1、大学生英语竞赛D类真题 阅读理解2010年大学生英语竞赛 阅读理解Part IV Reading Comprehension (40 marks): Section A (10 marks)When we think of good health, we almost always think about eating good food and doing exercise. However, getting enough sleep and dreaming are also part of good health. After a hectic day of work and play,
2、 the body needs to rest, and sleep is the bodys response to this need. Sleep is necessary for good health. During this time, the body recovers from the activities of the previous day. The rest that you get while sleeping enables your body to prepare itself for the next day.There are four levels of s
3、leep, each being a little deeper than the one before. When you sleep your muscles relax little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts back and forth from one level of sleep to another.Although your mind slows down, from
4、time to time you will dream. Scientists who study sleep say that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs move more quickly (although your eyelids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement. Not only all humans, but all mammals have been shown to experience this R
5、EM stage. Dreaming is a normal and necessary part of a good sleeping pattern, but no one knows why we dream.If you have trouble falling asleep, there are a few possible ways of solving this problem. Some people recommend breathing very slowly and very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warn
6、milk will help make you drowsy. There is also an old suggestion that counting sheep will put you to sleep!Questions 5657: Read the questions and four choices marked A, B, C, and D, and decide which is the best choice according to the passage.56. Which of the following is not mentioned as having to d
7、o with good health? A. Eating good food. B. Doing exercise every day.C. Getting enough sleep and dreaming. D. Having medical examinations regularly.57. After you reach the fourth level of sleep, _ from one level to another.A. your muscles relax gradually B. your body shifts back and forth C. your he
8、art beats more slowly D. your brain slows downQuestions 58 60: Complete each of the following statements with no more than six words according to the passage.58. Scientists find that _ ones eyeballs move more quickly although their eyelids are closed.59. No one has any idea _, though dreaming is a n
9、ormal and necessary part of a good sleeping pattern.60. Breathing slowly and deeply, drinking warm milk or _ help a person to feel drowsy and go to sleep.Section B (10 marks)The Sunningdale HotelThe Sunningdale Hotel was built in 1910 and opened by Princess Louise. It has provided excellent service
10、for people from all over the world and people of all ages and nationalities have stayed here. During the past 100 years over 50,000 guests from 174 different countries have visited Sunningdale.The hotel is on one of the main. roads leading to the town center. It is about 20 minutes by bus from the c
11、enter of town, and buses to many other parts of the town stop outside the hotel. Guests should be careful not to travel on buses with the blue sign Express on the front because they do not stop near our hotel. An underground station is less than 100 meters away.The main building has 200 well-furnish
12、ed, centrally-heated single rooms, each fitted with hot and cold water basins. Showers, baths and toilets are at the end of all corridors.The hotel has a shop, sitting rooms, four television rooms, table tennis room, library and laundry. There are also eight pianos available for guests use. There ar
13、e spaces to park cars in the hotel drive.Daily newspapers are provided free and stamps can be bought at the office. Guests who stay for long periods must pay for their accommodation weekly in advance and one weeks notice is required for departures. Short or long term guests are welcome but long term
14、 guests are offered rooms first.No animals of any description or fires of any type (either for heating food or heating the room) are allowed, and guests are requested to respect the comfort of others. If you have tapes or CDs, please try to keep the noise level down to a minimum, especially between
15、the hours of 11 pm and 8 am.Guests are advised to use taxis to get to the hotel if they arrive by train because we are some distance from the main railway station.Questions 6163: Read the above advertisement carefully, and then tell whether statements 61 to 63 are true (T) or false (F) according to
16、the passage.61. An express bus will take you from the hotel to the center of the town.62. The hotel provides facilities for washing clothes.63. The hotel offers better service to guests who stay for a long time.Questions 64-65: Complete each of the following statements with no more than six words ac
17、cording to the passage.64. You should not play loud music in the hotel, especially during the hours _.65. If you arrive in the town by train, youd better _ to the hotel.Section C (10 marks)Novels, magazines, and newspapers - many people read these in their spare time. These days it is easy for most
18、of us to get hold of the latest books or magazines. We can go to bookstores, order them through the Internet, or borrow them from the local library. Now imagine having to walk miles and miles through a hot sandy desert just to borrow a book. This is the reality for people living in the villages of t
19、he Garissa region of Kenya in East Africa. In 2006, librarian Wycliffe Oluoch used to spend each day waiting for people to come to borrow some of the 24,000 books in his library in Garissa. The library had no shortage of books, but people werent corning to read them. It was too much effort to walk t
20、hrough the desert just to borrow books. Oluoch racked his brain for ways to attract people into the library. After a lot of thought, he hit upon a great idea. If people wouldnt come to the library, then he would have to take the library to them. Oluoch strapped boxes of books onto the backs of camel
21、s and invented the Mobile Camel Library.Starting with three camels in 2006, but more recently expanding the service to six camels, the Mobile Camel Library serves over one million people. Twice a month, the camel library can be seen carrying books all around the Garissa region. These hard-working an
22、imals need little water and can altogether carry up to 1,200 kilograms of books across the sands. A librarian, a library assistant, a herdsman and a lookout all travel with the camels. The lookout helps protect the books from thieves.The children of Garissa love the camel library and appreciate Oluo
23、chs efforts. Elevenyearold Mohamud Mohamed reads his library books carefully and always returns them on time. He knows the Garissa library punishes people for losing books, just like any other library. However, the punishment is very stiff compared to that of other libraries. If someone in a village
24、 loses a book, the camel library stops visiting the village.Read the above passage carefully and answer questions 66 to 70. Complete each answer with no more than 10 words.66. Why didnt people visit the library in Garissa?67. How many kilograms of books does each camel carry?68. What makes camels go
25、od animals to carry books through the desert?69. Whats the responsibility of the lookout in the Mobile Camel Library?70. Whats the punishment if a person loses a book?Section D (10 marks)A few years ago, people in England voted for the greatest person of all time from their country. They were not ju
26、st voting for the most famous person ever. They were voting for the people who had an impact on history. During this vote, anyone could add a persons name to the list, so the final list of names was quite long. It included people who were famous and unknown, rich and poor, loved and hated. Before th
27、e final deadline, about one million people filled out this survey. The Brits（英国人）on the final list included many people famous not only from England, but around the world as well. For example, Princess Diana, Tony Blair, John Lennon, and Shakespeare were four famous people on the list. Although thre
28、e of these people ranked high on the list, none was chosen as the greatest Brit. In the end, the winner was Winston Churchill, who received more than 400,000 votes.Why did so many people think Churchill was great? He led England as Prime Minister during World War II. During the war, Germany sent pla
29、nes to bomb England, and at the time, many people were afraid Germany would win the war. But Churchill gave the people in England hope through his speeches. He also worked with Roosevelt in the United States and Stalin in Russia to win the war against Hitler, so he became an important man in world h
30、istory as well.Churchill is quite famous for things that he said and wrote. In fact, he won the Nobel Prize in literature for his writing. Some things Churchill said were humorous while other things were serious. Also some things he said have become common sayings in English. For example, he was the
31、 first person to use the words the Iron Curtain to talk about Russias control of Eastern Europe. Some of Churchills most famous quotes are It is no use saying, Were doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary, and Never, never, never give up. Many quotes from Winston Churchill
32、 can be found in books like the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.Read the passage carefully and then complete each space in the summary, using a maximum of three words from the passage.Summary:There was a survey in England to find the greatest Brit 71 Some of the famous names on the list included Princess Diana and Shakespeare, but more than 400,000 people 72 for Winston Churchill as the greatest Brit. Churchill 73 England during World War II. He is also famous not only for what he did but also for what
