Ⅲ. 阅读（共两节， 满分40分）
第一节：阅读理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
Anyone who is addicted
to reading bus tickets or cereal packets will understand the appeal of poems on
the underground. Some years ago, a few acquaintances who lived and worked in
London , who used the Tube and loved poetry, decided that it would be pleasant
to read a few lines by their favorite poets as they traveled around by Tube,
instead of just glancing upwards at the tiresome advertisements. The
underground had a surplus (剩余的)of advertising space on the trains. They
suggested filling the blank space on the trains, for the entertainment of the
traveling public.
The
poems took on a new life when they were removed from books and placed alongside
the adverts. Commuters enjoyed the idea of reading Keats’“Much have I traveled
in the realms of gold” on a crowded Central Line train, or trying to learn by
heart a sonnet between Hammersmith and Piccadilly. The choice of poems wasn’t
arbitrary （随机的）but specially chosen. It catered for all tastes
including living and dead poems from the homeland and from all over the
English-speaking world, and especially poems which have association with
London.
The
success of the poems on the underground enterprises confirmed that Britain was
a nation of poetry lovers. Hundreds of people corresponded with London
Underground suggesting poems, or just to say thank you. In January 1989, on the
third anniversary after the first poems on the Underground, London Underground
promised to donate all the spaces free, to increase the number available (at
least one poem in each train carriage), and to pay for the production costs as
well. They also updated the poems every few months. Posters of the poems
decorated the British Council libraries throughout the world, but the best way
to view the poems is to see them by yourselves, on whichever train you choose,
in every zone of the network—for the price of an underground ticket.
41.Which of the
following is the best title for the passage?
A. Shelly and Keat’s
Poems
B. The Poems on the
Underground
C. Travelling on the
Tube in London
D. The Poems about
London
42.The poems were
_________.
A. removed
from books and placed in empty advertising spaces
B. taken
from throughout the English-speaking world and chosen to please everyone
C.
including poems about London by Shelly, Burns, Keats and by the commuters
themselves
D. meant
to be read aloud and learnt by heart
43. Which is the
closest in meaning to “association”?
A.Connection.
B.Difference. C.Similarity. D.Comparison.
44. The best place to
see the poem is ________.
A. in any train on the
network
B. in libraries around
the world
C. in trains on the
Central Line and between Hammersmith and Piccadilly
D. in some carriage
anywhere on the network
45. Which of the
following statements is true according to the passage above?
A. People who
like reading bus tickets advocate poems on the underground .
B. Spaces which
were used for advertisements are now completely occupied by poems on the tube.
C. You can
appreciate the poems you like at the cost of only a tube ticket in London.
D. The success
of the poems on the underground indicates people’s love for the tube of London.
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