阅读理解专项训练A.If you travel by air across the cen ter of Africa or south .America , you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers .These great forests are the oceans of trees . There are full of thousands and thousa nds of differe nt kinds of pla nts and ani mals .However , the worlds forests are getting smaller all the time . We are cutt ing dow n the trees because we n eed wood , and we n eed more farm land . Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years . what will happe n if they disappear ?If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappearfrom the world .In a lot of places the new farm land will soon look likethe old deserts . Crops will not grow there . It will not rain very often , andthe weather will get very hot . Perhaps the climate of the world will cha nge . This will be dan gerous for every one in the world . That is why we must take care of our forests .__ 1. The passage mainly tells us about ___ .A. the importance of taking care of our plantsB. the result of cutt ing dow n the treesC. the locati ons of great forestsD. the reasons for forming the deserts__ 2. Which of the followi ng is true accord ing to the passage ?A. Africa and South America are the ocea ns of trees .B. Forests are homes for differe nt kinds of an imals .C. Forests are usually several square kilometers largeD. Differe nt pla nts can't be found in the same forest .__ 3. The n eed for more wood and more land results in ___ .A. the cha nge of the world climateB. the disappeara nee of many pla nts and ani malsC. more deserts and less farm land .D. all of the above__ 4. What will happe n in 20 or 30 years in some people's viewA. We'll have more and greater forests .B. We'll have eno ugh land to support our people .C. We'll have no forests like those in the center of Africa .D. We'll have eno ugh wood to do some cook ing .__ 5. The writer thinks ___ .A. it dan gerous for every one to cut dow n the forestsB. it n ecessary for every one to protect the forestsC. it importa nt for every one to take care of the worldD. it importa nt for every one to keep ani malsA traveller hurried down to the hall of an American hotel and went to the cash-desk . He had just 15 minutes to pay his bill and get to the station . Suddenly he remembered that he had left something in his room ."Look here , boy , " he said to the bellboy , "ru n up to my room andsee if I have left a parcel on the table there . Be quick about it ."The boy tan upstairs . Five minutes passed . The traveler was walkingup and dow n the hall , look ing very angry . At last the boy appeared ."Yes , sir , " he reported to te traveler , " you have left the parcel there , it's right the table in your room ."__ 6. The traveler _______ .A. ran dow n the streetB. came dow nstairs very muchC. ran so quickly that he fell dow nD. came into the hotel hall very quickly__ 7. Which stateme nt is true ?A. He had to pay his bill and arrived at the station in 15 minutes .B. It took him 15 minutes to go to the station from the hotel.C. He could pay his bill in 15 minutes and then go to the station .D. He had nothing but 15 minu tes .__ 8. Accord ing to the passage , a bellboy is ____ .A. a boy whose work is to ring the bellB. a boy who plays with a bellC. a boy whose work in a hotel id to help guests with their bagsD. the hotel own er's boy__ 9. The traveler asked the boy _____ .A. to go upstairsB. to look for his parcelC. to fetch the parcel he had left in his roomD. only to see if the parcel was on the table in his room__ 10 . Five minu tes later , the boy _____ .A. ran up to the roomB. came dow nstairsC. reported to the traveler in the roomD. came dow n to the hall but brought nothing backCTed worked in a factory in a big town . He liked fishing very much , and was very good at it . Whe never he was free , he went to the small river behind the factory and tried to catch some fish , but there were very few there , because the river was polluted . Then one summer he went to the seaside duri ng his holidays and stayed at a small cheap hotel ."I've never fished in the sea before , " he thought . " It will be rather differe nt from fish ing in out river ."On the first day he caught a lot of fish and was very happy . He gave them to the owner of the hotel , and he cooked them for all the guests , and they enjoyed them very much . After that , he did this every day . But when Ted got his bill （账单）at the end of the week , he saw on it :"For oil to cook fish （ 7 days） : $ 3.5 ."