第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
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。
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Learners report two main difficulties in reading, which may be linked. There are too many unknown words and as a result reading is simply not a pleasure. For some students, even reading in their own language is a chore.
Having a wide vocabulary is essential to making sense of written language. Of course, this is a circular argument, because the more you read the more vocabulary you learn and the more words you know the more easily you can read. Don’t make the mistake of reading with your dictionary beside you, looking up every single new or doubtful word. This is laborious and prevents you from practicing the skill of prediction.
Sometimes in reading you find a word you know but the sense doesn’t seem to fit in. This is not surprising because words have so many meanings and degrees of meaning. What is more, part of their meaning is shaped by the words around them. Keep looking at the surrounding words and asking yourself “what sort of meaning would make sense here?”
The more that people study the reading process, the better they can pass on to language learners a range of advice to choose from. People have learned to read in all kinds of ways. Here is some information that could help you plan to be a better reader in the foreign language you are studying.
1)Work out the general meaning first
When people read in a new language they often feel they must take a detailed approach, focusing in every word, particularly those they don’t know. They read as if they were using a microscope, looking carefully at each of the small pieces(the individual words), but not necessarily seeing the whole picture at first. This is called the “bottom-up” approach. Other readers try to look first at the big picture(the “top-down” approach), attending to individual bricks only as necessary, a process that involves some intelligent guesswork. Generally this second approach is recommended by successful learners.
2)Interactive reading
Another way of thinking about reading is to describe it as an interactive process, where the text brings something to you and you bring something to the text. Readers bring together all their knowledge of the world with what they see on the page in front of them. That is why, when reading in our own language, we don’t need to read every word. We add meaning which is not actually stated.
3)From supported reading to independent reading
Language learners start by needing considerable support as they read. Textbooks supply this support in the form of introductions that summaries the contents, glossaries, pictures, explanations of new grammar points. In your reading you need to move gradually from this support to reading more the text itself.
51.According to the author, ________.
A.looking up the dictionary is of great help for the understanding
B.reading more promotes the gaining of vocabulary
C.the more you read,the clearer the meaning is
D.the amount of vocabulary is the key to reading
52.Successful learners recommend ________.
A.trying to look first at the big picture
B.looking carefully at each of the small pieces
C.focusing on every word
D.“bottom-up”approach
53.The word “chore” in the first paragraph maybe means ________.
A.an important aspect
B.a difficult and tiring thing
C.an easy question
D.something special
54.You come across a new or doubtful word when you are reading, you can ________.
A.just miss it and let it be
B.keep looking at the surrounding words
C.look it up in the dictionary each time
D.make sense of it with the help of dictionary
Women turn to online shopping
Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping,according to a study published last week in the US.
For Years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women,but during the 2004 holiday season 58 percent of those making online purchases were women.
“It shows how mainstream the Internet is becoming”,said Lee Rainie,director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project group,which carried out the study.
Rainie said it was only a matter of time before women shoppers caught up with men. This is because women traditionally make decisions about spending.
Users were more likely to shop online to save time. Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 were responsible for some of the most dramatic(显著的)increases in the online gift-buying population this time around.
However,three-quarters of the US Internet users did not buy holiday gifts online in 2004.They worried about credit card security,or just compared online prices with off-line prices,then dashed off to the shops to get the best deals.
“But even if shoppers don’t buy online,websites are becoming promotion tools for stores,”said Dan Hess,vice president of Comscore Networks Inc.Hess said that actually most stores’ websites can make customers fully believe the security of their credit card numbers. And most are able to ensure that gifts arrive on time.
“It’s all about making the shopping experience more efficient,more reliable and more comfortable,” Hess said.Which of the following statements is true?
A.There were fewer women online shoppers than men in 2004. |
B.Most of the Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 are women. |
C.People in the US were more likely to buy gifts online. |
D.More women shopped online than men in 2004. |
From the passage we can infer that________.
A.men usually decide how to spend money in the family |
B.women usually decide what to buy in the family |
C.the Internet is used in all the shops. |
D.more and more shops will sell their goods online. |
According to Dan Hess,shopping online___________.
A.is unsafe | B.is convenient | C.is a waste of time | D.is cheaper |
What can we know from the passage?
A.American people only buy gifts in holidays. |
B.Shopping online is fun for women. |
C.Shopping off-line provides better service. |
D.Young people like to do gift-shopping online. |
“Mom, can I bake some bread?” We were 15, my best friend, Hanna, and I, determined to try our hands at creating some beautiful bread.
“It’s not worth the trouble,” my mother said. “It takes lots of time and makes a big mess. Our bakery bread is delicious without all that effort.”
Begging was useless. Mom’s “no” meant “No!”
But several weeks later, opportunity knocked: My parents were going out for the evening. I immediately invited Hanna to be my partner in bread-baking crime.
We studied the recipe. That was easy. “Mix oil into flour then beat in four of the eggs, one at a time, with remaining sugar and salt.”
We were not good at breaking eggs. I tried to learn from my mother.
“Gradually add eight cups of flour. When dough (面团) holds together, squeeze it.”
We took turns working like that. “Is the dough ‘holding together’?” we asked each other.
I remembered my neighbor’s instructions: “If it’s too sticky, add some flour; if too dry, add water.”
We added water. Then more flour. Then more water. By then, the mass of our dough had grown very much.
“Place dough on floured surface and squeeze till smooth,” the recipe instructed.
We took turns burying our hands in the damp dough, pinching, squeezing, and feeling it leak between fingers.
“Clean and oil bowl, then return dough to bowl. Cover and let dough rise in warm place for 1 hour.”
