西南大学《英语阅读二》(高)网上作业题答案.doc

[0085]《英语阅读二》(高)第1次作业 [论述题] I.????????????????? Text Comprehension Direction: Each of the following comprehension questions, based on the texts you have learned, is provided with 4 possible answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question. 1. In The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Smiley always won money on his fighting dog except one because ________. A. the other dog was stronger than Smileys dog B. the other dog ran Smileys dog round C. the other dog threw Smiles dog out of the ring D. the other dog had no hind legs and smileys dog didnt know how to make of it 2 In The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, there was a bet on frogs between Smiley and a stranger. The result was that the stranger won the bet because ________. A. Smileys frog was very ordinary B. the stranger had fed Smileys frog a few teaspoons of whiskey C. Smiley gave the stranger a good-looking and strong frog D. the stranger had put quite a bit of liquor into his own frog II.?????????????? Reading Comprehension Direction: There are 4 reading passages followed by 20 questions or unfinished statements. For each of the questions there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Please decide on the best answer. Passage 1 Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to think and concentrate.” Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived of (剥夺)cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and non-smokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical （同样的）letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the st