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1、出卷老师可能会参考的老版大学英语快速阅读 3较短篇章及答案Unit 1Text B-1 (Reading Time: 4 minutes)Caution: Bumpy Road AheadStudents graduating from colleges today are not fully prepared to deal with the “real world”. It is my belief that college students need to be taught more skills and information to enable them to meet the c
2、hallenges that face everyone in daily life. The areas in which students need training are playing the credit game, planning their personal financial strategy, and consumer awareness.Learning how to obtain and use credit is probably the most valuable knowledge a young person can have. Credit is a dan
3、gerous tool that can be of tremendous help if it is handled with caution. Having credit can enable people to obtain material necessities before they have the money to purchase them outright. But unfortunately, many, many young people get carried away with their handy plastic cards and awake one day
4、to find they are in serious financial debt. Learning how to use credit properly can be a very difficult and painful lesson indeed.Of equal importance is learning how to plan a personal budget. People have to know how to allocate their money for living expenses, insurance, savings, and so forth in or
5、der to avoid the “Oh, no! Im flat broke and I dont get paid again for two weeks!” anxiety syndrome.Along with learning about credit and personal financial planning, graduating college students should be trained as consumers. The consumers market today is flooded with a variety of products and servic
6、es of varying quality and prices. A young person entering the “real world” is suddenly faced with difficult decisions about which product to buy or whose services to engage. He is usually unaware of such things as return policies, guarantees, or repair procedures. Information of this sort is vital k
7、nowledge to everyday living.For a newly graduated college student, the “real world” can be a scary place to be when he or she is faced such issues as handling credit, planning a budget, or knowing what to look for when making a purchase and whom to purchase it from. Entering this “real world” could
8、be made less painful if people were educated in dealing with these areas of daily life. What better place to accomplish this than in college? (380 words; P9-P12)NB: bumpy 崎岖不平的，坑坑洼洼的1) According to the writer, graduating students _. A. will find it hard to get a job with only knowledge gained from c
9、ollege B. have insufficient skills and knowledge and do not deserve a college diploma C. will not be able to earn enough money to support themselves D. do not have the necessary knowledge and skills to deal with the realities of life2) The writer points out that many young people _. A. fall into deb
10、t due to ill-advised use of credit cards B. have to depend on credit to purchase some material necessities C. do not know the power of credit any easily run into serious financial debt D. start buying too much on credit before they get a paid job3) Students suffer from an anxiety syndrome because _.
11、 A. they do not have their parents financial support B. they are worried that they dont get paid on time C. they run out of money and cant cover their living expenses D. they cant afford to buy insurance for themselves4) To “train students as consumers” means to enable them to _. A. handle their cre
12、dit with caution B. plan their spending carefully so that they dont go broke C. make wise purchasing decisions and be informed about consumer services D. cope with serious financial problems5) By asking “What better place to accomplish this than in college?” the writer means that _. A. the best plac
13、e to train students to deal with personal financial issues is in college B. students should be trained to enter the real world after they graduate from college C. students can best be trained in business and economics in college D. students should be taught to cope with the difficult problems they w
14、ill be facing after graduationKey: 15: D A C C AUnit 3Text B-1 (Reading Time: 3.5 minutes)Brave New World of BiometricsThere are always people who can find a reason to criticize strongly any new technology as too personally invasive, but Im all for biometrics. Among the amazing things biometrics ena
15、bles us to do is to scan a persons iristhe colored part of the eyewhich displays a natural pattern that is even more distinct than the fingerprint.Imagine what that will do to cut down on credit card fraud if the pattern of a persons iris must be scanned before the credit card can be used. Imagine h
16、ow foolproof it will make Internet purchases, which are now extremely vulnerable to fraudulent abuse.Biometrics ability to prevent theft against the government also is endless. When the state of Connecticut required people to be fingerprinted in order to receive welfare benefits, 25 percent of the recipients dropped off the rolls (many of whom, we have to assume, were receiving benefits improperly).Biometrics
