高一英语阅读训练（16）
A
Australia's worst pests are the rabbits，introduced by a settler who released 24 into the wild for sport hunting．In less than 100 years，the rabbits grow into the millions of ones，leaving large areas of land looking like the surface of the moon due to thousands of rabbit caves．The spread （蔓延）of the rabbits in Australia was the fastest of all animals in the world．The spread of the rabbits' disease in 1950 cut the number，but it was not until 1997 when the spread of another disease targeted（瞄准）the pests that the number was finally brought under control．Farm losses due to rabbits today still remain a surprising
total A＄200 million （US＄112 million）a year．
The European red foxes，also released for sport hunting，are growing and eating sheep flocks，costing farmers A＄40 million （US＄22．4 million）a year．The State of Victoria offers a A＄10 (US＄5．6）prize for each fox tail and has gathered 25，000 in a few months．Foxes are one of the biggest threats to wildlife in Australia．Foxes kill thousands of lambs（羊羔），birds and native wildlife．Australia lost its long battle against wild pests．
1．The underlined word “released”in Paragraph 1 means“＿＿＿＿＿＿”．A．kept…out B．set…free C．killed D．stopped
2．Which of the following is NOT mentioned？
A．A great many rabbits eat too much trees．B．Rabbits make too much caves．C．The surface is destroyed a lot by rabbits．D．The birth rate of the rabbits is high．3．What reduced the number of the rabbits？
A．Hunting．B．Poisoning．C．Disease．D．Flood．4．Australia once fought against ＿＿＿＿＿＿．
A．sheep and rabbits B．rabbits and red foxes
C．birds and red foxes D．lambs and rabbits
B
Over a third of one's life is spent sleeping with one's head on a pillow（枕头）．A good pillow，in its right height and composition，has important effects on one's sleep and health．There is an old way of medical treatment（治疗）called “smell the medicine to cure（治愈）the disease”
which means that people smell medicines while asleep for disease treatment．In China，since ancient times，people have put plants into pillows for their health．Medicinal pillows get medical treatment closely with people's life and keep the people working in process．Back in the Tang Dynasty （AD 618907），the famous Chinese doctor Sun Simiao made medicinal pillows to treat aches in the neck and head，getting good results．The medicine that should be put into the pillow should be carefully chosen according to one's illness．
Pillows filled with the skins of beans，seeds，dried flowers and wheat are good for the eyesight and keeping the mind clear，since their smell helps one go to sleep．Furthermore，in South China，a strange pillow has long been popular during hot seasons．Peasants collect silk-worm excrement（排泄物）and fill pillows with it．Such pillows then fetch a high price，because people believe they can successfully cool their babies．
5．What does the underlined word “composition”in (Paragraph 1) mean？
A．The students' homework．B．The color of a pillow．
C．What is filled inside a pillow．D．The pictures drawn on a pillow．
6．What kind of pillows are good for eyesight？
A．Those filled with medicine．B．Those filled with silkworm excrement．
C．Those filled with the skins of beans，seeds，dried flowers and wheat．
D．Those expensive ones．
7．Why do the pillows full of silkworm excrement sell well？
A．They are clean and good for the eyesight．
B．Babies feel cool with the heads on the pillows in hot weather．
C．They look nice．D．They can't be found easily．
8．What's the best title for the passage？
A．Pillows on sale B．Pillows can cure illness
C．Pillows are necessary D．How is a pillow made？
C
No one can believe that the over 6，300kilometer Great Wall might disappear some day．Believe it or not，the Great Wall is being destroyed by people．Less than 20 per cent of the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty，is still perfect，but about 80 per cent is in danger．The Great Wall can be called “great”mostly because of its amazing length．But we should realize that the length was made up of one brick at a time．If we do nothing to save the Great Wall，it will become a series of separate wasteland rather than a historic site．
The Great Wall is actually a series of walls built and rebuilt by different dynasties over the past 2,000 years．It began in the rule of China's first emperor，Qin Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty （221-206 BC），and lasted into the Ming Dynasty．The parts built before the Ming Dynasty have nearly disappeared．People are familiar with sections such as Badaling in Beijing and Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu，because they have been open to tourists for many years．But those sections far away from the public eyes have been almost forgotten．
