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阅读理解专题： 阅读理解和提高阅读的方法中心思想 常用提问方式 1. The story mainly tells us _. 2. From the passage we know that _. 3. The writer wants to tell us _. 4. What is the subject discussed in the text? 5. The main idea of Paragraph 1 is _. 6. Paragraph 2 deals with _.湖北 One morning a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. For this busy man, it was a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death. Only after a weeks leave during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach was Rudenstine able to return to work. In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.” We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax this has become the model of a successful life. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom. How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week for followers of some religions for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world. Rest is a spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.76. What is the main idea of this passage? A. We should balance work with rest. B. The Sabbath gives us permission to rest. C. It is silly for anyone to say “I am busy.” D. We should be available to our family and friends. 浙江 A simple piece of clothesline hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who see clothes dryers(干衣机) as a waste of energy and a major polluter of the environment. As a result, they are turning to clotheslines as part of the “what-I can do environmentalism(环境保护主义).” On the other side are people who are against drying clothes outside, arguing that clotheslines are unpleasant to look at. They have persuaded Homeowners Associations (HOAs) access the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines, because clothesline drying also tends to lower home value in the neighborhood. This had led to a Right-to-Dry Movement that is calling for laws to be passed to protect peoples right to use clotheslines. So far, only three states have laws to protect clothesline. Right-to-Dry supporters argue that there should be move. Matt Reck, 37, is the kind of eco-conscious(有生态意识的) person who feeds his trees with bathwater and reuses water drops from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But on July 9, 2007, the HOA in Wake Forest, North Carolina, told him that a dissatisfied neighbor had telephoned them about him clothesline. The Recks paid no attention to the warming and still dried their clothes on a line in the yard. “Many people say they are environmentally friendly but they dont take matters in their own hands,” says Reck. The local HOA has decided not to take any action, unless more neighbors come to them.North Carolina lawmakers are saying that banning clotheslines is not the right thing to do. But HOAs and housing businesses believe that clothesline drying reminds people of poor neighborhoods. They worry that if buyers think their future neighbors cant even afford dryers, housing prices will fall. Environmentalists say such worries are not necessary, and in view of global warming, that idea needs to change. As they say, “The clothesline is beautiful”. Hanging clothes outside should be encouraged. We all have to do at least something to slow down the process of global warming.” 60. What is mainly discussed in the text? A. Clothesline drying: a way to save energy and money. B. Clothesline drying: a lost art rediscovered. C. Opposite opinions on clothesline drying. D. Different varieties of clotheslines.推理判断 常见提问方式： 1. We can infer/tell/conclude from the passage _. 2. What is the aim/purpose of this passage? 3. What does the passage imply? 4. What is the attitude of the author towards? 5. What would the author probably discuss in the passage that follows? 6. This passage would most likely to be found in _. 7. What does the author can be? 8. Who are possibly the readers? 06湖北 An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sale of bottled water from Japan. The water, it angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000 food miles before it reaches Western customers. Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK. It is also worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying prawns(对虾) from Indonesia (7,000 food miles) and carrots from Sooth Africa (5,900 food miles). Counting the number of miles traveled by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy-efficient (高 效的). It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers market does not necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of food miles ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun. What the idea of food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global (全球的) trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.71. From the passage we know that the author is most probably . A. a supporter of free global trade B. a member of the Food Commission C. a supporter of First World food markets D. a member of an energy development group 最好题目 As skies are filled with millions of migrating(迁徙)birds, European scientists say the seasonal wonder appears to be strange: The fatter the bird, the better it flies. The results of their study led to a theory opposite to a central one of aerodynamics(空气动力学), which says that the power needed to fly increases with weight. For birds, obviously, the cost of flying with heavy fat is much smaller than we used to think. Researchers found that red knot wading birds double their normal body weight of 100 grams before making their twice-a-year nonstop flight between the British Isles and the Russian Arctic. Distance: 5, 000 kilometers. Another study in the magazine Nature measured the advantage of flying in an aerodynamic group which allows birds to save energy by flying smoothly and quietly in the lead birds air stream. Flying in groups, their heart rates were 14.5 percent lower than flying alone, according to Henri, a French scientist. The findings help explain how birds complete difficult migrations. Researchers had thought that thinner, stronger birds would have the best chance to survive. The first study suggests that building up fat to be burnt as fuel during the migration is worth more than the energy it takes to carry the additional weight. In the study, researchers said their team studied the birds flown at different body weights during 28 simulated(模拟的)flights. They forced a small amount of special water into the birds bodies so that they could measure the amount of energy burnt during the flight. (福建)63.The best title for this passage may probably be_. A. Birds Thin Down For Journey B. Birds Fatten Up For Journey C. How Birds Build Up Fat For Journey D. How Birds Burn Energy For Journey猜测词义 高考对英语词汇的要求 1、利用语境猜测生词含义； 2、利用构词法知识猜测合成词和派生词含义； 3、猜测熟词新含义； eg. “It was the best night we had ever had” said Angela Carraro， who runs an Italian restaurant. 4、猜测词性变换新词含义； eg. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size. 5、了解反映现代生活和科技知识的专业词语； eg. GM product, colon, heavily polluted, green products 6、对代词指代的猜测。经常提问的方式： 1. The word in paragraph refers to _. 2. The underlined word “” means _. 3. The word “” could be replaced by _. 4. Which of the following words can take the place of ?阅读训练-如何猜测生词义 上海 Eye for an Eye William Ian Miller Analyzing the law or the talion an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth William Ian Miller presents an original thinking over the concept of “pay back”. “William Ian Miller has written a marvelous book that I found absolutely attractive.” Wendy Doniger,University of Chicago $28.00:Hardback :0-521-85680-9:304pp 73. The word “talion” in introducing the book Eye for an Eye is probably a concept of _. A. medicine B. trade C. avenging D. striving天津 Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, “operates under the theory of whats mine is mine and whats yours is mine,” says his mother. “The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers (剑). Later, I saw Stephen with the two new ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones.” “Examine the extended family, and youll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. Its an inheritable trait,” says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.