电大网考英语B二、阅读理解.doc

第二部分 阅读理解 Passage 1 It was very cold last Sunday. Paul and his friends Allen, Bill and Betty went to the lake after breakfast. They began to skate on the ice. Paul skated better than his three friends. He skated fast and didn’t know a piece of ice was broken. He fell into the water. His friends were afraid and called for help. Just then two workers walked there and heard them. They ran there quickly and helped the boy come out of the water. Then they took him to a hospital. Paul and his parents thanked them very much. 1. When did the children go skating? A. After breakfast. B. Before supper. C. After lunch. D. At lunch. 2. How many children skated on the lake? A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six. 3. Who skated best of all the children? A. Allen did. B. Paul did. C. Bill did. D. Worker did. 4. Why did Paul fall into the water? A. Because he skated fast. B. Because he was not good at skating. C. Because he didn’t know the ice there was broken. D. Because he skated slow. 5. Who helped Paul? A. His friends. B. His parents. C. Two workers. D. Betty. Key: ABBCC Passage 2 Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communication technology is a step back from the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine. As almost every imaginable contact between human beings becomes automatic by machine, the alienation quotient goes up. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person anywhere. Directory assistance is almost always fully automatic by machine. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the worker when you … swipe （刷卡）your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Pla