阅读理解。     After 13 years and 46,000 miles the British traveler Jason Lewis finis

阅读理解。     After 13 years and 46,000 miles the British traveler Jason Lewis finis

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     After 13 years and 46,000 miles the British traveler Jason Lewis finished the round-the-world journey
using human power alone. He crossed five continents, two oceans and a sea to become the first peson to
go around the globe only depending on himself and using his own power. He finally returned to the UK on
Saturday, crossing the Greenwich Meridian Line (格林威治子午线), in his specially-designed, 8-meter-long,
pedal-powered (脚蹬动力的) boat, "Moksha". It was the same place where his journey began on July, 1994
when he was just 26 years old.
     Jason used many kinds of transport methods during his great joumey,such as riding, swimming, boating,
and skating. His journey took him west from Britain to the USA and then to Australia, Asia, and Africa before
returning to Europe from the east.
     The journey was not without dangers: in Colorado Jason was knocked down by a truck whose driver had
drunk a lot of wine while riding at the side of the road. He spend six weeks in hospital and nearly lost one of
his legs. After the accident, Jason was robbed (抢劫) and beaten several times on his journey, sent to prison
(监狱) by the Australian army that considered him to be a spy, and ran after by a lion in Egypt. But on the
way he raised money to help the poor children around the world. He also developed an education program for
schoolchildren while he was on his journey.
     Next the world traveller may have a rest for a while. "I"ve seen enough deserts. I"ve climbed beautiful
green hills. I have slept in the open air in Australia and sat by the fire drinking a bottle of beer," said Jason.
"but I do miss our British. It"s really nice to be with the people who are always smiling to each other."

1. What kind of transport methods might Jason Lewis use during his joumey around the world?
    a. riding a bike
    b. taking a bus
    c. skating on the ice
    d. swimming in the sea
    e. taking a plane
    f. pedaling a boat [     ]
A. acef
B. acdf
C. abcd
D. bdef 2. According to the last paragraph, what would Jason Lewis probably do next? [     ]
A. He would go on to visit the desert in Africa.
B. He would set out to climb the Himalayas in Asia.
C. He would go camping in the open air in Australia.
D. He would have a picnic with his British friends. 3. Why was Jason Lewis once sent to prison on his round-the-world journey? [     ]
A. Because he drunk a lot of wine before riding along the side of the road.
B. Because he stole others" money and hit others.
C. Because he was thought to be a spy.
D. Because he ran after a lion and wanted to kill it. 4. Jason Lewis set a record in the history of round-the-world journey by _____. [     ]
A. only using his own power during this journey
B. using many kinds of transport methods during the journey
C. starting his journey from the Greenwich Meridian Line
D. having a specially designed boat "Moksha" 5. What can we know about Jason Lewis from the passage? [     ]
A. He started his round-the-world journey on a Saturday.
B. It was because he drunk a lot of wine that he was knocked down by a truck.
C. He paid more attention to children"s education.
D. He was very disappointed at the journey which took him 13 years.
答案
1-5 B D C A C
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阅读理解。     Charlton Heston was bom in 1923 in Evanston, Illinois. Charlton discovered his interest in acting while
performing plays at his high school. He later spent two years studying theatre at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Illinois. But he left college to join the army during the Second World War.
     After the war, Charlton Heston found small roles in the theatre as well as in television shows. His
performance in a film version of the book Jane Eyre caught the attention of the Hollywood producer Cecil B.
DeMille who later asked Charlton Heston to play the role of Moses in his movie The Ten Commandments
which came out in 1954. The role in this film made Charlton Heston famous and decided his career as an
actor playing the role of heroes. His face and body represented (体现) strength and heroism (英雄气概) in
many different roles. He played cowboys, soldiers and athletes.
     The movie Ben-Hur (1959) made Charlton Heston an even bigger star. Ben-Hur won eleven Academy
Awards, including Best Actor. Charlton Heston starred in many adventure movies during the 1960s. In the
1970s, Charlton Heston appeared in popular disaster movies like Earthquake, Skyjacked and Airport 1975.
     Charlton Heston was also very active in the movie industry. He worked to help build the American Film
Institute. In 1977 he was honored for his service in the industry, receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian
Award. In 1997 he was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor. And, in 2003, President Bush gave Charlton
Heston a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation"s highest honor for ordinary people.
