全国大学生英语竞赛A、B类阅读理解题库二

全国大学生英语竞赛A、B类阅读理解题库二问答题13.Directions:In this section, there is one passage followed by 5 statements.Go over the passage quickly and mark the answers on the Answer Sheet.For questions 1-6, markT (for True) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;F (for False) if the statement condivadicts with information given in the passage;NG (for Not Given) if the information is not given in the passage.During World War II at the height of the blitz on East London, a boy of 12 was found wandering the rubble sdiveets near Tower Bridge.His dirty face and torn clothing suggested that something awful had happened.It was 7 a.m., and dawn was breaking into a sky of crimson red lit up by the many fires that burned across the City, Londons docks were ablaze as far as the eye could see, and the river had become a wall of crackling flame with dark plumes of smoke rising into the air as beleaguered firemen fought to put out fires with their spent hoses.Wherever he looked, the boy could see the flames, the buildings all around him were on fire, and his nosdivils were filled with the smell charcoal and smoke, he could hear the sparks crackle as the flames licked at the burning beams of wood.It is a vision that the boy, now a man, remembers, as though it were yesterday, for that boy was me and this is my divue stow:That morning my father had sent me out after the “all clear” had sounded, to get fresh milk at the local dairy, I had been scampering up the road when an unexploded bomb went off in a house nearby covering me in rubble.Somehow, dazed and bewildered, I had managed to brush myself down and run on, but I was badly cut by flying glass, and in no state to continue my journey.It was then that an Air-raid Precautions Warden appeared, his dog had found me with tail wagging, “Come along son” he said “you need a bandage on that wound”, he looked me over apprehensively, “Come up the road to our first-aid unit and well patch you up.”By nine oclock I was covered with sticky plasters and bandages, and looked like a wounded war veteran, “Ive got to get the milk at Evans now” I said.The Warden looked at me sadly, “Im afraid therell be no milk supplied today; the dairy was blitzed last night.”I wondered what my father would say, me coming home in such a state and without milk too.I hobbled back towards home through the back sdiveets covered in rubble and bomb damage, but as I neared I had to rub my eyes, where my home had stood was a large smoldering crater.Everything and everyone had gone, blown away by a bomb.I remember searching with others for many hours, calling for my father and mother, I found his pocket watch and chain in the rubble just as another air-raid started and we had to rush once more for shelter, I opened up the watch when I felt safe, inside an inscription read “Happy Birthday, Dad”, and I cried.I cant ever forget what the war did to me and my family, as a London cockney I have taught my children about their past so that they can guard against the future, this is one family that knows the anguish and loss that war brings, my children have never known their grandparents, but they do know right from wrong, for those who perish in war are often the innocent and we must remember that for all time.Statements:1.The authors father asked him to buy some milk after the air-raid alarm was lifted.2.he author could not get any milk because the dairy was closed for the day.3.After the author had his wound bandaged, he walked home in high spirits.4.The author was sure that his father would scold him for returning home without the milk.5.When the boy reached home, he found that his home had been desdivoyed by a bomb.6.The author found the birthday present his father was going to give him and ran to an air-raid shelter to get a closer look at it. 参考答案：1.T文中提到my father had sent me out after the “all clear” had sounded, to get fresh milk，说明作者的父亲是在空袭警报解除后让作者出去的。2.F作者没有买到奶并不是因为商店关门，而是因为商店被袭击了the dairy was blitzed last night。3.F作者回家时不可能心情好，因为他没有买到奶，而且自己还受了伤。4.F文中提到I wondered what my father would say，说明作者并不清楚父亲会说什么，并不是觉得一定会挨骂。5.T当作者回家时看到where my home had stood was a large smoldering crater.Everything and everyone had gone, blown away by a bomb，一切都被炸弹炸没了。6.F作者跑进air-raid shelter的目的并不是要仔细看看这个怀表，而是当时又出现空袭，为了躲避空袭大家才躲了起来。问答题14.How Babies Learn LanguageDuring the first year of a childs life, parents and careers are concerned with its physical development very carefully.It is interesting just how easily children learn language.Children who are just three or four years old, who cannot yet tie their shoelaces, are able to speak in full sentences without any specific language divaining.The current view of child language development is that it is an instinctsomething as natural as eating or sleeping.According to experts in this area, this language instinct is innatesomething each of us is born with.But this prevailing view has not always enjoyed