2016年公共英語一級基礎閲讀練習及答案

　　閲讀理解題：Antinuclear Demonstration

Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5，000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135，000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1，000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said， the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area， would create thermal pollution in the bay， and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse.

Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. “This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law，” he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.

The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read “No Nukes is Good Nukes，” “Sunpower， Not Nuclear Power，” and “Stop Private Profits from Public Peril.” They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the protestors who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police， but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly， trespassing， and disturbing the peace.

1. What were the demonstrators protesting about?

[A]Private profits.

[B]Nuclear Power Station.

[C]The project of nuclear power construction.

[D]Public peril.

2. Who had gas-masks?

[A]Everybody.

[B]A part of the protestors.

[C]Policemen.

[D]Both B and C.

3. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason for the demonstration?

[A]Public transportation.

[B]Public peril.

[C]Pollution.

[D]Disposal of wastes.

4. With whom were the jails and courts overloaded?

[A]With prisoners.

[B]With arrested demonstrators.

[C]With criminals.

[D]With protestors.

5. What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward the power project and the demonstration?

[A]stubborn.

[B]insistent.

[C]insolvable.

[D]remissible.

Vocabulary

rse 　逆轉

e 　滑坡

ue 　瘟疫;折磨，困擾

ff 　關税

y 　譴責，詆譭

r 　槓桿;用槓桿撬動

　癥結

logue 　空想家，思想家

ct 　原封不動的，完整無損的

stment credit 　投資信貸

arch grant 　研究基金

　　【參考答案及解析】

1. C 　抗議建設核電站計劃。不是抗議核電站。

至於B. 核電站還未建，所以不對。

A. 私人利益 和

D. 公共危險，這些都是示警牌上之口號不是抗議的'主攻方向。

2. D 雙方。 最後一段第四行最後和第五行“抗議者準備了他們自己的防毒面具或面罩。最後，頭戴防毒面具和頭盔的警察衝進人羣一個一個地抓逮示警者。”所以説兩方面都有防毒面具。

3. A 公共交通運輸。

B. 公共危險。

C. 污染。

D. 廢料處理，是三個抗議的理由。

4. B 被逮捕的示警者。第一段最後一行“示警要繼續下去直到州監牢和州法庭人滿為患，從而使州司法體系垮台。”説明示警者準備去坐牢，決不服輸的決心。而人多到監牢裝不下證明州司法的問題。所以這裏只能是被抓的示警者。

A. 犯人。

C. 罪犯。

D.抗議者。警察不可能抓所有的抗議者。關在牢裏的只能是被抓的示警者。

5. A 固執己見，冥頑不化。見第二段他堅持説核電站計劃不用再考慮，三年內一定要建成，計劃準時開始，本州人民到時候就能獲益。對這些違法企圖破壞計劃的人依法懲處。並且從州內各處調集警察來處理這次“騷亂”。從語言到行動都説明，這位州長固執己見，頑固得很。

B. 堅持的。

C. 不能解決的。

D. 可寬恕的。