英语阅读表达专练24篇

第一节阅读表达(第76题2分，77、78、80题每题3分，第79题4分，满分l5分)

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求)。

[1] Do you spend over an hour each day texting messages to your friends? Do you frequently ignore work, study, and other activities to check your phone for messages? Are you anxious and restless if you are separated from your mobile phone,9 Do you hardly ever use your phone to talk any more, and do your thumbs hurt from texting too much?

[2] If , then it is very possible that you are a textaholic. A textaholic can be defined as someone who is addicted to sending and receiving messages. The main symptoms are a strong desire to text messages, which takes precedence (优先)over everything else, and bad moods, low spirits and a lack of self-confidence if messages fail to come in. The root of the problem, as with many addictions, is the desire to escape from emotional difficulties such as stress, atrxiety and relationship problems. Experts warn that text addiction is likely to become the most common form of addiction in the future, especially among the young.

[3] So what can you do if you think you may be a textaholic? The key is to get your life back in balance. Make sure you resist the urge to answer every message you receive, and consider leaving your mobile phone behind occasionally when you go out. Most importantly, make a point of spending quality time with friends and family, and make time to re-learn the art of face-to-face conversation instead of conducting your relationships by means of text messages. Not only will you save time and money, but you may also rediscover the pleasure of true communication.

76. How does the author intr oduce the topic of the text? (no more than 5 words)

77. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 8 words)

78. What emotional difficulties may be the causes of text addiction? (no more than 5 words)

79. What do experts say about text addiction? (no more than 14 words)

80. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3? (no more than 8 words)

第一节:阅读表达（共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分）

阅读下面短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题.

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（购物手推车）. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地携带）groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention. But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think thi s arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的）customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.

1. The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to________________________（No more than 3 words）

2. What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? （No more than 10 words）

3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? （No more than 10 words）

4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? （No more than 10 words）

5. What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. （No more than 20 words）

（十一）

Modern life is a lot less to the advantage of friendships and neighborliness than it used to be. The average American moves every five years. People drive straight into their garages, hire lawn services, hang out in their backyards instead of their front porches（前走廊）. These days, neighbors don't even

know each other's names.

Good neighbors and good friends are a lot like electricity or running water: We don't know how much we depend on them until we don't have them. In fact, the authors of a recent book, Refrigerator Rights, claim that refrigerators are signs of close relationships--after all, you wouldn't snatch a drumstick（鸡腿）from the refrigerator of a stranger.

The surprising thing is that all it takes to strengthen your relationship with friends and neighbors is respect for their feelings, concern for their property, and a helping hand when it's needed. Here's how to develop your relationships with two types of vitally important people in your life.

_________________. A true friend doesn't flee when changes occur. The sign of a good friend is one who stays true through it all--marriage, parenthood, new jobs, new homes, the losses. Just because situations change doesn't mean the person has to.

Friendships fade away if there isn't an balance between the give and the take. So make sure you aren't being a burden to your friends. Be sensitive to how much your friend can and can't offer you--be it time, energy, or help -- and don't step over the line. Meanwhile, friendships that drain（耗尽）you will not last. If a friendship is out of balance in this way, you'll need to talk the situation through.

1. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

A true friend will stay the same even when the situations change.

2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with a proper sentence.（Within 10 words）

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3. What advice is given in the last paragraph?（Within 10 words）

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4. What do you think the author will go on talking about if the passage continues? （Within 10 words）

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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．

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（十二）

The hospital burn unit is a popular place on the day after Thanksgiving. I found that out three years ago, when my 18-month-old daughter touched a radiator pipe while playing around our friends' farmhouse. Instead of feasting on leftover stuffing, I rushed my child as she screamed to hospital. Instead of getting a jump on my Christmas shopping, I learned how to take care of second-degree burns.

Our story had a happy ending. With weeks of twice-daily treatments at Mommy and Papa's

kitchen-table burn clinic, my daughter's hands healed. But other children we saw at the outpatient burn clinic weren't so lucky. I saw hands _____________________, a mouth that would never smile straight, a scalp that would never grow hair. All the parents had stories of accidents as easy as ours: a cup of tea knocked from a side table, a tumble（摔倒）into a space heater. "Heaters and soup," one veteran nurse told me at the hospital. "That's all it is. Heaters and soup. "

Most of the injuries were to hands and wrists, and most came from contact with hot liquids or from touching hot objects. Not only do small children not realize the danger posed by hot objects; their skin is much thinner than that of adults. They burn more quickly, and the burns tend to be deeper and more severe.