     In 2000, the doctor found Charlton Heston had Alzheimer"s disease. He died in 2008 at his home in Beverly
Hills, California. 1. What kind of role did Charlton Heston often play in films? [     ]
A. Heroes
B. Cowboys
C. Soldiers
D. Athletes 2. Which film won Best Actor for Charlton Heston? [     ]
A. Jane Eyre
B. The Ten Commandments
C. Ben-Hur
D. Earthquake 3. The two films belonging to the same kind are _____. [     ]
A. Jane Eyre and Ben-Hur
B. The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur
C. Skyjacked and Airport 1975
D. The Ten Commandments and Earthquake 4. What is the main idea of Paragraph 2?  [     ]
A. How Charlton Heston began his career.
B. How Charlton Heston become famous.
C. Who made Charlton Heston a popular star.
D. Who made Charlton Heston win so many awards.5. Which is the correct order of the things that happened to Charlton Heston?
    a. Catching the attention of Cecil B. DeMille.
    b. Studying at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
    c. Acting in the film Skyjacked.
    d. Catching Alzheimer"s disease.
    e. Playing in the movie The Ten Comandments. [     ]
A. abced
B. baecd
C. bacde
D. abecd
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阅读理解。     Tilly Smith, the 11-year-old British girl, who was called as "Angle of the Beach", saved 100 tourists from
a Thai beach hit by a tsunami in 2004 and had been named Child of the Year (2005) by readers of a French
children"s newspaper.
     She came ahead of a South African Aids orphan, a six-year-old girl who survived a kidnapping by pedophiles
(有恋童癖的人) and a young Parisian pop singer to win the Mon Quotidien award.
     Tilly had studied tsunami with her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney, shortly before flying to Thailand
for a holiday with her parents and younger sister last year.
     As she watched the waves suddenly begin to fall back, and the sea was bubbling, she wamed her mother,
Penny, that the beach was about to be struck by a tsunami. Mrs Smith and her husband, Colin, alerted other
holidaymakers and hotel staff and scores of people were cleared from Maikhao beach at Phuket.
     Tilly, now 11, and back in Thailand for anniversary commemorations of the disaster, said:"It"s re- ally good,
just to know about tsunami or any natural hazard in case you are in one. I"m very glad that I was able to say on
the beach that a tsunami was coming. And I"m glad that they listened to me."
     She had earlier said that the state of the sea, which was "sizzling (发出咝咝声) and bubbling", was "exactly
the same as in my geography lesson."
     Tilly read a Thai poem entitled Tsunami at a candle-light vigil to commemorate (纪念)victims of the disaster. 
     She is unaware of her remarkable (非凡的) popularity among French children. Her picture appears on the
front page of Mon Quotidien, which is read by 10 to 14-year-olds.
     "Our readers chose Tilly because they could identify with her," said Francois Dufour, the editor-in-chief.
"To be a pop star at 11 seems impossible, and the idea of having Aids or being kidnapped is remote from their
lives." 1. Tilly Smith was named Child of the Year by _____.[     ]
A. people from Thailand
B. children from Britain
C. people from France
D. government in France 2. According to the passage, how many candidates for Child of the Year are there all in all? [     ]
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Without limit 3. What signs can people find when a tsunami take place? [     ]
A. Bubbling and huge waves.
B. Water rising suddenly with huge sounds.
C. Waves receding suddenly and bubbling.
D. Waves rising and fishes turnig over.
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阅读理解。     The success of Pickwick Papers made Dickens very popular. He suddenly found himself at twenty-four
the most famous novelist of his day. Busy as his social life was, he worked on two novels at the same time-
Oliver Twist and Pickwick Papers. He was particularly proud of Pickwick Papers, which was a huge success
and was regarded as a comic (喜剧) masterpiece (杰作). "If I were to live a hundred years and write novels
in each, I should never be so proud of any of them as I am proud of Pickwick Papers," he said.
     It has been said of Dickens that he grasped (抓住) the imagination of" his readers because his imagination
grasped himself. The people in his works were so real that they could make him laugh or cry. When writing
Oliver Twist he said that he could not rest until Fagin, the wrongdoer (做坏事的人), had been hanged.
     Dickens" marriage to Catherine Hagarth, with whom he had nine children, ended unhappily in 1858. He
started to travel about giving readings of his works. His interest in theater gave his novels the qualities that
made them suitable for reading aloud on the stage. A tiring trip to the United States affected his health. On June
9th, 1870, when he was working on a new novel, he died. Dickens had always wanted to die of working. 1. Dickens became a famous novelist _____. [     ]