__ 11. In the first paragraph , the word " Polluted " means ____ .A. clea nB. deepC. dirtyD. wide__ 12. During the summer holidays one summer , Ted went to the seasideA. to stay a cheap hotelB. to catch fish for the ownerC. to cook fish for the guestsD. to fish in the sea__ 13. Ted gave the fish to the hotel for ____ .A. no thi ngB. moneyC. the guestD. the bill__ 14. When Ted got his bill , he felt ____ .A. expe nsiveB. surpriseC. cheapD. pleased_15. Which of the followi ng is TRUE ?A. Ted went fishi ng every day whe n he worked in a factory .B. Ted did n't want to pay money for his stay ing at the hotel because the owner and the guests ate his fish .C. There were fewer fish in the river than in the sea .D. Ted thought it right for him to pay for the cook fish .DTom had retired （退休）and lived by himself a long way from town .He seldom left his home . But one day he went into tow n to buy somethings in the market, and after he had bought them , he went into a restaura nt and sat dow n at a table by himself . Whe n he looked around , he saw several old people put eyeglasses o before reading their n ewspapers , so after lunch he decided to go to a store to buy himself some glasses too . He walked a long the road , and soon found a store .The man in the store made him try on a lot of glasses , but Tom always said ,"No , I can't read with these ."The man because more and more puzzles , un til fin ally he said ," Excuse me , but can you read at all ?""No , of course I can't !" T om said an grily , "If I was already able toread , do you think I could have come here to buy glasses ?"__ 16. Tom lived ______ .A. aloneB. with his childre nC. happilyD. with his wife__ 17. He _____ to tow n .A. ofte nB. sometimesC. did n't ofte n goD. n ever went__ 18. The old people Tom found in the restaura nt ___ before read ing their n ewspapers .A. were drinking someth ing in the glassesB. put their glasses onC. took their glasses offD. looked around__ 19. The store Tom went into sold ____ .A. win dow glassesB. glasses for drinkingC. glasses for people who could n't readD. glasses for people whocould see well__ 20. Tom made a mistake that he______ .A. did n't try on all the glasses in the storeB. thought that all old people could un dersta nd words in n ewspaperswith glasses onC. could n't readD. did n't try a special kind of glassesE.These days' experienee , like many other things , are becoming increasingly expensive . One has to get to pay a lot to get , even anordinary oneNot long ago , I wan ted to in vite m friends to a lunch . What we really n eed was a good and a quiet place for a talk , not a big meal . So I chose one and told my frie nds to go there .After I ordered , I was asked whether I would eat a 100 yua n or 200yua n lunch , I said , "200 yua n ."I did n't realize un til I was asked to payafter lun ch, that "200 yua n" means "200 yua n for pers on each ."There were five people that day , and all of us were surprises by the200 yuan meal .The bill came at last : it was 1260 [1000 for the five of us , plus the money for drinks , frits and air conditioning（空调）].I paid the bill without a word .What could I say ? It was not their fault（ that 过失）.It was my own faultmade me pay the largest bill in my life .However , it was not so dad : we had a good lunch and at a quietplace . Besides , the experie nee will help in my later years .To support my idea, I have developed my own way of thi nking aboutthe price : 200 yua n for the lunch and 1060 for the experie nee . This paid experie nee has made me ten times wiser .__ 21. Accordi ng to the passage , now one has to pay ____ .A. more for a lunch in a restaura ntB. more to get an ordinary lunchC. more for some experie nee C. in creas in gly high price__ 22. I ordered a lunch ____ .A. so as to have a big lunchB. so that we could have a good mealC. i n order to in troduce my frie nds to the restaura ntD. to have a talk in a good place__ 23. I thought I ordered a meal that would cost ____ .A. me 100 yua nB. me 200 yua nC. us 200 yua n eachD. me 1260 yua n__ 24. The last sentence of the passage expressed ____ .A. my tha nks to the restaura ntB. my happ in ess to be times wiserC. my an ger at the experie neeD. my pleasure to have a good lunch__ 25. I paid the largest bill in my life because _____ .A. the restaura nt cheated the customersB. there was a mis un dersta nding betwee n the restaura nt and thecustomerC. I was unknown to the restaura ntD. I knew little about the market pricesFOne day a few years ago , a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine . He is a teacher at one of London's big medical schools . He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture .He had put a few clothes and his lecture no tes in his shoulder bag , and he had put Rupert , the skeleton （人体骨架）to be used in his lecture ,in a large brow n suitcase At the airport desk , he sudde nly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper . He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop .Whe n he got back he discovered that some one had take n his suitcase by mistake . He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert .