Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (60 points)
Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Some young soldiers who had recently joined the army were being trained in modern ways of fighting, and one of the things they were shown was how an unarmed man could trick an armed enemy and take his weapon away from him. First one of their two instructors took a knife away from the other, using only his bare hands; and then he took a rifle away from him in the same way. After the lesson, and before they went on to train the young soldiers to do these things themselves, the two instructors asked them a number of questions to see how well they had understood what they had been shown. One of the questions was this: “Well, you now know what an unarmed man can do against a man with a rifle. Imagine that you are guarding a bridge at night, and that you have a rifle. Suddenly you see an unarmed enemy soldier coming towards you. What will you do?”
The young soldier who had to answer this question thought carefully for a few seconds before he answered, and then said, “Well, after what I have just seen, I think that the first thing I would do would be to get rid of my rifle as quickly as I could, so that the unarmed enemy couldn't take it from me and kill me with it!”
36. The instructors were teaching the soldiers __.
A. how to use weapons
B. how to manage without weapons
C. how to beat the enemy barehanded
D. how to fight with enemy
参考答案：B
37. The soldiers practiced __.
A. before being instructed
B. after being instructed
C. while being instructed
D. two days later
参考答案：C
38. The young soldier told the instructor that __.
A. the important thing was to be brave
B. the important thing was to save your life
C. the important thing was to have a gun
D. the important thing was to know the trick
参考答案：B
39. The ending of the passage is __.
A. serious
B. mysterious
C. curious
D. humorous
参考答案：D
Passage Two
The earliest immigrants to North America found Indians already living there. The Indians numbered about 500,000 at that time. Their society was a primitive society, but they lived peacefully and welcomed the white strangers to the land. However, these early immigrants from Europe didn't want to share the land with the natives. They killed off many of the Indians, seized their land or pushed them off to lands farther away. Today the Indians, not more than half a million, live in poverty and misery on the land on which they were once masters.
The earliest immigrants were the Spanish, who settled in the southern part of what is now the US. The next large group were the English, after the English came the French, Dutch, Irish, Germans, and other nationality groups, mostly European.
Another early group to arrive were the Negroes. But they were brought in as slaves from
Africa. They didn't win freedom till generations later.
40. Who were the earliest people living in North America?
A. The Spanish.
B. The English.
C. The Negroes.
D. The Indians.
参考答案：D
41. Why didn't the immigrants share the lands with the natives?
A. They thought the Indians were not friendly to them.
B. They wanted to seize the lands as their own.
C. Because North America was first discovered by them.
D. Because the Indian people liked making war to them.
参考答案：B
42. According to this passage, which of the following is true?
A.The Negroes came to North America in order to work for the earliest immigrants.
B. The Negroes also belonged to the earliest immigrants to the North America. C. The Negroes were brought to America by chance.
D. The Negroes didn't win freedom until now.
参考答案：B
43. Which is the best title of this passage?
A. The Earliest People in North America.
B. The Earliest Immigrants to North America.
C. The People of the United States.
D. Europeans were the Earliest People Coming to the North America.
参考答案：B
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