高二英语阅读理解30篇

高中英语阅读理解30篇

1、To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class：he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality (音色) and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand (预先). What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play：they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1. What is the text about ?

A. How to become a good teacher.

B. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C. What teachers and actors could learn from each other.

D. The similarities(相似处) and diffe rences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

2. The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____ .

A. students

B. people who watch a play

C. people who not on the stage

D. people who listen to something

3. A good teacher ____ .

A. knows how to hold the interest of his students

B. must have a good voice

C. knows how to act on the stage

D. stands or sits still while teaching

4. In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?

A. The teacher must learn everything by heart .

B. He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .

C. He has to deal with unexpected situations .

D. He has to use more facial expressions .

5. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A. students can move around in the classroom

B. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C. no memory work is needed for the students

D. the students must take part in their teachers’ plays

6. Why is it that some good teachers are unable to play well on the stage ?

A. Nobody has taught them how to act on the stage .

B. Their audiences are different .

C. It is impossible for them to do so much memory work .

D. They are not used to repeating exactly the same words .

7. Which of the following is true ?

A. Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to say in class .

B. A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to say in class .

C. A teacher must speak louder than an actor .

D. A teacher must have a better memory than an actor .

2、One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London’s big medical schools, He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.

He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the skeleton (人体骨骼) to be used in his lecture, in a large brown suitcase (箱子). At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.

When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.

1. Who wrote the story?

A. Rupert’s teacher.

B. The neighbour’s teacher.

C. A medical school teacher.

D. The teacher’s neighbour.

2. Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?

A. He needed it for the summer term in London.

B. He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.

C. He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.

D. He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.

3. What happened at the airport?

A. The skeleton went missing .

B. The skeleton was stolen .

C. The teacher forgot his suitcase.

D. The teacher took the wrong suitcase .

4. Which of the following best tells the teacher’s feeling about the incident?

A. He is very angry .

B. He thinks it rather funny .

C. He feels helpless without Rupert.

D. He feels good without Rupert .

5. Which of the following might have happened afterwards?

A. The teacher got back the suitcase but not Rupert.

B. The teacher got back neither the suitcase nor Rupert.

C. The teacher got back Rupert but not the suitcase.

D. The teacher got back both the suitcase and Rupert.

3、On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes

entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles.”

Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.

When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years , he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.

Robert Friedlander’s next destinations (目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

1. The best headline(标题) for this newspaper article would be .

A. The Kingdom of Bicycles

B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an

C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road

D. An American Achieving His Aims

2. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because .

A. he asked to see the manager

B. he entered the hall with a bike

C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests

D. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him

3. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, .

A. China, India, and Pakistan

B. India, China, and Pakistan

C. Pakistan, China, and India

D. China, Pakistan, and India

4. What made Friedlander want to come to China?

A. The stories about Marco Polo .

B. The famous sights in Xi’an .

C. His interest in Chinese silk.

D. His childhood dreams about bicycles .

5. Friedlander can be said to be .

A. clever

B. friendly

C. hardworking

D. strong—minded

4、Mr. Grey was the manager of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and came up to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office unless it was raining, because it gave him some exercise.

One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger stopped him and said to him, “You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without a penny in my pockets, I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend me some money, and you lent me ￡ 5, because you said you were willing to take a chance so as to give a man a start on the way to success.”

Mr Grey thought for a few minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember you. Go on with your story!” “Well,” answered the stranger, “are you still wil ling to take a chance?”

1. How did Mr. Grey get to his office?

A. He went up to work by train.

B. He walked to his office.

C. He went to his office on foot unless it rained.

D. He usually took a train to the station and then walked to his office if the weather was fine.

2. Mr Grey liked walking to his office because ________.

A. he couldn’t afford the buses

B. he wanted to save money

C. he wanted to keep in good health

D. he could do some exercises on the way

3. Mr. Grey had been willing to lend money to a stranger in order to_______

A. give him a start in life

B. help him on the way to success

C. make him rich

D. gain more money

4. One morning the stranger recognized Mr. Grey, and_______

A. wanted to return Mr. Grey the money

B. again asked Mr. Grey for money

C. would like to make friends with him

D. told Mr. Grey that he had been successful since then

5. In the second paragraph, “…take a chance” means ______.

A. Mr. Gray happened to meet a stranger

B. Mr. Grey had a chance to help a stranger

C. Mr. Grey helped a stranger by chance

D. Mr. Grey took the risk that the stranger would not give back the money which he lent him

5、Even if you are a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet off the ground. You cannot jump any higher because the earth pulls you hard. The pull of the earth is called gravity.

