英语新增题阅读理解和完形填空.doc

阅读理解（一）1. There was once an ant that was very thirsty. It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any. Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it. The ant drank the water, which saved its life. The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings. The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds. Why are you sad? asked the ant. Im the prisoner of a giant. the girl told the ant. He wont let me go until Ive made three separate heaps of grain, barley（大麦）and rye（黑麦）out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together. That will take you a month! the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds. I know, the girl cried, and if I havent finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper! Dont cry, the ant said, my friends and I will help you. Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds. The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go. Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life. 曾经有一只蚂蚁，它很渴，为了寻找水到处跑，但没找到。当蚂蚁几乎要渴死的时候，一大滴水掉了下来。蚂蚁喝了这点水，挽救了他的生命。那些水实际上是来自一位正在哭泣的小姑娘。因为她太伤心了，眼泪变得很神奇，突然蚂蚁开始说人类的语言了。蚂蚁抬起头，看到年轻的姑娘坐在一大堆的种子前面。“你为什么伤心？ ”蚂蚁问。 “我是一个巨人的囚犯。”女孩告诉蚂蚁。他让我把混合在一起的谷子，大麦、黑麦种子全部分开，才让我走。“这将需要你一个月！ ”蚂蚁看了看这一大堆种子，说。“我知道， ”女孩哭了，如果我明天还没有完成，巨人将把我作为他的晚饭吃掉！“不要哭了， ”蚂蚁说，“我和我的朋友会帮助你。不久，成千上万的蚂蚁为了分离这三种种子一直在工作中。第二天当巨人看到这项工作已经做了，他让女孩走了。因此，正是她的眼泪挽救了她的生命。(1)、The ant was playing when it ran here and there.当蚂蚁到处跑的时候是他正在玩。A：T B：F 答案：B(2)、The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.当蚂蚁快要死的时候，一滴水落到了它身上。A：T B：F 答案：A(3)、The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.小女孩那会儿在哭因为她想吃晚餐。A：T B：F 答案：B(4)、The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.如果小女孩没能完成工作，巨人将会吃掉她。A：T B：F 答案：A(5)、The ants friends saved the girls life. 蚂蚁的朋友挽救了这个女孩的生命。A：T B：F 答案：A2、Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives. A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.语言好像文化中非常复杂而奇妙的各种器官。在各文化中，语言包含了最快捷，最有效的沟通手段。要学习一门外语就是学习另一种文化。用一个诗人兼哲学家的话说 一个人能说多少种语言，他就能体验多少种生活。文化与语言的关系如同就大脑与身体，是必要的。其中一个是另一个的一部分，没有了另一个，任何一方都不能正常运行。学习一门外语，最好先从语言的非语言因素开始学。比如手势，肢体语言等等。在英国，眼睛接触是非常重要的。直接的眼睛接触会带来理解，正如英语有句俗话说 ：意见相同。 我们学会直视某人的眼睛，这样才能与说英语的本国人保持意见一致。(1)、The best title for this passage is Language and Culture. 这篇文章最好的题目是，语言与文化。 A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learning its body language. 根据这篇文章，学习外语的唯一途径是从学习肢体语言开始 。 A：T B：F 答案：B(3)、According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language. 根据这篇文章，手势是语言中的图片。 A：T B：F 答案：B(4)、To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. 学习一门外语就是学习另一种文化。A：T B：F 答案：A(5)、Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures. 在所有的文化中，直接的眼睛交流带来的是相互理解。 A：T B：F 答案：B3、Oil is so important that it is sometimes called black gold. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil. Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this black gold. 石油非常重要，它有时候被称为“黑金”。我们大概一半的能源来自于石油。我们用它来驱动汽车，运转工厂，为我们的家，办公室和学校供暖。许多日常的东西都由石油制造。你T恤的材料里就可能有石油。你用来洗手的肥皂也可能来自于石油。你最喜欢的塑料玩具是石油做的。石油很难发现，因为它藏在地下深处。曾经，人们知道哪里有石油的唯一途径是看它从哪里冒出来。现在，我们有各种方法去探测石油。其中一种方法是测量地心引力。地心引力微弱的地方更有可能有石油。另外一种方法是测声波。声波在不同介质中的传播速度不一样。我们可以利用这个性质来发现藏有石油的矿石。我们需要很多石油，可是我们已探明的油井正在枯竭。我们需要赶紧发现新的寻找“黑金”的方法。(1)、From this passage, we can know oil is a source of energy. 由短文可知，石油是一种能源。A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、According to the passage, we can tell that oil is found only under water. 由短文可知，石油只藏在水里。A：T B：F 答案：B(3)、Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. 声波在不同的矿石里传播速度不一样。