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1、阅读词汇题【课堂精讲】I. 阅读猜词题常用的问题形式：1. He underlined word（phrase）in the passage means _ 2. The word it（them）in the first paragraph refers to _ 3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _4. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word in the second paragraph？5. What does（do

2、）the underlined word（words）refer to？6. According to the passage, “” probably means _.7. The author uses the word “” to mean _. 8. The underlined word/phrase/team “”means _. 9. The word “” in paragraph refers to _. 10. What does “” in the second paragraph stands for?11. The sentence “” means _.II. Ex

3、ercise.AApple trees may grow as tall as 12 metres and they grow best in areas that have cold winters. Although no fruit is yielded during the winter, this cold period is good for the tree. The underlined word “yielded” most probably means_. A. sold B. bought C. improved D. produced 【Keys】: D【解析】: 该词

4、所在句的句意为“尽管冬季不产苹果，但寒冷期有益于果树的生长”。由此可知yield意为“生产”，故选C。BAnother source of knowledge is the vast store of traditional practices handed down form father to son, or mother to daughter, of old country customs, of folklore. All this is very difficult for a college student to examine, for much knowledge and p

5、ersonal experience is needed here to separate good plants form wild grass. The college student should learn to realize and remember how much of real value science has found in this wide, confused wilderness and how often scientific discoveries of what had existed in this area long ago.In this paragr

6、aph the phrase “this wide, confused wilderness” refers to _. A. personal experience B. wild weeds among good plants C. the information from the parents D. the vast store of traditional practices 【Keys】: D 【解析】: 划线部分指的就是上文的another source of knowledge，即： the vast store of traditional practices。CMontre

7、al(Reuters)-Crossing the US-Canada border to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen $10,000 for breaking Washingtons strict new security(安全)rules.The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 1

8、5, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church. There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the USwhich in some cases actually runs down the

9、 middle of streets or through buildings. As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs station in this area is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had do

10、ne every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally. Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens

11、 in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint. Albert has requested that the customs office change their

12、 decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since,. “I feel like Im living in a prison,” he said.61. The underlined word “detour” in paragraph 5 means _. A. a drive through the town B. a race across the fields C. a roundabout way of traveling D. a journey in the mountain area 【Ke

13、ys】: D【解析】:从介词短语along hilly roads可知答案选D。DAs any homemaker who has tried to keep order at the dinner table knows, there is far more to a family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how much more. Lewis and his co-workers carried out their study by v

14、ideotaping（录像）the families while they ate ordinary meals in their own homes. They fond that parents with small families talk actively with each other and their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents efforts to control the loud noise they make. That

15、 can have an important effect on the children. “In general the more question-asking the parents do, the higher the childrens IQ scores,” Lewis says, “And the more children there are, the less question-asking there is.”The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have

16、a harder time in life than their siblings (兄弟姐妹). Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child. Who has the most to talk about,. And the youngest, who needs the most attention. “Middle children are invisible,” says Lewis. “When

17、 you see someone get up from the table and walk around during dinner, chances are its the middle child,” There is, however, one thing that stops all conversation and prevents anyone from having attention: “When the TV is on,” Lewis says, “dinner is a non-event.”68. By saying “Middle children are inv

18、isible,” in paragraph 3, Lewis means that middle children_. A. have to help their parents to serve dinner B. get the least attention from the family C. are often kept away from the dinner table D. find it hard to keep up with other children 【Keys】: B【解析】: 文章第三段提到 Lewis found that in families with th

19、ree or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest, who needs the most attention. 可以看出老大和老小都是谈话的焦点，只有中间的孩子是被人忽视的。EThey days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat S

20、ociety-a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun. “My grandmothers didnt do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that.” said Emily Comette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat society.While men have long spent their time fishing and playing

21、 golf, women have sometimes seemed to became unnoticed as they age. But the penetration now turning 50 is the baby boomers(生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old. If you take into consideration feminism(女权主义), a bit of spa

22、re money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing. “The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins;

23、 When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesnt go,” said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention. “The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone

24、 else,” Cooper said. “Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves.” This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. “Were a ladies play group. It couldnt be more simple,” added Coopers assistant Joe Heywood.44.The underlined word “chapter ”

