大学英语二级阅读（二）
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media are tools of communication. Mass media can be divided into two groups: print media and electronic media. By print media, we mea rs and magazines. Electronic media include television, computer, radio and movie. Mass media allow us to record and pass information ra scattered audience. They extend our ability to talk to each other by helping us overcome barriers caused by time and space.
e are various ways in which mass media make daily life easier for us. Firstly, they inform and help us keep a watch on our world. The on information we would be unlikely or unable to obtain on their own.
ndly, mass media help us to arrange our time and life. What we talk about and what we think about are greatly influenced by the media. Whe ther, they tend to talk about certain happenings in newspapers or on TV. Because we are exposed to different points of view through d media every day, we are able to evaluate all sides of a certain issue.
dly, the media are used to persuade people. A good example is advertisements through the media. Newspapers, magazines and TV are filled colorful, persuasive advertisements. Though many advertisements may not say openly that they want you to buy a certain product, they oducts in such a way that you may want to buy them.
thly, the media also entertain. All of the media make efforts to try to entertain their audience. For instance, even though the newspa dium of information, it also contains entertainment features. Television, motion pictures, fiction books and some radio stations and m ted mainly to entertainment. It is estimated that in the future, the entertainment function of mass media will become even more import w.
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Choice Questions:
makes it possible for people living in different places to communicate with each other?
nted media B) Mass media
ctronic media D) Computers
of the following functions of mass media is Not mentioned?
ke people well informed about the world
use and entertain people
lp people arrange their time and life
ve people a sense of honor
in matters in newspapers or on TV tend to be talked about when people get together because ________.
e are curious about them
e are influenced by those mass media
fashionable for people to do so
easy for people to communicate in this way
oes advertisement make people purchase certain goods according to the passage?
ving an attractive account of the goods.
king people to buy them.
rcing people to buy them.
ving people something extra.
of the following media is mainly devoted to information according to the passage?
B) Magazines
ion Pictures D) Newspapers
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he cost of gas and oil for home heating has gone up, many Americans have switched from these fuels to wood for heating their homes. In 1973, appro wood-burning stoves, intended for home use, were sold in the United States; by 1979, this figure had reached one million; and by the end
re as many as seven million home-owned wood-burning units in operation in the U.S.
ddition to low fuel bills, many people choose these stoves because their initial cost is very low, and because new technology has made wo icient, cleaner, and therefore safer than ever before. One new technological feature of this type is the catalytic (催化的) combustor wh 100 to $ 200 to the cost of the stove, but which causes much more complete combustion of the wood and therefore burns up more of the po incomplete combustion and produces more heat.
cond cost-saving innovation is a device which agitates (煽动) the wood, increasing the amount of oxygen that reaches the center of the wo ing to more efficient combustion. The real advantage of this device is that it allows the owner to make use of cheap sources of wood such ps (an industrial byproduct) that have almost no commercial value, cost as little as $ 20 a ton, and burn very inefficiently in furnaces tor. (239 words)
swer Questions:
American family have replaced fuels with wood for heating because of ______ ______ ________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _ ________.
re these stoves safer?
_______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______.
ugh the catalytic combustor makes the stove more costly, it can _______ _______ ______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ is the biggest advantage of the agitator ?
_______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______.
are the new technology mentioned in the passage ?
_______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______.
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ly everyone had been on a diet at one time or another, and millions of us have learned that the weight we lose is all too easily regained tion the wisdom of dieting. After all, the worst that can happen is that we’ll regain the weight we’ve lost – in which case, we ca diet again.
you cut calories and lose weight, your body goes on the defensive by reducing your basal metabolic rate (BMR) (基础代谢率). This is the nergy used for routine maintenance function as breathing and cell repair – roughly 60 to 70 percent of the energy consumed by the body ieting, your BMR drops substantially and can be a full 20 percent less within two weeks. This metabolic decrease is one reason that diete plateau some weeks into a diet, and find that the same caloric produces no weight loss.
those who are 20 percent or more overweight, there are good reasons to reduce: successful weight loss can lower blood pressure, help contr d enable people to feel better about themselves.
the new research does suggest that dieting must be taken seriously by people at any weight. It also means that dieting alone is not the be t control. Permanent weight loss should be the main goal, so select a program that will help you change your lifestyle. The best appro diet and regular exercise. (251 words)
Choice Questions:
ding to the survey of the people who have been on a diet, it is found that ________.
ll be difficult to maintain the result of dieting
not healthy to go on a diet a second time
lose too much weight by eating too little
questions need to be clarified about dieting
ding to the passage, which of the following is true?
