2015年职称英语考试综合类阅读理解练习题

　　TV Shows and Long Bus Trips

Long bus rides are like televisions have a beginning,a middle,and an end——with commercials thrown in every three or four commercials are happen whether you want them or y couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window."Buy Super Clean Toothpaste.""Drink Good'n Wet Root Beer.""Fill up with Pacific Gas."Only if you sleep,which is equal to turning the television set off,are you spared the unending cry of "You Need It!Buy It Now!"

The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting,even if you've traveled that way lly some things have changed——new houses,new buildings,sometimes even a new bus driver has a style of driving and it's fun to try to figure it out the first hour or the driver is particularly reckless or daring,the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left-hand lane? After a while,of course,the excitement dies ping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the always makes bus rides more you've got to be careful of what kind of food you much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.

The end of the ride is somewhat like the know it will soon be over and there's a kind of expectation and excitement in seat of course,has become harder as the hours have now you've sat with your legs crossed,with your hands in your lap,with your hands on the arm rests——even with your hands crossed behind your end comes just at no more ways to sit.

rding to the passage,what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip?

A)Buses on the road.

B)Films on television.

C)Advertisements on the board.

D)Gas stations.

is the purpose of this passage?

A)To give the writer's opinion about long bus trips.

B)To persuade you to take a long bus trip.

C)To explain how bus trips and television shows differ.

D)To describe the billboards along the road.

writer of this passage would probably favor

A)bus drivers who weren't reckless

B)driving alone.

C)a television set on the bus.

D)no billboards along the road.

writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because

A)the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are fun.

B)they both have a beginning,a middle,and an end,with commercials in between.

C)the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on buses.

D)both traveling and watching TV are not exciting.

writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are

A)exciting.

B)comfortable.

C)tiring.

D)boring

【正确答案】：CADBA