江西省龙泉高中2011届高三英语 考前阅读日日练（二）

用心 爱心 专心1 江西龙泉高中江西龙泉高中 20112011 届高三考前英语阅读日日练 二 届高三考前英语阅读日日练 二 Passage 1 If you ask most Americans they would say their favorite season of the year is summer The weather is warm They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm Young people do not have to go to school They can do many activities outside like playing sports and swimming at the beach or the pool They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer These are some of our favorites One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin s opera Porgy and Bess He wrote the music in nineteen thirty five The opera takes place in the southern United States It opens with these words Summertime and the livin is easy Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high Leontyne Price sings the song The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school The songs are about having fun swimming in the ocean driving in cars However for some teenagers summer vacation was not all fun and games Some of them had to work to earn money 1 Why do most Americans like summer A The weather is warm B People do not have to go to schools C Sunny days and warm nights D Both A and C 2 Why did people write and record so many songs about summer A Summer is warm B They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm C They can do many activities outside D They like summer 3 What is NOT true about Porgy and Bess A Porgy and Bess is an opera B Porgy and Bess appeared in 1935 C Porgy and Bess was written by Leontyne Price D Porgy and Bess is about summer 4 Which of following statements is NOT true A There are 1950 or 1960 songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school B Many songs are about teenagers having fun in summer C Teenagers have not only fun and games but other things in summer D Some teenagers have to work to earn money in summer 5 Please choose an appropriate title for the passage A Summer B Children in Summer C Summer and Children D Songs about Summer Key Key DDCBADDCBA Passage 2 Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday September 2nd 1666 The servants were up very late on the Saturday evening getting everything ready for the next day and while they were busy they saw the glow 用心 爱心 专心2 of a fire start in the sky By 3 o clock on the Sunday morning the glow had become so bright that one of the servants Jane woke her master to see it Pepys went to the window to watch it It seemed fairly far away so after a time he went back to bed When he got up in the morning it looked as though the fire was dying down though he could still see some flames So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything While he was doing this Jane came in to say that she had heard that the fire was a bad one three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning Pepys went out to see for himself He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening From there Pepys could see that it was indeed a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning Someone told him that the fire had started in a baker s house in Pudding Lane and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane So began the Great Fire of London a fire that lasted nearly five days destroyed most of the old city and ended so it is said at Pie Corner 1 The servants were up very late because A they were chatting B they were having a party C they were preparing for a dinner D they were watching a fire 2 Pepys went back to bed because A he was not interested in chatting about a fire B he did not think the fire was anything special C the fire was far away D the fire had died down 3 When Pepys was tidying his room and things Jane came in and told him that A the fire was dying down B the fire had been put out C the fire was a bad one D no flame could be seen 4 The fire started A on London Bridge B in a baker s house C because the lane was too narrow to allow people to come to help D because people could not get enough water to put it out 5 Pie Corner was A the site of the Tower of London B the site of the Great Fire of London C the place where the fire ended D the place where Pepys lived Key Key CCCBCCCCBC Passage 3 Language is always changing In a society where life continues year after year with few changes the languages do not change either The earliest known language had difficult grammar but a small limited vocabulary 词汇 Over the century the grammar changed and the vocabulary grew For example the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century 用心 爱心 专心3 gave names to all the new plants and animals they found In this way hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies Today life is changing very fast and language is changing fast too There are several major 主要的 language families in the world Some scientists say there are nine main families but other scientists divided them differently The languages in each family are connected and scientists think that they came from the same parent language About 3 of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families 1 The early language had A a lot of problems B many words and easy grammar C words but no grammar D difficult grammar but not many words 2 In the next few hundred years we can expect language to A stay exactly the same B change a great deal C change only a little D add more words and drop some grammar 3 This article shows that A language changes fast B language changes with changes in society C language really doesn t need changing D only Spanish and English have changed 4 From this article we can know that A language can change very slowly or very quickly B language will become easier and easier C we should give our plants new names D English and Spanish are the only languages that have changed 5 The first English and Spanish people arrived in America more than years ago A 200 300 B 600 700 C 1600 1700 D 300 400 Key Key DBBADDBBAD Passage 4 An old man died and left his son a lot of money But the son was a foolish young man and he quickly spent all the money so that he had nothing left when that happened all his friends left him When he was quite poor and alone he went to see Nasreddin who was a kind clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles My money has finished and my friends have gone said the young man What will happen to me now Don t worry young man answered Nasreddin Everything will soon be all right again Wait and you will soon feel much happier The young man was very glad Am I going to get rich again then No I don t mean that said the old man I meant that you would soon