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Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood. Not only was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused
principally by minor national contests.
One country received its second—place medals with visible indignation after the hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match as, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were convinced that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents’ victory was unfair .Their manager was in a rage when he said:“This wasn’t h ockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension of
the team for at least three years.
The American basketball team announced that they would not yield first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their contest. The game had ended in disturbace. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play. A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player popped it into the basket. It was the first time the U.S.A. had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand. The
American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.
Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as indiviuals, or in non national terms, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much
that encourages aggressive patriotism.
1.According to the author,recent Olympic Games have ____.
A)created goodwill between the nations
B)bred only false national pride
C)hardly showed any international friendship
D)led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred
2.What did the manager mean by saying,“...Hockey and the International
Hockey Federation are finished”?
A)His team would no longer take part in international games.
B)Hockey and the Federation are 60th ruined by the unfair decisions.
C)There should be no more hockey matches organized by the Federation.
D)The Federation should be dissolved.
3.The basketball example implied that ____.
A)too much patriotism was displayed in the incident
B)the announcement to prolong the match was wrong
C)the appeal jury was too hesitant in making the decision
D)The American team was right in receiving the silver medals
4.The author gives the two examples in paragraph 2 and 3 to show ____.
A)how false national pride led to undesirable incidents in international games
B)that spoktsmen have been more obedient than they used to be
C)that competitiveness in the games discourages international friendship
D)that unfair decisions are common in Olympic Games
5.What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?
A)The organization of the Olympic Games must be improved.
B)Athletes should compete as individuals in the Olympic Games.
C)Sport should be played competitively rather than for the love of the game.
D)International contests are liable for misunderstanding between nations.
B
There are two major parties in Britain today,the Conservative Party and the Labour Party,which have been in power by turns since 1945.The two—party system of Britain was formed in the course of the development of the capitalist state and the political parties.In order to strengthen the state machine,the British bourgeosie have let it come into being and exist in one form or another form since the 17th century. P.S.Tregidgo once said:“The more parties there are,the less likely it is that any one of them will be strong enough in Parliament to outvote all the others;but when there are only two,one of them is sure to have a majority o f seats.This helps to ensure a strong and stable government.”This may be the re ason why the British have the two party
system.
The division into two parties grew out the establishment of a Protestant Church of England in the 16th century.Because of a purely religious difference of opinion,the Puritans were separated from the broad body of the Anglican Church. The non Puritan Anglicans were on the side of the King and Church,and their supporters were called by their opponents “Tories.”The Puritans were for Parliament and trade, and their supporters were called by the “Tories”“Whigs”.The Tories and the Whigs were in power by turns for a long time.In 1833,the Tory party split into two and its name was changed to Conservative.In the 1860s the Whigs became Liberals.From that time on,the Liberals and the Conservatives were in office by turns until 1922.The policies they put into effect were sometimes different, but they were both controlled by
the rich.
The working class became more and more unwilling to follow the Conservatives and the Liberals.They wanted to have their own party.So the Labour party was formed by the trade unions.After 1922 the Labour Party gradually replaced the Liberal Party to become one of the two major parties in
Great Britain.
6.What does “it” stand for in the third line?
A)The two party system.B)The state machine.
C)The Partiament.D)The capitalist state.
7.We can learn from what P.S Tregidgo once said that ____.
A)if there are parties in Britain,none of them will be strong enough to have con trol in the government
B)the more patients there are,the more likely it is that they will have the deci sive say in the government
C)the two party system contributes to the establishment of a powerful and long lasting government
D)if there are only two parties in Britain,it will be easy for the government to control them
8.What can we infer from the forming of the Tory Party and the Whig Party?
A)These two parties originally believed in different religions.
B)These two parties were established under the influence of different religious believes.〖ZK）〗
C)The British King and the Parliament supported different religions becaused they were for the two
D)The British King and the Parliament were supported by different parties for political reasons.
9.According to the passage,why was the Labour Party established in Britain?
A)Because the trade unions did not do much good for the working people.
B)Because the Liberal Party were not strong enough to defeat the Conservative Party.
C)Because the working people would not like to be members outside the Liberal Party.
D)Because neither of the two major parties was the parties for the working people.
10.Which of the following is true concerning the Tory Party or the Whig Party?
A)The Whig Party no longer exists in Britain.
B)The Tory Party has kept its unity until the present day.
C)The Whig Party has taken the place of the Liberal Party.
D)The Tory Party has taken the place of the Conservative Party.