A：T B：F 答案：A(4)、Many things are made from oil. 许多东西都是由石油做成的。A：T B：F 答案：A(5)、The main idea of the whole story is that oil is important for us but hard to find. 本文主旨是：石油对我们很重要而且很难发现。A：T B：F 答案：A4、 An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for his journey back home. As he knew that it would take him only two days to get to England, he decided that he could easily spend the time without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship. The man closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell. When dinnertime came, he didnt go to dinning room, saying that he was not feeling very well. The next morning he still didnt have breakfast and at lunchtime he again stayed in his room. But at dinnertime he was so hungry that he went to the dinning room and ate everything the waiter put in front of him. He got ready for the quarrel.Bring me the bill, he said. The bill, sir? said the waiter in surprise. There isnt any bill. On our ship meals are included (包括) in the money for the ticket, said the waiter.一个在挪威的英国旅行者发现他的钱只够买张回家的票了。他知道回英国的路程只要两天，于是认为可以轻而易举的不吃东西度过这两时间。他就这么买票上了船。他装作没听见午餐铃。晚餐的时候他说自己不舒服。第二天早晨他也没吃饭，午餐时也留在了自己的房间。但是晚餐的时候他实在饿极了，跑到餐厅把服务员放在他面前的所有东西都给吃了。他准备好吵场架了。“给我账单。”他说。“账单，先生？”服务员很奇怪的说，“没有账单，我们的船票就已经含了餐费了。”服务员说。(1)、The story happened on a ship from Norway to England. 故事发生在从挪威去英格兰的船上。A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、The traveler didnt go to the dinning room first, because he had no money. 旅行者开始没有去餐厅，因为他没钱。A：T B：F 答案：A(3)、The traveler went to the dinning room to eat something because his friend had given him some money. 旅行者去吃东西是因为朋友给了他钱。A：T B：F 答案：B(4)、The traveler had two meals on the ship. 旅行者在船上吃了两餐。A：T B：F 答案：B(5)、After the traveler finished eating, he came to know that travelers on the ship had free meals. 旅行者吃完东西后才知道船上的食物是免费的。A：T B：F 答案：A5、A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. Mom and Dad, Im coming home, but Ive a favor to ask. I have a friend. Id like to bring him home with me. Sure, they replied, wed love to meet him. Theres something you should know, the son continued, he was injured pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine（地雷） and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to live with us. Were sorry to hear that, son. But, maybe we can help him find somewhere to live. No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us. Son, said the father, you dont know what youre asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden to us. We have our own lives to live, and we cant let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. Hell find a way to live on his own. At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building. The police believed he had killed himself.The grief-stricken（悲痛欲绝的） parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue（太平间） to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didnt know, their son had only one arm and one leg.一个关于参加过越战并且生还的士兵的故事， 他在旧金山给他的父母打了个电话。妈妈、爸爸， 我在回家的路上，但是我想请求你们帮个忙，我有一个朋友， 我想带他一起回家。“当然可以”，他们回答， 我们希望能见见他。有些事情你们必须知道，儿子继续说， 在战争中他受了严重的伤， 他踩到了地雷，失去了一支胳膊和一条腿。他没有地方可去，我希望他能和我们生活在一起。我很遗憾听到这些，儿子，也许我们能帮助他找到其它的一些地方去生活。不， 妈妈爸爸， 我希望他能和我们生活在一起。儿子， 爸爸说， 你不知道你在说什么。一个有这样残疾的人对于我们来讲是一个很严重的负担。 我们有自己的方式去生活， 我们不能让类似于这样的事情干扰我们的生活。 我觉得你应该直接回家， 不要管这个人了。 他会找到自己生活的方式的。这时，儿子挂了电话， 父母再也听不到他的声音了， 然而过了一些天， 他们接到了旧金山警察的电话。他们被告知，他们的儿子坠楼死亡了。警察认为是自杀。 悲痛欲绝的父母坐飞机到旧金山然后被带到太平间去确认他们的儿子的尸体。 他们认出了他， 令他们惊诧的是他们也发现了一些他们不知道的事情， 他们的儿子只有一条胳膊一条腿。(1)、The soldier called his parents from San Francisco after having fought in Vietnam. 