阅读理解。 Reading is very important to help you learn English. To learn as much
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to read different kinds of English. This book provides not only different kinds of English, but also a good way
to check your reading ability.
There are four parts in the book:
Part 1 is Messages: In this part somebody wants to send information in writing to somebody else. There is
a test on timetable and a test on text messages.
Part 2 is People: In this part all the tests are about people. For example, there is an informal letter between
friends. There is formal English in biography (传记). There is a job application as a model to help with your
writing, as well as testing your reading.
Part 3 is Places: In this part, too, many different kinds of English are shown, some informal and some
formal. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a letter of
complaint.
Part 4 is Things: You will find some descriptive writing in this part. There are descriptions of clothes and
of a computer.
You can do these tests in any order you like, or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text. I
enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it.
B. part 2
C. part 3
D. part 4
B. A computer handbook
C. A letter of a friend
D. A story of a president
B. students
C. test-takers
D. teacher
答案
举一反三
in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods, the first two or three years are
called "junior high school" and the other is "senior high school".
In China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free
education until they are 18 years old. As a result of the free education system (制度), American children
have little difficulty in going to senior high school.
American high school students can take part in a lot of activities outside of the classroom. The activities
are organized by the school, such as joining a music group or a sports team. Certainly, just like us students
in China, American students have to work hard in order to get good marks if they want to go to a good
university. They take classes in all kinds of subjects all through the high school period. And those who come
out with low marks at the end of a school year and who should repeat a grade are often allowed to go on to
the next grade.
In American high schools, there is fighting or hurting or other kinds of bad behaviors. So children who
want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊区的) high schools, where most students want to go
to university and the atmosphere (氛围) is quite different.
B. what the students learn in extra classes
C. what a music group or a sports team do
D. what the teachers do after class for the students
B. Those who get good marks can go to a good university.
C. American students can take all kinds of subjects during the high school period.
D. They can be allowed to join the next grade even if they fail the school-year exam.
B. none of the schools in cities are good for learning
C. suburban high schools are good places for learning
D. all the American students want to go to university
first period begins right after you are born and lasts until you are about six months old. The second period
starts when you reach the age of 13. First, girls grow faster than boys, then boys catch up and grow faster
and stronger.
Your head stops growing earlier than the rest of you. By the time you are ten, your head is nearly full size.
The bones of your arms and legs are short when you are a baby. When you reach the age of nine, your bones
starts to grow rapidly, and will keep growing until you reach your full height (高度).
Besides growing taller, your body changes in other ways. When a boy is about 13 years old, his voice begins
to get deeper and he may begin to grow a beard (胡子). At about the age of 13, a girl"s body begins to function (运行) like a woman"s. Some important changes are taking place, changes that makes it possible for boys and
girls, when they are older, to become fathers and mothers.
B. lasts about six months
C. doesn"t begin until you are about six months old
D. begins when you are six months old
B. when you are ten years old
C. when you are thirteen years old
D. when you are six months old
B. reaching his full height
C. begins to grow a beard
D. begins to change in other ways
B. it is necessary for boys and girls to become fathers and mothers when they grow up
C. boys and girls must have some important changes before they grow up
D. it is important that boys and girls should become fathers and mothers when they are older
are many cheap, comfortable and safe places to live.
You should always try to arrange your long-term accommodation before leaving home. Your school
should be able to help you with it. When you are accepted by a school, you will usually receive a package of
information including accommodation information. Complete the accommodation application form and return
it before the deadline (最后期限). If the school accommodation is not available, the accommodation advisory
(顾问的) office of your school can help you find private accommodation.
If you"re coming to the UK for the first time, accommodation provided by your school might be the most
suitable choice. This is a choice taken by more than half of the international students. There are plenty of
advantages of living in accommodation provided by the school: you can live close to where you are studying;
you will get to know other students easily; and most importantly, you will be living in a safer environment.
This kind of accommodation is also affordable: a room in a self-catering (自己做饭的) student apartment
usually costs from 180 to 360 pounds per month. To live in a place where meals are included you are expected
to pay from 320 to 400 pounds per month.
If you choose to rent accommodation in private houses, the choices are lodgings, private hostels (招待所)
and bedsits (卧室兼起居室). In a lodging, your landlord/landlady lives in the same house, possibly with his /
her family, and prepares meals for you. For hostel accommodation and lodgings where meals are included,
you can expect to pay from 300 to 400 pounds per month. For bedsit, you would pay from 200 to 380 pounds
per month.
arrived, I thought the school would be 2. ______ and all the students would be having class in the classroom.
