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 做阅读理解的五点注意 注意一：试题各小题所提供的四个备选项，有的是语法、结构上有错误，有的是与短文意思不相符。解题时要把有结构、语法错误的先排除，再考虑是否符合短文内容。 注意二：对短文中的生词或看不懂的句子，应大胆根据构词法及上、下文意思进行猜测，尤其对涉及文中某个词或某个句子含义的选择试题，要根据文章所阐述的主要内容及上、下文内在逻辑关系，大胆分析推断，去伪存真选出正确答案。 注意三：对于涉及文章主旨、大意、作者意图及短文标题等选择试题，虽然短文中没有直接说明，可统观全文，通过短文所提供的材料或联想短文材料以外的常识，如结合已学过的自然、社会科学知识加以综合理解、分析推测或按作者的思路进行推理，从而且推断出正确答案。 注意四：做选择试题时一般先做在文中能直接找到依据的细节题，后做主旨题、推理题。这样在对语篇有更多领悟的基础上再进行推理判断和概括总结，把握性就更大。 注意五：阅读的顺序一般是先读短文，再看题目，然后逐题作答。若文章较长，也可以先将测试题目通览一遍，然后带着问题阅读文章。这样对与答题有关的段落、句子 (A) Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjoyed traveling in his holidays. He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. “Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at West Hill Farm. Good food. Fresh air. Horse riding. Walking. Fishing. Cheap and interesting.” “This sounds a good idea,” he thought. “I’ll spend a month at West Hill Farm. I think I can enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They’ll make a change from sitting by the seaside and swimming.” He wrote to the farmer. In the letter he said that he would like to spend all of July there. Then on the first of July, he left for West Hill Farm. But four days later, he returned home. “What was wrong with West Hill Farm?” his best friend, Ed, asked him. “Didn’t you enjoy country life?” “Country life was very good,” Henry said. “But there was another problem.” “Oh. What?” “Well,” he said, “the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast mutton for dinner.” “What’s wrong with that?” Ed asked. “Fresh meat is the best.” “I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner.” “Lucky you!” “You don’t understand,” Henry said. “on the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner.” “A different meat every day,” Ed said loudly, “and you are complaining!” “Let me finish,” Henry said. “on the fourth day the farmer died, and I didn’t dare (敢)stay for dinner!” 1. How did Henry find out about the farm? A. He saw it in a newspaper advertisement. B. His best friend told him. C. He wrote to the farmer. D. Maybe he learned it from the radio. 2. Henry came back home several days later because ______________. A. he didn’t like the country life at all B. the farmer wasn’t friendly to him C. his holiday was over D. he thought he might have to eat the farmer 3. “…and you are complaining!”, the word “complain” means __________. A. 夸奖 B. 说三道四 C. 抱怨 D. 故弄玄虚 4. Which of the following sentences is true?

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A. Ed could eat a different kind of meat every day. B. Henry thought he could enjoy a change. C. Henry couldn’t think of anything else to do, so he went to the farm. D. The farmer died because of the bad meat he ate. 5. Which is the best title for the passage? A. What a beautiful farm! B. Have a good time. C. A short holiday D. Henry and the farmer. (B) Paragraph 1 Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; 94) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter. Paragraph 2 People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day. Paragraph 3 There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some way to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy. 6. According to(依据)the scientists，which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch？ A. Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages. B. Potatoes, carrots, rice and bread. C. Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes. D. Beef, pork, fish and milk, 7. It is important for people to eat ______. A. three times a day B. dinner at twelve o’clock C. cooked food all the time D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day 8. People in different countries and different places of the world ________. A. have the right kinds of food to eat B. cook their food in the same way C. have their meals at the same time D. eat food in different ways 9. Which of the following is not true？ A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat. B. There are too many people in the world. C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry. D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy. 10. If there is Paragraph (段落) 4, what do you think is going to be talked about？ 2

