阅读能力随堂测试.doc

第一单元英语阅读能力随堂测试
I完型填空( 每个2分共20分)
(1) around us, we can see many of Edison’s inventions. The electricity (2) in our rooms is one of his greatest inventions. He developed the telephone which rings in our rooms. Records playing songs and music were also invented by him. In addition to these inventions, he also made the first (3) pictures.
It wasn’t always easy for Edison (4) new things. It was very difficult for him to make the first electric lights. He needed to make hundreds of tests. At first, it wasn’t easy for him to find the right materials, but at last he did, and the world became brighter.
Though (5) in everything, Edison took interest in electricity most of all. He wants to know (6) it. He worked very hard to find possible ways to use it.
Edison’s experiments with electricity (7) the world greatly. Today, with great trains (8)______ on electricity, we can travel much faster. With our homes and the streets of town and village (9) by electric lamps, we live a comfortable life. Radio and television run on it. Science uses it every day.
Though (10) how to explain electricity now, we have learned to use it in many ways. Records shining lights and ringing telephones are very common now. Edison’s inventions have kept the world warm.
Fill in the blanks with the best answers:
1. A. If looking B. If looked C. Whether looking D. Whether looked
2. A. to shine B. shine C. shining D. shone
3. A. to move B. move C. moving D. moved
4. A. to find B. find C. finding D. found
5. A. interested B. interesting C. interest D. interests
6. A. how to use B. how using C. what to use D. what using
7. A. has changed B. have changed C. having changed D. have been changed
8. A. to run B. ran C. run D. running
9. A. to light B. light C. lit D. lighting
10. A. not known B. not knowing C. known as D. knowing not
（what is the best title? A Edison B Inventions C Edison’s Inventions D The Telephone （答案写在阅读表达后面5分））
II 阅读理解：（每个3分共60分）
A
One night in February 1962, John H. Glenn. Jr., flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury(水星) capsule（宇宙飞行容器）was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. On the dark land 100 miles below, he saw a sprinkling of light. They marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greeting to him.
In Friendship7, Glenn radioed, “The lights show up very well. Thank for everybody for turning them on.” His capsule raced on to the east.
During his three orbits of the earth, Glenn could always reach one of eighteen tracking stations. Some of them were on ship at sea. Others were in the United States.
Many of the stations had been built with the help of other countries. These countries allowed Americans to bring in radio equipment and set it up. Without the help of such lands as Nigeria（尼日利亚）, Zanzibar（尚巴西，坦桑尼亚领土的一部分）, and Mexico, there would have been breaks in the worldwide radio network.
John H. Glenn. Jr., was the first America to orbit the earth. For his flight, the tracking network（跟踪网络）covered 60,000 route miles. Five hundred men worked in the stations along the route Since his flight, the network has grown. Today, it covers more than 100,000 route miles and has about one hundred stations. One-third of these stations are outside of the United States.
11. This passage is mainly about ____________.
A. talking to ships at sea around the world
B. breaks in the worldwide network
C. the first American to orbit the earth
D. a satellite which fell into the ocean
12. From the passage we can see that ____________.
A. Friendship7 stopped in Perth, Australia
B. all tracking stations are inside the United States
C radio equipment is important in space flight
D. many people could see Glenn in his capsule when he made the flight
13. During his flight Glenn could always ____________.
A. see lights turned on on the ground
B. reach ships at sea
C .reach one of the tracking stations
D. arrive at Mercury in his Friendship7
14. Why did people in Perth turn on the lights?
A. They wanted guide him to land.
B .It was too dark for them to see in the room.
C. They wanted to see the Friendship7.
D. They wanted to greet Glenn.
15. Which of the following is not true?
A. Countries must work together to track satellites.
B. There are now about 70 tracking stations in the United States.
C. The tracking network covers many more route miles now than before.
D. Nobody has orbited the earth besides Glenn.
B
Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
16. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A Edison invented the electric light.
B. Many other people have changed Edison’s life.
C. Edison has changed the life of many other people.
D. Few men in history can change other people’s life.
17. Edison thought ____________.
A. he could be happy if he was a genius
B. genius plays the most important part in one’s success
C. hard work could do better than genius
D. genius could do better than hard work
18. Edison was ____________.
A. very much interested in nature
B. interested in discovering the secrets of nature
C. interested in changing people’s ideas
D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
19. In Edison’s opinion, ____________.
A. thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help
B. people’s successs lies mostly in genius
C. hard work is the second important thing in making people successful
D. there are few secrets for him to discover later
20. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies ____________.
A. life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings
B. Edison made 100 inventions in his life
C. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years
D. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years’ work
C
Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be a dark place. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and over 1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.
Thomas A．Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, when he was seven years old．Surprisingly, he attended school for only two months. His mother, a former teacher, taught him a few things, but Thomas was mostly self-educated．His natural curiosity led him to start experimenting at a young age with electrical and mechanical things at home.
