大学英语信长篇阅读理解

A. 英语长篇阅读理解题

Around the World in 20 Days

Bertrand: In many people’s eyes, a round-the-world balloon flight was the last great challenge in aviation. The winter of 1998-99 was time of high anxiety. Five other teams were preparing to launch in various parts of the world. This would be my third, and last, attempt underwritten by the Breitling watch company. The weather was terrible, and February was drawing to a close. Normally the end of the month marked the end of the season for ballooning attempts. I was in despair. But early on February 24, 1999, the telephone rang. It was Luc Trullemans, one of our meteorologists.
“, there’s a really good slot coming on the first of March!” he exclaimed. Trullemans and fellow meteorologist Pierre Eckert felt sure we could swing the balloon around the edge of a big depression forming over the Mediterranean by flying counterclockwise—going down over France and Spain. Then we would be carried eastward over Africa.
Brian Jones, my British co-pilot, and I knew if the weather turned, we would fail. But if we waited for next year, somebody else might succeed in the interim.
A balloon piloted by British tycoon Richard Branson hand gone down in the Pacific, but one sponsored by Britain’s Cable & Wireless and piloted by Andy Elson and Colin Prescot had already been aloft for seven days. On Sunday, February 28, we struggled to make the crucial decision: carry on or not? Brian and I knew this was our last chance for 1999. Alan Noble, our flight director, and Don Cameron, head of the firm that built the balloon, were far from being positive. “From the weather maps,” they said, “we don’t see how you can get around the world.”
“You get them up there,” argued Luc, “and I’ll get them around.”
Following meteorological assurances, Alan said, “I think we can go.” We put it to a vote of the whole team, and the show of hands to take off was unanimous. By five the next morning, Brian and I were both wide awake. After years of preparation and dashed hopes, the moment was upon us.
The launch teams had started inflation at 3 a.m. on March 1. The balloon was designed to function with a combination of hot air and helium. During the day the sun heats the helium, causing it to expand and make the balloon climb. At night propane is burned to heat the gas, maintaining the balloon’s lift.
Our meteorologists would work out the trajectories, then we would travel along with the moving weather all the way around the world.
As down broke, the wind began to blow and gust. Since any strong wind might damage the envelope and dash the gondola against the ground, we knew we had to take off soon.
At 8 a.m., Brian and I climbed in and closed the rear hatch. High above us the Mylar envelope was crackling. Hair-raising noises started to emanate from the gondola. Supplies and equipment kept tumbling onto the floor.
Unable to risk disaster any longer, Alan waited for one more big bounce and severed the restraining rope with his Swiss Army knife.
As we rose into the sky, he thousands who had assembled were screaming. Church bells were ringing. A fire engine’s siren was wailing. This enthusiasm seemed to propel us into the sky.
Brian: My first task was to be carried out atop the gondola, so before takeoff I climbed out through the top hatch and sat. a heavy double railing ringed the area, and we took off with such a jerk, I hat to cling tight to it.
Bertrand and I were both amazed by the speed at which we went up. The balloon finally stopped climbing at 1,000 feet when we hit an inversion layer—the level at which cold air close to the ground meets warmer air above. It acts like an invisible barrier.
Bertrand called out, “One bag of sand!” I started pouring 33 pounds of ballast down a tube that sent the sand clear of the capsule.
A moment later he shouted, “Look out, I’m going to burn!” The propane jets and blue flames roared six feet up, warming the helium. We started to climb again. I scrambled back into the gondola, and we sealed the hatch. We were on our way.
Bertrand: By sunset our first problems set in. the pilot lights on the burners began to act erratically, and every few seconds we had to manually ignite the burners.
More worrisome was the fact that we thought we were using far too much propane to maintain our height. It looked as though our chances of making it were perilously slim. But the first pair of fuel tanks held out until the evening of day two, exceeding our expectations. And that was a huge encouragement.
As we entered Moroccan airspace, I was rewarded by one of the most magnificent sights. I had ever seen: an absolutely incredible view of the Atlas Mountains with a full moon. We had been told how boring it would be to fly over the Sahara, but on the next day the views that unfolded were fabulous. For me, the desert was alive. The light was alive, and the sand was alive, full of different colors, different shapes, like the bottom of the sea. I spent hours staring at the desert, feeling its strangeness.
Brian: Early in the morning of March 4 the plan called for releasing our four empty auxiliary tanks. That meant an EVA—extravehicular activity—to cut them free. We also wanted to get rid of the ice that had formed from riding in the freezing high altitudes. As we descended to 10,000 feet, our adrenaline was flowing.
When we opened the hatch and climbed out, we found icicles that were ten feet long dangling from the envelope’s skirt. While I concentrated on fixing the faulty ignition system, Bertrand went about attacking the icicles with a fire ax. He commented that it was probably the first time that ice had rained on the Sahara in several thousand years.
