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【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读能力基础自测（速度、难度、深度、越障、真题、RAM）
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规则：

每天我贴出五篇CET级别的阅读
大家来做，需要准备一个计时器

每篇文章只看一分钟，一分钟之后就一定要停下来，读到哪里算哪里，这篇就算过了
D# O
如果上一篇没有读完，那么就要提醒自己在下一篇中加速，同时调整自己阅读的节奏感，找到最舒服的方式
[注]
1、直接在电脑屏幕面前做，虽然GRE阅读是在纸上考，但是这个过程会遏制你做笔记，同时给你的阅读造成视觉障碍，也就是把难度训练和抗干扰训练同步结合，增加效率（初期会很累，但是既然大家想要成为高手，那么就别对自己太温柔）
2、这些文章不用拿来讨论，我给出习题但是不用大家去做，学有余力的可以去做，不过做的时候不要回视文章了，通过瞬间阅读和不回视做题锻炼你大脑的存储量

Television, or TV, the modern wonder of electronics, brings the world into your own home in sight and sound. The name television comes from the Greek word tele, meaning “far”, and the Latin word videre, meaning “to see”. Thus, television means “seeing far”. Sometimes television is referred to as video, from a Latin word meaning “I see”. In Great Britain, the popular word for television is “telly”. Television works in much the same way as radio. In radio, sound is changed in to electromagnetic waves which are sent through the air. In TV, both sound and light are changed into electromagnetic waves. Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago. By the 1920s, inventors and researchers had turned the early theories into working models. Yet it took another thirty years for TV to become an industry. As an industry, TV provides jobs for hundreds of thousands who make TV sets and broadcasting equipment. It also provides work for actors, technicians, and others who put on programs. Many large schools and universities have “closed—circuit” television equipment that will telecast lectures and demonstrations to hundreds of students in different classrooms; and the lecture can be video taped to be kept for later use. Some hospitals use TV to allow medical students to get close-up view of operations. In 1946, after World War II, TV began to burst upon the American scene with a speed unforeseen even by the most optimistic leaders of the industry. The novelty of seeing TV pictures in the home caught the publics fancy and began a revolution in the world of entertainment. By 1950, television had grown into a major part of show business. Many film and stage stars began to perform on TV as television audiences increased. Stations that once telecast for only a few hours a day sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s.

36. “… others who put on programs. ”means that ____.

A) people get on their clothes with programs printed on

B) people prepare and present the programs on TV

C) people like the programs

D) people acted in the TV programs

37. “… to allow medical students to get close up view of

operations ” suggests ____.

A) the students can have view of operations with enlarged details

B) the students can operate through TV

C) the students were allowed to learn operations

D) TV is being used by students

38. “… TV began to burst upon the American, …” indicates that ____.

A) in 1946 TV sets exploded in American families

B) TV may injure people

C) TV suddenly became available to many American families

D) TV was very popular in 1946

39. “ TV pictures in the home caught the public s fancy, …” tells us

____.

A) TV pictures are better than movies

B) TV pictures can be seen at home

C) TV pictures can hurt people s eyes

D) TV pictures had aroused people s interests

40. “… sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s. ” means

____.

A) TV telecast used to have a round clock

B) people watch TV with around clock nearby

C) TV telecast 24 hours a day in the 1960s

D) TV was on show everyday

In the debates about how a particular piece of land is to be used, the priorities often conflict. What should you do, for example, if you find out that under the fertile fields of a there is a thick bed of coal which can be strip mined? Strip mining rips up top soil and vegetation. But mining may create jobs, bring money to the towns businesses. Those who approve of strip mining say that the coal is needed, and they point out that it is quicker and cheaper to get coal from the surface than to go deep into the earth to get it by standard mining techniques. On the other hand, it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of top soil. As the countryside fills up, people are becoming more need for open space. Nearly every proposal for a new power plant, highway, or airport draws fierce opposition. Everyone wants the big, land-eating “uglies ” to be in someone else’s backyard. Minneapolis and St.Paul, Minnesota, for example, have been debating about the site of a future airport for years. Yet if a new airport is needed, it will have to go somewhere. How do we find our way out of the land-used problem? One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new directions. Does everyone have to have a car with its need for highways and parking lots? What about developing mass transit systems that use less land? Do suburbs have to sprawl? Can they be designed so they use less space? Do we have to have more energy? If we do, do we really have to strip-mine coal to provide it? However difficult they may be to arrive at, choices will have to be made if we want to preserve the beauty and usefulness of the land. For there is at least one point on which all of us can agree: The land does have its limits.

