阅读表达专项训练.doc

阅读表达专项训练
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If you are worried about things and are under a lot of stress at work or school, then you are probably not sleeping well. Worry can keep you awake, tossing and turning in bed until the early hours of the morning when you eventually fall asleep. When you wake up, you don’t feel refreshed, but tired and worn out and unable to face a new day.
Dr. Henry Winkle, in a recent newspaper article entitled Stress and Sleep, indicates that__________. Dr. Winkle says, “The more we worry, the less we sleep, the more we are unable to deal with stress. If we can find a way to get a good night’s sleep,” he adds, “we can often find the energy to deal with what’s worrying us.”
So, what is a good night’s sleep? Research shows that the amount of sleep which people need in order to keep healthy varies a lot. Seven hours in about the average amount, though strangely enough, sleeping longer often gives you a headache instead of making you feel more refreshed.
Dr. Winkle believes that preparing for sleeping is important. People who work late should try to give
themselves a short break and do something restful before going to bed. This could be watching TV or listening to music. Doing some exercise earlier in the day should help you to feel physically as well as mentally tired. A bedtime drink can also help, but coffee or tea should be avoided as they contain caffeine and will keep you awake. “When you put the light out,” Dr. Winkle says, “concentrate on relaxing your muscles, working slowly up from your feet, and you’ll be asleep before you know it.”
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
People shouldn’t go to sleep immediately but should take a break after working late in the night.
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3. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)
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4. Someone says that the longer you sleep, the better you feel. Try to find some arguments from the passage against the idea. (Please answer within 30 words)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.
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Many high schools and colleges with a football team in the United States usually have a homecoming day. This can be the most important event of the year next to graduation. Students plan homecoming day for many weeks. When the day arrives，they begin before dawn to decorate the schools. There are signs to wish luck to the team and many other signs to welcome back the graduates from other years. Many people still come to homecoming clubs build booths and sell lemonade，apples or sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors. During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school. Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the homecoming queen/king appears. All the students vote for another student who is popular.
It is a great honor to become______________. Homecoming is a happy day. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day to remember for a long，long time.
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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2. Of all the events，what are the two things that all the students do on this day? (Please answer within 15words.)
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3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)
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4. Why do the students still enjoy homecoming even if the team loses? (Please answer within 15 words.)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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Comic book superhero Spider – Man uses tiny hairs on his fingertips to climb up walls. But he could have had another secret weapon to help him stick.Scientists have now found that some spiders can also make silk in their feet, which may sometimes help them get a firmer grip on a surface.
Spiders are good at gripping walls with their legs. Thousands of little hairs on their feet make it possible. To test whether spiders also make these hairs wet to improve grip, scientists watched zebra tarantulas crawl up glass slides.
When they tilted (使倾斜) a glass slide until it was almost vertical, the spider slipped a few millimeters before attaching itself again. The scientists were surprised to see little threads stretching from its feet to the slide. When they studied the spider’s feet under a special microscope, they found tiny silk – shooting spouts (吐出) among the hairs.
This was a surprise because scientists had previously thought spiders only use special organs near their stomachs to make silk.
It’s possible that, a long time ago, feet were the first body parts of spiders to produce silk. Only later in their evolutionary history did spiders develop spinnerets on their abdomens to produce silk for webs.
If so, the researchers say, this could mean that the silk’s original purpose was to _____________ , rather than to build homes or trap prey (猎物).
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be best replaced by the following one?
It has been discovered that the silk spouted from the feet of the spiders can assist them to get attached on objects.
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3. Fill in the blank with proper words or phrases. (Please answer within 10 words.)
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4. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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5. What can you learn from this discovery ? (Please answer within 20 words.)
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We often feel trapped within the routines of our everyday lives. In order to achieve a true state of relaxation, we must make time for uninterrupted leisure. Set aside an hour a day, or even a day a week if you can, for your chosen leisure pursuit. Take all the necessary steps to make sure that you will not be called away or interrupted, and leave the telephone off the hook—then, set your spirit free.
Accept Change
Sometimes it seems safer to stay where we are than to risk going into the unknown or to accept change. But in reality, true relaxation comes not from trying to control life’s natural flow, but from allowing ourselves to be carried along by that flow without fear of the future, or nostalgia（留恋）for the past.