You can easily find out the pull of the earth. If you weigh yourself, you will know how much gravity is pulling you.

Since there is gravity, water runs down hill. When you throw a ball into the air, it falls back down. Because of gravity, you do not fall off the earth as it whirls (旋转) around.

Then, can we get away from the earth and go far out into space? Now you can do it, because spaceships have been invented. Then spaceship will go so fast that it can escape (逃出) the earth’s gravity and carry you into space.

1. In this passage, the word “gravity” means.

A. the pull of everything.

B. the force of attraction(吸引) among objects.

C. the force which attracts objects towards the centre of the earth

D. the force which attracts the earth towards the sun.

2. When you slip(滑) you always fall to the ground because

A. the earth always turns round.

B. the earth has gravity

C. the earth’s gravity is greater than your weight.

D. you are careless.

3. Gravity is strong that

A. it can throw a ball into the air.

B. it makes you jump only seven feet.

C. it can let you fly away from the earth.

D. it can keep everything on earth.

4. Because of gravity,

A. water flows everything.

B. we can go everywhere by ship.

C. water always flows downwards.

D. fish can live in water.

5. We can get away from the earth by spaceship because

A. the spaceship goes very fast.

B. the earth can’t pull the spaceship.

C. the spaceship has a strong force.

D. the spaceship can jump higher than other things.

6、An expensive car speeding down the main street of a small town was soon caught up with by a young motorcycle policeman. As he started to make out the ticket, the woman behind the wheel said proudly, “Before you go any further, young man, I think you should know that the mayor of this city is a good friend of mine.”The officer did not say a word, but kept writing. “I am also a friend of chief of police Barens,”continued the woman, getting more angry each moment, Still he kept on writing. “Young man,”she persisted, “I know Judge Lawson and State Senator (参议员) Patton.” Handing the ticket to the woman, the officer asked pleasantly , “Tell me, do you know Bill Bronson.”

“Why, no,”she answered.

“Well, that is the man you should have known,”he said, heading back to his motorcycle, “I an Bill Bronson.”

1. The policeman stopped the car because_____

A. it was an expensive car

B. the driver was a proud lady

C. the driver was driving beyond the speed limit

D. the driver was going to make trouble for the police

2. The woman was getting more angry each moment because _____.

A. the policeman didn’t know her friends

B. the policeman didn’t accept her kindness

C. the policeman was going to punish her

D. she didn’t know the policeman’s name

3. The policeman was _______.

A. an honourable fellow

B. a stupid fellow

C. an impolite man

D. a shy man

4. The woman was _______.

A. kind-hearted

B. a person who depended on someone else to finish her work

C. trying to frighten the policeman on the strength of her friends’ powerful positions

D. introducing her good friends’ names to the young officer

5. The policeman _______.

A. had no sense of humor (幽默)

B. had s sense of humor

C. had no sense of duty

D. was senseless

7、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 schoo l.

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 pass age, 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

8、In today’s age of fast travel, the world seems a smaller place---- and to some people, a less exciting place, Fifty years ago only a few English people and holidays abroad, People who didn’t travel thought of other countries as very far away and different. For example, people thought the French all eat garlic(大蒜), the Italians all eat spaghetti(细条实心面). and the Americans all drink Coca Cola, These definite(明确的) ideas of other nationalities are called stereotypes(陈规老套) . But do we have the same stereotypes today? People travel more, we all watch the same TV programmes, and ideas travel quickly too. Nowadays everyone eats garlic and spaghetti and drinks Coca Cola. Everyone listens to the same music. wears the same fashions(流行式样) , buys the same cars. They just do it in a different language!