This was good news --- we’d have a break. On dirtied kitchen chairs, we dreamed about our beautiful bread. “See?” we would tell my mom. “Isn’t it worth the work?”
Hanna and I couldn’t help glancing at the rising process every few minutes. But nothing was happening.
“Maybe something will happen in the hot oven,” I said.
Unfortunately, when we removed the loaves from the oven, they were like hard stones.
Mom was right; it takes time and effort. It sometimes makes a mess. But still it feels good, somehow, to be part of that long, ongoing chain of bread bakers. Since that night, both Hanna and I have learned to do it right.To the writer, what her mother said was __________.
A.law | B.rubbish | C.advice | D.warning |
Which of the following can best describe the children’s feelings while making their first bread?
A.Confident; hopeful; disappointed. | B.Curious; hopeful; disappointed. |
C.Interested; excited; satisfied. | D.Worried; satisfied; proud. |
Which of the following did the writer do without instructions?
A.Placed dough on floured surface. | B.Added eight cups of flour to eggs. |
C.Returned dough to a cleaned bowl. | D.Placed the dough into the hot oven. |
The passage mainly tells us ______________.
A.the process of making bread | B.the conflict between mother and daughter |
C.the first experience of making bread | D.the way of doing housework |
How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.
A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organise it. This doesn't mean that a woman has to do all the housework:; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request her partner’s participation(参与). A woman can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility(责任) for housework.
Very few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects on weekends or evenings, and it’s important that you give your man appreciation for those things, too. Most men will take on a little additional housework around the house if asked politely. They are even more likely to do housework if they can choose what they want to do, and do it without being monitored.
Here’s the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they want to do a task, or because they simply want to please their women. Men are much less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant. In other words, men are likely to do a household task just for the good of the house. The passage is mainly about how to _____.
A.get men to take on some housework |
B.get men to serve their families |
C.praise men’ housework |
D.make men do all the housework |
According to the passage, a man_____.
A.is willing to do housework |
B.likes to be told to do housework |
C.is taught to be responsible for housework from childhood |
D.likes a clean house but doesn’t make efforts to clean it |
In order to get men to do some housework, women should often_____.
A.order them to do their share |
B.ask them to do some housework politely |
C.blame men’s laziness |
D.monitor men’s work |
According to the passage, the underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that men won’t _____.
A.work without any payment |
B.do unimportant household tasks |
C.do housework without women’s praise |
D.please their wives |
According to the passage, which of the following would a husband most probably like to do?
A.Cleaning the table. | B.Doing some sewing. |
C.Painting the fence. | D.Asking his wife to work on the yard. |
Ever since humans have lived on the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication.Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral speech.When there is a language barrier(障碍), communication is completed through sign language in which motions stand for letters, words, and ideas.Tourists and the people unable to hear or speak have had to turn to this form of expression.Many of these symbols of whole words are very lively and exact and can be used internationally; spelling, however, cannot.
Body language sends ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either meaningfully or not.A wink(眨眼) can be a way of showing that the party is only joking.A nod means agreement, while shaking the head indicates disagreement.
Other forms of nonlinguistic(非语言的) language can be found in Braille (a system of raised dots read with the fingertips), signal flags, Morse code, and smoke signals.Road maps and picture signs also guide and warn people.While language is the most common form of communication, other systems and techniques also express human thoughts and feelings.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.There are many forms of communication in use today. |
B.Language is the most common form of communication. |
C.Tourists are unable to use an oral form of communication. |
D.Ideas and thoughts can be expressed by body language. |
Which form other than oral speech could be most commonly used among deaf people?
A.Picture signs. | B.Body language | C.Braille | D.Signal flags. |
Sign language is said to be very lively and exact and can be used meaningfully except for ____.
A.spelling | B.idea | C.whole words | D.expressions |
How many different forms of communication are mentioned here?
A.Five | B.Eight | C.Nine | D.Three |
While reading a book in English, every few lines of text, you run across a word or two that you don’t know. You look up every new word in the dictionary. Bad move. All that does slow you down. Even electric or CD –ROM dictionaries can get in the way of your reading progress. A dictionary is like a road map. It can help you if you get lost and point you in the right direction. But if you stop to look at the “map” each time you take a step, you’ll get nowhere fast.
On your English learning “journey”, a dictionary can be a helpful “travel companion ”--if it is not overused. To help you start thinking in English, use an English-to-English dictionary. Otherwise, you will always depend on your native language and end up translating in your head.
A good dictionary can help you do more than just find the meaning of a word. It can help you verify (test and check) spelling, check word forms and grammar usage, find example sentence and learn pronunciation. Some dictionaries even provide exercises to teach you how to use their resources (资源) .
Take time to get to know your dictionary. Learn the pronunciation symbols (符号). Understand what the abbreviations (缩写字) mean. Try to master the important grammar rules. Look for charts, diagrams and lists that might be useful in the future. You will discover how helpful it can be to make friends with your dictionary. And as they say, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”Why do we need a good English-to-English dictionary?
A.Because it is a good friend. |
B.Because it can help us to find the right direction if we get lost. |
C.Without it we’ll always depend on our native language and end up translating in our head. |
D.Because it can help us to start thinking in English and in Chinese. |
The underlined word “that ” in the last paragraph refers to __________.
A.pronunciation symbols and grammar rules |
B.abbreviations and usage for grammar rules |
C.the meaning of a word, spelling and grammar usage |
D.charts, diagrams and lists |
According to the passage , which statement can lead you to believe?
A.The more you use a dictionary, the better you can understand the article. |
B.The more you use a dictionary, the faster you may read. |
C.The more you use the resources in a dictionary, the more you can benefit (受益) from it. |
D.The better a dictionary is, the more expensive it is. |