高一英语上学期阅读理解20篇

高一英语上学期阅读理解11篇（一）一As a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students. In fact, just like in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods, the first two or three years are called “junior high school” and the other is “senior high school”.In China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free education until they are 18 years old. As a result of the free education system (制度), American children have little difficulty in going to senior high school.American high school students can take part in a lot of activities outside of the classroom. The activities are organized by the school, such as joining a music group or a sports team. Certainly, just like us students in China, American students have to work hard in order to get good marks if they want to go to a good university. They take classes in all kinds of subjects all through the high school period. And those who come out with low marks at the end of a school year and whoshould repeat a grade are often allowed to go on to the next grade.In American high schools, there is fighting or hurting or other kinds of bad behaviors.So children who want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊区的) high schools, where most students want to go to university and the atmosphere (氛围) is quite different.1. Activities outside of the classroom refer to _____.A. what the students do after class in schoolB. what the students learn in extra classesC. what a music group or a sports team doD. what the teachers do after class for the students2. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The time of free education in China is longer than that in America.B. Those who get good marks can go to a good university.C. American students can take all kinds of subjects during the high school period.D. They can be allowed to join the next grade even if they fail the school-year exam.3. The writer of the passage tells us the truth that ____.A. the atmosphere in high schools is quite different from that in a universityB. none of the schools in cities are good for learningC. suburban high schools are good places for learningD. all the American students want to go to university二Americans can travel almost anywhere they choose. But to protect its people, the government lists a few dangerous places where Americans cannot go. These places are unfriendly countries or countries at war. There, the traveller might not be safe. These countries are listed in a small book called a passport. This passport is a government request(要求) for the safety of its travelling people. It is also a government' s pledge (保证) that the people will obey the rules of the host country. To receive a passport from the government, a traveller must prove(证明) that he is an American citizen. An American can not go abroad without a passport. Only some close countries such as Canada and Mexico do not ask for passports. Inside the passport is the traveller's picture. Children travelling with their parents are included(包含) in one parent's book. Thousands of people from the United States visit other countries every year. An American traveller might carry plane tickets, money, clothing and many other things, but the most important that he carries in another country is his passport.1. A passport is not needed when an American goes to .A. foreign countriesB. dangerous areasC. Canada or MexicoD. foreign countries2. From the passage we can see thatA. children can' t travel to foreign countriesB. Americans like travellingC. a traveller is not safe in most countriesD. Americans like to travel to close countries3. Which statement does the passage lead you to believe?A. People should take care of their passports.B. It is not important to have a passport to travel.C. Children are never included in a passport.D. When you are in another country, money is more important than a passport.4. Which of the following statements is true?A.When Americans are travelling in another country, they must obey the rules of the country.B. The American government sometimes allow its people to travel to dangerous places.C. A passport is needed wherever an American is travelling.D. A passport only helps the traveller to know where he will go.三It takes many years for you to grow up. There are two periods in your life when you grow rapidly. The first period begins right after you are born and lasts until you are about six months old. The second period starts when you reach the age of 13. First, girls grow faster than boys, then boys catch up and grow faster and stronger.Your head stops growing earlier than the rest of you. By the time you are ten, your head is nearly full size. The bones of your arms and legs are short when you are a baby. When you reach the age of nine, your bones starts to grow rapidly, and will keep growing until you reach your full height (高度).Besides growing taller, your body changes in other ways. When a boy is about 13 years old, his voice begins to get deeper and he may begin to grow a beard (胡子). At about the age of 13, a girl’s body begins to function (运行) like a woman’s. Some important changes are taking place, changes that makes it possible for boys and girls, when they are older, to become fathers and mothers.1. The first period in your life when you grow very rapidly ____.A. lasts about thirteen yearsB. lasts about six monthsC. doesn’t begin until you are about six months oldD. begins when you are six months old2. Your head nearly stop growing ____.A. when you are bornB. when you are ten years oldC. when you are thirteen years oldD. when you are six months old3. About the age of 13, a child _____.A. stops growingB. reaching his full heightC. begins to grow a beardD. begins to change in other ways4. The meaning of the last sentence is that _____.A. boys and girls are not sure to become fathers and mothers when they are oldB. it is necessary for boys and girls to become fathers and mothers when they grow upC. boys and girls must have some important changes before they grow upD. it is important that boys and girls should become fathers and mothers when they are older四Just as the sun is starting to shine and the days are getting longer, the examination periodbegins! I’d like to wish all students the very best luck in your exams and with your dissertations （专题论文）.For those of you who will be leaving us this summer, I hope that you will take with you fond memories of Birmingham and that you keep in touch.If you are staying in Birmingham over the summer, do try to come along to our summer garden party on 18 June. Spouses and children are very welcome to join us too.Summer Garden PartyWednesday 18, June 2003From 2 p.m. －5 p. m.Celebrate the end of exams and the end of term with a summer garden party in the beautiful grounds of Westmere on Edgbaston Park Road.Ali international students, their spouses and children are welco me to join us. We’ll have lots of party games as well as food and drink. What better way to mark the end of the academic year?If you would like to come along, please contact Mal Graham, international Student Assistant: Tel: 0121 414 2894 E-mail: M.M.Graham@.We look forward to seeing many of you there. Have a great summer.1. The above invitation is from ____A. a middle school in BirminghamB. a college in BirminghamC. the government of BirminghamD. an organizer of a summer camp2. What is the invitation mainly aimed at?A. Inviting all the students to attend a part in a beautiful park.B. In forming all international students of the end of the summer term.C. Saying goodbye to those who are about to leave the university.D. inviting all international students to attend a summer party.3. The underlined word “spouse” refer to ____.A. the oldB. the adultC. a relative of friendD. a husband or wifeWhat can we learn from the text? ____A. The party will last for 4 hours.B. Some students will graduate this summer.C. The party will be held during the examination period.D. All the students there are married五Dear Michelle,My mother is not a good example for me and my sister. She smokes, stays out late, and she curses(咒骂). I love her but I am ashamed of her. I do not want to bring my friends home because she does not act like any of the other mothers. She says I am a loser because I sit at home and study. I wish I could live in another family that was normal, but it will be 5 years before I am 18. What am I supposed to do until then?Prisoner of a Crazy HouseDear 7th Grader,I am glad that you love your mother because the rest of your feelings about her may change as you get older and mature.While it is true that your mother’s smoking, partying and cursing bring you shame, the fact that you want to stay separate from her doings is notable and very smart. It shows that you are a winner, not a loser. I am guessing, therefore, that you do not bring shame to yourself, and that is a good thing. So, keep it that way and keep away from your mother’s habits.At the same time, try to get the best grades and join clubs and school activities. Offer social service on weekends and visit your friends at their homes.Fortunately, you are not alone. Many teens live in homes with immature, misguided, selfish parents. But they develop good friendships with nice kids, do well in school, and often find a teacher or guidance advisor who makes all the difference!Do it, Miss Winning 13 years old, and keep looking forward to your own future. Maybe by then your mother may even see the light and realize how good you really are.Michelle1. Michelle doesn’t address her letter receiver as “Prisoner of a Crazy House” possibly because she _____. A. tries to be polite B. doesn’t write to the kid aloneC. knows that’s a girl in Grade 7D. wants to cheer the kid up2. According to the passage, Michelle advises the girl to _____.A. try talking to her mother for her futureB. st ick to her attitude towards her mother’s some habitsC. understand her mother’s habits and get used to themD. try to keep away from her mother3. What does Michelle mainly express by writing the last four paragraphs?A. Don’t worry too much about the problem.B. Many parents act terribly.C. Parents’ manners make little difference.D. The girl is not speaking for herself.4 What does Miss Winning 13 years old refer to in the last paragraph but one?A. the girl who turns to Michelle for helpB. MichelleC. the girl’s motherD. a famous person whom we all admire六Young people in most countries like to dance. Different peoples have different kinds of dances.Pretend (假装)that you are in Africa. You are visiting the Kikuyu tribe.Hear the drums beat! Listen to the flutes! Almost 2,000 Kikuyus are meeting for the most important dance of the year.First, the Kikuyus choose a large, flat place for their dance. For hundreds of years, they have danced on an autumn night when the moon is full. The moon and the flame from small fires light the dancers.Older people watch from the side while young men and women gather at the dancing place. The girls wear leather skirts and tops. The men wear fancy headdresses and carry spears. The dancers' skin and clothes are colored by light red chalk. The chalk and the firelight make the dancers look like statues.The dancers act out stories of good and bad deeds. The dances tell stories of lion hunts and other adventures. In one dance, the girls stand on the boys' feet. The girls are pretending to be afraid of snakes.All night the drums beat and the fires burn. But the dancers never seem to get tired.1. The place where the Kikuyu tribe dances is ___. A. flat B.small C. hilly D. square2. On the whole, this story is about ______.A. the beat of drumsB. an African danceC. African storytellingD. the Kikuyus3. What do the Kikuyu dances tell?A. The dances tell the story of drum beat.B. The dances tell about adventures.C. The dances tell funny jokes.D. The dances tell stories in the past.4. Which of these sentences do you think is right?A. The Kikuyus do not often get together.B. Dancing is important to the Kikuyus.C. The most important event is singing.D. After the dancing, all the dancers got tired.七Go to church, then have a big lunch, then go out to play while mum does the housework. That was a typical (典型的) British Sunday in the 1960s. But things now could not be more different.Some British sociologists recently studied the typical British Sunday. They found that people get up later and do less housework than they did 40 years ago. They are far more likely to be out shopping or enjoying themselves than cooking Sunday lunch.Sunday mornings were busy 40 years ago. Most women caught up on their weekly housework and cooked a nice lunch. They seldom allowed themselves any “leisure” until afternoon, after the dishes were cleaned. Then there would be another rush to the table between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm for tea.But now, Britons can have brunch (早午餐) at the restaurant. Fewer people bother to cook themselves.“You only have two free days a week. You don’t want to have to waste one because there is nothing to do but watch boring TV,” said Elizabeth Biggs, 25, a producer in London.“On Saturday you are recovering from the week,” Biggs added. “Sundays are the last chance for the weekend — you want to get as much as you can out of the day before you have to go back to work.”In the past, British women usually did their shopping during the week, while the husband was at work. “Now men seem to do that as much as women,” said Jonathan Gershuny, a professor who took part in the study.Men also do more housework now on Sundays. Back in the 1960s, men were far more likely to spend Sundays out of the house — at the pub or playing football — before lunch.1. Many Britons have brunch at the restaurant because _______.A. They have no time to cook at home.B. They get up too late.C. They won’t bother to cook themselves.D. They will go to church.2. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Britons used to go to church on Sundays.B. Britons usually had a big lunch at home.C. British women usually did their shopping during the week in the past.D. British men did little housework at home in the past.3. The text mainly tells us ________.A. what Britons did on SundaysB. why Britons go shopping on SundaysC. how Britons spend their holidaysD. the changes of the ways the Britons spend their Sundays4. What can we infer from the passage?A. Men do more housework on Sundays.B. Sundays in Britain might be very boring in the past.C. No people go to church on Sundays now.D. Britons all go out on Sundays.