全国2010年4月自学考试英语阅读(一)试题

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According to Carol Tavris, author of Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, the keys to dealing with anger are common sense and patience．She points out that almost no situation is improved by an angry outburst．Shouting, fuming, or leaning on the car horn won’t make traffic begin to flow, make the screen unlock or make keys appear．Patience, on the other hand, is a highly practical virtue．People who take the time to cool down before responding to an anger-producing situation are far less likely to say or do something they will regret later.
Anger-management therapist Doris Wilde agrees．“Like any feeling, anger lasts only about three seconds,” she says．“What keeps it going is your own negative thinking.” As long as you focus on the idiot who cut you off on the expressway, you’ll stay angry．But if you let the incident go, your anger will go with it．“Once you come to understand that you’re driving your own anger with your thoughts,” adds Wilde, “you can stop it.”
Experts who have studied anger also encourage people to cultivate activities that effectively release their anger．For some people, it’s reading newspapers or watching TV, while others need more active outlets (发泄渠道), such as taking a walk, hitting golf balls, or working out with a punching bag．People who succeed in calming their anger also enjoy the satisfaction of having dealt positively with their frustrations.
For Laura House, her experience in the car with her mother was a wake-up call．“Once I saw what I was doing, it really wasn’t that hard to develop different habits．I simply decided I was going to treat other people the way I would want to be treated．I’m a calmer, happier person now,” she reports.

21．The writer begins the passage by _______.
A．giving an example
B．making a comparison
C．looking into causes
D．quoting a famous person

22．According to Carol Tavris, anger can be handled effectively ________.
A．by remaining silent
B．by listening to music
C．through games and exercises
D．through common sense and patience

23．Doris Wilde believes that people stay angry ______.
A．when traffic on the expressway is heavy
B．when anger-causing incidents are serious
C．because it takes time for them to calm down
D．because they fail to look at things positively

24．The sentence “if you let the incident go, your anger will go with it” (para．3) tells us that ______.
A．anger depends on how serious the situation is
B．people get carried away by unpleasant incidents
C．anger disappears when people ignore the incident
D．people won’t be angry without anger-causing incidents

25．The passage mainly deals with ______.
A．types of anger
B．effects of anger
C．causes of anger
D．management of anger

Passage 6
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Alcatraz Island, sometimes referred to as the Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California．It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification (要塞), then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963．It became a national recreation area in 1972．Today, the island is a historic site operated by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tourists.
The first Spaniard to discover the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, and the earliest recorded owner of the island of Alcatraz is Julian Workman, to whom it was given by Mexican governor Pio Pico in June 1846 with the understanding that the former would build a lighthouse on it．Later that same year John C．Fremont bought the island for $5,000 in the name of the United States government．When California became part of the United States in 1848, the U.S．Army used the island as a military camp for the protection of San Francisco Bay．Later, the army decided to turn it into the site of detention (拘禁), a task for which it was well suited because of its isolation．In 1867 a brick jailhouse was built, and in 1868 Alcatraz was officially designated a long-term detention facility for military prisoners．On March 21, 1907, Alcatraz was officially designated as the Western US Military Prison.
Due to its isolation from the outside by the cold, strong, dangerous currents of the waters of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was used to house Civil War prisoners as early as 1861．In 1898, the Spanish-American war would increase the prison population from 26 to over 450．After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, civilian prisoners were transferred to Alcatraz for safe confinement．By 1912 there was a large cellhouse, and in the 1920s a large 3-story structure was nearly at full capacity．The island became a federal prison in August 1934．During the 29 years it was in use, the jail held such notable criminals as A1 Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), James Bulger and Alvin Katpis, who served more time at Alcatraz than any other inmate．It also provided housing for the Bureau of Prison staff and their families, and no prisoner had ever successfully escaped from the island.

26．Alcatraz Island was first used as ______.
A．a lighthouse
B．a federal prison
C．a military prison
D．a military fortification

27．The first owner of Alcatraz Island is ______.
A．Pio Pico
B．Julian Workman
C．John C．Fremont
D．Juan Manuel de Ayala

28．Alcatraz Island began to house civilian prisoners in ______.
A．1867
B．1898
C．1906
D．1907

29．The U.S．Army first used Alcatraz Island as ______.
A．a military camp
B．a national park
C．a civilian prison
D．a military prison

30．Alcatraz Island served as a federal prison between ______.
A．1898 and 1912
B．1907 and 1934
C．1912 and 1934
D．1934 and 1963

III．DISCOURSE CLOZE
The following is taken from the textbook．Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces (there are more suggested answers than necessary)．Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET．(10 points, 1 point each)
My topic is the Constitution of the United States．Every year thousands of tourists visit the National Archives in Washington
D．C., to view the original document, which is on permanent display．(31) ______．I shall deal with the background of the Constitution, the great Convention of 1787 that produced it, some of its leading principles and provisions, and the means by which (32) ______.
In 1775 the thirteen British colonies that were to become the United States stretched along the Atlantic Coast of North America．(33) ______．Over the years the colonies had developed greatly．In 1775 they had a population of more than two millions．They enjoyed a large measure of self-government．Each colony had its own legislature (34) ______．Each colony was separate from the others．They had in common a British cultural and political heritage, and all were subject
to laws passed by Parliament and owed allegiance to the British Crown.
(35) ______．The American Revolution came because the colonies had grown stronger and were in less need of British support, because the people in them were less like Europeans than their ancestors had been, (36) ______．Beginning in 1775 the Revolution continued for several years．With the aid of France the colonies won the war, and in 1783 Great Britain signed a treaty recognizing their independence．(37) ______.

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