C
The immune system is the body’s defender.It identifies,tracks down,and destroys troublemakers before they can hurt the body.Those troublemakers may be,for example,bacteria from a cut or splinter,a measles germ,a cold
These invaders try to take over our tissues and feed off our bodies’ nutrients. If they succeed,we become sick or,sometimes,even die.It’s the job of our immune systems to destroy these invaders before they dest
Say you picked up a flu virus(病毒) last week.Perhaps it entered your
body through a cut,from a drinking glass,or from the air you breathe.Of course,you didn’t feel it,but the virus made its way into your bloodstream.As soon as it entered your body,it began to reproduce.Viruses have only one goal:to take over your cells.Once inside your body,viruses try to enter cells and disrupt their normal wor k.If left alone,these viruses would hurt so many cells that you would weaken,or worse,get a serious illne
But this flu virus should not be so complacent as it seems to be.As it reproduces in your bloodstream,the virus is met by a certain kind of white blood cell,the lymphocytes.The lymphocytes are the foot soldiers that keep
The number of lymphocytes in your body is hard to imagine.Thousands of them could fit in the period at the end of this sentence.Your body holds about a trillion —that’s 1,000,000,000,000 of them,or about 3,000 in every drop of blood.Since you began reading this sentence,over 800,000 of them have been
called the thymus.The thymus is the base of the neck.Here,special hormones(荷尔蒙
T cells have one terrific talent:They can tell the difference between friend and foe;what should be in our bodies and what shouldn’t.They do not affect the body ’s healthy cells.Yet they attack everything that is foreign to our
bodies,such as germs, transplants, and even our own cells which have become abnormal,as in the case of cancer.
11.What is the function of our immune system?
A)To take over our tissues and feed off our bodies’ nutrients.
B)To prevent bacteria or germs from entering the body.
C)To destroy the troublemakers in order that they might not hurt the body.
D)To fight against T cells.
12.What does the word “lymphocytes” mean?
A)Food soldiers.B)Flu virus.
C)White blood cells.D)Troublemakers.
13.The last sentence in para 5 “since you began reading this sentence,over 800,000 of them have been created and destroyed” implies tha t ____.
A)this sentence contributes to the increase of the number of lymphocytes in your body
B)you would not realize that lymphocytes reproduce themselves rapidly but for th is sentence
C)because you read this sentence,a large number of lymphocytes have been consume d
D)the number of lymphocytes in your body is extremely large
14.Which of the following can NOT be detected by T cells?
A)Thymus. B)Transplants.C)Cancer cells.D)Healthy cells.
15.Which of the following questions best summaries the main idea of the whole passage?
A)How does the immune system attack the flu virus?
B)How does the immune system function in our body?
C)How do the lymphocytes work in our body?
D
“Family” is of course an elastic word.But whe n British people say that their society is based on family life,they are thinking of “family” in its
narrow,peculiarly European sense of mother,father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit.Thus,every British
marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life.For both the man and the woman,marriage means leaving one’s parents and starting one’s own life.The man’s first duty will then be to his wife,and the wife’s to her husband.He will be entirely responsible for her financial support,and she for the running of the new home.Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs
alone.Neither the wife’s parents nor the husband’s,nor t heir brothers or sisters,aunts or uncles,have any right to interfere with them—they are their
that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl’s parents, that is,it was the parents’ duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her.Until that time,the girl was protected and maintaine d in the parents’ home,and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry. It is very different today.Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage.This has had two results.A girl chooses her own husband,and she gets no dowry.
16.What does the author mean by “Family is of course an elastic word”?
A)Different families have different ways of life.
B)Different definitions could be given to the word.
C)Different nations have different families.
D)Different times produce different families.
17.For an English family,the husband’s duty is ____.
A)supporting the family while the wife is financial
B)defending the family while the wife is running the home
C)financial while the wife is running the home
D)independent while the wife is dependent
18.Everything is decided in a family ____.
A)by the coupleB)with the help of their parents
C)by brothers and sistersD)with the help of aunts and uncles
19.What is true concerning the book Pride and Prejudice?
A)It is the best book on marriage.
B)It is a handbook of marriage.
C)It gives quite some idea of English social life in the past.
D)It provides a lot of information of former time wealthy families.
20.With regard to marriage in Britain,present day girls differ from former
time girls in ____.
