英语阅读理解(三).doc

11Im Joan Croft. I have to say that I came into nursing by chance. I didnt really like my first job, which was office work. It was all rightbut thats just about all you can say about it. I stayed in the same place with the same people around me all day and every day. Then I became a singer, which I enjoyed very much, but after a while the singing group broke up (解散) and I had to start looking for something else.Some girls have wanted to be nurses ever since they were children, but it never entered my head until I saw an advertisement in a paper. I wrote in and thought, “Oh, well, Ill give it a try.” One thing I liked about it was going away from home.The training itself is very interesting and most of it is just on the wards (病房), so that you very quickly begin nursing real patients.I lived in the nurses home when I arrived and I had my own room, which was very nice.I like nursing more than I ever thought I would. Ill always carry on nursing. Ive got a boyfriend who is a doctor, so I hope to get married sometime, but wherever I live theres sure to be a hospital in the place and theres always a job for a nurse.1.What was Johns first job?_2.Why didnt Joan like her first job?_3.Why didnt Joan go on with her second job?_4.How did Joan find out the information about the nursing job?_5.What was Joans plan for the future?_12On October 12, 1989, some Chinese scientists were working at the computers to look for the invention they needed. Suddenly they saw something bright crossing the computers screens, and there was so much! At the same moment the computers were working much slower. To find out what was happening they stopped their work to check some parts of the computers. Much to their surprise, they found out that most of their stored information was cleared up by computer viruses (病毒)! What was worse, all these computers had been infected (感染) by computer viruses.It is said that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men who all had good education. They made the viruses just to show their intelligence (才能). These kinds of computer viruses are called Jerusalem Viruses. These viruses can stay in computers for a long time. When the time comes they ill attack the computers by slowing down the function (功能), damaging (破坏) their normal programs or even clearing up all the information.We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers on Friday so they are also called “Friday Viruses” and that they are spreading (传播) to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered (遭受) computer viruses are Britain, Australia, Switzerland, the United States of America, and some other countries. But till now, how to clean up the terrible viruses is still a problem.1.What did the Chinese scientists find out when they checked the computers?_.2.Why did the group of young men make the computer viruses?_.3.The computer viruses will damage the normal programs, wont they? _.4.Why are these computer viruses called “Friday Viruses”?_.5.Whats the best title of this passage?_. 13Do you remember your dreams? Do people have the same dreams? Why do we dream? There are many questions about dreams. We dream during the REM (rapid (快的) eye movement) stage (阶段) of sleep. We have about five periods of REM sleep during the night. The first REM cycle (周期) lasts about 10 minutes. As the night goes on, the REM cycle gets longer. By early morning, the REM cycle can last up to 90 minutes. Usually, it is in this last REM cycle that we remember our dreams.Dreams change as people age. People may have several dreams each night. Some are like films and usually in color. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something and trying to find the answer. Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we cant remember the dreams clearly.It is reported that too much dreaming is bad for our health. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work. That is why we may have a long sleep and still feel tired when we wake up.1.We dream during the REM stage of sleep.2.Children aged eight or nine have the same dreams as people aged thirty.3.All the dreams are usually in color like films.4.The longer we dream, the better we sleep.5.The passage above is talking about dreaming.14Tom, an 11-year-old boy, was ill. He had got a cough. His mother was worried and took him to see a doctor. The doctor looked over Tom carefully and said, “Tom, nothing serious”. Then he gave him some medicine. These are the words on the instruction of the cough medicine.InstructionTake three times a day after mealsDose (剂量): Grown-ups: 2 spoons each timeChildren: 8-14 yrs. One spoon, 4-7 yrs. 1/2 spoonNot for children below the age of 4 yearsNotes: 1.Store in a cold place2.Using before Oct. 2004Tel & Fax: 021-563177081.Tom should take three spoons in a day.2.Tom had better have his meals before he takes the medicine.3.The medicine can be kept in a fridge.4.Children aged five cant take this medicine.5.From this instruction we know Tom can go on using the left medicine after Oct. 2004.15Dear sir,Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in a morning newspaper for a set of the complete works (全集) of William Shakespeare. Your company offered this set at a low price: 15pounds and 50 pence. I had wanted a set of Shakespeares plays and poems for some time, so I sent for them.Two weeks later, the books arrived, together with a set of the works of Charles Dickens that I had not wanted. So I returned the Dickens books to you. Two more weeks passed. Then there arrived a second set of books and a set of the plays of Moliere, in French. I do not read French, and they were not useful at all, so I wrote to you.You did not answer that letter. Instead you sent me a bill for 42 pounds and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. I have no room for any more books, and I have no time to read them all.Please send no more books, no more bills and no more angry letters for payment. Just send one large truck and take all the books away, leaving me only with the one set of the works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.Yours,Simon Walker1.The advertisement in the morning paper was for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare.2.Mr Walker wanted to order Dickens books.3.Two weeks later, he got the works of Schiller.4.The company wanted Simon to pay for all the books.5.Mr. Walker told them to take away all the books except Shakespeares books.16Mr. Scott worked in a middle school. He read a lot. He taught well and could answer all the questions his students asked. And they liked him very much. One Sunday morning, when he was dressing his little son, Jimmy, the boy suddenly asked, “May I ask you a question, Dad?” “Of course you can,” answered Mr. Scott. “Are you sure that you can answer it?” “Certainly.” “Well,” said Jimmy, “Are there any holes in your socks?” “Holes?” Mr. Scott said in surprise. “Its impossible.” “Look at them carefully, or youll be wrong!” Mr. Scott took off his socks and looked at them carefully but didnt find anything wrong.