If you look for a book as a present for a child, you will be spoiled for choice even in a year when there is no new Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling’s wizard is not alone: the past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books, which has set off a large quantity of films and in turn led to increased sales of classics such as The Lord of the Rings.
Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children. According to statistics, in 1997 23% said they didn’t like reading at all. In 2003, 35% did. And around 6% of children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.
Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computer games. Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile. Either way, Chancellor Gordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class. In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.
Reading Recovery is aimed at six-year-olds, who receive four months of individual daily half- hour classes with a specially trained teacher. An evaluation earlier this year reported that children on the scheme made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress, and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.
International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school they read well, but read less – often for fun than those elsewhere. Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can expect lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success. According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.
Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?
A. Many children’s books have been adapted from films.
B. Many high-quality children’s books have been published.
C. The sales of classics have led to the popularity of films.
D. The sales of presents for children have increased.
Statistics suggested that ___.
A. the number of top students increased with the use of computers.
B. a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading.
C. a minority of primary school children read properly.
D. a large percentage of children read regularly.
What do we know about Reading Recovery?
A. An education of it will be made sometime this year.
B. Weak readers on the project were the most hardworking.
C. It aims to train special teachers to help children with reading.
D. Children on the project showed noticeable progress in reading.
Reading for fun is important because book-loving children ____.
A. takes greater advantage of the project.
B. shows the potential to enjoy a long life.
C. is likely to succeed in their education.
D. would make excellent future researchers.
The aim of this text would probably be ____.
A. to overcome primary school pupils’ reading difficulty.
B. to encourage the publication of more children’s books.
C. to remind children of the importance of reading for fun.
D. to introduce a way to improve early childhood reading.
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
If you look for a book as a present for a child. You will be spoiled for choice even in a year there is no new Harry Patten J.K Rowling’s wizard is not alone the past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books ,which has set off a large quantity of films and an increased sales of classics such as The lard of the Rings.
Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children. According to statistics in 1997 23% said they didn’t like reading in all. In 2003, 35% did. And around 6% of children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.
Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computes games. Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile. Either way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class .In his pre-budget report , he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.
Reading Recovery is wined at six year olds, who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially trained teacher. An evaluation either this year reported that children on the school made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress, and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.
International research tends to find that when British children leave primacy school they read well, but read text often for fun than those elsewhere .Reading for fun matters because children who are been on reading can report lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success . According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.
Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?
A．Marry children’s books have been adapted from films.
B．Marry high-quality children’s books have been published.
C．The sales of classics have led to the popularity of films.
D．The sales of presents for children have increased.
Statistics suggested that .
A．the number of top students increased with the use of computers
B．a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading
C．a minority of primacy school children read properly
D．a huge percentage of children read regularly
What do we know about Reading Recovery?
A．An evaluation of it will be made sometime this year.
B．Weak readers on the project were the most hardworking.
C．It aims to train special teachers to help children with reading.
D．Children on the project showed noticeable progress in reading.
Reading for fun is important because book-loving children _________.
A．take greater advantage of the project
B．show the potential to enjoy a long life
C．are likely to succeed in their education.
D．would make excellent future researchers
The arm of this text would probably be _________.
A．to overcome primary school pupils reading difficulty.
B．to encourage the publication of more children’s books
C．to remind children of the importance of reading for fun
D．to introduce a way to improve early children reading
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年山东省新泰市汶城中学高一上学期期中考试英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
No one was left in the museum now, and John was walking round to see if everything was all right. Suddenly he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John picked it up and gave it to the director of the museum.
The director called several museums to check and see if it was a stolen painting, but no one claimed (认领) it. So the director decided to hang it in the museum. All the experts came to look at the painting. Each one said it was beautiful and had very deep meaning. The director was proud to have such a painting in his museum and congratulated John on his discovery.
Some weeks later a woman and her little son came to the museum. While they were looking at the new painting, the little boy began to cry. The director went over and asked him.
“Why are you crying?”
The child pointed to the painting and said, “That’s my painting on the wall and I want it back.”
“Yes,” said his mother, “he left it on the floor a few weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see his name on the painting.”
