20春《阅览（II）》作业4
1.No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies squeezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judson＇s slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a street railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker)in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took 22 years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical. 疑问：The first zipper was invented in ( )
A.the end of the 18th century
B.the beginning of the 19th century
C.the end of the 19th century
D.the beginning of the 20th century
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2.I believe this "clock-dependent alerting"can often deceive people into thinking they are (sufficiently)meeting their sleep needs.
A.adequately
B.poorly
C.nearly
D.hardly
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3.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year.疑问：More than 2 billion quarts of ice cream have been eaten ( )
A.by Americans in one year
B.all over the world in one year
C.since the time of Nero
D.since America was discovered
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4.At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. 疑问：The problem with the Marathon race at the 1908 Olympics in London was( )
A.the distance to be covered
B.the hot weather
C.the route of the race
D.the destination of the race
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5.Everyone who eats in Carman\'s Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant\'s discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn\'t meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:"Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break."Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn\'t have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman\'s.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn\'t just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel\'s pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again."It was incredible,"she says."There\'s a sense about Carman that is just can-do,"says regular Kevin Vaughan."It\'s infectious." 疑问: How many weeks did it take to reopen the restaurant ?
A.2 weeks
B.3 weeks
C.2 months
D.3 months
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6.For a few minutes silence (reigned).
A.continued
B.prevailed
C.was felt
D.was broken
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7.At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. 疑问：the accepted distance for the Marathon race was about ( )
A.50km
B.40km
C.30km
D.20km
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8."I can\'t take all the (bending) any longer,"she said.
A.standing
B.working
C.stooping
D.sitting
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9.Laboratory experiments have confirmed that the sleep-deprived mind is (prone to)"microsleeps".
A.likely to suffer
B.easy to do
C.sensitive to
D.dumb to
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10.Into the humble home of Armand Bernaud,in the Grande Rue,Dieppe,(suspense)and the shadow of death were invited.
A.suspicion
B.uncertainty
C.hardships
D.expectation
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11.No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies squeezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judson＇s slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a street railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker)in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took 22 years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical.疑问：Before Judson invented the zipper, people found buttoning clothes to be ( )
A.interesting
B.burdensome
C.easy
D.comfortable
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12.My father was 17 when he left the farm in Cameron,N.C., and set off for Baltimore to apply for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company. When asked what he wanted to do, he said,"Everything."He explained that his goal was to learn every job in the factory. He＇d like to go to a department and find out what was done there. When the supervisor determined his work was as good as anyone else＇s, he＇d want to go to a different department and start over. The personnel people agreed to this unusual request, and by the time H.T.Morris was 20, he＇d made his way through the huge factory and was working in experimental design for a fantastic salary. Whenever he went to a new department, he looked for the guys who had been around forever. These were the people novices usually avoided, afraid that next to them they＇d look like the beginners they were. My father asked them every question he could think of. They liked this inquisitive young man and showed him shortcuts they had developed that no one else had ever asked about. These sages became his mentors. Whatever your goals, plan to network with those who know more than you. Model your efforts on theirs, adjusting and improving as you go. 疑问：It took the author＇s father about ( ) years to be able to do every job in the big factory.
