阅读理解训练题

1、阅读理解训练题（十四）AFriend is better than fortune. Friend is worse than poison in some cases.The two sentences above are opposite and seem to be unreasonable but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us to wron

2、g ways.My ideal（ 理想的 ） friend is of course a good friend whose goodness is shown below-he has no bad likings, such as smoking and drinking. He lives in frugality（ 节 俭 ）. He studies hard so as not to waste his golden time. At home he honors his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects hi

3、s teachers and shares feelings of his classmates. He treats those truly who are true to him. In a word,he has all the good characters better than mine. I can follow him as a model. With his help I am free from all difficulties,Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never fear difficul

4、ty and I shall never know the existence of the word failure.56. This passage tells us _A. how to make friends with others B. how the writer s friend helps himC. what kind of person the writers friend is D what kind of person we should make friends with57. An ideal friend meansA. a true friendB. a fa

5、lse friend C.an imaginaryfriend D. an excellent friend58. From the passage we can learn thatA. the writer and his ideal friend have a lot to learn from each otherB. the writer has a lot to learn from his ideal friendC. the writers ideal friend has a lot to learn from himD. the writer has only a litt

6、le to learn from his ideal friend59. From the second paragraph, we can infer the writer is sure thatA. nothing cannot be done with friend B. only the first sentence is reasonableC. he who does not smoke or drink must be a good friendD. good friends should always help each otherBLife gets noisier eve

7、ry day and very few people can be free from noise ofsome sort or another. It doesnt matter where you live-in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village-thechances are that you 11 be disturbed by jet planes,transistor radios, oil - powered engines, etc. Weseem to be getting used to noise, too.

8、 Somepeople feel quite lonely without background music while they re working.Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frighteningexperience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop musicwhich is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums（ 耳鼓 ）. The no

9、ise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.One recent report about noise and concentration（ 专心 ） suggested that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their ability to concentrate is a change in th

10、e level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise which doesnt change too much（music, for example） may even help people to concentrate.60. According to this passage, the noise pollution _A. has become the worst in the countrysideB. has become betterin big citiesC. has spread from cities to

11、 villagesD. has beencontrolled in modern cities61. What does background music refer toA. Music played while people are working. B. Music played in the backyard.C. Noise that continues while you re listening to other noises.D. Music used to help people to concentrate.62. Some people have their hearin

12、g harmed _A. while listening to pop musicB. in completesilenceC. when speaking loudlyD. while watching TV63. Which of the following isnt included among the things causing noiseA. trucksB. motorcyclesC. electric enginesD. jet planes64. Scientists have discovered that what prevents people from concent

13、rating on something isA. all kinds of noiseB. great changes inthe level of noiseC. background noiseD. popular musicCSheffieldLincoln College of EnglishClasses for foreign students at all levels.3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year course.Open all year.Small class (maximum 12 students).Library,

14、language laboratory and listening center.Accommodation( 住宿 ) with selected families.25 minutes from London.Course fees for English for one year are 1,380 with reduction ( 减少 forshorter periods of study.65. This passage is probably taken from _A. an advertisement B. a notice C. a poster D. a piece of

15、 news66. Who are admitted inA. Both foreign and native students.B.Only foreign beginnersand the advanced.C. Foreign students from beginners to the advanced. D. Only( foreign students advanced.67. While you stay there, who will take care of youA. The school where you study.B. Your classmates.C. The f

16、amily you have chosen.D. Your parents.DHave you ever been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time.On the c

17、ontrary, says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology, daydreamingis quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldnt get done all the thinking ithas to do during a normal day. You can t possibly do all your thinking with a conscious( 有意识 )mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all th

18、e time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states of mind have silent dialogues.Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. Th

19、ey did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our future

20、s. Day- dreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. Its easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your day-dreams than

21、 by trying to examine yoursleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situationsinyour life and find out a possible way of dealing with them.Daydreams cannot be predicated （ 预 料 ）. They move off in unexpected directions which may be creative（ 创造性的 ） and full of ideas. For many

22、 famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.68. The writer of this passage considers daydreamsA. hard to understandB. important and helpfulC. harmful and unimportantD. the same as sleep dreams69. The writer quoted（ 引用 ）L. Giambra and Eric Klinger to .A. po

23、int out the wrong ideas of early experts B.list two different ideasC. support his own ideaD. report the latestresearch on daydreams 70. Which of the following isTRUEA. An unconscious mind can work all the problems out.B. Daydreaming can give artists and scientists ideas for creation.C. Professor Eri

24、c Klinger has a better idea than L. Giambra.D. Early experts didnt understand what daydreams were.71. What is the main difference between daydreams and sleep dreamsA. People have daydreams and sleep dreams at different times.B. Daydreams are the result of unconscious mind while sleep dreams are that

25、 of conscious mind.C. Daydreams are more harmful. D. Daydreams are more helpful in solving problems.EWhen nature is left alone, a balance is reached among the animals and plants living in one area. But when man starts his work in nature, the balance is likely to be destroyed. He grows a crop and tak

26、es it away to eat ;then there are no dead leaves to fall on the ground, holding water while it sinks into the surface, or decaying（ 腐烂 ） and adding humus（ 腐殖质 ） to the soil. Unless a farmer acts with knowl- edge and skill, he is therefore most likely to make the land poorer. To take the place of the

27、 useful matter in the crops that he removes, he uses some kind of fertilizer（ 肥料 ）. Chemical fertilizers are of great help, but the waste products of animals and decaying remains of plants should also be put on the land. In some places, it is a habit to burn waste material lying about, but such burn

28、ing destroys the useful matter in the dead plants. Although the ashes that are left are valuable when put on the land, a better practice is to bury the waste so that it decays and increases the humus in the soil.In the past, when the world population was much lower than it is now, a man had little d

29、ifficulty in ordinary times in growing the food that was needed. Whena field had been used some years and had become tired, the farmer could move to another place. The tired land then slowly recovered. Gradually grasses and other plants would appear on it and its productive power would slowly return

30、 to normal through their decay. But nature, left alone, would take a long time tobring backthe land to its former state; the length of time required would depend on local conditions, but it might well be ten years.It is a bad practice to grow the same crop in a field year after year. If the crop is

31、changed, the land will suffer less because it is treated and used in a different way. Different plants have different effects on the soil. Therefore, a change of crop will do less harm than the growing of the same crop year after year and a regular change to grass will do good to the soil. Much will therefore be gained if different crops are grown one after another, a method known as the rotation（ 轮作 ） of crops.72. According to the passage, the land will become poorerA. if all the dead leaves are cleared away B. if the humus is increased after the harv