八Every day we go to school and listen to the teacher, and the teacher will ask us some questions.Sometimes, the classmates will ask for your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat with friends—you are in a slightly unnatural situation where a large group of people will remainsilent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you—loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout or appearing to force yourself.Remember, too, that it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a government official who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease (not worried) but the situation is somewhat different from that of an ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.1. When you speak to the class, you should speak ________.A. as slowly as possibleB. in a low voiceC. loudlyD. forcefully2. Usually, when you speak to the class, the class is ________.A. noisyB. quietC. having a restD. serious3. The situation in the class is _________that in your house.A. not very different fromB. sometimes the same asC. sometimes not the same asD. not the same as4. If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is____.A. to show your abilityB. to be very gentleC. to make sure that you can be heardD. to put the official at ease5. The main idea of this passage is _______.A. that we should talk in different ways in different situationsB. that we must speak loudlyC. that we must keep silent at any timeD. that we must talk with the class九Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words and we are often able to know where most words come from.Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham?About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn’t speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating round piece of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans d idn’t understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round piece of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today, “hamburgers” are sold in many countries around the world.Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.1 Hamburg is ____________A. a kind of foodB. a round piece of beefC. the name of a villageD. a city in Germany2. According to the passage, ___________.A. few Americans like hamburgersB. hamburgers are made with beefC. hamburgers are made with hamD. hamburgers were first sold about a century ago3 According to the writer, which of the following can often be found in any large English dictionary?A. Where all the new words come from.B. Where those Germans came from.C. The reason why a word has a certain meaning.D. The reason why English is spoken around the world.4 From the story, we can know that the word “hamburger” comes from ___________.A.China because it has a long historyB. English because Germans don’t speak good EnglishC. The round piece of beef which those people from Hamburg were eatingD. English speakers because they always create new words十For many years Henry had been a journalist. He had worked on many international newspapers and magazines and traveled all over the world.Henry had witnessed wars and natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and erupting volcanoes (火山爆发) .He had reported on serious accidents such as big fires and airline crashes.He had seen every kind of terrible crime and strange event there was.He had met and written about some of the most unusual people in the world.In fact, there wasn’t much that Henry had not seen or done.Now he retired from journalism(新闻业). He owned a very expensive restaurant and spent his days talking to his wealthy and important customers. He liked to say that nothing surprised him.One day he was sitting at the bar in his restaurant when a big gorilla walked in and asked for a table.Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant.The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad.Henry served the gorilla his salad personally, knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened.At last the gorilla finished his salad and asked for the bill.Henry wrote out the bill and handed it to the big animal.The gorilla studied it, shook his head sadly, then gave Henry fifty dollars.“Thank you”, Henry said, and then to make conversation he added, “We don’t get many gorillas in this restaurant.”“At fifty dollars for a salad,” the gorilla said, “I’m not surprised.”1．What does the underlined word “witness” mean?A. when something happens one sees or notices it on the spotB. to be part ofC. to tell what happensD. to feel unhappy with 2．According to the story, Henry had .A. had the most exciting experiencesB. told the longest storiesC. made historyD. caused accidents3．One day when a gorilla came into the restaurant, Henry was .A. very surprised by the gorillaB. not troubled by the gorillaC. very interested in the gorillaD. scared of the gorillaThe gorilla was____A. angry with the saladB. still hungry after his saladC. not surprised by the cost of the foodD. surprised by the prices十一U.S.— A South African man could face up to 25 years in prison for joking that he was carrying a bomb on an airline, police said Friday.The 40-year-old man was arrested at Johannesburg airport on Thursday after he told an airhostess on nationwide airliner after take-off from Durban that he had a bomb in his bag.“We don’t take this sort of thing lightly. He could face a jail term of between five and twenty-five years without the option (选择) of a fine.”Security precautions (安全措施) were taken against the man —a resident from the wealthy (富有) Johannesburg suburb of Sandown —on the flight.Airline people didn’t find any explosives or weapons in his bags.“Security measures at airport and on plane have been intensified（加强）immediately after the recent horrific and tragic terror（恐怖）attacks in America,”a police statement said.Thousands of people are believed to have died after the hijacked (劫机) airliners flew into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center in the worst terror attack in U.S. history.1 The man was arrested because he _______.A. went aboard the plane with a bomb in his bagB. security measures at airport and plane have been intensified.C. was joking at the airport.D. said on the plane that he was carrying a bomb in his bag.2. The man may _______.A. serve as many as 25 years in prisonB. get away after paying a large sum of money.C. get locked up in his wealthy home in Sandown.D. be ordered to give up his weapons to the police.3 Security measures have been strengthened at airports in the States to counterattack (反击) ______. A. air crashes B. smuggling C. terror attacks D. shoplifting4. This news article is mainly about ________.A. a terror attack in AmericaB. a high cost for a jokeC. the bad luck of a rich manD. the security measures at an airport in America.一1-3 AAC 二1-4CBA A 三1-4 BBDC 四1-4 BDDB 五1-4 DBAA六1-4 ABBB 七1-4 CCDB八1-5CBDCA 九1-4 DDCC 十1-4 AABD十一1-4: DACB。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇Any foreigner who has tried to learn Chinese can tell how hard it is to master the tones required to speak and understand.And anyone who has tried to learn to play the violin or other instruments can report similar challenges.Now researchers have found that people with musical training have an easier time learning Chinese.Writing in the online edition of Nature Neuroscience, researchers from Northwestern University say that both skills draw on the same parts of the brain that help people discover changes in pitch(音调)．One of the study's authors, Nina Kraus, said the findings suggested that studying music “actually tunes our sensory system”．This means that schools that want children to do well in languages should hesitate before cutting music programs, Dr.Kraus said.She said music training might also help children with language problems.Mandarin speakers have been shown to have a more complex encoding(编码)of pitch patterns in their brains than English speakers do.This is because in Mandarin and other Asian languages, pitch plays a central role.A single－syllable word can have several meanings depending on how it is intoned.For this study, the researchers looked at 20 non－Chinese speaking volunteers, half with no musical background and half who have studied an instrument for at least six years.As they were shown a movie, the volunteers also heard an audio tape of the Mandarin word “mi” in three of its meanings: squint, bewilder and rice.The researchers recorded activities in their brain stems to see how well they were processing the sounds.Those with a music background showed much more brain activities in response to the Chinese sounds.The lead author of the study, Patrick C．M.Wong, said it might work both ways.It appears that native speakers of tonal languages may do better at learning instruments.1．Why does Chinese learning have something to do with music training?A．Because there is the same difficulty in learning Chinese and music.B．Because skills to learn the two make use of the same parts of the brain.C．Because music training might help people with language study.D．Because people who do well in Chinese study do well in music.2．The underlined word “intoned” in the fourth paragraph can be replaced by the word“________”．A．created B．spelledC．seemed D．pronounced3．What would be the best title for this passage?A．Mandarin Speakers Are Smarter Than English SpeakersB．Skilled Ear for Music May Help Language StudyC．Pitch Plays a Central Role in Chinese LearningD．Schools Need to Develop Music Programs【答案】1．B2．D3．B【分析】这是一篇说明文。

高一英语阅读理解专练1阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。

AI have been in England three months now． I hope you don’t think I’ve forgotten you． There have been so many places to see and so many things to do that I’ve not had much time for writing letters．I shall soon be starting my studies at King’s College． So far I’ve been learning about England and British ways of living． I won’t tell you about London． There are lots of books you can read and lots of pictures you can look at about this famous city． I’m sure you’ll be more interested to know what I think about life here．I find some of the customs（风俗）interesting． People here do not shake hands as much as we do in the mainland（大陆）of Europe． During the first few weeks I was often surprised because people did not put out their hands when I met them． Men raise their hats to women but not to each other．1．The writer came to London from ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A．Asia B．the mainland of Europe C．America D．Africa2．The writer did not write the letter earlier because ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A．she had forgotten her friendB．she was lonely and sad in this strange landC．she was too busy to writeD．she was too busy with her courses（课程）at King’s College3．How does the writer feel about British ways of living？A．Happy． B．Angry． C．Sad．D．Interesting．4．The writer came to London ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A．to make a livingB．to studyC．to learn British ways of livingD．for sightseeing only5．Englishmen ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A．do not often shake hands with friends when they meetB．often shake hands when they meet with friendsC．raise their hats to all friends when they meetD．do not raise their hats to any of their friends when they meetBA young father was visiting an old neighbor． They were standing in the old man’s garden， and talking about children． The young man said，“How strict should parents be with their children？”The old man pointed to a string（绳子）between a big strong tree and a thin young one．“Please untie（解开）that string，” he said． The young man untied it， and the young tree bent（弯）over to one side．“Now tie it again， please，”said the old man，“but first pull the string tight so that the young tree is straight again．”The young man did so． Then the old man said，“There，it is the same with children． You must be strict with them， but sometimes you must untie the string to know how they are getting on． If they are not yet able to stand alone， you must tie the string tight again． But when you find that they are ready to stand alone，you can take the string away．”6．The story is about ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A． how to take care of young treesB． how strict parents should be with their childrenC． how the young father should get on with his old neighborD． how to tie and untie the string7．The young man untied the string ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A． in order to throw it awayB． so that both of the trees would grow straightC． only to find that the thinner one bent over to one sideD． in order to let the old man teach him8．When can the string be taken away？＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A． When the old man has leftB． After you have untied itC． When the young man has untied it next timeD． When the young tree grows strong enough9．At last the old man told the young man ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A． that he should be strict with his children if they could not yet stand alone B． that he should always be strict with his childrenC． that he should be hard on themD． that he should tie his children until they are ready to stand alone 10．In the story the relation（关系） of the big strong tree to the thin one is like that of ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．A． the young father to the old neighborB． parents to their childrenC． the old neighbor to the children of the young fatherD． grown ups to their parentsKeys:1－5 BCDBA 6－10 BCDAB2阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳答案。

