[题型] 阅读理解 [章节] 英语 [类别] 测试 [题干] Passage 1
这个部分你会读到5条短信息（Text1-5），请将这5条短信息的内容与column B相配对
Text 1
Things you Need to Know about Your Kitten and What Your Kitten Needs from You ·The more human contact the better—the sooner the better.
·Playtime isn’t just for you—it’s important for your pet’s development. ·It’s never too soon for your first visit to the veterinarian. Text 2
Getting to Know Your Library
An informal event hosted by the University Library for New or Interested Academic and Research Staff.
When: Wednesday March 23, 4: 00pm—5: 00pm
Where: Meeting Room Level 3, Library—Kensington Campus RSVP: s.towle@unsw.edu..au;9385 1247 Text 3 Events
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Chicago Children’s Theater Annual Gala A benefit enjoyed by the whole family
At the Big Top in Grant Park’s Butler Field
Festivities & Dinner under gala party tents in Millennium Park Text 4
Mother Day Special
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Text 5
Reno 911!: Miami
The story of William Wilberforce, who spearheaded the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in 18th century England. As a Member of Parliament, Wilberforce (Loan Gruffudd) did not … Column A Column B 1. Text 1 A. theater post 2. Text 2 B. announcement for a lecture 3. Text 3 C. advertisement 4. Text 4 D. leaflet for pet owners 5. Text 5 E. movie review [选项] [答案] [解析] [难度] 中 [分数] 10 [子题]
[子题型] [题干] Text 1 [选项]
A. theater post
B. announcement for a lecture C. advertisement
D. leaflet for pet owners E. movie review
[答案] D
[解析] 从第一篇短文的标题“Things Need to Know About Your Kitten”和正文的关键词中（kitten, pet’s development）可以看出，这是一篇怎样养护宠物的文章，故选 D。 [分数]
[子题型] [题干] Text 2 [选项]
A. theater post
B. announcement for a lecture C. advertisement
D. leaflet for pet owners E. movie review [答案] B
[解析] 从第二篇文章的关键词（An informal event, when, where 等）可以看出，这是一个发给学术研究人员的讲座通知，内容是关于图书馆的使用，故选 B。 [分数]
[子题型] [题干] Text 3 [选项]
A. theater post
B. announcement for a lecture C. advertisement
D. leaflet for pet owners E. movie review [答案] A
[解析] 从第三篇文章的副标题“Chicago Children’s Theater Annual Gala”以及正文中介绍的时间、地点等可以看出这是一个剧院举行儿童剧活动节的公告，故选 A。 [分数]
[子题型] [题干] Text 4 [选项]
A. theater post
B. announcement for a lecture C. advertisement
D. leaflet for pet owners E. movie review [答案] C
[解析]【解析】从第四篇短文的标题和正文的关键词，如 Special, buy, for just ￡34.95 等，可与看出这是一篇母亲节促销美食杂志的广告，故选 C。 [分数]
[子题型] [题干] Text 5 [选项]
A. theater post
B. announcement for a lecture C. advertisement
D. leaflet for pet owners E. movie review [答案] E
[解析] 从第五篇短文的关键词，如 the story of … who …，可以看出这是文艺作品的概要，正文最后一句出现了 Wilberforce (Loan Gruffudd) ，指的是由演员 Loan Gruffudd扮演的 Wilberforce，显示这种文艺形式是戏剧或电影，故选 E。 [分数]
[题型] 阅读理解 [章节] 英语 [类别] 测试
[题干] Since World War II, there has been a clearly discernible trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin dating in the first stages of adolescence, “go steady” through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. However, emotional maturity is no respecter of birthday; it does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even in three score years and ten.
Many students are marrying as an escape, not only from an unsatisfying home life, but also from their own personal problems of isolation and loneliness. And it can almost be put down as s dictum that any marriage seldom solves one’s problems, more often, it merely makes them worse. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the home is an institution that is capable of carrying all that the young are seeking to put into it. Young people correctly understand that their parents are wrong in believing that “success” is the ultimate good, but they erroneously believe that they themselves have found the true center of life’s meaning. Their expectations of marriage are essentially Utopian and therefore incapable of fulfillment. They want too much, and disappointments are often bound to follow.
