大学生英语竞赛A类阅读理解专项强化真题试卷11
阅读理解
For more than a mile, the desert in southern Peru has a curious ruler-straight and tack-sharp design made by rocks. The wandering mule paths that cross it only emphasize its precision.
1.Why do people name the patterns the Nazca Lines?
Because some of the figures resemble the ones that decorate Nazca pottery．
解析：(参见第三段第一句话。)
2.Are there any definite reasons for the construction of Nazca Lines? If not, what does the author offer?
No．there are not．The author offers some guesses／theories．
解析：(第五段前三句话提到“但是他们为什么要建造Nazca Lines?没有人真正知道。这有很多的猜想。”随后就介绍了这些猜想。)
3.Could those who built the Nazca Lines see the patterns? If not, how can people now see them?
No．they couldn’t．People now can only see them from the air．
解析：(第六段提到了一个谜团“为什么Nazcas要创造这些他们自己永远都看不到的巨大的设计，而这些设计现在人们只能从空中才能看到”)
4.Did Maria Reiche believe the Nazca Lines have something to do with outer-space visitors? What was her reason?
No．she didn’t．The ground is too soft for the spacemen to land on．
解析：(倒数第二段引用Maria Reiche所说的话“一旦将这些石头移开，地面是相当软的。恐怕宇航员会陷进去”。“I’m afraid the spacemen would have gotten stuck．”中用的是虚拟语气，表示与过去事实相反。)
5.What’s Reiche’s contribution about the mystery of the Nazca Lines even though she had not solved it herself?
She crusaded to preserve the patterns．
解析：(最后一段提到“尽管Maria Reiche没能找到答案，但是她发起保护这些图案的运动使得后来者可以有机会找到答案。)
6.In the past, most cities were not planned and they just grew up spontaneously.(A)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：(文中第一句话提到“过去，大多数的城市是繁荣的乡村和城镇自然发展的结果。”)
7.Garden cities built by Howard never aroused widespread enthusiasm.(B)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：(倒数第二段最后一句提到“Welwyn和Letchworth(霍华德建造的花园城市)都幸存下来了而且还得到了发展，在随后的几年里特别是二战之后，英国的规划者对它们重新燃起了兴趣。”)
8.It can be inferred that the author believes the construction of big cities is a mistake.(A)
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
解析：(在最后一段中，作者介绍了大城市所带来的一些困扰，而且还提倡建设以霍华德的花园城市为原型的新型城镇。)
9.Many nations, alarmed by the urban sprawl that has been gobbling up farmland and open countryside, and appalled by the staggering urban problems in the central cities, have begun building new cities that are specifically designed to meet modern needs.
城市的扩张侵占了农田和开阔的农村，这给许多国家敲响了警钟，他们被中心城市出现的令人困惑的城市化问题所震惊，于是已经开始建设为了满足现代化需要而特别设计的新型城市。
解析：
10.Furthermore, these new towns—modeled on Howard’s garden cities—could also drain off the surplus population of the large cities, relieving the overcrowded conditions, housing shortages, slums and traffic jams that plagued them.
而且这些以霍华德的花园城市为原型的新型城镇，可以分散大城市中的剩余人口，对困扰着人们的过分拥挤的状况、住房短缺、贫民窟和交通堵塞起到了缓解作用。
解析：
Sport is ubiquitous. Sky TV has at least thirteen sports channels. Throughout the world there is a proliferation of newspapers and magazines totally dedicated to sport. Sports personalities have become cultural icons, worshipped like movie-stars and sought after by sponsors and advertisers alike. Where sport was once for fun and amateurs, it is now the stuff of serious investment.
