阅读理解专练（二）.doc

阅读理解专练 （2）
A 
The buses in Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil, carry two million passengers a day — that’s 85% of the city’s population. You buy your ticket before you get on the bus. The price is the same wherever you’re going. No one in the city lives more than 400 meters from a bus stop. People don’t use their cars much in the city, so there’s less pollution.
Japanese bullet trains (子弹列车) travel at up to 320 kilometers an hour. The 520-kilometer journey between Tokyo and Osaka, the world’s busiest high-speed line, takes just three and a half hours; by car, it would take seven. Bullet trains are used by many local people. They’re popular with foreign tourists too, because, as a tourist, you can buy a rail pass which gives you unlimited (无限制的) travel during your trip in Japan.
Copenhagen is known as “__________”. A third of the people who live there go to work by bike. In fact, you see more bikes than cars in the city center. There are 350 kilometers of cycle paths (道路). You don’t even need to have your own bike; you can use a city bike, which is free.
A good way to travel in Singapore is by river taxi. It’s not expensive and you get a great view (风景) of the city from the river. River taxis are popular with local people, tourists and anyone who wants to get from A to B. Each taxi can carry up to 60 passengers.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
(    )1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. There are bus stops everywhere.
B. There are 400 bus stops in the city.
C. Bus stops are far away from each other.
D. Each bus stop is 400 meters away from another.
(    )2. If you take the bullet train instead of the car from Tokyo to Osaka, you can cut your time by ______.
A. 20%       
B. 35%        
C. 50%        
D. 60% 
(    )3. Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph 3?
A. the Garden City       
B. the City of Water
C. the City That Never Stops
D. the World’s Best Biking City
(    )4. Which of the following is TRUE about the river taxi in Singapore?
A. It is very fast.         
B. It is very expensive.
C. It can only carry several people. 
D. It provides tourists with a great city view.
(    )5. Which is the best title of the passage?
A. Transport problems in the world
B. Special transport in the world
C. The history of transport
D. Traffic and pollution

B
Although most dogs are kept just as pets, assistance (协助) dogs are specially trained to help people with many different types of disabilities. These dogs help their owners live more independent lives. There are several types of assistance dogs, but the most common are guide dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs.
Guide dogs help blind people get around their homes and communities. Most guide dogs are large dogs like German shepherds, which wear a harness (系带) with a U-shaped handle (手柄). It allows the dog and its owner to communicate. The owner gives directional orders, and the dog makes sure its owner is safe.
Hearing dogs tell a person who is deaf or hard of hearing to pay attention to sounds like doorbells, baby cries and smoke alarms. They’re trained to touch their owners and lead them to where the sound comes from. Hearing dogs are generally small or not too large. They always wear orange harnesses that can be easily seen.
Service dogs usually help people who are wheelchair users. The dogs are trained to pick up dropped objects, open and close doors, help people get into or out of a wheelchair, and find help when needed. Because many of these tasks require strength (力量), most service dogs are large dogs such as Golden or Labrador retrievers. These dogs usually wear a backpack or harness.
Guide dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs have one thing in common, however. Before being matched (匹配) with a human partner, each type of assistance dog undergoes a one- to two-year training program. After the dog and its owner are matched, they begin to trust each other and often become a team.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
(    )1. An assistance dog is specially trained to help a person who ______.
A. is disabled               
B. is in danger
C. asks for help           
D. loves dogs
(    )2. What does a hearing dog wear?
A. A backpack.          
B. A black harness.    
C. An orange harness.     
D. A harness with a U-shaped handle.
(    )3. Service dogs are generally ______.
A. small      
B. large  
C. active     
D. quiet
(    )4. The underlined word “undergoes” in the last paragraph means “______”.
A. gives up                  
B. looks for   
C. is interested in          
D. takes part in     
(    )5. Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?

(P=Paragraph)

C 
Click’s friend David Shannon is an artist and writer. He drew all the pictures and wrote all the words for lots of funny picture books. Click visited David at his local library.
Click: (1)__________
David: I didn’t, really. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some kind. I’ve loved to draw ever since I could hold a crayon.
Click: (2)__________
David: I did a lot of the same things I do now — played baseball, fished, swam and rode my bike.
Click: (3)__________
David: I never know what will turn into a good story, so I always write down all my ideas or make little drawings in my notebook — even the ideas I think are really silly. Sometimes they turn out to be the best ones!
Click: When you are working on a book, do you write the words or draw the pictures first?
David: It depends on the book. Sometimes I work on both at the same time, and other times a book will start with a picture. A Bad Case of Stripes is an example of the latter (后者).
Click: (4)__________
David: I like doing both — they are very different. You know the saying, “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” Well, sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures!
Click: (5)__________
David: The main thing is to practice. If you want to be a writer, then write a lot! When I was a kid, I loved to write and draw comic books. I learned tons of things about telling stories with words and pictures!
根据材料内容，从A—F六个句子中选择五个还原到文中空白处，使材料完整、通顺，并将其标号填写在下面题号后的横线上。
A. Do you have any advice for kids who might like to be writers someday?
B. So, David, when did you know you wanted to be a writer?
C. What’s your favorite picture book?
D. How do you know what to write about?
E. Besides drawing, what else did you like to do when you were younger?
F. Is drawing more fun for you than writing?
1. _______    2. _______    3. _______    4. _______  5. _______

D 
Sonja Henie started dancing lessons when she was five years old. She loved dancing and wanted to be a dancer. Then, on her sixth birthday, she got some ice skates (滑冰鞋) and she started skating. Now she wanted to dance and skate. Sonja decided to be a figure skater (花样滑冰运动员).
Her brother Leif gave her lessons at first. She learned very fast and she was very good. Then her parents spoke to a famous skating teacher, Oscar Holte. He began to give her lessons and Sonja won the children’s figure skating championship (锦标赛) in Oslo when she was eight years old. At ten she won the national figure skating championship of Norway.
At eleven Sonja went to her first Winter Olympic Games. She didn’t skate very well. She forgot some of her turns and jumps. She finished eighth in the skating competition and she didn’t win a medal (奖牌). But she didn’t give up.
Then Sonja saw Anna Pavlova, the famous Russian dancer. Sonja thought that Anna’s dancing was beautiful. She wanted to copy Anna Pavlova — on ice. She practiced for hours every day.
Two years later she went to the world championships in Stockholm. This time, she didn’t forget her jumps and turns. She finished second. After the competition she said, “I didn’t win this time, but next year I will and I’ll never lose again.”
And she didn’t.
When she was sixteen, Sonja went to the Winter Olympics again. This time she won a gold medal. Her skating was new, beautiful and interesting. Sonja won a gold medal at the next two Winter Olympics.
Sonja Henie changed the sport of figure skating. Thanks to her, thousands of young people started to buy skates and dance on ice.
根据材料内容简要回答下列问题。
1. Who taught Sonja to skate first?
___________________________________________
2. Why didn’t Sonja win at her first Winter Olympic Games?
___________________________________________
3. Did Sonja admire Anna Pavlova?
___________________________________________
4. Which place did Sonja win at the world championships in Stockholm?
___________________________________________
5. How many Olympic gold medals did Sonja win during her life according to the passage?
___________________________________________
答案:
A) 1-5 ACDDB   B) 1-5 ACBDC    C) 1-5 BEDFA
D) 1. Her brother (Leif).
2. Because she forgot some of her turns and jumps.
3. Yes, she did.  
4. Second place.  
5. Three / 3.