《新课标高一英语阅读理解精选》第11--20篇.Passage 11One evening in November, Dr. Berlin received a telephone call from Mrs. Green. "Please, Dr. Berlin, come to my house. I had 5000 dollars on my desk and now it is gone. "Dr. Berlin arrived at Mrs. Green's house at eight o'clock. First he asked Mrs. Green, "When did you see the money last?""At seven o' clock. I put it on my desk in my living room. Then I went to wash my hair. I came back at seven thirty and the money was gone.""I see." Dr. Berlin said. "Were you alone in the house?""No. My sister's son Jack is here, too." Then Dr. Berlin and Mrs. Green went to Jack's room."Please, sit down," Jack said. Dr. Berlin sat on the only chair in the room, and the chair was cold. He also saw some books on the ground near his feet."What have you been doing this evening?" Dr. Berlin asked."I came home at six-thirty, and went right to my room. I've been sitting in that chair and reading all the evening.I never got up and I never left the room. Maybe somebody came into the house and took my aunt's money." After hearing that, Dr. Berlin was clear about who had taken the money.213w1. When did Dr. Berlin answer the phone from Mrs. Green?A. At 6:30.B. At 7:00.C. After 7:30.D. At 8:00.2. Where did Mrs. Green put her money?A. In her living room.B. In her washing room.C. In Jack's room.D. In her office.3. When did the thieftake Mrs. Green's money?A. Before Mrs. Green came back home.B. When Jack was reading.C. After Mrs. Green went to wash her hair.D. When Dr. Berlin was answering the phone.4. Which of the following is wrong?A. Mrs. Green didn't live alone.B. Jack had given a careless reply.C. Dr. Berlin found out who had taken the money.D. Jack had been really reading books all that evening.词汇扩展①thief n. 小偷②careless reply 粗心的回答Passage 12One day Bill went to eat at a restaurant in London. Suddenly a young woman sat down beside him. Bill could not think what she wanted. She did not look very happy. Bill asked her what was wrong. "The problem is ..." she began. But then she stopped. She did not find it easy to tell Bill about it, it seemed. "My husband and I wanted to meet here for lunch at 12, " she said at last, "but he hasn't come.""Well, don't you know where he is? Can't you ring him up? ""No, I can't." said the woman. "And I've had lunch now and I can't pay the bill, because I haven't got any money with me.""Never mind, I'll pay the bill for you. You can pay me back later." Bill said."If you give me your address, I'll send you the money as soon as I get home." With these words, she left the restaurant.A few weeks later, when Bill was having lunch at another restaurant, he suddenly heard a familiar voice," Excuse me. May I just sit here for a moment?"Bill turned round. It was the same young woman again. This time she was talking to a man with grey hair at a table not far from the gate. Bill smiled at the woman and got up from his chair and walked across the room. 233wExcellent1. One day Bill came to a restaurant ________ .A. to meet a young womanB. to help a womanC. aloneD. to have the last meal of the day.2. The young woman sat beside Bill because she wanted __________ .A. to eat with himB. to wait for her husband thereC. to make friends with BillD. Bill to help her3. The young woman became happier because ________.A she found her money B. Bill would help herC. she had her mealD. she saw her husband4. The woman said she would __________ .A. return Bill's money as quickly as possibleB. go to Bill's home to return the moneyC. give Bill's money back the next dayD. return Bill's money at the restaurant5. Bill walked across the room ________.A. to pay his bill B .to say hello to the man with grey hairC. to meet the womanD. to go away from the woman.Passage 13Jim was a driver. He liked to grow flowers in his garden when he was free. One Sunday morning after breakfast he put on his old clothes and began digging in his garden at eight. He dug and dug. After half an hour he suddenly found a coinnear his foot. He was very glad. He put it in his right pocket. A few minutes later, he found another one. He put it in the same pocket, too. The same thing happened for the third. The fourth and the fifth time, .... He was very happy and told his wife about it. She was very happy, too. She said, "A thieftook away a lot of coins from a shop a few days ago. The police caught him but they didn't find any coins."Then Jim went on digging and found some more coins, but just when he began to dig, he felt something cold in his trousers. It came down one of his legs. He put his hand down quickly－and the coin came into his hand. Now he knew there was a hole in his pocket.190w1. There were some ______in Jim's garden.A. coinsB. treesC. vegetablesD. flowers2. When did Jim find a coin in his garden?A. At 8:00B. At about 8:30C. At 9:30D. At about 10:003. "He told his wife about it." Here "it" means________.A. the police caught a thiefB. he found money in his gardenC. the coins of a shopD. the hole in his trousers4. There was a hole in________.A. his pocketsB. his left pocketC. his right pocketD. the pocket of his coat5. How many coins did Jim dig out from the garden?A. Only one.B. Five coins.C. Many coins.D. No coin at all.词汇扩展①coin n. 硬币②thief n. 贼Passage 14If he made a mistake, he could never admitit .One day, he was walking along the street when he met another man.He looked at the man very carefully. Then he said "John Foster! Well, well, well, I haven't seen you for ten years."He looked at the man up and down. "But you've changed, John, " he went on, you were heavy, but now you're thin." He smiled at him, "But you look well and it's good to see you again." he held the man's hand and said, " But, oh, you have changed so much. You had thick hair ten years ago and now it's thin. You didn't wear glasses before, but now you're wearing really a pair of thick ones."He smiled at the man again."But you're still the same John Foster. Do you remember that we often drank tea together? We had some good times, didn't we, John?""Excuse me, sir " the man said, "but my name isn't John Foster."Mr. Right thought for a minutes, then he said, "So you've changed your name, haven't you?"185w1. Which of these is true?A. Mr. Right never thought that he would be right.B. Mr. Right never admitted that he was wrong.C. Mr. Right never made mistakesD. Mr. Right sometimes thought the others were right2. One day Mr. Right met ________.A. one of his old friendsB. John FosterC. a man he thought he knewD. his good friend3. Mr. Right thought John _______.A. had changed a lotB. looked very oldC. looked as young as beforeD. hadn't changed much4. Mr. Right didn't acceptthat _______.A. the man had changed so muchB. the man had changed his nameC. the man didn't know John FosterD. the man wasn't John Foster5. From the story we learn that _______.A. Mr. Right is always rightB. John Foster is not the man's nameC. one should admit his mistakesD. one should not make jokes词汇扩展①admit v. 承认②accept v. 接受Passage 15Once a man with the name Grant found a box of old papers in a room at the top of his house. He burnt most of them, for he didn't like old things very much. But one of these papers was an old letter. At the bottom of the letter was the name of a famous writer."When this letter was written," said Grant, "no one knew about the writer. But now everyone knows him. Some people like to buy letters like this. I may be able to get a lot of money for this letter if I sell it to the right man."But there were a lot of dirty marks all over the letter."It doesn't look nice," he thought, "No one wants to buy a letter if it's dirty. I'll have to clean it first." So he took a piece of cloth and some water and cleaned the letter. He worked hard and took a lot of care. At last the letter looked new and he was very pleased with his work."Now it looks very nice," he said to himself. "I'll be able to sell it for a lot of money."He took the letter to shop in London where old papers of this kind were bought and sold."I want to sell this letter," Grant said to the man in the shop. "It was written by a famous writer. You know about these things. How much will you give me for it?"The man looked at the letter for a long time."I'll give you two pounds for it." he said at last."Only two pounds!" said Grant, "But people pay ten pounds for a letter like this. And just look! I've even cleaned it to make it look nice.""I can see that," said the man. "That's the trouble. People who buy old papers like them to be dirty!"317w1. Grant thought old papers were _______.A. quite usefulB. uselessC. importantD. worth much money2. Grant burnt all the papers except an old letter because _______.A. he liked it very muchB. everyone knew the writer thenC. the letter had many dirty marksD. he thought he could sell it for much money3. The shop assistant gave Grant only two pounds when he found the old letter _______.A. looked niceB. seemed dirtyC. was cleanedD. looked newPassage 16Linda was a few minutes late, and Wilson had left the office when she got there. His secretary told her he would be back in a few minutes. She had to sit down and wait for a few minutes in the outer office."I shall never get this job," she told herself. For a moment she wanted to run out of the building. Just then, Wilson came through the door and hurried into his office. A few minutes later his secretary took Linda in and introduced her.Linda apologized for being late. Wilson did not seem to mind. They talked freely for a few seconds and then got down to business. He took out her letter of application."You've never worked in radio or television before, have you?" Linda answered that she was afraid she hadn't. Now she was even more sure that she would not get the job. Wilson asked her a few more questions.To her surprise, he seemed impressed with her other qualifications. She was even more surprised when he asked her if she could start soon. "I wonder if you mind starting next month?" he asked with a smile. It seemed she had got the job after all.202w1. The title of the passage is ______.A. Finding a JobB. Linda's WorkC. Linda's First Time of Asking for WorkD. What a Kind Man He Was!2. The passage implies, but does not directly state that _______.A. Linda had worked in radio and television before she asked for the jobB. The boss didn't want Linda to work for himC. Mr. Wilson was angry with Linda's being lateD. Linda was a good girl with high educationPassage 17I always have difficulty in buying birthday presents. My idea never seems to go farther than ties, pens or cards.But, strangely enough, it did not take me long to decide on Tom's birthday present. For the first time in life, I had a good idea. I would buy him a bottle of champagne. Before the party began, Tom suggested that I should open the bottle. I put it between my knees and began to pull, but it remained unmoved. Soon a lot of people gathered round to watch the fight between the bottle and me. I could hear all kinds of "helpful" suggestions from them like "Break the top off", "Use your teeth", etc. But I was losing the fight. We were fighting on the floor together, when all of a sudden there was a loud "pop" and the corkshot up into the air, while the angry bottle showeredeverybody with champagne.157w1. When buying birthday presents, I find my idea is _______.A. poorB. badC. richD. good2. I was _______ my present for Tom's birthday.A. very sorry forB. very proud ofC. afraid ofD. tired of3. At last _______.A. I opened the bottle easilyB. nobody opened the bottleC. the bottle was brokenD. I managed to open the bottle词汇扩展①champagne n. 香槟酒②cork n. 塞子③shower v. 淋Passage 18A fine-looking gentleman sat down in the main dining-room of an expensive hotel. He ordered a grand meal and spent two hours enjoying himself. After the bill came, the man sent for the head waiter."Oh, my friend," he said, "that was a wonderful meal! Perhaps you remember that I was a guest at this hotel at this very same table just about a year ago. And at that time, just because I couldn't pay the bill, you, sir, had me thrown out of this dining-room in the full view of all the other guests!""My deepest apologies, sir," said the head waiter, "You understand...""Oh, it is all right!" said the gentleman, lighting his cigar, "But I am afraid I'll have to trouble you again."126w1. The man went to the hotel because _______.A. he was good-lookingB. he was a gentlemanC. he had lots of moneyD. he just wanted to eat something good2. He called the head waiter ______.A. to say he had no moneyB. to praise himC. to pay for the last mealD. to enjoy the meal together3. The phrase "in the full view of " means _______.A. in front ofB. because ofC. to make full use ofD. with the help of4. In this passage we can see clearly that _______.A. the gentleman was very richB. the gentleman was very poorC. the gentleman had a large sum of money in his house but he didn't have it with himD. none of the above5. What do you suppose was the result of the story?A. The man paid for the meal.B. The waiter apologized for his rough deeds.C. The man once again was thrown out of the hotel.D. The owner of the hotel thanked him for his coming.Passage 19Hanaca was the daughter of a samuraiwho made her wear a strange, wide-brimmed hat that covered her face. Her father had put it on her head just before he died and no one was able to take it off.Everyone in the town laughed at Hanaca because of her hat and this made her unhappy. One day, she decided she did not want to live in the town any longer, so she left. She walked a long way until she came to a city. There she found work in the Emperor's palace.But again she was laughed at, and the other palace workers behaved badly toward her. One day, the Emperor's son found Hanaca crying. He asked her what was the matter, and when she told him, he felt so sorry for her that he decided to marry her.The Emperor was very angry when he heard about this, and he sent Hanaca away from the palace. Sadly, she walked toward the palace gates. Just as she reached them, a great wind blew her wide-brimmed hat off her head.Now everyone could see her face. Not only was she extremely beautiful, but she was wearing many precious jewels in her hair. Then one of the Emperor's ministers realized she was the daughter of a famous samurai. He told the Emperor to apologizeto Hanaca and allowed his son to marry her.235wExcellent1. Hanaca was ________.A. a strange hatB. the name of a samuriC. a beautiful girlD. an Emperor2. Which is RIGHT?A. The father died long before Hanaca put on the hat.B. The father died long after she put on the hat.C. It was long since she put on the hat.D. The samurai died shortly after she put on the hat.3. Hanaca was laughed at everywhere because ________.A. all the time she wore the hat which covered her faceB. the hat was too longC. she dare not take the hat offD. her father had died4. The Emperor was angry when he heard ________.A. Hanaca had no fatherB. his son would marry HanacaC. his son would go away with the girlD. Hanaca wasn't a good girl5. At last the Emperor apologized to Hanaca because ________.A. he loved herB. she was too beautifulC. he had known who she wasD. she had many expensive jewels词汇扩展①samurai n. 武士②apologize v. 道歉Passage 20It was very difficult to find jobs in the northeast of England and when John lost his, he found it impossible to get a new one. He soon spent all his money, so he decided to go down to the south of the country, where, he had heard, things were better and where it was easy to find a job. The best way to go there was by train, so he went to the railway station and got into a train which was going to London. He was the only passenger in his compartment when another man burst in, carrying a gun and said to him, "Your money or your life.""I haven't got a penny," John answered in fright."Then why aren't you calm but trembling so much?" The man with the gun asked angrily. "Because I thought you were the ticket-collector, and I haven't even got a ticket," said John. 152w1. John went down to the south ________.A. because he lost his jobB. because it was said to be very easy to find a job thereC. because he needed money badlyD. all of the above2. John went to London __________.A. by airB. by carC. by trainD. by ship3. Which is true according to the passage?A. John got on the train without a ticket.B. John went to the station and bought a ticket.C. John got on the train together with a man.D. There were many people in his compartment.4. The word "trembling" in paragraph 3 means ________.A. 镇静的B. 发抖的C. 摇晃的D. 勇敢的5. When he saw the man with a gun, John was trembling ________.A. because he was afraid of being killedB. because he hadn't got a ticketC. because he thought the man was the ticket-collectorD. Both B and C《新课标高一英语阅读理解精选》答案11. CACD12. CDBBD13. DBBCA14. BCADC15. BDC16. AD17. ABD18. DAADC19. CDABC20. DCABD。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇My two daughters and I got into the car to spend our weekend in Florida. Autumn, the elder one, offered to drive. I sat next to her, and Amber sat in back. After setting off, the three of us sang to the radio at the top of our voice.I t was a great trip until the rain poured and the rain was too heavy. “I have to pull over, ” Autumn said. She tried to enter the far right lane (车道) to find a place to stop, but trucks ran fast, making water onto our car. The car was out of control, then worse — it started to move left and right. Autumn fought to control it but it was too late. We ran into a truck. The girls jumped out of the car. My chest felt much pain.“Get out, Mom. Come on！” Amber cried. “I can't,” I said. Autumn took out her cellphone, “There's been an accident. Send an ambulance (救护车)！” Amber and Autumn pulled me out of the car and helped me lie on my back in the grassy area by the roadside. I had to calm myself and looked up. A man held a large umbrella over me and other kind faces appeared above me. A woman helped to treat a cut over Amber's eye. Another woman came close to me and said, “No one in the truck was injured. Help was on the way.” The woman mentioned she was a nurse; the other woman who took care of Amber's cut was an eye specialist. We couldn't have asked for better care.In the hospital the pain in my chest began to disappear. Later, the tests at the hospital made sure we had no serious injuries. We'd left all our troubles behind thanks to these kind people, who seemed to be angels (天使) in my eyes.1．How did the author and her two daughters feel after setting out?A．They were worried about the weather.B．They enjoyed themselves greatly.C．They thought it was a long journey.D．They felt lucky to take the journey.2．What was Autumn going to do when the rain poured?A．To stop by the roadside.B．To follow the truck closely.C．To get into the fast traffic lane.D．To move the car left and right.3．What can be the best title for the text?A．Unexpected heavy rainB．Leave our troubles behindC．Kind angels saved the dayD．My two kind daughters【答案】1．B2．A3．C【分析】本文是一篇记叙文。