Traditional fire safety education focused on preventing fires. The number of children injured by playing with fire has declined substantially when the Consumer Product Safety Commission required that cigarette lighters be child-resistant. "We know people know about smoke alarms," says Chrissy, program manager for Safe Kids USA, a nonprofit that works to reduce childhood injuries. Now, fire safety experts hope that public education efforts will turn to burns that can be just as terrible as injuries caused by flame.

1. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

People used to be warned of the fire burns.

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2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence．（within 10 words）

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3. What is the best title for this passage? （within 10 words）

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4. For what purpose does the author mention “a cup of tea” or “a tumble into a space heater” in Paragraph 2? （within 10 words）

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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．

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（十三）

Happiness is U-shaped, for we are happier at the start and end of our lives but hit a slump when we are middle-aged, British and US researchers say.

Economists from the University of Warwick, central England, and from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, looked at data on the mental health of two million people from 80 countries.

In Britain, the probability of depression for men and women peaks at around 44 years of age, Warwick University said in a press release.

In the United States, though, ________________________between men and women.

Among women, unhappiness peaked at around the age of 40, whereas among men, it was about

50.

But the U-shape of happiness is constant around the world, and mid-life depression occurs regardless of marital status（婚姻状况）, changes in job or income.

The study appears in Social Science & Medicine, published by the Dutch publishing house Elsevier.

"It happens to men and women, to single and married people, to rich and poor, and to those with and without children.” said co-author Andrew Oswald.

One possibility may be that people realize they won't achieve many of their ambitions at middle age. The researchers said.

Another reason could be that after seeing their fellow middle-aged peers begin to die, people begin to value their own remaining years and embrace life once more.

But the good news is that if people make it to aged 70 and are still physically fit, they are on average as happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year old. "For the average persons in the modern world, the dip in mental health and happiness comes on slowly, not suddenly in a single year," Oswald said. "Only in their fifties do people emerge from this low period.”

1. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

There are chances that the middle-aged people will realize their ideal is likely to be unattainable.

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2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence．（within 10 words）

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3. How do you understand the sentence that “Happiness is U-shaped”? （within 20 words）

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4. Is mid-life depression a common Phenomenon in the world? How do you know? （within 15 words）__________________________________________________________________________

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese

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01

If you are worried about things and are under a lot of stress at work or school, then you are probably not sleeping well. Worry can keep you awake, tossing and turning in bed until the early hours of the morning when you eventually fall asleep. When you wake up, you don’t feel refreshed, but tired and worn out and unable to face a new day.

Dr. Henry Winkle, in a recent newspaper article entitled Stress and Sleep, indicates that . Dr. Winkl e says, “The more we worry, the less we sleep, the more we are unable to deal with stress. If we can find a way to get a good night’s sleep,” he adds, “we can often find the energy to deal with what’s worrying us.”

So, what is a good night’s sleep? Researc h shows that the amount of sleep which people need in order to keep healthy varies a lot. Seven hours in about the average amount, though strangely enough,

sleeping longer often gives you a headache instead of making you feel more refreshed.

Dr. Winkle believes that preparing for sleeping is important. People who work late should try to give themselves a short break and do something restful before going to bed. This could be watching TV or listening to music. Doing some exercise earlier in the day should help you to feel physically as well as mentally tired. A bedtime drink can also help, but coffee or tea should be avoided as they contain caffeine and will keep you awake. “When you put the light out,” Dr. Winkle says, “concentrate on relaxing your muscles, working slowly up from your feet, and you’ll be asleep before you know it.”

1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

People shouldn’t go to sleep immediately but should take a break after working late in the night.

3. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)

4. Someone says that the longer you sleep, the better you feel. Try to find some arguments from the passage against the idea. (Please answer within 30 words)

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.

02

These days a green building means more than just the color of the paint. Green building can also refer to environmentally friendly houses, factories, and offices.

Green building means “reducing the impact (影响) of the building on the land”, Taryn Holowka of the U.S. Green Building Council in Washington, D.C., said .

According to Holowaka, building account for 65 percent of total U.S. electricity use.

But green building can reduce energy and water use. Also, the buildings are often located near public transportation such as buses and subways, ________________. That could be good for the environment, because cars use lots of gas and give off pollution. Green buildings are often built on developed land, so tha t the buildings don’t destroy forests .

Mary Dettling is project manger for a building that put these ideas into action. The Solaire has been called the country’s first green high-rise building. According to Dettling, “We’re reduced our energy use by one-t hird and our water by 50 percent,”.

