阅读理解出题范围.doc

妹妹们，又要考试了，阅读题也出出来了，我给大家说说出题范围两篇阅读中有一篇出自全新版大学英语第一册的Test yourself （unit 1-4）和Test yourself （unit 5-8）中，另一篇来自37新理念大学英语学习系统???中，“班级学习”中，“测试统计” 中，B1U1-A和B1U2-A中的一篇。 我把test yourself （unit 1-4）、test yourself （unit 5-8）、 B1U1-A和B1U2-A中的所有阅读题及答案全部附在后面。 B1U1-A Passage 1Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can prove that their students writing shows a tendency towards a superficiality (表面性事物) that wasnt seen ten or fifteen years ago. It shows up not only in their lack of analytical skills, but in poor command of grammar and rhetoric (修辞). The mechanics of the English language have been torn into pieces by TV. Visual, moving images cant be held in the net of careful language. They want to break out. They really have nothing to do with language, grammar, and rhetoric. Recent surveys by dozens of organizations also suggest that up to 40% of the American public is functionally illiterate. That is, our citizens reading and writing abilities, if they have any, are impaired so seriously as to render them, in that handy jargon (口头术语) of our times, dysfunctional (目不识丁). The reading is taught — TV teaches people not to read. It renders them incapable of engaging in an activity that is regarded as vigorous, because it is not a passive hypnotized (催眠的) state. Passive as it is, television has invaded our culture so completely that the mediums effects are evident everywhere. It shows up in supermarket paperbacks, from Stephen King to pulp fiction (庸俗的小说). These really are forms of verbal TV-literature that is so superficial that those who read it can take delight in the same sensations they experience when watching TV. Even more importantly, the growing influence of television has changed peoples habits and affected their assumptions about the world. The sort of reflective, critical, and value-loaded thinking encouraged by books had been regarded out of date. Quite literally, TV affects the way people think. In Four Arguments for the Elimination of Televis