大学英语B 统考-1系统及答案 一、阅读理解
Although the United States covers so much land and the land produces far more food than the present population needs, its people are by now almost entirely and urban society. Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture and forestry (林业) , and most of the rest live in or around towns, small and large. Here the traditional picture is changing: every small town may still be very like other small towns, and the typical small town may represent a widely accepted view of the country, but most Americans do not live in small towns any more. Half the population now lives in some thirty metropolitan areas (large cities with their suburbs) of more than a million people each ---- a larger proportion than in Germany or England, let alone France. The statistics (统计) of urban and rural population should be treated with caution because so many people who live in areas classified as rural travel by car to work in a nearby town each day. As the rush to live out of town continues, rural areas within reach of towns are gradually filled with houses, so that it is hard to say at what moment a piece of country becomes a suburb. But most and more the typical American lives in a metropolitan rather than a small town environment.
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）1. If now America has 250 million people, how many of them are engaged in agriculture and forestry?
A．About 25 million.
B．More than 25 million.
C．Less than 25 million
D．Less than 225 million. 得分：2
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）2. Which of the following four countries has the smallest proportion of people living in metropolitan areas?
A．United States.
B．Germany.
C．France.
D．England.
得分：2
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）3. What’s the meaning of the word “metropolitan” in the middle of the passage?
A．Of a large city with its suburbs
B．Of small and large towns.
C．Of urban areas.
D．Of rural areas. 得分：2
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）4. According to the passage, what can we learn about small towns in the United States?
A．Most small towns become gradually crowded.
B．Small towns are still similar to each other.
C． As the traditional picture is changing, towns are different.
D．Small towns are turning into large cities. 得分：2
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）5. Why is it hard to say when a piece of country becomes a suburb?
A．Because they are the same.
B．Because the rush takes place too quickly.
C．Because the process is gradual.
D．Because more and more Americans live in metropolitan areas. 得分：2
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The resources of the library can be helpful even when we are doing something very informal, such as trying to devise a better way to measure attitudes
toward music or looking for a better way to teach mathematics. The library can be equally helpful when we are doing something very formal, such as writing a dissertation (学位论文) or preparing an article for publication in a professional journal. In either case, our goal should be to use the library as a useful tool to help us understand and solve our problem.
The following sections of this chapter will describe specific resources available in many libraries. In some cases you may already be aware of a resource and may use it frequently and successfully. In other cases you may be completely unfamiliar with a resource. Your goal should be to become aware of what is available and to know how to use each of these resources to help you solve the problem they are designed to solve.
When educators have a piece of information that they want to share with their colleagues, they often make this information available in professional journals or at professional meetings. It would often be useful to have access to such information, and this chapter will describe the special services that enable us to locate such information.
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）6. The library resources can be helpful when we _______.
A．want to find a better way to measure attitudes toward music
B．are preparing a paper for a professional journal
C．are writing a dissertation
D．All of the above 得分：2
402888945ea950e70 （2.0 分）7. The familiarity of readers with different resources _______.
A．is more or less the same
B．varies slightly
大学英语B统考-1习题及答案
