Passage 3 (2015江苏南通崇川区.七) 阅读与回答问题. Angela Zou hardly writes text messages now.Sitting at her offic——青夏教育精英家教网—

Passage 3 (2015江苏南通崇川区，七)

阅读与回答问题。

Angela Zou hardly writes text messages now.

Sitting at her office desk,Zou asks her iPhone where they should go to eat. When it buzzes seconds later,she lifts it to her ear for her friend^ reply. The conversation goes back and forth through these pieces of words before they decide on the place for lunch.

Like millions of others across Asia,Zou is using WeChat,a srn-artphone app (应用程序) developed in China,to send voice messages,snapshots (快照 ) and emoticons (表情符号) to her friends. Now that its walkietalkie-style ( 对讲机式）messages have become every- where,she said typing feels like hard work.

WeChafs popularity has grown quickly since it came into use in 2011 .Tencent,the company that developed the app,announced in September that its users had doubled in six months to 200 million. Most users are in China,though WeChat is being used across Asia and already has users in the US and the UK.

Historically,it has proved difficult for Chinese Internet firms to develop in foreign countries. But WeChat is becoming the first Chinese social media application with the possibility to go to the whole world.

WeChat is similar to the popular US-based mobile messaging service WhatsApp,but it does more.It comes in eight languages including English,Arabic and Russian.

I used WhatsApp before I came back to China from studying abroad and found all niy friends were using WeChat”’ said Zou,who is 25. Now when I want to contact someone T use WeChat first." The app's features include Look Around,which allows users to chat to strangers nearby,while Moments works like Instagram (图片分享) .

Why does Angela Zou hardly write text messages now?

2. What is WeChat used to do?

3. Which company of China developed WeChat?

4. Where is WeChal used?

5. What do you think of WeChat?

Passage 2 (2015江苏徐州铜山区一模，五，B)

阅读下面短文，回答问题。

More and more young people from China begin to celebrate ( 庆祝) Father Day.They send fathers presents,or invite them for a nice dinner.But do you know how Father^ Day started?

While Mrs. Dodd,from America,was listening to a talk about Mothers Day in a church in 1909 she had an idea of having Fathers Day to lionor (纪念) her father William Smart.Mr. Smart used to be a soldier.His wife died when she gave birth to her sixth child.Mr. Smart had to raise his six children alone.They lived a hard life. After Mrs. Dodd grew up,she wanted to thank her father for what he had done for them.She wrote a letter to the church and asked for the third Sunday in June to be Father^ Day.The church agreed with her.

The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19th,1910 in Washington. Children made special desserts and did other things to make their fathers happy. In 1924,President (总统) Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. People all over the country began to celebrate Fathers Day. Finally,in 1966,President Lyndon Johnson made the third Sunday in June Fathers Day.

l.What do the young people usually do to celebrate Father Day in China?

2. Was Mrs. Dockrs life hard when she was young?

3. Why did Mrs. Dodd want to have Father's Day?

4. Did Mrs. Dodd write a letter to the church or to the President?

5. When was Fathers Day celebrated for the first time in America?

Passage I (2015江苏盐城滨海县第次调研，五，B)

阅读与回答问题，前四题答案不超过6个词。

In order to know a foreign language thoroughly (.完全地) ，four things are necessary.Firstly,we must be able to understand the lanu-age when we hear it spoken. Secondly,we must be able to speak it ourselves,correctly,with confidence and without hesitation. Thirdly,we must be able to read the language and fourthly,we must be able to write it. We must be able to compose (组成) sentences that are grammatically correct. We must know how to arrange sentences in paragraphs so that we can write a good letter or article.

There is no easy way to succeed in language learning. A good memory is of great help,but it is not enough simply to memorize rules from a grammar book.It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and their meanings. We learn words not by ourselves,but in sentences. We must learn by using the language.Learn through useM is a good piece of advice for those who are studying a new language. Practice is very important. We must practice speaking and writing the language whenever we can.

l.How many things are necessary if you want to know a foreign language thoroughly?

2. What must we know in order to write a good letter or article?

3. What is of great help to language learning?

4. How can we learn words according to the passage?

5. What does “Learn through use ”mean according to the passage?

Passage 11(2011 陕西，K)

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

Bollywood ： the Hollywood of India

You might be surprised to learn that India produces about 800 movies a year,and that number continues to grow.Just as the movie capital of the United States is Hollywood,the movie capital of India is Bombay (孟买) ，but it is usually called “Bollywood”，a combination (结合) of the words Bombay and Hollywood.