（英语）高一英语阅读理解题20套(带答案)含解析一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解There are lots of ways to educate yourself on the Internet. You can find photos, documents, and films on almost any topic you can imagine. And at , you can access lectures by artists, scholars, designers, technicians and others.TED began in 1984 as a conference that brought together individuals from the fields of technology, entertainment and design. It was intended to be a one-time event focusing on technology and design. The event ended up losing money, and it was six years before the founders tried it again. This time it worked, and since 1990, the TED conference has been an annual event. There are now two held every year, with topics as diverse as music, medicine, and money. Other specialized spin-off conferences address narrower issues.The TED website came from a desire to share the conferences with the world, to "offer free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers," as the website puts it. The current version of the site was launched in April 2007, and contains videos of talks given at the TED conferences around the world. The talks are transcribed into hundreds of languages.The TED website is owned by the Sapling Foundation, a non profit devoted to fostering the spread of great ideas. The Sapling foundation acquired TED in 2001. Since then, it has been focusing on using TED to broadcast ideas that might change the world.TED, of course, isn't immune to criticism. It's been called elitist(精英) for its high ticket prices (more than 6,000 dollars total). It's been accused by a few people of censorship for not publishing their talks. One controversial speaker was upset about being criticized by the conference's host afterward.The complaints, however, seem to be relatively few for such a large, long-running organization. And accusations of elitism ring hollow when so much is given away for free on TED's website. Whatever its failings, TED is a source of inspirational information for those who seek it out.（1）What is the main topic of the article?A.The case against TEDB.What's on TED today.C.Pros and cons of .D.What is TED（2）Which of the following statements is NOT true?A.The TED conference came after the success of .B.Two TED conferences are now held every year.C.TED talks are available in many languages.D.The Sapling Foundation owns .（3）From the last two paragraphs, we can infer that ________.A.it is accepted to all involved that some TED talks might not be publishedB.the host of the conference is one who plays a supportive role to the speakersC.TED is criticized for giving special treatment to the wealthy or powerfulD.the negative comments on TED greatly affects its reputation（4）This author probably believes that________.A.TED is elitistB.TED is beneficialC.TED isn't importantD.TED is the best website【答案】（1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B【解析】【分析】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了TED以及它的历史发展。

高一英语上学期阅读理解20篇（一）一As a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students. In fact, just like in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods, the first two or three years are called “junior high school” and the other is “senior high school”.In China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free education until they are 18 years old. As a result of the free education system (制度), American children have little difficulty in going to senior high school.American high school students can take part in a lot of activities outside of the classroom. The activities are organized by the school, such as joining a music group or a sports team. Certainly, just like us students in China, American students have to work hard in order to get good marks if they want to go to a good university. They take classes in all kinds of subjects all through the high school period. And those who come out with low marks at the end of a school year and who should repeat a grade are often allowed to go on to the next grade.In American high schools, there is fighting or hurting or other kinds of bad behaviors. So children who want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊区的) high schools, where most students want to go to university and the atmosphere (氛围) is quite different.1. Activities outside of the classroom refer to __________.A. what the students do after class in schoolB. what the students learn in extra classesC. what a music group or a sports team doD. what the teachers do after class for the students2. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The time of free education in China is longer than that in America.B. Those who get good marks can go to a good university.C. American students can take all kinds of subjects during the high school period.D. They can be allowed to join the next grade even if they fail the school-year exam.3. The writer of the passage tells us the truth that ________.A. the atmosphere in high schools is quite different from that in a universityB. none of the schools in cities are good for learningC. suburban high schools are good places for learningD. all the American students want to go to university二Americans can travel almost anywhere they choose. But to protect its people, the government lists a few dangerous places where Americans cannot go. These places are unfriendly countries or countries at war. There, the traveller might not be safe. These countries are listed in a small book called a passport. This passport is a government request(要求) for the safety of its travelling people. It is also a government' s pledge (保证) that the people will obey the rules of the host country. To receive a passport from the government, a traveller must prove(证明) that he is an American citizen. An American can not go abroad without a passport. Only some close countries such as Canada and Mexico do not ask for passports. Inside the passport is the traveller's picture. Children travelling with their parents are included(包含) in one parent's book. Thousands of people from the United States visit other countries every year. An American traveller might carry plane tickets, money, clothing and many other things, but the most important that he carries inanother country is his passport.1. A passport is not needed when an American goes to .A. foreign countriesB. dangerous areasC. Canada or MexicoD. foreign countries2. From the passage we can see thatA. children can' t travel to foreign countriesB. Americans like travellingC. a traveller is not safe in most countriesD. Americans like to travel to close countries3. Which statement does the passage lead you to believe?A. People should take care of their passports.B. It is not important to have a passport to travel.C. Children are never included in a passport.D. When you are in another country, money is more important than a passport.4. Which of the following statements is true?A.When Americans are travelling in another country, they must obey the rules of the country.B. The American government sometimes allow its people to travel to dangerous places.C. A passport is needed wherever an American is travelling.D. A passport only helps the traveller to know where he will go.三It takes many years for you to grow up. There are two periods in your life when you grow rapidly. The first period begins right after you are born and lasts until you are about six months old. The second period starts when you reach the age of 13. First, girls grow faster than boys, then boys catch up and grow faster and stronger.Your head stops growing earlier than the rest of you. By the time you are ten, your head is nearly full size. The bones of your arms and legs are short when you are a baby. When you reach the age of nine, your bones starts to grow rapidly, and will keep growing until you reach your full height (高度).Besides growing taller, your body changes in other ways. When a boy is about 13 years old, his voice begins to get deeper and he may begin to grow a beard (胡子). At about the age of 13, a girl’s body begins to function (运行) like a woman’s. Some important changes are taking place, changes that makes it possible for boys and girls, when they are older, to become fathers and mothers.1. The first period in your life when you grow very rapidly ____________________.A. lasts about thirteen yearsB. lasts about six monthsC. doesn’t begin until you are about six months oldD. begins when you are six months old2. Your head nearly stop growing __________________.A. when you are bornB. when you are ten years oldC. when you are thirteen years oldD. when you are six months old3. About the age of 13, a child ________________.A. stops growingB. reaching his full heightC. begins to grow a beardD. begins to change in other ways4. The meaning of the last sentence is that __________________.A. boys and girls are not sure to become fathers and mothers when they are oldB. it is necessary for boys and girls to become fathers and mothers when they grow upC. boys and girls must have some important changes before they grow upD. it is important that boys and girls should become fathers and mothers when they are older四Just as the sun is starting to shine and the days are getting longer, the examination period begins! I’d like to wish all students the very best luck in your exams and with your dissertations（专题论文）.For those of you who will be leaving us this summer, I hope that you will take with you fond memories of Birmingham and that you keep in touch.If you are staying in Birmingham over the summer, do try to come along to our summer garden party on 18 June. Spouses and children are very welcome to join us too.Summer Garden PartyWednesday 18, June 2003From 2 p.m. －5 p. m.Celebrate the end of exams and the end of term with a summer garden party in the beautiful grounds of Westmere on Edgbaston Park Road.Ali international students, their spouses and child ren are welcome to join us. We’ll have lots of party games as well as food and drink. What better way to mark the end of the academic year?If you would like to come along, please contact Mal Graham, international Student Assistant: Tel: 0121 414 2894 E-mail: M.M.Graham@.We look forward to seeing many of you there. Have a great summer.1. The above invitation is from _________A. a middle school in BirminghamB. a college in BirminghamC. the government of BirminghamD. an organizer of a summer camp2. What is the invitation mainly aimed at?A. Inviting all the students to attend a part in a beautiful park.B. In forming all international students of the end of the summer term.C. Saying goodbye to those who are about to leave the university.D. inviting all international students to attend a summer party.3. The underlined word “spouse” refer to _________.A. the oldB. the adultC. a relative of friendD. a husband or wife4.What can we learn from the text? _________A. The party will last for 4 hours.B. Some students will graduate this summer.C. The party will be held during the examination period.D. All the students there are married五Dear Michelle,My mother is not a good example for me and my sister. She smokes, stays out late, and she curses(咒骂). I love her but I am ashamed of her. I do not want to bring my friends home because she does not act like any of the other mothers. She says I am a loser because I sit at home and study. I wish I could live in another family that was normal, but it will be 5 years before I am 18. What am I supposed to do until then?Prisoner of a Crazy HouseDear 7th Grader,I am glad that you love your mother because the rest of your feelings about her may change as you get older and mature.While it is true that your mother’s smoking, partying and cursing bring you shame, the factthat you want to stay separate from her doings is notable and very smart. It shows that you are a winner, not a loser. I am guessing, therefore, that you do not bring shame to yourself, and that is a good thing. So, keep it that way and keep away from your mother’s habits.At the same time, try to get the best grades and join clubs and school activities. Offer social service on weekends and visit your friends at their homes.Fortunately, you are not alone. Many teens live in homes with immature, misguided, selfish parents. But they develop good friendships with nice kids, do well in school, and often find a teacher or guidance advisor who makes all the difference!Do it, Miss Winning 13 years old, and keep looking forward to your own future. Maybe by then your mother may even see the light and realize how good you really are.Michelle1. Michelle doesn’t address her letter receiver as “Prisoner of a Crazy House” possibly because she_________________.A. tries to be politeB. doesn’t write to the kid aloneC. knows that’s a girl in Grade 7D. wants to cheer the kid up2. According to the passage, Michelle advises the girl to ______________.A. try talking to her mother for her futureB. stick to her attitude towards her mother’s some habitsC. understand her moth er’s habits and get used to themD. try to keep away from her mother3. What does Michelle mainly express by writing the last four paragraphs?A. Don’t worry too much about the problem.B. Many parents act terribly.C. Parents’ manners make little diff erence.D. The girl is not speaking for herself.4 What does Miss Winning 13 years old refer to in the last paragraph but one?A. the girl who turns to Michelle for helpB. MichelleC. the girl’s motherD. a famous person whom we all admire六Young people in most countries like to dance. Different peoples have different kinds of dances.Pretend (假装)that you are in Africa. You are visiting the Kikuyu tribe.Hear the drums beat! Listen to the flutes! Almost 2,000 Kikuyus are meeting for the most important dance of the year.First, the Kikuyus choose a large, flat place for their dance. For hundreds of years, they have danced on an autumn night when the moon is full. The moon and the flame from small fires light the dancers.Older people watch from the side while young men and women gather at the dancing place. The girls wear leather skirts and tops. The men wear fancy headdresses and carry spears. The dancers' skin and clothes are colored by light red chalk. The chalk and the firelight make the dancers look like statues.The dancers act out stories of good and bad deeds. The dances tell stories of lion hunts and other adventures. In one dance, the girls stand on the boys' feet. The girls are pretending to be afraid of snakes.All night the drums beat and the fires burn. But the dancers never seem to get tired.1. The place where the Kikuyu tribe dances is _______.A. flatB. SmallC. hillyD. square2. On the whole, this story is about ______.A. the beat of drumsB. an African danceC. African storytellingD. the Kikuyus3. What do the Kikuyu dances tell?A. The dances tell the story of drum beat.B. The dances tell about adventures.C. The dances tell funny jokes.D. The dances tell stories in the past.4. Which of these sentences do you think is right?A. The Kikuyus do not often get together.B. Dancing is important to the Kikuyus.C. The most important event is singing.D. After the dancing, all the dancers got tired.