A. When people eat their lunch. B. What to do with the two problems. C. How to cook food in different ways. D. Why people eat different kinds of food. (C) People often say, “Children can’t do math problem, it’s because parents can’t do their children’s homework.” Here’s an example to show what I mean. The other day my daughter brought home her math homework. “I have to subtract (减) 179 from 202,” she said. “It’s quite easy,” I said. “You put the 202 over the 179.” “But we need a 10 here. Where is the 10?” “I don’t know where the 10 is. Let’s just subtract 179 from 202. Nine from two is three. You carry one and add it to seven. Eight from zero is two. The answer is 23.” “We can’t do it that way. We have to use the 10.” “Well, I’m going to call your teacher to see how she subtracts 179 from 202.” Over the telephone, I said that I was having a bit of trouble with the homework she had given to my daughter. The teacher said, “In the right-hand column (栏) we have units of one. The two in that column counts for two ones. The zero in the center counts for zero tens. The two in the left-hand column counts for hundreds. Are you clear?” But I didn’t think I was clear. I hung up and found my way to the medicine box. My head was now hurting. I started putting pills of medicine into my mouth. “How many did you take?” my wife asked. “I took one and then I took another…I know one and one was two, but don’t ask me what it is now.” 11. The daughter wanted ______ the other day. A. to give her father a lesson B. to show how difficult math was C. her father to phone her teacher D. her father to help her with her homework 12. Which of the following sentences is not true? A. The father had a different way to do the math problem. B. The father couldn’t do his daughter’s homework. C. The daughter couldn’t understand her father’s way. D. The daughter had some trouble doing the math problem. 13. From what the teacher said, we know that the word “units” means ______ here. A. whole numbers less than 10 B. whole things C. groups of lessons D. the smallest numbers 14. What the teacher said made the father _________. A. angry B. worried C. sad D. tired 15. Can you guess what would happen next in the story? A. The father would go to school and begin to learn math. B. The father would become very ill and have to take more medicine. C. The father would never do his daughter’s math problems again. D. The father would go to the school and fight with the teacher. （D） Have you ever seen the advertisement: Learn a foreign language in six weeks, 1 give your money back? Of course, it 2 happens quite like that. The only language 3 to learn is the mother language. And think 4 practice is needed for that. Before the Second World War people usually learned a foreign language 5 the literature(文学) of the country.

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Now most people want to 6 a foreign language. Every year millions of people start learning 7 . How do they do it? Some people try at home 8 books and tapes, others go to evening classes or watch TV programs. 9 they use the language only 2 or 3 times a week, learning it will 10 a long time, like language learning at school. A few people try to learn a language fast by studying for 6 or 11 hours a day. It's much easier to learn the language in the country where it 12 . But most people are 13 to do this, and many people don't have to do so. Machines and good books will be very 14 , but they can not do the students' work. 15 the language is learned quickly or slowly, it is hard work. 1. A. so B. or C. and D. but 2. A. can＇t B. impossible C. never D. often 3. A. easily B. difficult C. able D. easy 4. A. how much B. how long C. how fast D. how many 5. A. studied B. to study C. studying D. study 6. A. talk B. tell C. speak D. say 7. A. them B. this C. that D. it 8. A. without B. with C. in D. by 9. A. If B. When C. Since D. Until 10. A. spend B. use C. take D. cost 11. A. some B. more C. other D. less 12. A. speaks B. is speaking C. spoke D. is spoken 13. A. able B. possible C. unable D. not possible 14. A. careful B. forgetful C. wonderful D. helpful 15. A. either B. whether C. what D. how （E） I have tried many ways to be 1 . I don’t wear a sweater when I 2 , and two days ago I walked in the 3 without my shoes. But so far nothing 4 . Debbie once told me about a boy in her class who liked 5 school. He would rub(摩擦) the end of the thermometer (温度计) until it went 6 to 39℃. Then he’d put it in his mouth and his mother would think he was 7 ill. This morning I tried doing that but it 8 went above 35℃ and I rubbed it for ten 9 . So I held the thermometer 10 the light on my desk and it went up to 40℃. I thought I’d put it in my mouth and walk downstairs like that. 11 my mother would take it out and she would be 12 when she saw that I was rather ill. The only trouble was I didn’t know the thermometer would be so 13 , As soon as I put it into my mouth I burnt my tongue(舌头)! I spit (吐) the thermometer out. It fell 14 the floor but it 15 . 1. A. well B. fine C. ill D. bad 2. A. could B. should C. must D. might 3. A. water B. rain C. sun D. wind 4. A. happens B. happened C. will happen D. has happened 5. A. being away from B. leaving C. staying at D. being out of 6. A. on B. down C. up D. off 7. A. really B. real C. bad D. badly 8. A. can’t B. not C. never D. didn’t 9. A. seconds B. hours C. minutes D. moments 10. A. near B. near to C. next D. next to 11. A. When B. Then C. So D. If 12. A. worried B. surprised C. happy D. frightened 13. A. cold B. hot C. warm D. cool 4