A)the right marryB)more parental support
C)choosing husbandsD)social position
参考答案：
1.C从原文第3行“but...brotherhood”可以得知。
2.B 这是负方领队不服裁判结果的气话。
3.A 篮球的事例表明了作者的观点：爱国情绪太过头，体育规则受到渺视。
4.C 从原文最后一段可以推知。
5.A 这是一篇评论性文章。文中寄托了作者的希望。只有A符合。
6.A 本题要求读者指出第3行的“it”指代什么。A为两党制，B为国家机器，C为议会，D 为
资本主义政府，从原文可知，资产阶级是为了强化国家机器，而让两党制形成并存在的。故答案为A。
7.C 本题要求读者指出从P.S.特莱吉欧说的话中可得知什么。A意思是：如果英国有政党的话，哪个党也不能控制政府。B意思是：政党越多，他们就越有可能在政府中有决定性的发言权。C意思是：两党制有利于建立一个有力的持久的政府。D意思是：如果英国只有两个政党，政府会很容易控制他们。从原文可知，A，B，D都不符合原文，故正确答案为C。
8.B 本题要求读者指出从托利党和辉格党的形成可得出什么推论。A意思是：这两个党原来属于不同的宗教信仰。B意思是：这两个党是受不同的宗教信仰影响而建立起来的。C意思是：英国的国王和议会支持不同的宗教因为他们拥护两党制。D意思是：英国的国王和议会由于政治上的原因受不同的党派的支持。从原文可知，由于继宗教上的原因，英国国教分化为清教徒和非清教徒，这两支后来发展为辉格党和托利党。所以正确答案为B。
9.D 本题要求读者指出英国工党是为什么建立的。A意思是：因为工会没有为工人阶级谋多
少利益。B意思是：因为自由党对抗不过保守党。C意思是：因为工人阶级不想成为自由党外的成员。D意思是：因为当时的两大政党都不代表工人阶级利益。从原文可知，工党的建立起因是工人阶级不愿受自由党和保守党的控制，且这两大党都是富人的党。所以正确答案为D。
10.A 本题要求读者指出关于托利党和辉格党的正确叙述。A意思是：在英国辉格党已经不
存在了。B意思是：直到今天托利党还保持着完整统一。C意思是：辉格党取代了自由党。
D 意思是：托利党取代了保守党。从原文可知，辉格党发展成后来的自由党，自由党又为工党取代。所以正确答案为A。
11.C 由文章第一、二段可知，A选项是属于“invaders”的行为，不是免疫系统的功能。B 项
错在细菌可以进入身体，但是免疫系统防止它们伤害身体。D项显然不对，T cells是免疫系统的一个组成部分。
12.C “lymphocytes”是白血球的意思。从上文的a certain kind of white blood cell 可推断出正确选项，A，B，D显然与本题无关，故选C。
13.D 第五段主要讲白血球的数量大得惊人，作者举了一些数字作为例子。“Since you began reading this sentence”和这句话本身无关，作者是为强调在如此短的时间内白血球的数量就多达800，000个。
14.A T细胞能够识别朋友和敌人。B，C项属于敌人，D项属于朋友，A项既不是朋友也不是敌人，而是颈部的一个器官，因此选A。
15.B 本文主要讨论免疫系统的作用对象以及如何在人的身体里发生作用。A，C，D虽有所涉及但都不确切，只有B对。
16.B 此句主要是考察对elastic这个单词的理解，elastic的意思是“有弹性的，可伸缩的，
不是固定不变的”，整句话的意思是“家庭当然不是一个固定不变的概念”，在这一段的后面也写了不同时期的家庭和婚姻状况，从此可知“family”一词的含义也是不同的。
17.C 从文中可找出关键句“The man’s first duty...”和“responsible for her financial support”，此句意思是“男人应是女人的财政支柱”，financial的意思是“财政的，金融的”。注意“responsible for her...running of the new home”是关键句。
18.A 由第一段最后一句“neither...nor...nor...have any right to interfere with them.”此处的“them”是指夫妻俩，neither...nor...是否定形式，即说……都没有权力干涉夫妻俩的事情，——他们是自己的主人，故此题的正确答案是A。
19.C 分析本文第二段可知，《傲慢与偏见》这本书中讲述了当时的婚姻状况，当时有钱人
之间的婚姻都是由女方父母做主，并且父母给新婚夫妇一些钱做嫁妆之后就不再管他们的经济问题，这是当时英国社会生活的一个方面。
20.C 从第二段中开始部分可知过去的女孩的社会地位，从后半部分可知现在的女孩的社会地位比以前有很大提高，表现在结婚前就可以自己在经济上独立，可以自己选择丈夫，可以不要dowry(嫁妆)，这些方面都属于社会地位方面。
(A ) A coal-fire stove(炉灶)provided heating for Zhao Yaoqin's courtyard bungalow in a Beijing hutong all her life. This winter, however, the stove has disappeared from the 66-year-old's life, and an electric radiator takes its place beside her bed, a product of a government to use clean energy in the national capital. With the Olympics to be staged in Beijing next August, the city is determined to eliminate the use of coal within the Third Ring Road that circles the city before the Games. The project to replace the stoves with electric radiators has been part of the effort. When the city's four-month long heating season started on Thursday, coal-fired stoves, known as a big source of pollution in the big city, have disappeared from some 20,000 local households like Zhao's bungalow in the inner city "hutong" -- traditional alleyways(小巷) that date back centuries. "We used to boil water or bake bread on the stove," said Zhao, sounding sentimental(伤感) to the disappearance of the coal furnace from her life. Late in the 1990s, Beijing's air quality monitoring office found that the emissions(排放) of sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide from the hutong areas have been higher than the city's average in winter, mainly because of the coal stoves. With the project to switch to clean energy for heating launched in 1999, the emission level of the two poisonous substances decreased by 42 percent and 44 percent, respectively, this year from 2001 levels. Zhao said the fee for electrical heat for the entire winter was usually around 2,400 yuan (US$323) per household. With the government's subsidy（补贴）, however, she only needed to pay about 500 yuan, nearly the same price as that for coal. 1．Zhao Yaoqin’ example in the passage is to tell us that_______. A.people in Beijing using electric radiators to welcome the Olympics. B.people in Beijing are doing something to protect the environment. C.hutongs in Beijing have a long history. D.People pay more money to use electric radiators than before. 2. The underlined word eliminate probably means________ A. cut down. B. increase. C. get rid of. D. replace 3. We can infer from the passage that ______ A. Zhao Yaoqin has a strong and deep emotion with the use of coal-fire stove. B. The government will pay most of the fee. C. The air of Beijing has been badly polluted since 1990s. D. The people do not use coal eight months in one year. 4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. The clean air is important when the Olympics Games is held in Beijing. B. The success of the Olympics Games depends on the clean air. C. The government spare no effort to make the environment better. D. The emission level of poisonous substances will be low in 2008.