No Bollywood movie is thought complete without a few songs and dances.In fact,music is an important part of Bollywood movies. Even a bad movie can still do well if the music is good. Music directors are sometimes more popular than the film stars. A Bollywood movie has five to six songs with at least three songs to show what the dances mean.

Bollywood may be different from Hollywood in music,but it is very like Hollywood in several ways.If Tom Cruise can hold a gun,so can the Bollywood hero Sharukh Khan. Bollywood stars are followed by news reporters just as often as Hollywood stars.The personal lives of actors and actresses catch the headlines (头版头条) ，just as they do in the United States.

The Oscars are a very exciting time of the year for actors and actresses in America. Bollywood has its own form of the Oscars,and they are also very exciting.

1. The name Bollywood comes from the words .

2. Bollywood is a place where many are made each year.

3. In India,the film stars are sometimes than music directors.

4. Every complete Bollywood movie has a few in them。

5. The Oscars in India are as as those in America though they are different.

Passage 10( 2013 四川成都)

What makes a group smart and able to solve problems successfully and produce good solutions? Or we may ask ： what makes a group intelligent? A group's IQ (智商) ，we might think,would be simply ihe average intelligence (平均智力) of the group's members,or perhaps the intelligence of the group's smartest member. But some scientists have found that this isn’t so.

A group's intelligence comes out from communications that go on within the group.A group's intelligence can be calculated,and like the IQ grades of a single person,and it can predict the group^ performance on lots of kinds of tasks perfectly.Just like a single person's intelligence can be trained and developed,a group^ intelligence can also he increased.Here are some suggestions on how to guide the development of smart groups ：

Personally,you can choose group members carefully. The smartest groups are made up of people who are good at reading one another's social signs. And then it's better for you to talk about the 44howGroups who take the time to discuss how they will work together are more well-organized and successful.

As a group member,it is also very important for you to share (分享) the floor in the formal (正式的) meetings.The members who just control the discussion or who stay away and don't say much make the intelligence of the group lower. But in the smart group,members connect directly with each other,not just with the group leader.They always take an active part in every small conversation that could be added to the main discussion.Outside of formal meetings,the smartest groups spend a lot of time communicating,too.All members can havea coffee break at the same time,leading them to do their work more professionally and feel more pleased with their jobs.

Passage 9(2013 山东烟台，D)

The famous scientist and thinker,Charles Darwin,was born on February 12 ,1809.His family lived not far from the Iliver Severn,England.

Charles' father was a well-known doctor and the son oi a still greater doctor and scientist.

Charles father hoped that his son would also become a doctor.

As a boy,Charles liked to go for walks in the fields and forests. He watched nature and compared what he saw with everything he had read in science books. He also liked collecting very much. He collected many things：eggs,stones,and leaves.His father did not like this,as Charles was not studying very well at school.

①为了成为一名医生，十六岁时达尔文就被送到爱丁堡大学(Edinburgh University) 学习。But he was interested in the history of nature.

Then he studied at Cambridge University until 1831.

Some time later,he heard that the ship Beagle was going on a trip lo South America and wanted a scientist. His professor advised him to go.He said the trip would he just for Darwin.So when the ship left England in December 1831,Danvin was on it.The research lasted almost five years.The Beagle studied the waters in the sea near South America.lt also visited New Zealand,Australia and islands in the Pacific. Dam in saw many new plants and animals. He collected all kinds of plants,which he sent home from the places he visited.

When he returned home,Darwin was warmly greeted by his families and many friends.

In 1842,Darwin went to live in Kent,where he continued his studies of the changes in nature.②Darwin understood that plants and animals are not always the same,and that they really change.

By 1859,Darwin had finished his famous book The Origin of Species A[ made a great hit in the world of science.③He was opposed (反对) by the church and even by some scientists. But later,more and more scientists agreed with him.

Darwin continued his studies in science until he died in 1882.

请根据文章内容回答问题。

l.Why didrrt Charles become a doctor?

2. When did Charles start the research with the Beagle?

根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

3. 请将①处LB」线句子翻译成英语。

4. 请将②处両线句子翻译成汉语。

5. 请改写③处両线句子，使其意思与原句一致(每空一词) 。

The church and even some scientists him.