Believe in Yourself
Each of us has unlimited potential to achieve our goals—even those that seem the most far-reaching. Mark out realistic stepping stones toward your aims, and try each day to work toward reaching another stone. Most importantly, do not feel disappointed if, on one day, you make only half your intended progress, or even ________________at all—the act of thinking about your goals will help to bring you closer to them.
Value Your blessings
We are all gifted with spiritual blessings, among them happiness, health, truth, and inner stillness. Spend today bringing happiness to yourself and your friends and family. Tomorrow, eat especially healthily. The next day, be true to yourself—if something makes you unhappy, try something else. The day after, spend time in quiet thinking. The reward for being rich in these blessings is a fulfilled and peaceful life.
1. What is the best title of the passage?（Please answer within 10 words.）
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
All the wishes will bring you a quiet and meaningful life.
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3. Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.（Please answer within 10 words.）
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4. Which of the suggestions do you think is helpful to you? Why?（Please answer within 30 words.）
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
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In the United States, train transportation is unpopular compared with cars and airplanes. Most people like traveling by car or by air.
Officials of the United States Department of Transportation made a study in 2001. The study is about how many miles Americans traveled by different means of transportation. They only studied trips longer than 50 miles. The study showed that fifty-six percent of all miles were traveled in personal vehicle. Forty-one percent were traveled in an airplane. Two percent were traveled in a bus. And less than one percent of miles were traveled in a train.
Amtrak is the national provider of train transportation in the United States. In the past ten years, the number of its passengers has increased by eighteen percent. Although the number of passengers has increased, it is still very small now. In countries such as France, Germany, or Japan, more people use trains.
There are several reasons why many people __________________________.
Firstly, Americans love to drive their own cars. On highways, cars can travel as fast as trains. These highways connect all major cities in America．Secondly, many travelers like to be independent. When they use their own cars they can decide when to travel. Thirdly, many buses travel between major cities. Bus travel is less costly than train travel.
In a huge country like the United States, cities are far away from each other. In some cases, travel from one city to another by train may take more than a day. Airplanes can carry passengers over long distances much faster. People who do not want to spend long time traveling by train decide to fly. For these people saving time is the most important thing.
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
It’s convenient for people to decide the start-off time when they travel in their own cars.
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3. Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.( Please answer within 10 words.)
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4. What means of transportation do you like best when traveling, trains, cars, or planes? Why? ( Please answer within 30 words)
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5. Translate the underlined sentences in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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Answer
(1)
1. Sleep and Your Life / Stress and Sleep /Sleep is Important
2. People who work late should try to give themselves a short break and do something restful before going to bed.
3. stress / worry and (lack of ) sleep are directly related.
4. Seven hours is about the average amount, though strangely enough, sleeping longer often gives you a headache instead of making you feel more refreshed.
5. 当你醒来时，你不但没有感到精力充沛（旺盛），反而疲惫不堪，难以面对新的一天。
(2)
1. Homecoming Day
2. Watching the football game and voting for homecoming queen or king.
3. homecoming queen or king.
4. Because they come to meet their teachers or classmates and have fun.
5. 有些标语是祝球队好运，还有很多欢迎往届毕业生回校的标语。
(3)
1. Sticky Silky Feet / Spiders with Silky Feet
2. Scientists have now found that some spiders can also make silk in their feet, which may
sometimes help them get a firmer grip on a surface.
3. Help spiders climb and stick
4. 当他们把玻璃幻灯片倾斜到几乎垂直的时候，这只蜘蛛才往下滑了几毫米，然后很快又粘住了。
5. From this discovery we can see that there is no limit to the development of science. / We can learn that people need to observe carefully if they want to make any discovery. / It can be concluded from this story that curiosity can be the eternal motivation of science.
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1. Enjoy your life/Set your spirit free/ Try to relax yourself/ Give yourself a relaxation
2. The reward for being rich in these blessings is a fulfilled and peaceful life.
3. no progress/make no progress/achieve nothing/do nothing
4. 略
5. 我们每个人都具备无限的潜能去实现我们的目标——甚至那些看起来遥不可及的目标。
(5)
1. Train transportation in the USA is less popular.
2. When they use their own cars they can decide when to travel.
3. don’t like to travel by train
4. Usually I’d like to travel by car, because I can decide when to travel.
If it is a long distance, I’ll travel by air, because it is faster.
5. 那些不想花长时间坐火车旅行的人就决定乘飞机,对这些人来说，节约时间是最重要的