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1、专升本阅读理解经典例题解析doc第四部分阅读理解第一篇Clea n your plate! and Be a member of the clea n-plate clubs! Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a pare nt or gran dpare nt. Often, its accompa nied by an appeal: Just thi nk about those starving orphans in Africa! ” Sure, we should be grateful for every bi

2、te of food. Unfortun ately, many people in the US take too many bites 3. In stead of stay ing clea n the plate, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer

3、, with two to four times the amount recommended by the gover nment, accord ing to a USA Today story. America ns traditi on ally associate qua ntity with value and most restaura nts try to give them that. They prefer to have customers compla in about too much food rather tha n too little.Barbara Roll

4、s, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaura nt porti on sizes bega n to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the America n waistli ne bega n to expa nd.Health experts have tried to get many restaura nts to serve smaller porti ons. Now, appare ntly, some c

5、ustomers are calli ng for this too. The restaura nt in dustry trade magaz ine QSR reported last month that 57 perce nt of more tha n 4,000 people surveyed believe restaura nts serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey in dicat

6、es that many America ns who cant afford fine dining still prefer large porti ons. Seventy perce nt of those earning at least $150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 perce nt of those earning less tha n $25,000 want smaller.Its not that work ing class America ns dont want to eat health

7、y. Its just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck, happy t9 save a little money for n ext years Christmas prese nts.注释：1.Be a member of the clean-plate club!做清盘俱乐部的成员2.Just thi nk about those starvi n

8、g orpha ns in Africa! 只要想想在非洲挨饿的孤儿们！3.take too many bites 吃得太多4.A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story.根据今日美国干刊登的一个故事，服务员给每个顾客一盘饭菜，其量是政府推荐的二至四倍。5.Its just that, after long hours at low-p

9、aying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal.事情是这样的，美国工人觉得做许多个小时低收入的工种下来，盘子1.Pare nts in the Un ited States tend to ask their childre nA)to save food.B)to wash the dishes.C)not to waste food.D)not to eat too much.2.Why do America n restaura nts serve large porti ons?A)Becaus

10、e America ns associate qua ntity with value.B)Because America ns have big bellies.C)Because America ns are good eaters.D)Because America ns are greedy.3.What happe ned in the 1970s?A)The US gover nment recomme nded the amount of food a restaura nt gave to a customer.B)Health experts persuaded restau

11、ra nts to serve smaller porti ons.C)The Un ited States produced more grain tha n n eeded.D)The America n waistli ne started to expa nd.4.What does the survey in dicate?A)Many poor America ns want large porti ons:B)Twen ty perce nt America ns want smaller portions.C)Fifty seve n perce nt America ns e

12、arn $150,000 per year.D)Twenty three perce nt America ns earn less tha n $25,000 per year.5.Which of the followi ng is Not true of worki ng class America ns?A)They work long hours.B)They live from paycheck to paycheck.C)They dont want to be healthy eaters.D)They want to save money for their childre

13、n.【Key: CADAC 】第-二二篇If there is one group of workers across the Wester n world who will be glad that Christmas is over, that group is shop workers .It is not that they like to complain. They realize that they are going to be rushed off their feet at Christmas. They know that their employers need hap

14、py customers to make their profits that pay their wages. But there is one thing about working in a shop over Christmas that is too bad to tolerate.That thing is music. These days, all shops and many offices have what is known as “ Piped Music ” or muzak playing for all the hours that they are open.

15、Muzak has an odd history. During the 1940s, music was played to cows as part of a scie ntific experime nt. It was found that cows which liste ned to simple, happy music produced more milk. Perhaps workers and customers who liste ned to simple, happy music would be more productive and spe nd more mon

16、 ey.In fact, no body knows what effect play ing muzak in shops has on profits It is simply something that everybody does . But we are learning more about the effect of constantly repeated hearings of songs on the people who have to hear them all the time .Research shows that repeated heari ngs of co

17、mplex pieces of music bring greater enjoyme nt before becoming tiresome . And that point come much sooner with simple songs.Thats especially the case with tunes that arc already familiar. Once that tipping point is reached, repeated listening become unpleasant, says Professor John Sloboda of UKs Kee

18、le Universitys music psychology group . And the less control you have over what you hear, the less you like it. ”Thats why police forces in the US often try and resolve hostage situati ons by play ing pop songs over and over again at high volume . Eventually, it becomes too much for the criminals to

19、 sta nd and they give up .The problem gets particularly bad at Christmas , when the muzak consists entirely of the same few festive tunes played over and over aga in. What makes it worse for the shop workers is that they already know these tunes. They get bored very quickly. Then they get irritated.

