山东省高密市银鹰文昌中学九年级英语上册 阅读理解专项训练（28） 外研版.doc

阅读理解专项训练（28） ai will always remember my mothers last few days in this world. on february 14th, 2000, my class went on a field trip to the beach. i had so much fun. when we returned to school, my teacher told me to go to the headmasters office. when i got into the office, i saw a police office. suddenly i realized something was wrong. the police office told me what had happened and we went to pick my sister up. after that, we went to the hospital and waited. time went slowly. finally, we got to see our mother. it was terrible. on the next day, the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened. i was taking a rest that day. i knew it had something to do with my mother. i kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better. how i wished that she had gotten better. when my teacher took me outside, my sister ran up to me. she started crying, “shes gone. teresa, mommys gone. shes dead.” i couldnt believe it. we jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital. most of my family were there. the silence was terrible. i knew i had to say goodbye. today when i look back, i still miss my mother very much, but i know that i will live. my mother was a strong mother, who had the biggest heart. my mother was an angel walking on the earth. i will always remember her as living. when someone is asked who their hero(英雄) is, they usually say someone famous, like michael jordan or britney spears. when someone asks me who my hero is, i tell them, my mother. my mother lives every day. that is what makes her a true hero.1. what did the headmaster tell the two teachers on the next day? a. her mother had been very ill. b. her mother had been dead. c. her mother had gotten better. d. her sister came to see her. bit was reported today that in china, 56% of people who write blogs(博客) do so as a personal diary and 83% use their blogs for sending messages to friends. it was also found that there is a strong east- west difference. in places like the us, blogs that offer information on news attract more readers but in china, blogs are more likely to be about sharing personal feelings.it seems that bloggers can be divided into three types: it(信息技术) bloggers, bloggers who record their ordinary feelings and media（媒体） bloggers.when blogging first started, the it people had the technological advantage and they took the chance to put their thoughts on the web. some of these it people now have had over a million people read their blogs.the next wave of bloggers did not have any training as writers or in it and wrote about normal daily life. media bloggers, however, are trained writers, such as journalists and editors. when the many media bloggers showed up, the everyday bloggers lost most of their readers. media bloggers have the advantage of knowing how to communicate well through the written words. however, the normal bloggers are still out there and increasing in number. it seems that blogging is the new way to express your feelings. people feel like the world is listening to, or rather reading, their problems, even if they are not.5. from the passage we know that_.a.56% of the chinese write blogsb. people in us like to read blogs for newsc. the chinese share feelings with each other mainly through blogsd. the way that chinese use blogs is not different from the westcmost musicians agree that the best violins were first made in italythey were made in cremona, italy, about 200 years agothese violins sound better than any othersthey even sound better than violins made todayviolin makers and scientists try to make instruments like the old italian violinsbut they arent the samemusicians still prefer the old onesno one really knows why these old italian violins are so special, but many people think they have an answersome people think it is the age of the violinsthey say that todays violins will also sound wonderful somedaybut there is a problem herenot all old violins sound wonderfulonly those from cremona are specialso age cannot be the answerthere must be something different about cremona or those italian violin makersother people think the secret to those violins is the woodthe wood of the violin is very importantit must be from certain kinds of treesit must not be too young or too oldperhaps the violin makers of cremonas knew something special about wood for violinsbut the kind of wood may not be so importantit may be more important to cut the wood in a special waywood for a violin must be cut very carefullyit has to be the right size and shapethe smallest difference will change the sound of the violinmusicians sometimes think that this was the secret of the italiansmaybe they understood more than we do about how to cut the woodsize and shape may not be the answer eitherscientists measured these old violins very carefullythey can make new ones that are exactly the same size and shapebut the new violins still do not sound as good as the old onesome scientists think the secret may be the varnish, which covers the wood of the violin and makes it look shinyit also helps the sound of the instrumentno one knows what the italian violin makers used in their varnish（漆）so no one can make the same varnish todaythere may never be other violins like the violins of cremonatheir secret may be lost foreveryoung musicians today hope this is not truethey need fine violinsbut there arent very many of the old violins leftalso, the old violins are very expensiverecently, a famous old italian violin was sold for about us $ 300,000!8this passage is about _ amaking violinsbmusical instruments cscientific ideasdthe old italian violinsd miss white was a smiling, young and beautiful lady. she was the new teacher of steves class. at the first sight of the young teacher, steve found that she was different from other teachers. she was very kind and liked to smile to her students. steve was a naughty boy, and all his classmates and his former teacher didnt like him at all. after knowing his story, miss white had a talk with steve. she gave him a lot of encouragement and said she believed that he must be a great person in the future. what the teacher said gave steve much confidence, because he had never been attention before. so he decided to study hard from then on.the following monday steve arrived at school on time, and got ready for the weekly test. miss white came in and immediately gave a quiz(测试) on the weekend homework. steve was the first to hand in his paper. he worked out all the questions because he made a lot of effort on his study those days. with a look of surprise, miss white took his paper and began to look it over. steve walked back to his desk, his heart beat very fast. miss whites face was in total shock! she looked up at steve, then down, then up. suddenly, her face broke into a smile. the smart boy had just passed the test! but before this time, he was always in trouble with teachers and never did his homework. from that moment, steve discovered that not only could he learn, but he was good at it! steve became more excellent! and he continued this course throughout