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北大曹其军老师英语阅读理解20篇.pdf
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1、北大曹其军老师英语阅读理解20篇阅读理解单项练习Passage1In 1939 two brothers,Mac and Dick McDonald,started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino,California.They carefully chose a busy corner for their location.They had run their own businesses for years,first a theater,then a barbecue(烤肉)restaurant.,then another drive-in.
2、But in their new operation,they offered a new,shortened menu:French fries,hamburgers,and sodas.To this small selection they added one new concept:quick service,no waiters or waitresses,and no tips.Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents.Cheese was another four cents.Their French fries and hamburgers
3、 had a remarkable uniformity,for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food,and they insisted on their cooks sticking to their routine.Their new drive-in became incredibly popular,particularly for lunch.People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime.The s
4、elf-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened.They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954,when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines.He quickly saw th
5、e unique appeal of the brothers?fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise(特许经营)other copies of their restaurants.The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu.The equipment,even their red and white buildings with the golden arches(拱|1).Today McDonalds is really a househ
6、old name.Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers.In 1976,McDonalds had over$1 billion in total sales.Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modem Americ
7、an business history.1.This passage mainly talks abort.A)the development of fast food servicesB)how McDonalds became a billion-dollar businessC)the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonaldD)Ray Kroc?s business talent2.Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except.A)a drive-in C)a theat
8、erB)a cinema D)a barbecue restaurant3.We may infer from this passage that.A)Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to KrocB)The location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-inC)Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food resta
9、urantsD)Ray Kroc was a good businessman4.The passage suggests that.A)creativity is an important element of business successB)Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothersC)Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray KrocD)California is the best place to go into b
10、usiness5.As used in the second sentence of the third paragraph,the word“unique“means.A)special C)financialB)attractive D)peculiarPassage!Youre busy filling out the application form for a position you really need;let?s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that
11、you completed your degree.Isnt it tempting to lie just a little,to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree?Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead i
12、n their careers,for personnel officers,like most Americans,value degrees from famous schools.A job applicant may have a good education anyway,but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal
13、with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms,then.If it turns out that an applicant is lying,most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly.One Ivy League school calls them“impostors 骗子”;another
14、 refers to them as“special cases.one well-known West Coast school,in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all,says that these claims are made by“no such people.”To avoid outright(彻底的)lies,some job-seekers claim that they“attended or“were associated with“a college or university.After carefully checkin
15、g,a personnel officer may discover that“attending“means being dismissed after one semester.It may be that“being associated with“a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend.One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at le
16、ast to the turn of the century-thafs when they began keeping records,anyhow.If you dont want to lie or even stretch the truth,there are coMPAnies that will sell you a phony(假的)diploma.One coMPAny,with offices in New York and on the West Coast,will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexi
17、stent colleges.The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from“Smoot State University.The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue.As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University,the prices seem rather high for one
18、 sheet of paper.6.The main idea of this passage is that.A)employers are checking more closely on applicants nowB)lying about college degrees has become a widespread problemC)college degrees can now be purchased easilyD)employers are no longer interested in college degrees7.According to the passage,s
19、pecial cases“refers to cases where.A)students attend a school only part-timeB)students never attended a school they listed on their applicationC)students purchase false degrees from commercial filmsD)students attended a famous school8.We can infer from the passage that.A)performance is a better judg
20、e of ability that a college degreeB)experience is the best teacherC)past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees doD)a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition9.This passage implies that.A)buying a false degree is not mor
21、alB)personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schoolsC)most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from schoolD)society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications10.As used in the first.Line of the second paragraph,the word“utter“means.A)address C)thoroughB
22、)ultimate D)decisivePassage 3Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault(断层),which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes.But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?Between December of 1811 and February of 1812,three major earthquakes
23、 occurred,all centered around the town of New Madrid,Missouri,on the Mississippi River.Property damage was severe.Buildings in the area were almost destroyed.Whole forests fell at once,and huge cracks opened in the ground,allowing smell of sulfur(硫磺)to filter upward.The Mississippi River itself comp
24、letely changed character,developing sudden rapids and whirlpools.Several times it changed its course,and once,according to some observers,it actually appeared to run backwards.Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquakes,probably simply because few people lived in the area in 1811;but the se
25、verity of the earthquakes are shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston,South Carolina,on the coast.Buildings shook in New York City,and clocks were stopped in Washington,D.C.Scientists now know that Americas two major faults are essentially different.The San A
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