60 to 70 percent of the energy is produced by calories
ill go up when one has lost weight by dieting
ll the people feel positive about the need of dieting
g severe dieting, one may lose 20 percent of one’s dieting
ord “plateau”(Para. 2, Line 5) in this passage means ________.
ber B) stage
ght D) place
ding to the writer, _______.
t loss doesn’t always take place during dieting
20 percent of the population need to reduce their weight
mount of calories people need is roughly the same
who have a high BMR should go on a diet
ding to the passage, the best way to control weight is to ________.
blood pressure regularly
dieting to reduce BMR
goal of weight loss
e the way o
f life
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man being has a unique arrangement of the skin on his fingers and this arrangement is unchangeable. Scientists and experts have proved un r prints and discovered that no exactly similar pattern is passed on from parents to children, though nobody knows why this is the ca cture on a person’s fingers does not change with growth and is not affected by superficial injuries. Burns, cuts and other damage to t the skin will be replaced in time by new one which bears a reproduction of the original pattern. It is only when the inner skin is inju ngement will be destroyed. Some criminals make use of this fact to remove their own fingerprints but this is a dangerous and rare step ints can be made easily with printers ink. They can be recorded easily. With special methods, identification can be achieved successfull time. Because of the simplicity and economy of this system, fingerprints have often been used as a method of solving criminal cases. A s es a charge, but his finger prints can prove who he is even if his appearance has been changed by age or accident.
uspect leaves fingerprints behind at the scene of crime, they are difficult to detect with the naked eye. Special techniques are used to “me of the marks found are incomplete but identification is possible if a print in the size of a quarter of an inch square can be obtain
Choice Questions:
is passage, the writer states that ________.
hape of one’s hands differs from that of others’
atterns of one’s skin are passed on from their parents
caused the uniqueness of the finger prints remains unknown.
tists have discovered a few unusual cases of finger prints
ding to this passage, if one’s finger gets wounded in the outer skin ________.
attern of the finger skin will be replaced by a new one
r prints will be the same when the wound is recovered
rrangement of the finger skin will be totally destroyed
attern of the finger skin will be changed partly
criminals removed their own fingerprints by ________.
ing the inner skin of their fingers
cing them with those of others’
ing the outer skin of their fingers
a kind of printer’s ink
rprints are often used as a method of solving criminal case because ________.
can be obtained whenever they are needed
can outline a criminal’s appearance
method is simple though costing
method is easy and inexpensive
ord “deny” (Para. 3, Line 4) most probably means ________. ay doing B) refuse to accept
it D) doubt
阅读理解 B 42、Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil relights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best known speech "I Have a Dream" before the Lincoln Memorial. The "dream" is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. Thus, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later. Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Luther King's honor. He lives in people's hearts forever. (1)、Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old. A：T B：F 答案：A (2)、Martin Luther King was a black minister only. A：T B：F 答案：B (3)、Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years. A：T B：F 答案：A (4)、The underlined word "delivered" in the second paragraph could be replaced by "gave". A：T B：F 答案：A (5)、The best title for this passage is "Civil Rights Law". A：T B：F 答案：B 43、A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is haunted (闹鬼的). He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. James had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost (鬼) must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have come in for a free drink, he shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept it even if he gives it away. (1)、Mr. James was the owner of the public house. A：T B：F 答案：A (2)、Mr. James had not turned off the lights that night. A：T B：F 答案：B (3)、Mr. James built the house. A：T B：F 答案：B (4)、Mr. James found sixty empty bottles. A：T B：F 答案：B (5)、The writer of the passage believes Mr. James' story. A：T B：F 答案：B 44、Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry. In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families can not be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families. In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consists only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those families free to move from job to job. (1)、The passage discusses influence of science and industry on American families. A：T B：F 答案：A (2)、Families of the past, the present and the future are described in the passage. A：T B：F 答案：A (3)、People no longer want to have children. A：T B：F 答案：B (4)、Grandparents will take the chief responsibility of raising children in the future. A：T B：F 答案：B (5)、Large families cannot fit in with a highly industrialized society. A：T B：F 答案：A 45、My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere. The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them first and then told them what we were going to do that day. When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the class broke out a roar! They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be into seeing all this. I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them and I continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more. Finally, the teacher who had the room next to mine came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too!
