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河南科技学院新科学院2013-2014学年第一学期期终考试 大学英语3试题（A） 注意事项：1.在试卷的标封处填写院（系）、专业、班级、姓名和准考证号。 2.考试时间共120分钟。 3.本试卷需A4演草纸（ 0 ）张。[默认值为0张] 题号 一 二 三 四 五 合计 合分人签字 分数 25 30 15 15 15 100 得分 评卷人 得分 Part II Reading Comprehension (3*10 = 30 points) Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. For Roy Johnson, a senior magazine editor, the latest indignity came after a recent dinner at a fancy restaurant in the wealthy New York City suburb where he and his family live. First the parking valet handed him the keys to his Jaguar instead of fetching the car. Then an elderly white couple came out and handed him the keys to their black Mercedes-Benz. “It took them a while to realize that I was not a valet,” says Johnson. “It didn’t matter that I was dressed for dinner and had paid a handsome price for the meal, just as he had. What mattered was that I didn’t fit his idea of someone who could be equal to him.” Such incidents, which are depressingly familiar to African-Americans of all ages, incomes and social classes, help explain why black and white attitudes often differ so completely. A recent survey found that 68 percent of blacks believe racism is still a major problem in America. Only 38 percent of whites agreed. Many Americans find the gulf between blacks and whites bewildering. After all, official segregation(隔离) is a bad memory and 40 years of law, policies and court decisions have helped African-Americans make significant progress toward equal opportunity. Indeed, a black man born in Harlem could be the nation’s next president. But racism persists, unmistakable to every black but largely invisible to many whites. It is evident in the ever