全国2009年7月高等教育自学考试英语阅读（一）试

全国2009年7月高等教育自学考试英语阅读（一）试题
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I. Careful Reading. (40 points, 2 points for each)
Directions: Read the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answers and then write the corresponding letters on your Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
By 1970, according to a World Wildlife Fund report, only about 4,500 tigers survived throughout the world—half of them in India. Mr. Foresters, who followed and counted tiger footprints, estimated that in May 1972 only about 1,800 tigers existed in India. Project Tiger supported by W. W. F. was immediately launched. Nine tiger reserves were created, with armed guards protecting them.
The project provided opportunities for researchers from India and abroad to study tigers in the reserves and gather previously unavailable information about their habits. Studies show that a male tiger may control a hunting territory of between 10 and 20 sq. kilometers, depending on its age, size and strength. The territory of a male includes the smaller territories of three or four tigresses. A tiger marks the boundaries of its territory by spraying urine and other bodily liquids on bushes. But it tries to avoid territorial fights, being guided by the distinctive body smell of other tigers. Tigers fight to death only when a tigress is defending her young baby, or when a tiger is guarding a tigress from the attention of other males.
The popular image of the tiger is that of a merciless and unconquerable hunter.But studies show that it catches only one of 20 victims it tries to attack.
Fears have recently developed that Project Tiger has been too successful. It has enabled the tiger population to double (by mid-80s) but India's human population has also grown out of control. Currently it is 750 million and likely to be 900 million by the end of the century. Land problem is becoming serious and many rural people feel bitter about the fact that some rich forests are reserved for tigers. A growing number of attacks by tigers on man have added to the hostility.
1. The ultimate aim of Project Tiger is to ______.
A. protect tigers from being killed
B. study the growth rate of tigers
C. promote the breeding of young tigers
D. analyze the behavioral patterns of tigers
2. Studies have shown that ______.
A. a tigress never attacks until attacked
B. the tigress is not as fierce as the tiger
C. the tiger is not an efficient hunter as is commonly described
D. a tiger usually fights another tiger to defend its own territory
3. According to the passage, a tiger's territory ______.
A. remains unchanged B. is often defended by tigresses
C. is the cause of most fights D. expands as the tiger grows up
4. Some people are afraid that Project Tiger ______.
A. has failed to achieve its goal B. has not received enough attention
C. has been carried too far D. is not worth the money spent on it
5. The author seems to ______.
A. have a matter-of-fact attitude towards Project Tiger
B. be enthusiastic about Project Tiger
C. have a hostile attitude towards Project Tiger
D. be satisfied with Project Tiger
Passage Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.
Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with half a million out-of-towners among the more than 3 million people who visit the park yearly. About 15 million inspanidual visits are made each year.
Summer is the season for softball, concerts and Shakespeare; fall is sunning; winter is wonderful for sledding, skating and skiing; and springtime is the loveliest of all. It was all planned that way.
About 130 years ago Frederic Olmsted and his collaborator Calvert Vaux submitted their landscaping plan for a rectangular parcel two miles north of the town's center. The barren swamp was reported as "a spot where miasmic (瘴气的) odors pollute every breath of air." It took 16 years for workers with pickaxe and shovels to move 5 million cubic feet of earth and rock, and to plant half a million trees and shrubs, making a tribute to nature—a romantic 19th-century perception of nature.
What exists today is essentially Olmsted and Vaux's plan, with more trees, buildings and roads. Landscape architects still speak reverently of Olmsted's genius and foresight, and the sensitive visitor can see the effects he sought.
6. The passage is mainly concerned with ______.
A. the lives of Olmsted and Vaux
B. New York City's tourist industry
C. examples of nineteenth-century art in New York City
D. the development of Central Park
7. According to the passage, ______ is the prettiest time of a year in Central Park.
A. winter B. spring
C. summer D. fall
8. It can be inferred t

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