阅读理解。 In my long years of teaching, I often ask my student to read the text
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| 阅读理解。 |
In my long years of teaching, I often ask my student to read the texts until they can recite them, and I tell
them that recitation is an important part of their homework. However, some of my students are tired of doing
so, thinking that it is both hard and useless. They argue that it takes a long time to recite a text from memory
and text itself never appears in a test paper.
In my opinion, it naturally takes time to recite a text, but it is worth doing so. When you are able to recite
a text, you are sure to be familiar with the words and expressions. When you need them in reading or writing
or doing exercises, they will come to your mind quickly, and so you will give quick response to all kinds of
language situation. How can we say that it is useless?
Besides, many students complain that they soon forget what they were once able to recite. This is true,
but you don"t need to worry. While you are reading and forgetting the texts, your language level is being raised.
Sure you don"t remember your Chinese texts that you once read in the primary school, but now you are able
to read novels and newspaper. So, recitation of the texts will help you improve your language ability. |
| 1. The writer often asks his students to recite the texts, ______. |
| [ ] |
A. But they don"t like to do so
B. And they are eager to do so
C. But they wrote a letter to the Department of Education reporting the thing
D. But they do more exercises instead of reciting the texts |
| 2. What do the students think about the teacher"s advice? |
| [ ] |
A. The English teacher tries his best to help them with English.
B. The English teacher is very kind to them.
C. The English teacher asks them to do something useless.
D. The English teacher should let them study on their own. |
| 3. According to the text, which of the following is correct? |
| [ ] |
A. The teacher thinks the students are too naughty to learn English well.
B. The students think they spend a lot of time in reciting the texts and get nothing.
C. The students say that they often forget the words.
D. The students take no interest in English. |
| 4. When the students are against his suggestion, the writer ______. |
| [ ] |
A. often criticizes them
B. patiently explains to them why they should recite the texts
C. wants to give up his idea is afraid that he
D. is criticized by the headmaster. |
| 5. Why does the writer suggest that the students recite the text? |
| [ ] |
Reciting the texts can improve the ability of applying English.
Reciting the texts is the best way of learning English.
The students should remember all the texts that the teacher has taught them.
Reciting the texts can greatly improve the classroom teaching. |
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| 阅读理解。 |
Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that
men"s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women"s longevity may be linked
to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.
"We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,"
said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
"Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third
of those cells die and are not replaced in men," said Goldspink. "This is part of the ageing process."
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old
woman"s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one"s.
"This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men," said Goldspink. They
studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons
to remove the confusing influence of disease."The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the
male heart," said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed
that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age. |
| 1. The underlined word "longevity" in the second paragraph probably refers to "_____". |
| [ ] |
A. health
B. long life
C. ageing
D. effect |
| 2. The text mainly talks about _____. |
| [ ] |
A. men"s heart cells
B. women"s ageing process
C. the gender difference
D. hearts and long life |
| 3. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. women have more cells than men when they are born
B. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat
C. the female heart loses few of the cells with age
D. women never lose their pumping power with age |
| 4. If you want to live longer, you should _____. |
| [ ] |
A. enable your heart to beat much faster
B. find out the reason for ageing
C. exercise regularly to keep your heart healthy
D. prevent your cells from being lost |
| 阅读理解。 |
In 1901, H.G. Wells, an English writer, wrote a book describing a trip to the moon. When the explorers
(探险者) landed on the moon, they discovered that the moon was full of underground cities. They expressed
their surprise to the "moon people" they met. In turn, the "moon people" expressed their surprise. "Why," they
asked, "are you traveling to outer space when you don"t even use your inner space?"
H.G. Wells could only imagine travel to the moon. In 1969, human beings really did land on the moon.
People today know that there are no underground cities on the moon. However, the question that the "moon
people" asked is still an interesting one. A growing number of scientists are seriously thinking about it.
Underground systems are already in place. Many cities have underground car parks. In some cities, such
as Tokyo, Seoul and Montreal, there are large underground shopping areas. The "Chunnel"-a tunnel (隧道)
connecting England and France, is now complete.
But what about underground cities? Japan"s Taisei Corporation is designed a network of underground
systems, called "Alice Cities." The designers imagine using surface space for public parks and using
underground space for flats, offices, shopping, and so on. A solar dome (太阳能穹顶) would cover the
whole city.
Supporters of underground development say that building down rather than building up is a good way to
use the earth"s space. The surface, they say, can be used for farms, parks, gardens, and wilderness. H.G.
Wells" "moon people" would agree. Would you? |
| 1. The explorers in H. G. Wells" story were surprised to find that the "moon people" ____. |
| [ ] |
A. knew so much about the earth
B. understand their language
C. lived in so many underground cities
D. were ahead of them in space technology |
| 2. What does the underlined word "it" (paragraph 2) refer to? |
| [ ] |
A. Discovering the moon"s inner space.
B. Using the earth"s inner space.
C. meeting the "moon people" again.
D. Traveling to outer space. |
| 3. What sort of underground systems are already here with us? |
| [ ] |
A. Offices, shopping areas, power stations.
B. Tunnels, car parks, shopping areas.
C. Gardens, car parks, power stations.
D. Tunnels, gardens, offices. |
| 4. What would be the best title for the text? |
| [ ] |
A. Alice Cities-cities of the future
B. Space travel with H.G. Wells
C. Enjoy living underground
D. Building down, not up |
| 阅读理解。 |
We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by
testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in
the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. As
we are used to passive learning, it"s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with
friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even
when it is nothing but hearsay and rumor (谣言).
Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn"t show
it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it
to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message
word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original
message has changed.
That"s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes
the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative understanding
to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping (打上标记) it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear
it think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be
re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless
it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the
explanation he placed upon those facts. |
| 1. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _____. |
| [ ] |
A. doing a medical experiment
B. solving a math problem
C. visiting an exhibition
D. doing scientific reasoning |
| 2. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. a message may be changed when being passed on
B. a message should be delivered in different ways
C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing
D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor |
| 3. What can we infer from the passage? |
| [ ] |
A. Active learning is less important.
B. Passive learning may not be reliable.
C. Active learning occurs more frequently.
D. Passive learning is not found among scholars. |
| 阅读理解。 |
A: Hello, Judy. How are you getting along with your word processing (文字处理) class?
B: Well, so far progress has been rather slow. I haven"t learned the keyboard yet, and I have problems
remembering all the orders of editing. I get really impatient because I want to master the means to operate
the computer as soon as possible.
A: Just remember that Rome wasn"t built in a day. Word processing (文字处理) can"t be such an easy matter.
B: You"re right. Our teacher keeps telling us that it takes time to learn all the techniques (技巧) of word
processing and that we can"t master everything in one day.
A: That" s entirely true. But you"ll catch on. Just be patient and practise whenever you can. |
| 1. This dialogue suggests that Judy and the partner _____. |
[ ] |
A. may be friends
B. are studying in the same class
C. are both learning word processing
D. are both tired of study |
| 2. What"s the main idea of the dialogue? |
[ ] |
A. Word processing isn"t an easy thing at all.
B. Only step by step can we master something.
C. True friendship will benefit our progress.
D. Truth comes from practice. |
| 3. "Rome wasn"t built in a day" means that we should be _____. |
[ ] |
A. patient
B. hardworking
C. friendly
D. impatient |
| 4. Judy has difficulty in doing the following things except (除了) ______. |
[ ] |
A. word processing
B. making progress
C. learning the keyboard
D. remembering all the orders of editing |
| 阅读理解。 |
Andreea,18, from Romania, sent a photograph of the view from her window and included a brief
apology, "Sorry, this picture is plain and boring. No one would like it."
At home in New Jersey, US, Coreen Burke,16, clicked on the same image on the internet. She saw a
village with its rooftops and walls painted in reds and yellows, a distant chimney (烟囱) giving off smoke.
"Isn"t this amazingly different from my country?" She thought to herself.
Burke, a teenager with a skill for computers, saw beauty in that photo. She posted it to her blog,
Outside My Window, which features a daily snapshot (快照) of someone"s window view around the
world.
The concept is simple: We can all relate to the act of staring through a piece of glass, onto the scene
on the other side. "Maybe if we understood the way people from all over the world live," she explained,
"we would all get along better than we have been lately."
With a click of a mouse, you can see Frederic"s window in the south of France, looking out on
sailboats anchored (抛锚) in a peaceful harbor. Or Virginia"s view in Canada, a winter scene with trees
laced in white.
Like most high school students, Burke has traveled the world. But she says someday she hopes to
collect stamps in her passport, starting with Greece and India. Her recent break was devoted to launching
the site with a blogger account and recruiting (招募) contributors from deviant ART, an online art
community. She posted the first window view from Switzerland, a sunset photographed by an 18-year-old.
Then others came flowing in by email, up to seven a day, from as far as Kazakhstan and Indonesia.
Contributors are marked on maps pinned on her bedroom wall: a blue dot indicates their country and
a pink dot shows their city, if they provide it. The most responses have come from Europe-Estonia,
Poland, Italy, Germany and Sweden, to name a few. She is crossing her fingers, thinking that she"ll receive
a photo from Africa or Antarctica, which are unrepresented so far.
While she"s become a cyber crusader (网络革新者) for appreciating the beauty outside our own
windows, get this: She has no windows in her bedroom. She has a nice skylight (天窗), though. |
| 1. What does Burke think of the picture she received from Andreea? |
| [ ] |
A. Boring
B. Charming
C. Strange
D. Plain |
| 2. Outside My Window is a blog intended to show ______. |
| [ ] |
A. the view from Burke"s window
B. pictures of rural New Jersey
C. photos of window views taken by people all over the world
D. beautiful scenes of famous places of interest |
| 3. We can conclude from the article that Burke ______. |
| [ ] |
A. believes we should reach out to people of different cultures
B. has traveled around the world and taken many pictures
C. is a member of an online art community
D. has made a lot of money by selling beautiful pictures |
| 4. Which of the following is not true? |
| [ ] |
A. Burke is likely to receive a photo from Africa or Antarctica.
B. Burke is a junior middle school student.
C. Burke has photos from many countries in the world, including Kazakhstan.
D. Burke wants a photo of window view from Africa or Antarctica. |
| 5. What is the best title of this passage? |
| [ ] |
A. World Windows
B. Beautiful Pictures
C. Pictures on the Internet
D. Windows in Bedrooms |
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