英語閱讀生活化

1. 跪求50篇英語閱讀理解題（帶答案）

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No.4 middle School
Kunming ,yunnan
April 2nd ,2004
Dear editor (編輯) ，
I live in a beautiful city . Many visitors come to my city . there are so many colorful peacocks (孔雀) here .
The peacocks mostly live on the grass land of Dongfeng Square
They are given food freely by visitors . They usually throw food to them , and don』t think about at all whether the food is right or not . Some of the peacocks became ill , some even died after eating the bad food given by the visitors.
I』m sure most of the visitors who throw food to the peacocks really like the birds , but don』t realize (意識到) that they may be doing them harm (傷害).
The visitors should be told that what have done is very harmful to the birds , and this kind of thing must be stopped from happening .
Perhaps we can build some small shops beside Dongfeng Square to sell peacock food . For us every person , it』s our ty to give more love to these beautiful birds and to look after them carefully.
Yours,
Sun Yan
()6.Many visitors come to the writer』s city to __________.
A. do some shopping B. see beautiful peacocks
C. play on Dongfeng square D. eat nice food
()7.Some peacocks became ill and died because some visitors ______;
A. did』t give them any food B. gave them too much food
C. threw them some bad food D. loved them and played with them
()8.Some shops can be built beside Dongfeng Square so that they may _____________.
A.sell food for visitors B. sell food for peacocks
C.make the square more beautiful D.have the beautiful birds
()9.From the passage we know people should __________.
A. live and play with the birds
B. stop the birds from eating too much
C. give right food to the birds
D. give more food to the birds
()10.We can guess the writer of the letter, Sun Yan , may be a _____.
A. visitor B. shopkeeper C.square keeper D. student
6-10：B C B C D
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Every town in the United States has a post office . Some are very small , and you may also find them in the corner of a shop . Others are larger buildings . They are open five days a week and on Saturday mornings . From Monday through Friday they are usually open from 8:30 to 4:30 .
If you know how much the postage (郵資) is for your letter , you can buy stamps at any window. In some post offices you can buy stamps from machines . Stamps are sold many different prices , from one cent (美分) to many dollars . If you are not sure how much postage is for you letter , you may ask the man or the woman in the post office for help . he or she will give you the stamps you need . If you are sending your letter far away , you should use airmail envelopes (航空信封) . Remember that postage will be more expensive for a letter to be sent outside the country.
At a post office you can also buy postcards . A postcard is cheaper than a letter . Usually the price of postage for a postcard is about half that of a letter . The postcards that you buy at a post office do not have pictures . However ,also they are not to be sent outside the country .
Letters are an easy and cheap way to keep in touch with people in many different countries .
()11.The passage tell us that we can find ________ easily in the United States of America.
A. post office s B.large buildings
C.small shops D.different banks
()12.The post offices in the United States are open _________.
A.seven hours a day B.six hours a day
C.five hours a day D.eight hours a day
()13.If you are not sure how much postage is for your letter ,you can____.
A. go and buy stamps from the machine in the post officesend a cheap postcard instead of your letter
B. get in touch with somebody you know in the post office
C.ask the man or the woman in the post office for help
()14.The price of postage for ________ is more expensive.
A.a beautiful postcard B.a letter written on envelope
C.a letter by airmail D.a postcard with pictures
()15.The passage tells us something about ________ in the USA
A.the post B.the postage C.letters D.postcards
11-15 A D D C A
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Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal(偷) the bell on his neighbour』s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of(抓住) the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, 「 must do something about the noise,」 he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. 「Ah, I』ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won』t be able to hear the noise.」 The next day he went to the door of his neighbour, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbour came running out.
「Steal my bell? I』ll teach you a lesson(教訓),」 the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbour found out he was stealing the bell. 「Why did he come out just then?」 he wondered (感到疑惑).
( )16. The thief was trying to get .
A. his neighbour B. his neighbour』s doorbell
C. some cotton D. a door with a bell on it
( )17. The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be for him to steal the doorbell.
A. safe B. difficult C. dangerous D. easy
( )18. The neighbour ran out probably(很可能) because .
A. he knew his doorbell was being stolen
B. he thought someone was eager (渴望的) to visit him
C. he realized (意識到) something strange happened
D. Both B and C
( )19. The neighbour hit the thief to .
A. give him lessons B. punish (懲罰) him for stealing
C. help him with the bell D. be his teacher
( )20. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The thief understood why he was hit on the nose.
B. The thief knew why the neighbour came out.
C. The thief thought the neighbour couldn』t hear the noise the bell made.
D. The thief didn』t want to know why the neighbour ran out.
16-20 B A D B C
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A farmer was put in prison(監獄). One day, he got a letter from his wife.