七Go to church, then have a big lunch, then go out to play while mum does the housework. That was a typical (典型的) British Sunday in the 1960s. But things now could not be more different. Some British sociologists recently studied the typical British Sunday. They found that people get up later and do less housework than they did 40 years ago. They are far more likely to be out shopping or enjoying themselves than cooking Sunday lunch.Sunday mornings were busy 40 years ago. Most women caught up on their weekly housework and cooked a nice lunch. They seldom allowed themselves any “leisure” until afternoon, after the dishes were cleaned. Then there would be another rush to the table between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm for tea.But now, Britons can have brunch (早午餐) at the restaurant. Fewer people bother to cook themselves.“You only have two free days a week. You don’t want to have to waste one because there isnoth ing to do but watch boring TV,” said Elizabeth Biggs, 25, a producer in London.“On Saturday you are recovering from the week,” Biggs added. “Sundays are the last chance for the weekend — you want to get as much as you can out of the day before you have to go back to work.”In the past, British women usually did their shopping during the week, while the husband was at work. “Now men seem to do that as much as women,” said Jonathan Gershuny, a professor who took part in the study.Men also do more housework now on Sundays. Back in the 1960s, men were far more likely to spend Sundays out of the house — at the pub or playing football — before lunch.1. Many Britons have brunch at the restaurant because _______.A. They have no time to cook at home.B. They get up too late.C. They won’t bother to cook themselves.D. They will go to church.2. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Britons used to go to church on Sundays.B. Britons usually had a big lunch at home.C. British women usually did their shopping during the week in the past.D. British men did little housework at home in the past.3. The text mainly tells us ________.A. what Britons did on SundaysB. why Britons go shopping on SundaysC. how Britons spend their holidaysD. the changes of the ways the Britons spend their Sundays4. What can we infer from the passage?A. Men do more housework on Sundays.B. Sundays in Britain might be very boring in the past.C. No people go to church on Sundays now.D. Britons all go out on Sundays.八Every day we go to school and listen to the teacher, and the teacher will ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask for your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat with friends—you are in a slightly unnatural situation where a large group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you—loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout or appearing to force yourself. Remember, too, that it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a government official who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease (not worried) but the situation is somewhat different from that of an ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.1. When you speak to the class, you should speak ________.A. as slowly as possibleB. in a low voiceC. loudlyD. forcefully2. Usually, when you speak to the class, the class is ________.A. noisyB. quietC. having a restD. serious3. The situation in the class is _________that in your house.A. not very different fromB. sometimes the same asC. sometimes not the same asD. not the same as4. If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is____.A. to show your abilityB. to be very gentleC. to make sure that you can be heardD. to put the official at ease5. The main idea of this passage is _______.A. that we should talk in different ways in different situationsB. that we must speak loudlyC. that we must keep silent at any timeD. that we must talk with the class九Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words and we are often able to know where most words come from.Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn’t speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating round piece of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans didn’t understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round piece of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today, “hamburgers” are sold in many countries around the world.Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.1 Hamburg is ____________A. a kind of foodB. a round piece of beefC. the name of a villageD. a city in Germany2. According to the passage, ___________.A. few Americans like hamburgersB. hamburgers are made with beefC. hamburgers are made with hamD. hamburgers were first sold about a century ago3 According to the writer, which of the following can often be found in any large English dictionary?A. Where all the new words come from.B. Where those Germans came from.C. The reason why a word has a certain meaning.D. The reason why English is spoken around the world.4 From the story, we can know that the word “hamburger” comes from ___________.A.China because it has a long historyB. English because Germans don’t speak good EnglishC. The round piece of beef which those people from Hamburg were eatingD. English speakers because they always create new words十For many years Henry had been a journalist. He had worked on many international newspapers and magazines and traveled all over the world.Henry had witnessed wars and natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and erupting volcanoes (火山爆发) .He had reported on serious accidents such as big fires and airline crashes.He had seen every kind of terrible crime and strange event there was.He had met and written about some of the most unusual people in the world.In f act, there wasn’t much that Henry had not seen or done.Now he retired from journalism(新闻业). He owned a very expensive restaurant and spent his days talking to his wealthy and important customers. He liked to say that nothing surprised him. One day he was sitting at the bar in his restaurant when a big gorilla walked in and asked for a table.Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant. The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad.Henry served the gorilla his salad personally, knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened.At last the gorilla finished his salad and asked for the bill.Henry wrote out the bill and handed it to the big animal.The gorilla studied it, shook his head sadly, then gave Henry fifty dollars.“Thank you”, Henry said, and then to make conversation he added, “We don’t get many gorillas in this restaurant.”“At fifty dollars for a salad,” the gorilla said, “I’m not surprised.”1．What does the underlined word “witness” mean?A. when something happens one sees or notices it on the spotB. to be part ofC. to tell what happensD. to feel unhappy with 2．According to the story, Henry had .A. had the most exciting experiencesB. told the longest storiesC. made historyD. caused accidents3．One day when a gorilla came into the restaurant, Henry was .A. very surprised by the gorillaB. not troubled by the gorillaC. very interested in the gorillaD. scared of the gorilla4．The gorilla was____A. angry with the saladB. still hungry after his saladC. not surprised by the cost of the foodD. surprised by the prices十一U.S.— A South African man could face up to 25 years in prison for joking that he was carrying a bomb on an airline, police said Friday.The 40-year-old man was arrested at Johannesburg airport on Thursday after he told an airhostess on nationwide airliner after take-off from Durban that he had a bomb in his bag.“We don’t take this sort of thing lightly. He could face a jail term of between five andtwenty-five years without the option (选择) of a fine.”Security precautions (安全措施) were taken against the man —a resident from the wealthy (富有) Johannesburg suburb of Sandown —on the flight.Airline people didn’t find any explosives or weapons in hi s bags.“Security measures at airport and on plane have been intensified（加强）immediately after the recent horrific and tragic terror（恐怖）attacks in America,”a police statement said. Thousands of people are believed to have died after the hijacked (劫机) airliners flew into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center in the worst terror attack in U.S. history.1 The man was arrested because he _______.A. went aboard the plane with a bomb in his bagB. security measures at airport and plane have been intensified.C. was joking at the airport.D. said on the plane that he was carrying a bomb in his bag.2. The man may _______.A. serve as many as 25 years in prisonB. get away after paying a large sum of money.C. get locked up in his wealthy home in Sandown.D. be ordered to give up his weapons to the police.3 Security measures have been strengthened at airports in the States to counterattack (反击)______. A. air crashes B. smuggling C. terror attacks D. shoplifting4. This news article is mainly about ________.A. a terror attack in AmericaB. a high cost for a jokeC. the bad luck of a rich manD. the security measures at an airport in America.十二How to protect child web fans from unsuitable materials (不合适材料) on-line while encouraging them to use the Internet has long been discussed in the US. For some time, the Internet seems like a forest, filled with dangers for children. But forests have wonders as well as dangers, and with good guides, some education and a few precautions(预防措施) ,the wilds of the Internet can be safely navigated(航行). "Children have to be on-line. If we tell our children they can' t have chances to the Internet, we' re cutting them off from their future," said an expert.Most children have started to use search engines. Many of them are great for finding lots of interesting Internet sites and they can also go to places where you might not want them to go. There are such engines made just for children. A certain software (软件) contains only sites that have been selected as safe. The most popular way to limit chances would be to use what is known as a "content screener(过滤器)”. But this can't be wholly safe, and the best thing parents can do is to talk to their kids and let them know what is OK or not OK to see or do on the Internet. Another way is that mum or dad is nearby when the child is surfing the Internet.A few other tips:1) Don' t put the PC in a child's room, but keep it in a place where mum or dad can keep an eye on things. That also makes the Internet more of a family activity.2) Ask your child not to give on-line strangers personal information, especially like address and phone number.3) Tell your children never to talk to anyone they meet on-line over the phone, send them anything, accept anything from them or agree to meet with them unless you go along.1. What is the main subject about the passage?A. Fighting against children on-line.B. Internet in America.C. American children going on-line.D. Children's web sites.2. According to the passage, we can infer thatA. the writer doesn't encourage children to surf the InternetB. the Internet has a lot of harmful sitesC. the Internet is a forest full of dangersD. a child who is on-line is in danger3. What does the passage tell us most?A. EducationB. Good guidesC. PrecautionsD. Software十三Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle（航天飞机）Challenger, in June, 1993. The achievement of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space, made this flight especially memorable. Students from two high schools in Camden, New Jersey, however, are likely to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight.Norma didn’t travel along. She brought about 100 companions（伙伴）along with her. Norma was an ant, a queen ant who, with her subjects, made up the first ant colony（群体）to travel into space. The ants were part of a science experiment designed by the students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects.The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly through-out the long space trip. The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened. The problem did not occur in space, but on the ground after Challenger had landed. The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was removed. The hot dry desert air dried out the colony’s container（容器）and the ants died from lack of moisture（水分）.The project was termed a success because it did provide useful information. Students will continue their efforts to find out exactly what went wrong. They will try to prevent the same difficulties from recurring on future missions. They don’t want to be discouraged either by the death of the ants or by the $10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space.1. The story is mainly about ___________.A. Sally Ride’s first rideB. space equipment for insectsC. a space experiment with antsD. going to school in New Jersey2. The project wasn’t a failure because ___________.A. some important things were learnedB. dead ants are betterC. everything went as expectedD. students wrote about it3. The ants died because _________.A. weightlessness harmed themB. space caused too much painC. no one fed them in spaceD. they dried out in the desert4 On the next space trip, ants _________.A. will be sent without peopleB. should not be left in the desert too longC. will have to pay double fareD. will escape the trip completely十四Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything—tutors , cards, special learning centers—in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic(天主教的) school.After the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn’t kiss his mother hello. Instead，he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time，day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.Finally，little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise，little Tommy got an A in math. She could no longer hold her cu riosity .She went to his room and asked, “Son, what was it? Was it the nuns(修女)? ”Little Tommy looked at her and shook his head, “No. ”“Well then,” she asked again. “WHAT was it? ”Little Tommy looked at her and said, “Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed to the plus sign(加号),I knew they weren’t joking. ”1. Tommy’s mother felt surprised that his son____.A. was still the same as usualB. ate so much at dinnerC. kissed her hello after schoolD. worked hard but said little2. The underlined phrase “hitting the books” means “____”in Chinese.A. 用功B. 捶书C. 发泄D. 振作3. The last sentence in the passage shows that____.A. Tommy felt sorry for the manB. Tommy was afraid of being nailedC. Tommy didn’t like the plus signD. Tommy liked playing jokes on others4. From the passage, we can infer that____.A. teachers should be strict with their studentsB. mistakes might do good sometimesC. a catholic school is much better than other onesD. nuns are good at helping children with their math十五The gray-haired lady can’t wait to leave the building to search for her dad. Unless watched, she。

