高一英语限时阅读（18）
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It’s Probably not All Luck
IN 2005, David J. Hand, a math professor at Imperial College London, went to a conference(会议) in the US with one of his students. They bought their return tickets separately. But when they boarded the plane, they were surprised to find that they were seated right next to each other.
“What a coincidence（巧合）!” you might say.
Yes, coincidences happen all the time. Sometimes they are so weird (不可思议的) that there seem to be no explanations for them. That sometimes leads people to attribute them to supernatural forces. But are those really responsible?
According to a new book by Professor Hand, The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, what we think of as extremely unlikely events actually happen around us all the time, and they can all be explained by the laws of probability, reported The Washington Post.
Take Hand’s experience on the plane as an example. Since there are 450 seats on that plane, it may seem like a 1 in 450 chance that he would have been seated next to his student. But the fact is that many passengers travel in pairs or other groups, and they all require adjacent (相邻的) seats, which makes solo travelers more likely to be seated next to other solo travelers. This increases the odds（几率）from 1 in 450 to a much greater chance.
Another occasion on which coincidences happen frequently is the lottery（彩票）. On Sept 6, 2009, for example, the Bulgarian lottery randomly selected the winning numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35, and four days later those numbers were chosen again.
According to Hand, although the odds of two specific number draws (抽取) matching are very small, since there are many lotteries globally, the chance of any two draws matching increases with the number of draws, and it reaches a probability of greater than 50 percent by the 4,404th round.
“With a large enough number of opportunities, any outrageous (不寻常的) thing is likely to happen,” writes Hand.
People tend to underestimate（低估）the probability of an event because they usually focus on specific instances instead of the broader context, he added.
“We should expect the unexpected,” Hand told New Scientist. “They may not be as improbable as you think.”
1. By mentioning Hand’s experi ence on the flight at the beginning of the article, the author intends to ____.
A. show how people usually react to coincidences
B. show that such coincidences actually happen frequently
C. promote Hand’s newly-published book on coincidences
D. make us wonder what caused that coincidence
2. What does Hand think can explain almost all coincidences?
A. Supernatural forces.
B. The laws of probability.
C. Their broader contexts.
D. The law of natural selection.
3. What did Hand believe increased his chances of sitting next to his student?
A. The limited seats on the plane.
B. The times when they booked their return tickets.
C. The fact that many of the other passengers were traveling together with others.
D. The rule that solo travelers must sit in specific areas of planes.
4. What can we conclude from the article?
A. The author believes that there are no supernatural forces at all.
B. If you bet on the same numbers each time, you will soon win the lottery.
C. Failing to see the broader contexts for events makes us fail to grasp their true probabilities.
D. Outrageous events wouldn’t happen if there were a large enough total number of events.
B
More Fit Than Ever
THIS is an excerpt (摘录) from actress and snowboarder Amy Purdy’s speech at TED (一个旨在“用思想的力量来改变世界”的全球会议):
… The doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis (细菌性脑膜炎). Over the course of two and a half months, I lost my spleen (脾), my kidneys (肾), the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knees. When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital, I felt like I had been pieced back together like a patchwork (布片缝制物) doll ...
I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken. But I knew that in order to move forward, I had to let go of the old Amy and learn to embrace the new Amy. And that is when it dawned on me, that I didn’t have to be small anymore. I could be as tall as I wanted or as short as I wanted depending on whom I was dating. And if I snowboard again, my feet aren’t going to get cold. And the best of all, I thought, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes that are on the sales rack (架子) and I did. So there were benefits here.
It was at this moment that I asked myself that life-defining question: if my life were a book and I were the author, how would I want the
... Four months later, I was back up on a snowboard, although things didn’t go quite as expected. At one point, I traumatized (使精神受伤) all the skiers in the cable cars when I fell and my legs, still attached to my snowboard, went skiing down t
was just as shocked as everybody else and I was so discouraged. But I knew that if I could find the right pair of feet that I would be able to do this again …
I started snowboarding. Then I went back to work. And then I went back to school. Then, in 2005, I co-founded a non-profit organization for youth and young adults with physical disabilities so they could get involved with action sports. From there, I got the opportunity to go to South Africa where I helped to put shoes on thousands of children’s feet so they could attend school. And just this past February, I won two back-to-back (接连的) World Cup gold medals, which made me the highest-ranked adaptive (残疾的) female snowboarder in the world.