最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！ 洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：（报名网址） Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always __1__ such people, but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."The reality is that writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__. When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人), I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there. A) barely B) genuine C) rewarded D) doubt E) lonely F) poverty G) persuade H) prospects I) uncertainty J)impossibly K) encourage L)awarded M) alone N)wealth O)cold 【答案】 1.选K)。此处应填动词的原形。可选项有doubt, persuade, encourage, 但由always推知，作者是在鼓励那些想要成为作家的人，而不是怀疑也不是说服，故排除doubt和persuade而选encourage。 2.选N)。由空格后的fame可知，此处应填名词。可选项有prospects和wealth，但由dreaming of 与第二段中The reality is... poor-paying可推知，那些想当作家的人梦想的是金钱和名誉，而不是前途，故排除prospects而选wealth。
一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now, there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience. Open Table app Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations(预定), which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits. Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app is free. HappyCow app Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The HappyCow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world. LocalEats app Restaurant chains, like McDonalds, can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The LocalEats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar. Where Chefs Eat app "Where Chefs Eat" is a 975-pagc book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just $15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3,000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app. （1）What do the first two apps have in common? A. They are both free of charge. B. Discounts are provided on both. C. Best wines can be reserved on both. D. They tell you where to have the best food.（2）Who is HappyCow app probably designed for? A. Friends drinking wines together. B. Chefs enjoying meat very much. C. People who want to go on a diet. D. Those often eating in a restaurant. （3）Where can we most likely see the text? A. On a tourism guide. B. In a cellphone application introduction. C. In a students' textbook. D. On a scientific discovery TV program. 【答案】（1）A （2）C （3）B
（英语）高三英语阅读理解专项训练及答案 一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 The setting was a packed gymnasium just before the start of a game against another school. There were five girls who were members of the Danville High School basketball team—all of them starters. They were not in uniform to play that night and would not be on the team for the rest of this season. They were there to admit their breaking of team rules. They were there to support their coach's decision to take them off the team. They were there to let the town know there was a problem in their little community that needed to be addressed. And they did it with sincere regret rather than defensiveness. While the school had been out for the New Year's holiday, the five girls had gone to the party with several of their friends. There was alcohol there. And they all drank some. Coach Rainville has a zero tolerance rule on drugs and alcohol for her members though it was a hard decision to make. When classes resumed and accounts of holiday parties were shared, rumors about the five girls began closing in on them. The coach said she couldn't back down on her rules. And the players—two junior students and three senior students—agreed. That night in the gym was part of their public support of the coach's decision. “We hope you will understand that we are not bad kids. What we did was definitely not worth it. We hope this event will make everyone realize that there is a big drug and alcohol problem in our community,” one of the senior students said, “And if you work with us to try to solve this problem, you will help us feel that we have not been thrown off our basketball team for nothing.” The five left the floor to deafening applause. The team may not win another game this year. But they've learnt something about personal responsibility, the effect of one's action on others, and honesty that will serve them well throughout life. （1）It can be inferred from the passage that the five girls who were kicked