14. A. off B. down C. to D. on 15. A. didn’t break B. didn’t broke C. wasn’t broken D. was broken （F） Life in the twenty-first century will be very 1 . Many changes will take place, but 2 will the changes be. The population is growing 3 . There will be many 4 in the world and most of them will live 5 than people in the twentieth century. Computers will be much smaller and 6 and there will be at least one in every 7 . And 8 studies will be one of the important subjects in school then. People will work 9 and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. 10 will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to 11 countries for holidays. There will be changes in our 12 , too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be 13 . Work in the future will be different, too. 14 and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, 15 will not have enough work to do .This will be a problem. 1. A. interesting 2. A. why 3. A. slowly 4. A. people 5. A. long B. hard B. how B. fast C. different C. when C. quietly C. happy C. helpful C. home C. English D. beautiful D. what D. suddenly D. doctors D. lucky D. less useful B. workers C. scientists B. longer 6. A. more useful B. useful 7. A. hospital B. factory 8. A. science B. maths 9. A. fewer hours C. eight hours C. Shopping 11. A. rich 12. A. food 10. A. Seeing doctors D. town D. computer B. more hours D. more than eight hours B. Going to the cinema D. Travelling D. small D. drinks D. more pleased D. Dangerous B. other C. poor C. healthier C. Simple B. clothes C. fruit 13. A. fatter B. thinner 14. A. Safe B. Easy 15. A. a few people B. all the people C. many people D. some people A Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying (摧毁) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm. A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour. “I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “When we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.” Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children. “There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.” Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought t 5

hem food, clothes and shelter. 1. How many homes altogether (总共) were damaged in the storm? A. Fourteen B. Twenty-one C. Twenty-nine D. Thirty-six 2. Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began? A. He was in bed. B. He was inside the house. C. He was outside the house. D. He was on the roof. 3. Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because _________. A. her husband knew there would be a storm B. they were all outside the house when the storm became worse C. she felt the house was moving D. the welfare department helped her 4. The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______. A. something to eat B. something to wear C. somewhere to study D. somewhere to stay 5. Which of he following may be the best title for this passage? A. A Terrible Storm B. A Lucky Woman C. Good Soldiers D. Clever People B We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them. No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She? Yes, she. It’s true that male mosquito doesn’t bite(咬) and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn’t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You’re different from the others! If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away. And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs. 1. “Mosquito” means _______ in Chinese. A. 苍蝇 B. 蜻蜓 C. 跳蚤 D. 蚊子 2. We know mosquitoes very well because ___________. A. they can be found easily B. they fly here and there C. there are many kinds of them D. they can fly 3. If the mosquito doesn’t bite you, it will ________. A. get angry with you B. be afraid of you C. make a lot of noise D. choose another one 4. The mosquito bites you _________. A. when you’re asleep B. because you have choose it C. too quickly to let you know D. but doesn’t like you 5. Which of the following sentences is wrong? A. The itching begins after the mosquito bites you. B. You feel terrible when the mosquito bites you. C. Mosquitoes use blood to lay eggs. 6