实用文档实用文档(英语)高一英语阅读理解题20套(带答案)及解析-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1（英语）高一英语阅读理解题20套(带答案)及解析一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解Bus Tours in Washington DCThe Lights Night Tour in Washington DCDuration: 3 hours $56.33Highest-rated Night Tour in DC! The ONLY DC Night Tour where the Tour GuidesHOP OFF with you at each stop and tell you about each monument and attraction. Hop aboard the Lights Night Tour! The best time to take a tour of Washington DC is at, night.Best Mount Vernon & Arlington Cemetery Tour from Washington DCDuration: 6 hours. $78.96.See Arlington Cemetery, Old Town Alexandria and George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate on this small group bus tour from Washington DC. Your tour guide will accompany you through Mount Vemon, telling you about all of the attractions there and the history of George Washington's home on the Potomac River.The Best Minibus Tour in Washington DC.Duration: 3 hours $ 46.92See all the key attractions DC has to offer in a 3-hour format. You will learn all about the history and trivia that surrounds Washington and visit the major monuments and attractions DC has to offer.Please Note: Rates for this tour vary by day of the week. When you choose your specific date on the availability calendar, the rates for that date will be displayed. The Blossoms Tour in Washington DC.Duration: 3 hours $ 56.99BEST WAY to Experience the Cherry Blossoms! Each year from mid March to mid April, see the beautiful Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC and get great photos because you'll be led to all the best spots by the best guides. The annual spring bloom in DC is a magical time and this tour promises to provide the very best tour opportunity for you!（1）Which tour would provide you with a sightseeing boatA. The Lights Night TourB. Best Mount Vemon & Arlington Cemetery TourC. The Best Minibus TourD. The Blossoms Tour（2）What is special about The Best Minibus TourA. Its price is not fixed.B. The best time to take it is at night.C. The tour guide accompanies you.D. You can get great photos of cherry.（3）Which date suits The Blossoms Tour mostA. July 4B. August 15C. March 27D. October 8【答案】（1）B（2）A（3）C【解析】【分析】本文是一篇应用文，介绍在Washington DC 的Bus Tours。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across. but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening. For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.1．According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?A．Reading and listening.B．Reading and writing.C．Writing and speaking.D．Speaking and listening.2．To improve your reading, when you read you should ________.A．look up all the new words in the dictionaryB．think about what you are reading activelyC．spend more time studying grammarsD．copy as many words and sentences as possible3．The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “________”. A．meet B．discoverC．hear D．look for【答案】1．A2．B3．A【分析】这是一篇说明文。

高一英语上学期阅读理解20篇（一）一As a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students. In fact, just like in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods, the first two or three years are called “junior high school” and the other is “senior high school”.In China, children enjoy free education of nine years, but in the United States, the students enjoy free education until they are 18 years old. As a result of the free education system (制度), American children have little difficulty in going to senior high school.American high school students can take part in a lot of activities outside of the classroom. The activities are organized by the school, such as joining a music group or a sports team. Certainly, just like us students in China, American students have to work hard in order to get good marks if they want to go to a good university. They take classes in all kinds of subjects all through the high school period. And those who come out with low marks at the end of a school year and who should repeat a grade are often allowed to go on to the next grade.In American high schools, there is fighting or hurting or other kinds of bad behaviors. So children who want to go to university are often sent to suburban (郊区的) high schools, where most students want to go to university and the atmosphere (氛围) is quite different.1. Activities outside of the classroom refer to __________.A. what the students do after class in schoolB. what the students learn in extra classesC. what a music group or a sports team doD. what the teachers do after class for the students2. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The time of free education in China is longer than that in America.B. Those who get good marks can go to a good university.C. American students can take all kinds of subjects during the high school period.D. They can be allowed to join the next grade even if they fail the school-year exam.3. The writer of the passage tells us the truth that ________.A. the atmosphere in high schools is quite different from that in a universityB. none of the schools in cities are good for learningC. suburban high schools are good places for learningD. all the American students want to go to university二Americans can travel almost anywhere they choose. But to protect its people, the government lists a few dangerous places where Americans cannot go. These places are unfriendly countries or countries at war. There, the traveller might not be safe. These countries are listed in a small book called a passport. This passport is a government request(要求) for the safety of its travelling people. It is also a government' s pledge (保证) that the people will obey the rules of the host country. To receive a passport from the government, a traveller must prove(证明) that he is an American citizen. An American can not go abroad without a passport. Only some close countries such as Canada and Mexico do not ask for passports. Inside the passport is the traveller's picture. Children travelling with their parents are included(包含) in one parent's book. Thousands of people from the United States visit other countries every year. An American traveller might carry plane tickets, money, clothing and many other things, but the most important that he carries inanother country is his passport.1. A passport is not needed when an American goes to .A. foreign countriesB. dangerous areasC. Canada or MexicoD. foreign countries2. From the passage we can see thatA. children can' t travel to foreign countriesB. Americans like travellingC. a traveller is not safe in most countriesD. Americans like to travel to close countries3. Which statement does the passage lead you to believe?A. People should take care of their passports.B. It is not important to have a passport to travel.C. Children are never included in a passport.D. When you are in another country, money is more important than a passport.4. Which of the following statements is true?A.When Americans are travelling in another country, they must obey the rules of the country.B. The American government sometimes allow its people to travel to dangerous places.C. A passport is needed wherever an American is travelling.D. A passport only helps the traveller to know where he will go.三It takes many years for you to grow up. There are two periods in your life when you grow rapidly. The first period begins right after you are born and lasts until you are about six months old. The second period starts when you reach the age of 13. First, girls grow faster than boys, then boys catch up and grow faster and stronger.Your head stops growing earlier than the rest of you. By the time you are ten, your head is nearly full size. The bones of your arms and legs are short when you are a baby. When you reach the age of nine, your bones starts to grow rapidly, and will keep growing until you reach your full height (高度).Besides growing taller, your body changes in other ways. When a boy is about 13 years old, his voice begins to get deeper and he may begin to grow a beard (胡子). At about the age of 13, a girl’s body begins to function (运行) like a woman’s. Some important changes are taking place, changes that makes it possible for boys and girls, when they are older, to become fathers and mothers.1. The first period in your life when you grow very rapidly ____________________.A. lasts about thirteen yearsB. lasts about six monthsC. doesn’t begin until you are about six months oldD. begins when you are six months old2. Your head nearly stop growing __________________.A. when you are bornB. when you are ten years oldC. when you are thirteen years oldD. when you are six months old3. About the age of 13, a child ________________.A. stops growingB. reaching his full heightC. begins to grow a beardD. begins to change in other ways4. The meaning of the last sentence is that __________________.A. boys and girls are not sure to become fathers and mothers when they are oldB. it is necessary for boys and girls to become fathers and mothers when they grow upC. boys and girls must have some important changes before they grow upD. it is important that boys and girls should become fathers and mothers when they are older五Dear Michelle,My mother is not a good example for me and my sister. She smokes, stays out late, and she curses(咒骂). I love her but I am ashamed of her. I do not want to bring my friends home because she does not act like any of the other mothers. She says I am a loser because I sit at home and study. I wish I could live in another family that was normal, but it will be 5 years before I am 18. What am I supposed to do until then?Prisoner of a Crazy HouseDear 7th Grader,I am glad that you love your mother because the rest of your feelings about her may change as you get older and mature.While it is true that your mother’s smoking, partying and cursing bring you shame, the fact that you want to stay separate from her doings is notable and very smart. It shows that you are a winner, not a loser. I am guessing, therefore, that you do not bring shame to yourself, and that is a good thing. So, keep it that way and keep away from your mother’s habits.At the same time, try to get the best grades and join clubs and school activities. Offer social service on weekends and visit your friends at their homes.Fortunately, you are not alone. Many teens live in homes with immature, misguided, selfish parents. But they develop good friendships with nice kids, do well in school, and often find a teacher or guidance advisor who makes all the difference!Do it, Miss Winning 13 years old, and keep looking forward to your own future. Maybe by then your mother may even see the light and realize how good you really are.Michelle1. Michelle doesn’t address her letter receiver as “Prisoner of a Crazy House” possibly because she_________________.A. tries to be politeB. doesn’t wri te to the kid aloneC. knows that’s a girl in Grade 7D. wants to cheer the kid up2. According to the passage, Michelle advises the girl to ______________.A. try talking to her mother for her futureB. stick to her attitude towards her mother’s some habitsC. understand her mother’s habits and get used to themD. try to keep away from her mother3. What does Michelle mainly express by writing the last four paragraphs?A. Don’t worry too much about the problem.B. Many parents act terribly.C. Parents’ manners make little difference.D. The girl is not speaking for herself.4 What does Miss Winning 13 years old refer to in the last paragraph but one?A. the girl who turns to Michelle for helpB. MichelleC. the girl’s motherD. a famous person whom we all admire四Just as the sun is starting to shine and the days are getting longer, the examination period begins! I’d like to wish all students the very best luck in your exams and with your dissertations（专题论文）.For those of you who will be leaving us this summer, I hope that you will take with you fond memories of Birmingham and that you keep in touch.If you are staying in Birmingham over the summer, do try to come along to our summer garden party on 18 June. Spouses and children are very welcome to join us too.Summer Garden PartyWednesday 18, June 2003From 2 p.m. －5 p. m.Celebrate the end of exams and the end of term with a summer garden party in the beautiful grounds of Westmere on Edgbaston Park Road.Ali international students, their spouses and children are welcome to join us. We’ll have lots of party games as well as food and drink. What better way to mark the end of the academic year?If you would like to come along, please contact Mal Graham, international Student Assistant: Tel: 0121 414 2894 E-mail: M.M.Graham@.We look forward to seeing many of you there. Have a great summer.1. The above invitation is from _________A. a middle school in BirminghamB. a college in BirminghamC. the government of BirminghamD. an organizer of a summer camp2. What is the invitation mainly aimed at?A. Inviting all the students to attend a part in a beautiful park.B. In forming all international students of the end of the summer term.C. Saying goodbye to those who are about to leave the university.D. inviting all international students to attend a summer party.3. The underlined word “spouse” refer to _________.A. the oldB. the adultC. a relative of friendD. a husband or wife4.What can we learn from the text? _________A. The party will last for 4 hours.B. Some students will graduate this summer.C. The party will be held during the examination period.D. All the students there are married七Go to church, then have a big lunch, then go out to play while mum does the housework. That was a typical (典型的) British Sunday in the 1960s. But things now could not be more different. Some British sociologists recently studied the typical British Sunday. They found that people get up later and do less housework than they did 40 years ago. They are far more likely to be out shopping or enjoying themselves than cooking Sunday lunch.Sunday mornings were busy 40 years ago. Most women caught up on their weekly housework and cooked a nice lunch. They seldom allowed themselves any “leisure” until afternoon, after the dishes were cleaned. Then there would be another rush to the table between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm for tea.But now, Britons can have brunch (早午餐) at the restaurant. Fewer people bother to cook themselves.