1. Now the world seems to be exciting.

A. bigger and more

B. smaller and more

C. smaller and less

D. bigger and less

2. Fifty years ago, English people travelled abroad.

A. many

B. few

C. only some

D. a few

3. People thought of other countries as .

A. near and different

B. near and the same

C. remote and very different

D. remote and the same

4. Nowadays, people’s ideas of other nationalities.

A. have changed

B. are the same

C. are different

D. are almost the same

5. We don’t have the same stereotypes because people _______.

A. travel more

B. watch the same TV programmes

C. watch different TV programmes

D. travel more and watch the same TV programmes

6. The best title for this passage would be .

A. A Big World

B. A Small World

C. An Exacting World

D. An Interesting World

9、We are used to the idea of aging in ourselves. We are so used to this that it comes as a surprise to find that there may be some animals that do not age. Sea anemones(海葵) are an example. Some have been kept for nearly a century without showing any signs of lifelessness. Some kinds of sea worms can even “grow backwards.” If kept in th e dark and given nothing to eat, they get steadily smaller, They finally end as a ball of cells(细胞) looking rather like the egg from which they came. Under good conditions the ball will turn back to a worm and start growing again. One could probably keep them growing and un-growing again and again.

1. Some sea worms grow smaller when they ______.

A. lose weight

B. live in the darkness

C. are under good conditions

D. don’t eat and are kept in the dark

2. According to the passage, some sea animals ________.

A. will die when they become a ball of cells

B. do not grow old

C. will die without food

D. will stop growing any time they want

3. According to the passage, which of the following statements in NOT true?

A. We can keep certain kind of sea worm growing and ungrowing again and again.

B. Human beings will grow old and die.

C. An anemone is a king of sea worm that can grow backwards.

D. Some anemones will live nearly a hundred years.

4. The underlined word aging in the first sentence means ______.

A. growing old

B. the age of a person

C.getting younger

D. un -growing

5. This passage is mainly about ______.

A. sea animals

B. cells

C. aging

D. anemones

10、Now I’d like to talk to you about your final exam. The exam will be held next Thursday, the last day of the exam week. Remember to bring two of three pens in case you run out of ink. And unlike the midterm exam, this test will not include multiple --- choice questions; it will consist entirely of essays(文章). You’ll have to answer three of the five essay questions. The exam will be comprehensive (全面的), which means you’ll be responsible for all of the subject matters we covered in class this term, I would suggest you review your midterm exam as well as textbooks and your class notes. The final exam will count as 50 percent of your grade of the course.

The research project (项目) will count as 20 percent and the midterm exam 30 percent. I’ll be in my o ffice almost all day next Tuesday. If you run into any problems, please drop in. Good luck to you and I’ll see you on Tuesday.

1. When will the final exam take place?

A. On Tuesday

B. On a Wednesday

C. On a Thursday

D. On a Friday

2. What will be included in the exam?

A. There will be only multiple-choice questions.

B. The exam will contain both multiple-choice and essay questions.

C. The exam will have an oral and a written section.

D. There will be only essay questions.

3. Why does the teacher call the exam comprehensive?

A. It will be easy to understand.

B. Students will be tested on all the material discussed in class.

C. It will cover topics from a wide variety of subjects.

D. Students must complete all parts of it.

4. The underlined phrase run into probably means .

A. go into

B. meet somebody unexpectedly

C. come up against something with force

D. come across

5. When was this talk most likely given?

A. During the first week of class

B. During midterm week

C. On the last day of class

D. On the last day of exam week

11、When Dean Arnold got his first job, he was miserable (痛苦的), Each time he went to work, he coughed and he couldn’t breat he. Working in a bakery(面包房) when you are allergic to (对…过敏) flour can be painful.

But Arnold stayed with the National Biscuit Company for ten years. He was a businessman and he helped them improve production. At last his health problems became too serious. He left and formed his own company.

With his wife and mother, he founded Arnold Bakery. They tried new recipes (配方). changing the kind and amount of flour used. This enabled Arnold to work there without too much pain. The bread, made with unbleached flour (标准粉), was baked in a brick oven (烘炉).

They began by baking two dozen loaves. The bread was sold door to door for fifteen cents a loaf. Winning customers to his unusual, old-fashioned bread took time. But Arnold, struggling against his allergy, built his bakery into one of the largest in the United States.

