公共英語等級考試二級試題集（6）

A .In the 1900's, American townspeople usually washed and brushed their teeth
and combed their hair in the kitchen. Or they kept a water pitcher （大水罐）and
a wash basin in their rooms and took care of these things there.

The bathtub was a wash tub（澡盆）filled with water from the stove. If you were small enough you could sit down by drawing your knees to your chest. Otherwise, you washed yourself standing up. Often all the women and girls in the family bathed together. Then the men and boys did. In most families this was Saturday night because Sundays they went to church.

A small number of families did have running water. But that depended on whether there was a water system where they lived and on whether they could afford the plumbing（水管設(shè)施）. Some people had bathtubs in their homes as early as 1895. But many others did not have their first bath in a bathtub until 1910 or later when they were fifteen or sixteen ?years old.?

56?In the first paragraph, "took care of" means ""。
 
［A］ kept
［B］ looked after
［C］ used
［D］ kept and used

57. In order to use the water from the stove, there be a pipe connecting the tub with the stove.

［A］ must
［B］ seemed to
［C］ needn't
［D］ should

58. Which of the following statements is true?

［A］ Males and females in the family took turns using the bathtub.
［B］ Some bathtubs were big enough for many people to bathe in at the same time.
［C］ All the women and girls of a family could bathe together standing up in the tub.
［D］ When several family members bathed together, they did not use the bathtub.

59. Americans owned a bathtub as early as 1895.

［A］ Many
［B］ Not all
［C］ All
［D］ Few

60. We can infer（推斷）that the plumbingat that time.

［A］ cost little
［B］ was more expensive than a water system
［C］ was too expensive for every family to afford
［D］ was not necessary

B .CARIFF, Wales?oets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition（傳統(tǒng)）of storytelling.

"It might seem strange that people still want to listen to instead of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again, "said David Amibrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival（節(jié)）in Wales.

"Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time. " he said early this month.

Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do ?Kntadjait, orthroat singing, which has few words and much sound.
Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.

Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving（coming back into use or existence）storytelling in Wales.

"It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here." Ambrose said.

61. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling.

［A］ will be more popular than TV
［B］ will be popular again
［C］ started in Wales
［D］ are in the hands of some old people

62. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn.

［A］ about their life as early as thousands of years ago
［B］ why they tell the stories in a throat?singing way
［C］ how cold it has been where the Inuit live
［D］ how difficult it is to understand the Inuit

63. According to the writer, which of the following is not true?

［A］ Storytelling once stopped in Wales.
［B］ Storytelling has a long history in Wales.
［C］ Storytelling is always well received in Wales.
［D］ Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales.

64. The underlined phrase in good hands means.

［A］ controlled by rich people
［B］ grasped by good storytellers
［C］ taken good care of
［D］ protected by kind people

56?從上下文來看“took care of”應(yīng)是“kept and used”之意，答案為D。
57?從常理上看，將燒開的水倒入澡盆即可，所以本題答案為C。
58?從短文來判斷，男女是分開洗澡的，答案應(yīng)是A。
59? 1895年時只有一些人有澡盆，說明答案是B。
60?短文最后一段“That depended on... and on whether they could afford the plumbing”說明答案應(yīng)為C。
61?從文章第二段可以推斷答案為A。
62?從他們所講的故事中人們能夠了解的是他們以前的生活，答案為A。
63?文中倒數(shù)第二段（coming back into use or existence）說明答案為D。
64?“the welsh are story tellers”,因此“story telling was in good hands”,
說明“in good hands”為“taken good care of”，即答案為D。

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