「I am worried about out farm,」 she wrote. 「It』s time to plant potatoes ,
but I can』t do all the digging(挖) by myself.」
The farmer thought over and then had an idea. He wrote to his wife,「Don』t dig
the fields. This id where my gold(金子) is. Don』t plant potatoes until I comehome.
A few days later, the farmer got anther letter from his wife. It said, 「Two days
ago, about ten prison guards(監獄看守) came to our fields. It looked as if they were looking for something. They have g our field.」
The farmer wrote to his wife at once. 「Now you can plant our potatoes,」 he wrote.
( )21.The farmer was put in prison ________.
A. because he had done something wrong
B. because he had a lot of gold in the fields
C. The writer didn』t say anything about why the farmer was put in prison
D. For nothing
( )22.The farmer』s wife was much worried about _____ .
A. her husband B. their farm C. planting potatoes D. herself
( )23.The farmer told his wife __ first.
A. not to dig the fields B. to dig the fields
C. to ask the prison guards for help D. to find the gold in the fields
( )24.Why did the prison guards dig the farmer』s fields ?________.
A. They wanted to help the farmer
B. Their leader ordered them to do so
C. The farmer asked them to do so
D. They wanted to find out the gold
( )25.Why did the farmer ask his wife to plant potatoes at once ? Because _____.
A. their fields had been g
B. the gold was found out
C. the prison guards asked him to do so
D. the prison guards were digging the fields
21—25 C B A D A
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An owl is a bird with very large eyes. Those eyes make the owl look clever. The owl can not move its eyes freely as people can. It can only look straight ahead (朝前). If it wants to look at both sides, it must turn its neck.
Owls see better at night than ring the day. At night they look for food. They eat mice and insects.
Owls make a strange noise because the owls sleep most of the day. They usually give their cries at night. The cry sounds like 「Whoo! Whoo!」. This strange sound sometimes frightens people at night.
26. An owl looks clever because it can look straight ahead.
27. An owl looks for food at night because it sees better at night than ring the day.
28. An owl lives on all kinds of birds.
29. The cry of an owl is frightening.
30. Man must not kill owls because they are helpful to people.
26-30 B A B A A
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Coffee has become the most popular American drink. Today people in the United States drink more coffee than people in any of the other countries. People drink coffee at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner and between meals. They drink hot coffee or coffee with ice in it. They drink it at work and at home. They eat coffee ice-cream and coffee candy. Coffee is black and very strong. Different people like to drink it in different ways. Some people like coffee with cream or sugar in it. Other people like coffee with both cream and sugar in it. In all ways it is served. Coffee has become an international drink.
31. Coffee is an ____________ drink.
A . interesting B. international C. ice-cream D. American
32. Different people like to drink coffee ____________.
A. at work or at home B. in different ways C. with cream or sugar D. between meals
33. Today Americans drink ____________ coffee than people in any of the other countries.
A. as much as B. less C. more D. most
34. 「Coffee is black and very strong.」 The word STRONG here means ____________.
A.堅固的 B.淡的 C.清的 D.濃的
35. ____________ is the most popular American drink.
A. Black tea B. Coffee C. Water with ice D. Whisky
31-35 B B C D B
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Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their everyday life. For example, they can help people save much time, and they can help people work out many problems they can』t do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children.
They hope computers can help them improve (提高) their studies in school. Yet many of the children use computers to play games, to watch video or to sing Karaoke, instead of studying. So many teachers and parents complain (抱怨) that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked by parents in the boxes.
In some other countries, even some scientists hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.
Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves.
36. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because _______________.
A. our country asks us to learn it
B. it can help us a lot
C. we can use it to play games
D． it can help us to find jobs
37. What do many teachers and parents complain about? _______________.
A. Their students and children use computers to play games.
B. Computers let them lost their jobs.
C. Computers make the students and children fall behind.
D. Computers bring people a lot of trouble.
38. In this passage we know computers _______________.
A. also bring us trouble
B. bring us happiness only
C. are hated by people
D. are bad for people』s health
39. Can computers really help children to study? _______________.
A. Yes, they can. B. It』s hard to say C. No, they can』t. D. Of course not.
40. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means _______.
A. computers are used by people
B. people can live well without computers
C. one must decide how to use computers
D. computers are strange machines
36-40 B C A A C
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Once upon a time there lived an old man. He had three sons. One day, he called them together and said, "Sons, I will die soon. To my oldest son I give half my camels, to my second, one-third(三分之一), and to my youngest, one-ninth (九分之一)." Soon after that he died.