With Bertrand holding one of my ankles, I reached out and freed one of the empty tanks. We watched it tumbling all the way to the ground. A puff of sand marked where it slammed into the desert. If it buried itself, I thought, it might lie there for a couple of millennia before some archeologist g it up.
By then we had finished our counterclockwise swing and were at last heading east, just as our meteorologists had predicted. The air was warm; the sky cloudless. Below us stretched sand and rock as far as the eye could see.
Bertrand: We were over Yemen and two days from the Indian subcontinent when an astonishing message came in from our ground crew: “The cable & Wireless control room says their balloon is landing 70 miles off the coast of Japan. The balloon iced up. Search and rescue are with them.” Now we were the only ones in the race.
I was desperate to pass on the news to Brian, and when he finally stuck his head out of the sleeping bunk hours later, I said, “I’ve got the most incredible news.”
He instantly said, “Andy’s down.”
Meanwhile I spoke to Luc, who confirmed that our position was perfect for enter China at the right point. We had guaranteed them we would keep south of 26 degrees latitude. If we found ourselves straying north of the limit, we would come down.
Brian: Heading for Myanmar (formerly Burma), we found we were graally creeping north toward the 26th parallel. This kept us on tenterhooks. But back in Geneva our weathermen were telling us we had to go right up almost to the boundary. Once there, the wind would take us e east.
On the way we had the following exchange with a Myanmar air controller.
Tower: “What is your departure point and destination?”
Me: “Departure point, Switzerland. Destination, northern Africa.”
Tower: (after several seconds of silence) “If you’re going from Switzerland to northern Africa, what in hell are you doing in Myanmar?”
Shortly before down on the morning of March 10 we arrived at the Chinese border. The Chinese had seen us coming and sent the message: “Your balloon’s heading for the prohibited zone. It must land.”
Bertrand: It was amazing. We skimmed across a 1,300-mile-long corridor straight as an arrow, with the 26th parallel never more than 30 miles away. Our meteorologists had sent us on a swirling trajectory of 8,100 miles, then through the eye of a needle.
By March 11 we were heading out over the Pacific. Faced by 8,000 miles of water, I felt as if I had stepped onto the edge of the abyss.
I picked up my pen and wrote: “This is exactly my definition of adventure, a point at which you hat to dig inside yourself to find the courage to deal with what may lie ahead.”
On Saturday, March 13, we were still over the Pacific. Our meteorologists said our speed would improve from our miserable 35 knots to 100 knots once we climbed into the jet stream. By Tuesday it would increase to 120.
Our propane reserves seemed perilously small. We had already burned two-thirds of our fuel and yet covered only half our course. everything depended on our weathermen: If they were right, we had a chance. If they were wrong, we were doomed.
Brian: Like Bertrand, I was thoroughly on edge over the Pacific. After seven days above the water, we at last made the coast of Mexico. Later that night, lying there, I found it had to breath. And it was not until I got up that I realized something was seriously wrong. I found Bertrand in the pilot’s seat, slumped against the bulkhead, gasping. He crawled into the bunk wearing an oxygen mask.
Our symptoms were not those of hypoxia, and the instruments monitoring the CO2 levels had not signaled any alarm. But despite this, we felt that we were slowing being asphyxiated. People on the ground started telephoning doctors in a frantic search for clues to what could be wrong with us. I was also wearing my oxygen mask, and after a few minutes of breathing pure oxygen, my head cleared. I thought, I Screw the instruments, and changed both the CO2 and the carbon filters. The symptoms graally began to disappear.
We crossed Mexico in a day and were soon out over the Caribbean. Reporting to air-traffic control in Kingston, Jamaica, I heard a female controller with a delicious voice ask what we were doing.
“We took off from Switzerland,” I answered. “We’re hoping to get around the world.”
“You guys sure are taking a chance!” she said.
She was right. Our fuel was critically short, and nobody was sure if we had enough to get across the Atlantic. Alan Nobel suggested we make our decision over Puerto Rico.
Bertrand: By March 18 it was time to decide. With cameras from all over the world focused on him, Alan got on the phone with us. When we had run through the agreed-upon formalities, Alan said, “I think you can go for it.”
“Bertrand!” cried Brian. “Tell him we’re going.”
“We’re not going to quit,” I told Alan. “Even if we ditch in mid-Atlantic, we go for it.”
Our weathermen guided us into the middle of the jet stream, and our speed increased as we shot out over the Atlantic. But cursing at 15,000 feet, the cold was intense and our heaters had failed. The temperature inside was 28.4 F, and our water supply froze.
On March 20 came good news. Our navigation computer told us we had made landfall. We had crossed the Atlantic, and at 6:15 GMT, or Greenwich Mean Time, when the sun came over the horizon, I again saw the desert I had loved so much 20 days earlier. Now the finish line was only 300 miles away, about three hours’ time.
When we crossed the line at 9:54 GMT, Brian and I stood up and embraced, slapping each other on the back and shouting, “We’ve done it! We’ve done it.”
The next morning, after the longest flight in distance and ration ever made by a free balloon, we landed in the Egyptian desert. Brian sent this fax: “The Eagle has landed. All okay. Bloody good.” Our trip round the world, and into history, was done.

