大学生英语竞赛A类阅读理解专项强化真题试卷1
阅读理解
A new study conducted has demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars. The study compared the proportion of wealth poured into transport by 37 cities around the world. This included both the public and private costs of building, maintaining and using a transport system.
1.【A1】
broader
解析：(根据本文第四段第一句话可知，墨尔本的交通模式是一种更新更广泛地解决公共交通问题的办法。故填broader，意为“更广泛”。)
2.【A2】
environmental
解析：(根据本文第四段第二句话，即说明了在过去公共交通的出发点是环境和社会正义，并没有考虑经济；而现在与之相反，不再考虑环境问题。)
3.【A3】
climate／weather
解析：(根据本文第六段第二句可知，一些人提出反对意见的原因是当地气候，不是太热就是太冷，不适合使用交通工具。故正确答案为climate／weather。)
4.【A4】
less／little time
解析：(根据本文第七段第二句话，即地铁和汽车被设计出来的目的是允许人们住在更远的地方，但可以不花很长的时间到达工作地，即“花时间少”。故填less／little time。)
5.【A5】
car use level
解析：(第八段开头提到，一般财富水平提升鼓励人们使用汽车，但实际上欧洲给出了相反例子。再根据本文第八段第三句话，虽然欧洲同比美国人更富有，但是他们使用汽车的水平却不如美国人。故此处填car use level符合题意。)
The Indian vulture is medium in size and bulky. Its body and covert feathers are pale, its quills are darker. Its wings are broad and its tail feathers short. Its head and neck are almost bald, and its bill is rather long.
It usually is 80—103 cm long and has a wing span of 1. 96 to 2. 38 m. It weighs 5. 5—63 kg. It is smaller and less heavily built than the Eurasian griffon. It is distinguished from that species by its less buff body and wing coverts. It also lacks the whitish median covert bar shown by Griffon.
The Indian vulture is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined. Indian vultures died of renal failure caused by diclofenac poisoning. It breeds mainly on hilly crags in central and peninsular India. The birds in the northern part of its range once considered a subspecies are now treated as a separate species, the slender-billed vulture Gyps tenuirostris. These were lamped together under the name long-billed vulture.
6.【R1】
increase
解析：(根据文章第六段的第二句话，秃鹰消失导致了野狗数量增多，使得狂犬病的患病率也增加了。故填increase符合文意。)
7.【R2】
identify the disease
解析：(根据文章第七段的第一句话，解决这一问题的主要方法就是找到导致鸟类生病的病因，并研究出对应治疗。故此处填identifly the disease。)
8.【R3】
lack of energy／lacking in energy
解析：(根据文章第九段的第一句话，得了病的鸟儿的主要病状就是缺少能量，脖子下垂，几周后病死。故填lacking in energy或lack of energy。)
9.【R4】
dropping neck
解析：(根据文章第九段的第一句话，得了病的鸟儿的主要病状就是缺少能量，脖子下垂，几周后病死。故填dropping neck。)
10.【R5】
92
解析：(根据文章第九段的倒数第二句话，白背秃鹰数量下降了96％，而其他物种下降了92％。)
The Forbidden City, also known as the Palace Museum , and Gu Gong in Chinese, lies at the city centre of Beijing , and once served as the imperial palace for 24 emperors during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368—1911). It was first built throughout 14 years during the reign of Emperor Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty (1368—1644). Ancient Chinese astronomers believed that the Purple Star (Polaris)was in the centre of heaven and the Heavenly Emperor lived in the Purple Palace. 【E1】______It was forbidden to enter without special permission of the emperor.
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