题目内容
Many everyday American expressions are based on colors. Red is a hot color; Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair, when they are red hot, they are very angry about something.
People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the 20th century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.
Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow and sad. Someone who is blue is very sad.
The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green. Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the backside of the paper money.
People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. Blackouts were coming during World WarⅡ. Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night.
1．The underlined expression “red hot” in the third paragraph is used to .
A．describe fast happy music B．express happiness or anger
C．describe something unfair D．express pride and confidence
2．Which of the following expressions is correctly used?
A．Sandy feels very blue today because he won the first prize.
B．Sandy feels very blue today because he failed in the exam.
C．Sandy is in the pink because he seldom takes exercise.
D．Sandy feels in the pink because he has a headache today.
3．The color green is often used in the following situations EXCEPT .
A．to describe plants in the spring B．to describe a very sick feeling
C．to describe an expensive new car D．to describe an upset feeling
4．What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Meaning of different colours
B．Differences between different colours
C．Origins of some American expressions
D．Stories of some American expressions
ABCA
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You know you have to read“between the lines”to get the most out of anything . I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading . I want to persuade you to“write between the lines.”Unless you do , you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.
I insist, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of damage but of love.
There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of buying is only the first step to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. A comparison may make the point clear. You buy a piece of beef and transfer it from the butcher' s icebox to your own . But you do not own the beef in the most important sense until you eat it and get it into your blood. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood to do you any good .
There are three kinds of book owners . The first has all the standard sets and bestsellers - unread , untouched . The second has a great many books ——a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought . The third has a few books or many every one of them worn, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scrabbled (涂写) in from front to back.
Why is marking up a book necessary to reading it? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don' t mean only conscious; I mean wide awake. ) In the second place, reading, if it is active, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought - through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had , or the thoughts the author expressed.
(1) The third kind of owners of hooks must he ________ .
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A．experienced readers |
B．untidy readers |
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C．active readers |
D．careless readers |
(2)Marking up a book means ________ .
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A．writing down difficult sentences
B．finding the extra meanings of unknown words
C．writing in the space the ideas you get through careful reading
D．making notes to show you understand what you have read
(3)What does the author persuade you to mark?
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A．Whatever you have given deep thought to while reading.
B．Words and sentences that bring up rich ideas .
C．Primary questions that challenge you .
D．Whatever disagreements you may have with the book.
(4)A great advantage of marking up a book is ________ .
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A．to absorb all the brilliant ideas it contains
B．to make yourself a part of it , making further inquiry (查询) easy
C．to make yourself conscious that you are reading actively
D．to enable yourself to pick up the book for continual reading