1. To Bertrand and Brian, the winter of 1998-99 was a time of high anxiety because ______.
A. they were awaiting their last attempt of the season to launch the balloon.
B. another balloon sponsored by Britain’s Cable & Wireless had been aloft for 7 days
C. a balloon piloted by British tycoon Richard Branson had gone down.
D. the Breitling watch company sponsored their activities.

2. The decision to take off was made unanimously ______.
A. on February 28, 1999
B. at 3 a.m. March 1
C. on February 24, 1999
D. in the winter of 1998-1999

3. When deciding to launch, the meteorologists were confident that the balloon could ______.
A. fly over Moroccan airspace
B. fly counterclockwise to the Atlantic Ocean.
C. float over France and Spain first, then be carried eastward over Africa
D. travel along with the big depression over the Mediterranean

4. When the balloon hit an inversion layer at 1,000 feet, the pilots made it rise by ______.
A. pouring one bag of sand into the capsule
B. sending the ballast into the sky
C. dropping 33 pounds of sand and heating the helium
D. clearing the capsule of 33 pounds of sand and burning the helium

5. By the evening of the first day, it looked as though it wouldn’t be quite possible for them to complete the journey around the world because ________.
A. they were worried that the fuel they carried might not last long
B. they were using too much fuel to maintain their height
C. the balloon hit an inversion layer at 1,000 feet
D. pilot lights on he burner began to act abnormally

6. After hearing about the balloon’s departure point and destination, the Myanmar air controller said to them, “What in hell are you doing in Myanmar?” This showed that he was ______.
A. angry
B. surprised
C. mistaken
D. ignorant

7. If the balloon moved north of the 26th parallel, Bertrand and Brian would be quite worried because they might ______.
A. be shot down by the enemy
B. lose their way in China
C. be forced to land
D. be carried e east by a gust of wind

8. When the balloon flew over the Pacific, Bertrand felt ______.
A. it would be a long and challenging journey
B. the balloon was flying slowly
C. something might go seriously wrong
D. they would use up their propane reserve