Eleven years ago, when I lost my legs, I had no idea what to expect. But if you ask me today, if I would ever want to change my situation, I would have to say no, because my legs haven’t disabled me. If anything, they’ve enabled me. They’ve forced me to rely on my imagination and to bel ieve in possibilities, and that’s why I believe that our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through borders, because in our minds, we can do anything and we can be anything. It’s belief in those dreams and facing our fears head-on that allow us to live our lives beyond our limits.
5. The underlined word “embrace” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A. keep away from
B. accept gladly
C. communicate with
D. take care of
6. What happened when the author went skiing not long after she was out of the hospital?
A. Almost everybody there was inspired by her attempt.
B. She went down the mountain so fast that she hurt herself.
C. She was displeased with her performance, but she didn't lose heart.
D. It turned out that she performed better than she had expected.
7. What message does the author want to convey with her speech?
A. Misfortune never comes alone, so be prepared.
B. People without imagination can never succeed.
C. It’s not what happens to you but how you react that matters.
D. Life is full of ups and downs and we should learn to live with them.
8. Which of the following best describes the author?
A. Patient and sensitive.
B. Humorous and ambitious.
C. Optimistic and determined.
D. Emotional and imaginative.
C
How Face Show Feelings
HERE is a task for you: try to make as many kinds of facial expressions as you can. How many can you come up with?
Facial expressions are like a window to your emotions inside. Scientists used to believe that we only have six basic emotions –happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised and disgusted –and, therefore, each of our facial expressions falls into one of the six categories.
But it turns out that this is just the tip of the iceberg. In a recent study, scientists from Ohio State University, US, mapped 21 different facial expressions, more than tripling (是……的三倍) the original number, reported Science Daily.
Restricting emotions to just six categories is like “painting only using primary colo
said Aleix Martinez, the lead researcher. He believed that human emotions are much richer than that, which is why he and his team decided to use advanced computer technology for further investigation.
In the experiment, scientists photographed 230 volunteers – 100 male and 130 female – while they made faces in response to different words such as “you smell a bad odor (气味)”. They then closely studied the images by examining key muscles on volunteers’ faces, such as the corners of the mouth or the outer edge of the eyebrow, and finally identified 21 different expressions. These included what seem to be contradictory (截然相反的) emotions such as “happily disgusted” and “sadly angry”, which scientists call “compound (混合的) emotions”.
Take “happily disgusted” a s an example. Putting on a happy face is usually done by drawing up the cheeks and smiling while a disgusted face often involves a scrunched-up (皱起的) nose and eyes. So the “happily disgusted” emotion created an expression that combined the smile of happy with the scrunched-up eyes and nose of disgusted (as seen in the picture below). It was the emotion test subjects felt when something “gross (恶心的)” happened that was also funny – for example, when people spill (洒出) a lot of food on their clothes.
Similarly, “happily surprised” is an expression for receiving unexpected good news. “Sadly angry” is the face we make when someone we care about makes us angry.
According to Martinez, the researchers’ next step is to study the pathways and chemicals in the brain that activate (激活) and recognize those emotions. He believes that this could lead to effective treatments for people who suffer from conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD, 创伤后应激障碍), which involves a lack of recognition of other people’s emot ions.
9. The underlined part “this is just the tip of the iceberg” in Paragraph 3 probably means
____.
A. this is a truth known to us all
B. this is the total amount of something
C. this is easily seen or discovered
D. this is only the smallest and most obvious part of something
10. How does the author explain the definition of “compound emotions” in the article?
A. With comparisons.
B. Through examples.
C. Through cause and effect analysis.
D. By presenting research findings.
11. According to the article, people are likely to become happily disgusted when ____.
A. they receive unexpected good news
B. someone they don’t care about makes them happy
C. something unpleasant but also funny happens
D. they successfully escape from a dangerous situation
12. What can we conclude from the article?
A. There are several contradictory emotions we tend to overlook.
B. Females have more contradictory emotions than males do.
C. The chemicals in the brain that activate emotions are easy to identify.
D. Martinez’s next goal is to find an effective cure for people who suffer from PTSD.
D
SOME families pass down brains and musical talent from one generation to the next. Others pass down angular (尖的) noses and strong jaw lines. Ours passes down clothing quirks.
When our oldest daughter was a toddler (蹒跚学步的孩子), she had issues with socks. She’d go crazy over socks with seams (线头) across the toes.
“What’s wrong with your kid?” another mother would ask.
“Socks,” I would say.
The mother would nod a nd say: “Corduroy (灯芯绒).”
