大学英语阅读理解
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阅读理解一：
Arthur
Miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one
of the
greatest dramatists
of the 20th century. Miller's father
had moved to the USA from Austria
Hungary,drawn
like
so
many
others
by
the
Great
American
Dream
However,
he
experienced
severe
financial hardship when his family
business was ruined in the Great
Depression of the
early
l930s.
Millers' s most famous
play, Death of a Salesman , is a powerful
attack on the American
system, with its aggressive way of
doing business and its insistence on
money and social
status as
indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of
the play, we
see a man who has
got into trouble with his worth. Willy
is
world of business there
is no room for sentiment: if he can't
do the work, then he is no good to
his
employer, the
Wagner Company, and he
must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at
loss as to what
to do with
his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact
that he has
failed and kills himself
in the end.
When
it
was
first
staged
in
1949,
the
play
was
greeted
with
enthusiastic reviews, and
it won the Tony Award for Best Play,
the New York Drama Critics Circle
Award, and
the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all
three of
these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at
his home in Roxbury, Connecticut,
on
the evening of February
10,2005,the
56th anniversary of the first performance of Death
of a
Salesman on Broadway.
1. Why did Arthur Miller' s father move
to the USA?______
A. He suffered from
severe hunger in his home country.
B.
He was attracted by the
C. He hoped to
make his son a dramatist.
D. His family
business failed.
2. The play Death of a
Salesman _______.
A. exposes the
cruelty of the American business world
B. discusses the ways to get promoted
in a company
C. talks about the
business career of Arthur Miller
D.
focuses on the skills in doing business
3. What can we learn about Willy
Loman?______
A. He treats his employer
badly.
B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American
system.
D. He is regarded as a hero by
his colleagues.
4. What is the text
mainly about?______
A. Arthur Miller
and his family.
B. The awards Arthur
Miller won.
C. The hardship Arthur
Miller experienced.
D. Arthur Miller
and his best-known play.
答案：
BACD
参考翻译：
阿瑟·米勒（
1915-2005
）是举世公认的最伟大的剧作家之一
20
世纪。米勒的父亲已经从奥地利匈牙利移居美国，绘制
像许多其他的“伟大的美国梦” 。不过，他经历了严重的
当他的家族企业是毁在了大萧条时期的经济困难
早
l930s
。
米勒最著名的发挥，推销员之死，是美国强大的攻击
系统凭借其积极的做生意的方式及其对金钱和社会的坚持
地位，价值的指标。在威利·洛曼，剧中的主人公，我们看到谁拥有一个男人
钻进他的身价麻烦。威利被“烧毁”，并在企业的残酷世界里
没有空间感悟：如果他不能做的工作，那么他是没有好他的雇主，
瓦格纳公司，他必须去。威利痛苦地意识到了这一点，并在无所适从
做他的缺乏成功。他不肯面对事实，他已经失败，杀死自己
到底。
当它在
1949
年首次上演，该剧是迎接热情的评论，和
它赢得了托尼奖最佳戏剧，纽约戏剧批评家奖，并
普利策戏剧奖。这是第一次发挥赢得所有这三个重要奖项。
米勒在他的家在罗克斯伯里，康涅狄格死于心脏衰竭，对日晚
10,2005
，在百老汇推销员之死的首场演出
56
周年。
阅读理解（二）
When I lived
in Spain,
some Spanish friends of mine decided to
visit
England by car.
Before
they
left,
they
asked
me
for
advice
about
how
to
find
accommodation
(
住所
). I
suggested that they should stay at 'bed
and breakfast' houses, because
this
kind of
accommodation
gives
a
foreign
visitor
a
good
chance
to
speak
English
with
the family.
My friends listened to my advice, but
they came back with some funny
stories.
didn't
stay
at
bed
and
breakfast
houses,
they
said,
we
found that
most
families were away on
holiday.
I thought this was strange.
Finally I understood what had happened.
My friends spoke
little
English, and they thought 'VACANCIES' meant
'holidays', because
the Spanish word
for
'holidays'
is
'vacaciones'.
So
they
did
not
go
to
house
where
the
sign
outside said
'VACANCLES',
which
in
English
means
there
are
free
rooms.
Then
my
friends
went
to
house
where
the
sign
said
'NO
VACANCLES',
because
they
thought
this
meant
the people
who owned the house were not away on
holiday. But they found that these
houses were
all full. As a
result, they stayed at hotels!
We
laughed about this and about mistakes my friends
made in reading
other signs. In
Spanish,
the
word
'DIVERSION'
means
English,
it
means
that
workmen
are
repairing
the
road,
and
that
you
must
take
a
different
my
friends
saw
the word
'DIVERSION'
on
a
road
sign,
they
thought
they
were
going
to
have
d, the road
ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn
foreign languages.
Once in Paris,
when someone offered me some more
coffee, I said
I meant that I
would like some more. However, to my
surprise, the coffee pot was taken
away! Later I
found out
that
1. My Spanish friends wanted
advice about _____.
[ ]
A. learning English
B.
finding places to stay in England
C.
driving their car on English roads
D.
going to England by car
2. 'NO
VACANCIES' in English means _____.
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