A.two
B.three
C.five
D.six
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13.At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. 疑问：the one who 1st finished the Marathon race turned out to be ( )
A.Hefferon
B.Dorando
C.Hayes
D.Alexandra
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14.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me."I\'m baffled,"he said."A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’"His teacher can\'t understand it.Neither can I."I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test."What is Mars?"I asked.Most children his age say,"A chocolate bar."He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:"Can\'t you come up with something more difficult?"I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was "off the map"as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark\'s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark\'s parents what they thought of him."He can be a pain in the neck,"his mother said."He asks such impossible questions,"she smiled."But we love him dearly."This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 疑问：The boy\'s parents looked upon their son as( )
A.a real genius
B.a normal boy
C.a mischievous boy
D.a boy that needs love
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15.Although American civilization took over and replaced the frontier almost a century ago,the heritage of the frontier is still very much alive in the U.S.today.The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotions and imaginations of the American people.Americans continue to be fascinated by the frontier because it has been a particularly important force in shaping their national values.The frontier experience began when the first colonists settled on the east coast of the continent in the 1600s.It ended about 1890 when the last western lands were settled.The American frontier consisted of the relatively unsettled regions of the country.Here,both land and life were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part.As one frontier area was settled,people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area.By settling one frontier area after another,Americans moved across an entire continent,2,700 miles wide. 疑问：The frontier continues to attract Americans because ( )
A.the movement helped to shape American values
B.American people are bored with the clamorous city life
C.American people are emotional and full of imagination
D.the movement took place a century ago
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16.Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition and variety,however.One, loosely based on Freudian ideas,has presented an image of the vulnerable child:children are sensitive beings,easily damaged not only by traumatic events and emotional stress,but also by overdoses of affection.The 2nd model is that of the behaviorists,whose intellectual ancestors,the empiricist philosophers,described the child\'s mind as a tabula rasa,or blank slate.The behaviorist model of child-rearing is based on the view that the child is malleable,and parents are therefore cast in the role of Pygmalions who can shape their children however they wish."Give me a dozen healthy infants,well-formed,and my own specified world to bring them up in,"wrote J.B.Watson,the father of modern behaviorism,"and I\'ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might-doctor,lawyer,artist,merchant,chief, and yes,even beggar man and thief!"The image of the vulnerable child calls for gentle parents who are sensitive to their child\'s inner-most thoughts and feelings in order to protect him from trauma.The image of the malleable child requires stem parents who coolly follow the dictates of their own explicit training proceduresnly the early eradication of bad habits in eating,sleeping,crying,can fend off permanent maladjustments. 疑问： A good title for the above passage is ( )
A.Two Models of Parenting
B.Two child images
C.The role of Pygmalions
D.J.B.Watson and his modern behaviorism
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17.Although American civilization took over and replaced the frontier almost a century ago,the heritage of the frontier is still very much alive in the U.S.today.The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotions and imaginations of the American people.Americans continue to be fascinated by the frontier because it has been a particularly important force in shaping their national values.The frontier experience began when the first colonists settled on the east coast of the continent in the 1600s.It ended about 1890 when the last western lands were settled.The American frontier consisted of the relatively unsettled regions of the country.Here,both land and life were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part.As one frontier area was settled,people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area.By settling one frontier area after another,Americans moved across an entire continent,2,700 miles wide. 疑问：Which of the following is not true?
A.the influence of the frontier has died out in modern America
B.American civilization substituted the frontier long ago
C.Americans are still fascinated by the frontier experience
D.the frontier experience lasted about 3 centuries
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18.The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic" two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed.疑问：Before 1924,all the winter sports competitions were held in ( )
A.Asia
B.Africa
C.Latin America
D.Europe
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19.The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as "Olympic" two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed.疑问: Coubertin didn\'t want to have a separate winter Olympics because ( )
A.the winter games could only be held in the Scandinavian way
B.the winter games could only be held in the Scandinavian countries
C.there had been more trouble in the winter games
D.he was worried about the future of the Olympic movement
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20.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me."I\'m baffled,"he said."A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’"His teacher can\'t understand it.Neither can I."I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test."What is Mars?"I asked.Most children his age say,"A chocolate bar."He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:"Can\'t you come up with something more difficult?"I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was "off the map"as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark\'s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark\'s parents what they thought of him."He can be a pain in the neck,"his mother said."He asks such impossible questions,"she smiled."But we love him dearly."This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 疑问：The author and the principal kept the boy in class with kids of his own age because ( )
A.they didn\'t intend to pamper the talented boy
B.they thought the boy should learn how to put up with less smart kids
C.they tired to set him up as a model for the class
D.they wanted the boy to be more sociable
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