While reading a book in English, every few lines of text, you run across a word or two that you don’t know. You look up every new word in the dictionary. Bad move. All that does slow you down. Even electric or CD –ROM dictionaries can get in the way of your reading progress. A dictionary is like a road map. It can help you if you get lost and point you in the right direction. But if you stop to look at the “map” each time you take a step, you’ll get nowhere fast.

    On your English learning “journey”, a dictionary can be a helpful “travel companion ”--if it is not overused. To help you start thinking in English, use an English-to-English dictionary. Otherwise, you will always depend on your native language and end up translating in your head.

    A good dictionary can help you do more than just find the meaning of a word. It can help you verify (test and check) spelling, check word forms and grammar usage, find example sentence and learn pronunciation. Some dictionaries even provide exercises to teach you how to use their resources (资源) .

    Take time to get to know your dictionary. Learn the pronunciation symbols (符号). Understand what the abbreviations (缩写字) mean. Try to master the important grammar rules. Look for charts, diagrams and lists that might be useful in the future. You will discover how helpful it can be to make friends with your dictionary. And as they say, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

Why do we need a good English-to-English dictionary?

A. Because it is a good friend.

B. Because it can help us to find the right direction if we get lost.

C. Without it we’ll always depend on our native language and end up translating in our head.

D. Because it can help us to start thinking in English and in Chinese.

The underlined word “that ” in the last paragraph refers to __________.

A. pronunciation symbols and grammar rules

B. abbreviations and usage for grammar rules

C. the meaning of a word, spelling and grammar usage

D. charts, diagrams and lists

According to the passage , which statement can lead you to believe?

A. The more you use a dictionary, the better you can understand the article.

B. The more you use a dictionary, the faster you may read.

C. The more you use the resources in a dictionary, the more you can benefit (受益) from it.

D. The better a dictionary is, the more expensive it is.

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上涂黑。

My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it the   21   day, and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked   22  , but I couldn't find 23  of my husband's socks though I had looked  24  for it.

    The next morning, I got ready for 25   as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them and told them   26  we were going to do  27  .

    When I turned   28   to write on the blackboard, the class burst out  29  . They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was  30   the headmaster would be in to see all this.

    I asked the class to  31  , but the 32 I talked, the more they laughed. So I thought I had better pay  33   attention to them and continue to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they laughed even more.

    Before long, the teacher who had the room next to   34   came to see  35   all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started   36  , too.

    "Good  Heavens ! "I said. "Will   37   please tell me what is so  38  ?"

    "Oh, God," said the teacher, " you have a brown 39 stuck to the back of your shirt. "

    So that's   40   I found my husband's missing sock.

    "Oh, well," I said to the class, "let's just say  you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity(静电)."

A. very          B. last           C. next       D. following

A. hard          B. well          C. fast        D. slowly

A. all            B. both          C. either      D. one

A. nowhere       B. somewhere    C. anywhere   D. everywhere

A. breakfast      B. clothes        C. school      D. books

A. which         B. what         C. how        D. why

A. today         B. this day       C. that day     D. now

A. around        B. back          C. off         D. over

A. smiling       B. laughing       C. crying      D. quarrelling

A. afraid         B. doubtful       C. sure        D. glad

A. look          B. write         C. stop         D. go on

A. better         B. quicker       C. less         D. more

A. further        B. more         C. hardly       D. no

A. me           B. mine         C. us          D. his

A. what          B. why         C. which        D. that

A. writing        B. asking        C. talking       D. laughing

A. everyone      B. anyone       C. someone     D. he

A. funny         B. wrong       C. pleasant      D. unforgettable

A. handkerchief   B. sock         C. paper        D. hair

A. why          B. when        C. how         D. what

Air travel is such an everyday experience these days that we are not surprised when we read about a politician having talks with the Japanese Prime Minister one day, attending a meeting in Australia the following morning and having to be off at midday to sign a trade agreement in Hong Kong. But frequent long-distance flying can be so tiring that the traveler begins to feel his brain is in one country, his digestion(消化吸收)in another and his powers of concentration nowhere---in short, he hardly knows where he is.
Air travel is so quick nowadays that we can leave London after breakfast and be in New York in eight hours, yet what really upsets us most is that when we arrive it is lunch time while we have already had lunch on the plane and are expecting dinner.
Doctors say that air travelers are in no condition to work after crossing a number of time zones. Airline pilots, however, often live by their own watches.
【小题1】After a long air travel, a traveler _______.

A.finds himself in a different world
B.finds his brain apart from his body
C.finds himself in Hong Kong the following morning
D.has little sense about where he is
【小题2】The sentence “Airline pilots often live by their own watches. ” means______.
A.they don’t trust others’ watches
B.they don’t change their watches
C.they make a living by their own watches
D.they do as they used to do
【小题3】Doctors suggest the travelers_______?
A.should rest when they arrive in New York from London.
B.should work in good condition since they just finish a long journey.
C.rest in a place with good condition.
D.give up long journey since it makes them tired.

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