The Solaire also has lights that automatically turn off when people leave the room. In addition, the

building has lots of windows, allowing people to use the sun for light during the day. The Solaire cuts water reusing it .

Not everyone is eager to move into a green building, however. Some people think that things like solar panels cost more money than more traditional energy sources. Anyhow, Holowaka said, “It’s going to be big.”

1.What is the best title of the passage ? (please answer within 10 words)

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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one ?

Green building will become popular in future .

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3. Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence .( Please answer within in 10 words .)

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4. Do you think a green building is better than a common building ? Why? (Please answer within 30 words .)

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5.Translate the underline sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.

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03

For most Americans, a clean glass of water is just a matter of turning on a faucet（水龙头. But for many of the world’s poorest, it’s hard to get .

On Wednesday, the United Nations(UN)marked World Water Day by trying to cut the number of people without good drinking water-one billion human beings worldwide-in half. In the next ten years ,the UN will work with governments around the world to reduce the shortage.

Without clean water nearby, many people use water .

In India, many people bathe and wash their clothes in rivers that are polluted by human waste.

According to the UN, not having enough clean water and sanitation causes more than three million deaths a year.

“The links between water and human heath are powerful,” said Dr Lee Jong Wook, director-general of the World Health Organization(WHO). “We cannot live without clean water.”

In fact, the International Federation of the Red Cross said that quick reaction after last year’s Asian tsunami(海啸)had stopped disease. The agency provided clean water to nearly 500,000 people in

Indonesia and Sri Lanka after the tsunami.

World Water Day was first celebrated in 1993. Since then, it is celebrated each year on March 22.

1.What is the best title of the passage?

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by this one?

The quality of the water is closely connected with human health.

3.What did the International Federation of the Red Cross do after the tsunami? And why?

4.Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.

5.Translate the first paragraph into Chinese.

04

In the United States, train transportation is unpopular compared with cars and airplanes. Most people like traveling by car or by air.

Officials of the United States Department of Transportation made a study in 2001. The study is about how many miles Americans traveled by different means of transportation. They only studied trips longer than 50 miles. The study showed that fifty-six percent of all miles were traveled in personal vehicle. Forty-one percent were traveled in an airplane. Two percent were traveled in a bus. And less than one percent of miles were traveled in a train.

Amtrak is the national provider of train transportation in the United States. In the past ten years, the number of its passengers has increased by eighteen percent. Although the number of passengers has increased, it is still very small now. In countries such as France, Germany, or Japan, more people use trains.

There are several reasons why many people __________________________.

Firstly, Americans love to drive their own cars. On highways, cars can travel as fast as trains. These highways connect all major cities in America．Secondly, many travelers like to be independent. When they use their own cars they can decide when to travel. Thirdly, many buses travel between major cities.

Bus travel is less costly than train travel.

In a huge country like the United States, cities are far away from each other. In some cases, travel from one city to another by train may take more than a day. Airplanes can carry passengers over long distances much faster. People who do not want to spend long time traveling by train decide to fly. For these people saving time is the most important thing.

1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

It’s convenient for people to decide the start-off time when they travel in their own cars.

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3. Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.( Please answer within 10 words.)

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4. What means of transportation do you like best when traveling, trains, cars, or planes? Why? ( Please answer within 30 words)

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5. Translate the underlined sentences in the last paragraph into Chinese.

05

Exchange a glance with someone, and then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer and you have made _____________. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person’s gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an el evator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You may likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to send out a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contacts what sociologist Erving Goffiman（1963）calls “a dimming of the lights”. You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, a nywhere but into another passenger’s eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person extremely uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.

If you hold eye contacts for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and the situation. For instance, a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, and then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again. But if one man gives another man a

3-second-plus stare, he signals, “I know you”. “I am interested in you.” or “You look peculiar and I am curious about you.” This type of stare often produces hos tile feelings.

1. What can be inferred from the first paragraph?(within 10 words).

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2. Please translate the underlined part into Chinese.

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3. Fill in the blank with proper words(within 10 words).

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4. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following?

You might have a glimpse of the others to let them make sure that you are not a danger.

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5. What does the passage mainly talks about?(within 15 words).

06

Comic book superhero Spider –Man uses tiny hairs on his fingertips to climb up walls. But he could have had another secret weapon to help him stick.

Scientists have now found that some spiders can also make silk in their feet, which may sometimes help them get a firmer grip on a surface.

