1、阅读理解训练题(三)AImagine a boy from a small village in East Africa, He from a very early age has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows mote about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has dais boy ever had any education?Education is discovering about ourselves an
2、d about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us our parents, brothers , sisters, friends are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day we go to school . Every day we have new experiences,
3、like finding a birds nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didnt like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, w
4、e begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesnt tell you if you are good at it.We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course
5、 you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.56. The writer takes the
6、African boy as an example to show that _.A. African children are very poor B. some children are unluckyC. education takes many ways D. schools are of great importance57. In the eyes of the writer .A. we have to learn from the people around us B. school is not important at allC. only the people carin
7、g for us can teach usD. education takes place everywhere58. One can find out what lie is good at by _ .A. the encouragement of people around B. the teachings of those lie or she meetsC. thinking of it when growing up D. trying mid practicing it59. How the writer looks at the role of school is that .
8、A. school is not so important as our living placesB. school enables us to understand the world in other waysC. school teaches us something useless at homeD. school cannot prepare us for our daily lives60. The passage tells us that _ .A. everyone gets education from the day lie or she is bornB. diffe
9、rent education trains different classes of peopleC. school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the worldD. everyone will find out what he or she is good atBAmong the most heatedly discussed issues about the Chinese film industry in 2004 was probably the absence of a film rating system
10、 claimed to be a vital part of the upcoming China Motion Picture Industry Promotion Law.The law is expected to offer a legal basis for a wide range of issues that worried the local film industry including copyright infringement(侵犯), online piracy(侵权) of films and pirated films in such forms as VCDs,
11、 DVDs, and most recently the so - called compressed DVDs.The film rating or classification system is very common for film producers, distributors and exhibitors worldwide, as many countries and regions adopted such systems decades ago, said Li Ershi, a Chinese film historian with the Beijing Film Ac
12、ademy.The Chinese public and film industry have long called for the establishment of such a law, he added.Over the years, Chinese films have been put into categories according to their subject matters such as rural, military, industry or urban themes.On March 1, 1989, the former administration of th
13、e Ministry of Radio, Film, and Television issued the Circular Concerning the Examination and Rating System for Certain Films that roughly specified(指定)four types of films as unsuitable for child audiences.The regulation was first applied to a controversial film entitled Widow Village, which features
14、 some love scenes.But this rating system didnt work very well in protecting child audiences at local level.Over the years, it has often been reported that some film distributors and exhibitors even label some films as unsuitable for child audiences in a bid to attract curious viewers.Since 1994, Chi
15、na has introduced many Western popular films, many of which were rated PG for Parental Guidance in the USA but shown in Chinese cinemas without any labels, especially for teenagers or younger children, because China does not have a film rating system. Li said.61. According to the article, which of t
16、he following statements is true?A. China Motion Picture Industry Promotion Law, with the film rating system in it, has been put into practice.B. China Motion Picture Industry Promotion Law has been put into practice without the film rating systemC. Both China Motion Picture Industry Promotion law an
17、d the film rating system are still underdiscussion and revision.D. The film rating system puts Chinese films into categories according to their subject matters.62. The film rating system is vital because .A. it is very common worldwide and many countries and regions have adopted itB. it can solve al
18、l the problems that the Chinese film industry has had so farC. it is a powerful weapon against some unhealthy Western films coming into China in large numbersD. the old regulation is out of date and couldnt clearly tell the difference between the suitable and the unsuitable films63. Which of the fol
19、lowing is the best title for the news ?A. Film Rating System A MustB. China Motion Picture Industry Promotion lawC. New Film Rating System and Old RegulationD. New Film Rating System Against some Unhealthy Western FilmsCA historic journey across the Solar System reached its end on Friday as a little
20、 probe (探测器)took a big step for human knowledge.The US $ 3 billion Cassini-Huygens mission(使命), a joint project of NASA and the European and Italian space agencies was launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Saturn, its rings, its moons and its magnetosphere(磁层) which surrounds it.Hu
21、ygens was named after the Dutch scientist who discovered Titan in 1655, NASA officials said. Some science team members monitoring the flight at the European Space Agencys Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, have waited tens of years to see the first of 750 pictures and other scientific re
22、adings from the yellow- skied moon. I have been in this mission almost 21 years and I m very excited, ESA mission manager Jean -Pierre LeBreton said at a news conference on Thursday.“Im also quite sure we arc going to see something very special tomorrow (on Friday) Timers inside the probe will awake
23、n it just before it enters Titans atmosphere. Huygens is shaped like a wok(锅) and covered with a heat shield(防护装置) so that it can survive the extreme heat that it will face upon entry. It will then unfold a series of parachutes to slow its fall to the moons reddish surface, expected to take about 2.