off the team were ________. A. very good players on the team B. addicted to alcohol and drugs C. three junior students and two senior students D. scolded by their parents for drinking alcohol （2）What did the girls do to support their coach's decision? A. They didn't fight for Danville High School any more. B. They all gave speeches to apologize in the local press. C. They admitted their mistake in public in the gymnasium. D. They would never drink any alcohol throughout their life. （3）Which word best describes the coach Rainville? A. Indifferent. B. Strict. C. Stubborn. D. Cruel. （4）Which would be the best title for the passage? A. Growing up with pain B. A bad mistake C. Team rules are everything D. Basketball girls in high school 【答案】（1）A
高三英语阅读理解专项训练及答案含解析 一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 Average humans can consume 15 or more drinks in plastic bottles a month. If you were born after 1978, and live until 80 years old, you will leave behind a minimum of 14,400 plastic bottles on this planet. These bottles take hundreds of years to break down into tiny pieces of plastic, never to completely disappear. Most of the waste is consumed by fish and birds, which has shortened their lifetime greatly. The Plastic Bottle Village is just a great idea that might finally save us from being buried in plastic. It's a community in Panama that is going to be made of used bottles. The design process begins with building steel frames, which are then filled with these bottles. Once this step is complete, and electrical and plumbing (管道装置) lines are put inside, the plastic walls are covered by concrete—both inside and outside. So no one will actually be able to tell that the walls are made of plastic. Besides, the material will keep the house 17°C cooler than the outside, which is the biggest benefit to people living inside. The village is the brainchild (主意) of Robert Bezeau with the intention of setting up several environmental projects. Having started a recycling program four years ago, during which a number of plastic bottles were collected, he started to think of how they could be put to use. Soon enough, he decided to use them to build houses, and came up with a basic idea for the construction process. The project hopes to make people conscious of the waste that these bottles create so that they can do more to protect the environment. The village will also create an education center that will teach individuals from the world how to reuse plastic bottles as construction materials for shelter. Recycled bottles could neutralize the negative effect of your passage on this planet, and move closer to leaving only your “footprints”. （1）What does Paragraph 1 intend to tell us? A. The reason for buying fewer drinks. B. The difficult situation of wildlife. C. The amount of plastic waste. D. The seriousness of plastic pollution. （2）What is the biggest benefit to people living in the Plastic Bottle Village? A. The house will be much cooler than normal ones. B. The material of construction will be reduced a lot. C. The newly-made house can save a lot of electricity. D. The waste of the house can be consumed by fish and birds. （3）Which of the following words can best describe Robert? A. Creative. B. Courageous. C. Enthusiastic. D. Sensitive.（4）The main purpose of Robert's projects is to A. provide shelter for locals B. reuse all deserted plastic bottles C. popularize the use of plastic bottles D. raise people's environmental awareness 【答案】（1）D （2）A
考研英语阅读理解模拟试题及答案(三) Passage 11 Dream is a story that a personwatchesor even takes part in during sleep. Dream events are imaginary, but they are related to real experiences and needs in the dreamer's life. They seem real while they are taking place. Some dreams are pleasant, others are annoying, and still others are frightening. Everyone dreams, but some persons never recall dreaming. Others remember only a little about a dream they had just before awakening and nothing about earlier dreams. No one recalls all his dreams. Dreams involve little logical thought. In most dreams, the dreamer cannot control what happens to him. The story may be confusing, and things happen that would not happen in real life. People see in most dreams, but they may also hear, smell, touch, and taste in their dreams. Most dreams occur in color. but persons who have been blind since birth do not see at all in dreams. Dreams are a product of the sleeper's mind. They
