阅读理解。 "How can I learn English well?" This is a question many students ask.
题型：甘肃省期中题难度：来源：
| 阅读理解。 |
"How can I learn English well?" This is a question many students ask. In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. If you can recite the text and write it out, you"ve learned it fairly well. And if you can tell, in your own words, what the lesson says you"re a very successful learner indeed. Your
English will be quite perfect.
This is a difficult task. However, if you try to learn by heart only part of each lesson, you"ll find it not
half so hard as you might have thought.
Learning this way, you will make rapid progress. Of course, writing is also necessary. It helps you a
lot on our way to success in English.
Equally important is to feel the language. You should be able to laugh at jokes and be shocked at bad
news. When using English, you should try to forget your mother tongue. Instead of helping you, your own
language gets in your way. So, never try to see English through translation. |
| 1. In the writer"s opinion, the most effective way in learning English is ________. |
A. To practice speaking, writing and feeling it
B. To forget your own native language
C. To translate everything into his own language
D. To memorize the English words and grammatical rules |
2. "Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way." This sentence means that memorizing
your own language can ______. |
A. Help you to study English well
B. Stop you mastering English
C. Make English easy to learn
D. Help you notice mistakes |
| 3. Equally important is to feel the language. "to feel the language" here means________. |
A. To get a knowledge of English by touching
B. to be able to read and write English
C. To translate English into your own by imagining
D. To be able to experience the rich sensation of the language |
答案
| 1-3: ABD |
举一反三
| 阅读理解。 |
The average temperature around the world is rising. People living in the US Midwest might find this
fact hard to believe, though. Two new studies show that in America"s heartland, summers are now cooler
and wetter than they were in years past. The scientists suggest that the change in the Midwest climate
may have happened because of farming.
The first study was led by David Changnon, a climatologist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
A climatologist studies the climate of an area, which includes measuring rainfall, temperature and wind.
Climatologists want to know how these factors have changed in the past, and how they will change in the
future.
Changnon and his team studied temperature records from Chicago and 13 other sites in the Midwest.
"These two changes -lower temperatures and more rainfall-may be connected by humidity," Changnon
says. Humidity is the measure of how much moisture is in the air. Humid air, which contains a lot of
moisture, takes longer to heat up than dry air.
So where did the extra moisture in the air come from? Changnon points to farms in the region. As
plants grow, they pull moisture from the ground and release it into the air. And among plants, soybean
and corn plants release a lot of moisture. Midwestern farms now plant more soybeans and corn than in
the past, with 97 percent of farmland today planted with these two crops. He also notes that the plants
are planted closer together now than they used to be, so there are more plants per acre than in the past.
The second study was led by famous scientists from the US. The researchers studied a vast area of
the United States that stretches from South Dakota to Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. They found
that in 1930, farmers in that region irrigated only about 1.8 million acres of farmland, an amount roughly
half the size of Connecticut. In 1980, however, farmers irrigated nearly 15 million acres-more land than
Vermont and New Hampshire combined. |
| 1. What does the underlined word "changes" mean in Paragraph 3? |
A. It means that the temperature is lower and the rainfall is higher than before
B. It means that the rain is heavier than before
C. It means that the weather is cooler and there is also more rainfall than before
D. It means that our mind should be changed about farming in the future |
| 2. From this article, we know that____. |
A. the weather will be changed in the future
B. farmers irrigated nearly 15 million acres in 1930
C. we must plant more trees in order to protect our environment
D. the climatologists have told us two aspects about the reason for the climate change |
| 3. The underlined word " moisture" in Paragraph refers to ____. |
A. humidity
B. rainfall
C. water
D. steam |
| 4. The best title for the article is ____. |
A. The Weather Is Changing Better Now
B. The Analysis for the Weather
C. Why Climate in Midwest Is Changing
D. The Importance for Plants and Irrigation |
| 阅读理解。 |
The dream of getting into an American university is coming true for more and more Chinese students.
Last year almost forty thousand Chinese students were accepted into undergraduate programs in America. That was a fifty percent increase over the year before and four times the number of undergraduate
students just five years ago.
More Chinese students want to go to American universities and more American universities want them
to come. For Chinese students it"s a chance to get a good education and for American universities it"s a
chance to, well, make a lot of money. American universities received $26 billion in tuition fees from
International students last year. It"s an important part of their revenue. The tuition fees for foreign students
are far higher than for domestic students. For example, the State University of New York (SUNY)
charges local students less than $5,000 a year and foreign students more than $13,000 a year.
Places like SUNY are easy to get into. They don"t look too closely at your academic record and they
accept lower TOEFL and SAT*scores. But once you"re in, it gets difficult. You have to take a lot of
courses, attend lectures, participate in seminars, write essays and give presentations-all in English! The
professors don"t change their teaching styles and will not lower their standards to accommodate foreign
students.
