北京三级英语2004年11月真题及答案

Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow.

1. The word "here" (Para. 1, Line 6) refers to__________.

A. Europe B. America

C. New Jersey D. Indiana

2. Which of the following statement is NOT true?

A. The need for labor helped the invention of machinery in America.

B. The farmer rejected Charles Newbolt's plow for fear of ruin of their fields.

C. Both Europe and America had great need for farm machinery.

D. It was in Indiana that the first chilled-steel plow was produced.

3. The passage is mainly about__________.

A. the agriculture revolution

B. the invention of labor-saving machinery

C. the development of scientific agriculture

D. the farming machinery in America

4. At the opening of the nineteenth-century, farmers in America__________.

A. preferred light tools

B. were extremely self-reliant (自给的)

C. had many tools

D. had very few tools

5. It is implied but not stated in the passage that __________.

A. there was a shortage of workers on American farms

B. the most important of the early invention was the iron plow

C. after 1869, many people devoted their attention to the plow

D. Charles Newbolt had made a fortune by his cast-iron plow

Passage 2

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children's language development. It is surprising but true. (78) How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children's language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child's language skills increase.

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