“You only have two free days a week. You don’t want to have to waste one because there is nothing to do but watch boring TV,” said Elizabeth Biggs, 25, a producer in London.“On Saturday you are recovering from the week,” Biggs added. “Sundays are the last chance for the weekend — you want to get as much as you can out of the day before you have to go back to work.”In the past, British women usually did their shopping during the week, while the husband was at work. “Now men seem to do that as much as women,” said Jonathan Gershuny, a professor who took part in the study.Men also do more housework now on Sundays. Back in the 1960s, men were far more likely to spend Sundays out of the house — at the pub or playing football — before lunch.1. Many Britons have brunch at the restaurant because _______.A. They have no time to cook at home.B. They get up too late.C. They won’t bother to cook themselves.D. They will go to church.2. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Britons used to go to church on Sundays.B. Britons usually had a big lunch at home.C. British women usually did their shopping during the week in the past.D. British men did little housework at home in the past.3. The text mainly tells us ________.A. what Britons did on SundaysB. why Britons go shopping on SundaysC. how Britons spend their holidaysD. the changes of the ways the Britons spend their Sundays4. What can we infer from the passage?A. Men do more housework on Sundays.B. Sundays in Britain might be very boring in the past.C. No people go to church on Sundays now.D. Britons all go out on Sundays.六Young people in most countries like to dance. Different peoples have different kinds of dances.Pretend (假装)that you are in Africa. You are visiting the Kikuyu tribe.Hear the drums beat! Listen to the flutes! Almost 2,000 Kikuyus are meeting for the most important dance of the year.First, the Kikuyus choose a large, flat place for their dance. For hundreds of years, they have danced on an autumn night when the moon is full. The moon and the flame from small fires light the dancers.Older people watch from the side while young men and women gather at the dancing place. The girls wear leather skirts and tops. The men wear fancy headdresses and carry spears. The dancers' skin and clothes are colored by light red chalk. The chalk and the firelight make the dancers look like statues.The dancers act out stories of good and bad deeds. The dances tell stories of lion hunts and other adventures. In one dance, the girls stand on the boys' feet. The girls are pretending to be afraid of snakes.All night the drums beat and the fires burn. But the dancers never seem to get tired.1. The place where the Kikuyu tribe dances is _______.A. flatB. SmallC. hillyD. square2. On the whole, this story is about ______.A. the beat of drumsB. an African danceC. African storytellingD. the Kikuyus3. What do the Kikuyu dances tell?A. The dances tell the story of drum beat.B. The dances tell about adventures.C. The dances tell funny jokes.D. The dances tell stories in the past.4. Which of these sentences do you think is right?A. The Kikuyus do not often get together.B. Dancing is important to the Kikuyus.C. The most important event is singing.D. After the dancing, all the dancers got tired.九Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words and we are often able to know where most words come from.Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn’t speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating round piece of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans didn’t understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round piece of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today, “hamburgers” are sold in many countries around the world.Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.1 Hamburg is ____________A. a kind of foodB. a round piece of beefC. the name of a villageD. a city in Germany2. According to the passage, ___________.A. few Americans like hamburgersB. hamburgers are made with beefC. hamburgers are made with hamD. hamburgers were first sold about a century ago3 According to the writer, which of the following can often be found in any large English dictionary?A. Where all the new words come from.B. Where those Germans came from.C. The reason why a word has a certain meaning.D. The reason why English is spoken around the world.4 From the story, we can know that the word “hamburger” comes from ___________.A.China because it has a long historyB. English because Germans don’t speak good EnglishC. The round piece of beef which those people from Hamburg were eatingD. English speakers because they always create new words八Every day we go to school and listen to the teacher, and the teacher will ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask for your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat with friends—you are in a slightly unnatural situation where a large group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you—loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout or appearing to force yourself. Remember, too, that it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professorof your school or a government official who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease (not worried) but the situation is somewhat different from that of an ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.1. When you speak to the class, you should speak ________.A. as slowly as possibleB. in a low voiceC. loudlyD. forcefully2. Usually, when you speak to the class, the class is ________.A. noisyB. quietC. having a restD. serious3. The situation in the class is _________that in your house.A. not very different fromB. sometimes the same asC. sometimes not the same asD. not the same as4. If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is____.A. to show your abilityB. to be very gentleC. to make sure that you can be heardD. to put the official at ease5. The main idea of this passage is _______.A. that we should talk in different ways in different situationsB. that we must speak loudlyC. that we must keep silent at any timeD. that we must talk with the class十一U.S.— A South African man could face up to 25 years in prison for joking that he was carrying a bomb on an airline, police said Friday.The 40-year-old man was arrested at Johannesburg airport on Thursday after he told an airhostess on nationwide airliner after take-off from Durban that he had a bomb in his bag.“We don’t take this sort of thing lightly. He could face a jail term of between five andtwenty-five years without the option (选择) of a fine.”Security precautions (安全措施) were taken against the man —a resident from the wealthy (富有) Johannesburg suburb of Sandown —on the flight.Airline people didn’t find any explosives or weapons in hi s bags.“Security measures at airport and on plane have been intensified（加强）immediately after the recent horrific and tragic terror（恐怖）attacks in America,”a police statement said. Thousands of people are believed to have died after the hijacked (劫机) airliners flew into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center in the worst terror attack in U.S. history.1 The man was arrested because he _______.A. went aboard the plane with a bomb in his bagB. security measures at airport and plane have been intensified.C. was joking at the airport.D. said on the plane that he was carrying a bomb in his bag.2. The man may _______.A. serve as many as 25 years in prisonB. get away after paying a large sum of money.C. get locked up in his wealthy home in Sandown.D. be ordered to give up his weapons to the police.3 Security measures have been strengthened at airports in the States to counterattack (反击)______. A. air crashes B. smuggling C. terror attacks D. shoplifting4. This news article is mainly about ________.A. a terror attack in AmericaB. a high cost for a jokeC. the bad luck of a rich manD. the security measures at an airport in America.十For many years Henry had been a journalist. He had worked on many international newspapers and magazines and traveled all over the world.Henry had witnessed wars and natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and erupting volcanoes (火山爆发) .He had reported on serious accidents such as big fires and airline crashes.He had seen every kind of terrible crime and strange event there was.He had met and written about some of the most unusual people in the world.In fact, there wasn’t much that Henry had not seen or done.Now he retired from journalism(新闻业). He owned a very expensive restaurant and spent his days talking to his wealthy and important customers. He liked to say that nothing surprised him. One day he was sitting at the bar in his restaurant when a big gorilla walked in and asked for a table.Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant. The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad.Henry served the gorilla his salad personally, knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened.At last the gorilla finished his salad and asked for the bill.Henry wrote out the bill and handed it to the big animal.The gorilla studied it, shook his head sadly, then gave Henry fifty dollars.“Thank you”, Henry said, and then to make conversation he added, “We don’t get many gorillas in this restaurant.”“At fifty dollars for a salad,” the gorilla said, “I’m not surprised.”1．What does the under lined word “witness” mean?A. when something happens one sees or notices it on the spotB. to be part ofC. to tell what happensD. to feel unhappy with 2．According to the story, Henry had .A. had the most exciting experiencesB. told the longest storiesC. made historyD. caused accidents3．One day when a gorilla came into the restaurant, Henry was .A. very surprised by the gorillaB. not troubled by the gorillaC. very interested in the gorillaD. scared of the gorilla4．The gorilla was____A. angry with the saladB. still hungry after his saladC. not surprised by the cost of the foodD. surprised by the prices十二How to protect child web fans from unsuitable materials (不合适材料) on-line while encouraging them to use the Internet has long been discussed in the US. For some time, the Internet seems like a forest, filled with dangers for children. But forests have wonders as well as dangers, and with good guides, some education and a few precautions(预防措施) ,the wilds of the Internet can besafely navigated(航行). "Children have to be on-line. If we tell our children they can' t have chances to the Internet, we' re cutting them off from their future," said an expert.Most children have started to use search engines. Many of them are great for finding lots of interesting Internet sites and they can also go to places where you might not want them to go. There are such engines made just for children. A certain software (软件) contains only sites that have been selected as safe. The most popular way to limit chances would be to use what is known as a "content screener(过滤器)”. But this can't be wholly safe, and the best thing parents can do is to talk to their kids and let them know what is OK or not OK to see or do on the Internet. Another way is that mum or dad is nearby when the child is surfing the Internet.A few other tips:1) Don' t put the PC in a child's room, but keep it in a place where mum or dad can keep an eye on things. That also makes the Internet more of a family activity.2) Ask your child not to give on-line strangers personal information, especially like address and phone number.3) Tell your children never to talk to anyone they meet on-line over the phone, send them anything, accept anything from them or agree to meet with them unless you go along.1. What is the main subject about the passage?A. Fighting against children on-line.B. Internet in America.C. American children going on-line.D. Children's web sites.2. According to the passage, we can infer thatA. the writer doesn't encourage children to surf the InternetB. the Internet has a lot of harmful sitesC. the Internet is a forest full of dangersD. a child who is on-line is in danger3. What does the passage tell us most?A. EducationB. Good guidesC. PrecautionsD. Software十四Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything—tutors , cards, special learning centers—in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic(天主教的) school.After the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn’t kiss his mother hello. Instead，he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time，day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.Finally，little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise，little Tommy got an A in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity .She went to his room and asked, “Son, what was it? Was it the nuns(修女)? ”Little Tommy looked at her and shook his head, “No. ”“Well then,” she asked again. “WHAT was it? ”Little Tommy looked at her and said, “Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that mannailed to the plus sign(加号),I knew they weren’t joking. ”1. Tommy’s mother felt surprised that his son____.A. was still the same as usualB. ate so much at dinnerC. kissed her hello after schoolD. worked hard but said little2. The underlined phrase “hitting the books” means “____”in Chinese.A. 用功B. 捶书C. 发泄D. 