(完整版)高一英语期末阅读训练

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My grandmother often said to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was true. However, I’ve now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make a few “best” friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.

One type of friends is the type I call the “football mom friends”. My neighbour Sally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and someone has to take them to practise and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.

Another type is called the “hobby friend”. Tha t’s the person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example

of this type. We’re all in a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Michael and Cater, of course. We just share interest in birds.

Then there’s the “other half the couple” type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I have known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that I would have to be Jim’s friend if I want to continue to be Rose’s. Jim and I don’t share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.

36. What does the first paragraph tell us about?

A. We need true friends in our lifetime.

B. We have few best friends in our lifetime.

C. A true friend is different from a best friend.

D. We must be friendly to all our friends.

37. Many people are mentioned in this passage. Who is the writer’s true friend?

A. Sally.

B. Michael.

C. Jim.

D. None of these.

38. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.

B. Michael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.

C. The writer herself takes her kid to the football club.

D. Sally and the writer are close friends.

B

Helen Keller was one of America’s best-known women. She was admired for her courage and achievements although she couldn’t see or hear. She was also known throughout the world for her self-sacrificing work to improve the condition of the blind, the deaf and the speechless. When she died on June 1, 1968, the newspaper Washington Post wrote: “Her life was truly one of the most remarkable phenomena of our time and her death just short of the age of 88 leaves the whole world poorer.”

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For the first

19 months of her life, she was a pretty and happy baby, normal in every way. Then

a sudden illness destroyed her sight and her hearing. Because she could not hear sounds to imitate(模仿), she could not speak. Helen used to say that her real birthday was not June 27th, 1880, but March 3rd, 1887 —the day when Anne Sullivan entered her life. It was Anne Sullivan who taught Helen to spell certain words by a special system, Braille, and even to talk.

Anne Sullivan could not teach Helen Keller to speak until some other important things had been learned. The little girl had to learn to control her actions and feelings. She had to learn that she could not always do what she wanted to do. She had always been able to get what she wanted by using force. The teacher had to change such habits without breaking the child’s spirit.

Miss Sullivan’s battle began. Sometimes, there was real fighting between the wild child and the strong young teacher. At last, however, the battle was won by Miss Sullivan, who succeeded in showing Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her. The child and her teacher became friends. They continued to be friends until the teacher’s death, fifty years later.

The day on which Helen finally accepted Miss Sullivan as her friend and teacher was a great day in Helen’s life. After that, the teacher could begin to teach the child language.

39. Helen Keller was admired by many people because .

A. she was very famous in America

B. she had great courage and gained lots of achievements

C. she went t o college though she couldn’t see or hear

D. she had a good teacher

40. Learning was Helen Keller’s first lesson before she was taught to speak.

A. to sit all day long

B. to make friends with her teacher

C. to do a thing again and again

D. to control actions and feelings

41. We can infer from the passage that Anne Sullivan .

A. was more than a teacher to Helen

B. was very clever

C. a blind woman

D. taught Helen how to write

42. Which of the following statement is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Helen Keller stayed in touch with Miss Sullivan for fifty years.

B. Anne Sullivan took great trouble to show Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her.

C. It was not until Helen had learned some other important things that Miss

Sullivan could teach her to speak.

D. Miss Sullivan met many difficulties in teaching Helen how to speak.

C

The Trip to Alishan in Taiwan

It was the fourth day of our trip to Taiwan, bright but cold. After a good breakfast we put on our jackets and gloves, pulled on our hats and got into a car. We travelled for about two hours, up, and up, and up the mountain road.

We finally arrived at the top of the mountain. It was Christmas Day. So imagine my joy to see icicles(冰柱)hanging form branches and the whiteness of the scenery. Indeed, it was my first Christmas in the northern hemisphere(半球)and, guess what? It even started snowing too. How amazingly exciting for me to have Christmas in my grandmother’s hometown, and to experience icicles and snow. Alishan is really beautiful, especially seen form this dizzy height. After Sun parked the car, we got out and looked down through the trees. It hadn’t snowed hard enough so there was no snow on the ground, just loads of pine needles. There was a most wonderful smell of pine sap(松液)drifting up to us form the ground. It was very quiet, except for the twittering of birds, and the odd car passing along the road. Quietness in Taiwan is something to treasure.