31. The word “priorities” in the sentence means ____.

A) the various needs

B) the most important goal

C) the number one necessity

D) the first thing to be considered

32. “… , people are becoming more
need for open space. ” tells us

that ____.

A) people are thinking to develop their living space into the sky

B) people noticed the need for unoccupied land

C) people are struggling to get more land from the space

D) people are becoming more active on the space issue

33. How do we find our way out of the land use problems?

A) One way might be to reexamine our values, to think in new

directions.

B) Everyone has to have a car with its need for highways and parking

lots.

C) We have to have more energy. We need strip ? mine coal to provide

it.

D) We may develop mass transit systems which use less land.

34. “ Everyone wants the big, land-eating ‘ uglies to be in someone

else s backyard. ” shows that ____.

A) people don t want more big projects

B) people don t want to live in the neighborhood of the big projects

C) people regard the large construction projects are “ uglies ”

D) people don t like the undesirable building projects

35. The main idea of this article is ____.

A) The Limits of Land

B) Land

C) Land and Our Life Styles

D) Land and Space

Nearly 54 million cars and trucks in the United States are equipped with driver side air bags located in the center of the steering wheel. 24 million also have a passenger-side device located in the dashboard. Air bags are designed to protect against sudden, fierce frontal highway impacts. Five years ago evidence of serious air-bag injuries began to surface. Drivers in minor fender benders suffered severe eye and ear injuries, broken bones and third-degree burns from the force of the inflating bags. In December 1991 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) advised parents to avoid putting rear-facing infant sets in front of air bags, acknowledging that the force of the explosive bag could harm infants, whose heads were only inches away from the devices. Last October it was determined that all children 12 and under were more susceptible to injury and death than adults; their more fragile bodies were seated lower, increasing the impact of the air bag to the head area. In addition, more children were not properly restrained or were out of position when the air bag inflated. On November 22, 1996, after nearly 60 deaths and thousands of injuries were attributed to the devices, the NHTSA mandated improved labels for all new vehicles, warning of the risk to children under13. Despite these problems, officials stress the overall effectiveness of these devices. “All in all, air bags work well and are responsible for an 11 percent reduction in driver fatalities,” says NHTSA Administrator Dr. Ricardo Martinez. “First and foremost, make sure you’re properly buckled up before getting on the road,” says Brain O’Neill, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Keep in mind how close you sit to an air bag. Push seats as far back as possible, remaining just close enough to control the pedals. Your face and torso should be at least ten to 12 inches from the steering column. “It’s not a bad idea actually to measure the distance with a ruler to be sure.” adds O’Neill. Adjustable steering wheels should be pointed toward the chest rather than the head to prevent inflating bag from damaging the face or neck. Also, position hands at nine o’clock and three o’clock on the wheel to keep your arms away from an opening air bag. Pregnant women in particular should keep their abdomen as distant from the air bag as possible. In the final trimester, women should point adjustable steering wheels upward, away from their fetus. Perhaps most important, children 12 and under should always ride in the back seat, buckled up.

26. From the passage, we learned that ____.

A) there are 24 million cars and trucks in the United States

B) there are 78 million cars and trucks in the United States

C) there are 24 million cars and trucks equipped with air-bags in

the United States

D) there are 78 million cars and trucks equipped with air-bags in

the United States

27. The air bags are ____.

A) safety devices which can protect people from being hurt during

highway accidents

B) unsafe devices which hurt many people

C) safety devices which saved 11% American drivers

D) safety devices but need to be improved

28. The air-bag is located in the center of the steering wheel, so

you should ____.

A) keep in mind how close you sit to an air bag

B) push the front seat as far back as possible, remaining just close

enough to control the pedal

C) keep your face and torso at least 10 to 12 inches from the

steering column

D) all of the above

29. Adjustable steering wheels should ____.

A) be pointed toward the chest rather than the head

B) be driven at 9 o clock

C) be driven at 3 o clock

D) keep your arms away from an opening air bag

30. The air bag is a good safety device, but children 12 and under

should always ride in the back seat buckled up means ____.