新视野大学英语快速阅读第三册答案全 Unit1 Passage1 1—5 DCDCD 6—8 AAB Passage2 1 smart enough 2 enters the house 3 only one act 4 properly trained 5 race horses 6 500 to 600 7 because used to each other 8 family or food Passage3 1—5 ADDAD 6—7 AC 8 talking 9 direct commands 10 cultural,not personal Passage4 1—5 Y Y N NG N 6—7 N Y
8 the individual 9 responsible behavior 10 written budget Unit2 Passage1 1—5 Y Y N Y N 6—8 N NG Y Passage2 1 the use of drugs 2 dull and hopeless 3 more and more drugs 4 LSD 5 really able to do 6 long jail sentences 7 dangerous situations 8 full of tension Passage3 1—5 ACBDC 6—7 DA 8 skills courses 9 certificates 10 world communication Passage4 1—5 NG Y N Y Y
6—7 Y N 8 it is easier 9 confront different challenges 10 allowing everything Unit3 Passage1 1—5 BCBAC 6—8 CAC Passage2 1 900 miles 2 weeks of time 3 the kind of boats 4 getting into the mud 5 different levels of water 6 man-made lakes 7 the force of the water 8 the photographys taken from spaceships Passage3 1—5 DBCAB 6—7 AD 8 the chain store 9 th e firm’s expenses Passage4 1—5 N NG N Y N
Unit1 Beagle Patrol Teaching Objectives 1.To provide learners with opportunities to enrich their knowledge of beagle patrol. 2.To practice some key words and language patterns. 3.To raise students’awareness of English pronvciation, intonation and other features of connected speech. Teaching Difficulties 1.Practice some key words and language patterns. 2.Listening exercises of watching part. 3.Oral tank bared on information from the listening passage. Teaching procedures
Unit1 Section 1-2 Step One Warming Up 1.Ask ss to look at the unit title and the photograph, and elicit unit-related words and phrases-Beagle Patrol. 2.Show ss theme-related pictures from the story. 3.In pairs or groups, have ss read the text on opening page and discuss the questions. Then share the answers. Step Two Warning Up Exercises Part1 A Dog’s sense of smell. 1.Focus ss’attention on the undertined words/phrases and those in the word boxes. Ensure that ss are familiar with the pronunciation. 2.Have ss read the paragraph. 3.Have ss write the correct form of the underlined word or phrase next to each definition. 4.Check answers with the whole class.
Why I Love the City 我的许多朋友都离开了这座城市。它们是在郊区买房子,因为他们想要远离城市的喧嚣、烟雾、交通、和犯罪的城市。一个朋友说,“有太多的空气污染的城市。我更喜欢郊区,那里的空气是那么清新。“另一个朋友抱怨交通:“有太多的汽车市区!你不能找到一个停车的地方,交通堵塞的情况都很可怕。“每个人都在抱怨关于犯罪:“城市有许多罪犯。我很少离开我的房子”的幻影却如太危险了。 在我朋友搬离城市,他们通常会背诵优势郊区生活:绿草、花卉、游泳池、烤肉等等。然而在我的朋友们在那里住了一年左右的时间里,他们意识到郊区生活就不那么愉快,因为他们期待。这种变化的原因是什么?他们的花园!他们很快了解到,一个不可避免的一部分yardwork郊区生活。他们整个周末都在工作在他们的花园,它们是非常累的一把,又要取他们的水池游泳甚至做一些肉放在他们的烤肉。又有另一个投诉:他们不能住在郊区没有一辆车。我的大多数朋友都搬到郊区,避开塞车,但现在他们不得不上班市中心。他们坐在一个繁忙的公路每天两个小时! 我的意见是非常不同的城市生活,从我朋友的我住在市区吗?和我爱它! ! !为什么?嗯,首先,我喜欢nature-flowers、绿草、树木和动物。在这个城市里,我有一切优势自然:我可以步行通过公共公园,闻闻花香,坐在草地上在树下。我可以参观,动物园里的动物。然而到目前为止我还没有一个缺点:我不需要做yardwork或喂动物。同时,在这个城市,到处都可以让我乘公共汽车吗?如果有交通堵塞,我可以走回去。 似乎每个人都搬到郊区,避免罪恶的大城市。我有一个理论的城市犯罪的,然而,所以我觉得安全罪犯将反映在社会生活的变化:如果人们买了房子在郊区,罪犯将步其后尘。罪犯想避免噪音、烟雾、污染了。不久,过于拥挤和犯罪的问题,而不是城市郊区! People on the Move 美国人的历史,在某种程度上,历史运动的美国人民。他们移到东海岸的殖民地到开放空间的西部。从乡下搬,农场到城里去。最近,美国人一直不断地由城市郊区。 开放空间;西部地区迁移 美国人开始先驱移动,从东海岸到西250年前。他们向西边移居的原因有许多种。一个理由是无限的开放空间的可用性和土地耕作。