That meant she understood the sock problem because her kid had the same problem with corduroy. He probably couldn’t stand the sound it made when it rubbed together.
We shared a duplex (复式公寓) with a family whose youngest daughter absolutely refused to wear long sleeves. It would be the middle of winter and she would be wearing a tank top (无袖上衣).
When our son was young, he had issues with shoes. He often did a mix-and-match (混搭) thing with his tennis shoes. I figured as long as the k id could still walk, it wasn’t a matter of life
Not too long ago, I picked up a new shirt for my husband. This is something I do every five years or so even though he claims it is completely unnecessary. It was a shirt with small black and white checks (方形图案). He wore the shirt once and said he was never wearing it again because all those checks in his peripheral vision (周边视觉) annoyed him.
As for my quirk, I can’t stand button-down (领尖钉有钮扣的) shirts under pullover sweaters (套头毛衣). It’s so bad tha t when I see someone else wearing a button-down shirt under a sweater, I want to rip it off of them.
So far, I have restrained(克制) myself.
By the way, if your kid has issues with seams on the socks, just buy some socks without seams in them. It’s not spoiling your kid. It’s spending a couple extra dollars to keep your child from losing his or her mind.
It only took me 30 years to figure that out.
13. The underlined word “quirks” in the first paragraph probably means ____.
A. art of matching
B. unusual habits
C. special skills
D. something recycled
14. Which of the following was a problem that one of the author’s children had?
A. Her oldest daughter couldn't put up with seams on her socks.
B. Her son didn’t like to wear tennis shoes.
C. Her youngest daughter refused to wear long sleeves, even in winter.
D. Her middle child hated the sound corduroy made when it rubbed together.
15. How did the author’s husband react to the new shirt the author bought for him?
A. He didn't like it at all.
B. He liked its style but not its color.
C. He considered it too expensive.
D. He said it was exactly the type he had wanted.
16. Which of the following statements best describes the author?
A. She is strict with her children.
B. She has good taste in fashion.
C. She is tolerant, thoughtful and good-natured.
D. She doesn’t like to set rules for her children.
Passage A
1. D。由第三段“That sometimes leads people to attribute them to supernatural forces. But are those really responsible? ”可以推知文章开篇提到了汉德先生搭乘航班的一次巧合，旨在引起读者思考是什么导致这些巧合发生的呢，所以答案为D。
2. B。由第四段的“what we think of as extremely unlikely events actually happen around us all the time, and they can all be explained by the laws of probability”可知答案为B。
3. C。由第五段的“But the fact is that many passengers travel in pairs or other groups, and they all require adjacent (相邻的) seats, which makes solo travelers more likely to be seated next to other solo travelers. This increases the odds from 1 in 450 to a much greater chance. ”可推知C为正确答案。
4. C。由倒数第二段可知人们通过关注具体的例子，而不是更广的背景，从而低估了某些事发生的概率，所以C正确。A文中没有提及，B项的soon不对；D项的说法与事实相反。Passage B:
1. B。作者因为生病身心收到很大伤害，但是她随后意识到为了继续生活下去，她必须忘记过去的自己，而去接受新的自己，embrace在这里应该是表示“欣然接受”的意思，所以答案为B。
2. C。由第四段的“I was so shocked. I was just as shocked as everybody else and I was so discouraged. But I knew that if I could find the right pair of feet that I would be able to do this again …”可知答案为C。
3. C。根据第三段“It was at this moment that I asked myself that life-defining question: if my life were a book and I were the author, how would I want the story to go?”以及最后一段可知作者的这一演讲是想要告诉听众，残疾不要紧，要紧的是正确的人生态度，所以答案为C。
4. C。综观全文，不难看出作者的乐观与坚毅，所以答案为C。
Passage C:
1. D。第二段提到我们的情绪通常被归为六类，接下来作者笔锋一转，写道“但是结果证明这只是冰山一角”，结合上下文可知，D项正确地解释了划线部分的含义。
2. B。不难发现，作者主要是通过举例的手法来介绍compound emotions，一共举了三个例子：happily disgusted、happily surprised和Sadly angry，所以答案为B。
3. C。由倒数第三段的“It was the emotion test subjects felt when something “gross (恶心的)” happened that was also funny”可知C为正确答案。
4. A。Aleix Martinez的研究发现了不少的混合情绪，这是我们之前所忽略的，所以A为正确答案。B、C为中没有提及；Martinez的下一个任务是：study the pathways and chemicals in the brain that activate and recognize those emotions，所以D不对。
Passage D:
1. B。文中作者列举了她一家人穿着方面的怪癖，结合倒数第四段的“As for my quirk, I can’t stand button-down (领尖钉有钮扣的) shirts under pullover sweaters (套头毛衣).”不难猜出quirks的意思，所以答案为B。
2. A。由第二段可以推知A为正确答案。
