普通高校专升本外语模拟题2020年(10)
(总分98,考试时间120分钟)
Reading Comprehension
一、阅读理解
  You must be very careful when a woman asks you how she looks because you will **e up with a right answer. The problem is that women generally do not think of their looks in the same way that men do. Most men form all opinions of how they look in seventh grade, and they stick to it for the rest of their lives. Most of them think of themselves as average-looking. But that does not bother them.
  Women do not look at themselves this way. No matter how attractive a woman may appear to be to others, they think of their appearance as "not good enough". Why do women have such low self-esteem? There are **plex psychological and social reasons, but one reason might be that women grow up thinking they need to look like Barbie doll. This is
a difficult appearance standard to live up to, although there is a multibillion-dollar beauty industry devoted to convincing women that they must try.
  I' m not saying men are superior, but you are not going to get a group of middle-aged men who apply cosmetics (化妆品) to themselves in the hope of looking more like Brad Pitt. Men would realize that this task is pointless and meaningless. Of course many women will argue that men, being shallow, want them to look that way. As I see, hey, just because we' re idiots, that doesn' t mean you have to be.
  So if you are a man, and a woman asks you how she looks, you can' t say she looks bad. But you also can' t say she looks great, because she’ll think you' re lying. Also, she suspects that you're not qualified to judge anybody's appearance. This is because you have shaving cream in your hair.
1. 1.Which of the following statements is true?
网红辛巴个人简介A. All women accept men' s praise for their looks.
B. It is impossible for women to become beautiful.
C. Women are less confident about their appearance.
D. Most men think they are handsome and never worry about their looks.
2. 2.Why does the problem of appearance never make men worried?
A. Because they believe they are handsome.飞在风里的纸飞机
B. Because women never care about men's appearance.
C. Because they don't care about beauty.
D. Because being average-looking is fine for men.
3. 3.Which of the following might not be the reason for women to apply cosmetics to themselves?
A. They are not satisfied with their looks.
B. They are crazy to follow film stars.
C. They believe that men want them to do so.
D. They have low self-esteem in their appearance.
4. 4.What is men's proper reaction when a woman asks how she looks, according to this passage?
A. To make a **ment on her looks.
B. To keep silent or change a topic.
C. To tell the woman that she is ugly.
D. To tell the truth.
5. 5.What would men think of their own use of cosmetics?
A. It is useless.
B. It is necessary.
平安欢颜C. It is good.
D. It is unacceptable.
  Counterfeit medications are a widespread problem in developing countries. Like other counterfeits, they look like real products. But counterfeit drugs may contain too much, too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.
  People do not get the medicine they need. And in some cases the counterfeits cause death. Twenty children in Bangladesh died last year after being given acetaminophen (醋氨酚). The medications contained ingredients that looked, smelt and tasted like the real thing. The medicine was produced by a local **pany that used a dangerous substitute to save money.
  The problem of counterfeit medications is especially serious in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The WHO estimates that up to thirty percent of the medicine on sale in many of
those countries is counterfeits. The problem is less widespread among industrialized countries. The WHO says counterfeits make up less than one percent of the illegal drug market in countries like the United States, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand. But the agency also says as much as fifty percent of the medicine sold on the Internet is counterfeit.
  Much is being done to fight counterfeit drugs. **panies are developing ways to make counterfeits easier to identify. And there are existing methods, like a machine that can quickly identify chemicals in pills to confirm if the pills are real. Other ideas include things like special tracking codes for drug packages. People could send a text message with the code and get a message back, which proves that what they bought is listed in a database. Some drug makers and **panies put three-dimensional images called holograms (全息图) on their products as a security device.
6. 6.The underlined word "counterfeits" (Para. 1) means______.
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A. qualified products
B. sub-standard medicines
牵手吉他弹唱教学C. real pills
陈羽凡白百合离婚D. false products
7. 7.Last year twenty children in Bangladesh died because of______.
A. unclean water
B. acetaminophen