1、公共英语三级阅读理解专项试题（四）一、ReadingComprehension（共60小题,共60.0分）Read the following three textsAnswer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D第1题Quite a few people frown at the telephone bill, a regular visitor who makes its polite but firm call once amonth. Friends frown at it and shake their heads,
2、 looking stupidlyhelpless. The next move that friends make is to swear at the trick the phone company plays withpeople: letting you use the phone first, encouraging you to use it more, and finally charging youheartlessly. The third move, after swearing, is likely to be picking the phone up and start
3、ing a funny long chat with someone somewhere across the wholecontinent. The bill, in plain words, is a moneycollector. Household bills include those for electricity, water, gas, garbage pickup, telephone, and cableTV. Credit card holders find more opportunities to frown because they also have bills
4、from banks and companies that may be located in New York City or Nebraskafarmlands. Here is a simpleaddition: suppose you hold three credit cards, plus household bills, you need to take care of nine regular bills amonth. Usually, bills come in on different days, giving you two or three weeks to hand
5、lethem. You seem to be always receiving bills, and sending outpayments. You feel that you live to paybills. There are some irregular or long term bills coming for, say, the car insurance, the health insurance, publication subscriptions, first aid, or a fine for something, like a parking violation, t
6、hat you did or did notdeserve. The principle is that whenever your balance in the bank account is going up, you know it is about time for some special bills to arrive for you to payoff. Because bills are part of everyday mail delivery, going to check the mailbox is no longer a matter of pleasanthope
7、. Some people handle bills in a coolway: forgetting them for a while by throwing them under thecouch. Once the bothersome thing has disappeared from you, you tend to stop worrying aboutit. As a Chinese cynical idiomgoes: The more debts the lessconcerns. According to the passage, a regular visitoris_
8、. A a friend of the author B a telephone operator C something which collects money D someone who delivers telephone bills【正确答案】 ：C 【本题分数】：1.0分第2题Which of the following is NOT the trick of the phone company?A To encourage people to install an extraphone. B To use the phone as much aspossible. C To of
9、fer opportunities to usephones. D To collect money from the phone usersmercilessly.【正确答案】 ：A 【本题分数】：1.0分第3题What does the author want to tell us from the additional information?A The post office takes care of regularbills. B A person suffers a lot from receivingbills. C Bills are usually paid through
10、 creditcards. D Paying bills is a legalactivity.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第4题Why did the author say that going to check the mailbox is no longer a matter of pleasant hope?A it is a simple routinework. B There is too much advertisingstuff. C There are too many unexpected letters toread. D A bill is always
11、 to be found in themailbox. 【正确答案】 ：D 【本题分数】：1.0分第5题What does the author mean by mentioning a Chinese cynical idiom?A You should collect all the billstogether. B Do not concern too much about thebills. C If you dont pay the bill in time, you will have moredebts. D If you have many debts, nobody will
12、 trustyou.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第6题It is well known that when an individual joins a group he tends to accept the groups standards of behavior andthinking. He is expected to behave in accordance with these normsin other words the group expects him toconform. Many illustrations could be given of this f
13、rom everyday life, but what is of particular interest to psychologists is the extent to which peoples judgments and opinions can be changed as a result of grouppressure. In a typical experiment, the experimenter asks for volunteers to join a group which is investigating visualperception. The victims
14、 are not, therefore, aware of the real purpose of theexperiment. Each volunteer is taken to a room where he finds a group of about seven people who are collaborating with theexperimenter. The group is shown a standard card which contains a singleline. They are then asked to look at a secondcard. Thi
15、s has three lines onit. One is obviously longer than the line on the first card, one is shorter and one the samelength. They have to say which line on the second card is the same length as the line on the standardcard. The other members of the group answer first but what the volunteer does not know
16、is that they have been told to pick one of the wronglines. The volunteer sees that the other members of the group unanimously choose a line which is obviously not the same length as the one on the standardcard. When it is his turn to answer he is faced with the unanimous opinion of the rest of the g