3. A。由倒数第五段的“He wore the shirt once and said he was never wearing it again because all those checks in his peripheral vision (周边视觉) annoyed him.”可知作者的老公不喜欢这件衣服的方形图案，所以答案为A。
4. C。由作者对待她儿子穿衣的态度“I figured as long as the kid could still walk, it wasn’t a ma tter of life and death.”以及倒数第二段可知作者是一个宽容好脾气的人，所以答案为C。
高一英语阅读限时训练(9.24) A A man wanted to give his mother a birthday present. He bought a parrot. The parrot was very expensive. It was $50.000. This was because the bird could talk in English, Japanese, Chinese and other nine languages. It could also sing ten famous songs. On her birthday, the mother got the bird. However, she did not know all this. Early the next morning, the telephone rang in her house, and the woman answered. It was her son. “Do you like the bird, Mother?”these came her son’s voice on the ot her side. “Oh, yes, very much!” answer the mother. “It was delicious!” 1. The man gave his mother _______ as her birthday present. A. a parrot B. some money C. a birthday cake D. some new clothes 2. A parrot is __________. A. a kind of car B. a bird which can do housework for you C. a bird that can speak D. a robot that can speak nine foreign languages. 3. Why was the bird so dear?______________ A. Because it was very friendly to people. B. Because it could speak twelve languages. C. Because it could sing ten famous songs. D. Both B and C 4. What was the end of the bird?____________ A. It flew away. B. It was dead. C. It talked with the old woman in different languages. D. Other people liked the bird very much and took it away. 5. How do you think the man felt when he heard the news?___________ A. He was angry. B. He was unhappy. C. He was very surprised. D. All of the above. B A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign (标牌) which said, “I am blind. Please help me.” There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put it back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up. More and more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see the boy again. The boy recognize his footst eps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?” The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way. I wrote, ‘Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.’” Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people the boy was blind, but the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. 6. The blind boy held up the sign to ______. A. ask the way B. find the man C. ask for money D. find his family 7. What does the underlined word “it” refer to (指的是) __________？ A. the word B. the sign C. the coin D. the hat 8. The boy recognized the man from his _______. A. footsteps B. voice C. words D. coins
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记叙文类作者：巩穹 （I）★★ Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling. In 1849, after graduation from medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea. Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women. 1. Why couldn't Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon? A. She couldn't get admitted to medical school B. She decided to further her education in Paris C. A serious eye problem stopped her D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States 2. What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth's chances for becoming for a doctor? A. She was a woman. B. She wrote too many letters. C. She couldn't graduate from medical school. D. She couldn't set up her hospital. 3. How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and the opening of her hospital? A. Eight years B. Ten years C. Nineteen years D. Thirty-six years 4. According to the passage, all of the following are “firsts”in the life of Elizabeth Blacekwell except that she ______. A. became the first woman physician B. was the first woman doctor C. and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children D. set up the first medical school for women 5. Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her lift in _______. A. England B. Paris C. the United States D. New York City 1-5 CAABC （II）★★★ Europe is now the biggest market for organic food in the world, having grown by 25 percent a year over the past 10 years. Denmark's agriculture minister is herself an organic farmer.
