会计专业学位外语部分机考模拟题及参 （阅读理解）

In 1848, gold was discovered in California, from all over the nation, thousands of young men set out for California people called this the time of the gold rush.

A gold miner came into a city looking for a pair of pants. He wanted pants strong enough to stand up to the rough work of mining. He met a young man named Levi, who sold heavy cloth for tents and wagon tops. They asked a tailor to use heavy cloth for their pants. Then Levi went into the business of making work pants, he asked his brothers to send him some strong blue cotton cloth called denim(斜纹粗棉布). With this blue denim cloth, Levi started making the kind of pants we call blue jeans today. They were sewed up in the same way as other pants.

In 1860, a miner said that the pockets weren’t strong enough to hold the pieces of gold he found. The pockets kept pulling loose from the pants. The cloth was all right. It was the thread that wasn’t strong enough. So Levi used rivets(铆钉) attach the pockets onto the pants.

Cowboys needed tough pants, too. They liked their pants to fit tightly. But the rivets marked the cowboys’ saddles. So Levi covered the rivets with cloth. Then everybody was happy.

1 this article as a whole is about

a. how people got blue jeans b the gold rush

c denim, rivets and blue jeans d cowboys and blue jeans

2 while not stated in the article, you can tell that

A. everybody who went to California got a lot of gold B Levi found riches in the gold fields

C Levi made more money than many gold miners

D Levi sold more jeans to cowboys than to gold miners

3 the word this in the first paragraph, last sentence, refers to

A California b gold B. many people looking for gold d the discovery of gold

4 Levi used strong blue cotton cloth to make pants because

A gold miners liked the blue color b this was the only cloth he had

C. miners wanted pants which could stand rough work

D cowboys liked their pants to fit tightly

5 which of the following sentences is not correct?

A it was Levi who started the business of making blue jeans

B it was one tailor who started making blue jeans

C.it was in California that blue jeans first became popular

D it was in California that gold was discovered

参

1-5 BACCC.

Manners are important to happy relations among people. Everyone likes a person with good manners. No one likes a person with bad manners. But what are good manners? How does one know what to do and what not to do?

Well, here are some examples.

A person with good manners never laughs at people when they are in trouble. Instead, he tries to help them. He is always kind to others. When people are waiting for a bus, he takes his turn. He does not push to the front of the line. On the bus he gives his seat to an older person or a person with a very young child. If he knocks into someone, or gets in his way, he says "Excuse me" 1下载本文