1. A good title for this passage would be .

A. A Sick Baker

B. A Brick-oven Bread Baker

C. An Old-fashioned Baker

D. How to Overcome Allergy

2. Dean left the National Biscuit Company because he .

A. suffered from allergy to flour

B. didn’t like the job

C. wanted to make more money

D. wanted to form his own company

3. During his stay in the National Biscuit Company, .

A. he founded Arnold Bakery

B. he tried a new method of baking

C. he helped the company improve their production

D. he became successful in his business

4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Arnold’s bread was baked in a brick oven.

B. Arnold’s bread was made with unbleached flour.

C. Arnold’s bread was sold at a low price.

D. Arnold’s bread was of poor quality.

5. From the passage we can conclude that Arnold was .

A. determined

B. brave

C. unusual

D. unhealthy

12、When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes, Everything else seems blurry(=unclear). Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near—sighted. Then

People who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading ,they must get glasses, too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

Having two good eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle (角度). To prove this to yourself, look at an object our of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object’s rel ation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.

1. We should take good care of our eyes .

A. only when we can see well

B. only when we cannot see perfectly

C. even if we can see well

D. only when we realize how important our eyes are

2. When things far away seem indistinct(模糊不清) , one is probably .

A. near-sighted

B. far-sighted

C. astigmatic

D. suffering from cataracts

3. The underlined word suffer in the third paragraph probably means .

A. experience

B. imagine

C. feel pain

D. are affected with

4. Having two eyes instead of one is particularly useful for .

A. seeing at night

B. seeing objects far away

C. looking over a wide area

D. judging distances

5. People who suffer from astigmatism have .

A. one eye bigger than the other

B. eyes that are not exactly the right shape

C. a difficulty that can be corrected by an operation

D. an eye difficulty that cannot be corrected by glasses

13、Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of priceless, individually (独特地) tailored stories with which American grandparents of her day brought up children. There was the story of the little boys who had been taught complete, quick obedience (服从). One day when they were out on the grassy plain, their father shouted. “Fall down on your faces!” They did, and the terrible prairie(草原) fire swept over them and they weren’t hurt. There was also the story of three boys at school, each of whom received a cake sent from home. One saved his, and the mice ate it; one ate all of his , and he got sick; and who do you think had the best time? —Why, of course, the one who shared his cake with his friends.

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Children should obey their parents quickly.

B. Children should share with others.

C. The author remembers many of her grandma’s wonderful stories.

D. The grandma’s stories helped teach the children morals and good manners.

2. Which of the following details supports the main idea of the passage?

A. The children were saved from the fire because they followed directions.

B. Grandma told a story of three boys at school.

C. Each of the three boys got a cake sent from home.

D. The big prairie fire soon spread over to the village.

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The author was saved from the fire.

B. The author was brought up from his grandmother.

C. Grandma was good at telling children stories.

D. Grandma told stories to children just for fun.

4. All of the following were not praised by the author except ___________.

A. the boy who shared his cake with others

B. the boy who ate up all his cake by himself

C. the boy who kept the cake for the future

D. the boys who didn’t obey th eir parents

5. According to this passage, the underlined word tailored probably means __________.

A. measured

B. specially prepared

C. cut

D. invented

14、The most important use of drifting (漂流) bottles is to find ocean currents. When the position and direction of currents are known, ships can use the forward movement of a current or stay away from currents that would carry them off their course. Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to use bottles in the study of currents.

He wondered why British mall ships needed a week or two longer than U.S. ships needed in order to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Franklin thought the Gulf Stream (墨西哥湾流) might explain this difference.

Franklin talked with captains of U.S. ships. He found that they knew each turn of the Gulf Stream. They used the current in every possible way. From his talks with the captains. Franklin made his first map of the Gulf Stream. Then he checked his map by using sealed (密封的) bottles. The map that he finally made is still used, with only a few changes, today.