Few local people knew the 3metre high walls made of earth and stones beside them are part of the Great Wall．The lack of knowledge is considered as one of the main reasons behind human．
The bricks on the Great Wall are carried off by countryside people to build their houses，sheep corrals（畜栏）and pigsties(猪圈）．Some were taken away to build roads．Bricks carved with people's names are put away as remembrance．Rubbish is spread over the battlements（城垛）．The bricks can be sold for 15 yuan per tractor load．Those who destroyed and are destroying the Wall know its name，but are not clear about its cultural meaning．It will take a long time to let them know this．The local farmers not only carried off the body of the Wall but dug out the entire base．
It is necessary to protect the Great Wall．First of all，the officials should be aware of the importance of the Great Wall．Young Chinese should know more about the nation's great civilization（文明）and learn to love it．
9．Why does the author say the Great Wall might disappear？
A．It is useless from now on．B．It will be replaced by a new one．
C．Some parts of it are being destroyed．D．It is too old to be used again．10．Which of the following is TRUE？
A．The Great Wall was completed in the Ming Dynasty．
B．There are only two wonders in the world，one，the Great Wall，the other，the pyramids in Egypt．
C．The first part of the Great Wall was built in 221-206 BC．
D．The Qin Great Wall was protected well．
11．The underlined part “those sections far away from the public eyes”(in Paragraph 2) refers to the parts of the Great Wall ＿＿＿＿＿＿．
A．that are too difficult to undeand B．nobody can watch
C．that are too far to be seen D．that are not well known to the public 12．What's the main reason of the Great Wall's being destroyed？
A．The local people are short of culture knowledge．
B．The local people need bricks and stones to build houses．
C．The local people think that the Great Wall is not important．
D．The local people are against the government．
D
Wang Lihuan， a 15-year-old senior high school student from Chongqing beat 30 other competitors in Beijing to take home the top prize in the first “21st Century Cup”National High School English Speaking Competition，held by China Daily．The schoolgirl's prize was an expenses paid trip to the international English－speaking competition，to be held in London in May 2003．It will be the first time that a Chinese student will have taken part in the international one．
Yesterday，competitors from around China presented a prepared speech on the topic “Learning English —My Personal Story”and each answered two questions that they picked out before going on stage．The topics came from all kinds of fields．All the competitors did a pretty good job，said Helen，the English language teaching manager of the British Council，who was a judge in the competition．She said it was amazing that the high school students in China could use English so well．However，what surprised the judges most was not the students' excellent English but their wide range of knowledge．“I was afraid that the questions would be too difficult for them，”said Nie Lisheng，editor in chief（主编）of 21st Century，the organizer of the competition．“But soon I found that I didn't have a single reason to worry，for they seemed to know quite a lot about things such as the solar system or AIDS prevention，”added Nie．
Huang Qing，another judge，said：“It shows how much the students care about the world around them instead of only for their studies．I was quite surprised that the students could deal
with questions with such deep thought and a global view．”Another four students won a one week study trip to Australia or Singapore．
13．The underlined word “beat”(in Paragraph 1) means“＿＿＿＿＿＿”．A．kill B．follow C．defeat D．help
14．The students ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿have attended the competition in Beijing．A．all over the world B．only from Chongqing
C．all over the country D．only from Beijing
15．Wang Lihuan won the top prize because＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．
A．she has wide knowledge，besides her good oral English B．her oral English is good C．she is a girl student D．she likes English 16．How many students in all won the prizes？
A．1．B．3．C．4．D．5．
E
Just like the Abu Simbel，in Aswan，Egypt，the Temple of Zhang Fei had to go upstream to a high place along the Yangtze River，as a result of the rising water level，as the Three Gorges Project is being built．Standing for centuries on the northern bank of the Yangtze River，the temple had showed the Three Kingdoms period （AD 220280）of China's history．Before the project，the engineers had visited the Abu Simbel in Egypt．They would do as the ancient Egyptians had done．It will be rebuilt in its copy form．