高一英语限时训练一（2014年2月19日） 班级：姓名： Passage 1 Many people think that Americans 1 their cars almost more than anything else. When 2__ people are fourteen years old, they want to have their __3_ cars. They don’t ask for a car from their 4__. So many of them work in _5_ time during their last year of high school to buy a car. Learning to 6 _ and getting a driver’s license may be one of the most exciting things in a young person’s life. Some people almost 7 _ go to a doctor when they are ill. But they will __8_ their cars to a garage as soon as they think there is a 9 . On Saturdays or Sundays some people may 10 most of their time washing and repairing their cars. 1. A. prefer B. love C. drive D. play 2. A. little B. big C. old D. young 3. A. new B. own C. expensive D. cheap 4. A, friends B. teachers C. parents D. brothers 5. A. free B. busy C. study D. good 6. A. make B. mend C. wash D. drive 7. A. always B. never C. often D. usually 8. A. take B. carry C. pull D. lift 9. A. question B. wrong C. mistake D. problem 10. A. cost B. get C. spend D. use Passage 2 Someone says, “Time is money.” But I think time is __1__ important than money. Why? Because when money is spent, we can get it back. However, when time is 2 it’ll never 3 . That’s 4 we mustn’t waste time. It goes without saying that the 5 is usually limited. Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do 6__ useful. But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the importance of time. They spent their limited time smoking, drinking and __7 . They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own __8 . In a word, we should save time. We shouldn’t 9 today’s work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to 10 . 1. A. much B. less C. much less D. even more 2. A. cost B. bought C. gone D. finished 3. A. return B. carry C. take D. bring 4. A. what B. that C. because D. why
高一英语阅读理解题20套(带答案) 一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 Even a small increase in light activity such as washing dishes, or walking around the house might help prevent an early death among older adults, researchers say. "It is important for elderly people, who might not be able to do much moderate intensity（强度）activity, that just moving around and doing light intensity activity will have strong effects and is beneficial," said Ulf Ekelund, who led the research. Published in the BMJ, the latest research was based on a review of eight studies involving a total of more than 36,000 people with an average age of almost 63 years. Participants were followed for five to six years; 2,149 deaths were recorded. All of the studies involved monitoring the physical activity of individuals who had activity trackers, and the studies did not rely on self-reporting, which, the experts noted, could be unreliable. For each study participants were split into four equal-sized groups, based on the total amount of time spent actively, and the risk of death assessed, taking into account factors such as age, sex, body mass index, and socioeconomic status. This was then repeated for an amount of activity at different levels of intensity. The results were analyzed together to give an overview. The team found a greater amount of activity was linked to a lower risk of death. The results held for different intensities of activity. The team said the study supported the message "sit less and move more and more often". However, the study had limitations. It only looked at the situation for middle age and older adults, most of whom lived in the US or Europe, and some of the effect could be due to those people with a higher risk of death being less likely to be related to physical activity. Physical activity levels also were only measured over one period of time. Dr Gavin Sandercock, from the University of Essex, said the results suggested moving more brought bigger benefits than simply reducing the time of sitting, another factor measured in the study. "This study reinforces the important message that getting the least active people to do even just a little bit more physical activity can have important public health benefits," he said. （1）Which of the following may Ulf Ekelund suggest elderly people do? A.lying on the sofa reading. B.Doing a little gentle gardening. C.Going out to hike with friends. D.Playing basketball sometimes. （2）What can we know about the research? A.It lasted about 8 years. B.The researchers admitted they used fake data. C.The participants didn't include younger people. D.Some participants died because of doing too much physical activity （3）What is the author's attitude towards the researchers' conclusion? A.Doubtful
2014—2015学年高一（4）部小张化限时训练 英语第（20）期2015.06.04 姓名_____________班级_____________考号_____________总分_____________ （试卷满分60分，其中完型30分，阅读20分，改错10分） 第一节:完型填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分) I remember one Thanksgiving Day when our family had no money and no food. We were worrying about how to spend the festival when there came a __1____ at the door. I came out of the house and 2 a man was standing there with a huge box of food, a giant turkey 3 even some pans to cook it in. I couldn’t 4 it. My dad asked him, “ Who are you? Where are you from?” The 5 answered, “I’m here because a friend of yours knows you’re in need and that you wouldn’t accept __6_ help, so I’ve brought this for_7___. Have a great Thanksgiving Day.” My father said, “No , no, we can’t_8__ this.”The stranger replied “You don’t have a__9_ ,” closed the door and left. We couldn’t know the man’s name and address, but we really had a__10_ Thanksgiving Day that year after all. __11_ that experience had a great effect on my life. I _12__ myself that someday I would do well enough if I have enough money so that I could do the _13__ thing for other people. By the time I was eighteen I had realized my _14___. I got a good job and earned a lot of money. So that Thanksgiving Day I went shopping and _15__ enough food for two families. Then I _16__ like a delivery boy, went to the poorest neighborhood and just _17___ on the door. I always included a __18_ that explained my Thanksgiving Day __19__ as a kid. The note read, “all that I ask in return is that you take good care of_20__ so that someday you can do the same thing for someone else.” Every year, I do the same thing and I have received more from it than I have from any amount of money I’ve ever earned. 1. A.cry B. shout C. knock D. scream 2. A. met B. found C. told D. knew 3. A. and B. or C. but D. yet 4. A. take B. buy C. guess D. believe 5. A. seller B. stranger C. salesman D. businessman 6. A. direct B. different C. deep D. clear 7. A. him B. her C. you D. them 8. A. do B. imagine C. receive D. accept 9. A. choice B. friend C. neighbor D. relative 10. A. terrible B. wonderful C. hard D. horrible