美国人喜欢大的开放空间,他们也喜欢独立和自由发展的土地以他们自己的方式。一些土地变得农场。重要的矿产资源被发现在某些地区,因此有一些那地就都归了地雷。其他大型地区成为牛牧场。似乎对每个人都有足够的土地。但这是一个困难的生活——一种无止境的工作和困难。 城市 1860年以后,工业革命改变了美国。美国人学会了如何生产的钢铁。他们开始生产石油。汽车被发明了。工厂各类开始出现,而在城市开始长大了工厂周围。农民和其他的国家里,人们搬到越来越多的城市人为了寻找工作,更容易的生活。在1900年代早期,城市工作忙、令人激动的地方。然而,也有很多贫穷和困苦。 城市增长的城市建筑taller-and不必得到增长out-they展开的中心。私有房屋和门廊与码就消失了。公寓,每一个个子比下、就住在他们的地方。越来越多的人搬到城市,越来越大,城市。 一些城市不能分散因为没有房间这么做。这些城市,纽约就是一个最好的例子,变得越来越拥挤。更多的人意味着更多的汽车、卡车、公交车、更大的噪音,更多的污染,以及更多的犯罪。许多城市变得丑陋肮脏。有些人而有些公司开始离开城市搬到郊区城市外围。 郊区 搬到郊区的仍然是发生。美国人正在寻找一小块土地,他们可以叫他们自己。他们想要一座房子和院子。然而,他们不想放弃好的工作在城市。在许多情况下,公司在郊区给他们的工作。在其他情况下,美国人常常通勤到城市,在城市他们职业。近年来,越来越多的企业开始向郊区迁移。他们吸引了很多人,郊区变得拥挤。 接下来要做什么? 美国人看了他们缓慢下落到大城市年久失修而死。许多人离开了城市中产阶级,只有非常富有的人和很多贫困的人呆在后面。有关美国人正设法解决这一问题的噪音、灰尘、犯罪和污染在大城市里。他们正试图重建坏的部分城市为了吸引和保持业务的人。他们正在努力使他们的城市美丽。如今,许多美国人都正在考虑搬回了城市。 其他美国人发现甚至郊区已经变得太拥挤了。他们正在寻找无污染的开阔空间和作为独立的生活方式。他们准备离开郊区到乡下。 也许美国人总是会在前进。 Caution: Bumpy Road Ahead
As the pace of life continues to increase ,we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through lift,being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to slow down. But relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body. Stress is an natural part of everyday lift and there is no way to avoid it. In fact ,it is not the bad thing it is often supposed to be .A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation adn give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health. The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress,and such characters are obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities. Others lose heart at the first signs of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress,in whatever form,we react both chemically and physically. In fact we make choice between "fight" or "flight" and in more primitive days the choice made the difference between life or death. The crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme,but however little the stress,it involves the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long,through continued exposure to stress,that health becomes endangered.Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress.Since we cannot remove stress from our lives(it would be unwise to do so even if we could),we need to find ways to deal with it. 1.People are finding less and less time for relaxing themselves because_____. a.they do not know how to enjoy themselves b.they do not believe that relaxation is important for health c.they are travelling fast all the time d.they are becoming busier with their work 2.According to the writer ,the most important character for a good manager is his ________. a.not fearing stress b.knowing the art of relaxation c.high sense of responsibility d.having control over performance 3.Which of the follwing statements is ture? a.We can find some ways to avoid stress b.Stress is always harmful to people
