江南大学-大学英语(最全题库+答案).docx

阅读理解 1. Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world. An Arab traveller in India in the year 900 wrote that it was played long, long ago. Chess was probably invented in India, and it has been played everywhere from Japan to Europe since 1400. The name chess is interesting. When one player is attacking the others king, he says in English, check. When the king has been caught and cannot move anywhere, he says check mate. These words come from Persian Shah mat means the king is dead. That is when the game is over, and one player has won. 答：A B A B B 2. Herman had worked for the bank of Ruritania for ten years and was still only a clerk. He was not satisfied with the position and wanted to find something better. Yet he did not want to lose his position in bank before he had got another one, so he prepared a letter about himself, with the words HELP! I AM A PRISONER OF THE BANK OF RURITANIA! in big letters across the top. Then he sent it to several other banks, asking them for a job. 答：B A A B A 1. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was the first president to take the oath of office in the nations permanent capital, Washington D.C. Although Washington was a new city, it was already familiar to President Jefferson. In fact, Jefferson had helped plan the capitals streets and public buildings. Besides being a city planner and architect, the new President was a writer, a scientist, and the inventor of several tools. 答：A D C A B 1.Have you?1asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably say that they go?2their own language and other languages, arithmetic, history, science and3subjects. That is quite true; but why do they learn these things? And are these things?4that they learn at school? 答： C B C D A B B A D A D A C B B A C D D C 2.Our family is trying to decide where to go for our vacation this summer. Our son, Tom, wants to go to Yellow Stone Park again to see the bears. We did that last summer and what an experience it was! When we got there, we