1. Why are drifting bottles used?

A. To determine the position of a ship.

B. To find the direction of a current.

C. To predict the direction of a ship.

D. To carry message across the ocean.

2. What led Franklin to talk with U.S. captains?

A. U.S. ships were longer than British ones.

B. British ships could sail the Atlantic faster than U.S. ones.

C. U.S. ships could sail the Atlantic faster than U.S. ones.

D. U.S captains knew more about maps.

3. What did Franklin make after his talks with U.S. captains?

A. A map of the Gulf Stream.

B. A map of the Atlantic Ocean.

C. A map of ocean currents.

D. A map of his first voyage.

4. What did Franklin do in order to make an exact map?

A. He compared his own map with other maps.

B. He talked with many U.S. captains.

C. He used drifting bottles to check his map.

D. Both B and C.

5. The underlined word current in the first paragraph means ______.

A. a stream of water

B. a course of events

C. the flow of electricity

D. the situation of the present time

15、The Guidance Department (教导处) at Burrville High School has a staff (职员) of eleven. Most of their work is done with the students. But the staff sees a lot of parents, too.

“Parent meetings form a clear monthly pattern,” says Mildred Foreman, Guidance Director. “This pattern stays much the same from year to year. The busy months are Octo ber, March and May.”

September starts rather slowly. Few parents come in, Most of these want to discuss the schedules (日程安排). October brings many behaviour (行为) problems. Some parents are called in. Others come by themselves. Things quiet down in November December is a quiet month. “It’s the holiday,” Ms Foreman says. “People want to come in, I know , but they decide to wait until after New Year’s Day.”

Report cards go home just before Christmas holidays. Bad marks bring parents in as school reopens. This happens again in March, another report card month. May is always the year’s busiest month. That’s when parents realize that their children might be held back (留级). They come in to see if anything can be done before things are

decided in June.

1. “Most of their work is done with the students” means ______.

A. they have most of their work done by the students

B. most of their work is getting rid of their students

C. most of their work is dealing with the students

D. their work is mostly done together with the students

2. In the sentence “The staff sees a lot of parents too.” the word “see” can be replaced with “_____”.

A. notice

B. understand

C. arrange

D. meet

3. From the diagram(图表), we know that the total of their meetings in April is ______ as many

as that in December.

A. twice

B. a quarter

C. half

D. two-thirds

4. In March, each of the staff working in the Guidance Department has to interview (会见)

about ______ parents.

A. 10

B. 20

C. 15

D. 5

5. May is always the busiest month because the parents want to ______.

A. discuss schedules with the staff

B. have something done to help their children’s promotion(升级)

C. know how their children are getting on with their lessons

D. do something good for the school or the staff

16、Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the man’s big family—his parents his brothers, their wives and children. They family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

Three months later the woman went back to her parents’ home, having quarrelled with her husband. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart—broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband’s home.

1. The writer wrote the story in order to .

A. show that elephants are very clever

B. tell how a woman trained a wild animal

C. show that women care more for animals than men do

D. tell how an animal reunited a husband and wife

2. The woman left her new home .

A. to visit her own parents in Maliyuwa

B. to see if the elephant would follow her

C. because she was angry with her husband

D. because she was tired of the large family

3. After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant.

A. returned to the forest

B. was sad because it missed her

C. went to look for a new home

D. was sick because nobody fed it

4. The young wife went back to her husband because .

A. she knew he had sent the animal to her

B. the elephant had come to look for her

C. her parents persuaded her to

D. she missed her new home

17、The blue eyes that looked at him from outside the door were like the light through a magnifying glass (放大镜) when it is at its brightest and smallest, when paper and leaves begin to smoke.

“Hey ,” said the man in the door. “Remember me?”

“Yes,” the boy said, whispering. “Rick.”

He felt so surprised to see Rick. All of Rick seemed to be shown in the eyes, with a strong feeling that ought to have hurt him

“You knew me,” Rick said. “You hadn’t forgotten.”

“You’re ——just the same,” the boy said, and felt much thankful.

He seemed even to be wearing the same clothes, the same blue shirt and grey trousers. He was thin, but he was built to be lean; and he was still, or again, sunburnt (晒黑了). After everything, the slow white smile still showed the slight feeling of happiness.

“Let’s look at you,” Rick said, dropping into a chair. Then slowly he felt more at home, and he became once more just Rick, as if nothing had happened. There were lines about his eyes, and deeper lines on his cheeks (面颊), but he looked like——just Rick, lined by sunlight and smiling.

“When I look at you,” he said, “You make me think about me, for we look like each other.”

“Yes,” said the boy, eagerly, “they all think we both look like my grandfather.”