Many Chinese students struggle to keep up with the workload. Some drop out and about five percent
fail and have to come back home. It"s not surprising because getting a degree from an American university
is difficult even for American students. Only slightly more than fifty percent of American students graduate
in four years from the university they enrolled in. Some will take five or six years to get the credits they
need to graduate. Chinese students work much harder than their American counterparts but language is a
big stumbling block for them. If you want to succeed at an American university, your English must be very, very good. At American universities, getting in is easy; getting out is hard. |
1. About _________ Chinese students were accepted into undergraduate programs in
America five years ago. |
A. 27,000
B. 8,000
C. 4,000
D. 10,000 |
| 2. Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the passage? |
A. American universities earn a lot of money by accepting foreign students.
B. Getting a degree from an American university isn"t difficult for local students.
C. Professors in American universities will change their teaching style to make it easier for foreign students.
D. Though Chinese students work much harder, language is an obstacle anyway. |
| 3. Which sentence can serve as the topic sentence of this passage? |
A. The first sentence in Para.1.
B. The first sentence in Para. 2.
C. The last sentence in the last paragraph.
D. The third sentence in the last paragraph. |
| 4. What"s probably the purpose of this passage? |
A. To warn that American universities are not so good as expected.
B. To warn that American universities charge foreign students too much money.
C. To warn that you won"t learn anything in American universities.
D. To warn that it"s not so easy to get a diploma from American universities. |
| 任务型阅读。 |
In a fast changing world, people seldom see a device or equipment that lasts for a long time these days. There are always new inventions, different models, or upgrades cropping up one after the other and as consumers people highly anticipate the faster and better kind than what they already have. Therefore it is quite a surprise that a mini projecto r(投影仪) is still in use today not only in small scale businesses, schools, or homes but in big corporations and institutions as well. Sure it has a few additional features here and there but the main function is the same.
A mini projector today has been fitted with top of the line parts and high quality materials to ensure its efficiency and performance can meet the demands of whoever it is for. It is so designed that it can be used indoors or outdoors with the same functions. The mini projector, as the name suggests, is handy and compact and can easily be brought anywhere by just one person. It can support a broader scope of signals now; USB and card readers are now installed to cope with the pieces of equipments that people use today to store data.
It can be used at home where it can provide as a form of entertainment or start a conversation during family bonding times. The owner can easily use the mini projector to share with other members the photos and videos of one particular vacation, or just to play a series of beautiful landscapes.
Offices also benefit from a mini projector especially during an important meeting or presentation. With at par resolution (标准的分辨率), employees can easily decipher (辨认) the text or data with the use of a mini projector, its bright LED light is sufficient enough to provide a bright and clear image without distortion (变形). Users can now bring this anywhere with them and can be especially useful on a location where the voltage (电压) is unknown.
Perhaps one of the more common places where a mini projector is used constantly is in schools. Teachers or professors use this as an aid to a lesson or discussion to provide better visual aids than usual and to even deliver their lecture with the use of a mini projector and minimize the use of a board and writing pen. It is often said that children have a very short attention span but they remember things more when things are presented to them visually. This is the perfect use of a mini projector in classrooms where kids easily forget their lesson for the day. Teachers use this to show the class pictures or illustrations that tie with the topics for students to remember.
| Title | The mini projector and its uses | | Theme | (1)_______ many other devices in this fast changing world, mini projectors are still widely
used though there are newer and more modern inventions. | | Extra (2)___ | ·It works efficiently and can meet the specific demands of its(3)_______. ·(4) ______ used
indoors or outdoors, the mini project remains the same function. ·Handy and compact, it"s
easy for a single person to carry wherever he likes. ·It (5)______ a broader scope of signals.
What"s more, people can use it to store data by (6)____ USB and card readers. | The (7)_______ of a mini projector
| ·A mini projector makes family times more interesting, allowing family members to (8)__
themselves. ·With a mini projector, employees have little (9)______ in explaining the text or data at an important meeting or presentation. ·Aided by a mini projector, teachers and professors can present a lesson or discussion visually, which will help students achieve (10)_____ study results. | 根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项
为多余选项。 | A. Establish your independence as early as possible.
B. Remember that your mind is yours alone.
C. Learn to work with your parents.
D. Identify your fear factor.
E. Learn how to avoid being controlled by anger.
F. Ask yourself if your parent is a perfectionist. | | 阅读理解。 | Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us.Physicists have created fascinating theories,
but their time is measured by a pendulum (钟摆) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little
regard to the clock or calendar.As some-one who understood the distinction observed, "When you sit
with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like
two hours."
Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter
wings as we age.They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the
more rapidly it seems to pass.For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach.
Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in
structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older.
Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly.Almost all of us have had the
experience of driving somewhere we"ve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no
real idea of when we"ll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although
exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine. Thus
taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.
When was become as identical as identical as beads(小珠子)on a string, they mix together, and even
months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day-to
stop time, so to speak.
Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days
of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us,
learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn"t have to be. | | 1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show . | A. psychological time is quite puzzling
B. time should not be measured by a pendulum
C. physical time is different from psychological time
D. physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time | | 2.Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older? | A. Our sense of time changes.
B. We spend less time at the beach.
C. More time is structured and scheduled.
D. Time is structured with too many appointments. | | 3. In Paragraph 3 "novelty" probably means . | A. excitement
B. unfamiliarity
C. imagination
D. amusement | | 4. The purpose of the passage is to . | A. give various explanations about time
B. describe how we experience time psychologically
C. show the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time
D. explain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologically | 最新试题
热门考点
|
|