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高考英语阅读训练（037）
Although man has known about asbestos for many hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H. W. Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers, was responsible for (对……负责)the opening of that first mine.
Mr, Jonhs was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves, which looked much like ordinary work gloves, he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imaging that he had increasing business in asbestos roofing materials. However, because it was very expensive to transport(carry)them from Italy to the United States, Mr Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein(岩脉), in the province of Quebec in Canada.
Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral, which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated, a strange thing happens ;the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibres(纤维).
Scientists do not know why the rock can be separated easily into threads(线), but they have found thousands of uses for this fireproof material, of the called the “cloth of stone”.
1．The title that best expresses the main idea of this passage is _____.
A．Asbestos mined in Canada B. Fireproof matter
C．A “Wonder” mineral D. A new roofing material
高考英语阅读训练（100）
What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.
We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental (done with the mind) exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理学家) think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.
Parents should also be careful with what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive (helpful) things to their children, such as “That was a very clever thing you did.” or “You are such a smart child.”
1. The words “intelligent” and “brilliant” in the first paragraph probably mean _______ while “dull” in the second paragraph means ________.
A. bright and splendid; slow in thinking and understanding
B. pretty and handsome; ordinary-looking
C. great and important; common
D. hopeful and helpful; careless
2. Accor
With the support of our readers, China Today has become successful in helping the world learn about China, and has built a bridge of friendship between the people of China and the rest of the world.
Every day we receive many letters from our readers expressing their admiration for China, their appreciation of our work, and suggestions for improving the quality of the magazine. Some letters are published in “Postbag” while others are kept for reference.
Many readers have suggested contests to develop closer contact (联系) between readers and editors. We held a History and Tourism Contest in 1995 and a China Travel Contest in . We received warm responses to both.
This year, China Today is holding a Reading Contest. Questions, chosen from articles published this year, will appear every three issues (期). Entrants (参赛者) must mail their answers before January 31, . Fifty entries (参加) with correct answers to all the questions will be selected as prize winners. All the winners will be named in the April 1999 issue. Please address your entries to:
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The First Three Questions:
1. What was Shanghai’s GDP in 1996?
2. How much of the Chinese population still lacks enough food and clothing?
3. When was the law on the Organization of the Villager Committees of the People’s Republic of China passed?
Please do not post your answers right away, but wait until all the questions have been published.
1. If you are going to be an entrant, how many ways can you send your entries to China Today?
A. It’s not clear. B. Only one.
C. No less than two. D. At least three.
2. According to the passage, we can draw a conclusion that ____.
A. fifty people who answer all the questions correctly may see their names in the April 1999 issue
B. all the people who answer the three questions correctly may see their names in the April 1999 issue
C. all the people who answer all the questions correctly must win prizes
D. all the people who answer the three questions correctly can win prizes
3. Supposing China Today is a monthly, this one in which there are the first three questions can be ____
A. the January 1995 issue B. the January 1999 issue
C. the May issue D. the March issue
4. How did the editors deal with the letters from the readers?
A. They put some letters in a big postbag for reference.
B. They published some letters in the column “Postbag” and kept the rest for reference.
C. They looked up some information in the letters and then published a “Postbag”.
D. They did nothing but keep all the letters for reference.
KEY:1－4 C A D B
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高考英语阅读训练（013）
This is John Roberts reporting from Cardiff The result of the match which finished at four this afternoon between France and Wales was a draw. Neither side scored .The Dutch referee（裁判）did not allow the one goal which France managed to kick The reason for this was that a French player was unfortunately off side .So both teams went home disap-pointed with the game They particularly admired the French forwards ,who were always fast and often threatened the Welsh defense .Once it looked as if the Welsh goalkeeper was in serious trouble. He dived to his right to save a shot from the French centre forward and crashed his head against the goal post ,A doctor examined him and he soon began to play a-gain .Of course the large ,friendly crowd cheered for him Wales will certainly welcome an-other visit from this splendid team.
1．This passage is .
A．a piece of sports news broadcast over radio
B．a piece of sports news in a newspaper
C．An advertisement about sports
D．An assay about sports
2．The word “draw”in this passage means ?
A．an act of puling
B．Taking money from a bank
C．a state in which neither side wins
D．Making pictures with a pencil or a pen
3．Which of the following sentence is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A．The French team is a visiting team while the Welsh team is the home team.
B．The Welsh goalkeeper was brave and he didn’t quit the match even after he had his head Seriously injured in the game.
C．People liked the French f
高考英语阅读训练（039）
CARDIFF, Wales──Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition(传统)of storytelling.
“It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has cone again, ”said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival(节)in Wales.
“Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time, ”he said early this month.
Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound.
Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.
Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving(coming back into use or existence)storytelling in Wales.
“It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions. and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here, ”Ambrose said.
1. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling______.
A. will be more popular than TV
B. will be popular again
C. started in Wales
D. are in the hands of some old people
2. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn ______.
A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago.
B. Why th
高考英语阅读训练（088）
Mary and Peter were having a picnic with some friends near a river when Mary notice an object overhead. “Look!” she shouted to her friends. “That's a spaceship up there and it's going to land here.”
Frightened by the strange silver-colored spaceship, most of the young people got in their cars and drove away quickly. Peter was fond of Mary and always stayed close to her. They, more curious than frightened, watched the spaceship land and saw a door open. When nobody came out, they went to the spaceship and entered inside. Peter followed Mary into the spaceship and did not hear the door closed behind him. The temperature fell rapidly and the two young people lost consciousness.
When they woke up, they were surprised to see that they were back by the river again. The spaceship had gone. Their car was nearby.
“What happened?” asked Mary.
Peter scratched (抓) his head, saying slowly, “Don't ask me. Perhaps we had a dream. Did you...Did you see a spaceship?”
“Yes,” said Mary. “And we both went into it. Then...” she looked at her wrist. “That's funny. My watch has stopped. Oh, well, come on. It's time to go home.”
Driving about fifty meters, they found their way blocked by a thick wall made of something like glass. They got out of the car and tried to find their way round the wall but discovered that they were inside a circular wall. It was like a mirror and prevented them from seeing through it.
On the other side of the wall, strange creatures walked past slowly. A few stopped to stare through the wall and read a new notice which, translated into English, said: “New arrivals at the zoo: a pair of Earthlings in the
高考英语阅读训练（001）
You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes (撞击) through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks.There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman' s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is ”blown up" in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls tool
1. Stuntmen are those who ______.
