题目内容
根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. ____【小题1】_____
The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. ____【小题2】_____ Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.
The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding. _____【小题3】_____ Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding more, not remembering more information.
What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding. _____【小题4】_____ Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.
_____【小题5】_____ It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.
| A.The writer should have a better communicating skill. |
| B.Such communication between unequals must be possible. |
| C.We can get access to the content of those materials easily. |
| D.The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding. |
F. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.
G. Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.
【小题1】E
【小题2】C
【小题3】B
【小题4】D
【小题5】G
解析试题分析:
【小题1】 根据The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else.故选E。
【小题2】根据Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding.可知这里想说我们可以很容易抓住材料的内容,故选C。
【小题3】根据The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.故选B。
【小题4】根据Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack.可知这里想说作者一定在理解方面高于读者,故选D。
【小题5】根据It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.可知这里想说,除了获得信息和理解,还有另外一个阅读目标, 娱乐。故选G。
考点:考查日常生活类阅读
How can we all get more laughter into our lives? Here is what the experts suggest:
__【小题1】_____ . Nancy Alguire, a teacher in Clifton Park, N. Y., was once painfully shy and had a hard time laughing. Then she married a circus clown (小丑). “I became interested in the clowns,” she recalls “One day I put on a costume and paint my face. That afternoon my whole life changed. I learned to laugh and enjoy life in a way I had never done before.” ___【小题2】____ To this day, she still makes it a rule to be with people who enjoy life and laughing.
____【小题3】______ It doesn’t take you too much time and can be easy. Collect favorite cartoons and jokes. Also, keep a paper for writing down humor you find in everyday life. “Good ideas come and go fast, you have to capture them quickly or they are gone,” says Virginia Tooper.
Laugh when you need it most. “__【小题4】______ ” says comedian Bill Cosby. “And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might by, you can survive it,” he insists.
Gray Alan, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota, claims that laughter is a skill we can all gain – because it comes naturally. ___【小题5】______ . Just remember: we are just here for a period, so get a few laughs.
| A.You can soften the worst blows through humor. |
| B.Mix with people who laugh. |
| C.Practise the art of laughing. |
| D.Keep a laughter file. |
F.But it’s also something that has to be developed.
G.People’s joy can affect those around them.
根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Tips for Cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience , there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often :ability , money , and time 【小题1】 .Money is a topic I’ll save for another day .So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spent in the kitchen .Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule :
Think ahead .The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there’s nothing ready to eat .So think ahead of the coming week .When will you have time to cook ?Do you have the right materials already ? 【小题2】 .
Make your time worth it .When you do find time to cook a meal , make the most of it and save yourself time later on .Are you making one loaf of bread ? 【小题3】 .It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something .So save yourself the effort for future meal .
【小题4】 This may surprise you , but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation .It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start. 【小题5】_______ And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
| A.Try new things. |
| B.Ability is easily improved. |
| C.Make three or four instead. |
| D.Understand your food better. |
F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.
G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.
根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? _____【小题1】______
We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. ______【小题2】____ Mental exercise (done with the mind) is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. ______【小题3】_____ If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.
_______【小题4】_____ According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot (白痴), then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as “______【小题5】______” or “You are such a smart child.”
| A.It needs exercise. |
| B.Parents should also be careful what they say to young children. |
| C.These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear. |
| D.Child psychologists don’t believe it. |
F. You must be careful what you are doing.
G. That is a very clever thing you did.
_ 【小题1】__ People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. __【小题2】__ One of the first kinds of money was shells.
Shells were not the only things used as money. In China,cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands,rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks,monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.
The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the centre. __【小题3】__
Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. __【小题4】__ Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.
But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. __【小题5】__ The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.
| A.The first coins in England were made of tin(锡). |
| B.But people used to use all kinds of things as money. |
| C.No one knows for certain when people began to use money. |
| D.People strung(串连) them together and carried them from place to place. |
F. They began to use paper money.
G. Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services.