Now, the old man had seventeen camels, and the three brothers didn't know how to do as their father said. They thought a long time about the problem, and it seemed that they must either kill some of the camels and cut them into pieces, or disobey their father. At last they went to their father's old friend and asked for his advice. As soon as he heard their story, he said, "I will help you. I was a good friend of your father's. I am old. I have only one camel, but take it-it is yours."
The three sons thanked the old man and took his camel. Now they found it was easy to do as their father wished, The oldest took half- that was nine camels; the second took one-third, that was six; and the youngest took one-ninth, that was two.
After each had got his camels, they found that there was still a camel there. So, to show their thanks to their father's friend, they gave the camel back to him
41. "Once upon a time" means " ________".
A. long long ago B. not very long ago
C. at once D. sometimes
42. The meaning of "disobey" in the second paragraph is" ________".
A. 服從 B. 違背 C. 聽從 D. 嘲笑
43. The meaning of "asked for his advice" in the second paragraph is " ________".
A. 向他請教 B. 問他數量 C. 批評他 D. 勸告他
44. The second old man ________the three brothers.
A. was good to B. was not good to C. didn't like D. cheated(哄騙)
45. Both the two old men in the story were ________.
A. foolish B. clever C. poor D. rich
41-45 A B A A B
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Tom lived by himself a long way from town. He hardly went to town, but one day he went into town to buy a few things. After he bought them, he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table. When he looked around, he saw some old people put glasses on before reading their newspapers. So after lunch he decided to go to a shop to buy himself one pair, too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop.
The man in the shop let him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always said, "No, I can't read with these."
The man became puzzled (迷惑的) , and he said, "Excuse me, but can you read?"
"No, of course I can't!" Tom said angrily. "If I could read before, do you think I would come here to buy your glasses?"
46. Tom lived ______.
A. with his family B. near town C. in the country D. in town
47. Tom didn't go to town______.
A. never B. often C. sometimes D. sometime
48. Why did Tom decide to buy a pair of glasses?
A. Because he thought if he bought them, he could read.
B. Because they were very bright.
C. Because they were cheap.
D. Because he could read newspaper.
49. Tom went to the shop to ______.
A. have a rest B. have dinner C. wear glasses D. buy a pair of glasses
46-49 C B A D
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We know mosquitoes very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them.
No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide if she loves you. She? Yes, she. The male mosquito doesn』t bite! Only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn』t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You』re different from the others!
If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(癢) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. When the itch begins, she has flown away.
And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, in a tree or on a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.
( )51.All the people don』t like mosquitoes.
( )52.All mosquitoes like to bite people for blood.
( )53.If a mosquito wants to bite you, it means she is very tired.
( )54.The mosquito bites you too quickly and quietly to let you know.
( )55.The itch begins after the mosquito flies away.
51-55 FFFTT
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Do you know why different animals or pests(昆蟲) have their special colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Some birds like eating locusts(蝗蟲), but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colours of crops(莊稼). When crops are green, locusts look green. But as the harvest (收獲)time comes, locusts change to the same brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are easily found and eaten by others. So they have to hide themselves for lives and appear only at night.
If you study the animal life, you』ll find the main use of colouring is to protect themselves. Bears, lions and other animals move quietly through forests. They cannot be easily seen by hunters. This is because they have the colours much like the trees.
Have you ever found an even more strange act? A kind of fish in the sea can send out a kind of very black liquid(液體) when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over(散開), its enemies(敵人) cannot find it. And it immediately swims away. So it has lived up to now though it is not strong at all.
( )56.From the passage we learn that locusts________.
A. are small animals
B. are easily found by birds
C. are dangerous to their enemies
D. change their colours to protect themselves
( )57.How can pests with different colours from plants keep out of danger?
A. They run away quickly.
B. They have the colours much like their enemies.
C. They hide themselves by day and appear at night.
D. They have to move quietly.
( )58.Bears and lions can keep safe because________.
A. they have the colours much like the trees
B. they move quietly
C. they like brown and grey colours
D. they live in forests
( )59.Why can the kind of fish live up to now?
A. Because it is very big and strong.
Because the liquid it sends out can help it escape from its enemies.
B. Because the liquid it sends out can kill its enemies.
C. Because it swims faster than any other fish.
( )60.Which is the best title for this passage?
A. The Change of Colours for Animals and Pests.
B. Colours of Different Animals and pests.
C. The Main Use of Colours for Animals and Pests.
D. Some Animals and Pests.
56-60 D C A B C
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怎樣讓英語閱讀復教制學「生活化」
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提高閱讀理解能力方法

