2016年公共英语一级基础阅读练习及答案
阅读理解题:Antinuclear Demonstration
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse.
Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. “This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law,” he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read “No Nukes is Good Nukes,” “Sunpower, Not Nuclear Power,” and “Stop Private Profits from Public Peril.” They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the protestors who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.
1. What were the demonstrators protesting about?
[A]Private profits.
[B]Nuclear Power Station.
[C]The project of nuclear power construction.
[D]Public peril.
2. Who had gas-masks?
[A]Everybody.
[B]A part of the protestors.
[C]Policemen.
[D]Both B and C.
3. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason for the demonstration?
[A]Public transportation.
[B]Public peril.
[C]Pollution.
[D]Disposal of wastes.
4. With whom were the jails and courts overloaded?
[A]With prisoners.
[B]With arrested demonstrators.
[C]With criminals.
[D]With protestors.
5. What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward the power project and the demonstration?
[A]stubborn.
[B]insistent.
[C]insolvable.
[D]remissible.
Vocabulary
rse 逆转
e 滑坡
ue 瘟疫;折磨,困扰
ff 关税
y 谴责,诋毁
r 杠杆;用杠杆撬动
症结
logue 空想家,思想家
ct 原封不动的,完整无损的
stment credit 投资信贷
arch grant 研究基金
【参考答案及解析】
1. C 抗议建设核电站计划。不是抗议核电站。
至于B. 核电站还未建,所以不对。
A. 私人利益 和
D. 公共危险,这些都是示警牌上之口号不是抗议的'主攻方向。
2. D 双方。 最后一段第四行最后和第五行“抗议者准备了他们自己的防毒面具或面罩。最后,头戴防毒面具和头盔的警察冲进人群一个一个地抓逮示警者。”所以说两方面都有防毒面具。
3. A 公共交通运输。
B. 公共危险。
C. 污染。
D. 废料处理,是三个抗议的理由。
4. B 被逮捕的示警者。第一段最后一行“示警要继续下去直到州监牢和州法庭人满为患,从而使州司法体系垮台。”说明示警者准备去坐牢,决不服输的决心。而人多到监牢装不下证明州司法的问题。所以这里只能是被抓的示警者。
A. 犯人。
C. 罪犯。
D.抗议者。警察不可能抓所有的抗议者。关在牢里的只能是被抓的示警者。
5. A 固执己见,冥顽不化。见第二段他坚持说核电站计划不用再考虑,三年内一定要建成,计划准时开始,本州人民到时候就能获益。对这些违法企图破坏计划的人依法惩处。并且从州内各处调集警察来处理这次“骚乱”。从语言到行动都说明,这位州长固执己见,顽固得很。
B. 坚持的。
C. 不能解决的。
D. 可宽恕的。
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