题目内容
“Stop the thief!” shouted the young man, ________ the thief by the arm.
- A.seized
- B.to seize
- C.seize
- D.seizing
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.A day may begin well enough,but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen.Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time.The telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning.While you are on the phone,the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table,destroying your half-prepared meal.You hang up hurriedly and attend to your baby.Meanwhile,the meal gets burnt.As if this were not enough to bring you to tears,your husband arrives,unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars hit each other and both drivers began to argue.The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner.She suddenly got into a panic(恐慌)and stopped her car.This made the driver following her stop suddenly.His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake.As she was thrown forward,the cake went right through the window and landed on the road.Seeing a cake flying through the air,a truck-driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden.The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck on the road.This led to yet another angry argument.Meanwhile,the traffic piled up behind.It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again.In the meanwhile,the truck-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles.Only two dogs were enjoying themselves from the accident,for they were happily having what was left of the cake.It was just one of those days!
【小题1】In the writer’s opinion .
A.accidents may happen anytime |
B.troubles always come in groups |
C.a small matter may cause great trouble |
D.anyone may have trouble any day |
A.They helped the driver clean up the road. |
B.They helped the drivers to go on with their journey. |
C.They tried to stop the people from arguing. |
D.They would find out who should be responsible for(有责任的)the accident. |
A.you’d better have your baby a little distant from your table before going to answer the phone |
B.you’d better just let it ring all the way |
C.you should never go to answer it in a hurry |
D.you should answer it right away |
A.some drivers are too careless |
B.such accidents are rather strange |
C.such accidents are very common |
D.we don’t know why such accidents happen |
Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky (急动的)movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span(范围)or the visual span. The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation (定位)----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.
Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive (连续的) fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently (因此), for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated (孤立的) words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.
1.The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________ .
A.one’s familiarity with the text |
B.one’s purpose in reading |
C.the length of a group of words |
D.lighting and tiredness |
2.The author may believe that reading ______.
A.requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation |
B.requires a reader to see words more quickly |
C.demands an deeply-participating mind |
D.demands more mind than eyes |
3.What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second paragraph?
A.The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted. |
B.The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see and to comprehend words. |
C.The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading. |
D.The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words. |
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time. |
B.Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training. |
C.The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading. |
D.The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text. |
5.The tune of the author in writing this article is ________
A.critical (批评的) |
B.neutral (中立的) |
C. pessimistic (悲观的 ) |
D.optimistic |