3. ______ all that I saw were the students 4. ______ on the playground. Some were playing with the sand and
some were 5. ______ wooden toys.
"What are you doing?" I asked a ten-year-old boy.
"We are playing," he replied without 6. ______. I was confused. How could all the students be playing
outside 7. ______ studying in the classroom? And none of them 8. ______ to care about their studies.
Aren"t they worried about their studies at all? What about the teachers? Do they 9. ______ them to play?
With the 10. ______ in my mind, I went to the head teacher"s 11. ______.
"The students are allowed to play for ten days. In these ten days, they don"t have to study in the classroom.
What they need to do is to do what they like," said the head teacher.
"But 12. ______?" I asked.
"There was once a very good student in our school. He was very good at his 13. ______. But he never
played. He studied all the time. However, he 14. ______became ill and was sent to the 15. ______ and died
only four days later. Before he died, we 16. ______him what he wanted to do 17. ______. He said he wanted
to play. So we 18. ______ to let the students play for ten days every 19. ______," said the teacher, and I
finally knew why.
That student"s death gave the other students the 20. ______ to play.
| ( )1. A. happy ( )1. A. quiet ( )3. A. Since ( )4. A. running ( )5. A. making ( )6. A. breaking out ( )7. A. because of ( )8. A. meant ( )9. A. beg ( )10. A. opinions ( )11. A. company ( )12. A. why ( )13. A. books ( )14. A. interestingly ( )15. A. hotel ( )16. A. took ( )17. A. most ( )18. A. decided ( )19. A. festival ( )20. A. task | B. excited B. crowded B. But B. sitting B. giving B. showing off B. instead of B. liked B. teach B. questions B. school B. what B. games B. suddenly B. playground B. gave B. least B. stopped B. try B. right | C. surprised C. far C. Because C. playing C. selling C. showing up C. except for C. seemed C. expect C. sentences C. office C. when C. sports C. hopefully C. hospital C. told C. more C. served C. week C. place | D. angry D. clean D. So D. reading D. building D. looking up D. in case of D. happened D. allow D. news D. home D. where D. studies D. carefully D. cinema D. asked D. better D. advised D. term D. decision |
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| Is learning a foreign language ever easy? Yes. If you are five and move to another country, you will quickly pick up the language. But what about for the rest of us who are no longer five, and need to be polite when traveling for business or for pleasure? I think that answer is also yes. Language learning can be easy if you don"t want or need to learn too much. The key to successful language learning in my mind is not to set the goal too high. It is rather like running. Even if you run twice a week, you don"t necessarily want to be able to run a marathon. You might just want to maintain a level of fitness. I think the same can be true for language learning. Let"s get back to the goal. If you decide to learn ten words in a foreign language before visiting the country, you know that you will manage to do this. However, if you decide to attain conversational fluency, unless you are an exceptionally talented individual, you will probably fail and give up in disgust. It is also far easier to start learning a foreign language than to finish. In other words, the better you are, the slower it can be to improve, because you will get stuck with grammar, making sentences, learning less common words, etc. If you are only trying to learn a few foreign words and phrases, you will enjoy faster progress, have more fun, and won"t have to spend too much time. The idea of learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, isn"t the usual approach to language learning, but it can be a very rewarding and entertaining activity. | |||
| 1. In the writer"s opinion, it is easy for adults to learn English if _____. | |||
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| A. they are especially talented individuals B. they don"t want or need to learn too much C. they have to spend a lot of time on it D. they have a chance to go abroad | |||
| 2. The writer intends to express that learning only a few hundred words in a language, and then stopping, _____. | |||
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| A. is the usual method of learning a language B. is of no use for learning a language C. may cause a lot of mistakes while traveling D. can be rewarding and entertaining | |||
| 3. The writer believes that if you want to be good at a foreign language, you will probably _____. | |||
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| A. forget your own goals B. become a gifted language learner C. get tired of learning it D. reach your learning goal in advance | |||
| 4. The best title of this passage would be _____. | |||
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| A. Easy Language Learning B. Hard Language Learning C. Fluency in a Foreign Language D. A Method of Language Learning |