阅读理解专练(二)

阅读理解专练（2）AThe buses in Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil, carry two million passengers a day —that’s 85% of the city’s population. You buy your ticket before you get on the bus. The price is the same wherever you’re going. No one in the city lives more than 400 meters from a bus stop. People don’t use their cars much in the city, so there’s less pollution.Japanese bullet trains (子弹列车) travel at up to 320 kilometers an hour. The 520-kilometer journey between Tokyo and Osaka, the world’s busiest high-speed line, takes just three and a half hours; by car, it would take seven. Bullet trains are used by many local people. They’re popular with foreign tourists too, because, as a tourist, you can buy a rail pass which gives you unlimited (无限制的) travel during your trip in Japan.Copenhagen is known as “__________”. A third of the people who live there go to work by bike. In fact, you see more bikes than cars in the city center. There are 350 kilometers of cycle paths (道路). You don’t even need to have your own bike; you can use a city bike, which is free.A good way to travel in Singapore is by river taxi. It’s not expensive and you get a great view (风景) of the city from the river. River taxis are popular with local people, tourists and anyone who wants to get from A to B. Each taxi can carry up to 60 passengers.根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

( )1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?A. There are bus stops everywhere.B. There are 400 bus stops in the city.C. Bus stops are far away from each other.D. Each bus stop is 400 meters away from another.( )2. If you take the bullet train instead of the car from Tokyo to Osaka, you can cut your time by ______.A. 20%B. 35%C. 50%D. 60%( )3. Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph 3?A. the Garden CityB. the City of WaterC. the City That Never StopsD. the World’s Best Biking City( )4. Which of the following is TRUE about the river taxi in Singapore?A. It is very fast.B. It is very expensive.C. It can only carry several people.D. It provides tourists with a great city view.( )5. Which is the best title of the passage?A. Transport problems in the worldB. Special transport in the worldC. The history of transportD. Traffic and pollutionBAlthough most dogs are kept just as pets, assistance (协助) dogs are specially trained to help people with many different types of disabilities. These dogs help their owners live more independent lives. There are several types of assistance dogs, but the most common are guide dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs.Guide dogs help blind people get around their homes and communities. Most guide dogs are large dogs like German shepherds, which wear a harness (系带) with a U-shaped handle (手柄). It allows the dog and its owner to communicate. The owner gives directional orders, and the dog makes sure its owner is safe.Hearing dogs tell a person who is deaf or hard of hearing to pay attention tosounds like doorbells, baby cries and smoke alarms. They’re trained to touch their owners and lead them to where the sound comes from. Hearing dogs are generally small or not too large. They always wear orange harnesses that can be easily seen.Service dogs usually help people who are wheelchair users. The dogs are trained to pick up dropped objects, open and close doors, help people get into or out of a wheelchair, and find help when needed. Because many of these tasks require strength (力量), most service dogs are large dogs such as Golden or Labrador retrievers. These dogs usually wear a backpack or harness.Guide dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs have one thing in common, however. Before being matched (匹配) with a human partner, each type of assistance dog undergoes a one- to two-year training program. After the dog and its owner are matched, they begin to trust each other and often become a team.根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

( )1. An assistance dog is specially trained to help a person who ______.A. is disabledB. is in dangerC. asks for helpD. loves dogs( )2. What does a hearing dog wear?A. A backpack.B. A black harness.C. An orange harness.D. A harness with a U-shaped handle.( )3. Service dogs are generally ______.A. smallB. largeC. activeD. quiet( )4. The underlined word “undergoes” in the last paragraph means “______”.A. gives upB. looks forC. is interested inD. takes part in( )5. Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?(P=Paragraph)CClick’s friend David Shannon is an artist and writer. He drew all the pictures and wrote all the words for lots of funny picture books. Click visited David at his local library.Click: (1)__________David: I didn’t, really. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some kind. I’ve loved to draw ever since I could hold a crayon.Click: (2)__________David: I did a lot of the same things I do now — played baseball, fished, swam and rode my bike.Click: (3)__________David: I never know what will turn into a good story, so I always write down all my ideas or make little drawings in my notebook — even the ideas I think are really silly. Sometimes they turn out to be the best ones!Click: When you are working on a book, do you write the words or draw the picturesfirst?David: It depends on the book. Sometimes I work on both at the same time, and other times a book will start with a picture. A Bad Case of Stripes is an example of the latter (后者).Click: (4)__________David: I like doing both —they are very different. You know the saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” Well, sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures! Click: (5)__________David: The main thing is to practice. If you want to be a writer, then write a lot! When I was a kid, I loved to write and draw comic books. I learned tons of things about telling stories with words and pictures!根据材料内容，从A—F六个句子中选择五个还原到文中空白处，使材料完整、通顺，并将其标号填写在下面题号后的横线上。