1、擴大詞彙量，培養詞義推斷理解能力。
詞彙是語言的三大要素之一，是閱讀的基礎，
近幾年的閱讀短文的詞彙量都在2200個單詞左右，就要求學生不但要積累足夠的詞彙量，而且要學會構詞法（轉化、派生、合成）來豐富自身的詞彙量；常見詞綴有：①表反義的前綴詞dis-, im-, un-,in-等，例如：disappear，disagree， impossible，unvisible， inexpensive，unable等；②加後綴轉化為形容詞有：-able， -sive， -less，-ful等，例如：reasonable, unknowable, effective等；③名詞加ly或y轉化為形容詞，如month→monthly，year→yearly， salt→salty等；④「non-」表示「沒有」「否定」之意，如non-stop，non-sleep，non-recyclable等；⑤「over-」表示「超過、超額、超量」之意，如：overwork，oversleep等。
加強訓練，讓學生學會根據構詞法（根據詞根、前綴、後綴等推斷出生詞的詞義）、上下文（例子、定義、對比、同義詞、反義詞、語境）、邏輯關系等方法來推斷生詞的詞義。

2、提高閱讀速度
首先要克服不良的閱讀習慣：一次一個單詞，用手指著讀，一遇到生詞就停下來，「聲讀」（小聲朗讀或心裡默讀）等等，加強限時閱讀訓練。

3、加強訓練，培養學生剖析結構，分析解讀長難句能力。近年來，高考閱讀的長句、難句的數量逐年增多，大大地加大了學生閱讀難度，影響閱讀速度和效果。這些句子結構復雜、修飾語疊綴、信息容量大，有時一個句子占幾行甚至一個自然段。其實，這類句子並不可怕，只要善於理清其基本結構和各語段之間的關系，在分層理解內容的基礎上整合全句語義，難句也就迎刃而解。

4、選好閱讀材料，擴大閱讀量，豐富學生英語文化背景知識
近幾年絕大多數高考閱讀材料是介紹英語國家的文化、人文、生活、人生觀、科普、習俗、歷史、人物等。學生除了看懂文章外，具備一定的背景知識也極為重要，它是閱讀理解的催化劑。因為語言是文化的載體，話語不能脫離文化背景而獨立存在。文化背景知識的獲取，除了教材課文閱讀外，更多的是通過課外閱讀英文讀物，而課外閱讀材料的選取要注意以下二個方面：①、體裁多樣，題材廣泛，包含記敘文、應用文、議論文。涉及人文、歷史、生活、人生觀、習俗、科普等，趨向現代化、生活化、知識化，突出實用性與時代性、趣味性。②、盡量選用原汁原味的英文讀物，而且這些讀物應具有一定的生詞量（具有一定的生詞量的英文讀物是今後高考選材的一種趨勢）。

7. 現代英文小說，生活化一點的

VISION IN WHITE, by Nora Roberts. A wedding photographer finds romance with the brother of a bride-to-be; Book 1 in the Bride Quartet series.