阅读理解的题目中常出现的词： 一、主旨题： show说明,展示mean意思是purpose目的view看法example例子experment实验conducte行为researcher研究者meant目的conclusion结论discuss讨论idea设想 main主要的mainly主要地primarily主要地topic话题concemed讨论title标题replaced取代article文章,项目argues表明,认为,坚持,争论indicates表明summary总结leare from结论attitude态度toward对于described描述carry 表达,携带message主旨,信息lead to导致cause原因 reason for原因implied暗示,意味infer推测concluded推断suggest建议advice劝告 二、词义题： refers提到,引用,参考stands for代表,象征probably可能,大概replaced取代close接近的 三、是非题： The least possible choice最不可能的选择true真空的correct正确的false不真实的mentioned提到的except除了opposite对立statement陈述describes描述 四、因果题： in that 因为as 由于due to 由于，因为consequently因此as a resulf 结果，因此depehd on 随...而定because of 由于，因为，基于 why 为什么，何必basis 基础，基准reason理由result结果because 因为for 因为，由于since 因为; 既然; 自从…以来 therefore 因此; 所以lead to导致result in导致result from起因于all this 所有这些; 这一切that is why那就是为什么; 这就是 for these reasons 因此; 由于这些原因as reasons作为原因 五、比较题： first 第一，首先major主要的,重要的,较多的none一点也不,没有一个only 但是，仅仅，可是aware of the risks了解到这些风险according根据,按照,相应的,相符的centers on集中在.上 envisions future展望将来deals with与.交易 expression表达however不管怎样,然而,可是 illustrates with阐明,举例,说明is aimede at其目的在于 problem问题whether…or…是.还是 whether or no不管怎样lies in在于 focus on针对,聚焦于,集中于it comes to涉及到 it is essenhal to 最重要的是appears出现 likely可能probably可能 possible可能的
I watched from a distance as the homeless man quarreled with those who did not leave money for him – the majority. I walked up to him and right on queue he asked me for a quarter. “I’ll give you a quarter if you tell me your story.” He laughed, “You’ll give me a quarter for my story?” I lay the qu front of him and corrected myself –“Nah, here’s the quarter but it would be nice to hear your story.” I followed his eyes to the quarter and for a brief moment I saw a glimmer of reflection. I sat down next to him and waited. I was a sniper(狙击手)and was supposed to shoot down the “I was in the army,” he said. “ carefully to his grizzly voice as he went deeper into the story. enemy from the distance.” I listened He wore dirty old torn clothes and smelled like a dead rat left in a mouse trap. He told me how he used to hunt with his family and was really good at it. He had his own way of respecting animals by not wasting what he killed for food and not killing more than he needed. When the army came knocking on his door, he felt pride and joined up. All those years of polishing his hunting skills could now serve a larger purpose—to defend us from the bad guys. He set out to fight in Iraq. It wasn’t long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth. He became disillusioned with the killings, which he felt were of innocent people. “I was a sniper but I never really killed anyone,” he said. “One day I had to do it. They asked me to shoot this lady from the distance. I saw kids near that lady and my hands were on the trigger (扳机). Man, I was tearing up ... I couldn’t do it. She wasn’t doing anything to anyone and she was with the kids—I couldn’t see through my tears. It just didn’t make any sense to me.” The story goes on as he describes eventually being put into prison for 180 days for refusing to follow orders. He told me how he was black listed so that he couldn’t get a job. All the rights we take for granted were taken away from him. Why? Here was a man who was being punished—and for what? For refusing to kill the lady? For being a hero? “I have no regrets,” anyone the homeless man said. “I may be homeless now, but I never killed that lady. I never killed He in the army. It didn’t feel right. I didn’t go there to do that. I went there to save people.” okay. But I wouldn’t be able to live with continued, “I can live with being homeless—that’s killing innocent people.” On that lonely Friday night, I met a hero. It just never occurred to me that a hero could be a smelly old man left on streets. 1. It can be learned from the passage that the homeless man_______. （） A. never killed animals B. had a strong respect for life C. deserved the punishment he received D. felt guilty about disobeying the order
初三英语阅读理解模拟试题 9. Mathew Brady______________. A.was very lifelike B. was famous for his unusual pictures C. was quite strong D. took many pictures of moving people 10.This passage tells us_____________. A. how photography was developed B. how to show your ideas and feelings in pictures C. how to take pictures in the world D. how to use different cameras （C）
Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车) A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded(拥挤). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel They could all travel together. Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and bus a van. Their children sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry the grandparents.