1. On his return , Rick ______.

A. had not changed much

B. looked very old

C. was much thinner than before

D. was wearing different clothes

2. Rick and the boy are probably ______.

A. brothers

B. related

C. friends

D. neighbours

3. You could describe Rick as ______.

A. old and friendly

B. old and nervous

C. thin and nervous

D. thin and friendly

4. From the passage we can tell that the boy ______.

A. was worried that Rick had forgotten him

B. was proud of what Rick had done

C. was pleased to see Rick

D. wondered where Rick had been

5. Rick and the boy ______.

A. had similar personalities

B. cared about each other

C. had lived in the same house

D. felt their friendship had changed

18、Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际) with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree attacked in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫)

changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---a signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make them less tasty.

Communication, of course, doesn’t need to be in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn’t trees have ways of sending message?

1. It can be concluded from the passage that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that ______.

A. are lying on the ground

B. have an unpleasant taste

C. bees don’t like

D. have an unfamiliar shape

2. The willow tree described in the passage protected itself by ______.

A. growing more branches

B. communicating with birds and bees

C. changing its leaf chemistry

D. shaking caterpillars off

3. According to the passage, the willow tree was able to communicate with other trees by ______.

A. waving its branches

B. giving off a special smell

C. dropping its leaves

D. changing the colour of its trunk

4. According to this passage, bees communicate by ______.

A. making special movement

B. touching one another

C. smelling one another

D. making unusual sound

5. The author believes that the incident described in the passage ______.

A. cannot be taken seriously

B. should no longer be permitted

C. must be checked more thoroughly

D. seems completely reasonable

19、The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single—engined aeroplane. At midnight, several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather. To make things worse, her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn’t know how high she was flying. At night, and in a storm, a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged (冲) into the sea.

Just before dawn, there was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames (火焰) coming from the engine. Would she be able to reach land? There was nothing to do except to keep going and to hope.

In the end, Amelia Earhart did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had shown, she was warmly welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she was honored by President Hoover at a special dinner in the White House. From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.

What was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone, and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty—six minutes.

In the years that followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United

States, and on each occasion (时刻) she set a new record for flying time. Amelia Earhart made these flights to show that women had a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel was useful.

1. Which of the following statements is NOT the difficulty which Amelia Earhart met in her flight from north America to England?

A. She was caught in a storm.

B. The altimeter went out of order.

C. Her engine went wrong.

D. She lost her direction.

2. When Amelia Earhart saw flames coming from the engine, what did she do?

A. She did nothing but pray for herself.

B. She changed her direction and landed in Ireland.

C. She continued flying.

D. She lost hope of reaching land.

3. According to the passage, what was Amelia Earhart’s reason for making her flights?

A. To set a new record for flying time.

B. To be the first woman to fly around the world.

C. To show that aviation was not just for men.

D. To become famous in the world.

4. Which of the following statements was NOT mentioned?

A. She was the first woman who succeeded in flying across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

B. She showed great courage in overcoming the difficulties during the flight.

C She was warmly welcomed in England, Europe and the United States.

D. She made plans to fly around the world.

5. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Amelia Earhart—First Across the Atlantic.

B. Amelia Earhart—Pioneer in Women’s Aviation.

C. A New Record for Flying Time.

D. A Dangerous Flight from North America to England.

20、 A nobleman and a merchant once met in an inn. For their lunch they both ordered soup. When it was brought, the nobleman took a spoonful, but the soup was so hot that he burned his mouth and tears came to his eyes, The merchant asked him why he was weeping. The nobleman was ashamed to admit (承认) that he had burned his mouth and answered, “Sir, I once had a brother who committed a great crime (犯罪), for which he was hanged. I was thinking of his death, and that made me weep.” The merchant believed this story and began to eat his soup. He too burned his mouth, so that he had tears in his eyes. The nobleman noticed it and asked the merchant, “Sir, why do you weep?” The merchant, who now saw that the nobleman had deceived (欺骗) him, answered, “My lord(=master), I am weeping becau se you were not hanged together with your brother.”