On October 8，the temple was being torn down piece by piece．More than 300 workers and experts have been working round the clock．Bricks，wooden rails，stone figures，even time-worn stone steps have been removed with great care．Each piece is wrapped in cloth and loaded onto lorries（卡车）and ships and carried to the new temple site．The cost of the project is to be at least 70 million yuan．The new place is 32 kilometres upstream on the Yangtze．Zhang Fei， a brave character，in the Three Kingdoms period in the Chinese classic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”is a household name among the Chinese people．Zhang has been worshipped （崇拜) as a god of protection，especially by the fishermen on the Yangtze River．The temple is regarded as a cultural treasure and must see for the 200,000 or so visitors each year．On October 4，thousands of visitors from home and abroad celebrated Zhang's 1，843rd birthday in the temple．
Every removed part will be treated with marks and numbers to make sure that it is put back in its exact original place．
17．Which of the following is NOT true？
A．Zhang Fei is popular with the old and the young．
B．The temple is moved only because of less visitors．
C．When we visit the temple，we learn a lot of the history of the Three Kingdoms period．D．The whole temple is removed piece by piece．
18．What's the meaning of the underlined words “round the clock”in Paragraph 2？
A．In the worksite．B．In a hurry．C．Day and night．D．Without any meals．19．Which of the following is Zhang Fei's character？
A．Kind．B．Clever．C．Brave．D．Foolish．20．Why is the temple moved？
A．The temple is an old Chinese culture building．
B．It is a must see for visitors in that area．
C．It may be covered by water．D．All of the above．
Key：1－5 BACBC 6－10 CBBCA 11－15 DACCA 16－20 DBCCD
A ★ For years, he had difficulty saving to buy a house because something would always happen and use more money. Although he made efforts, he simply could not go long before spending the extra money that he had saved. Then one day a car accident badly damaged the car his wife was driving. The repairs might cost them five thousand dollars. Unfortunately, they were now in debt (债务) and so the car would have to wait. He realized that they needed a solution to their money problems. He worked long and hard for weeks, saving and managing his money in a way he had never done before. In a few months he had saved enough money to have his wife’s car repaired. Once the car was repaired, he discussed with his wife how quickly they had put aside the money they needed. During their discussion his wife encouraged him to open a second account (账户) so they could continue to put away the same amount of money that they were saving every week for the car repair. This money would go towards the house they had always wanted to buy. In a little over a year he saved more than twenty thousand dollars and was able to make the down payment (首付款). He did something in a short while that he had failed to achieve in his previous attempts. This man’s experiences gave him a different feeling about money. He and his wife have continued to keep their second account. This time they have decided to start saving for their retirement, putting away just a little less every week than they did for their house. One man developed a new set of good qualities because he had a goal that was important for him to achieve — he made a plan to achieve it and followed through. The experience of a single bad luck taught him a valuable lesson and challenged him to plan his saving, and spending habits again. In the process he also changed his
高一英语阅读训练（16） A Australia's worst pests are the rabbits，introduced by a settler who released 24 into the wild for sport hunting．In less than 100 years，the rabbits grow into the millions of ones，leaving large areas of land looking like the surface of the moon due to thousands of rabbit caves．The spread （蔓延）of the rabbits in Australia was the fastest of all animals in the world．The spread of the rabbits' disease in 1950 cut the number，but it was not until 1997 when the spread of another disease targeted（瞄准）the pests that the number was finally brought under control．Farm losses due to rabbits today still remain a surprising total A＄200 million （US＄112 million）a year． The European red foxes，also released for sport hunting，are growing and eating sheep flocks，costing farmers A＄40 million （US＄22．4 million）a year．The State of Victoria offers a A＄10 (US＄5．6）prize for each fox tail and has gathered 25，000 in a few months．Foxes are one of the biggest threats to wildlife in Australia．Foxes kill thousands of lambs（羊羔），birds and native wildlife．