高一英语阅读理解同步练习附答案 高一英语阅读理解同步练习附答案 阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Moscow,Russia(Space news)-The computer is a better chess player,insisted Viktor Prozorov,the loser. It seemed as if it were laughing after every good move.I know I should have beaten it for the sake of mankind(为人类着想），but I just couldn't win, he announced and shook his head sadly. Prozorov's disappointment was shared by several grand masters who were present,some of whom were so upset that they shouted at the machine.Many chess players said that this meant the end of chess championships(锦标赛）around the world,since the fun had been taken out of the game. The computer walked－or rather,rolled-away with 5,000 dollars in prize money and limited its remarks to a set of noises and light. 56.Which of the following best gives the main idea of this newspaper article? A.5,000 dollars goes to a computer! B.New invention a laughing computer! C.World's best chess player beaten! https://www.doczj.com/doc/452085404.html,puter defeats man in chess! 57.How did some of the grand masters feel about the chess game between Prozorov and the computer? A.They thought that the game was no fun. B.They thought that the game wasn't fair. C.They agreed that Prozorov didn't play well. D.They were unhappy that the computer had won. 58.What was it that Prozorov felt most bitter(懊恼)about? A.That he didn't win the$5,000. B.That he hadn't tried his best. C.That he had lost to a machine. D.That this was the end of the chess game. 59.After winning the game,the computer_____. https://www.doczj.com/doc/452085404.html,ughed B.walked away C.made some remarks D.gave out some lights and sounds 60.Many chess players felt that playing with a computer would_____. A.make the game tougher B.make the game less interesting C.make man appear foolish D.make man lose lots of B Extract 1 A computer A computer is an information processor.It is given information,called data,instructed to do certain things and then show us the results.The data put into the computer is called theinput and the results which come out are the output.Some people say the circle of large standing stones at Stonechenge is a kind of computer.Prehistory people worked out their calendar from the position of the shadows made by the sun shining on the stones.
高一英语阅读理解训练题 A When you turn on the radio , you hear an advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see an advertisement. If you turn the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again you find an advertisement. if you walk down the street, you see one advertising board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell you something compete to catch your attention. As a result, advertisements are almost everywhere. In the West, advertisements are the fuel that makes mass media work, Many TV stations，newspapers, magazines, radio stations are privately owned, The government does not give them money. So where does the money come from? From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not be these private businesses. Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is ? Through the years, people have given different answers to the question, For some time it was felt that advertising was a means of “ keeping your name before the public” .And some people thought that advertising was “ truth well t old ”? Now more and more people describe it in this way: Advertising is the paid , nonpersonal （非针对某个人的）,and usually persuasive（有说服力的）description of goods，services and ideas by identified sponsors（明确的出资者）through various media. First, advertising is usually paid for . Various sponsors pay for the advertisements we see, read, and hear over the various media, Second, advertising is nonpersonal. It is not face to face communication. Although you may feel that a message in a certain advertisement is aimed directly at you, in reality , it is directed at large groups of people. Third, advertising is usually persuasive. Directly or indirectly it tells people to do something . All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea , or service advertised can do good to them. Fourth, the sponsor of the advertisement must be identified. From the advertisement, we can see if the sponsor is a company, or an organization, or an individual. Fifth, advertising reaches us through traditional 传统的）and nontraditional mass media. Included in the traditional media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and films. Nontraditional media include the mail, matchbox covers ,and billboards （广告牌）. （）1. The existence（存在）of the privately owned mass media depends financially（经济上地）on ___ : A.the government B. their owners’ families C. advertisements D. the audience （）2. According to the passage, who are most probably paying for the advertisements? https://www.doczj.com/doc/452085404.html,panies. B. Organizations C. Individuals. D. All of the above. （）3 . Which of the following is considered nontraditional mass media? A.Newspapers B. The mail C. Magazines D. Films （）4. According to the passage , which of the following statements about the features of advertisements is NOT true? A.Advertising must be honest and amusing . B.Advertising is meant for large groups of people. C.Advertising tells people to do something directly or indirectly. D.The sponsors are always mentioned in the advertisements. B In the United States 84 colleges now accept just women. Most of them were established in the 19th century; they were designed to offer women the education they could not receive anywhere else. At that time major universities and colleges accepted only men. In the past 20 years many young women have chosen to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a result some