2013年职称英语考试阅读理解习题(6)_第2页

1. The writer seems to imply that Europeans travel mostly for the reason that
A. they want to see historic remains or religious spots.
B. they are interested in different cultural traditions and social customs.
C. they would like to take pictures in front of famous sites.
D. they wish to escape from the cold, dark and rainy days back at home.

2. In paragraph 2, cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are mentioned
A. to show that they are not good cities in terms of geography and climate.
B. to tell us how wealthy their residents are.
C. to suggest that these cities lack places of historic interest and scenic beauty.
D. to prove that they have got more tourism than they can handle.

3. According to the passage, which of the following countries attracts more tourists than the others?
A. Italy.
B. Spain.
C. France.
D. Greece.

4. The latter half of the last sentence in paragraph 3, i.e., “or one tourist for every person living in Spain” means
A. all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourists.
B. every year almost as many tourists visit Spain as there are people living in that country.
C. every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist.
D. every Spanish is visited by a tourist every year.

5. According to the passage, which of the following factors might spoil the tourists' fun at Mediterranean resorts and beaches?
A. Polluted water.
B. Crowded buses.
C. Traffic jams.
D. Rainy weather.

One-room Schools
　　One-room schools are part of the heritage of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for “the way things were”. One-room schools are an endangered species, however. For more than a hundred years, one-room schools have been systematically shut down and their students sent away to centralized schools. As recently as 1930 there were 149, 000 one-room schools in the United States. By 1970 there were 1, 800. Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools, more than 350 are in Nebraska. The rest are scattered through a few other states that have on their road maps wide-open spaces between towns.