Over the road was a small stall so we went over to it. They were selling some drink steaming hot in paper cups, too hot to hold immediately. We jumped around to get warm. There was a cool wind blowing up the side of the mountain, and the clouds above us were moving along quickly. I could imagine there was quite a strong wind blowing up there, so I was glad we were down on the ground! The drink cooled down fairly rapidly. I picked up my share and, wow, what a lovely smell was coming form it. It was the smell of ginger(姜). I took a sip. How delicious, and so this was ginger tea, which I had never tried before. It warmed my body so quickly that I could feel the heat travel right down to my fingers and to my toes. This was very good stuff. And then it was time to leave as we were going down to Hualian to attend a Buddha bi-bi, eat hot pot, and drink some Shaoxing rice wine.

43. Why was the author excited and amazed to see icicles?

A. Because she had never seen icicles before.

B. Because she liked icicles very much.

C. Because it was her first time to experience a cold Christmas.

D. Because it was her first time to experience winter.

44. Which of the following words can be used to describe Alishan?

A. beautiful, cold, quiet

B. high, white, quiet

C. beautiful, cold, bright

D. high, white, bright

45. What did the author describe in the third paragraph?

A. It was very cold at the top of the mountain.

B. It was blowing strongly on the mountain.

C. She enjoyed herself very much in the cold.

D. She was greatly amazed by the ginger tea.

46. From the text, we can tell that the author is most probably _______.

A. a Chinese person in Australia

B. a Chinese person in America

C. an Australian

D. an American

D

I use tea to refer to a snack(点心)taken in the late afternoon or early evening (ie after getting home from work but before the main meal, which I call dinner) and I don’t think that’s rare(罕见)at all. I think the difference is when you originally had your main meal and I would agree that it’s a class thing, not a north/south thing (I’ve heard the midday meal referred to as both lunch and dinner by different people in all areas of England).

Dinner was always the main meal. In the past, working class men worked near (or even at) home and came home for their main meal at midday, and so that was their dinner. Middle class men worked in offices far from their homes (often working in the city centre, and living outside the city) and so couldn’t go home for a meal at midday. They therefore had a light meal at midday and had their main meal with their family in the evening after they go home from work, so dinner was in the

evening. Because most children at state schools were working class, we still use dinner for school meals. For middle and upper class people, tea was a light snack served in the mid-afternoon at which ladies (who didn’t, of course, go out to work) could entertain their friends. For working class people, however, tea was the light snack you had before going to bed. Supper, for all classes, was the light snack you had before going to bed.

However, because work patterns changed and many working class people started eating their main meal in the evening too, dinner, tea and supper started to become interchangeable for them. Also many working class families have since become middle class, so the terms have become less of a current class thing (if class still exists at all) and more of a system of terminology inherited(家族术语)from grandparents etc, different from family to family. When I was a child (Southern English, middle class family, but with working class forebears(祖先)) we called the midday meal dinner and the evening meal tea, but when I was in my early teens I had a new stepfather (from a family that had always been middle class for generations) who used lunch and dinner,and that’s what I’ve used ever since.

47. The working class people in the past usually had _______ in the evening.

A. a snack

B. some water

C. supper

D. dinner

48. What was the order of meals for the middle and upper class people in a day?

A. Breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, supper.

B. Breakfast, dinner, supper.

C. Breakfast, lunch, tea, supper, dinner.

D. Breakfast, dinner, tea.

49. The underlined word “entertain” in the text has the same meaning as the

underlined part of

sentence _______.

A. He tried to please his friends with his songs and jokes.

B. He could never consider the idea of living in the country.

C. He invited his friends for a dinner at his home last Sunday.

D. He showed his friend around his new house before dinner.

50. At the end of the text, the author gave an example to show us mainly that

people from different _______ called meals by different names.

A. times

B.

countries

C. directions

D. classes