英语阅读理解之综合训练一
一.先通读，后细读
If you know me well, you know I don\'t like birthday parties.At least, I don\'t like birthday parties given for me.① I enjoy them when they’re for other people, but when they’re for me, I just don\'t like them.
I remember one birthday party some friends of mine had for me when I was a student at the university.Of course, I had told my best friend Henry that I didn\'t want a party and I made him promise he wouldn\'t do anything.He agreed.I should have known better than to believe him.②
On the day of my birthday, we got home from school at about, oh, I don\'t know, three or half past three.We went inside and as usual I went into the bathroom and started to close the door when suddenly from behind the shower curtain (浴帘), a kind of strange female(女) voice started singing, “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.”
And then from all over the room, people joined in.There were about fifteen people hiding everywhere in the room.
They had got my roommate\'s key and got in earlier.They had all planned to come out of the hiding place just at the same time while singing.I gue I really upset their plans by going in just to wash my hands.③
1.Which of the following sentences is NOT true? A.I got home from school at 3 or 3:30 on the day of my birthday.
B.I dislike birthday parties held for me.C.Henry agreed that he would not do anything on my birthday. D.I knew there were some of my friends hiding in my room.
2.I usually went into the ______ when I got home from school.
A.living room
B.bedroom
C.bathroom
D.diningroom
3.What did my friends plan to do?
A.They planned to leave the room as soon as poible.
B.They planned to sing as loudly as they could.C.They planned to eat in the bathroom.
D.They had planned to come out of hiding places together.难句注释
① At least, I don\'t like birthday parties given for me. 至少我不喜欢为我开的生日晚会。
② I should have known better than to believe him.
我本应知道他要做什么而不该相信他的。
should have known是虚拟语气，意为“本应知道而未知”。
③ I really upset their plans by going in... 我进去只是洗一下手，却真的打乱了他们的计划。
二.略读: 在运用这一方法阅读文章时，要特别注意：①文章的标题；②文章的首句或引导性段落；③文章尾部的结论性词语；④反映段落中心思想的主题句。如果我们找到了每段的主题句，再将这些主题句集中在一起，就差不多能够把握住全文的中心内容了。
Some British and American people like to invite friends for a meal at home.But you should not be upset (难受的) if your English friends don\'t invite you home.It doesn\'t mean they don\'t like you!
Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 p.m., and end at about 11.Ask your hosts what time you should arrive.It\'s polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a gift.
Usually the evening starts with drinks and snacks(小吃).① Do you want to be more polite? Say how much you like the room, or the picture on the wall.But remember—its not polite to ask how much things cost.
In many families, the husband sits at one end of the table and the wife sits at the other end.They eat with their guests.
You\'ll probably start the meal with soup or something small, then you\'ll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then deert, followed by coffee.It\'s polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it.②
Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short thankyou letter.British and American people like to say “ Thank you, thank you, thank you.”all the time!
1.If you are going to attend a dinner party,____ .
A.you‟d better bring a certain present with you
B.you must leave home for it at 7 p.m.
C.you should ask your host when you should leave
D.you must arrive at it before 8 p.m.
2.In which order will you eat or drink the following things at the meal?
A.Snacks, vegetables, meat and coffee.
B.Coffee, drinks, soup, fish, vegetables and deert.
C.Soup, meat with vegetables, deert and coffee.
D.Drinks, soup, something small, fish and vegetables.
3.Which is the correct way in which you expre your enjoyment of the evening?
A.Before leaving for home, you should say, “Thank you for inviting me.”
B.When you shake hands with your host, you should say, “I did enjoy the evening.”
C.You can write a thank-you letter to your host after that.
D.You should finish everything on your plate and take more if you want it.难句注释
① Usually the evening starts with drinks and snacks.通常晚宴都是以一些饮料和小吃开始的。 ② Its polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it.
礼貌的做法是吃完你盘里的所有食物，如果还想吃的话再添一些。句首的it是形式主语。
三.查读: 查读(scanning)，也称为扫描式阅读，是指用较短的时间快速扫视文章，查找具体信息或相关事实与细节的阅读技巧。查读有一定的目的性，是带着问题寻找答案的阅读方法，在考试中具有很高的实用价值。
Last year I went to Nepal (尼泊尔) for three months to work in a hospital.I think it\'s important to see as much of a country as you can, but it is difficult to travel around Nepal.The hospital let me have a few days holiday, so I decided to go into the jungle (丛林) and I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me.We started our trip at six in the morning with two elephants carrying our equipment.It was hot, but Kamal made me wear shoes and trousers to protect me from snakes.① In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find big cats, especially tigers.We climbed onto the elephants backs to see better, but it is unusual to find tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in the daytime.