D. All the mosquitoes don’t like to bite people for blood. C Many people go to school for an education. 1 learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can 2 a living. School 3 is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he 4 , can not teach his students everything they 5 to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to read and how to 6 . So much more is to be learned 7 school by the students themselves. It is always more important to know how to study by 8 than to memorize(熟记)some facts or formula(公式). It is 9 quite easy to learn a 10 fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in 11 out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn't learn many things from school. But they were all so 12 that they invented so many things for mankind. The 13 for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not 14 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of 15 . 1. A. Students B. They C. We D. People 2. A. make B. do C. have D. get 3. A. education B. degree C. lesson D. task 4. A. teaches B. knows C. learns D. practices 5. A. manage B. expect C. fail D. want 6. A. study B. play C. think D. work 7. A. From B. in C. within D. outside 8. A. heart B. students C. us D. oneself 9. A. not B. actually C. seldom D. known 10.A. real B. true C. certain D. great 11. A. setting B. working C. making D. doing 12. A. famous B. popular C. successful D. modest 13. A. experiment B. reason C. result D. way 14. A. kept B. showed C. expressed D. taught 15. A. duties B. jobs C. experiments D. records 答案： (A) 1. A。2. D。3. C。4. B。5. C。 (B) 6. A。7. D。8. D。9. C。10. B。 (C) 11. D。12. B。13. A。14. D。15. C。 完型D篇 B。C。D。A。B。C。D。B。A。C。B。D。C。D。 B。 E篇 1 C。2 B。3 B。4．D。5．A。6．C。7．A。8．C。9．C。10．D。11．B。12．A。13．B。14．D。15．C。 F篇 1 C。2. D。3. B。4. A。5. B。6. A。7. C。8. D。9. A。10. D11. B。12. A。13. C。14. D。15. C。 A篇 1. D。根据第一段出现的三个数字14，7，15即可知D为正确答案。 2. B。根据“I was eating with my wife and children.”可排除A和D，由下文可知C也不合题意。 3. C。答案即在即在…she felt that her house was moving中。 4. D。考虑全文意思及最末一段，可知暴风雨过后，房屋倒塌，人员伤亡。人们不仅需要食品、衣物，还需要住的地方。 5. A。这篇阅读材料主要描述了暴风雨袭击的过程。显然选项A是本文的主旨。

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B篇 1. D。“吸血”和“会飞”是mosquitoes的两个主要特征。根据这两个特点，联系生活常识，即可选定答案。另外，读罢全文之后，也能将其余选项予以排除。 2. B。“We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere.”一句是答案的出处。 3. D。答案就在“But if she doesn’t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood.”这句话之中。 4. C。答案的依据是“…she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different.”一句。 5. B。其余三项在文中都有明确的说明。根据上面那个小题的内容，B项明显是错误的。 C篇 1. B。they指上句中的many people。 2. A。make a living意思是“谋生”。这里表示学一门技术来谋生。 3. A。school education 意为“学校教育”。 4. B。意思是“不管他懂多少”。 5. D。表示学生想知道的东西 。 6. C。老师不仅教学生文化知识，更应该教会学生如何思考。 7. D。指应该更多的从校外获取知识。 8. D。study by oneself自学。 9. B。actually副词，“事实上”。actually easy 表示“真的很简单”。 10. C。certain这里指“某一个，固定的”。 11. B。work out意思是“解出”。 12. C。上述的这些人都很成功。 13. B。reason和for搭配，表示“„„的原因”。 14. D。被动语态,表示“学校不教的书”。意思是他们获取了很多课外知识。 15. B。这些科学家都做了很多实验。

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