Australia lost its long battle against wild pests． 1．The underlined word “released”in Paragraph 1 means“＿＿＿＿＿＿”．A．kept…out B．set…free C．killed D．stopped 2．Which of the following is NOT mentioned？ A．A great many rabbits eat too much trees．B．Rabbits make too much caves．C．The surface is destroyed a lot by rabbits．D．The birth rate of the rabbits is high．3．What reduced the number of the rabbits？ A．Hunting．B．Poisoning．C．Disease．D．Flood．4．Australia once fought against ＿＿＿＿＿＿． A．sheep and rabbits B．rabbits and red foxes C．birds and red foxes D．lambs and rabbits B Over a third of one's life is spent sleeping with one's head on a pillow（枕头）．A good pillow，in its right height and composition，has important effects on one's sleep and health．There is an old way of medical treatment（治疗）called “smell the medicine to cure（治愈）the disease” which means that people smell medicines while asleep for disease treatment．In China，since ancient times，people have put plants into pillows for their health．Medicinal pillows get medical treatment closely with people's life and keep the people working in process．Back in the Tang Dynasty （AD 618907），the famous Chinese doctor Sun Simiao made medicinal pillows to treat aches in the neck and head，getting good results．The medicine that should be put into the pillow should be carefully chosen according to one's illness． Pillows filled with the skins of beans，seeds，dried flowers and wheat are good for the eyesight and keeping the mind clear，since their smell helps one go to sleep．Furthermore，in South China，a strange pillow has long been popular during hot seasons．Peasants collect silk-worm excrement（排泄物）and fill pillows with it．Such pillows then fetch a high price，because people believe they can successfully cool their babies． 5．What does the underlined word “composition”in (Paragraph 1) mean？ A．The students' homework．B．The color of a pillow． C．What is filled inside a pillow．D．The pictures drawn on a pillow．
高考英语阅读理解专题训练精品题（5） Passage Fifteen (Contribution of Coeducation) Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of own sex. How would you react? Unless there was something definitely wrong with y ou, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to say the least. It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children –conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute! Any discussion of this topic is bound to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of educations is to equip future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock. A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a true version of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school life. What a practical advantage it is ( to give just a small example ) to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls! What nonsense co-education makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girl or vice-versa. When segregated, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart. Rivalry between the sexes is fostered. In a coeducational school, everything falls into its proper place. But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-education is the healthy attitude to life it encourages. Boys don’t grow up believing that women are mysteri ous creatures –airy goddesses, more like book-illustrations to a fairy-tale, than human beings. Girls don’t grow up imagining that men are romantic heroes. Years of living together at
高一英语阅读理解训练 阅读理解（满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time. In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health; when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice them, you can see that happiness is always around you. Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving(旋转) door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person. 21．When you do something wrong, _______________. A. you may correct it
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阅读理解能力测试的主要要求是： 1．阅读材料，理解材料的主旨大意，以及用以说明主旨大意的事实和细节。2．既理解具体的事实，也理解抽象的概念。 3．既理解文章的字面意思，也理解深层含义，包括作者的态度、意图等。 4．既理解某句、某段的含义，也理解全篇的逻辑关系，并据此进行推理和判断。5．既能根据所提供的信息去理解，也能结合中学生应具有的常识去理解判断。 根据这五项要求，我们可将阅读理解多项选择题归纳为以下几种题型：主题主旨大意，细节理解题，综合推理题，概括归纳题，观点归纳题，人物评价题，词义句义理解题，指代关系题，内容排序题等。 下面结合自己平时教学中的经验体会，谈一谈做英语阅读理解题的技巧与策略。 一．主旨大意题 阅读理解首先要做到的就是掌握所读材料的主旨和大意，它是全文的概括与总结。能否抓住这个中心，取决于读者的总结能力。每篇短文都有其主题思想，而作者表现主题思想的手法各不相同。这就需要我们挖掘相同点，寻找解题的方法。 常见题型： 1．主题型： What’s the main idea of this passage ? What does this passage mainly discuss? What’s the topic of this passage ? 2．标题型： What’s the best title? The best title for this text is (to tell ) ————. 3．目的型： The main purpose of this text is ————. The author’s purpose o f writing this text is to ————. What’s the main purpose of the passage?
