2017下半年公共英语二级考前阅读练习及详解
导语：离2017年下半年的公共英语考试还有3个月的时间，大家按计划复习，切莫乱了步伐哦。下面是YJBYS小编提供的两篇公共英语二级考前阅读练习，大家做完可以自己看翻译和答案哦!
Passage One
For most of my 15 years, my father usually said very little to my mother and me. He preferred reading the newspaper or watching football matches on television to talking to his family.
Everything changed one morning. As soon as I came downstairs to breakfast, I could see that he wasn’t his usual reserved (缄默的) self. “Can’t wait! FIFA World Cup! Big match! Must see!”1 quickly figured out what ail the excitement was about: Dad is a big football fan.
I had never been interested in football, but Dad’s excitement that morning made me more and more curious. I had to find out why this sport was making my normally reserved father act like a five-year-old on his first trip to Disneyland.
Dad decided that we should all eat at a little German restaurant so that we could watch the World Cup while eating. Secretly, I think he was hoping to turn Mum and me into football fans.
The match started a few minutes after we entered the restaurant. As I was eating my meal, a loud noise came from the television. Surprised, I looked up at the TV: “Why is that man jumping up and down?” Dad patiently explained:“That’s Papa Bouba Diop, my son. It’s normal for them to jump up and down after they’ve scored.”
Dad explained almost everything to me. His monosyliabic (单音节的) answers were a thing of the past. I loved the new Dad! I watched the rest of the match, becoming more and more interested. When I told my father that I planned to watch more matches with him, he smiled and gave me a wink (眨眼). At long last we had something in common.
Football has really helped Dad and me get closer and form a stronger relationship with each other. Who says football is only about 22 men running after a silly ball?
1.Which of the following words can best describe the authur’s father?
[A] A parent busy at work.
[B] A man of few words.
[C] An encouraging father.
[D] A talkative football player.
2.What made the author curious about his father one morning?
[A] His high expectation of the winner.
[B] His great interest in the newspaper.
[C] His unexpressed eagerness.
[D] His unusual excitement.
3.The author’s growing interest in watching the match mainly came from ____.
[A] eating in a restaurant with the excited fans
[B] his fathers loye of football and his explanation
[C] watching a top level performance of the players
[D] his and his fathers’s common love of German food
4.What can we learn from the text?
[A] Personality decides everything.
[B] Sharing is the foundation of good relationship.
[C] Family members should be fans together.
[D] Interest is the mother of success.
答案与解析：
1 选B。题干的意思为“以下哪句话最能描述作者的爸爸?”该题属于细节题。
根据全文的意思可以得知，作者的爸爸是一个沉默寡言的人。
2. 选D。题干意思为“早上是什么让作者对爸爸那么好奇?”该题属于细节题。
根据文章对爸爸早上的描述可以得知，爸爸那天早上话多，很兴奋。
3. 选B。题干意思为“作者对足球持续增长的兴趣是因为____”，该题属于细节题。
是因为作者爸爸对足球的爱好引起了作者的好奇和兴趣，并持续增长。
4. 选B。题干的意思是“我们可以从本文学到什么?”该题属于推理题。
A的意思是性格决定一切，B的意思是分享是建立良好关系的基础。
译文：
世界杯爸爸
在过去的15年里，爸爸很少跟我和妈妈讲话，似乎他宁可选择读报看球赛，也不愿意同家人说说话。
然而一天早晨，一切都变样了。我下楼吃早饭时，发现他再也不是那个沉默寡言的人了，他唠叨着，“等不及了!世界杯就要开始了!大赛啊!一定要看!”我这才知道为什么他如此兴奋：他是一个大球迷。
我原本对足球不感兴趣，然而看着爸爸早上兴奋的表情，我也对它越来越好奇起来。我想弄明白，这项运动有什么魅力能让我一直沉默的爸爸像一个五岁的小孩第一次去迪斯尼乐园一样。
爸爸决定全家人去一个小小的德国餐厅吃饭，这样大家就能边吃饭边看球赛。我私下里认为，爸爸是想把我和妈妈也变成球迷。
我们进餐厅没多久，球赛就开始了。我在吃饭的时候，电视机里传来很大的喧闹声。我边看边好奇地问“为什么那个人上上下下地跳呢?”爸爸非常耐心地解释到：“儿子，他是巴比?迪奥普，进球后大家跳起来欢呼很正常的!”
爸爸跟我解释了所有关于足球的事情，他的单音节的答话成了历史，我爱这个新爸爸!我看完了剩下的比赛，并且越看越爱看。在我跟爸爸说我要和他一起看更多的比赛时，他向我眨了一下眼睛。我们终于找到一个共同点了。
足球帮我和爸爸建立了更亲密、强大的关系。谁说足球只是一项22个人追着一个可笑的足球跑的运动?
