2018年成人學(xué)位英語閱讀理解強(qiáng)化練習(xí)(三)
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The agriculture revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things:the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving natu-rally appeared first where labor was rare. "In Europe", said Thomas Jefferson," the object is to make the most of their land, labor being sufficient; here it is to make the most of our labor,land being abundant. " It was in America, therefore, that the great advances in nine-teenth-century agricultural machinery first came.
At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude (粗糙的) plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural tools on their backs. By 1860,most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1890 Charles Newbolt of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire fortune in introducing his invention. The farmers, however, would bring home none of it, claiming that the iron poi-soned the soil and made the weeds grow. Nevertheless, many people devoted their attention to the plow,until in 1869,James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana, turned out the first chilled steel plow.
31.The word "here" refers to__________.
A.Europe
B.America
C.New Jersey
D.Indiana
答案：B
32.Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A.The need for labor helped the invention of machinery in America.
B.The farmer rejected Charles Newbolt's plow for fear of ruin of their fields.
C.Both Europe and America had great need for farm machinery.
D.It was in Indiana that the first chilled-steel plow was produced.
答案：C
解析：細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。文章段中有這樣的句子：In Europe，the object is to make the most of their land，labor being sufficient，here it is to make the most of our labor，and land being abundant(在歐洲，我們的目標(biāo)是勞動(dòng)力充足，要充分利用土地，在美國(guó)是土地充足，要正確使用勞動(dòng)力)。因此，說歐洲和美國(guó)都急需農(nóng)業(yè)機(jī)械化是錯(cuò)誤的。正確答案為C。
33.The passage is mainly about__________.
A.the agriculture revolution
B.the invention of labor-saving machinery
C.the development of scientific agriculture
D.the farming machinery in America
答案：B
解析：主旨概括題。文章段講到農(nóng)業(yè)機(jī)器初產(chǎn)生的原因，第二段講到鐵犁的產(chǎn)生，所以文章的中心思想應(yīng)當(dāng)是“節(jié)省勞力機(jī)器的發(fā)明”，選B。
34.At the opening of the nineteenth-century,farmers in America__________.
A.preferred light tools
B.were extremely self-reliant
C.had many tools
D.had very few tools
答案：D
解析：邏輯推斷題。文章中有這樣的句子：At the opening of the century，with the exception of a crude plow，farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agri-cultural tools on their backs(在本世紀(jì)初，除了一個(gè)粗糙的耕犁之外，農(nóng)民可以把其余所有的農(nóng)具背在背上)。說明當(dāng)時(shí)的農(nóng)具很少。D為正確答案。
35.It is implied but not stated in the passage that__________.
A.there was a shortage of workers on American farms
B.the most important of the early invention was the iron plow
C.many people devoted their attention to the plow
D.Charles Newbolt had made a fortune by his cast-iron plow
答案：A
解析：邏輯推斷題。從文章第二段的The most important of the early inven-tions was the iron plow可以看出B是明確表明了的;從這句Nevertheless，many people de-voted their attention to the plow來看，C也是原文給出了的;從這句Charles Newbolt of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast--iron plow and spent his entire fortune in intro-ducing his invention可以得知D也是原文明確表明的;從段here it is to make the most of our labor，land being abundant(充分利用勞動(dòng)力，土地資源豐富)，可以推斷出勞動(dòng)力缺乏，所以A是文章暗含的內(nèi)容。
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