A. because his social work
B. with the success of Pickwick Papers
C. because he was writing two novels at the same time
D. when he began to give readings of his works 2. According to this passage, we know that Dickens _____.[     ]
A. was only interested in writing novels
B. didn"t like Oliver Twist
C. wished to live one hundred years and write three novels in each
D. didn"t think he could write a better novel than Pickwick Papers in his life 3. As a novelist, Dickens _____. [     ]
A. was full of imagination
B. found it hard to satisfy his readers
C. always wrote about real people in life
D. wrote works according to his readers" imagination 4. Fagin must be _____. [     ]
A. a person in real life
B. a character in Oliver Twist
C. a character in Pickwick Papers
D. one of Dickens" works 5. Which of the following is TRUE? [     ]
A. Dickens had a happy marriage to Catherine Hagarth.
B. Dickens was a successful actor.
C. Dickens" death had little to do with his hard work.
D. Dickens had wished to die in the course of his work.
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阅读理解。     William Shakespeare was born in 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon in England. At that time Elizabeth I had been
Queen for years.
     We do not know much about Shakespear"s life. However, we do know that his father was a shopkeeper
and that his mother was the daughter of a farmer. William went to Stratford Grammar School, where he learnt
Latin, scripture and mathematics.
     When he left school, William was employed by his father. He married a local girl, Anne Hatheway, when
he was eighteen. Three years later he left Stratford and went to London.
     We do not know anything about Shakespeare"s life between the years 1585 and 1590. We are certain,
however, that by the end of 1590 he had joined a group of actors and had started writing plays. During the
next twenty years he wrote thirty-two plays. He possibly wrote more plays, which he did not have published
or performed.
     Shakespeare went back to Stratford-on-Avon a few years before he died in 1616 at the age of 52. 1. Shakespeare went to Stratford Grammar School because he _____. [     ]
A. wanted to get married
B. wanted to learn to write plays
C. wanted to make a living by himself
D. was going to learn mathematics and other courses 2. Shakespeare"s mother was probably born in _____. [     ]
A. the cities
B. a rich family
C. the United States
D. the countryside 3. We may conclude that _____. [     ]
A. Shakespeare went to London after his marriage
B. Shakespeare went to Stratford Grammar School for grammar learning
C. Shakespeare started to write plays at the age of 30
D. Shakespeare wrote 32 plays in his life time 4. Shakespeare died in _____. [     ]
A. England
B. London
C. the 15th century
D. the 16th century 5. The good title of the text should be _____.  A. Stratford-on-Avon
B. Anne Hatheway
C. William Shakespeare
D. Scripture and mathematics
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阅读理解。     Such English idioms as "as poor as a church mouse" and "like a drowned (淹死的) rat" remind people of
the unfavorable images (形象) of mice and rats. But with his efforts in the 20th century, an American young
man Walt Disney changed people"s view.
     Born in 1901 in Chicago, Walt Disney was a newspaper seller, and was fond of drawing pictures. Later
he went to study arts in a Chicago institute. One day when he was thinking hard how to draw a picture in a
building, several mice crawled (爬) onto the drawing board. Walt fed them with bread bits, and they played
happily.
     Suddenly an idea struck Walt. He drew a mouse on the paper and named it Mickey. Then Walt began to
make cartoon films based on Mickey. He also made use of the newest skill in dubbing (为....配音) in his
cartoons so that Mickey was able to talk. In 1932 a Walt Disney cartoon film won the Oscar.
     In mid-1950s, Walt planned a Disneyland in California, and within 10 years, Mickey, the little mouse,
helped him to make 200 million dollars. Then another Disneyland was set up in Florida, Mickey Mouse seemed
to become the symbol (象征) of American amusements.
     In the Mickey Mouse films, when Mickey did anything wrong or foolish, letters of protest (抗议) would
soon be sent to Disney. He then created Donald Duck and Pluto to do the silly things so that Mickey was
always pretty and honest. With Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney challenged the worldly view that it was able to
change the nature of anything born in dirty surroundings. 1. Mice and rats will bring people some harm _____. [     ]
A. so people are tired of them
B. because they often destroy food and buildings
C. and the number of them is increasing very fast
D. because they are the dirtiest animals in the world 2. The text tells us that _____. [     ]
A. the cartoon film "Mickey" is one of the best films in the world
B. Americans like rats and mice very much
C. a lot of Americans enjoy drawing rats and mice in their pictures
D. people all over the world should protect rats and mice 3. In America, when they talk about Mickey Mouse, Americans often think that _____.[     ]
A. it is a kind of useful animal
B. it stands for amusements
C. everyone hates it
D. it is a sign of a good future 4. One of the following words that can best express WaIt Disney"s character is _____. [     ]
A. kind
B. rude
C. highly creative
D. good-looking 5. Which of the following animals can show the main idea of the text? [     ]
A.
B.
C.
D.
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