高一英语阅读理解专讲专练含答案及解析一 先通读，后细读 阅读一篇文章，最好采用先通读、再细读的策略。首先要快速浏览全文，这一点非常重要。因为一篇文章是一个整体，是围绕一个中心思想组织的。如果我们了解了文章大体讲的是什么，有了整个篇章的结构模式，就有利于我们理顺句子或段落间的关系，准确地把握文章的主旨，同时也有利于我们在解题过程中有重点地细读部分内容。 一篇文章无论长短，要做到一口气读下来。对于生词，只要不妨碍我们理解主要内容，可暂时放下不管。如果我们读读停停，左顾右盼，往往会把文章完整的体系读破了，有碍于对文章整体的理解。在掌握了文章的大体内容后，我们再根据需要解答的问题逐句细读，认真分析词义及句子结构，从而更准确地把握文章的具体内容。 Passage A 阅读理解 An old friend from California called from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was not able to leave the office, but I had made plans for his arrival. After explaining (解释) where my new house was, I told him that I had left the key under the doormat (门垫). Since I knew it would be pretty late before I could get home, I suggested that he make himself at home
本资料来源于《七彩教育网》https://www.doczj.com/doc/068992995.html, 高一英语阅读理解专讲专练含答案及解析五 注意阅读速度： 一个人的阅读能力的高低决定了他能否快速高效地吸收有用信息。合理的快速阅读可以使阅读者思想高度集中，在阅读中积极思维，不时作出归纳、演绎、对比、推测，正确理解篇章大意。没有一定的阅读速度，就不能顺利地输入信息，阅读理解的成效也会大大地降低。 高考要求每分钟读60个字，但我们在平常练习时应达到并超过这个基本标准，以便在高考中能给自己挤出更多时间去进行思考。我们要培养快速阅读的能力，就必须克服指读、回读、重读等不良习惯，不要把注意力过度集中在孤立的单词上，以致于对整句、整段的意思把握不清。与此同时，我们还应注意运用多种阅读技巧，如略读、扫读、跳读等来搜寻关键词、主题句，理清文章脉络，把握语篇实质。 Passage A 阅读理解 When someone says, “Well, I guess I'll have to face the music①”, it doesn't mean that he is planning to go to hear a singer or attend a concert. It is something far less unhappy than you are called in by your leader to explain why you did this and that or why you did not do this or that.② At some time or another, every one of us has to “face the music”, especially (尤其) as children. We can all remember father s angry words “I want to talk to you”. And only because we did not listen to him. What a bad thing it was! In the middle or at the end of every term, we students have to “face the music”. The result of the exam will decide whether we will face the music or not. If...that means parents cold faces and contempt (轻 视) of the teachers and classmates. “To face the music” is well known to every American, young or old. It is at least 100 years old. It really means that you have to do something, no matter (无论) how terrible the whole thing might be, because you know you have no choice.
英语阅读是高中阶段英语学习的重要组成部分，由于受国内条件限制，高中生和英美人士直接交流的机会不多，因此阅读成为高中生英语学习的主要形式。提高英语阅读能力可以提高英语考试成绩已是人们的共识。时间不用多，每天十分钟，每天读一篇，日积月累，坚持下去，就一定会有收获。 新课标高中英语阅读精选――高一 内容：故事 Passage 1 One day an ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant almost exhausted was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity, the bird threw her a blade of grass, which supported her like a raft, and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass, she heard a man come near. He was walking along barefooted with a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove, he wished to kill it. He would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than herself that had saved her life. （163w） 1. The ant could not reach the side though _______. A. she cried for help B. she asked the dove to save her C. she tried very hard D. she could smell well 2. The dove saved the ant because _______. A. she was the ant's friend B. she took pity on the poor ant C. the ant was almost exhausted D. the ant had been struggled in the water for a long time 3. The ant succeeded in getting on the bank with the help of _______. A. a leaf B. a piece of wood C. a blade of grass D. a raft 4. Just as the man shot at the dove, _______. A. the dove immediately flew away B. the dove hid himself in the grass C. the ant told the dove to leave at once D. he felt something biting him in the foot 5. In writing the story, the writer wants to show _______. A. how clever the ant was B. how kind the dove was C. how the ant and the dove helped each other D. we often need help from others, therefore we should help others as much as we can 词汇扩展 ①desperate adj. 拼死的②exhausted adj. 精疲力竭的 ③dove n. 鸽子④blade n. 叶片 Passage 2 Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high school. He loved his computer. He came home early every day, then he worked with it till midnight. But Johnny was not a good English student, not good at all. He got an F in his English class. One day after school Johnny joined his computer to the computer in his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students: the math grades, the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and the grades in English. He found his English grade. An F! Johnny changed his English grade from an F to A. Johnny' parents looked at his report card. They were very happy. "An A in English!" said Johnny's Dad. "You're a very clever boy, Johnny." Johnny is a hacker. Hackers know how to take informationfrom other computers and put new information in. Using a modem, they join their computers to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank computer accountand put it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called hackers.