__ 26. Who wrote the story ?A. Rupert's teacher .B. The n eighbour's teacher .C. A medical school teacher .D. The teacher's n eighbour .__ 27. Why did the teacher put a skelet on in his suitcase ?A. He n eeded it for the summer term in London .B. He n eeded it for the lecture he was going to give .C. He wan ted to take it to Russia for medical research .D. He wan ted to take it home as he had fini shed his teach ing .__ 28. What happe ned at the airport ?A. The skelet on went miss ing .B. The skelet on was stole n .C. The teacher forgot his suitcase .D. The teacher took the wrongsuitcase .__ 29. Which of the followi ng best tells the teacher's feeli ng about thein cide nt ?A. He was angry .B. He thinks it very funny .C. He feels helpless without Rupert .D. He feels good withoutRupert .__ 30. Which of the followi ng might have happe ned afterwards ?A. The teacher got back the suitcase but not Rupert .B. The teacher got back n either the suitcase nor Rupert .C. The teacher got back Rupert but not the suitcase .D. The teacher got back both the suitcase and Rupert .GI was hav ing dinner at a restaura nt whe n Harry Steele came in .Harry worked in a lawyer's office years ago , but he is now working at a bank . He gets a good salary , but he always borrows money from his friends and n ever pays it back . Harry saw me and came and sat at thesame table . He has never borrowed money from me . While he was eating , I asked him to land me $ 2 . To my surprise , he gave me the money immediately . " I have never borrowed any money from you ."Harry said . "So please pay for the dinn er ."__ 31. Harry sat at the same table as the writer and ______ .A. borrowed some money from himB. le nt some money to himC. paid back some money to himD. begged for some money__ 32. Harry wan ted the writer to pay for the dinner because ____ .A. he gave him $ 2B. the writer has n't ever lent him any money beforeC. the writer has n ever borrowed any money from Harry beforeD. he has n't any money__ 33. Harry is work ing at a bank ______A. at the mome ntB. a year agoC. since last yearD. for a year__ 34. Harry sat at the same table . He did n't sit at ______ one .A. otherB. a differe ntC. extraD. ano ther35. He gave him the money immediately . He gave him the moneyA.soonB. i n a hurryC. once moreD. at onceIt is surprising that eating three meals a day --- breakfast ,1 unch and dinner -- has been a custom only since 1890 . Before this time , they only had two meals a day -- breakfast and dinnerIn the 16th cen tury , breakfast was only to break on e's fast （随便吃一点）. But 200 years later it had became a large meal , not just for family , but for nu mbers guests as well . It was a social （社会的）eve nt . It bega n at 10 a. m. and lasted un til 1 p.m. Then breakfast bega n to be less popular .It became , in stead , a lighter meal and was take n at a much earlier hour . by 1850 it had bee n pushed back to 8 a. m. and became a family meal .Dinner , however , went to the other way .In the 16th cen tury it was eate n at 11 a. m. Years later , it had moved to the early after noon , the n to 5 p . m. By 1850 dinner time had reached 7 p. m. Lunch is a recent idea . It first appeared as a snack （小吃）to fill the gap（间隙）between breakfast and dinn er .__ 36. En glish people did not have lunch ______ .A. un til 1890B. after 1890C. since 1890D. by 1890__ 37. "Dinner , however , went to the other way " means ______ .A. Dinner did n't go there with breakfastB. Dinner took the same way with breakfastC. Dinner is differe nt from breakfast .D. Dinner is the same with breakfast__ 38. Lunch has bee n served since the ____ cen tury .A. 17thB. 18thC. 16thD. 20th__ 39. The selection is mostly concerned with （涉及） ______ .A. what people eat for breakfastB. what people eat for dinnerC. the history of supperD. the history of breakfast__ 40. The select ion leads the reader to believe that _____ .A. our custom of meals is based in En glish customB. before 1890 people could n't eat the three meals a dayC. breakfast is the most important meal for usD. the body can adjust to （适应）two or three meals a dayITwo frie nds were eat ing at a small restaura nt. On the table therewas a cup of hot mustard（芥末）.One of them thought it was sweet andtook a spo onful of it in to his mouth . Tears ran dow n from his eyes . Nevertheless , wishing to have his friend caught in the same position , hesaid nothing . The other man , seeing that his friend was crying asked ,"What for , my dear friend ?""I was thi nking of my father , who was han ged 20 years ago . " Hereplied .Soon after , the other man took a spo onful of the mustard and astears started down from his eyes , his friend , in his return , asked , " Why are youcrying , the n ?""To thi nk that you were not han ged the same time your father was !"