国家开放大学2024年春年学期期末统一考试 英语阅读(2）试题

第一部分 完形填空

Complete these sentences with the words or phrases in the box.Note that Three of the words from the box will not be used.

wrapped; resistant; insecticides; crops; spills; peel; genes; cell

1. We grow such ______ as corn, wheat, and rice for food.

答案：crops

2. In 1994, in Australia, scientists ______ a hairnet around sheep to remove the wool more easily.

答案：wrapped

3. Today,some Australians don't have to cut the wool off sheep.They can ______ the wool off by hand.

答案：peel

4. Every living ______ has DNA.

答案：cell

5. The ______ in cells tell us the characteristics of the living thing.

答案：genes

第二部分 判断正误

Directions: Decide if the following statements are True (T) or False (F).

6. People learned to use microbes to make cheese,yogurt,and bread.

答案：T（微生物的应用为常识性内容，且原文提及生物技术对微生物的利用，该表述符合事实）

7. Even with biotechnology, scientists cannot change living cells.

答案：F（原文提及科学家通过生物技术改造动物、植物基因，基因存在于细胞中，说明可借助生物技术改变活细胞）

8. Scientists made crops like corn and rice that grew faster and bigger.

答案：T（原文提及多年来改良动物品种，且生物技术也应用于作物改良，该表述符合生物技术的应用逻辑）

9. We do not know if changing plant genes will be good for our health.

答案：T（原文结尾提出生物发明对人类是好是坏的疑问，说明基因改造的影响尚未有明确定论）

10. Scientists still haven't found ways to deal with arsenic.

答案：F（原文明确说明科学家已培育出能从土壤中吸收砷的植物，找到了解决砷过量的方法）

第三部分 基于Passage 2的题目（11-20）

阅读原文

Tihar: Festival of Lights

Tihar is one of the most important festivals for Hindus in Nepal. Nepal is a small country between India and China. It has a population of about 23 milion people, most of whom are Hindu. The festival of Tihar takes place in late autumn and lasts for five days. This festival is also called the Festival of Lights. It is a time when all the houses light oil lamps, and the country is full of lights and decorations. During Tihar, the people worship different animals such as the crow, the dog, and the cow. The people also worship their brothers and sisters and the goddess of wealth, Laxmi.

On the first day of the festival, people worship crows. Every family cooks a delicious meal in the morning. Before they eat, each member of the family puts some food on a plate of leaves and places it outside for the crows to eat. People believe crows are the messengers of the Lord of Death. They worship crows to keep sadness away.

The second day, people worship dogs. They decorate dogs with garlands of flowers around their necks. They give dogs delicious food and put a red tika (a special powder) on their foreheads. They even do this to stray [dogs.It](dogs.It) is a day to respect all dogs. They pray for the dogs to guard their homes. Dogs with garlands of flowers can be seen everywhere.

The third day is the most important day of the festival. Early in the morning, people start to worship the cow.The cow is the symbol of wealth and is the most holy animal for Hindus. They put tika on the cows' foreheads and a garland of flowers around their necks. They give the cows nice things to eat. People place the cows' manure in different parts of their houses. Later,in the evening, they worship the goddess Laxmi.If people please the goddess, she will give them wealth. People clean and decorate their houses. They put oil lamps in every door and window. A female member of the family performs a special ceremony or puja. She then puts a red mud footprint on the floor entering the home and makes a trail to the room where the family worships the goddess. In this room,there are pictures and an icon of the goddess. There is also a money box where each year the family puts money away for the goddess. In the evening,girls go from door to door of their neighbors' homes and sing songs of the goddess. They receive gifts in return.

On the fourth day,people can worship different things, but most people worship the ox. They put tika on the oxen and a garland around their necks. They also give them delicious food. Hindus, who follow the god Krishna, worship the cow. They make a small hill out of cow manure, put some grass on it, and perform a special ceremony, or puja, on it. The Newar community, an ethnic group in Nepal, worship themselves.

备注

本部分仅显示题目作答范围（Questions 11-20），未呈现具体题目内容，故无对应标准答案；文末出现的词汇栏（c. decorated; e. perform; f. intimate; g. worshiped; i. prosperity; j. apply; k. respect）为该部分配套作答词汇，无具体题目匹配。

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