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试卷代号:9122 座位号 口〕 (9122) 《英语 III (1) 广东开放大学

2016 年下半年期末考试 法学、土木工程专业《英语川(1)》试题

2017 年1月Part I Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions: There are three passages in this part Each passage is followed 妙some questions or unfinished statements.

For each of them there are choices marked A, B, C and D You should decide on the best choice and write down the corresponding letter on the Answer 岛eet. Passage

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5 are based on the following passage: In spring

1620 a ship sailed from England with more than one hundred people on board. They were a religious group, now known as the Pilgrims, who had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and because of this they had been persecuted. They arrived in American and sealed in what is now the state of Massachusetts. Their first winter in America was difficult. 46.They had arrived too late to grow many crops, ant without 鱼翅亘这峨上巡 the Pilgrims died from starvation and disease, They only survived because they were helped by the Native Americans. They were shown how to grow maize, a type of corn that was new to them, and other crops. They were also taught how to hunt and fish In the autumn of 1621, good crops of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The Pilgrims wanted to thank their God for their survival, and so a feast thanksgiving was planned to which the local chief and

90 Native Americans were invited. They brought venison to roast with the turkeys and other meat. As well as meat there were cranberries and different kinds of corn and pumpkin dishes which the Pilgrims had been taught to cook by the Native Americans. To this first Thanksgiving, they even brought the great American trea 印opcorn

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250 years. Then, at the end of the long and bloody Civil War in the year 1863, President Abraham Lincoln decided to ask all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving. This day has been called Thanksgiving ever since 1. The Pilgrims went to America in A.the sixteenth century B. the seventeenth century C. the eighteenth century 2. The Pilgrims who went to America numbered A. under

100 B. between

100 and

200 C. over

200 3. They left England because A. they were traders B. they were poor C. they were being attacked 4. They were saved from starvation by A. the local people B. the food they carried C. buying food 5. Lincoln A.was made president in

1863 B. suggested a date for Thanksgiving in America C. established the autumn thanksgiving celebration in America Passage

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10 are based on the following passage: In the United States,

30 percent of the grown-up population has a weight problem . To many people, the cause is clear: we eat too much. But scientific experiments do little to support this idea. 48.Goinw back to the America of 1910. we find that neople were thinner than today, vet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less, and didn'

t watch television Several modem studies, besides, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on average than thinner people. In fact, some research work, such as the

1979 study of 3,545 》试题第1页共4页London office workers, reports that fat people eat less than thinner people on average. Studies show that thin people are more active aim fat people. A study by the research group at Standford University School of Medicine found the following fact: the more the man ran, the greater body fat he lost. 49. The more he ran, the greater was hjs need for food. Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat. 6. What kind of physical problem do many grown-up American have? A. They are too thin. B. They work too hard C. They are too fat D. They lose too much body fat. 7. Based on the information given in this article, suppose there are