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1、高一英语阅读理高一英语阅读理解练习解练习高一英语阅读理解练习高一英语阅读理解练习（一）（一）AEarly one morning,more than a hundred years ago,an American inventor called EliasHowe finally fell asleep.He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine buthe had run into a very difficult problem:It seemed impossible to get the thread

2、to run smoothlyaround the needle.Though he was tired,Howe slept badly.He turned and turned.Then he had a dream.He dreamtthat he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless hecould build a perfect sewing machine.When he tried to do so,Howe ran into the same pr

3、oblemas before.The thread kept getting caught around the needle.The king flew into the cage andordered his soldiers to kill Howe.They came up towards him with their spears raised.Butsuddenly the inventor noticed something.There was a hole in the tip of each spear.The inventorawoke from the dream,rea

4、lizing that he had just found the answer to the problem.Instead oftrying to get the thread to run around the needle,he should make it run through a small hole inthe center of the needle.This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build thefirst really practised sewing machine.Elias Ho

5、we was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.Thomas Edison,the inventor of the electric light,said his best ideas came into him indreams.So did the great physicist Albert Einstein.Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams inwriting Jane Eyre.To know the value of dreams,you

6、 have to understand what happens when you are asleep.Eventhen,a part of your mind is still working.This unconscious(无意识的),but still active partunderstands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day.Itstores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or ne

7、ver have really noticed.It is onlywhen you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when youare awake.However,the unconscious part acts in a special way.It uses strange images which theconscious part may not understand at first.This is why dreams are sometimes ca

8、lled“secretmessages to ourselves”.1.According to the passage,Elias Howe was_.A.the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleepB.much more hard-working than other inventorsC.the first person to design a sewing machine that really workedD.the only person at the time who knew the value of

9、dreams-第 3 页2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was_.A.what kind of thread to useB.how to design a needle which would not breakC.where to put the needleD.how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle3.Thomas Edison is spoken of because_.A.he also tried to invent a sewing machine

10、B.he got some of his ideas from dreamsC.he was one of Howes best friendsD.he also had difficulty in falling asleep4.Dreams are sometimes called“secret messages to ourselves”because_.A.strange images are used to communicate ideasB.images which have no meaning are usedC.we can never understand the rea

11、l meaningD.only specially trained people can understand themBLanguage learning begins with listening.Children are greatly different in the amount oflistening they do before they start speaking,and later starters are often long listeners.Mostchildren will“obey”spoken instructions some time before the

12、y can speak,though the word“obey”is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shownby the child.Before they can speak,many children will also ask questions by gesture and bymaking questioning noises.Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies mak

13、e to their first spokenwords leads to considerable difficulties.It is agreed that they enjoy making noises,and thatduring the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive asdelight,pain,friendliness,and so on.But since these cant be said to show the babys intentionto

14、 communicate,they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language.It is agreed,too,thatfrom about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment,and that by six months they areable to add new words to their store.This self-imitation（模仿）leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words

15、 spoken to them by other people.The problem then arises asto the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.It is a problem we need to get out teeth into.The meaning of a word depends on what aparticular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear t

16、hat what a child means by aword will change as he gains more experience of the world.Thus the use at seven months of“mama”as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply becausehe also uses it at other times for his father,his dog,or anything else he likes.Playful andm

17、eaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak forhimself,I doubt,however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this abilityin an attempt to teach new sounds.5.Before children start speaking_.A.they need equal amount of listeningB.they

18、need different amounts of listeningC.they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructionsD.they cant understand and obey the adults oral instructions6.Children who start speaking late _.A.may have problems with their listeningB.probably do not hear enough language spoken ar

19、ound themC.usually pay close attention to what they hearD.often take a long time in learning to listen properly7.A babys first noises are _.A.an expression of his moods and feelingsB.an early form of languageC.a sign that he means to tell you somethingD.an imitation of the speech of adults8.The prob

20、lem of deciding at what point a babys imitations can be considered asspeech_.A.is important because words have different meanings for different peopleB.is not especially important because the changeover takes place graduallyC.is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words cha

21、nges with ageD.is one that should be completely ignored（忽略）because childrens use of words is oftenmeaningless9.The speaker implies_.A.parents can never hope to teach their children new soundsB.children no longer imitate people after they begin to speakC.children who are good at imitating learn new w

22、ords more quicklyD.even after they have learnt to speak,children still enjoy imitatingC-第 5 页The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women.During the twentieth centurythere was an unusual shortening of the time of a womans life spent in caring for children.Awoman marrying at the end of

23、 the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties,and would be likely to have seven or eight children,of whom four or five lived till they werefive years old.By the time the youngest was fifteen,the mother would have been in her earlyfifties and would expect to live a further twenty

24、years,during which custom,chance and healthmade it unusual for her to get paid work.Today women marry younger and have fewer children.Usually a womans youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paidwork until retirement at sixty.Even while she has the care of childre

25、n,her work is lightened byhousehold appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods.This important change in womens way of life has only recently begun to have its full effecton women s economic position.Even a few years ago most girls left school at the firstopportunity and most of them took a full-time job.

