2015年成人高考专升本《英语》全真模拟试卷(3)

四、阅读理解
36、根据下面内容，回答36-55题：
There has been, in history, a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. The man's name is James BaRley. The records to prove his unusual experience are in the British Admiralty.
Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout sighted a huge sperm whale. The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into the air.
They lowered their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat. The men rowed until they were close to the whale. A harpoon was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale's flesh. The maddened beast crashed into the boat, snapping its tail at the men and the wreckage of their boats.
When the survivors were picked up, James Barttey was missing.
Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally captured. The sailors tied the whale's dead-body to the side of the ship. Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale right away.
Otherwise, the meat would begin to rot and the oil would begin to spoil. When they got to the stomach,they felt something moving about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still alive inside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip, Bartley settled in England,and never returned to sea.

This passage is mainly about________.
A．how to hunt whales for their oil and meat
B．the hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live
C．the duties of each man on a whaling ship
D．a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived


37、 The sailors knew that something was in the whale's stomach because________.
A．they could feel it moving about wildly
B．the whale seemed very heavy
C．the whale was swelling at one spot
D．the captain heard Bartley yelling for help


38、 James Bartley probably never went to sea again because________.
A．he wanted different kinds of adventures
B．of fright and shock
C．he was crippled by the whale
D．he often got seasick


39、 The author, in telling James Bartley’s story, informs us by________.
A．narrating the plain facts
B．referring to whaling in general
C．comparing whaling to other fishing
D．dramatically telling what happened

40、根据下面内容，回答40-59题：
It takes a long time to grow a tree．How long? Well, pine trees are the quickest growing trees, but still, they take twenty years to reach a size suitable for cutting and harvesting．An oak takes about sixty years to grow to a good size．A redwood may take hundreds of years．Lumber companies, which make their money on trees, depend on those that grow quickly．Therefore, they are always looking for methods to make trees grow faster．So far, the secret to fast growing trees seems to he in " super-seeds．" These are seeds that are gathered from the quickest growing trees in a forest．One company searched 100,000 acres of trees and selected the seeds from just fifteen trees.These two ounces of seed were enough to plant several hundred new trees．Eventually, when these trees have grown, seeds will again be taken only from the fastest growing trees of crop．This process of artificial selection will yield, in the future, a super-tree that will grow in half the time it takes normal trees to develop．Unfortunately, it takes a long time for a plan like this to reach its goal．The Weyerhauser Lumber Corporation, which started its first collection of seed in 1958, is just now beginning to harvest the super-seeds of the first generation of the faster growing trees．

This selection centers on________．
A．the life span of trees
B．the age of redwoods
C．making trees grow quickly
D．cutting trees for lumber


41、 Trees that grow faster are developed by________．
A．planting many trees and fertilizing them
B．collecting seeds from strong, slow growing trees
C．selecting the seeds of the fastest growing trees
D．feeding them high-energy plant foods


42、 Super-trees________．
A．will be a great benefit to lumber companies
B．make extra-good lumber for buildings
C．will probably be weak because of their fast growth
D．may be defenseless to many insects and diseases


43、 The word "therefore" in paragraph 2 indicates that a________．
A．speech is beginning
B．conclusion follows
C．comparison is being made
D．metaphor is being used

44、根据下面内容，回答44-63题：
John Paul Jones was one of the founders of the United States Navy. During the Revolution, the colonies were desperate. They needed men to lead their small ships against the British fleet. Jones was more than willing to fight.
John Paul Jones had once been a captain of a British merchant ship. In 1773, his crew mutinied.
One member of the crew tried to gain control of the ship. Jones shot the man to death. The mutiny took place near the port of Tobago, an island in the Caribbean. Authorities there decided to have a trial.
This meant certain death for John Paul Jones, since the whole crew would testify against him. One night during a thunderstorm, he escaped from the jail.
He fled to the United States and lived with a family named Jones. His real name was John Paul, He added the name of Jones to his, in honor of the family. He outwitted the British ships that were sent to hunt him down.
When the American Revolution ended he went to serve in the Russian navy. There, he fought the Turks and achieved one of the few major naval victories in the history of Russia. He died in Paris at the age of forty-five.
John Paul Jones is considered both an American and Russian hero, but the English considered him a fugitive.

John Paul Jones won a major victory for the Russian navy against the________.
A．French
B．British
C．Turks
D．Spanish


45、 You can conclude from this passage that Jones was________.
A．thoughtful
B．fearful
C．kind
D．courageous

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