振作3. The last sentence in the passage shows that____.A. Tommy felt sorry for the manB. Tommy was afraid of being nailedC. Tommy didn’t like the plus signD. Tommy liked playing jokes on others4. From the passage, we can infer that____.A. teachers should be strict with their studentsB. mistakes might do good sometimesC. a catholic school is much better than other onesD. nuns are good at helping children with their math十三Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle（航天飞机）Challenger, in June, 1993. The achievement of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space, made this flight especially memorable. Students from two high schools in Camden, New Jersey, however, are likely to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight.Norma didn’t travel along. She brought about 100 companions（伙伴）along with her. Norma was an ant, a queen ant who, with her subjects, made up the first ant colony（群体）to travel into space. The ants were part of a science experiment designed by the students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects.The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly through-out the long space trip. The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened. The problem did not occur in space, but on the ground after Challenger had landed. The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was removed. The hot dry desert air dried out the colony’s container（容器）and the ants died from lack of moisture（水分）.The project was termed a success because it did provide useful information. Students will continue their efforts to find out exactly what went wrong. They will try to prevent the same difficulties from recurring on future missions. They don’t want to be discouraged either by the death of the ants or by the $10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space.1. The story is mainly about ___________.A. Sally Ride’s first rideB. space equipment for insectsC. a space experiment with antsD. going to school in New Jersey2. The project wasn’t a failure because ___________.A. some important things were learnedB. dead ants are betterC. everything went as expectedD. students wrote about it3. The ants died because _________.A. weightlessness harmed themB. space caused too much painC. no one fed them in spaceD. they dried out in the desert4 On the next space trip, ants _________.A. will be sent without peopleB. should not be left in the desert too long。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇Richard Campbell is a secondary school student. He is 15 years old. He lives in a small town in the north of England. Every morning, he gets up at eight o’clock, puts on his uniform and walks to school.One hour later, the lessons start. The students usually study maths, English, history and geography in the morning. They usually study music and drawing and they play sports after lunch. They have a ten-minute break between classes. They also spend a long time in the school library, reading books and doing their homework.Richard likes his school very much. His favourite subjects are English and geography, but he doesn’t like maths because he is not good at it.Richard and all his friends spend the whole day at school. Lunch is at one o’clock. He doesn’t like the food that the school serves. This is why he often brings a packed lunch from home. He always has his lunch in the dining hall, but some of his friends sometimes eat in the courtyard or outside the school gate.At weekends, he alwa ys goes out with his friends because he doesn’t go to school. On Saturday, he always goes to the cinema or to the sports centre. On Sunday, he just goes for a walk with his dog.1．What time do Richard’s lessons begin in the morning?A．At 8:00. B．At 8:30.C．At 9:00. D．At 9:10.2．What does Richard like best?A．Maths and English. B．English and geography.C．History and maths. D．Geography and history.3．Where does Richard have lunch on weekdays?A．In the dining hall. B．At home.C．In the courtyard. D．Outside his school gate.4．What does Richard always do on Saturday?A．He reads and does homework.B．He goes to see films or does sports.C．He walks his dog or does exercise.D．He spends a long time in the library.【答案】1．C2．B3．A4．B【分析】这是一篇记叙文。

高一英语阅读理解50篇(付详解)中考英语阅读理解·“老”字趣谈每个国家都有各自的文化习惯，而这种文化上的差异往往会引起一定的误会，不过只要熟悉对方的风俗习惯做到入乡随俗，一切就OK啦！When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect(尊敬) elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive(敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry.In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings through words.By Jack根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇The word “sport” first meant something that people did in their free time. Later it often meant hunting wild animals and birds. About a hundred years ago the word was first used for organized games. This is the usual meaning of the word today. People spend a lot of time playing football, basketball, tennis and many other sports. Such people play because they leant to. A few people are paid for sport they play. These people are called professional sportsmen. They may be sportsmen for only a few years, but during that time the best ones can earn a lot of money. For example, a professional football player in England earns more than 300,000 dollars a year. The stars earn a lot more. International golf and tennis champions can make more than 500,000 dollars a year. Of course, only a few sportsmen can earn as much as that.Perhaps the most surprising thing about sportsmen and money is that the stars can earn more money from advertising than from sports. An advertisement for sports equipment does not simply mean, “Buy our things”. It says, “Buy the same shirt and shoes as…” Famous sportsmen can even advertise things like watches and food. They allow the companies to use their names or a photo of them and they are paid for this. Sport is no longer just something for people’s spare time.1．From the passage we can learn that .A．famous people spend too much money and time on sportsB．the development of sports is slower than any other activityC．most people enjoy sports because they can earn a lot of moneyD．now sports is not only an amusement for people2．In this passage “professional sportsmen” means people “_____________”.A．who teach others how to make money in sportsB．who take sports as their jobsC．who are very fond of sportsD．who teach other sportsmen how to play sports3．Now, the “sport” means .A．what most of the people do in their spare timeB．hunting wild animals and birds in the forestsC．organized gamesD．something that people are paid to4．Which of the following is TRUE?A．Most people play sports only for money.B．Those who play sports earn more than those who do not.C．People play sports for different purposes.D．Those who play sports want to keep strong and fit.【答案】1．D2．B3．C4．C【分析】本文是说明文。

高一英语阅读理解题20套(带答案)含解析一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解A Guide to the UniversityFoodThe TWU Cafeteria is open 7 am to 8 pm. It serves snacks, drinks, ice cream bars and meals. You can pay with cash or your ID cards. You can add meal money to your ID cards at the Front Desk. Even if you do not buy your food in the cafeteria, you can use the tables to eat your lunch, to have meetings and to study.If you are on campus in the evening or late at night, you can buy snacks, fast food, and drinks in the Lower Café located in the bottom level of the Gouglas Centre. This area is often used for entertainment such as concerts, games or TV watching.RelaxationThe Globe, located in the bottom level of McMillan Hall, is available for relaxing, studying, cooking, and eating. Monthly activities are held here for all international students. Hours are 10 am to 10 pm, closed on Sundays.HealthLocated on the top floor of Douglas Hall, the Wellness Centre is committed to physical, emotional and social health. A doctor and nurse is available if you have health questions or need immediate medical help or personal advice. The cost of this is included in your medical insurance. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 pm.TransportationThe TWU Express is a shuttle service. The shuttle transports students between campus and the shopping centre, leaving from the Mattson Centre. Operation hours are between 8 am and 3 pm. Saturdays only. Round trip fare is $1.（1）What can you do in the TWU Cafeteria?A. Do homework and watch TVB. Have meals and meet with friendsC. Buy drinks and enjoy concertsD. Add money to your ID and play chess（2）Where and when can you cook your own food?A. The TWU Cafeteria, Friday.B. The Lower Café, Sunday.C. The Globe, Friday.D. The Mattson Centre, Saturday.（3）The Guide tells us that the Wellness Centre _________.A. gives advice on mental healthB. offers services free of chargeC. trains students in medical careD. is open six days a week【答案】（1）B（2）C（3）A【解析】【分析】本文是一则应用文．介绍了大学部分服务项目的情况。

【英语】高一英语阅读理解题20套(带答案)含解析一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解A new family moved in next door and I got to meet the mother of the family, Lydia. Lydia is Korean, and her family moved to our city so her husband could go to graduate school. We started talking, and she was apologetic about how bad her English was, but I didn't care. I knew how hard it was to learn a second language. I enjoyed chatting with Lydia as we watched our kids play.It was what came next that challenged me: Lydia asked if I'd be willing to help her with her English. Now, I am not a teacher. I admire teachers, and I'm grateful for teachers, and it's because I admire what they do so much that I was very very sure that I couldn't do it myself.But Lydia was sure that she wanted my help. I was doubtful. I wasn't sure my "help" was even worth being called by that name. But because she asked me, I said "yes." And that was the beginning of a friendship. Lydia and I spent afternoons sitting together and reading the newspaper, and as we did, she asked me questions when she had them questions about language, yes, but also questions about the new culture she found herself in. In turn, I asked my own questions, growing curious about her home country and culture. We bonded over our shared faith and our struggles as mothers of kids with special needs, When I complimented（恭维） her cooking, she began to teach me about Korean food, eventually leading to a shared trip to explore the Korean grocery stores in our city. Because of Lydia, 1 learned more about my own hometown than I ever could have learned by myself. I'm still not sure that I'm any good as a teacher. But I'm grateful I said "yes" when my neighbor asked me to help her with her English. That meant spending extra time with my neighbor, and that extra time meant she didn't remain just my neighbor. She became my friend.（1）What was Lydia sorry about?A. Her bad English.B. Her carelessness.C. Nobody teaching her English.D. Her poor life in a new place.（2）What can be concluded from the third paragraph?A. The author admired teachers.B. The author wanted to be a teacher.C. The author didn't want to help Lydia.D. The author was not confident in helping Lydia.（3）Why was the author grateful at the last paragraph?A. She managed to learn English well.B. She made friends with her neighbor.C. She learned how to cook Korean food.D. She realized her dream of being a teacher.（4）What can we learn from the passage?A. No pains, no gains.B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.C. To help others is to help ourselves.D. Where there is a will, there is a way.【答案】（1）A（2）D（3）B（4）C【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，作者在帮助新搬来的邻居学习英语时，感受到了快乐和收获，并且和邻居成为了好朋友。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇It’s hard to avoid looking like a fool on April Fool’s Day. On April 1 each year, people play tricks on each other. These tricks are usually silly rather than mean. Classmates sometimes tie each other’s shoelaces to their chairs. Teachers might hand out an impossibly difficult surprise test that scares students before they realise it’s only a joke. Newspapers announce fake contests (such as “Win an elephant!”) and report on fake stories (like “UFO” lands in New York City).Forget gifts, songs and special foods-those are for the other holidays of the year. On April Fool’s Day, the only tradition is to laugh (and maybe to cause a little bit of trouble).One April Fool’s Day, when I was in high school, a group of students in my class played a very clever and funny trick on the teachers. They bought some chickens and set them free in our school cafeteria. The chickens ran all round the school, in and out of classrooms and under our feet. Feathers were flying everywhere.Teachers began running after the chickens, trying to catch them. Finally, they caught four of them. But the chickens were wearing numbered tags around their necks, and the teachers discovered that they had only caught chickens NO. 1, 2, 3, and 5. Where was chicken No. 4?The te achers looked and looked. They couldn’t find another chicken. After a few hours, they realised that the students had played another joke on them: There were only four chickens in the first place! They’d been tricked by the numbers on the chickens.It’s been a long time since I was in high school, but that April Fool’s Day remains one of my favourite memories from those years.1．What can we infer from the first paragraph on April Fool’s Day?A．Everyone is hard to avoid being fooled on April Fool’s Day.B．Students play jokes on teachers on April Fool’s Day.C．Teachers play tricks on students on April Fool’s Day.D．Newspapers often cheat people.2．Why did students set chickens free?A．They wanted to let chickens free. B．They wanted to let chickens run all round the school.C．They wanted to see feathers flying. D．They wanted to play a trick on the teachers. 3．How many jokes did the students play on the teachers?A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.【答案】1．A2．D3．B【分析】这是一篇记叙文。

高中阅读理解专项训练附答案解析1篇On Monday, I stopped my car in front of my daughter Juliet’s middle school. She jumped in the front seat, feeling down. She asked me to help her study for her science test.“Dad, I need to memorise a unit about the Reproductive Cycle o f Plants. And I can hardly make it.”“You know memorising seems like the best way to study, but in fact you can do better in tests if you work on trying to understand the material.”Juliet was open to my advice. It was Monday afternoon and we had two nights to study before the test on Wednesday. I suggested a plan. “Tomorrow night, you are going to teach the material to me. Tonight, read the unit. Prepare to teach.”Asking her to teach me was an unusual idea but I was determined to do it. Studies show teaching somebody else is a very useful way to learn. Even if you don’t do the teaching, the act of preparing to teach leads to more learning than just trying your best to memorise the material. On Tuesday afternoon, Juliet sat down with her science book facing me and said, “Okay Dad, let’s study.” I wanted her to teach me. But false starts happened. I couldn’t be too hard on her. So instead we started with me asking her some simple questions. She knew some but not others. When she didn’t know the answers, I enc ouraged her to check the book.She started checking things that didn’t make sense. And she was actively seeking to test her understanding. I was happy to see it. She wasn’t memorising; she was trying to make sense of things, which was exactly what I had hoped she would do.1．Why did Juliet feel down?A．Because she failed her science test.B．Because she had trouble memorising a unit.C．Because she knew nothing about planting.D．Because she couldn’t follow her teacher.2．In the writer’s opinion, which was the key to best learni ng?A．Memorising. B．Testing.C．Questioning. D．Understanding.3．What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A．Making her check the book.B．Using simple questions to test her.C．Encouraging her to read the unit.D．Asking her to teach me the unit.4．Which can be the best title for the passage?A．A Creative FatherB．An Unexpected TestC．Learning from TeachingD．Preparing for Teaching【答案】1．B2．D3．D4．C【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了爸爸通过让女儿教他来学习这种方式帮助女儿深入理解所学的知识。