__ 41. The reas on why the first man did n't tell the sec ond man what had happe ned is that _____________ .A. tears ran dow n from his eyesB. he wan ted to play a trick on his friendC. there was some mustard in his mouthD. he was tasting the mustard__ 42. From the passage we know that ______ .A. the first man was really thinking of his fatherB. the first man's father was really han ged twenty years agoC. the first man had deep sorrow（悲伤）for his father's deathD. the first man was good at playing tricks__ 43. "To think that you were not hanged the same time your father was !" suggests that the sec ond man __________________ .A. got to know that the first man had played a trick on himB. thought that the first man should have bee n han ged together withhis fatherD. was sorry for the death of his frien d's father__ 44. What does the writer of the story want to tell us ?A. He wants to tell us not to play tricks on others.B. It does n't matter to play tricks.C. He wants to tell us a funny story .D. He wants to tell us that playing tricks can make life more in teresti ng .JGree nwich （格林威治）is on the River , five miles from the middle of London , and its history is two thousand years old . The first English people were fishermen there , and they named the place Greenwich , meaning "green village". Later the English kings and queens lived at Gree nwich in their beautiful places .The name of the earliest palace was Placentia . Its windows were made of glass ---the first in England .Henry VIII lived there . He knew that En gla nd must be strong at sea . So he started two big ship-yards （船坞）at Gree nwich ,and for 350 years the ships which were made there were the best in the world .But trouble was coming to Greenwich . In 1649 , a war started in England and for eleven years there was no king . The men who had worked for him at Placentia decided to live the place themselves . They sold all its beautiful things , and bought small pieces of the palace garde n with money . Fin ally , the war en ded and King Charles II came back . But Place ntia was falli ng dow n . So Ki ng Charles built a new and bigger palace , which is now ope n to the public .At this time , Charles was worried about losing so many of its ships at sea : their sailors did not know how to tell exactly where they were . So in1675 , Charles made Joh n Flamsteed , the first astr ono mer （天文学家）in En gla nd , try to find the an swer . Flamsteed worked in a new build ing on the high ground in Greenwich Park . From it with a telescope which he made himself , Flamsteed could look all round the sky . And he did , ni ght after ni ght , for twenty years . Carrying on Flamsteed's work a hun dred years later , an astro no mer called Harris on fin ally made a clock which told the time at sea , and helped sailors to know where they were .Youcan see Harris on's clock , still working , in Gree nwich's museum of the sea . Because of Flamsteed's work , every country in the world now tells its time by Greenwich time . _ 45. The first En glish people livi ng in the "gree n village" were ___ .A. sailorsB. fisherme nC. Ki ng Charles and his familyD. The families of ki ng and quee ns_ 46. Place ntia was ____ palace in Gree nwich .A. the biggestB. smallestC. the earliestD. the latest_ 67. What kind of trouble came to Gree nwich in 1649 ?A. A war started in En gla nd.B. Place ntia was destroyed .C. Ship-yards were built .D. Ki ng Henry died ._ 48. Charles made Joh n Flamsteed try to find______ .A. how to tell the timeB. hot to build shipsC. a way for sailors to tell their positions at seaD. a place to set up a telescope__ 49. Who made the first clock which could tell the time at seaA. Harris onB. FlamsteedC. HenryD. .Charles50. Without Flamsteed's work ,it would be for sailors to know where theywere .A. impossibleB.possibleC. probable D. certa in阅读理解1--20 ABDCB BACCD CDABC ACBDB 21-40 CDBCD DBABB BBABD ACDDD41-50 BDACB CACAA阅读理解1--20 ABDCB BACCD CDABC ACBDB 21-40 CDBCD DBABB BBABD ACDDD 41-50 BDACB CACAA。