A (words:311&225) The British National Health Service (NHS) was set up in 1948 and was designed to provide equal basic health care, free of charge, for everybody in the country. Before this time health care had to be paid for by individuals. Nowadays central government is directly responsible for the NHS although it is administered by local health authorities. About 83 percent of the cost of the health service is paid for by general taxation and the rest is met from the National Insurance contributions paid by those in work. There are charges for prescription and dental care but many people, such as children, pregnant women, pensioners, and those on Income Support, are exempt from payment. Most people are registered with a local doctor (a GP, or General Practitioner) who is increasingly likely to be part of a health centre which serves the community. As the population of Britain gets older, the hospital service now treats more patients than before, although patients spend less time in hospital. NHS hospitals—many of which were built in the nineteenth century — provide nearly half a million beds and have over 480, 000 medical staff. The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe although Britain actually spends less per person on health care than most of her European neighbours. During the 1980s there was considerable restructuring of the Health Service with an increased emphasis on managerial efficiency and the privatization of some services (for example, cleaning). At the end of the 1980s the government introduced proposals for further reform of the NHS, including allowing some hospitals to be self-governing, and encouraging GPs to compete for patients. Patients would be able to choose and change their family doctor more easily and GPs would have more financial responsibility. The political questions continue of how much money should be provided to support the NHS and where it should come from. 41. We can know from the first paragraph that ______________. A. the original aim of the NHS was to provide equal basic health care for everybody B. people didn’t have to pay for health care since the NHS was set up C. patients were charged for receiving health care before 1948 D. the NHS was an organization which gave free advice to villagers 42. What do we know about the NHS? A. It’s managed by the central government.
高一英语阅读训练 Too many people think that global warming is not a threat, but I think it is one of the biggest problems. Our world has been greatly affected by climate change and its critical that people, young and old, work together to fight it. How are children supposed to fight global warming if they grow up not knowing about its dangers? Children should be taught ways they can help in primary school, which is why it is critical that more schools offer environmental education classes. I think the nation should require schools to have a class about being “green”——Green Living could be its name. Every school should teach students about global warming, its effect, and what they can do to reduce their carbon footprints. In the classes, students could be assigned(安排)to find solutions to everyday energy problems, while learning about their influence on the earth and how we all can help. Students will probably use what they have learned in class at home, where it will affect the whole family. However, to be effective, schools must take steps to be “green” too. What would children be learning if the school’s lights were always left on and there were no recycling dustbins? When schools are renovated(修缮) or new ones are built, towns should support an eco-friendly design that would save energy and reduce power bills. Green living and green schools are part of a new wave that should be sweeping the nation, but is not. How will our future leaders respond after years of living in a community where preserving our world’s natural integrity(完整性) just isn’t considered important? Schools and the government should be responsible for teaching young people about global warming quickly. 1.In the passage, the author suggests that it should be necessary to_______ A.make it clear if global warming is a threat. B.teach students ways to build a friendly relationship C.give children environmental education classes D.help schools develop effective educational programs 2. According to the passage, in order to make schools “green”, _______ A. schools should be enlarged B. recycling dustbins should be replaced by new ones C. students should protect our natural integrity D. people should turn off the lights when no one is there 3. The author is eager to tell the readers that_______ A. more money should be provided to equip the school with recycling dustbins. B. we should take action to prevent global warming before it is too late C. government should close more polluted factories D. we should avoid a new sandstorm sweeping the nation 4. The underlined part “our future leaders” in the last paragraph refers to______ A. the leaders of our country B. the residents of a community