1. This story teaches us ______.

A. not to eat in inns

B. not to eat soup that is too hot

C.to cry when we burn our mouth

D. not to believe everything you hear

2. The nobleman did not tell the truth because he ______.

A. was a nobleman felt ashamed C. was in an inn D. was angry

3. The nobleman should have ______.

A. smiled with joy

B. shouted with laughter

C. told the truth

D. scolded the waiter

4. It is probable that the nobleman ______.

A. had no brother who was hanged

B. had a very good brother

C. knew the soup was too hot

D. had never eaten soup

5. The merchant’s answer showed that be ______.

A. was very happy

B. believed the nobleman

C. was angry with the nobleman

D. had kind heart

21、In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver’s Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man’s inhumanity (残酷) to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift (漂流) down the Mississippi River on a raft (木排). To have read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with him and to have enjoyed his nose—thumbing at (对……的蔑视) society. To have read Native Son is to know how it feels to be frustrated (受挫折) in the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are frustrated. This is effective communication (交流). It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries age. It is not true that “We have only one life to live.” If we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kind s of lives as we wish.

1. The sentence “People who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read” suggests that ______.

A. reading stimulates(激发) a desire to travel

B. reading broadens(扩大) a person’s experience

C. people who read much live longer

D. people who read are more relaxed

2. The author implies that good literature ______.

A. must deal with social problems

B. must teach a lesson

C. is varied in subject and in content (内容)

D. is always exciting and heart--warming

3. According to the author, reading good literature ______.

A. produces new income

B. is quite useless

C. satisfies the curious

D. opens new worlds to us(眼界)

4. The underlined word effective in this passage means ______.

A. actual

B. striking

C. existing

D. having an effect

22、When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny

stories.

“We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”

I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘V ACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacaciones’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘V ACANCLES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to hous e where the sign said ‘NO V ACANCLES’, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!

We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they thought the y were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.

English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more. coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in French means ‘Mo, thank you.’

1. My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______.

A. learning English

B. finding places to stay in England

C. driving their car on English roads

D. going to England by car

2. I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______.

A. they would be able to practise their English

B. it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels

C. it would be convenient for them to have dinner

D. there would be no problem about finding accommodation there

3. “NO V ACANCIES” in English means ______.

A. no free rooms

B. free rooms

C. not away on holiday

D. holidays

4. I f you see a road sign that says ‘Diversion’, you will ______.

A. fall into a hole

B. have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself

C. find that the road is blocked by crowds of people

D. have to take a different road

5. When someone offered me more cof fee and I said ‘Thank you’ in French, I ______.

A didn’t really want any more coffee B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away

C. really wanted some more coffee

D. wanted to express my politeness

6. I was surprised when the coffee pot was taken away because I ______.

A. hadn’t finished drinking my coffee

B. was expecting another cup of coffee

C. meant that I didn’t want any more

D. was never misunderstood

23、 A beautiful and very successful actress was the star of a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn’t want to have to go back there every night,

so she rented (租用) an expensive flat in the centre of the city, bought some beautiful furniture (家具) and hired a man to paint the rooms in new colours.

It was very difficult to get tickets for her show because everybody wanted to see it, so she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better and more willingly for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter’s bill. At the bottom of it were the words “Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance,￡3,” with this note：“After 5 p.m. I get fifteen shillings an h our instead of ten shillings.”

1. In the article, “Miss Hall” was the name of ______.

A. a place where people sang and danced

B. an unmarried woman

C. a hall

D. a street

2. The woman’s flat was situat ed ______.

A. near the city

B. near her home

C. in the middle of the city

D. by the side of the country road

3. The actress gave the painter two tickets, hoping he would______.

A. be pleased

B. ask less money for his work

C. charge more money for his work

D. say a good word for her musical show

4. After the painter got the tickets from the actress, he ______.

A. sold them for ￡3

B. went to watch the musical show

C. paid ￡3 for them

D. was very thankful to her

5. In the story , ______ made a mistake.

A. both the actress and the painter

B. neither the actress nor the painter

C. the painter

D. the actress

24、The basenji is a central African hunting dog. It comes from a country called Chad, which is north of the Central African Republic. The basenji was well—known as the “silent dog” because for centuries no basenjis has ever been known to bark (吠). Then at a dog show in London in 1953, a basenji actually barked.