Then, in the distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet.We moved nearer and found a dead deer.This was the tigers lunch! I started to feel very frightened.
We heard the tiger a second before we saw it.It jumped out suddenly, five hundred kilos plus and four meters long.It grabbed (咬住) Kamal\'s leg between its teeth, but I succeeded (成功) in pulling Kamal away.② One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the gra, so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat its lunch.That night it was impoible to sleep.
1.The writer of the paage must be____ .
A.a Nepalese doctor
B.a foreign tourist
C.a Nepalese traveler D.a foreign doctor 2.What made the writer suddenly start to feel very frightened? A.He heard the noise of the tiger.
B.He saw the tiger in the distance.C.He realized that they were in danger.
D.He knew that the tiger was in danger.
3.What was unusual about the tiger?
A.It hunted a deer on a hot afternoon.
B.It was 500 kilos plus and four meters long.
C.It was afraid of an elephant.
D.It almost killed the Nepalese guide.难句注释
① It was hot, but Kamal made me wear shoes and trousers to protect me from snakes.
尽管天很热，但Kamal却让我穿上了长裤和鞋以保护自己不受蛇的伤害。
② It grabbed Kamals leg between its teeth, but I succeeded in pulling Kamal away.
它紧紧咬住Kamal 的腿，可我还是成功地将Kamal 拉走了。
四.默读：专家认为，做阅读理解不应该是读，而应该是看。默读有利于发展阅读者的内部语言，有利于强化理解，有利于提高阅读速度。测试表明，我们朗读时，一分钟能念125个字就已很不错了，而默读时，每分钟可读150个字以上，有人阅读小说时甚至可达每分钟600字。
As one comes to some croroads, he or she sees a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead.① At other croroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop unle, of course, there is
2 something coming along the main road; and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.
Mr Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a croroad.It had a “SLOW” sign.He slowed down when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove acro without stopping completely.
At once he heard a police whistle (口哨声), so he pulled into the side of the road and stopped.② A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and a pen in his hand and said, “You didnt stop at that croing.”
“But the sign there doesn\'t say „STOP‟.” answered Mr Williams, “It just says „SLOW‟, and I did go slow.”
The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face.③ Then he put his notebook and pen away, scratched (抓) his head and said, “Well，I\'m in the wrong street！”
1.Mr Williams was driving ____ one evening.
A.to a party
B.to his office
C.home after work
D.to work from home 2.When he was stopped by a policeman, he ____.
A.was driving at a high speed
B.was driving onto the main road
C.was going to stop his car
D.was driving slowly
3.Though slowly, Mr Williams continued driving at the croing because____ .
A.he didn\'t see any “STOP” sign there
B.he paid no attention to the traffic rules
C.he didn\'t have to stop
D.he was eager to get home 4.Looking round Mr Williams, the policeman was surprised because____ .
A.he met a mad man
B.he realized that he himself was mistaken
C.Mr Williams dared to speak to him like that
D.Mr Williams would not apologize to him 难句注释
①a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. 一个让驾驶员到了主干道就得停下来的标牌。
②pull into the side of the road and stop 转向路边并停了下来
③The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face.
这个警察朝他的周围看了看，脸上露出惊讶的表情。
五.注意阅读速度：
一个人的阅读能力的高低决定了他能否快速高效地吸收有用信息。合理的快速阅读可以使阅读者思想高度集中，在阅读中积极思维，不时作出归纳、演绎、对比、推测，正确理解篇章大意。没有一定的阅读速度，就不能顺利地输入信息，阅读理解的成效也会大大地降低。
高考要求每分钟读60个字，但我们在平常练习时应达到并超过这个基本标准，以便在高考中能给自己挤出更多时间去进行思考。我们要培养快速阅读的能力，就必须克服指读、回读、重读等不良习惯，不要把注意力过度集中在孤立的单词上，以致于对整句、整段的意思把握不清。与此同时，我们还应注意运用多种阅读技巧，如略读、扫读、跳读等来搜寻关键词、主题句，理清文章脉络，把握语篇实质。
Julia lived in the countryside, but one year she decided to visit the capital city to do some shopping and to see the sights.She stayed at a hotel near the central market.She had seldom been to the city before, and was very excited about what she would find.On the first morning of her visit, as she walked from the hotel to the market, she paed a beggar (乞丐).He was holding up a notice, which said, “Blind from birth.Please give generously(慷慨地).①”
Julia felt sorry for the blind beggar and she bent down and put a dollar coin into his bowl.“Thank you.” he said.