26、However,when they married,they usuallyleft work at once and never returned to it.Today the school-leaving age is sixteen,many girlsstay at school after that age,and though women tend to marry younger,more married womenstay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born.Many more aft

27、er wads,return tofull or part-time work.Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage,with bothhusband and wife accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfaction of family life,and withboth husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home,according t

28、o the abilities and interest of each of them.10.We are told that in an average family about 1990_.A.many children died before they were fiveB.the youngest child would be fifteenC.seven of eight children lived to be more than fiveD.four or five children died when they were five11.When she was over fi

29、fty,the late 19th century mother_.A.would expect to work until she diedB.was usually expected to take up paid employmentC.would be healthy enough to take up paid employmentD.was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely12.Many girls,the passage says,are now likely to _.A.marry so that they ca

30、n get a jobB.leave school as soon as they canC.give up their jobs for good after they are marriedD.continue working until they are going to have a baby13.According to the passage,it is now quite usual for women to _.A.stay at home after leaving schoolB.marry men younger than themselvesC.start workin

31、g again later in lifeD.marry while still at schoolDAny mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors.A mistakeon one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times itsoriginal value.The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in th

32、e British colony of Mauritius,a smallisland in the Indian Ocean.In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer-Mauritiuswas to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.Before the order was filled and delivered,a ball was planned at Mauritius GovernmentHouse,and stamps were ne

33、eded to send out the invitations.A local printer was instructed tocopy the design for the stamps.He accidentally inscribed the words“Post Office”instead of“PostPaid”on the several hundred stamps that he printed.Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left fourteen One PennyOrange-

34、Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues.Because of the Two Penny Blues rareness and age,collectors have paid as much as 16 800 for it.14.Over a century ago,Mauritius _.A.was an independent countryB.belonged to IndiaC.was one of the British coloniesD.was a small island in the Pacific Ocean15.The mistake on t

35、he stamps was made _.A.in MauritiusB.at Mauritius Government HouseC.in a post officeD.in London16.Stamp collectors have paid 16 800 for _.A.fourteen One Penny Orange-RedsB.twelve Two Penny BluesC.one One Penny Orange-RedD.one Two Penny BlueEPersonal computers and the Internet give people new choices

36、 about how to spend their time.Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members,butnew technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about.I knowthis from personal experience.-第 7 页E-mail makes it easy to work at home,which is where I

37、 now spend most weekends and evenings.My working hours arent necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer ofthem at the office.This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have ifshed been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.The Internet als

38、o makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends.Say you dosomething fun see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want tohear about it.If you call each one,you may tire of telling the story.With E-mail,you just write one note about your experience,at your conve

39、nience,andaddress it to all the friends you think might be interested.They can read your message when theyhave time,and read only as much as they want to.They can reply at their convenience,and youcan read what they have to say at your convenience.E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touc

40、h with people who live far away.More thana few parents use E-mail to keep in touch,even daily touch,with their children off at college.We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of stayingin touch.They dont take the place of any of the old ways.17.The purpose of t

41、his passage is to _.A.explain how to use the InternetB.describe the writers joy of keeping up with the latest technologyC.tell the merits(价值)and usefulness of the InternetD.introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet18.The use of E-mail has made it possible for

42、the writer to _.A.spend less time workingB.have more free time with his childC.work at home on weekendsD.work at a speed comfortable to him19.According to the writer,E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because theformer helps one _.A.reach a group of people at one time convenientlyB.k

43、eep ones communication as personal as possibleC.pass on much more information than the laterD.get in touch with ones friends faster than the later20.The best title for this passage is _.A.Computer:New Technological AdvancesB.Internet:New Tool to Maintain Good FriendshipC.Computers Have Made Life EasierD.Internet:a Convenient Tool for Communication参考答案参考答案:CDBABDABDDDDCCA DCBAD