英语阅读理解的练习

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英语阅读理解练习

There are stories about two U.S . presidents，Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren，which attempt to explain the American English term OK.We don?t know if either story is true，but they are both interesting. The first explanation is based on the fact that President Jackson had very little education.In fact，he had difficulty reading and writing.When important papers came to Jackson，he tried to read them and then had his assistants explain what they said.If he approved of a paper.he would write“all correct”on it.The problem was that he didn?t know how to spell.So what he really wrote was“ol korekt”.After a while，he shortened that term to“OK”.

The second explanation is based on the place where President Van Buren was born，Kinderhook，New York.Van Bnren?s friends organized a club to help him become President They caned the club the Old Kinderhook Club，and anyone who supported Van Buren was called“OK”.

1.The author

A. believes both of the stories

B.doesn?t believe a word of the stories

C is not sure whether the stories are true

D. is telling the stories just for fun

2. According to the passage，President Jackson

A.couldn?t draw up any documents at all

B. didn?t like to read important papers by himself

C.often had his assistants sign documents for him

D .wasn?t good at reading，writing or spelling

3.According to the first story, the term “OK”

A. was approved of by President Jackson

B.was the title of some Official documents

C.was first used by President Jackson

D.was an old way to spell“all correct’’

4 .According to the second story，the term‘‘OK”

A.was the short way to say‘‘old Kinderhook Club”

B.meant the place where President Van Buren was born

C.was the name of Van Buren?s club

D.was used to call Van Buren?s supporters in the election

5.According to the second story.the term“OK”was first used

A.by Van Buren

B.in a presidential election

C.to organize the Old Kinderhook Club

D.by the members of the‘‘Old Kinderhook Club”

答案：CDCDB

英语阅读理解习题

In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue(烤肉)restaurant, and then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success untilthey met Ray Kroc.

Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milk shake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise(特许经营)other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu. The equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches(拱门).

Today McDonald's is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonald's had over $ 1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.

1. This passage mainly talks about　　　　.

A)　the development of fast food services

B)　how McDonald's became a billion-dollar business

C)　the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald

D)　Ray Kroc's business talent

2. Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except　　　.

A) a drive-in　　B) a cinema　　C) a theater 　　D) a barbecue restaurant

3. We may infer from this passage that　　　　　.

A)Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc

B)The location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in

C)Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants

D)　Ray Kroc was a good businessman

4. The passage suggests that　　　.

A)　creativity is an important element of business success

B)　Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers

C)　Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc

D)　California is the best place to go into business

5. As used in the second sentence of the third paragraph, the worduniquemeans　　.

A)special 　　B)financial　　C )attractive　　 D)peculiar

英语阅读理解题

You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?

More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say theydeal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of aboutone per week.

Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicants lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors(骗子); another refers to them asspecial cases. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made byno such people.

To avoid outright(彻底的)lies, some job-seekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century-that's when they began keeping records, anyhow.

If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony(假的)diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from Smoot State University.The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.

1. The main idea of this passage is that　　　　　.

A)　employers are checking more closely on applicants now

B)　lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem

C)　college degrees can now be purchased easily

D)　employers are no longer interested in college degrees

2. According to the passage, special cases refer to cases where　　　　　.

A)　students attend a school only part-time

B)　students never attended a school they listed on their application

C)　students purchase false degrees from commercial films

D)　students attended a famous school

3. We can infer from the passage that　　　　　　.

A)　performance is a better judge of ability that a college degree