When he was 12 years old, he got his first job．He became a newsboy on a train that ran between Port Huron and Detroit. He set up a laboratory in a baggage car of the train so that he could continue his experiments in his spare time. Unfortunately, his first work experience did not end well. Thomas was fired when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the baggage car. Thomas then worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time on the job conducting experiments. He got his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity. However, the vote recorder was not a success. In 1870, he sold another invention, a stock-ticker, for $40,000. A stock-ticker is a machine that automatically prints stock prices on a tape. He was then able to build his first shop in Newark, New Jersey.
Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He called himself a "two-shift man" because he worked 16 out of every 24 hours. Sometimes he worked so intensely that his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.
Thomas Edison died at the age of 84 on October 18, 1931, at his estate in West Orange, New Jersey. He left numerous inventions that improved the quality of life all over the world．
21．Thomas Edison did things in this order:
A．he became a telegraph operator, a newsboy, and then got his first patent
B．he became a newsboy, got his first patent, and then became a telegraph operator
C．he got a patent, became a telegraph operator, and then became a newsboy
D．he became a newsboy, a telegraph operator, and then got a patent
22．Of all the inventions, __________ was probably the most important for civilization.
A．the vote recorder B．the stock ticker
C．the light bulb D．the motion picture camera
23．The main idea of this passage is __________.
A．Thomas Edison was always interested in science and inventions, and he invented many important things.
B．Thomas Edison could not keep a job．
C．Thomas Edison worked day and night on his experiments.
D．Deaf people make good inventors because they can focus without the distraction of spoken conversation.
C
Light for the City
Edison and his assistants came to New York to set up an electric power system. They hoped it would provide enough electricity to light up a part of the great city.
They bought several machines with them. These were called generators, which produced electricity power for lamps in Edison’s building.
Soon there were lights for the building. Edison lived in a room facing the street and he often worked over night. The light burned brightly and steadily and he often worked over night. People often came and stopped their horse-drawn carriage to look. Everyone knew that Thomas Edison was in town.
First, the inventor and his assistants produced several large generators. A great deal of power would be needed to light up even a small part of the city.
Then the workers were busy digging deep trenches in the hard earth below the city streets, and Edison had fourteen miles of wire laid into the trenches. The wire connected each building to a generator.
Setting up an electric power system was not an easy job. It took a year and a half. In September, 1882, the job was finished.
A small group of men stood around Edison inside the power house. The big moment came at last. The inventor, taking a deep breath, pulled a switch. The electric lights flashed up.
“Very good! Very good!” a man nearby shouted to praise Edison for what he had done.
“Sir,” said Edison, “this is only the beginning!” And Edison was right. Soon Edison’s lamp were lighting up cities all over the world.
24 he generators they brought with them could produce as much as electricity as ______ needed.
A. Edison’s building B. a small part of the city
C. the whole city D. the world
25 At that time carriages ______ by horse could be seen in the street.
A. draw B. drew C. drawn D. drawing
26 Trenches were dug to ______.
A. set up generators B. lay wires
C. built city streets D. build a power house
27 It took a year and a half to _
A. set up the electric system B. produce several large generators
C. dig the deep trenches D. lay fourteen miles of wire into the trench
28 Edison took a deep breath before pulling a switch, which showed that he was ______.
A. excited B. frightened C. uneasy D. light-hearted
D
One night in February 1962, John H. Glenn. Jr., flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury(水星) capsule（宇宙飞行容器）was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. On the dark land 100 miles below, he saw a sprinkling of light. They marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greeting to him.
In Friendship7, Glenn radioed, “The lights show up very well. Thank for everybody for turning them on.” His capsule raced on to the east.
During his three orbits of the earth, Glenn could always reach one of eighteen tracking stations. Some of them were on ship at sea. Others were in the United States.
Many of the stations had been built with the help of other countries.These countries allowed Americans to bring in radio equipment and set it up. Without the help of such lands as Nigeria（尼日利亚）, Zanzibar（尚巴西，坦桑尼亚领土的一部分）, and Mexico, there would have been breaks in the worldwide radio network.
John H. Glenn. Jr., was the first America to orbit the earth. For his flight, the tracking network（跟踪网络） covered 60,000 route miles. Five hundred men worked in the stations along the route. Since his flight, the network has grown. Today, it covers more than 100,000 route miles and has about one hundred stations. One-third of these stations are outside of the United States.
29. This passage is mainly about ____________.
A talking to ships at sea around the world　
B breaks in the worldwide network
C the first American to orbit the earth
D a satellite which fell into the ocean
30. Which of the following is not true?
A Countries must work together to track satellites.
B There are now about 70 tracking stations in the United States.
C The tracking network covers many more route miles now than before.
D Nobody has orbited the earth besides Glenn.
IV阅读回答：（每小题3分共15分）
College Costs in the U. S.
A new report says the cost of studies at public colleges in the United States increased fourteen percent this year. This is the biggest increase in tuition (学费) in thirty years. But the study also found that the average student pays a lot less than the published costs of a college education, because of grants (补助金). And it points out that American students received a record amount of financial aid last year.
Students do not have to repay grants, unlike financial aid in the form of loans（贷款）. About half of American college stud