201212网络大学英语B考试资料阅读理解.doc

201212大学英语B统考—— 阅读理解（1）（共26篇） 阅读理解在统考中占30分，是所有题型中，分值最高的，因此这部分非常重要，一定要认真复习！但是，阅读也是让同学们最头痛的一部分。不过，既然我们是在准备考试，是应试，那么复习的时候就要讲究方法。同学们不要试图想把阅读的文章或者题目背下来，这样是没有效率的。这里的每篇阅读都有中文翻译，同学们要做的就是每天至少花半个小时来看1-2篇阅读和题目，把每篇阅读当作一个故事来读，这样在考试的时候，当你很幸运的碰到一道你曾读过的文章，那你很快就会知道文章在讲什么，答案该怎么选了。 注意：考试中，有两篇阅读，一篇是判断对错，另一篇是从ABCD中选择最佳答案。“阅读理解（1）”即为判断对错，T表示true（对），F表示false（错）。 以下判断对错题（实考题），相对来说难度较低，投机几率大。在考试中，如果实在不会做，建议全选T或全选F。 Passage 1 Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around this dry part are large sheep and cow farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. Often the nearest neighbors are several hundred kilometers away. The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a telephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then give an answer. For example, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor far away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill, and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person. As the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were started for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities far away. Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbors. The program “Round Robin” talks by radio was started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was going away and who was ill. The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much money the markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia. 澳大利亚和美国的差不多大， 但它大部分地区太干燥了，不适宜人类居住区。在这些二类地区，是羊和奶牛牧场。他们中国的一些和美国一些最小的州差不多一样大。通常他们之前最近的距离也有号几百公里。 两用广播对这些住在最大的牧场的人来说很重要。它工作起来，像一个电话。人们能听到别人讲话，并且做出回应。举个例子，居住在大牧场的人们能和很远的医生说话，他们能告诉医生是谁生病了，医生能告诉他们如何去照顾这个生病的人。 因为这些大牧场离镇上很远，所以孩子们不能去上学，广播学校能教他们自某些地方，在某个特定的时间，男孩和女孩们能打开广播，听很远的城市里的教师上课。 大牧场里的人们像