Spiders are good at gripping walls with their legs. Thousands of little hairs on their feet make it possible. To test whether spiders also make these hairs wet to improve grip, scientists watched zebra tarantulas crawl up glass slides.

When they tilted(使倾斜) a glass slide until it was almost vertical, the spider slipped a few millimeters before attaching itself again. The scientists were surprised to see little threads stretching from its feet to the slide. When they studied the spider’s feet under a special microscope, they found tiny silk – shooting spouts (吐出) among the hairs.

This was a surprise because scientists had previously thought spiders only use special organs near their stomachs to make silk.

It’s possible that, a long time ago, feet were the first body parts of spiders to produce silk. Only later in their evolutionary history did spiders develop spinnerets on their abdomens to produce silk for webs.

If so, the researchers say, this cou ld mean that the silk’s original purpose was to ,

rather than to build homes or trap prey (猎物).

1.What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

2. Which sentence in the passage can be best replaced by the following one?

It has been discovered that the silk spouted from the feet of the spiders can assist them to get attached on objects.

3. Fill in the blank with proper words or phrases. (Please answer within 10 words.)

4. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

5. What can you learn from this discovery ? (Please answer within 20 words.)

07

Many high schools and colleges with a football team in the United States usually have a homecoming day. This can be the most important event of the year next to graduation. Students plan homecoming day for many weeks. When the day arrives，they begin before dawn to decorate the schools. There are signs to wish luck to the team and many other signs to welcome back the graduates from other years. Many people still come to homecoming clubs build booths and sell lemonade，apples or sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors. During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school. Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the homecoming queen/king appears. All the students vote for another student who is popular. It is a great honor to become______________. Homecoming is a happy day. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day to remember for a long，long time.

1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

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2. Of all the events，what are the two things that all the students do on this day? (Please answer within 15words.)

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3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)

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4. Why do the students still enjoy homecoming even if the team loses? (Please answer within 15 words.)

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5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

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08 山东阅读表达（共5 小题；每小题3分，满分15 分）

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

[1]The word addiction usually makes you think of alcohol or drugs, but in modern-day society we are seeing some new kinds of addictions. Some people are compulsive (难以自制的) shoppers. Others find it impossible to pull themselves away from their work. Still others spend countless hours watching TV or playing computer games

[2]Over the years, shopping has become a very common activity. Many people enjoy going to malls or stores more and more everyday, but it’s more than a common hobby for some of them. They have turned into shopaholics. They are people who simply enjoy shopping and walking around spending money without being able to stop doing it. They are hooked on shopping and usually buy things that they don’t need.Even though they don’t have enough money, they buy everythin g they want.

*3+The question is: why do they have this addiction? There isn’t a specific answer. Some people go shopping when they are sad, worried, upset or lonely and they want to feel better. They use this activity as a way to forget their problems. Shopaholics say that they feel more important and better after they buy something. They also tend to have this addiction when they feel guilty.

[4]Shopaholism seems to be a harmless addiction, but it can ___________. Some of them can be psychological. If this is the case, people addicted to shopping should go to a support group to help them break this habit. However, the process, like for most addictions, is long, and they suffer a lot. It can also cause financial problems. They just think about satisfying their feelings, so they spend

money they don’t have. They get deep in debt, and they can even go bankrupt and get sent to prison.

76. List three activities that might develop into addictions based on the text. (Please answer within 8 words)

①____________________ ②__________________③__________________

77. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 3? (Please answer within 8 words)

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78. Fill in the blank in paragraph 4 with proper words. (Please answer within 6words)

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79. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

Accordingly, these shopaholics should turn to a certain organization for help so that they can stop compulsive shopping.

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese.

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09 山东阅读下面短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

「1」Hello. It‘s one of the first words we learn as babies, yet it‘s one of the last ones we think to use as adults. That‘s unfortunate, because saying hello is more than just saying hello- it is recognition of another‘s wo rth. How might the world change – how might we change- if we mastered this word? To find out, I spent one month saying hello to every person I met. Here‘s what I‘ve learned.

「2」It can boost (促进) productivity. In one of the few studies ever done on this subject, Allan Allday , an assistant professor of special education at Oklahoma State University, had middle school teachers greet their students individually each morning. This exchange of greetings raised the kids productivity. School went from impersonal to personal, and that resulted in more class participation and better grades. 「3」Environments influence friendliness. One study found that people in the city were less likely to shake hands with a stranger than those in the countryside. And, researehers say. pleasant environments generally encourage more smiles and hellos than unpleasant ones ,My experience was similar. Whatever the reason, my urban hellos were answered far less often than my rural one . Similarly, people in vacation spots, like the Jersey Shore, were far friendlier than those hurrying work downtown.