越南战争之后，这位战士在旧金山给他的父母打电话。A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、The soldier told his parents that he wanted them to meet his friend in the army. 这位战士告诉他的父母，他想让他们见见他军队里的朋友。A：T B：F 答案：B(3)、His father considered his plan unacceptable. 他的父亲认为他的计划是不可行的。A：T B：F 答案：A(4)、A few days later the parents were told by the police that their son had killed himself. 几天之后，警察告诉他父母，他们的儿子自杀了。A：T B：F 答案：A(5)、The son killed himself because he was unable to find a job. 这个儿子自杀是因为他找不到一份工作。A：T B：F 答案：B6、Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to background music. To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing （舒适的） atmosphere. Recently, however, its becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost（提升） sales or increase factory production by as much as a third.But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts（收入） by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isnt always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers movingunless, of course, the resulting indigestion（消化不良） leads to complaints.背景音乐似乎是无害的，但它对听者却有很大影响。录在唱片或磁带上的背景音乐首先是在美国的工厂、商店和餐馆里发现市场的。但它很快就传到世界各地。现在无论是购物还是进餐，听不到音乐是越来越难了。起初，在公共场所连续播放背景音乐只是为了营造一种和谐的气氛。然而，现在却演变成了一桩大生意。 美国营销专家罗纳德米利肯博士的调研表明，音乐可以提高销售额，也可以使工厂生产增加三分之一。但这必须是轻音乐。节奏快的音乐对销售不产生任何影响，而慢音乐可增加38的销售额。这也许是因为购物者随着音乐减缓了购物速度，从而有更多的机会去发现他们喜欢买的东西。不过，节奏缓慢的音乐并非总是那么有效。例如，米利肯博士发现，在饭馆里，播放慢音乐则意味着顾客进餐所花的时间更久，因而减少了销售总额。所以，餐馆老板最好播放快速音乐，以便使顾客不断地流动当然，不要由此产生消化不良，引起顾客抱怨。(1)、Background music was first used in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. 美国的工厂、商店和餐厅最开始使用背景音乐的。A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、An American marketing expert has found background music can increase sales or factory production. 一位美国的营销专家发现背景音乐能够提高销售量或者工厂生产量。A：T B：F 答案：A(3)、Slow music has no effect on sales. 慢音乐不会销售量没有影响。A：T B：F 答案：B(4)、Slow music is useless in factories in increasing sales. 慢音乐在增加工厂销售量方面是没用A：T B：F 答案：B(5)、Restaurant owners are advised to play lively music to increase overall sales. 餐厅老板被建议播放快音乐来增加营业总额。A：T B：F 答案：B7、The fourth Thursday in November is called Thanksgiving Day. In the United States, it is an annual occasion to show thanks to God for his goodness.As a historical, national and religious holiday, Thanksgiving Day began with the English in Plymouth Colony. As far back as 1621, after a long bitter winter and the gathering of the first harvest, these early settlers shared a feast with the local Indians and offered prayers of thanksgiving. The first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed（颁布） by President Washington on November 26, 1789. President Lincoln revived the custom in 1863.It was not until 1941 that the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution（决定）, setting the fourth Thursday of November as an annual Thanksgiving Day. Thus what began as a religious celebration of the harvest has since become a nationwide holiday.Now Thanksgiving Day is usually a family day, celebrated with a traditional turkey dinner and a happy reunion. Schools are closed on Thanksgiving Day and the day after. Many people, including students studying in another state, often travel long distances to spend the holiday at home.十一月份的第四个星期四被称为感恩节。在美国，感恩节是每年感谢神恩赐的节日。作为一个带有历史性、民族性、宗教性质的节日，感恩节始于生活在普利茅斯的英国人。历史可追溯1621年，经过一个漫长而饥寒交迫的冬季。早期的移民庆祝第一次丰收，他们邀请当地土著印第安人赴宴以示感谢。 华盛顿总统在1789年11月26日颁布第一个国家感恩节。1863，林肯总统重申了这个习俗。1941年，美国国会决定把十一月的第四个星期四定为感恩节。这样，起源于宗教庆祝丰收仪式成为了全国的法定假日。现在感恩节通常是家庭团聚的日子，家人团聚吃火鸡晚宴来庆祝。学校在感恩节放两天假。很多人，包括在其他州上学的学生都不畏舟车劳累赶回家过节。