广州成人学历统考英语阅读理解范本资料和答案
广州成人学历，网络教育本科，学生在毕业时一定要考统考两门课程：分别是：1.大学英语，2.计算机基础。以下是统考英语复习资料：
阅读理解
Take any long piece of paper. Now glue（粘）the ends of the paper together. You have made a ring.
Take a second long piece of paper. Twist the paper once and glue the ends together. Now you have made a Mobius band（带子）. For people studying maths, this band is uncommon.
This strange band was first made in the 1800s by a German man named August. Mobius. Mr. Mobius studied maths. He wanted to find a way to show how this band works with maths. Understand it or not, this band has only one surface. You can find this out for yourself.
If you draw a line on the surface of the paper before you twist and glue it, the line is only on one side of the paper. The paper has two surfaces. However, if you draw a line after you make the Mobius band, you can follow the line around all sides of the paper. In other words, the Mobius band must have only one surface.
It is also very interesting to see what happens when you cut the band. If you cut the Mobius band in half once down the line you drew, you do not get two Mobius bands. Instead, after you cut the band, it turns into one large twisted ring. Then, if you cut this ring in half along the middle of the band again, you get two connected（相连的）Mobius bands.
1.What is a Mobius band?
A.A long piece of paper.
B.A paper ring for people to wear.
C.A metal ring for music.
D.An interesting twisted ring.
答案：D
2.Why did August Mobius make this ring?
A.To help study a maths problem.
B.To show it's the same as others.
C.To show the only surface of any band.
D.To find out how many sides it has.
答案：A
3.How can you change the two surfaces of a long piece of paper into one surface?
A.Glue the ends of the long piece of paper.
B.Cut the two surfaces of the paper into one.
C.Draw a line in the middle of the paper.
D.Twist the paper once and glue the two ends.
答案：D
4.What do you get if you cut the Mobius band along the middle?
A.A long piece of paper.
B.Two long pieces of paper.
C.Two Mobius bands.
D.One large twisted ring.
答案：D
5.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.You can use any long piece of paper to make a Mobius band.
B.Any long piece of paper has two surfaces.
C.The Mobius band was first made about two hundred years ago.
D.You have to draw a line in the middle of the long piece of paper before making a Mobius band.
答案：D
Remember global warming? Back in December, the threat of climate change was thundering and the rich countries agreed to cut their carbon-dioxide and other green-house-related emissions. Since then, interest has cooled markedly, and many European countries are already running away from the promises they made so loudly a few months ago. But there has been much talk, and a bit of action, to encourage renewable energies such as wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms. These emit no greenhouse gases, but tend to cost more than coal, oil or gas.
The better, simpler idea is to remember that the easiest way to reduce something is to tax it - in this case, by taxing the carbon content power. The dirtier the power, the more tax it would pay. So dirty coal would be more expensive than clean coal, which would see its price rise in relation to oil, which would be more expensive compared with gas, which would lose some of its price advantage over renewables.
Unless a carbon tax was so huge as to be economically crippling, it would not remove the price differential between all renewables and fossil fuels. But it would narrow that gap, by fixing the differing environmental costs into the price - a useful principle in itself. It would also give renewable producers a strong incentive to cut costs, and fossil-fuel suppliers the motivation to clean their products.
Precedents suggest strongly that a carbon tax would be effective. But the disadvantage to carbon tax is political. After almost a decade of trying, the European Union gave up an attempt at a European carbon tax last year. Germany’s ruling coalition is fighting against a proposed energy tax. In America, politicians believe that even mentioning the notion is certain death. But many of the political objections could be met if a carbon tax were made up for the loss elsewhere, for example by lowering payroll or sales taxes. There is always suspicion when governments come up with clever new ways to tax, and rightly so. The response to that suspicion should be to win the argument, not to abandon it.
6.According to the passage, the easiest way to remove global warming is ___________.
A.to encourage people to use renewable energies
B.to cut down the cost of wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms
C.to force people to pay more tax for the carbon content of power
D.to talk less but act more
答案：C
7.The standard of paying tax was _________.
A.that the more carbon content of power it contained, the higher tax one would pay
B.that oil would be more expensive than clean coal
C.that renewables would be most expensive of all
D.in the order that renewables are the most expensive while clean coal the cheapest
答案：A
8.We can infer from the passage that carbon tax ___________.
A.may not be as effective as people expect
B.has encouraged renewable producers to cut costs
C.has reduced consumption of the carbon content energy successfully
D.couldn’t be that effective if fossil fuels would not be forbidden
答案：A
9.The word “crippling”(Para. 3) most probably means _________.
A.greatly increasing
B.seriously weakening
C.sharply declining
D.abruptly halting
答案：B
10.The reason why many countries stopped introducing carbon tax eventually was mainly that ___________.
A.governments had tried to put it into effect for many years but with no obvious result
B.if one country made up the loss by paying the carbon tax, other countries would follow it
C.governments were afraid of being suspected if they adopted the new tax
D.governments had been discussing what to do with carbon tax for a long time, but they hadn’t come to an agreement
答案：C
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