9. Brian solved their breathing problem by ______.
A. telephone doctors on the ground for clues
B. tightening the instruments and changing the filters
C. breathing in pure oxygen for a few minutes
D. looking at the instruments and changing the air

10. The balloon flew across the Atlantic by ______.
A. burning more propane
B. flying in jet stream at 15,000 feet
C. monitoring the weather closely
D. recing the temperature to 28.4 F

B. 外研社的新视野大学英语长篇阅读1答案，第三版的

http://wenku..com/link?url=UZcZzI7c0JyTAmf_KZcYV73g-V7U4XTmBQx3alAB4FTTTvFbdwQ8-Re9EH65UrY8wiVBaCr_kC0i91c7G1RT1LPU9ux_2k5ECRKzuhDPy
作为大学生抄，这个要靠自己独立思考，自己独立完成。

C. 大学英语长篇阅读技巧

1.整体抄把握文章的脉络至袭关重要。

段落信息匹配题的题目的顺序与文章的行文顺序完全不符，这就要求考生在阅读文章时整体把握文章的结构和脉络，熟悉文章的写作思路，基本能做到理解每题的中心思想后，能大体定位到文章的相应部分，而不是漫无目的地在全文的每个段落里搜寻。如样题中的文章：首先引出话题；中间部分主要谈论两方面的内容—大学在全球网罗人才和开展工作，同时大学也在重塑研究方法；最后是大学全球化的影响和作用。把文章这样分成四个部分以后，根据每个题目的内容，就可以找到大体的位置。

2.准确理解题目的内容是前提。

每一道题都是原文信息的再现或转述，只有理解了题目所述内容，才能做好后面的段落信息定位。理解题目内容的关键是：抓句子的主干。冗长的句子，只要抓住了其主干，就不难理解句子的主要含义了。

D. 新视野大学英语长篇阅读翻译

传统上，获得大学学位已成为一个值得庆祝的的理由。最重要的是，成就标志着成年期发病和提供的职业会在短短几个月开始的承诺，如果不周。但在今天的就业市场，大学毕业生离开学校只配备一个程度可能没那么幸运。2000，1200000多人获得学士学位，在美国。今年，这个数字预计将上升百分之30至1600000以上，根据国家教育统计中心估计。这个上涨已经远远超过了在过去的十年中人口国增加三倍，人口普查局预计的人口增长率在同一时期。”随着学生人数的增加，如果我是雇主或医学院或商学院的学生，找到一个好的GPA不是特别困难了，”丹说戈麦斯帕拉西奥，职业服务的助理导演威斯特敏斯特学院在密苏里。”那么，什么是要分开你从你的同行？”

答案：实习。大学官员和雇主普遍认为，参加实习或几个，使学生除了他或她的同龄人更在毕业前找到有意义的工作是不可或缺的在今天的就业市场看似坚不可摧。比以往任何时候，全国的学校都将向所有专业实习的学生，有几个甚至还说他们的毕业要求。”这些实习机会给这些学生的优势，不然他们不会做，说：”帕特丽夏Cormier，总裁乌镇大学在弗吉尼亚，这需要所有毕业生实习。”它总是让我吃惊，高等教育没有早点想到这个。对我来说这是一个没有脑子。如果你要定位你的好学生，你得给他们暴露在他们毕业之前。”

乌镇，与大约4800个招生，有百分之74的2008届毕业班毕业后六个月内实现工作，尽管事实上，学生被推到了一个最糟糕的就业市场上的记录。两年前，官员东康涅狄格州立大学决定学生的学前教育专业经验要求所。罗娜自由，在东康涅狄格学术事务的副总裁，说学校不仅要教育学生，但他们准备他们的工作生活学校通过经验为基础的学习之后。”【学生】担心，“如果我是英语专业的，我能得到一份工作？”她说。”我们想让他们知道，他们离开这里之前，他们就已经在一个设置，就像他们去工作。”