大学英语一阅读理解 一、阅读理解（共505题,共101分） 1. Few laws are so effective that you can see results just days after they take effect. But in the nine days since the federal cigarette tax more than doubled—to $1. 01 per pack—smokers have jammed telephone “quit lines” acro ss the country seeking to kick the habit. This is not a surprise to public health advocates. They’ve studied the effect of state tax increases for years, finding that smokers, especially teens, are price sensitive. Nor is it a shock to the industry, which fiercely fights every tax increase. The only wonder is that so many states insist on closing their ears to the message. Tobacco taxes improve public health, health, they raise money and most particularly, they deter people from taking up the habit as teens, which is when nearly all smokers are addicted. Yet the rate of taxation varies widely. In Manhattan, for instance, which has the highest tax in the nation, a pack of Marlboro Light Kings cost ＄10.06 at one drugstore Wednesday. Charleston, S, C., where the 7-cent-a-pack tax is the lowest in the nation. The price was $4. 78. The influence is obvious. In New York, high school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys—13.8%, far below the national average. By comparison, 26% of high school students smoke in Kentucky, Other low-tax states have similarly depressing teen-smoking records. Hal Rogers, Representative from Kentucky, like those who are against high tobacco taxes, argues that the burden of the tax falls on low-income Americans “who choose to smoke.” That’s true, But there is more reason in keeping future generations of low-income workers from getting hooked in the first place, As for today’s adults, if the new tax drives them to quit, they will have more to spend on their families, cut their risk of cancer and heart disease and feel better. （1分） (1) The text is mainly about___________. （0.2分） A.the price of cigarettes B.the rate of teen smoking C.the effect of tobacco tax increase D.the differences in tobacco tax rate 标准答案：C (2) What does the author think is a surprise? （0.2分） A.Teen smokers are price sensitive. B.Some states still keep the tobacco tax low. C.Tobacco taxes improve public health. D.Tobacco industry fiercely fights the tax rise. 标准答案：B (3) The underlined word "deter” in Paragr aph 3 most probably means . （0.2分） A.discarding B.remove C.benefit D.free 标准答案：A (4) Rogers’ attitude towards the low-income smokers might be that of . （0.2分） A.tolerance B.unconcern C.doubt D.sympathy 标准答案：D (5) What can we learn from the last paragraph? （0.2分） A.The new tax will be beneficial in the long run. B.Low-income Americans are more likely to fall ill.
Unit 1 Alone in the Arctic Cold 一个人在北极严寒 一天打碎了非常寒冷和灰色,当那个人偏离主要育空试验和爬上斜坡,在那里的是一个朦胧而过去向东穿过了踪迹松林之间。坡率陡峭,而且他停顿了一下喘不过气来保持最佳的状态。没有太阳和缕阳光,尽管他天空无云。这是一个晴朗的日子,但在那里似乎是一个蒙上了一层水汽表面看来,把这天黑暗。这个事实不担心那个人。他被用来缺乏阳光。 那人回头而且他已经来了。育空河打下英里宽藏起来了以下3英尺的冰。这个世界上的冰一样多英尺的积雪。这是连续的白色的,除了一个黑暗的发际线了痕迹,向南延伸达500英里去的库特关口。 但是,整个神秘,深远的发际线跟踪,没有太阳从天空,巨大的冷的,陌生和怪异的没有什么印象all-made上了的人。他是新来的人在这地,这是他的第一个冬天。他的问题他是缺乏想象力。他很快和警惕在生活的一切,但只有在去吧,而不是在意义。意思eighty-odd零下五十度学位霜。这样的事实了冷漠,而且不舒服,就这些。它并不带他去思考男人的一般是脆弱,能够只活在确定的限度窄的热量和冷。零下五度代表点冰霜伤害必须提防,利用厚,暖和的衣服。50度以下零是他就精确50度零度以下。应该有其他东西了可那是一个思想,从来没有进过他的头上。 当他转身要走,他吐不确定。就有一个陡坡、易爆裂纹他的震惊。他吐了。又一次,空气里之前,这可能下降至雪吐口唾沫裂了。他知道五十岁的唾沫在雪地上闪现下面,但这吐口唾沫空气中闪现了。毫无疑问这个五十个更加寒冷below-how要冷得多了不知道。但是温度还显得无关紧要。他注定的老我的左边叉子汉德森的孩子们在小溪了。他们来了在山上从印度人小河的国家,虽然他来拐弯抹角看一看的可能性走出木材来源于群岛的育空。