The same thing happened again the following day.On the third day, however, Julia did not have a dollar coin.She had only fifty cents, so she dropped this into the beggars bowl.“What have I done wrong?” the beggar said, “Why are you so stingy (吝啬的) today?” Julia was very surprised at what the beggar said.“How do you know I haven\'t given you a dollar?” she said, “If you’re blind you can\'t know what coin I put into your bowl.”
3 “Ah,” explained the beggar,“The truth is that I\'m not blind.I\'m just looking after this place for the regular beggar while he’s on holiday.②” “On holiday?” Julia said, “And what exactly does your blind friend do on holiday?”
“He goes into the countryside,” the man said, “and takes photographs.He\'s a very good photographer.”
1.Where was the beggar sitting? A.Between Julia\'s hotel and the market.
B.In the busiest part of the city. C.Outside the shops.
D.In the market.2.On the first two days, ____.A.the blind man waited for Julia
B.Julia gave the blind man some money C.the blind man demanded money from Julia
D.Julia gave him nothing 3.On the third day, the blind man____ .A.accepted Julia\'s fifty cents quite happily
B.noticed that Julia had only given him fifty cents C.refused Julia\'s fifty cents
D.also received one dollar from Julia 难句注释
① He was holding up a notice, which said, “Blind from birth.Please give generously.” 他举着一个告示，上面写着“生来双目失明，请慷慨解囊！”。
② I’m just looking after this place for the regular beggar while he’s on holiday. 那个经常在这儿的乞丐度假去了，我只是帮他照看一下场子。
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对_______题
认识_______新单词 Paage 1
If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again.Everybody knows that.Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it.When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.
If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his fault.But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault.
Have you ever found that some people can\'t read or write but they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook.They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.
1.The main reason for one\'s poor memory is that ______.A.his father or mother may have a poor memory
B.he does not use his arms or legs for some time C.his memory is not often used
D.he can\'t read or write 2.If you do not use your arms or legs for some time, _______.
A.you can\'t use them any more
B.they will become stronger C.they will become weak and won\'t become strong until you use them again D.they will become weak but they slowly become strong again 3.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Your memory works in the same way as your arms or legs.
B.Your memory like your arms or legs, becomes weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice. C.Don\'t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory.
D.A good memory comes from more practice.
4.Some people can\'t read or write, but they usually have better memories, because_______.A.they have saved much trouble
B.they have saved much time to remember things C.they have to use their memories all the time
D.they can\'t write everything in a little notebook 5.Give the best title for this paage.
A.Don\'t Stop Using Your Arms Or Legs
B.How To Have A Good Memory C.Strong Arms And Good Memories
D.Learn From The People 词汇扩展
① memory n.记忆力 ② fault n.过错
③ blame v.受指责 ④ title n.标题
4 Paage 2
Fish hear sounds, though they have simply no ears outside their bodies.However, fish do have ears inside their bodies, near the brain, and they hear very well with them.Some fish have been taught to recognize the difference between sounds better than some human beings do.
Many underwater animals make noises only by chance while they are doing something else.Other sounds are real communications of a simple sort, telling one fish of the presence and direction of another.A few noises may be warning meages or discovery of food, etc.The earliest scientific report on fish sounds referred to one of these.
A new field in science is learning to recognize and use underwater birds and other land creatures by their calls.But this method is a greater challenge than bird-watching, for many of the animals of the sea cannot be followed in any other known way.Their voices cry for attention.Yet we still have too little knowledge about many of the call makers which will some day be made known more fully.It is as though the great oceans were for daring man to invade them and to learn the secrets of the place from which his forefathers came so long ago.1.After reading the paage, we can conclude that _______.A.many fish often make meaningle noises
B.sound cannot pa through some fish bodies C.sound waves can easily be felt by fish bodies
D.some fish can easily understand some land creatures\' calls 2.Recognizing underwater animals _______.A.is totally different from recognizing land creatures by their calls B.is more difficult than recognizing land creatures by their calls C.will change people\'s knowledge of fish
D.is more or le a battle 3.One of the earliest scientific reports on fish sounds was about ______.A.noises made occasionally by underwater animals
B.some sort of communication between fish C.the difference between sounds
D.what sort of fish the call maker was 4.From the last sentence, we can learn that_______.A.the human beings have invaded the oceans for long
B.more secrets of the great oceans are to be found out C.only very brave people can make use of the great ocean D.people are fighting each other to become the masters of the great oceans 词汇扩展
① presence n.存在 ② invade v.涌入
Paage 3
If you are like most people, your intelligence is different from season to season.You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year.A well-known scientist, Ellsworth Huntington(1876－1947), concluded from other men\'s work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have an obvious effect on our mental abilities.