Passage Two
Most of you would probably say that what makes you truly happy is your family and the love you share in your relationships, and I couldn’t agree more. But money comes into play in those relationships.
When I talk about money this way to a group, there is always someone who comes up to me and says, “Suze, you are so wrong. Money isn’t the key to life—this is!” At which point their wallet flies open and they show me a photo of their family.
That’s when things get interesting, because I start asking them questions: Did you take that photo with your own camera? It looks like a beautiful beach, was the photo taken on a family vacation? Do you hope to help those beautiful boys and girls go to college?
As their answers are “yes”, I ask them how they provide all of that for their family. That’s when they understand that I had it right.
I totally agree that family and friends are of great importance to our well being; without meaningful relationships, there’s no chance of ever being truly happy. That’s why, every Saturday night, I end my CNBC show with the following words:“People first. Then money. Then things.”
How we deal with the money we have also plays into our happiness. Over the past few decades (十年), the percentage of Americans who say they’re happy hasn’t changed much, while at the same time the average income has doubled. So we have more money, but we’re not much happier on average.
A paradox (悖论)? Far from it. My sense is that while we’re making more money, we arent’t making more of the money we make. We have to pay for a lot of things, and we have to worry about saving for retirement (退休) in a way that our parents and grandparents never did. And as many of you know, it’s really hard to increase your happiness when you’ve got a lot of money worries.
Do you agree, or am I way off base? I’d love to know what do you think about the money/happiness connection.
1.Why do people often show the author their family photos?
[A] They hope to show money is very important.
[B] They want to prove they can afford a holiday.
[C] They think a good family makes them truly happy.
[D] They believe a happy person considers people first.
2.Why did the authur ask the group questions in Paragraph 3 ?
[A] To persuade them to save for the future. '
[B] To ask for advice on holidays abroad.
[C] To know more about each person.
[D] To show them what he meant.
3.Which of the following arguments does the author want to make?
[A] Money is all that matters in our life.
[B] The richer we are, the happier we’ll be.
[C] Money makes a difference to the quality of our lives.
[D] True happiness is achievable from good relationships.
4.What does the underlined words “off base” in the last paragraph most probably mean?
[A] mistaken
[B] unprepared
[C] unnecessary
[D] misunderstood
答案与解析：
1. 选C。题干的意思为“为什么人们通常会把自己的全家福给作者看，”该题属于细节题。
从文章意思可以得知，这些人是想反驳作者的观点，证明家人是幸福的源泉。
2. 选D。题干的意思为“为什么作者问那些人第三段的问题?”该题属于细节题。
作者是想证明自己的.观点，通过问问题明晰自己的观点。
3. 选C。题干的意思为“以下哪句话是作者想表达的观点?”该题属于推理题。
本题没有原文，但是作者的观点非常明晰，钱在个人幸福中地位非常重要，可以改善我们的生活质量。
4. 选A。题干的意思为“最后一段下划线词'off base'最可能是什么意思?”该题属于推理题。
从文章的句意理解来看，应该是错误的意思。
参考译文：
我们中的大多数人通常会说家庭和家人的爱是真正使自己幸福的源泉，我也非常赞同此观点，但是钱在这层关系中也非常重要。
每当我在对人们说起钱的时候，总会有人反驳道：“苏斯，你错了，钱不是生活中最重要的因素，这个才是!”边说他们会打开出钱包给我看自己的全家福。
我开始问他们问题，事情就开始变得有趣了。我的问题是你是用自己的相机拍的照吗?这个沙滩真漂亮，当时你们全家在度假吗?你希望帮这些漂亮的孩子上大学吗?”
他们不停地点头，这时我问他们那你们拿什么支付这些花费呢?”;这时，他们才意识到我的观点是对的。
我也完全赞同家人和朋友对个人幸福来说至关重要，没有家人和朋友，我们永远都不会真正的快乐。这就是为什么每周六晚上，在CNBC节目结束时，我总会说人第一，钱第二，事情第三。”
我们如何花钱，对于幸福也很重要。在过去的十年里，美国人的收入翻倍了，但是说自己幸福的人却没有多大变化。难道在有了更多钱之后，我们没有变得更幸福一点吗?
这是一个悖论?其实并非如此。我认为，虽然我们在赚更多的钱，但我们并没有更充分地利用这些钱。我们要支付的开销太大了，还要担忧自己退休后的积蓄，而我们的父母和祖父母从来没有这样担忧过。有了这么多好担心的钱，增强的幸福感从何而来呢?
你同意吗?或者认为我的观点大错特错?我非常想知道你对于钱和幸福之间关系的看法。
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