国家公共英语二级（阅读理解）练习试卷41
阅读理解（含3小题）
I was in my third year of teaching writing at Ralph High School in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Mikey, gave me a note from his mother. It explained his absence (缺席) from class the day before:
\\
1.How did the author know that most parental-excuse notes were written by students them-selves?(B)
A. The excuse notes were written in dull words.
B. The notes were more like stories than facts.
C. He called their parents and found out the truth.
D. The handwriting obviously looked like children’s.
解析：细节题。题干意为“作者如何知道大多数家长的请假条都是学生自己写的?”根据第三段最后一句“The writers of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually dull…”可知，家长写的请假条内容都很枯燥，不会有很多情节，而迈克交的那张假条有许多情节。故B为正确答案。
2.What did the author do with the students found dishonest?(D)
A. He reported them to the headmaster.
B. He lectured them hard on honesty.
C. He had them take notes before lunch.
D. He helped improve their writing skills.
解析：细节题。题干意为“当作者发现这些学生撒谎时，他做了什么?”根据第四段第二句“So I decided to type out a dozen excuse notes and gave them to my classes．”和第五段首句“this will be the first class to study the art of the excuse note…”可知，作者这样做的目的是要帮助学生提高写作水平。故D为正确答案。
3.We can infer that when Mikey missed the class, he was________.(A)
A. out enjoying himself
B. taking care of his baby sister
C. looking after his grandmother
D. studying the art of the excuse note
解析：推理题。题干意为“我们可以推测当迈克缺课时，他在__________。”根据第三段第一句话“I had seen Mikey writing the note at his desk．I said nothing．”可知迈克给我的那张请假条的内容是他自己编的，请假条中的内容都不属实，由此可知B、C不正确。D项在文中并未涉及，故A为正确答案。
Do you remember the Millennium (千禧年) Goals? When world leaders celebrated the year 2,000 with a serious promise to reduce poverty (贫穷) and hunger, check the spread of AIDS, get boys and girls into school, and improve public health, all by 2015?
Well, three years down the road, and the UNDP\’s yearly collection of facts and figures already shows that if we carry on as we are, the only goal likely to be met is that for reducing poverty by a half, and that is entirely due to the success of one country—China. It is so vast that the fast-growing economy in China lifts millions of people above the poverty line, even though in Africa, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, people have actually been getting poorer.
Otherwise, progress is good only in parts. East Asia should meet its goal of reducing hunger by a half by 2015, and Latin America and the Caribbean are not far behind, but at the present speed of progress, Africa and South Asia won\’t get there for another hundred years.
The good news is that it can be done—there are success stories. Ghana—an economic basket case in the eighties and early nineties—has managed to find a way out of its difficulties and it\’s now comfortably in the middle range of countries, way ahead of the much more naturally wealthy Nigeria. For Congo, Cambodia or Iraq, ruined by war, or every southern African country damaged by AIDS, there is a Mauritius or a South Korea steadily working its way up the league table towards a better life for its people.
4.Which of the millennium goals is likely to be met according to the text?(B)
A. Improving public health.
B. Reducing poverty by a half.
C. Sending children to s
本文档预览：3500字符，共20055字符，源文件无水印，下载后包含无答案版和有答案版，查看完整word版点下载