(1)、The passage is mainly about how Thanksgiving Day came into being. 文章主要讲述感恩节的产生。A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、Thanksgiving Day was first celebrated in 1621 by English settlers of the Plymouth Colony. 普利茅斯的英国移民在1621年第一次庆祝感恩节。 A：T B：F 答案：A(3)、President Washington set Thursday, November 26, 1789 as the First National Thanksgiving Day. 华盛顿总统在1789年11月26日，把星期四定为第一个国家感恩节。A：T B：F 答案：B(4)、Since 1863, the fourth Thursday of November has been set as an annual Thanksgiving Day, a nationwide holiday. 自从1863年，11月的第四个星期四就被定为一年一度的感恩节，一个全国性的节日。A：T B：F 答案：B(5)、The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has not changed through the years. The basic traditional food on Thanksgiving Day is roast turkey. 感恩节的庆祝模式经过多年没变。感恩节最基本的传统美食是火鸡。A：T B：F 答案：A8、 Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like to invite friends to their homes for an evening of food, drink and conversation. Formal dinners in fine homes and hotels in the United States are much the same as formal dinners anywhere in the world. But as most people in the United States have no servants, their dinner parties at home are decidedly informal. As many new small homes have no separate dining room or just have very small dining space, guests can also serve themselves and eat in the living room, holding their plates or trays on their knees.A more enjoyable form of entertainment is the picnic. Americans are great picnickers, and almost every family has a picnic basket. Summer invitations are often for a picnic at a park or in the open countryside. Unless hamburgers or hot dogs are cooked over a fire, picnic food is usually cold sandwiches, salads, potato chips, pickles. Watermelon is a favorite dessert, followed very often by baseball for the young and active, and naps for the old and weary. 跟世界上许多其他民族一样，美国人也喜欢在晚上把朋友请到家里去吃饭、喝酒或聊天。美国上等家庭和旅馆里的正规晚宴与世界上任何地方的正规晚宴大致相同。然而，由于大多数美国家庭都没有佣人，他们在家里举行的晚宴肯定都是非正规的。客人们可以坐在餐桌旁吃饭，或者，因为许多小家庭没有单独的餐厅或者餐厅面积非常小，客人们也可以自己动手，或者干脆在客厅里吃饭，把盘子、碟子就放在膝盖上。 还有一种更有趣的款待形式是野餐。美国人非常喜欢野餐，几乎每个家庭都有一个野餐用的篮子。夏日里人们常常邀请朋友到公园或开阔的郊外去野餐。除非要吃在火上烤热的汉堡包或热狗，野餐的食品一般都是冷食，如三明治、色拉、炸土豆片和泡菜等。西瓜是美国人民最喜爱的甜食。野餐后年轻人和喜欢活动的人们可以打棒球，疲倦了的人们则可以打个盹。(1)、Americans like to invite their friends over to dinner at their homes. 美国人喜欢在晚上把朋友请到家里去吃饭。 A：T B：F 答案：A(2)、Most Americans prefer informal parties because they cannot afford formal ones. 大多数美国人喜欢非正式的聚会是因为他们付不起正式聚会的费用。 A：T B：F 答案：B(3)、Guests sit and eat at an informal dinner, in the dining room or in the living room. 客人们可以在餐厅或者客厅里享用一次非正式晚餐。A：T B：F 答案：A(4)、According to the passage, people seldom have hot food at a picnic. 根据这篇文章，人们很少在野餐的时候吃热食。A：T B：F 答案：A(5)、The picnic is considered a more enjoyable form of meal because a dessert is always served. 人们认为野餐是三餐中最有趣的形式是因为餐后有甜食。 A：T B：F 答案：B9. Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said: Were you ever in a hospital when you were small? How did you feel? The doctors in Childrens Hospital are asking for money for childrens toys. Some children in the hospital must stay in bed for many weeks. Toys are needed to keep the sick children happy and quiet. Money for them can be sent to the hospital. After Mrs. Weeks read the story，she said，This story gave me an idea. You want us to bring some money for the toys. We could bring some of our own toys for the children in the hospital, said the boys and the girls one after another. Well, your ideas would be nice, Mrs. Weeks said， but mine is different. We could make some toys, shouted one of them. Mrs. Weeks smiled. Do yo