阅读理解。        Some people have the feeling that nothing can be done about their p

阅读理解。        Some people have the feeling that nothing can be done about their p

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阅读理解。        Some people have the feeling that nothing can be done about their poor reading ability. They feel
hopeless about it. Can you learn to read better, or must you agree that nothing can be done about it?
        To be sure, people are different. You cannot expect to do everything as well as certain other people
do. If all the students in a class tried out for basketball, some would be very good players; others would
be very poor; and many would be in between. But even the very poor players can become much better
players if they are guided in the right way, and with plenty of practice. It is the same with reading. Some
seem to enjoy reading and to read well without any special help. Others find reading a slow and tiring job.
In between, there are all degrees of reading ability.
        Many experiments have shown that just about every poor reader can improve his reading ability. In
these experiments, the poor readers were given tests of reading ability. After some of the causes of their
reading were discovered, they were given special instruction and practice in reading. After a few months,
another test of the same kind was given. In nearly all cases, these people had raised their reading scores. 1.With the example of basketball players, the author shows ________. A. why certain people are poor readers
B. that there are differences in people’s abilities
C. why some people are good basketball players
D. that good basketball players can be good readers 2.To improve their reading ability, people should ________. A. work long and hard
B. take different forms of tests
C. have special help and practice
D. try different reading materials 3.The experiments mentioned in the text show that ________. A. good readers seem to enjoy reading
B. almost all poor readers can make progress
C. causes of poor reading were difficult to find out
D. tests help people improve their reading ability 4.What does the underlined sentence “many would be in between” mean?A. It means that many are the best basket players.
B. It means that many are the worst basket players.
C. It means that many are standing in the middle of the line.
D. It means that there are several levels of players in many students.5.What’s the purpose of the author’s writing this passage?A. To encourage people to improve their reading ability.
B. To suggest that readers should do practice only in reading.
C. To tell us that readers can’t improve their reading ability without special help.
D. To tell us that to be a good reader, one should be guided in the right way.
答案
1-5  BCBDA
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阅读理解。        Everyone has got two personalities - the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret
and real.You don"t show your secret personality when you"re awake because you can control your
behaviour,but when you"re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you.In a normal night,of
course,people frequently change their position.The important position is the one that you go to sleep
in.
        If you go to sleep on your back,you"re a very open person.You normally trust people and you are
easily influenced by fashion or new ideas.You don"t like to upset people,so you never express your real
feelings.You"re quite shy and you aren"t very confident.
        If you sleep on your stomach,you are a rather secretive(不坦率的)person.You worry a lot
and you"re always easily upset.You"re very stubborn(顽固的),but you aren"t very ambitious.You
usually live for today not for tomorrow.This means that you enjoy having a good time.
        If you sleep curled up(卷曲),you are probably a very nervous person.You have a low opinion
of yourself and so you"re often defensive.You"re shy and you don"t normally like meeting people.You
prefer to be on your own.You"re easily hurt.
        If you sleep on your side,you have usually got a well-balanced personality.You know your
strengths and weaknesses.You"re usually careful. You have a confident personality.You sometimes
feel anxious,but you don"t often get depressed.You always say what you think even if it annoys
people. 1.According to the writer,you naturally show your secret and real personality __________.A.only in a normal night
B.only when you go to sleep
C.only when you refuse to show yourself to the world
D.only when you change sleeping position 2.Which is NOT mentioned in the second paragraph about a person"s personality? A.He or she is always open with others.
B.He or she always likes new ideas earlier than others.
C.He or she is always easily upset.
D.He or she tends to believe in others. 3.Point out which sentence is used to show the personality of a person who is used to sleeping on his or
her stomach? A.He or she is careful not to offend others.
B.He or she doesn"t want to stick to his or her opinion.
C.He or she can"t be successful in any business.
D.He or she likes to bring others happiness. 4.Maybe you don"t want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up.Why? A.He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you.
B.He or she is rarely ready to help you.
C.He or she prefers staying at home to going out.
D.He or she wouldn"t like to get help from you. 5.It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because _____ . A.he or she always shows sympathy for people
B.he or she is confident,but not stubborn
C.he or she has more strengths than weaknesses
D. he or she often considers annoying people
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阅读理解。        A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same
words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better
to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the
time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
        A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad
thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have
read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think,
some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现)
from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into
the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
        There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true,
that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond
of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such
people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were
sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or
covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.
        No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believe
d that it was.1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.A. repeated without any change
B. treated as a joke
C. made some changes by the parent
D. set in the present 2. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.A. in a realistic setting          
B. heard for the first time
C. repeated too often        
D. told in a different way h3. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.A. makes them less fearful
B. develops their power of memory
C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs 4. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.A. fairy stories are still being made up
B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for children"s fears nowadays 5. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.A. they are full of imagination
B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting
D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach
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语法填空阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在标号为1-10 的相应位置上。      In order to know a foreign language completely, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear    1   spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly
with    2   (confident) and without hesitation. Thirdly, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly,
we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are    3   (grammatical) correct.
      There is no easy way to succeed    4   language learning.    5   good memory is a great help, but it is
not enough only    6   (memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long
lists of words and their meanings,    7   (study) the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the
language. If we are    8   (satisfy) with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the
language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of advice for those    9   are studying a new language.
Practice is important. We must practise speaking and writing the language    10   we can.
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     Judging from recent surveys, most experts in sleep behaviour agree that there is an epidemic (流行病) of sleepiness in the nation. “I can’t think of a single study that hasn’t found Americans getting less sleep
than they ought to,” says Dr. David. Even people who think they are sleeping enough would probably be
better off with more rest.
     The beginning of our sleep-lack crises can be traced back to the invention of the light bulb a century
ago. From diary entries and our personal accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries, sleep scientists have
reached the conclusion that the average person used to sleep about 9.5 hours a night. “The best sleep
habits once were forced on us, when we had nothing to do in the evening on the farm, and it was dark.” By the 1950s and 1960s, the sleep schedule had been reduced dramatically, to between 7.5 and 8 hours, and most people had to wake to an alarm clock. “People cheat in their sleep, and they don’t even realize
they’re doing it,” says Dr. David. “They think they’re okay because they can manage with 6.5 hours, when they really need 7.5, 8 or even more to feel ideally energetic.”
      Perhaps the most cruel robber of sleep, researches say, is the complexity of the day. Whenever
pressures from work, family, friends and community increase, many people consider sleep the least
expensive item on their programme. “In our society, you’re considered energetic if you say you need only 5.5 hours’ sleep. If you have to get 8.5 hours, people think you lack drive and ambition.”
     To determine the consequences of sleep-lack, researchers have put subjects through a set of
psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add columns of numbers or recall a
passage read to them only minutes earlier. “We’ve found that if you’re lacking in sleep, performance
suffers,” says Dr. David. “Short-term memory is weakened, so are abilities to make decisions and to
concentrate.”