“No, theres no hole in them,” said Mr. Scott. “I bought them only last week.” “How can you put your feet into them, then?” Little Jimmy said with a smile. At first Mr. Scott didnt know what to say. After a while he began to laugh with a red face.根据短文意思，将下列句子补充完整。每空一词。1.Mr. Scott was a _ in a school.2.His son was very _, so he couldnt dress himself.3.Mr. Scott _ to find if there were holes in his socks.4.In the end Mr. Scott _that his son had played a joke on him.5.From Jimmys joke we can say that he was a _ boy.17There are many colors in nature. But do you know if a color has weight? I think youll say “no”. But I am afraid you are wrong. If you dont believe, you may do a small experiment.First, put two objects (物体) with the same weight into two boxes. Then cover the box. Third, wrap one box with a red piece of paper, the other with a white piece of paper. OK. Now hold the boxes with your hand one by one. It is certain that you will think the red one is a little heavier.Why do you think so? A scientist found that different colors have different weight in a mans mind. So he did man tests and at last he got the result. That is to say, every color has its own weight in our mind and their order is the same. The heaviest color is red, then blue, green, orange, yellow and white.The scientist told us that colors also have smell. Can you smell the color? Of course not. Then why did the scientist say so? That is because every color stands for (代表) a kind of light with a certain wavelength. It reaches our brain through sense organs (感觉器官).According to this discovery, scientists say that people accept (接受) the colors they like, and refuse the colors they hate. So your body and mind will be healthy by using the colors you like. Or youll be nervous or even get ill. For example, if you stay in a room with red windows, wallpapers and furniture for two hours, youll feel you have been there for four hours. But if the room is blue, youll feel you have been there for only and hour. Another example, if a person walks out of a red room and into a blue room, his temperature will fall. That means our body temperature will change with different colors.根据短文意思，将下列句子补充完整。1.If you want to know if a color has weight, you can do a small experiment. First, _. Second, _. Third, wrap one box with a red piece of paper, the other with a white piece. Then, holding the boxes with your hand one by one, you may get the result.2.In a mans mind, the heaviest color is _, then _.3.The scientist told us that colors have not only _ but also _.4.If a person walks out of a green room into a _room or a _, his body temperature will rise.5.If you stay in a room with red windows, wallpapers and furniture for two hours, youll feel youve been there for four hours because _.18Clem Quinn was always interested in flying. When he was five, he tried to fly by jumping off the garden shed (小棚) with a golf umbrella, but when he was in his twenties he didnt become a pilot (飞行员), he became a taxi driver. Then 20 years ago he did a parachute (跳伞) jump and loved it. He thought that being a taxi driver in London was a lot more dangerous than jumping out of plane, so he moved to the country to learn parachute jumping and sky-diving. He says:“I love sky-diving because the world looks so goodblue sky, green fields, white clouds. You float (漂浮) through the air; Its like floating in water. You can see forever, all the way to the French coast (海岸). The scenery is beautiful. You can forget all your worries. People think it is dangerous but its very safe. Football is much more dangerous. Footballers often have accidents. When did you last hear of a skydiving accident? Next July Im going to do a skydive with 100 people from six planes. Thats a record. Im never going to give up. Im going to jump of planes until Im an old man.”根据短文意思，将下列句子补充完整。每空一词。1.What job did he do when he was in his twenties?When he was in his twenties, he didnt become a pilot, he _a taxi _.2.Why does he like the sport?He loves the sport because he loves _the scenery in the _.3.Whats the record according to the passage?There are a _ people and _ planes taking part in the sky dive.My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind man because when I was young (and he was old.), he gave me presents, and sat me on his knees(膝盖), and told me stories. But I believe(相信)the boys at his school were afraid of him.At school, when he walked into a room full of noisy boys, they stopped talking at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain(某种) look in his eyes, that boy was red in the face，and looked down at his shoes. If a boy brought him poor, careless work, my grandfather picked up the boys book and threw it across the room, shouting, “Do it all again, and bring it back first thing in the morning!” If the boy was late, or if he forgot to bring his work, he had to do it again, and again, and yet again. My grandfather never forgot.At school, he was very different from the man I saw day by day in his own home.根据短文内容改写，每个空格只限填写一个单词。When I was young, I studied at a 1 school. We were all 2 thirteen and eighteen. Our headmaster was 3 old man. He was kind, but all of 4 were afraid of him. For example, we were playing, talking and laughing 5 he came in, at once, the classroom became quiet. If a boy didnt 6 his homework well or carefully, he would be very 7, and asked the boy to do it again and 8. But his 9 told he never did things 10 that at home.20We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded.When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration (迁移) is probably the migration of fish, which is called “salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies. In northern Europe, there