17、roupall the others have chosen line A but he quite clearly sees line B ascorrect. What will he do?According to Asch, more than half of the victims chosen will change theiropinion. What is equally surprising is that, when interviewed about their answers, most explained that they knew the group choice
18、 was incorrect but that they yielded to the pressure of the group because they thought they must be suffering from an opticalillusion. Psychologists are interested in_. A how far group pressure can influence peoples judgements B how to make judgements according to everyday experience C how to change
19、 peoples judgements D the groups standards of social behavior【正确答案】 ：A 【本题分数】：1.0分第7题In the experiment, who have been told to pick the wrong line?A Thevictims. B The volunteer C Theexperimenter. D The othermembers.【正确答案】 ：D 【本题分数】：1.0分第8题In what circumstances do most people yield to pressure?A When
20、the group isseparated. B When the group isunanimous. C When they know they are thevictims. D When they are forced to answerquestions.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第9题 The experiments demonstrate that_. A nearly every individual will behave differently from others B group pressure is caused by the interferenc
21、e of the psychologists C psychologists wish to change the peoples judgements and opinions D people will change their ideas under group pressure【正确答案】 ：D 【本题分数】：1.0分第10题The best title of this passage would be_. A ATypical Experiment B Are We Afraid to be Different?C The Groups Standards of Behaviour
22、andThinking D Does an Individual Need to Follow a Groups Standards?【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第11题A television camera does not look at a scene as a whole in the same way as a film camera;instead, it scans thescene. Scanning was first used in the transmission of pictures bytelegraph. A light beam looked at
23、 a very small part of the picture and translated what it saw into an electric current, which varied in strength according to the amount of light which passed through the picture at thatpoint. It then moved on to the next tiny part of the picture, working across it from left to right, then moving dow
24、n a line and repeating the process, until it had scanned the wholepicture. At the receiving end, the signals were re-translated into a series of dots which, when looked at from a normal reading distance, reproduced the originalpicture. The television camera also looks at a scene as a series of dots;
25、each dot of light is translated by the camera tube into an electronicsignal. The black and white television receiverthe set in your living-room must re-translate the information received from the camera into a series of dots of varying brightness to make up thepicture. An electron gun shoots a beam
26、of electrons at a screen coated with a substance which lights up when the electrons hitit. Only one dotof the screen lights up at a time as the electron beam moves across from left to right in a series of lines, but the movement is so quick that the viewer watching the other side of the screen sees
27、only the completepicture. The number of lines in the picture varies according to the systemused. In Britain, theB.B.C. used 405 lines for many years, but is now also using 625lines. Soon, all television in Britain will be on 625lines. The picture of 625 lines, known as a field, is transmitted in Bri
28、tain at the rate of fifty fields persecond. Which of the following statements is true?A A film camera scans thescene. B A television camera scans thescene. C The scene is first stored in a lightbeam. D An electric current passes through thescene.【正确答案】 ：B 【本题分数】：1.0分第12题After the process of the firs
29、t scanning, the signals are re-translated into a form of_. A a line B a picture C dots D scene【正确答案】 ：C 【本题分数】：1.0分第13题In making up a picture, the black and white television is essentially based on_. A various brightness of dots B a normal electric current C the number of lines in the picture D the
30、speed of electrons hitting on the screen【正确答案】 ：A 【本题分数】：1.0分第14题What decides the number of lines in the picture?A TV setsused. B The size of a televisionscreen. C The geographicallocations. D The systemused.【正确答案】 ：D 【本题分数】：1.0分第15题This article is mainly talking about_. A Television cameras B Telev
31、ision lines C Color television D Black and white television【正确答案】 ：A 【本题分数】：1.0分第16题During the meal, youd better be careful not to leave a spoon in a soup bowl or coffee cup or any otherdish. The coffee spoon ought to be on the saucer, the soup spoon ought to be on the plate under thebowl. When you are having soup, make the least noises and use the side of your spoon inside out this way, no
