2016公共英語二級閲讀理解真題練習及答案

　　閲讀理解

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William Kunz is a computer genius(天才) he was just 11, Kunz started writing soft-ware programs, and by 14 he had worked out his own computer a high school first-yearstudent in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a science fair for a program he his thirdyear, he took top prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program toanalyze and sort DNA patterns.

Kunz went to attend Carnegie Mellon, one of the nation' s highest-ranked universities in computer r college he got a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing software used bycompanies around the world.

Three years later, Kunz is in his first year at Harvard Business left software engineering partly because he earned much less than his friends who were going into law or business.

He also worried about job security(保障), especially as more companies move their programmingoutside the country to lower costs.

does the first paragraph mainly tell us?

won several top prizes.

liked taking part in fairs.

designed several programs.

had a gift for programming.

did Kunz study in Carnegie Mellon?

ness.

neering.

rnational law.

uter science.

did Kunz decide to go to Harvard Business School?

get a secured and better paid job.

improve his working conditions.

start a business with his friends.

go outside the country to work.

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Can you imagine life without French fries(炸薯條) ? Potatoes are very popular inthe past this was not true.Potatoes grew in south America five thousand years' they onlybecame popular in other places two hundred years ago.

In the 1500s, the spanish took the potato from south America to the people inEurope did not like this strange people thought that if you ate potatoes your skinwould look like the skin of a pr people could not believe that you ate the undergroundpart of the they ate the leaves made them sick because there is poison (毒性) in the leaves.

In the 1800s, people in other parts of the world started to eat p Ireland, potatoes became the main , in 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in million people died of hunger.

Today, each country has its own potato German people eat potato salad, and theUnited States has the baked p, of course, the French invented French fries, which arenow popular all over the world.

did potatoes get well-known outside south America?

t 200 years ago.

t 300 years ago.

t 400 years ago.

t 500 years ago.

did some Europeans refuse to eat potatoes at first?

did not trust the Spanish people then.

were afraid of the poison in potatoes.

were afraid it would cause skin problem.

had never eaten food from abroad before.

did two million people died in Ireland in 18457

had nothing to eat.

ate the bad potatoes.

ate the potato leaves.

got a terrible disease.

do we know from the last paragraph?

d potatoes are popular now.

le cook potatoes differently.

C.Potatoes are expensive nowadays.

French eat potato dishes most.

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There are a growing number of pet owners who feed pets on raw, which means, "uncooked"

meat and iam Burk, a pet food specialist from the Food and Drug Administration(FDA), believes that feeding raw meat to pets is against its goal of protecting the public fromhealth dangers; besides, raw meat and bones do not have all the required nutrition (營養) that a petneeds every day.

Recognizing how popular these foods are, the FDA has provided guidelines for producers ofpet foods that contain uncooked meat for dogs, cats, and other guidelines give rules toprotect pet owners and pets from dangers about food safety and lack of nutrition.

Pet owners who feed raw meat and bones should deal with these products very carefully toprotect themselves against possible dangers, says as when preparing foods for humans,use hot water and soap to wash hands, containers, and surfaces that come into contact(接觸) withthe ' t put your hands near your mouth until you' ve washed them, and don' t allow yourpet to touch your face right after it has eaten meat.

If owners choose to feed bones to their pets, they should watch their pet carefully when it iseating also says, "If the pet eats a big piece of bone that won' t pass through the digestive system(消化系統), it could kill the pet."

does William Burk think of feeding pets on raw?

'll make the pet owners sick.

' 11 cause the death of other pets.

' s against the policy of the FDA.

' s dangerous and lack of nutrition.

did the FDA provide guidelines for producers of pet foods with raw meat?

quality of pet foods has dropped.

pets have been lack of nutrition.

safety has become a serious problem.

ing pets on raw has become popular.

e who feed pets on raw should do all the necessary cleaning when

aring raw meat for pets

aring foods for humans

hing the food containers

ging your pets for a walk

advice is given to pet owners in the last paragraph? should be kept away from raw meat.

should be watched when eating bones.

should be fed with small pieces of bone.

should be checked on the digestive system.

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There are some objects in the sky that move so quickly that sometimes you only see them outof the comer of your e are some of the huge number of bits of rock and dust that are floating around in space, called ally, we cannot see them at all, but if they travel tooclose to the Earth, they get caught by the pull of the Earth, and begin to fall towards fallfaster and faster, until they hit our atmosphere (大氣層), by which time they are going so fast thatthey begin to bum up, and all that you see is a flash of light that moves very quickly across the skyand e shooting stars, or meteors as they are properly called, are quite common,and sometimes you may see several in a night.

Most meteoroids are very small bits indeed, and they bum up long before they get to ver, a very few do manage to get all the way through the atmosphere, and actually fallto the lly they do not do much damage, although this is not always the case.

Meteoroids that actually manage to reach the Earth are called countries haveplaces where meteorites have struck the of these places are very large indeed and aretourist attractions.

do some objects from outer space fall to the ground?

are too big.

are hit by huge rocks.

move too fast.

are pulled by the Earth.

do we know about meteors from the text?

become a star in the sky.

are too small to be seen.

disappear very quickly.

do damage to the Earth.

happens to most meteoroids coming into the atmosphere?

bum up.

fall to earth.

explode.

float in the air.

word "meteorites"( Line 1, Para.3)refers to pieces of rock that

fast in outer space

B been found at a tourist centre

h through space at a high speed

fallen onto the Earth from space

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Pack your the ' s time to turn your dream vacation into a real trip."Ihaven' t seen a buyer' s market like this in 25 years," says travel expert Peter Greenberg."Everything is on the high end of the market is quietly offering add-ons: a free night here, aspa(水療) pass there."

In a bad economy, this comes as good news for her you want to fly across thecountry or drive across the state line, here are places that offer plenty to do.

For anyone who can' t bear to sit still, big cities are the best choice for weekend inon cities that attract business travelers during the big-name hotels empty out on theweekends and will give tourists a better deal.

Chicago, Illinois: One of America' s best-looking city centers, especially in the spring d a sunny day in Millennium Park, or consider an evening at Grant Achatz' s Alinearestaurant in Lincoln Park.

Las Vegas, Nevada: It' s never been so easy to score a deal on the -star hotels aremarked down to three-star a luxury suite (豪華套房)for $89 a night at .

San Francico, California: It's rare for a major city to have such an extraordinary physicalsetting--the,views of the bay(海灣)from the hills and the Ferry Building Marketplace are striking.

It's also a walkable city with great can visit the new California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate early!

Portland, Oregon: The International Rose Test Garden is the one place one never tires of 's green, friendly, and e are over 10,000 rosebushes, and because it's atest garden, the public has never seen many of these 550 Rose Festival is one of thebiggest celebrations in the city and runs May 22 to June 14.

is it the best time for traveling now?

le have more free time.

ything is at lower prices.

weather is more pleasant.

ist sites are less crowded.

does the word "add-ons" ( Line 3, Para.1 ) most probably mean?

r sales.

a services.

holidays.

tional payments.

does the author suggest going to the big cities on weekends?

-name hotels are cheaper.

s are open free of charge.

traffic is much less heavy.

e are no business travellers.

h city is the best choice for museum lovers?

ago.

Vegas.

Francisco.

land.

e is this text probably taken from?

A.A textbook.

B.A storybook.

C.A magazine.

D.A dictionary.