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.

MY SISTER』 KEEPER, by Jodi Picoult. A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.

LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH, by Emily Giffin. A woman』s happy marriage is shaken when she encounters an old boyfriend.

FIREFLY LANE, by Kristin Hannah. A friendship between two women in the Pacific Northwest enres for more than three decades as they make different choices in their lives.

8. 國外生活如何提高英文閱讀水平

在開始嘗試閱讀原版英文書和雜志的時候才發現,學了這么多年英語,讀起來依然是磕磕絆絆,幾乎無法流暢地閱讀,生詞太多,句子太難,讀了幾行就無法繼續往下讀了,更別提享受閱讀的樂趣。
就在我一度想要放棄,並覺得自己實在缺乏學習語言的天賦時,我的老師告訴我,閱讀是一個循序漸進的過程,不是直線上升,也不是螺旋式上升,而是呈階梯上升狀。可能你掙扎一段時間,會發現自己一點進步都沒有,但如果你依然保持練習,經過一段時間後,會突然豁然開朗上升到一個新的台階。
果然如此,在經過一段沮喪期,並保持一定的閱讀量後,有一天突然發現,我可以比較輕松地看一些新聞,和小說了。在回頭看自己這一段的英文學習後,我總結的經驗是,不要太為難自己,不要妄想一開始就看得懂很難的東西,保持興趣並能感受到閱讀的樂趣最關鍵。
如果一開始,覺得閱讀長篇比較困難,就可以先從有圖畫的書入手,英文繪本啦,漫
畫啦,菜譜啦,記下一些生詞和句式。看了一段時間後,覺得可以比較輕松地閱讀這些材料了,就可以換一些純文本來讀。如果覺得生詞量太大,就選擇次一級的,一點點進階,循序漸進地累積單詞。當詞彙量,和閱讀量累積到一定程度時,閱讀速度和閱讀深度都會突飛猛進。
不得不說,英文的詞彙量實在太過龐大,據不完全統計,大概有六十多萬的詞彙量,美國大學生的詞彙量大概是6萬-7萬,可想而知,如果要做到像讀中文材料一樣讀英文,需要多少的詞彙量才夠。所以,英文閱讀,真的是一個需要長期積累的過程。
最後祝願所有把英文做為第二語言的我們,可以通過深入學習,更好地駕馭這個語言工具,去到更加寬廣的世界。

9. 有關生活方式的英語閱讀題（帶答案）

As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe－sun baked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked remarkably like modern apartment houses. Some were four stories high and contained quarters for perhaps a thousand people, along with store rooms for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against enemies. They were really villages in themselves, as later Spanish explorers must have realized since they called them 「pueblos」, which is Spanish for town.
The people of the pueblos raised what are called「the three sisters」 - corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. Water was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain.
The way of life of less settled groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shoshone and Ute wandered the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as small rabbits and snakes. In the Far North the ancestors of today's Inuit hunted seals, walruses, and the great whales. They lived right on the frozen seas in shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caribou.
The Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes, known as the Plains Indians, lived on the grasslands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They hunted bison, commonly called the buffalo. Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their clothing and covering of their tents and tipis.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The architecture of early American Indian buildings.
B. The movement of American Indians across North America.
C. Ceremonies and rituals of American Indians.
D. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that the dwellings of the Hopi and Zuni were______.
A. very small
B. highly advanced
C. difficult to defend
D. quickly constructed
答案解析：

1. D） 根據閱讀短文可知，作者主要描述了北美地區不同印第安部落的不同的生活方式 。故選項D為正確答案。
2. B） 此題為推斷題。根據文章第一段可知，早在一千年前Hopi和Zuni兩支北美印第安部落就用一種磚坯「adobe」來建造房屋，高可達四層樓高，有居住室還有儲藏室，頗像現代的公寓，故選項B（高度發達）為正確答案。