他要在六营地点,有点天黑之后,这是真的,但男孩们会去,火灾的去,和热晚饭将为此做好准备。 他陷入水中在大松树。踪迹减弱了。他很高兴他没有雪橇、旅游的光。事实上,他带着什么都是用午餐手帕。他很惊奇,然而,在寒冷。当然很冷,他总结道,他又揉麻木,鼻子和颧骨和他"握"手。 Memories of Afghanistan 阿富汗的记忆 Afghanistan-a国家一场人道主义灾难的边缘的土地,充满了逃离难民,饥饿的人,turbaned恐怖分子在训练营。电视画面告诉一个国家的故事破坏和贫穷的国家,几乎完全摧毁了二十年的战争和斗争。然而once-though poor-this真是一个值得骄傲的那国,并有美丽的国家,还能存活下来,许多世纪的严酷的历史。不要太长前,它还是一个国家在和平,有丰富的文化遗产… 除了欧洲国家,很少有国家在这个世界上,从来没有在殖民rule-or至少从不在最近的几次,:阿富汗是其中之一。许多几个世纪以前,成吉思汗的那军队策马撞倒从蒙古、无情地杀死了阿富汗的部落山敢于抵抗侵略者;但除此之外羞辱时期Afghans-who,在时间,其实是一种混合的三个独立的民族groups-have把头抬得高高的面对的入侵。
阅读理解中约有60%以上的题能再原文中找到答案，其余就要考一下推理、逻辑等能力。阅读一定要先看题目，带着问题去文中找答案，尤其是在快速阅读题部分更是非常重要。还有就是要留心各个大小标题。（出题者常以依次而下的顺序出题，而且每题基本都是细节题，分别对应文章一段，可以采用关键词定位的方法），坚持每天都要练习。 提高阅读水平，在阅读理解上拿高分，是四级必过的又一大支柱。阅读理解的复习方法及答题技巧： 四级大纲要求能基本读懂一般性题材的英文文章，阅读速度达到每分钟70词。在快速阅读篇幅较长、难度略低的材料时，阅读速度达到每分钟100词。能基本读懂国内英文报刊，掌握中心意思，理解主要事实和有关细节。能读懂工作、生活中常见的应用文体的材料。能在阅读中使用有效的阅读方法。 四级的阅读理解主要：快速阅读理解和仔细阅读理解。快速阅读部分要求考生在15分钟的时间内读完一篇1100字左右的文章和后面的10道题。前面7道题是单项选择题，后3道是填空题，即根据对阅读材料的理解，填3到4个单词或短语(答案基本都是原文中出现的原词)。 仔细阅读部分要求考生阅读三篇短文。两篇为单项选择题型的短文理解测试，一篇为选词填空。仔细阅读理解部分测试考生在不同层面上的阅读能力，包括理解主旨大意和重要细节、综合分析、推理判断及根据上下文推测词义等。
大学英语四级考试的阅读文章体裁有记叙文、说明文、议论文，其中说明文和议论文为主要测试文体；在阅读题材方面，科技类大约占25%，人文类大约占45%，经济类大约占15%，综合类大约占5%，环境类比例小，近几年有上升趋势。因此，学生应针对不同的体裁和题材进行有侧重点的备考复习。 篇章阅读理解(单项选择) 本题型要求考生在阅读完一篇300~350个单词左右的文章后解答5个以单项选择题形式进行考查的题目。其所考查的内容一般不会是从文章能直接找到答案的，而需要考生运用自己的语言知识、逻辑知识等进行推敲和加深理解。这种题型可以考查任何层次、全局性、细节性的内容。虽然提供4个答案供考生进行选择，但干扰项大多具有迷惑性，这就要求考生对所读文章内容达到真正的理解。 1、解题步骤 第一步，读问题，划出标志词或关键词 快速浏览题目，对5个题目有大概印象以便阅读时有侧重点。一般来说，对于本身已经明确其考查内容的题目，标志词和关键词是比较容易找到的，只看一下题干即可，而对于那些并没有出现标志词和关键词的题目，如：The author suggests that，可以在解答试题时浏览选项作出解答。 第二步，略读文章 在略读中，首先阅读第一段，因为第一段通常会告诉我们作者将要讨论的话题。然后再阅读最后一段，以帮助我们对文章内容进行概
阅读理解大学英语A 1、Throughout the colonial period there was a remarkable shortage of women, which varied with the regions and was always greatest in the frontier areas. This shortage enhanced women's status and position and allowed them to pursue different careers. The puritans regarded idleness as a sin, and believed that life in an underdevelopment country made it necessary that each member of the community performed an economic function. Thus work for women was not only approved but also was regarded as a civic duty. Puritan town councils expected widows and independent women to be self-supporting. There was no social prohibition against married women working; on the contrary, wives were expected to help their husbands in their trade and won social approval for doing extra work in or out of the home. The vast majority of women worked within their homes, where their labor produced most articles needed for the family. The entire colonial production of cloth and clothing and partly that of shoes was in the hands of women. In addition to these occupations, women were found in many different kinds of employment. They were butchers, silversmiths and gunsmiths. They ran mills, plantations, shipyards, and every kind of shop. They were gatekeepers, jail keepers, journalists, printers, nurses, and teachers. (1)、What does the passage mainly discuss A：Colonial marriages. B：The puritan religion. C：Colonial women's employment. D：Education in the colonies. 答案：C (2)、According to the passage, where in colonial North America were there the fewest women A：Puritan communities. B：Seaports. C：Frontier settlements. D：Capital cities. 答案：C (3)、It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans were ______.