A) air bags are no good for children

B) air bags are only good for the parents who have more than 12

children

C) the best position for children to ride a car is in the back seat

and be buckled up

D) the front seat is unsafe for young people

Solar energy for your home is coming. It can help you as a single home owner. It can help the whole country as well. Whether or not solar energy can save your money depends on many things. Where you live is one factor. The type of home you have is another. Things like insulation present energy coasts and the type of system you buy are added factors. Using solar energy can help save our precious fuel. As you know, our supplies of oil and gas are very limited. There is just not enough on hand to meet all our future energy needs. And when Mother Nature says that’s all. The only way we can delay hearing those words is by starting to save energy now and by using other sources, like the sun.
We won’t have to worry about the suns running out of energy for another several billion years or so. Besides begin an endless source of energy, the use of the sun has other advantages as well. The sun doesn’t offer as many problems as other energy sources. For example, fossil fuel plants add to already high pollution levels. With solar energy, we will still need sources of energy, but we wont need as much. That means we can cut down on our pollution problems. With all these good points, why don’t we use more solar power? There are many reasons for this. The biggest reason is money. Until now, it was just not practical for a home owner to put in a solar unit. There were cheaper sources of energy. All that is changing now. Solar coats are starting to equal the costs of oil and electricity. Experts say that gas, oil and electricity prices will continue to rise. The demand for electricity is increasing rapidly. But new power plants will use more gas, oil or coal. Already in some places the supply of electricity is being rationed. Solar energy is now in its infancy. It could soon grow to become a major part of our nations energy supply.

21. Which statement best expresses the main idea?

A) Something about Solar Energy and Pollution.

B) Solar Energy.

C) Energy and Pollution

D) Energy and Money.

22. Solar energy can help us save ____.

A) the earth and natural resources

B) mother nature

C) the sun

D) our precious fuel

23. The sun is an endless source of energy, it will not run out of

it for ____.

A) several million years

B) several hundred years

C) several billion years

D) several thousand years

24. Which of the following statements is correct?

A) Energy from coal would not pollute our living environment.

B) Energy from natural gas would not pollute our living environment.

C) Energy from the sun would not pollute our living environment.

D) Energy from oil would not pollute our living environment.

25. Solar energy is now in its infancy, ____.

A) but it will be considered as an important part of our nation s

energy supply

B) yet we will build more power plants

C) and the supply of electricity will be rationed

D) but we don t need practice energy rationing now

In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew’s deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more than 2,000 extra claim adjusters to the devastated area to assist the 200 stationed there. Many of the reserves arrived in convoys of motor homes. Others flew in from as far away as Alaska and California. Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines, Allstate rushed to set up its own communications system. Allatate expects to pay out 1.2 billion to cover more than 121,000 damage claims as a result of Andrew.

All told, U.S. property and casualty insurers have been hit with more than 8 billion in Andrew-related claims, making the hurricane the most costly single calamity to strike the industry since the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 (cost: 6 billion, after inflation). With claims continuing to pour in, Andrew threatens to take a painful toll on the already battered property-casualty insurance industry and its 100 million policy-holders. The final bill, analysts predict, is likely to top 10 billion. While most well-capitalized insurers are expected to weather the storm, less anchored firms are in danger of being blown away, leaving U.S. consumers stuck with the tab. Says Sean Mooney, senior researcher at the Insurance Information Institute: "It will take years before the industry digs itself out from the wreckage left by Andrew. Some [companies] will be buried by it."
Hurricane Andrew is the latest in a string of mishaps to plague the American insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city’s downtown district, costing insurers 300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: 1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida and Kansas. They cost insurers a combined 700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing 1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty insurers have paid out a record 13 billion in claims so far this year, far surpassing the previous high of 7.6 billion in 1989, the year of Hurricane Hugo and California’s Bay Area earthquake. Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insurers are already lobbying for rate relief.

16. According to the passage, ""Allstate Insurance"" most likely refers to ____.

A. one of the property and casualty insurers in the U.S.

B. the only insurance company responsible for the damage claims by

Andrew

C. the insurance industry as a whole

D. the biggest insurance company in the U.S.

17. As is stated in the second paragraph, the result of Hurricane

Andrew is likely to ____.

A. lead to inflation throughout the U.S.

B. make the largest insurers suffer the most

C. put the industry in Sough Florida out of action

D. cause insurers with insufficient funds to go bankrupt

18. Using context clues, we may infer that ""stuck with the tab""

most probably means ____.

A. ""caught in the hurricane""

B. ""exposed to natural disasters""

C. ""trapped in financial difficulties""

D. ""extremely vulnerable to further damages""

19. The end of the passage implies that, to compensate for their

huge loss, the insurers will ____.

A. resort to a very big increase in insurance premiums

B. ask for subsidies from the federal government

C. reduce their insurance coverage thereafter

D. require a higher interest rate from the bank

20. The main purpose of the passage is to ____.

A. show the severe damages and heavy losses caused by Hurricane Andrew

B. suggest that U.S. insurers are virtually unable to cover the damage claims any more

C. tell about the difficult situation faced by the insurers throughout the U.S.

D. prove that disasters tend to cause ever worsening devastation as time goes on