「4」It‘s a form of universal health insurance. It‘s impossible to say hello without smiling. And smiling has been shown to lower blood pressure, relieve stress and boost happiness. Apparently, a smile creates a similar effect in the recipient (接受者)。

「5」So maybe we can make the world a better place by_________ ___. After a month of doing it. I feel lighter and more connected and I have a better sense of well-being.

76.What does the author say about the adults according to Paragraph 1?（within 8 words）

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77.Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

Teachers and students got friendlier so that the students became more active in learning and scored higher in tests.

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78.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words.(within 5 words)

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79.List three effects of smiling on bealth according to the text.(within 8 words)

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80.Translatc the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 Chinese.

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Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.

The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion‘s guest room.Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.

As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied,“Things aren‘t always what they seem.”

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.

After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night‘s rest.

When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.

The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but ___________________, and you let the cow die.

―Things aren‘t always what they seem,‖ the older angel replied.

―When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall.

Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn‘t find it.‖

―Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren‘t always what they seem.‖

Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don‘t turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every out come is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until some time later.

1. What‘s the best title of the passage?

2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

The couple shared their little food with the two angels and then spared their bed for the two angels to rest for a good night willingly.

3.Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(within ten words)

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4.Do you think life is equal for the two families ? And why?(within 30 words)

5.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

11If you are applying for an American higher education, you probably dream of getting into an Ivy League （常青藤联盟）university．The eight schools with the best reputations attract top students from the United States and many other countries．However, on average, the Ivy League schools accept less than 15 percent of applicants．And with the applicants growing in size year on year, it is becoming more and more difficult _________．

So how can you give yourself the best chance of admission?

Having a high school grade point average （GPA）in the top 10 percent of your class and being ranked among the top few students dramatically betters your chances．But although GPA and SAT scores are important, they only tell admission deans（主任）part of the story．

The whole admissions process will single out （挑选出）from a large pool of academically strong applicants the unique individuals．They stand out because they have shown in their interviews a range of virtues （优点）expected of these universities．Take Harvard for example．Although there is no guarantee of admission, the school judges applicants based on 15 additional criteria．Intellectual curiosity （求知欲）comes first tor almost all admission deans．Schools look to such students because they believe their peers find them slimulaling（激励人的）inside and outside the classroom．

Leadership also weighs heavily．The school would rather see an applicant who takes on additional responsibility in one or two areas where he or she is good at, rather than one who is merely "very good" academically．This can mean the class presidencv（主席职务）, leading the cheerleading team or being the officer of a student union．

Whether a person has personal warmth and cares about others counts a lot with the admission deans．Writing an essay on a personal experience, like a summer spent raising funds for the earthquake victims or teaching in a local school, can show that a person has qualities in addition to academic experience．

76．What is the purpose of the passage? （no more than 15 words）

77．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

The universities pay attention to the students with this virtue in that they can inspire their fellow students at school.

78．Fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (no more than 5 words)

79．Based on the passage, list three additional criteria for admission besides academic performance．（no more than 10 words）

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80．Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.

12I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day. But I became in visible, absent from the conversation.

The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver told us to be quiet because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends going down the highway, unable to talk to one another because of a tool designed to make communication easier.

Why is it that the more connected we get, ________________________ ? Every advance in communications technology is a hurt to the closeness of human interaction (互动). With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.

More and more. l find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn‘t really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.

So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell-phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I' m home.

76. What does the author say about communications technology according to the first two paragraphs? (within 15 words)

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77. Which sentences in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

However, I felt left out as if we were not conducting the conversation.

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78. Fill in the blanks in Paragraph 3 with proper words. (within 10 words)

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79. Does the author restrict his own activity to improving the situation? (within 15 words)

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80. Translate the underlined sentences in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

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13Even if you really enjoy your job, it‘ s still possible to battle boredom as you work. You may not be able to make big changes---or change your job---but you can make small adjustments to your routine that can make every day seem, well, a little less routine.

1. Switch Your Seat

Change your outlook at the office by changing your office. Ask your supervisor to help you find a new desk. Even switching desks with a neighboring coworker can offer a fresh atmosphere.

If it's not possible to change your location, see if you can change your desk‘s direction. A new view can be just as refreshing as a new location.