1. What is the main topic of the passage?

A. Research on the causes and consequences of sleep-lack.
B. The epidemic of sleepiness in the modern times.
C. The history of people’s sleeping patterns.
D. The minimum of our sleeping hours.


2. Which of the following is Dr. David’s opinion?
A. People who think they are sleeping enough are better off than those who don’t.
B. Some people can remain energetic with only 6.5 hours’ sleep a night.
C. If they get 8.5 hours’ sleep, people will be full of drive and ambition.
D. People’s performance becomes worse if they are lacking in sleep.

3. People in the 18th and 19th centuries slept about 9.5 hours a night because __________.

A. they were forced by their parents to do so
B. they knew what was best for their health
C. they had no electricity
D. they were not so energetic and ambitious as modern people are

4. The major cause of sleep-lack of modern people is _______.

A. the endless TV programmes in the evenings and on the Internet
B. the heavy work load of the day
C. the enough energy modern people usually have
D. loud noises in the modern cities

5. What does the word “subject” in paragraph 4 mean?

A. Person or thing that is being discussed or described.
B. Branch of knowledge studied in a school.
C. Person or thing being treated in a certain way or being experimented on.
D. Any member of a State apart from the supreme ruler.

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阅读理解。        When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are
unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is
viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted.
In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.
        Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their
thinking and values and the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely
as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into
their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our
character and values. It gives us identity as a society.
        Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can
explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive meaning of the same phenomenon. We
need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No
one way can get it all.
        The arts are forms of thoughts as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific
symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization
through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give
form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children
access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings
that music expresses.
        Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important
way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.So music
education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.1.According to Paragraph 1, students _______.A. regard music as a way of entertainment
B. disagree with their parents on education
C. view music as an overlooked subject
D. prefer the arts to science 2. In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to _______. A. compare it with rock music
B. show music identifies a society
C. introduce American musical traditions
D. prove music influences people’s lifestyles3. According to the passage, the arts and science _______.A. explain what it means to be human differently
B. explore different phenomena of the world
C. express people’s feelings in different ways
D. approach the world from different angles 4. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Music is an effective communication tool.
B. Music should be of top education priority.
C. Music education deserves more attention.
D. Music makes students more imaginative.
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