高中英语阅读理解

高中阅读理解一Is early childhood education really necessary? Early childhood education primarily focuses on learning through playing to develop the child’s physical, sensory, communicational and social development．Early childhood education has become a concern of the government, who pushes poor children to be formally trained before they are old enough for kindergarten．There are good reasons for the government to push early childhood education．Studies have shown that orphaned children who did not receive good care and education become developmentally delayed causing failure in school, and even in life．Further studies show that poor children who take part in Head Start programs are more prepared for school, less likely to end up in Special Education classes, and are less likely to receive public help or go to prison．There are also negative parts to putting a child in formal education programs too early．Time Magazine online explains that “the younger the child, the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work．” I have personally witnessed many children of my generation who went to Head Start programs become frustrated and bored with school before they finished high school．Yet parents have been sure that the earlier the child starts school, the better off he or she is, so they push to start children earlier．Actually while early formal education of poor children does show great gains in the early elementary years, studies also show that this head start is really a “false start”, as the gains are lost in middle and high school years．It seems that environment is a bigger factor on life’s success than early education．Head Start programs have not achieved its original goal in closing the achievement gap in poor and middle school children．Perhaps it is time to find other ways to close that gap．1. The purpose of the government valuing the early childhood education is ________．A．to develop the children’s communicationB．to give orphaned children good care and educationC．to get the children prepared for the kindergartenD．to train the children formally and regularly2. According to the studies, which of the following is True?A．Children with good early education may have a rich life．B．The orphaned children are usually unhappy in their life．C．Children without early education can do well at school．D．Head Start programs are helpful to the poor children．3. “the younger the child the less his chances of catching up with first-grade work．” suggests that_________．A．the early childhood education is helpless to the c hild’s gradeB．it is good for the young children to receive early educationC．the early education can help the children follow the gradeD．the younger the children are, the cleverer they will be4. The author’s attitude toward the early childhood educatio n is _________．A．puzzling B．negative C．indifferent D．approving5. The main idea of the last passage is that __________．A．the early childhood education is very necessaryB．Head Start programs have helped the children a lotC．environment is the most important to life’s successD．better ways should be found to help the poor childrenC D A B D高中阅读理解二Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling．Recycling in the home is very important of course．However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need．We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place ．The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005．It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK．In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard你．Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment．The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste．If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect．Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy．The solution is not to produce such items in the first place．Food waste is a serious problem, too．Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example．But this is not just about supermarkets．It is about all of us．We have learned to associate packaging with quality．We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality．This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary．There are signs of hope．As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collecting．We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb．1．What does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?A．Using too much packaging．B．Recycling too many wastes．C．Making more products than necessary．D．Having more material than is needed．2．The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______．A．the tendency of cutting household waste B．the increase of packaging recycling C．the rapid growth of super markets D．the fact of packaging overuse 3．According to the text, recycling ______．A．helps control the greenhouse effect B．means burning packaging for energy C．is the solution to gas shortage D．leads to a waste of land4．What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?A．Unpackaged products are of bad quality．B．Supermarkets care more about packaging．C．It is improper to judge quality by packagingD．Other products are better packaged than food．5．What can we learn from the last paragraph?A．Fighting wastefulness is difficult．B．Needless material is mostly recycled．C．People like collecting recyclable waste．D．The author is proud of their consumer culture．DDACAEarly one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine.Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.1..According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleepB. much more hard-working than other inventorsC. the first person to design a sewing machine that really workedD. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.A. what kind of thread to useB. how to design a needle which would not breakC. where to put the needleD. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle3.Thomas Edison is spoken of because________.A. he also tried to invent a sewing machineB. he got some of his ideas from dreamsC. he was one of Howe’s best friendsD. he also had difficulty in falling asleep4.Dreams are sometimes called“secret messages to ourselves” because ________.A. strange images are used to communicate ideasB. images which have no meaning are usedC. we can never understand the real meaningD. only specially trained people can understand themChinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.1. Which of the following is not true?A. Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.B. There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet.C. There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.D. There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.2. The survey shows that .A. Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email.B. Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment.C. All of the people reported like to play games on-line.D. Most of the people reported read online news.3. Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?A. TVB. SinaC. telephoneD. QQ4. The underlined word “exceeded” means .A. increased toB. increased byC. risenD. decreasedC D B A。