Shall we, then, join the chorus of “Miseries” over early marriage? One cannot generalize: all early marriage are not bad any more than all later ones are good. Satisfactory marriages are determined not by time, but by the emotional maturity of the partners. Therefore, each case must be judged on its own merits. If the early marriage is not an escape, if it is entered into with relatively few illusions or false expectations, and if it is economically feasible, why not? Good marriages can be made from sixteen to sixty, and so are bad ones. [选项] [答案] [解析] [难度] 中 [分数] 10 [子题]
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[题干] According to this article the trend toward early marriage ______. [选项]
A. was the result of the Great Depression of the 1930’s B. could not be easily determined C. is one that could be clearly seen
D. is a result of the emotional maturity of the young [答案] C
[解析] 第一段第一句clearly discernible为本体提供了答案。Discernible意为：that which can be clearly seen。故选C。 [分数]
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[题干] The author suggests that many of today’s early marriage are a result of ______. [选项]
A. escapism
B. theological dictum
C. lack of formal education D. convenience [答案] A
[解析] 第二段第一句：“Many students are marrying as an escape”。早婚是为了逃避不满意的家庭生活，摆脱感情上的孤独，故选A。 [分数]
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[题干] More often than not, early marriage will ______. [选项]
A. not affect one’s problems B. solve a person’s problems C. intensify one’s problems D. ease one’s problems [答案] C
[解析] 第二段第二句。作者认为。婚宴很难解决隔热感情孤独的问题，相反，常常make them worse，故选C。 [分数]
[子题型]
[题干] The author states that the home as an institution is ______. [选项]
A. overrated
B. unworthy of worship
C. a god who can grant everything that you wish for
D. probably not capable of being what many young people expect it to be [答案] D
[解析] 第二段第三句“… all that the young are seeking to put into it”，显然是指年轻人对家庭的美好期望。故选D。 [分数]
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[题干] Many young people who marry early believe that ______. [选项]
A. their parents have found the true meaning of life B. they have found the true center of life’s meaning C. “success” is the ultimate good D. to succeed is not at all important [答案] B
[解析] 第二段第四句“… they erroneously believe that they themselves have found the true center of life’s meaning”，故选B。 [分数]
[题型] 阅读理解 [章节] 英语 [类别] 测试 [题干]
Remember global warming? Back in December, the threat of climate change was thundering and the rich countries agreed to cut their carbon-dioxide and other green-house-related emissions. Since then, interest has cooled markedly, and many European countries are already running away from the promises they made so loudly a few months ago. But there has been much talk, and a bit of action, to encourage renewable energies such as wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms. These emit no greenhouse gases, but tend to cost more than coal, oil or gas.
The better, simpler idea is to remember that the easiest way to reduce something is to tax it—in this case, by taxing the carbon content power. The dirtier the power, the more tax it would pay. So dirty coal would be more expensive than clean coal, which would see its price rise in relation to oil, which would be more expensive compared with gas, which would lose some of its price advantage over renewables.
Unless a carbon tax was so huge as to be economically crippling, it would not remove the price differential between all renewables and fossil fuels. But it would narrow that gap, by fixing the differing environmental costs into the price—a useful principle in itself. It would also give renewable producers a strong incentive to cut costs, and fossil-fuel suppliers the motivation to clean their products.
Precedents suggest strongly that a carbon tax would be effective. But the disadvantage to carbon tax is political. After almost a decade of trying, the Europe Union gave up an attempt at a European carbon tax last year. Germany’s ruling coalition is fighting against a proposed energy tax. In America, political believe that even mentioning the notion is certain death. But many of the political objections could be met if a carbon tax were made up for the loss elsewhere, for example by lowering payroll or sales taxes. There is always suspicion when governments come up with clever new ways to tax, and rightly so. The response to that suspicion should be to win the argument, not to abandon it. [选项] [答案] [解析] [难度] 中 [分数] 10 [子题]
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[题干] According to the passage, the easiest way to remove global warming is ______. [选项]
A. to encourage people to use renewable energies
B. to cut down the cost of wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms C. to force people to pay more tax for the carbon content of power D. to talk less but act more [答案] C
[解析] 第一段指出，全球温室效应的产生，主要是由于大量使用含碳燃料；第二段指出，收取一定的税费是减少任何东西的最有效方法。对于治理威胁气候变化的含碳燃料来说，这种方法当然也适用，所以选C。 [分数]
[子题型]
[题干] The standard of paying tax was ______. [选项]
A. that the more carbon content of power it contained, the higher tax one would pay B. that oil would be more expensive than clean coal C. that renewables would be most expensive of all
D. in the order that renewables are the most expensive while clean coal the cheapest [答案] A
[解析] 第二段说明了收税的标准是根据能源的含碳量来确定税率，含碳量越高，收取的税费就越高。所以A符合题意。 [分数]
[子题型]
[题干] We can infer from the passage that carbon tax ______. [选项]
大学英语A+--模拟试卷2答案及解析
