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各種閱讀測試中有些是考查考生對作者的主導思想、被描寫人物語氣、言談話語中流露的情緒、性格傾向和作者或文中人物態度、觀點等方面的理解題。做這一類題時一定要注意：

1）由表及里的準確把握字里行間的意思，切勿用自己的主觀想法或觀點代替作者的思想觀點。

2）特別注意那些描寫環境氣氛的語言，以及表達感情、態度觀點的詞語。要特別注意作者在文章中的措詞，尤其是表達感情色彩的形容詞。

3）能結合自己平時積累的有關英語國家的文化傳統、風俗習慣等背景知識來識別評價。

A

A well-known old man was being interviewed and was asked if it was correct that he had just celebrated his 99th birthday，“That’s right，”said the old man.“Ninety?鄄nine years old， and I haven’t an enemy in the world. They’re all dead.”

“Well sir，”said the interviewer，“I hope very much to have the honor of interviewing you on your hundredth birthday.”

The old man looks at the young man closely， and said，“I can’t see why you shouldn’t. You look fit and healthy to me!”

What kind of man would you say the old man was?

A. He was silly.

B. He was unpleasant.

C. He was very proud and sure of his health.

D. He was very impolite to young people.

B

Three men were discussing how to donate(捐獻) money to God. At first they couldn’t agree with each other， then they each told his own idea.

The first man said:“Let’s draw a small circle on the ground and throw coins to the ground. The money out of the circle belongs to God.”

The second man added，“We will donate the coins inside the circle to God because God is in our hearts.”

The third man said:“Your ideas are not bad， but I have a better idea than yours. Let’s throw coins into the sky. The coins that God accepts belong to him. So God can accept as much money as he can.”

At last， they agreed to the last idea， and they began to throw coins to the sky happily.

According to the passage， we can draw a conclusion that _____.

A. all the three men were kind?鄄hearted

B. the third man is more generous (大方)than the other two

C. none of them believed in God

D. three men are all stingy(吝嗇) people

C

We are in the computer age. We often see computers at work. They are especially useful in automatic control， date processing（數據處理）and solving complicated problems. And they are finding their way into the home. The part played by computers is becoming even more important with each passing day.

More and cleverer computers will continue to appear. They will run faster， have more functions and work more skillfully. They will take over more tasks from us， helping to change the face of our world. Some people even think that sooner or later computers will replace us.

However...

Which of the following statements is most likely to be talked about in the third paragraph?

A. Computers will soon stop developing.

B. Computers are as clever as man.

C. Many people like computers very much.

D. I don’t think computers will replace us completely.

D

There was ice on the road， and the doctor’s car hit a tree and turned over three times. To his surprise， he was not hurt. He got out of the car and walked to the nearest house， he wanted to telephone the garage（汽車修理廠）for help. The door was opened by one of his patients.

“Oh， Doctor.”she said，“I have only just telephoned you. You must have a very fast car. You have got here very quickly indeed. There has been a very bad accident in the road outside. I saw it through the window. I am sure the driver will need your help.”

Which of the following is the most likely reply the doctor gave the woman patient at the end of the story?

A.“Yes， he does need help — your help， not mine.”

B.“Another accident? I’ve just had an accident myself?”

C.“I got your call and rushed over. I hope I’m not too late.”

D.“I didn’t get your call. But I’m here and hope I can help.”

E

Imagine that the genome（基因組） is a book. The book consists of 23 chapters with thousands of stories made up of paragraphs， words and letters on different levels. There are one billion words in the book， which makes it longer than 5，000 volumes the size of this book， or as long as 800 Bibles. If I read the genome out to you at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day， it would take me a century. If I wrote out the human genome， one letter per millimeter， my text would be as long as the River Danube.

The real purpose of the author’s comparison of the genome to a book is ___________.

A. to focus on the differences between the two

B. to lay emphasis on the similarities between the two

C. to simplify the concept of the human genome

D. to give an exact description of the human genome

F

Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns， not far apart. Both towns have many hotels， and in summer the hotels are full of holiday makers and other tourists（觀光者）.

Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon. The next day， this news appeared on page two of the town’s newspaper. The Beldon Post:

FIRE AT SEABREEZE

Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom. The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. We say again to all our visitors: “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed.” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire for five years.

The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on Page One:

ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE

Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing， bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel. An angry holiday maker said，“An electric lamp probably started the fire. The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels. When I put my bedside light on， I heard a funny noise from the lamp.”

We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield.

What are the facts， then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident. There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last night: that is one fact. Do we know anything else? Yes， we know that firemen went to the hotel.

Now what do you think of the rest of the“news”?

The Canfield Times used the headline（標題）like this in order to make its readers think ___________.

A. hotels in Beldon often catch fire

B. hotels in Beldon don’t often catch fire

C. this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel

D. Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe

Keys:

A記者希望在老人100歲生日時能再訪老人，希望他能活到100歲。而老人故意歧解記者的話（我看不出你明年為什么不能采訪我？你好像還很健康呀！）表現了老人對自己健康狀態的自信。答案為C。

B從三人提的建議看，他們三人都不樂意給上帝捐錢，三人都是吝嗇的人，故選D。

C本文采用了對比關系來描寫。前面描寫了計算機的優勢，但作者用 however 一詞預示將引出相反的觀點，答案為D。

D出事故的車恰恰是醫生的車，當他聽他的病人說出事司機需要幫助時，他會不失幽默地說：“是的，他需要幫助，是你的幫助，而不是我的幫助。”——他要借用病人家的電話給修車廠打電話。答案是A。

E“基因組”是一個非常抽象難懂的科學術語。作者在這里把“基因組”比作一本書，使一般讀者能通俗形象地了解“基因組”的概念。故答案為C。

F答案為 A。作者意圖推斷題。本文通過兩個對手城市的報紙對同一件火災事故的不同報道，對新聞報道的真實性提出了懷疑。ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE中ANOTHER是個關鍵詞，暗示了Beldon的賓館火災頻繁。

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