2018湖北普通专升本英语模拟试题之阅读理解

    湖北普通专升本英语模拟试题之阅读理解：

Passage Two Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. 

    Last summer, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole announced a newrule: Unless states representing two-thirds of the country’s populationpass compulsory (强制性的) seat-belt-use laws by April 1989, all new vehicles will have to befitted with air bags or automatic seat belts.     

    The rule wouldn’t have been necessary but for one simple fact. Eventhough seat belts could prevent nearly half of the deaths in fatal caraccidents, 85 percent of the population simply won’t wear them. 

    Why not? Behavioral engineers have found that there are all sorts ofreasons—usually unstated. These are some of the most popular. It’s safer to bethrown from a car man trapped. According to E. Scott Geller, that’s a faultyargument. “In fact”, he says, “being thrown from a car is twenty-five timesmore dangerous than being trapped”. 

    It won’t happen to me; I’m a good driver. But what about the otherperson who may be a terrible driver? The data show that the average incidence (发生率) for allaccidents in one per driver every 10 years. 

    My car will end up underwater or on fire, and I won’t be able toget out. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA), only 0.5 percent of all injury-producing accidents occur under theseconditions. “If you’re wearing a belt, you’ve got a better chance of beingconscious and not having your legs broken—distinct advantages in getting out ofa dangerous situation”. 

    I’m only going a few blocks. Yet 80 percent of accidents happen atspeeds or less that 25 miles per hour, 75 percent happen within 25 miles ofhome.

56.Before 1989, in the United States________. 

A) the use of seat belts was not compulsoryfor the majority of the population

B) a new law requiring the use of seatbelts had just been passed 

C) people had to choose between the use ofseat belts or the use of air bags

D) almost fifty percent of the peopleinvolved in car accidents were saved by seat Belts 

57.The word “trapped” (Para. 3, Line 3)means to be ________.

A) held up in a traffic jam

B) confined in the car

C) caught in an accident

D) pulled into a car

58.One of the reasons why many driversrefuse to wear seat belts is because ________.

A) they don’t think that it is comfortableto wear seat belts

B) they don’t believe that an accidentinvolving a terrible driver is highly probable

C) they believe that no danger is involvedin just driving a few blocks

D) they think that few drivers are willingto wear seat belts

59.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A) seat belts should be replaced by airbags 

B) eighty-five percent of all drivers arelikely to Break traffic rules

C) all drivers, whether good or bad, areliable to have an accident at one time or another 

D) wearing seat belts will get drivers outof dangerous situations

60.The purpose of the writer in writingthis passage is ________.

A) to urge the government to pass the lawsooner

B) to tell how dangerous car-driving canbe 

C) to criticise those who refuse to useseat belts

D) to prove the necessity of the new rule

答案

56. A 57. B 58. C 59. C 60. D

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