Book One Unit Four Passage One Directions: You will have 10 minutes to read this passage quickly and answer the following questions from A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Youth Speak If you think the English language is getting shorter, you may be right. From news bytes to text-messaging to famously shorter attention spans, we're saying less—and relying on slang more. Why? With so much of our daily communications taking place online these days—and that doesn’t include just e-mail, but text-messaging on increasingly teenier devices—it seems everyday English has been reduced to a code of accepted abbreviations, mysterious combinations of numbers and letters, and even symbols masquerading as facial expressions. :) Often in all lowercase(小写字母) letters. Certain numbers, “2” and “4” in particular, play starring roles—replacing, respectively, “to” and “for”—but the far more interesting development is the embrace of the number “3” for the letter “e” (“b3” and “th3”), and the number “8” for the sound it makes (“gr8” and “l8r” for “great” and “later”). While some of these brave new acronyms(首字母缩拼词) can actually be self-explanatory (“u” for “you” and “ur” for “your”) or fairly logical (“b4” for “before”), or can highlight the sounds the letters ma ke (“qt” for “cutie” and “cu” for “see you”) or act as abbreviations (“cuz” for “because”), or can be just straightforward acronyms (“bff” for “best friends forever”), some do border on strange (“peeps” for “people”). Some terms that have been in circulati on for quite a while are pretty recognizable: “lol” (“laughing out loud”), “btw” (“by the way”), and “imho” (“in my humble opinion”). Some, meanwhile, are puzzling: “iykwim” (“if you know what I mean”), “mtfbwy” (“may the force be with you”), and “wysiwyg”(“what you see is what you get”). At times, this alphabet-soup vernacular (本国语，俗语) feels absolutely confusing to everyone but linguists and computer geeks. But it’s difficult to argue with it s speed—or even its necessity—when forced to use a toothpick-sized device to reply to an office memorandum (备忘录) while driving a car (not recommended or legal but, unfortunately, all too common). With the exception of “peeps,” though, all of the above examples are mostly used in written slang. Spoken slang is a whole o ther story. And it’s here that the younger generation truly has its say (pun intended). Today’s slang changes faster than yesterday’s password. That’s because words that were popular only a couple of years ago have lost favor—among t oday’s teens—for no reason at all. These include: “sweet”, “excellent”, and “awesome” (which all mean “good”). But, then, slang is short-lived by nature. In order for slang to be slangy, it has to have a feeling of perpetual newness. Slang is like fashion: never “in” for long. Americans eventually tire of even the most popular words, and by natural selection, only the strong survive.