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summarization 自考英语阅读二09年10月试题
Directions: In this section of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraphs is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. Spell out the missing letters of the word on your Answer Sheet.
Paragraph One
The term “Grit” first appeared on the Canadian political scene in 1849 to describe the more progressive members of the Upper Canada Reform Party. They saw themselves as genuine reformers, “all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through,” as David Christie, one of the reformers, put it.
36. O ___ of the political term “Grit”.
Paragraph Two
Children who are older by a wider gap tend to teach their younger siblings social and manual skills, almost like a third parent, while rivalry is usually greatest when the age difference is small. It is especially so when siblings are under four — they are easily displeased when gratification of their needs is postponed.
37. A ____ difference plays a crucial role in sibling rivalry.
Paragraph Three
A hundred years ago the Klondike gold rush drew more than 100,000 people from across the globe towards a wilderness where the average January temperature is-30℃. A handful became fabulously wealthy, but most counted themselves lucky to survive. Scores succumbed to diseases before they could make it back to civilization.
38. Few people became r ____ in the Klondike gold rush.
Paragraph Four
Just 54 per cent of students entering four-year colleges in 1997 had a degree six years later —and even fewer Hispanics and blacks did, according to some of the latest government figures. After borrowing for school but failing to graduate, many of those students may be worse off than if they had never attended college at all.
39. College d ____ face difficult financial situations.
Paragraph Five
In recent decades most of North America has been experiencing more unusually hot days and nights, fewer unusually cold days and nights, and fewer frost days. Heavy downpours have become more frequent and intense. Droughts are becoming more severe in some regions.
40. C ____ in extreme weather patterns.
Paragraph Six
“Alas,” said Huntington Willard, the Duke University genome expert, “genetically speaking, if you’ve met one man, you’ve met them all. We are, I hate to say it, predictable. You can’t say that about women. Men and women are farther apart than we ever knew.”
41. Women are genetically more c ____ than men.
Paragraph Seven
Researchers found that of all the forms of inactivity they examined, television-viewing was the worst. It was linked to significantly higher blood pressure in children — the more TV kids watched, the higher their blood pressure — and the effect held true regardless of whether a child was heavy or at a healthy weight.
42. L ____ were found between TV watching and high blood pressure in children.
Paragraph Eight
The eating habits of American children appear to be shifting. And for a change, the news is good. Burgers, fries and colas remain popular with the under-13 set, of course. But new market research shows that consumption of these foods at restaurants is declining, while soup, yogurt, fruit, grilled chicken and chocolate milk are on the rise.
43. A s _____ for the better in the eating habits of American children.
Paragraph Nine
Not even the most optimistic greens could have predicted that the federal government’s cash-for-clunkers program would work this well — more than 240,000 Americans have traded in their clunkers so far, and the program has already burned through its first round of funding.
44. S ____ of a government program.
Directions: In this section of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraphs is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. Spell out the missing letters of the word on your Answer Sheet.
Paragraph One
The term “Grit” first appeared on the Canadian political scene in 1849 to describe the more progressive members of the Upper Canada Reform Party. They saw themselves as genuine reformers, “all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through,” as David Christie, one of the reformers, put it.
36. O ___ of the political term “Grit”.
Paragraph Two
Children who are older by a wider gap tend to teach their younger siblings social and manual skills, almost like a third parent, while rivalry is usually greatest when the age difference is small. It is especially so when siblings are under four — they are easily displeased when gratification of their needs is postponed.
37. A ____ difference plays a crucial role in sibling rivalry.
Paragraph Three
A hundred years ago the Klondike gold rush drew more than 100,000 people from across the globe towards a wilderness where the average January temperature is-30℃. A handful became fabulously wealthy, but most counted themselves lucky to survive. Scores succumbed to diseases before they could make it back to civilization.
38. Few people became r ____ in the Klondike gold rush.
Paragraph Four
Just 54 per cent of students entering four-year colleges in 1997 had a degree six years later —and even fewer Hispanics and blacks did, according to some of the latest government figures. After borrowing for school but failing to graduate, many of those students may be worse off than if they had never attended college at all.
39. College d ____ face difficult financial situations.
Paragraph Five
In recent decades most of North America has been experiencing more unusually hot days and nights, fewer unusually cold days and nights, and fewer frost days. Heavy downpours have become more frequent and intense. Droughts are becoming more severe in some regions.
40. C ____ in extreme weather patterns.
Paragraph Six
“Alas,” said Huntington Willard, the Duke University genome expert, “genetically speaking, if you’ve met one man, you’ve met them all. We are, I hate to say it, predictable. You can’t say that about women. Men and women are farther apart than we ever knew.”
41. Women are genetically more c ____ than men.
Paragraph Seven
Researchers found that of all the forms of inactivity they examined, television-viewing was the worst. It was linked to significantly higher blood pressure in children — the more TV kids watched, the higher their blood pressure — and the effect held true regardless of whether a child was heavy or at a healthy weight.
42. L ____ were found between TV watching and high blood pressure in children.
Paragraph Eight
The eating habits of American children appear to be shifting. And for a change, the news is good. Burgers, fries and colas remain popular with the under-13 set, of course. But new market research shows that consumption of these foods at restaurants is declining, while soup, yogurt, fruit, grilled chicken and chocolate milk are on the rise.
43. A s _____ for the better in the eating habits of American children.
Paragraph Nine
Not even the most optimistic greens could have predicted that the federal government’s cash-for-clunkers program would work this well — more than 240,000 Americans have traded in their clunkers so far, and the program has already burned through its first round of funding.
44. S ____ of a government program.
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