20、 Then they get an gry.Shop workers in Austria recently threatened to go on strike for the right to silenee. Shop workers cant escape the Christmas muzak. They feel as if they are terrorized all day. Especially Jingle Bells . It arouses aggressive feelings, said Gottfried Rieser, of the Austrian shop

21、 workers union.It is not just shop workers who complain. A survey this year by UK recruitment website R found that Christmas is not only the most testing time for shop workers, but that almost half had complaints from customers about muzak. And the British Royal National Institute for the Deaf estim

22、ates that some stores play jin gle Bells 300 times each year.Thats acoustic torture, says Nigel Rodgers of Pipedow n, a group aga inst muzak. Its not loud but the repetitive n ature causes psychological stress.The group wants the gover nment to legislate aga inst unwan ted music in stores, hospitals

23、, airports, swimming pools and other public places, claiming it raises the blood pressure and depresses the immune system.Perhaps groups like Pipedow n dont really have much to compla in about. After all, surely the real point is that people have money to spe nd. Why compla in about a bit of music?注

24、释：1.piped music通过线路输送的音乐2.And that point come much sooner with simple songs.那一点(时刻)在听简单的歌曲时来的 更快。That point指上一句中讲到的听复杂的音乐时先觉得好听，然后就会感到厌烦。这 个出现变化的时刻。3.tipping point从量变到产生质变的那一刻。这里指反复听已经熟悉的曲调，从喜爱变为讨 厌的那一刻。4.Jingle Bells铃儿响叮当，西方国家十分流行的一首圣诞节歌曲。1.The shop workers in the Western world are glad when Christ

25、mas is over because they dont have toA)rush their feet off all day.B)liste n to the music play ing all the time in the shop.C)work overtime to make more profits for the boss.D)try to please the customers.2.It has bee n proved that liste ning to simple, happy has a good effect onA)cows.B)workers.C)cu

26、stomers.D)bosses.3.Which of the following statements is true; according to the research findings reported in paragraph 6?A)Repeated heari ngs of complex pieces of music are enjoyable and not tiresome.B)Repeated hearings of complex pieces of music are tiresome at first and then becomeenjoyable.C)Repe

27、ated hearings of simple songs are more enjoyable than those of complex pieces ofmusic.D)Repeated heari ngs of simple songs become tiresome sooner tha n those of complex pieces of music.4.In hostage situati ons the US police forces repeatedly play pop songs at high volume in order toA)put pressure on

28、 the crim in als.B)distract the attention of the criminals.C)keep the crimi nals awake.D)please the crim in als.5.According to the article, which of the following most appropriately indicates the nature of the effect repeated heari ng of the same tune produces on the hearer?A)Social.B)Physical.C)Psy

29、chological.D)Both physical and psychological.【Key: BADAD 】第三篇Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead last Saturday in his cell at the Hague-based Intern ati onal Crimi nal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The 64-year-old had bee n on trial there since February 2002.Born in prov i

30、n cial Pozarevac in 1941, he was the sec ond son of a priest and a school teacher. Both of his pare nts died whe n he was still a young adult. The young Milosevic was un typical, says Slavoljub Djukic, his unofficial biographer. He was not interested in sports, avoided excurs ions and used to come t

31、o school dressed in the old-fashi oned way-white shirt and tie. One of his old friends said, he could imagi ne him as a stati on-master or pun ctilious civil serva nt.In deed that is exactly what he might have become, had he not married Mira. She was widely believed to be his drivi ng force.At unive

32、rsity and beyond he did well. He worked for various firms and was a communist party member. By 1986 he was head of Serbias Central Committer. But still he had not yet really bee n no ticed.It was Kosovo that gave him his chanee. An autonomous provinee of Serbia, Kosovo was home to an Albanian majority and a Serbian minority. In 1989, he was sent there to calm fears of Serbia ns who felt they were discrim in ated aga in st. But in stead he play