Passage 8(2014 山东青岛，IV,B)

阅读下面短文，按要求完成各项任务。

People love proverbs. They are always impressed because the proverbs express a lot of information in just a few words. A good proverb quickly sums up (概括) ideas that are sometimes hard to express. And the person can understand it al once.

Proverbs come from two main places—ordinary people and fa-mous people.These two sources (来源) are not always distinct (明显 &?]) .Common and popular proverbs are often used by famous people. And the common people often borrow something that is said or written down by a well-known person. For example,u Bar/ news travels fast' probably comes from the experience of housewives. However, ^ All"s well that ends welV'y/as written by the famous writer —William Shakespeare.

Proverbs are used everywhere in the world. If you can understand a culture's proverbs,you can better understand the culture itself.There are many different ways that we use proverbs in our life. Here are some examples.

任务二请从文中找出第一段画线单词it指代的内容

任务三请从文中找出第二段的段落大意。

任务四请将画线句子 There are many different ways that we use proverbs in our life.译为汉语。

任务五请选出表格④处所缺的谚语。

A.One finger cant lift a small stone.

B.Don’t counl your chickens before they, hatch(孵化）.

C.You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Passage 7 ( 2014 上海，D)

根据短文内容回答问题。

Chris is not a traditional explorer —he usually works in an office for a large organization. Yet his job can sometimes be just as exciting and dangerous as being an explorer.

Chris works for MSF,an organization also known as Doctors Without fiorcfers (无国界医生) .MSF sends trained doctors all over the world to help people after a war or a disaster. Chris is a doctor from France who has travelled to many places to organize programmes that help people.

At the moment,there are over 27 ,000 trained medical staff taking part in MSF projects and tasks. Fhe organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. All kinds of doctors can volunteer for MSF. They need to be prepared to go almost anywhere in the world and,of course,they should expect difficult conditions. Doctors with experience in (热市’白勺) diseases are especially useful because most of MSF^ work is in Africa. When MSF accepts a doctor for a task,he has to go for at least six months. When doctors have completed a few tasks,they might be sent on an emergency task following a disaster,such as an earthquake.

But why would a doctor leave a comfortable life and a good salary to join MSF? According to Chris,the experience you gain is a great help in your career.Besides,just like the explorers of the past,you need to keep an open mind and learn to mix well with the people you meet.Most importantly,at the end of each task,you have made a real difference to people's lives.

Does Chris work for a large organization?

2. When does MSF send trained doctors all over the world to help people?

3. How many medical staff are taking pari in MSF projects and tasks?

4. What kind of doctors are greatly needed in Africa?

5. According to Chris,why is his work important to other people?

6. Why is an MSF doctor's job exciting and dangerous?

Passage 6(2015黑龙江哈尔滨)

先阅读A、B、C三篇短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成下列五项任务

There are plenty of things we can do to help the people around us.For example,if we find our friends in trouble,we can give them some 1 ; if our neighbor is busy 2 in I he garden,let's give him a hand;if we see an old man on a 3 bus,we should ask him to take our seat. Actually,when we help others,we’re helping 4 Helping others makes us feel happy because we know we are doing something right.Sometimes we can even make friends and get 5 experiences by helping others.

In English,the spelling of words does not always represent (代表) the sound.And some words seem to have too many letters.An A-merican called Noah Webster wanted to do something for the development of English,so he began his work on it.His first book,The Elementary ( 基础的 ) Spelling Book tsuggested making the spelling of English words easy.The hook was very popular.In fact,Webster is famous for his American Dictionary of the FJnglish Language.This dictionary came out in 1828 after it was completed.lt introduced lots of new American words,with information about their pronunciation,use and the new spelling.Today,Webster^ dictionary is still widely used in English-speaking countries.

If you want to have a wonderful vacation,you can visit Kingston (金斯顿) .It's a famous Canadian city on the hank of Lake Ontario (安大略湖) .ll is about three hours’ trip by bus from Kingston to Toronto (多伦多) .There are some famous universities (大学) in Kings-ton.About 25,000 students study in these universities.Queen's University,founded in 1841,is more famous than any other university in Kingston.Kingston is one of the friendliest cities in the world and it welcomes tourists from all over the world. Wherever tourists go in this city’they will see a wann smile on the street or hear a happy “hello” in a public park.It's easy for them to feel al home.