He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat.This does not mean that all people are le intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year.It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.
Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking.One reason may be that in the spring man\'s mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.Fall is the next best season, then winter.As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation ROM thinking! 1.Huntington based his conclusion on _______.
A.records of changes in his own intelligence
B.work with peoples in different climates
C.records of temperature changes
D.all of the above 2.Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have _______.
A.a great effect on everyone\'s intelligence
B.effect on most people\'s intelligence
C.effect on only a few people\'s intelligence
D.no effect on people\'s intelligence 3.One poible reason why spring is the best season for thinking is that _______.
A.all nature, including man, is growing then
B.it lasts longer than the other seasons C.it is neither too warm nor too cold
D.both A and C 4.The best seasons for thinking seem to be _______.
5 A.spring and fall
B.winter and summer
C.summer and spring
D.fall and winter 5.According to the selection, vacation from thinking should be taken _______.
A.several times throughout the year
B.during spring and fall
C.during the summer
D.as seldom as poible 词汇扩展
① intelligence n.智力 ② climate n. ③ abilities n.④ tend to be 往往是
⑤ factor n.因素 ⑥ vacation n.假期
Paage 4 Even if you are a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet off the ground.You can not 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 downhill.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 around. Then can we get a way from the earth and go far out into space? Now you can do it, because spaceships have been invented.The spaceship will go fast.It can escape the earth\'s gravity and carry you into space.
1.In this paage, the word \"gravity\" means _______. A.the force of attraction among objects
B.the force which attracts the earth towards the sun C.the force which attracts objects towards the centre of the earth
D.the pull of everything 2.When you slip on something, you _______ .A.sometimes fall down to ground
B.always fall down to the ground C.never fall down to the ground
D.go up into the air 3.Gravity is so strong that _______. A.it makes you jump only seven feet
B.it makes you go up into the air
C.it can keep everything on earth
D.it can throw a ball into the air 词汇扩展
① whirl v.旋转 ② attract v.吸引
③ slip vi.滑倒
英语阅读之美文背诵
Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events, what experiences, what aociations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with gentlene, vigor and a keenne of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”.But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed.He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetne to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted.We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future.When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable.We seldom think of it.The days stretch out in an endle vista.So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listle attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses.Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold bleings that lie in sight.Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use
6 of these bleed faculties.Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation.It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a bleing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.Darkne would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
一. 本文讲述了作者的朋友们想为他开生日party以给他意外惊喜的事。
1.D.由第三段 “I went into the bathroom...when suddenly from behind...”可知“我”并不知情。
2.C.由第二段 “We went inside and as usual I went into the bathroom...” 推知。
3.D.由最后一段 “They had all planned to come out of...just at the same time”推知。 二. 本文主要介绍了应邀参加英美人举办的家庭晚宴需注意的一些礼节。
1.A.由第二段“Its polite to bring...as a gift.”得知。
2.C.按第
三、五两段中提出的进餐顺序可选出答案。
3.C.四个选项中只有C符合文末提出的感谢宴请的方式。 三.本文描述了作者和向导在尼泊尔丛林遭遇老虎的经历。
1.D.据首句得知。
2.C.由第二段得知，作者感到害怕的原因是意识到处境危险。
3.A.由第一段末句 “...it is unusual to find tigers in the afternoon” 推知。
四.本文讲述了一个人明明遵守了交通规则，但由于警察自己站错了街道位置而产生了误会的故事。
1.C.文中第二段提到“...was driving home from work.”。
2.B.第二段中提到“He slowed down when he came to the main road...”。
3.C.根据文章意思，Mr Williams 只需要慢行，不必停下来。
4.B.根据文中“I\'m in the wrong street!”可知警察最后知道是他自己弄错了。
五.本文讲述了Julia出于同情给了一个自称失明的乞丐几次钱后，发现该乞丐是假装失明来骗钱的真相的故事。1.A.从第二段第一句“...as she walked from the hotel to the market, she paed a beggar.”中可得出答案。 2.B.从文中可以看出是Julia因为同情那个乞丐而主动给钱的。
3.B.乞丐注意到Julia只给了平时的一半时很不高兴，但并没有拒绝。
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