2. ______________

Start and end your day in a different way. C onsider a new mode of transportation, if it‘s possible. Take a subway. Ride a bike on sunny days. Carpool with a coworker. Use a new route to get to your job. You needn't change it for ever---just long enough to help you escape the boredom.

3. Find a New Work Style

Sick of attending that long-standing Monday morning meeting? Try to change it to the afternoon.

If you find yourself feeling most bored in the afternoons, try to arrange to do your favorite tasks then and tackle less desirable projects in the mornings.

If you usually communicate with coworkers via email and instant messaging, start dealing with people face to face. Increased communication with coworkers may help improve your mood.

4. Get and Set a Goal

If your work is short of objectives, it's no wonder that work has become boring. Identify a goal and set an ―achieve by‖ date for it.

Your goal needn‘t be lofty as long as you have sufficient enthusiasm for it. Perhaps you want to make a new project. Maybe you‘d like to pursue a promoti on. Or you may even set a goal of finding a new job altogether. Whatever it is, actively move toward an objective.

76. What is the purpose of the passage? (within 15 words)

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77. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?

You will feel bored when you are not working toward something.

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78. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words. (within 8 words)

79. List three methods of escaping from boredom in your daily. (within 5 words for each)

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in the Last Paragraph into Chinese.

14 A poet is in his words

The writings of William Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britian. His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university.

Still, in British schools, ____________ to study the poet, and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment or both. Shakespeare, Chareles Dickens, Jane Austen－for many of the young, reading them can seem like being forced to eat medicine, especially when people are at an age when they are beginning to discover themselves and wanting to claim their independence.

This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them.

I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught the subject in universities in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There is something in literature that people want, even if they don‘t read books.

You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point. These popular

adaptations may help increase people‘s interest in the classic.

Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare‘s actual play. If that is the case th en I welcome the trend. But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a poet and his greatness is in his language. Reading someone else‘s rewriting of his work is like peeling (剥皮) a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin. Take on the original. It really is worth the effort.

76. Find a sentence from the text which can explain the title.

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77. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words to complete the sentence. (within 5 words)

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78. Why are the adaptations of great works popular?

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79. Do you think it necessary to read the original? Why? (within 30 words)

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.

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15 [1] People today, in all this new world of technology and thinking, have lost sight of what a true friendship is. So, though I own my best friend Jenny, I thought I would help the world out a little and explain what real, true friends are.

[2] Friends don‘t have to be exactly the same. They have similarities but __________________. The key to opening up the world of friendship is not only to expand on similarities but to accept each other‘s faults, because you can‘t ever judge your friend.

[3] Friends have to argue! No one likes to but it is necessary to be healthy. Because if you agree on everything, either the government has expand ed cloning subjects or someone isn‘t being true and is trying a little too hard.

[4] You have to be comfortable together. Otherwise, you just aren‘t going to click. If you feel uneasy around the person then something isn‘t quite right.

[5] Friends love unconditionally. They have their little angry moments but what‘s done is done and all is forgiven and forgotten. Why let something that happened in the past ruin the happiness you could have in the future?

[6] Believe in love at first sight because there is the same thing happening in friendship. Some people think that you have to know someone really well to become good friends. Trust me, it‘s not true.

[7] These are only a few of the basics. Just remember, friends are forever. But only if you keep it that way. Don‘t disrespect your friends, love them instead.

76. What is the best title of the passage? (no more than 6 words)

_____________________________________________________________________________ 77. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

Make up with your friends after the quarrels and don‘t let the sadness last long.

_____________________________________________________________________________ 78. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (no

more than 8 words)

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79. Please list three of the writer‘s viewpoints on friendship. (no more than 10 words)

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 into Chinese.

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16 For years children in the industrial areas of Europe and America seldom left their smoky cities to see the beauties of the countryside. Not that the woods and fields were always far away, but they were too far from the city to permit people to make a round trip between morning and nightfall. What's more, factory workers did not have enough money to send their children on country holidays away from home.

In 1907 a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small amount of money. The idea was a success. A few years later the schoolhouse was far too small to hold so many young people who wanted to stay there. So, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel.

Today young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostels and get to know each other. Some spend a week or more in the same hostel, seeing the surrounding sights and meeting the people of the area. Other youths go on foot or by bicycle from place to place, spending a night or two in one hostel, then going to the next.

Sometimes an informal program will be organized after the meal, with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. One can _____________________________ about other places, just by meeting people who come from these places. For this reason, a few weeks spent "hostelling" can be just