而规模较小的学校可以确保学生可以通过形成与本地公司和工作进行一对一的学生进行实习狩猎伙伴满足实习要求，任务更加艰巨的规模较大的学校。找到附近的一个大的大学，可以支持数千名实习生涌入雇主基地是一项艰巨的任务，即使不是不可能。因为这个原因，许多学校都羞于要求实习还煞费苦心地传授给学生的工作经验的重要性。另外，在较大的机构的一些程序需要实习。这是在领域的工作经验是招聘过程中不可或缺的一个普遍的做法，如商业和新闻通讯。

文理学院在维拉诺瓦大学在宾夕法尼亚不需要实习，但学生们把每周的榜单实习空缺和不断提醒自己的重要性。学院的网站甚至宣称：“实习。..不要离开维拉诺瓦没有！”这种营销的努力得到了回报。学校已上升了百分之30，在招生中实习，在过去的三年里。这样的努力是被大型雇主，雇佣大量的实习生。会计巨头普华永道，例如，吸引超过从实习的新员工，百分之70。”学校专注于容纳实习的课程定位学生未来的就业很好的一部分，说：”冬青保罗，国家领导人在普华永道招聘。
最近的毕业生已经听过这样的建议获得了回报。瑞安莫斯曼，毕业于波士顿学院在2009五月英语学位，说虽然BC没有要求他参加实习，学校经常吹嘘他们的重要性。一个消极的求职导致他的毕业后的一个月，莫斯曼决定实习是最好的，如果不是唯一的方式，他开始他的职业生涯。而不是漫无目的地寻找工作机会他声称他的许多同行都毕业后，他在LVM集团作为一个实习，一个公共关系公司，大学毕业后不久。实习最终LED到一个全职工作作为一个与公司客户经理助理。同时，他说他的许多朋友坐在家里与他们的学位，等待工作落在他们的圈。”如果我没有了毕业后的实习，我想我会在同一位置的他们，”他说。

E. 全新版大学英语长篇阅读2翻译

网上没有的，如果需要就买书吧

F. 大学英语四级长篇阅读解题技巧

大学英语四级长篇阅读解题技巧：先题后文,快速了解文章主旨;标记特殊词汇专，快速定位题属目;速读文章，关注段首段尾，学会同义词替换。

一、先题后文，快速了解文章主旨。

大学英语四级段落细节信息配对题的陈述都是文章细节信息，考生没有时间通读全文，通过快速浏览这种题目的题干不失为在短时间内掌握文章主旨大意的一种方法。

二、标记特殊词汇，快速定位题目。

段落信息匹配题的文章篇幅较长，考生可以标记一些特殊词，通过这些特殊词汇来快速定位题干并匹配文章内容。

三、速读文章，关注段首段尾，学会同义词替。

大学英语四级考生在做题时可以速读每一段，了解这一段的主要内容，着重关注一下段首段尾句和重点词汇句，理清逻辑关系，考生要学会同义词的替换。同意替换是阅读类题目终极解决方案，它包括单词或短语甚至句子用另一种含义表达的所有形式。

大学英语四级长篇阅读解题技巧小编就总结到这里了，祝愿各位考生都能认真备考，顺利通过考试，更多关于大学英语四级考试的备考技巧，备考干货，新闻资讯等内容，小编会持续更新。

G. 求一篇大学英语的阅读理解！！！

The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. (77)Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software (软件) or by altering the architecture but that too will happen.
(78)I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon’s long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
6. In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A) By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space.
B) By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C) By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D) By reprocing it.
7. What does the writer think about machines with human-like ability?
A) He believes they will be useful to human beings.
B) He believes that they will control us in the future.
C) He is not quite sure in what way they may influence us.
D) He doesn’t consider the construction of such machines possible.
8. The word “carbon” (Line 4, Para. 2) stands for ________.
A) intelligent robots B) a chemical element
C) an organic substance D) human beings
9. A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when ________.
A) its intelligence and cost are beyond question
B) it is able to bear the rough environment
C) it is made as complex as the human brain
D) its architecture is different from that of the present ones
10. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A) after the installation of a great number of cells and connections, robots will be capable of self-reproction
B) with the rapid development of technology, people have come to realize the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability
C) once we make a machine as complex as the human brain, it will posses intelligence
D) robots will have control of the vast, man-made world in space