江苏省淮安市范集中学高三英语艺术班作业019.doc

淮安市范集中学2012届高三英语艺术班作业纸班级_学号_姓名_得分_编号019课题revision日期第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）ai was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last fridaythe advertisement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box in richland hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00since i work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time i could go to the theatre was during my 45-minute lunch breakunfortunately, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and richland hills is not very goodbut if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minuteslast mondayi stood at the bus stop for 15 minutes waiting for the bus, by the time i saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the tripso i gave up and went back to the officethe same thing happened on tuesday, and again next dayon thursday, my luck changedi got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly 20 minuteswhen i got there, however, i found a long line of people at the box office, i heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hourrealizing i would not have enough time to wait in linei caught the next bus and headed back across the townby friday i realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi, it was expensive, but i felt it would be worth it to hear the concertthe trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but felt like an hour to mewhen i got to the theatre, i was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in linethe reason, however, i quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets56the man learned that there would be a concert last fridayafrom his friendsbfrom one of his work-matescover the radiodfrom the newspaper57he tried to go to the theatre every day but managed to get there only _aonce btwicecthree timesdfour times58one day the man took _ to get to the theatre by busaforty-five minutesbfifteen minutescjust twenty minutesdover an hour59the underlined word “relieved” may best be replaced by _asurprisedbpleasedcpuzzled dsorryb glynis davis:i first piled on the pounds when i was in the family way and i couldnt lose them afterwardsthen i joined a slimming clubmy target was 140 pounds and i lost 30 pounds in six monthsi felt great and people kept saying how good i lookedbut christmas came and i started to slip back into my old eating habitsi told myself id lose the weight at slimming classes in the new year but it didnt happeninstead of losing the pounds, i put them onid lost willpower and tried to believe that the old bag of fish and chips didnt make any difference-but the scales dont lieroz juma:to be honest, i never weigh myself any moreive learnt to be happy with myselfit seemed to me that i would feel sorry about every spoonful of tasty food that passed my lipsmy idea is simpleyou shouldnt be too much thinking about food and dietinginstead, you should get on with life and stop dreaming of a super thin bodythis is obviously the size im meant to be and, most of all, im happy with itlesley codwin:i was very happy at winning young slimmer of the yearid look in the mirror unable to believe this slim lady was me! that might have been my problemperhaps from then on i didnt pay any attention to myselfwinning a national competition makes everything worse, thoughbecause you feel the eyes of the world are fixed upon youi feel a complete failure because ive put on weight againros langfod:before moving in with my husband gavin, id always been about 110 pounds, but the pleasant housework went straight to my waist and i put on 15 pounds in a yearevery so often i try to go on a diet im really good in a few days, then end up having the childrens leftovers or eating happily chocolatemy weaknessid like to be slim, but right now my duty is the children and homei might take more exercise when my kids are older60what do you think the four women were talking about?atheir own slimming matterbtheir life after marriagectex books for studentsddifferent diets they prefer61where are these short passages most likely to be taken from?atalks on the airbadvertisements on the wallcbooks in a librarydmagazines for children62what does the underlined word “scales” possibly mean?athe coach in the slimming clubbsome tool to measure weightcglynis davis dear husbanddthe salesperson in a food shop63which of the following best describes each of the four womens attitudes towards slimming? glynis davis ai put on weight soon after i got married roz jumabframe doesnt necessarily mean success lesley codwincfacts speak much louder than words ros langfoddi like myself as i am, and to be what you area-a; -d; -b; -cb-c; -b; -d; -ac-c; -d; -b; -ad-a; -b; -c; -dcreading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the textthe reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and get answersin the light of these he put further questions, and so onfor most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousnessat times, however, we become aware of itthis is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaningwhen successful matching is being experienced our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious leveldifferent people converse with the text differentlysome stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examiningthe former represents a kind of comprehension that is written in the text, while the latter represents higher levels of comprehensionthe balance between these is important, especially for advanced readersthere is another conversation that from our point of view is important, and that has not to do with what is read but with how it is readwe call this a “process” conversation as opposed to a “content” conversationit is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in readingif we are skilled readers, our ability to hold a content conversation with a text is usually pretty well developednot so our ability to hold a process conversationit is just this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level64reading as a kind of conversation between the reader and the text becomes conscious only when _athe readers expectation agree with what is said in the textbthe reader asks questions and gets answerscthe reader has trouble understanding what the author saysdsuccessful match