【小题1】John was perhaps _______.
| A．a painter | B．an expert on painting |
| C．a visitor to the museum | D．a man working in the museum |
| A．before the museum opened |
| B．after the museum was closed |
| C．during his visit to the museum |
| D．while he was enjoying his walk |
| A．he was afraid of it |
| B．he thought it was his painting |
| C．he wanted to have the painting back |
| D．Both B and C |
| A．angry | B．afraid | C．surprised | D．proud |
| A．it was really very beautiful and had very deep meaning |
| B．the painting was drawn by a famous painter though he was a child |
| C．all of them did not look carefully enough |
| D．they examined it very carefully |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届天津市红桥区高二上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Who are these people rushing by you in the street? More than 215 million people now call America “home’’, but most of them can trace their families back to other parts of the world. If you look at the names on shop windows, you will see that Americans come from many different lands. The idea that these people, who once were strangers to the United States, have lost the customs and cultures of their original countries and have become “American’’is really not true. In fact, what exists in America is more often a kind of “side-by-side”, living in which groups of people from other countries often have kept many of their customs and habits. They join the general American society only in certain areas of their lives—such as in schools, business, and sports-but they keep many of their own native customs and manners socially and at home. This living “side-by-side” has both advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes it may cause disagreements to develop between groups whose ways of life are very different from one another. However, there are also great advantages that come from the variety of cultures brought by settlers from other lands. There is great freedom of choice among ideas and dress, food, and social customs in America. Everyone can find some part of his or her familiar world in the United States, in Churches, music, food, national groups, or newspapers.
1.More than 215 million people call America “home” because .
A. they buy their houses there B. they settle there now
C. they get married there D. they were born there
2.“Side-by-side” living style means .
A. making friends with native people
B. the groups of people who live nearby
C. keeping their own customs while sharing American ones in certain areas
D. that they get closer to American society
3.According to the passage, people in the USA .
A. share American customs and culture
B. 1ive in a kind of “side-by-side'' society
C. keep their own customs and habits firmly
D. make no choice to accept American customs
4.Which of the following statements is true?
A. They always stick to their own customs and habits.
B. “Side—by—side’’living style is not suitable.
C. They face the society they are not familiar with.
D. The advantages coming from the variety of cultures make life in America colorful.
5.Which title of the following can best take the place of “Different Cultures in America”?
A. Advantages and Disadvantages.
B. Different Customs and Habits.
C. Home for the People
D. “Side—by—side”Living Style in America.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届四川棠湖中学外语实验学校高一月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us.
If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants.
Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit.
Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores(胚芽). Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places, they usually grow into new plants.
1.The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.
A．plants are important for life B．plants cannot grow without air
C．there are many plants in the world D．we can not live without water
2.Plants can make food from______.
A．flower, water and air B．water, sunlight and air
C．air, water and soil D．air, sun and light
3.What can we infer(推断) from the passage ?
A．Of all living things animals are most important B．Spores are seeds
C．All fruits of flowering plants have seeds D．Without plants, man will die out
4.This passage may be taken from______.
A．a medicine book B．a novel
C．a science magazine D．an experiment report
5.The underlined word “protected” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A．damaged B．polluted C．prevented D．guarded
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届浙江省高一下学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
When I was seven, my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t need one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices (装置) tell the time — which is why, if you look around, you’ll see lots of empty wrists (手腕); sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.
But while these wise people have realized that they don’t need them, others — including some distinguished ones of our time — are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to £ 250.000 for a piece.
This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days, all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Yes, you may say expensive watches will come with some extra functions — but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea to test its function of waterproof, or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole by using its compass? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?
If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead, the Swiss re-invented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man —— usually a famous star, wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.
Watches are classified as “investment items” (投资项目) now. A 1994 Philippe recently sold for nearly £ 350, 000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from 15, 000 to 30, 000 plus in a year. But, to some wealthy people, a watch is more than an investment. It’s a valuable toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up — they’ve been rising for fifteen years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that £ 350, 000 treasured object will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Times.
1.The sales of watches to young people have fallen because ______.
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A．they have other devices to tell the time |
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B．they think watches are too expensive |
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C．they have little sense of time now |
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D．they prefer to wear an iPod on their wrists |
2.It seems ridiculous to the writer that ______.
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A．some people often dive 300 metres deep into the sea |
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B．expensive clothes sell much better than cheap ones |
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C．cheap cars usually don’t run as fast as expensive ones |
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D．expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell |
3.What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage?
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A．It targets rich people as its potential customers. |
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B．It seems hard for the industry to beat its competitors. |
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C．It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising. |
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D．It is easy for the industry to re-invent cheap watches. |
4.Which would be the best title for the passage?
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A．Timex Being better than Rolex |
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B．My Expensive Childhood Timex |
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C．Super-level Watches? Not for Me! |
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D．Watches — a Valuable Collection |
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