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Reading Comprehension for Band-III 2011年12月30日 15:48 ? 成都理工大学外国语学院 大学英语精品课程:三级阅读补充材料 (CET-3 Reading Comprehension Supplementary Materials) Directions: There are 30 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question. ? Passage 1 1. In the past, many young people ___D___. D. were willing to be soldiers 2. Now with TV people can __B___. B. show more interest in politics 3. The author thinks that TV advertisements ___A__. A. are not reliable on the whole 4. Which is NOT true according to the passage? B B. With a TV set some problems can be solved quickly. 5. From the passage, we can conclude that __D___. D. TV has a deep influence on the young ?Passage 2 6. According to the passage, nonverbal communication ___B__. B. can tell something that words cannot 7. The South American ___B__. B. usually stands close to the person he is talking to 8. Which of the following is NOT true? D D. Shorter eye contact shows more interest in what one is talking about. 9. Too long a gaze ___A__. A. may upset people being looked a 10. Constant smiling without apparent reason __D___ D. makes people feel uncomfortable ? Passage 3 11. According to the passage, the U.S. elementary education is supposed to make children ___D__. D. happy and co-operative 12. Some Americans complain about elementary schools because they think ___D__. D. schools give little actual instruction to children 13. The author’s attitude towards American education can be best described as ___A__. A. favorable 14. The American educational system emphasizes __C___. C. co-operation 15. The word “sociable” (Line 7, Paragraph2) most probably means __B___ B. friendly with other people ? Passage 4 ? The physical problem that many adult Americans have is that ________. C. they are too fat