II </B>阅读理解 (45%): </B>在所给选项中选出最佳答案,并把答题卷上相应的字母涂黑。<p></p></B></P> (1)</P>The favorite food in the United States is hamburger. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. At fast food restaurants, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurants, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars. </P>There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States. The greatest in number sell hamburgers, French fries and so on. They are popular food among Americans. Besides, there are many fast food restaurants that serve Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-cream. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one. </P>Fast food restaurants are popular because they reflect American life style. Customers can wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. In fast food restaurants the food is usually ready before the customer ever orders it. Finally most food in a fast food restaurant is not expensive. Therefore people are able to buy and eat at a fast food restaurant often, while they may not be able to go to a more expensive restaurant very often.</P>41. Hamburgers and French fries can be got at ______________ the fast food restaurants.</P>A) some of </P>B) most of </P>C) a part of </P>D) all of </P><p> </p></P>42. What do people do when they come to a fast food restaurant?</P>A) They order and eat their food at the restaurant.</P>B) They buy and take their food out and eat it in their cars or in their homes.</P>C) They stay in their cars ordering, paying for and getting their food.</P>D) They do one of the three above-mentioned things.</P><p> </p></P>43. Why do Americans like to go to fast food restaurants?</P>A) It is because fast food restaurants are fast, informal, and inexpensive.</P>B) It is because people can easily find fast food restaurants. </P>C) It is because people like to eat hamburger.</P>D) It is because fast food restaurants sell nearly every kind of food.</P><p> </p></P>44. Is the food in fast food restaurants always ready before the customers order it?</P>A) Yes, it is.</P>B) Yes, it is cooked to order.</P>C) No, it is seldom ready.</P>D) No, not always, but usually.</P><p> </p></P>45. Seafood and ice-cream are served at all fast food restaurants, aren’t they?</P>A) Certainly.</P>B) Yes, they are.</P>C) No, I’m afraid not.</P>D) No, not at a few of them.</P><p> </p></P>(2)</P> The word “horsepower” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world’s first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power.</P> Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.</P> He discovered that a horse could life a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. </P> Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine. </P>46. The selection says that Watt made the first ___________.</P>A) engine </P>B) steam engine </P>C) widely-used steam engine</P>D) useful engine </P><p> </p></P>47. Watt wanted to find a way to ________________.</P>A) measure the work his engine could do </P>B) tell people how powerful his engine was </P>C) lift a 3,300-pound weight</P>D) Both A and B</P><p> </p></P>48. He made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of ____________.</P>A) a man </P>B) ten horses </P>C) his engine </P>D) a horse</P><p> </p></P>49. One horsepower would equal _____________.</P>A) the work a horse could do in a minute</P>B) the weight a horse could lift</P>C) the work a horse could do </P>D) the weight of one horse</P><p> </p></P>50. The best title for this selection is ______________.</P>A) Watt’s Engine </P>B) The Origin of the Term Horsepower</P>C) Units of Measurement </P>D) It Happened 200 Years Ago</P> |