自考英语（二）模拟试卷86
阅读判断
A Pay Rise or Not?
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1.Henry Manley was already deeply in debt.(C)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：
2.The job that had been offered to George in Birmingham paid better.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第一段最后一句话（the pay was far better）可得出答案。
3.If George took the job in Birmingham, he would have to leave his family at Wyeford.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第二段第二句话，如果选择在Birmingham工作，他将不得不将家搬到那里（he would have to move his family there），而题干说的是他将离开在Wyeford的家（would have to leave his family at Wyeford）。
4.Henry Manley’s company was in deep trouble.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第三段第二句话可知答案。
5.Henry Manley’ s company was making enough profits to raise the workers’ wages.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第三段内容，Henry Manley没有钱给工人加工资。
6.Henry Manley had no idea at all why George Strong wanted to see him.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文最后一段第三句话可知，Henry Manley猜出了George Strong来找他做什么。
7.George Strong was the best engineer in Henry Manley’ s company.(C)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：
8.The electric motors produced by Henry Manley’ s company are cheaper than those made in Japan.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第三段第二句话可知，日本厂家生产的同类产品价格更低。
9.Men like George Strong are important to the future of the company.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文最后一段倒数第二句话可知，如果公司不能吸引和留下像George Strong这样的人，公司是没有未来的。
10.In the end,Henry Manley had a good idea to solve the problem.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文最后一段最后一句话，Henry Manley并没有想出什么解决问题的好办法
阅读选择
Evolution of Sleep
Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalograph(脑电图仪的) sense we share it with all the primates(灵长类动物) and almost all the other mammals and birds; it may extend back as far as the reptiles (爬行动物).
There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators(食肉动物) are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized (使固定不动的) and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli. Dreamless sleep is much shallower, and we have all witnessed cats or dogs cocking their ears to a sound when apparently fast asleep. The fact that deep dream sleep is rare among prey today seems clearly to be a product of natural selection, and it makes sense that today, when sleep is highly evolved, the stupid animals are less frequently immobilized by deep sleep than the smart ones.
But why should they sleep deeply at all? Why should a state of such deep immobilization ever have evolved? Perhaps one useful hint about the original function of sleep is to be found in the fact that dolphins and whales and aquatic mammals in general seem to sleep very little. There is, by and large, no place to hide in the ocean. Could it be that, rather than increasing an animal\’ s vulnerability, the function of sleep is to decrease it? Wilse Webb of the University of Florida and Ray Meddis of London University
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