24、5 hours.As it goes down, the probe will lose its heat shield and unfold its special camera and instruments tobegin collecting information on wind speeds and the makeup of Titans atmosphere. This is the momentscientists have been waiting for. This data will then be sent back to Cassini, which will re
25、lay it to NASAs Deep Space Network in California and on to ESA controllers in Darmstadt German. Scientists believe the organic chemical reaction taking place on Titan are similar to the process that gave rise to life on Earth.Its atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, like Earth, but its surface temperature
26、 of about minus 180 makes it improper to life.Titan, believed to be the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere, is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.64. Huygens was named after .A. an ESA mission managerB. a Dutch scientist who discovered Saturn in 1655C. an astronomer who first di
27、scovered TitanD. scientists from NASA and the European and Italian space agencies65. What does the yellow-skied moon refer to?A. Saturn. B. Titan.C. The moon around the earth. D. Solar System.66. According to the text, the following statements are all true except _.A. scientists think Titan is bigge
28、r than Mercury and PlutoB. the information to be collected by Huygens will be sent back to Cassini, then to NASAs Deep Space Network and last to ESA controllersC. some science team member have waited decades and seen the first of 750 images and other scientific readings from the yellow-skied moonD.
29、only NASA. has been working for the project of HuygensDI don t know if I am missing the greatest pleasure of my life. I am no fan of computer games. Some guys forget themselves and forget day and night when they play games. For example, a colleague has been playing since 1 oclock this morning and no
30、w it is 7 oclock. He is still commanding his army of little people to attack strange-looking animals. Some games could be fun, 1 admit, and it is therefore understandable that such a game catches players. For example, games like Red Storm or some role-play games, you do something and try to outwit(智
31、胜) your computer. You get some fun out of these games. It is understandable that such a game pushes you into a pitfall(陷阱) of pleasures. But some games look quite stupid and simple. Again for example, my colleague has been interested in Stone Age, a cartoon-like game rooted in prehistoric time. The
32、game is well made, full of strange people and animals and you can play on line with partners. You can have reference books to study so as to shortcut your rivals(对手) and increase your own conquering power.I believe some kinds of games are really created for adults. But seeing these adults play the s
33、imple games with such interest, I just wonder if there is something wrong with me and if I am losing the greatest possible fun of my life. I ask why I don t bother playing such games and why I seem to have some aversion(讨厌) to such games. I have no answers. Certainly computer games is no my idea of
34、a good time. I would rather listen to some music or read a book. Take music for example. Good music tops my list of pleasures. Nothing could beat music, all in a harmony of sounds and emotions. But how about games? Why an I so strongly biased(偏见) against such games?67. From the passage we know that
35、_.A. the author is a fan of computer games. B. the author spends much time playing computer gamesC. the author once played a whole nightD. the author doesnt like playing computer games68. In this passage, the author tells us a fact that _.A. some computer games are interesting enough to attract peop
36、leB. many people fall into a dangerous pitfallC. many people are suffering a lot from the computer gamesD. computer games are pitfalls for most players69. The underlined word bother here means _.A. make trouble B. concern about C. disturb D. confuse70. The author has a pleasure to _.A. make a comput
37、er game B. to read books C. to listen to good music D. ask himself questionsECalling tower, the pilots voice crackled. This is an emergency! The radio operator in the control tower looked at his watch. It was 3:15 p.m. Lieutenant Charles Taylor and five Navy bombers were in trouble. We are off cours
38、e. We cannot see landrepeatwe cannot see land.The control tower grew silent. The operator garbed (戴上) his microphone. What is your position? We are not sure of our position, Lieutenant Taylor replied. We seem to be lost. Taylor had over 2,500 hours of flight time. What was happening?The tower called
39、 back: Assume bearing(方位) due west. We dont know which way is west, Taylor replied. Everything is wrongstrange We cannot be sure of any directionEven the ocean looks odd The radio operator told Taylor to fly north with the sun on the left until he reached a Naval Air Station. Anyone could find the s
40、un, especially a good pilot like Taylor. Soon the radio crackled again. We have just passed over a small island, said the pilot. No other land in sight. That was the last message Flight 19 sent to the radio tower. Five Navy bombers were lost. They had left the Naval Air Station for a routine(常规的) tr
41、aining flight at 2:00 p.m., December 5, 1945. Each plane had enough fuel to fly more than a thousand miles. The weather was sunny and mild. Pilots from other flights had not seen anything strange there. So what happened? How could five Navy bombers and their crews just disappear?The search for the f
42、ive bombers covered 380,000 square miles of land and sea. Hundreds of boats and planes searched large areas of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the mainland of Florida, and many neighboring islands. Some of the boats were aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. They searched t
43、he area for weeks. Nothing was ever found. No life rafts. No wreckage. Not even an oil slick(浮油). Oil from the engines should float on the surface, even if everything else had sunk.71. The pilot knew that they were in trouble when _.A. The radio operator warned himB. The emergency light was suddenly
44、 onC. The engine failed to workD. He couldnt be sure of his flying route72. Which of the following fact is not true for the five Navy bombers?A. They could not find out the direction. B. A small island was in sight.C. They could not find the sun. D. They saw no other land.73. What made the disappear
45、ance so mysterious?a. The control tower grew silent.b. The bombers had a lot of fuel.c. The weather was good.d. No strange happening was reported by other flights.A. (a) (b) (c) B. (a) (b) (d) C. (a) (c) (d) D. (b) (c) (d)74. What was the most unusual for the search?A. There was no life raft. B. The
46、re was no wreckage.C. There was no oil slick. D. There was no SOS call.75. The result of the search for the five bombers was that _.A. they went for a very important mission B. they went to some very important placesC. they went out of earth D. they went somewhere no one knew阅读理解训练题(三)答案56-60CDDBA 61-65CDABA 66-70DDABC 71-75DCDCD- 5 -