2018年山东专升本英语考试真题2

2018年山东专升本英语考试真题2

Part 3 Reading Comprehension(1 5 points each, 30 points)

Section a

Directions: In this part three passages followed by questions, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer: Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Passage one

In this age of equality. sameness between the sexes is emphasized as if differences have to mean problems Well, differences can mean problems, but only when they are not properly understood.

Imagine Adam alone in the Garden of Eden and you will have an idea about the way many men feel today. If the major issue for women is overload in their life --- balancing career, relationships, children, home --- the crisis for men is loneliness and the loss of women. Twenty-five years ago, most men came home from work to a warm meal, a clean house, the devotion of a gentle wife. Now the majority of women work outside, they are no longer the flltime housewives as before, so men are feeling deserted and easily hurt.

Women get emotional support through a network of friends and family. Most men don' t have such relationships; they are intimate only with their wives or lovers. As a result. any lessening of their partner's atention may be thought of as reiection or abandonment.

Bob's wife Sandy has a fll-time job, and he really prefers her bringing home extra income. Yet he also feels uneasy and troubled. "WhenI get home at the end of the day, wanting to have a talk with Sandy, "he said, "She puts me off First she makes dinner, then the kids need something, or a friend calls her. She talks with her sister, her girlfriends, her workmates, but not with me. I sometimes do feel abandoned and annoyed."

Since most men have difficulty admitting loneliness and hurt, they tend to become angry instead. Bob's constant complaints and criticism made Sandy confused and iritated. Eventually, they came up with a simple solution that met both Bob's need for time and Sandy's sense of responsibility to others.The first half-hour after Bob arrived home from work was“theirs ”, they would sit together and just talk to each other about everything they want to say.

51.Many men feel hurt and abandoned because_

A) women think it's unfair to stay at home doing housework

B) their wives are no longer gentle and caring to the family

C) the equality of men and women is strongly emphasized

D) most women have their own jobs and don't have enough time and energy caring about men

52. Why do men care a lot about their couples' atude tow ards them?

A) Because their differences can mean problems

B) Because they don't have a network of friends and family

C) Because they only want to have an intimate relation with their wives

D) Because men lack confidence now adays

53. Which of the following statements about Bob and Sandy is true?

A) Bob doesn't wish Sandy to do a flltimne job

B) Sandy is too busy to have time talking with Bob

C) Sandy puts Bob off since there's no common topic between them anymore

D) Sandy feels equal to Bob now and no longer loves him as before.

54. What does the passage want to tell us?

A) Differences between men and women would certainly bring problems

B) All human beings should be considered equal

C) Only sameness could bring happiness to a marriage life

D) Mutual understanding between men and women helps to solve problems.

Passage Two

Many people have the experience that getting up in the morning is so difficult and painful.This might be called laziness. But Dr. K leitman has a new explanation to this. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

During the hours when you labor through your work, you may say that you're“hot". That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as:“Get up, Tom! You'll be late for school again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature and energy peak in the evening

Much family qurelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help a lot. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract (对抗)your cycle to some extent by habitually stay ing up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do carly in the day, rise before your usual hour; This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam(鼓起干劲) and work better at your low point.

Get of to a slow start which scaves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by lay ing them out the night before. Whenever possible. do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

55. According the passage, what might bring family quarrels to the end?

A) Stopping familiar monologues every day

B)A sudden change of a family member 's energy cycle

C) Being aware of energy cycles of other family members

D) Trying to control the energy cycles of other members

56. If one wants to do better at his low point in the morming, he should

A) change his energy cycle

B) go to bed earlier the day before

C) try to overcome his laziness

D) get up earlier than usual

57. What does the sentence "get off to slow start which saves your energy" mean?

A) It will help you to controlyour temper early in the day

B) It will enable you to concentrate on your routine work

C) It will help to keep your energy for the whole day's work

D) It will keep your energy cycle under control all day

58. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A) Dr Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of day.

B) Habit can help people adjust to their own energy cycle

C) Each person has his own energy cycle.

D) Getting up with a slow start helps us to save energy for work