2025年秋江苏开放大学大学英语（D）060108综合性大作业答案本学期最新答案

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阅读理解一，仔细阅读后完成下列1-1至1-4。
Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit (联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.
Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialisation, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear,and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.
At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1,000; Africa 2,400;and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200,of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800.The median number (中位数) of speakers is a mere 6,000,which means that half the world’s languages are spoken by fewer people than that.
Already well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction (消亡),with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United States (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.
阅读理解1-1. What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?
A
They developed very fast.
B
They were large in number.
C
They had similar patterns.
D
They were closely connected.
学生答案：B
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2阅读理解1-2. Which of the following best explains “dominant” underlined in paragraph 2?
AComplex.
BAdvanced.
CPowerful.
DModern.
学生答案：C
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3阅读理解1-3. How many languages are spoken by less than 6,000 people at present?
AAbout 6,800.
BAbout 3,400.
CAbout 2,400.
DAbout 1,200.
学生答案：B
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4阅读理解1-4. What is the main idea of the text?
ANew languages will be created.
BPeople’s lifestyles are reflected in languages.
CHuman development results in fewer languages.
DGeography determines language evolution.
学生答案：C
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阅读理解二，仔细阅读后完成下列2-1至2-3。
In the 1760s, Mathurin Roze opened a series of shops that boasted(享有)a special meat soup called consommé. Although the main attraction was the soup, Roze’s chain shops also set a new standard for dining out, which helped to establish Roze as the inventor of the modern restaurant.
Today, scholars have generated large amounts of instructive research about restaurants. Take visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta(意大利面食)when their plates matched their food. When a dark-colored cake was served on a black plate rather than a white one, customers recognized it as sweeter and more tasty.
Lighting matters, too. When Berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn’t tell how much they’d had: those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn’t feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.
Time is money, but that principle means different things for different types of restaurants. Unlike fast-food places, fine dining shops prefer customers to stay longer and spend. One way to encourage customers to stay and order that extra round: put on some Mozart(莫扎特).When classical, rather than pop, music was playing, diners spent more. Fast music hurried diners out. Particular scents also have an effect: diners who got the scent of lavender(薰衣草)stayed longer and spent more than those who smelled lemon, or no scent.
Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending—“bad” tables, crowding, high prices— don’t necessarily. Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled. It can be concluded that restaurant keepers need not “be overly concerned about ‘bad’ tables,” given that they’re profitable. As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant’s reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices. And doubling a buffet’s price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.
阅读理解2-1. The underlined phrase “none the wiser” in Paragraph 3 most probably implies that the customers were _______.
A
not aware of eating more than usual
B
not willing to share food with others
C
not conscious of the food quality
D
not fond of the food provided
学生答案：A
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6阅读理解2-2. How could a fine dining shop make more profit?
APlaying classical music.
BIntroducing lemon scent.
CMaking the light brighter.
DUsing plates of larger size.
学生答案：A
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7阅读理解2-3. What does the last paragraph talk about?
ATips to attract more customers.
BProblems restaurants are faced with.
CWays to improve restaurants’ reputation.
DCommon misunderstandings about restaurants.
学生答案：D
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阅读理解三，仔细阅读后完成下列3-1至3-3。
As cultural symbols go, the American car is quite young. The Model T Ford was built at the Piquette Plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line(装配线) on September 27,1908.Only eleven cars were produced the next month. But eventually Henry Ford would build fifteen million of them.
Modern America was born on the road, behind a wheel. The car shaped some of the most lasting aspects of American culture: the roadside diner, the billboard, the motel, even the hamburger. For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds. The road novel, the road movie, these are the most typical American ideas, born of abundant petrol, cheap cars and a never-ending interstate highway system, the largest public works project in history.
In 1928 Herbert Hoover imagined an America with“ a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” Since then, this society has moved onward, never looking back, as the car transformed America from a farm-based society into an industrial power.
The cars that drove the American Drea