大学英语2 练习题(11)

大学英语

Christmas Day is spent quietly at home. The excitement of all the presents is hardly over before it is time for the traditional Christmas dinner.

61. Christmas is different from other holidays lies in the fact that _______.

A. all the social customs in England are connected with Christmas

B. only Santa Claus comes in to deliver the presents on Christmas Eve

C. people usually give presents to their friends and spend Christmas with their families

D. the traditional Christmas dinner is rich and delicious

62. The phrase ―flock into‖ in Paragraph 2 means _______.

A. get together B. pour into C. rush out D. lead to

63. According to the passage, the most important thing of giving gifts is _______.

A. not the gift itself but the spirit behind it B. not the value of the gift but the ritual of giving it

C. not the packet of the gift but the value of it D. the value of the gift and the time of Christmas

64. Paragraph 4 is mainly about _______.

A. the delivery of presents B. the efforts to stay awake waiting for Father Christmas

C. the way of hanging up a stocking D. the custom of spending Christmas

65. It can be inferred from this passage that _______.

A. Christmas is spent quietly B. Christmas is one of the ―Bank Holidays‖

C. Christmas is also the day of family reunion D. Christmas is associated with decorations

Passage Four

It’s true that the British are a nation of animal lovers, but they are not the first people to be interested in cats, dogs and other creatures. A new book by a French journalist called Barley, has the title Man and Animals. It tells the long history of the relationship that human begins have with animals. It shows that men can often be very cruel, but that sometimes men treat animals better than they treat other people.

In ancient Egypt, people believed that the cat was a god. When a cat died, its owners showed their sadness by the strange habit of shaving their eyebrows off! More recently, in the last century in fact, the famous English writer Charles Dickens had a cat who was very fond of him. The cat didn’t like to see Dickens working too hard. At night, when the cat wanted to say ―Stop writing!‖ to his master, he often put out Dickens’s candle with his paw! Today, the dog is one of our favorite animals. But even 9,000 years ago, the Greeks and Persians had dogs as pets (that is, dogs who lived with them in their homes). However, when animals become pets, it is a smaller animal with a small brain. Rabbits, for example, which live as pets in a garden, in wooden box (called a hutch) are much less intelligent than their wild cousins. Of course, man doesn’t always keep animals for pleasure. Many animals have to work for their masters, like the teams of husky dogs which still work in Antarctica.

66. According to the passage, who are the first people to have animals as pets?

A. The Egyptians. B. The French. C. The British. D. The Greeks and Persians.

67. The book, Man and Animals, indicates that, compared with animals, people are sometimes treated__ .

A. more friendly B. less carelessly C. less kindly D. more nicely

68. The ancient Egyptians expressed the sorrow for their dead cats in the way of _______.

A. cutting off the eyebrows of their cats B. cutting off the eyebrows of their own

C. cutting off the eyebrows of others D. cutting the eyebrows off their dogs

69. At night, Dickens’ cat put out the candle with his paw, because he ______.