As well as being clever, basenjis are known for their natural courage and are still popular hunting dogs in Africa. But in America people keep them mainly because they are gentle and full of fun. The basenji has an unusual habit, it washes itself all over like a cat. It is a middle—sized dog, 16 or 17 inches high from the shoulder. It weighs about 20 pounds. A basenji’s coat is short and silky. It may be brown, white, or gold , or a mixture of these three colours.

1. Basenjis were first found .

A. in Africa, Europe and America

B. in both Africa and America

C. in central Africa

D. in North Africa

2. What made Basenjis so special?

A. They were funny enough to make people laugh.

B. One of them barked at a dog show in London.

C. They were a true friend of man.

D. They were born quiet dogs.

3. Americans like basenjis because they are .

A. pleasant

B. pretty

C. clean

D. quiet

4. In what way are basenjis like cats?

A. They make gentle sounds instead of barking.

B. They are fond of people and look like cats.

C. They clean themselves all over.

D. They have short, silky fur.

5. Basenjis are good hunters because they are .

A. strong

B. fearless

C. the right colour

D. the right weight

25、An ape has a larger brain than any animal except man, though it is much smaller than a man’s brain. Apes all belong to the hot countries of the world—tropical Africa and South—east Asia.

The gorilla is the largest of the apes. He is as tall as six feet when standing upright. Many people think that gorillas are very fierce. They are often described as standing upright like a man, beating their fists and roaring. In their home, in the forests of Cetral Africa, however, they are not at all like this, They are peaceful animals and never use their great strength unless attacked. Even then, they retreat if they can.

Gorillas have black faces and long, black, hairy coats. They feed during the day on plants and fruit. At night the old male often sleeps on the ground at the foot of a tree, while the others each make a sleeping platform in the tree bending the leafy branches. Besides this, gorillas climb trees very seldom.

1. Apes live in .

A. different parts of the world

B. the cold countries

C. South America and Africa

D. the countries of Africa and South—east Asia

2. An ape’s brain is.

A. as large as a man’s brain

B. a lot smaller than a man’s brain

C. larger than that of any other animal including man

D. a lot larger than a man’s brain

3. A gorilla is about six feet tall when he .

A. stands on his legs

B. stand on his arms

C. roars

D. uses his great strength

4. All gorillas live on .

A. vegetables

B. leaves and grass

C. plants and fruit

D. rice

5. During the night gorilla usually sleep in trees except .

A. the old female gorilla

B. the old male gorilla

C. the young gorillas up to six years old

D. the baby gorillas

26、

Sam and Joe were astronauts. There was once a very dangerous trip and the more experienced astronauts knew there was only a small chance of coming back alive (活着). Sam and Joe, however, thought it would be exciting though a little dangerous. “we’re the best men for the job,” they said to the boss. “There may be problems, but we can find the answers.” “They’re the last people I’d trust,” thought the boss. “But all the other astronauts have refused to go.”

Once they were in space, Joe had to go outside to make some repairs. When the repairs were done, he tried to get back inside the spaceship. But the door was locked. He knocked but there was no answer. He knocked again, louder this time, and again no answer came. Then he hit the door as hard as he could and finally a voice said, “Who’s there?” “It’s me! Who else could it be?” shouted Joe. Sam let him in all right but you can imagine that Joe never asked to go on a trip with Sam again!

1. Most of the astronauts were unwilling to go on a trip because .

A. there was little chance of being selected

B. they weren’t experienced enough

C. they thought they might get killed

D. it wasn’t exciting enough

2. Why were Sam and Joe chosen?

A. The boss wanted them to get more experience.

B. The boss trusted them more than anyone else.

C. They were the last people who wanted to go.

D. They were the only men who offered to go.

3. What did Sam and Joe think the trip would be like?

A. There would be serious problems .

B. There wouldn’t be any danger .

C. It would be long and tiring.

D. It would be exciting .

4. Joe didn’t want to work with Sam again probably because he thought Sam.

A. was very slow and possibly deaf

B. didn’t know how to operate the door

C. was less experienced than he was

D. didn’t kno w how to do repairs

5. The writer tells this story to .

A. show the dangerous side of the astronauts’ life

B. show the funny side of the astronauts’ life

C. make people laugh

D. make people think

27、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 sad ly.

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 lights.

1. 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!

D. Computer defeats man in chess !

2. 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.

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