25、in paragraph 2 means _. A. one branch of an organization B. a written agreement of a club C. one part of a collection of poems D. a period in a societys history 【Keys】: A【解析】: 根据短语“Red Hat society”开头字母使用了大写（一般英文中表特定的某人、地方或机构的名称时需要大写），同时，我们知道society除了社会还有组织的含义，因此可以得知chapter 是组织的一部分，故选答案A。FCollections

26、 were the inspiration for a project at Thomas Tallis School, which formed part of the Imagine Childrens Literature Festival last autumn. Each child(aged 12-13) beautified a box and wrote a story on the subject of collections to throw inside it. The boxes were spread within the Royal Festival Halls B

27、allroom. Some were left empty to encourage visitors to wrote own stories. The subject chosen by Lauren was an imaginative one. “Its a sort of Cinderella story,” she told me, inspired by a collection of letters from her cousin. In the story these become love letters, burned by a cruel stepmother. Lau

28、rens best friend Charlotte is the stepmother. “Im in Charlottes story too,” says Lauren, “and I get run over.” Charlottes tale was inspired by the girls coin collection. “Weve collected foreign coins for years- since our families went on holiday to Tenerife,” she explains. “That was before the Euro,

29、 so we put pesetas in.” Lauren continues: “I find a coin in the road, go to get it and get run over. Im in hospital and then I die.” Charlotte adds: “Or she might not die. I havent decided yet.”Millie Murray, who is a teen-novel author, thinks that setting the subject of collections was a useful ins

30、piration to their creativity rather than a restriction. “In the beginning I though, Will the children be able to do it?” she says, “But its been fruitful. Some have their own collection, some have parents who do, and some have written complete stories. Its made them think about something they wouldn

31、t have otherwise, which can only be a good thing.”60. The underlined word “pesetas” in Paragraph 2 is a kind of _. A. story B. collection C. inspiration D. foreign coin【Keys】: D【解析】: 由原文中的Euro(欧元，欧洲统一货币)可推知该词是一种在欧元发行前使用的钱币。GEveryone should visit a lighthouse at least once. The most important reason

32、for such a visit is to realize how our ancestors battled nature with the basic tools they had. They had only basic ways of creating light, and yet they found a way of using this simple technology in isolated(孤零零的) places to save ships from hitting rocks. Secondly, visiting lighthouses will help us t

33、o understand the lives of lighthouse keepers. By their very nature, lighthouses were built on some rocks or cliffs. Thus, the lighthouse keepers often lived lonely lives. To walk around their small home and imagine the angry storm outside beating against the walls, is to take a step towards understa

34、nding the lives they had.The reasons for a visit to a lighthouse are not all so backward-looking in time. It is true that lighthouses were built in out-of-the-way places. But on a pleasant sunny summer day, this very isolation has a natural beauty that many people will love to experience. Therefore,

35、 with the gentle waves touching all round the lighthouse, the visitor is likely to think it is a world preferable to the busy and noisy modern life. Another reason for considering a visit is that the lighthouses themselves can be very attractive buildings. Mankind could often not be content just to

36、put up a basic structure, but felt the need, even in such an isolated place, to build with an artistic touch. The result is a view for Finally, lighthouses have a romantic attraction, summed up by the image of the oil-skin coaled keeper climbing his winding stairs to take care of the light to warn s

37、hips and save lives. 68. The underlined phrase “out-of-the-way” in paragraph 4 means _. A. far-away B. dangerous C. ancient D. secret 【Keys】: A【解析】: 全文讲到灯塔处于一个孤零零的地方，即荒岛上，所以out-of-the-way为“遥远的地方”。B项dangerous危险的，意为灯塔对其他人有危险，这是错误的理解。答案A。HSpecial Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road - Reported by Sheila

38、 CarrickWhy did the chicken cross the roads? To get to the other side.Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly hear and mountain lion can cross the road. “Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads,” the Federal Highway Administrati

39、on reports. In fact, only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U.S. today. The main reason? Roadkill. “Ecopassages” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. They are paths both over and under roads. “These ecopassges can be extremely useful, so that wildlife can a

40、void road accidents,” said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Conservation Society. But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is yes. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under a highway. This showed that the lion used the

41、 passage. Builders of ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses. The next time you visit a park or drive through an

42、 area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might see an animal overpass!47. When the writer says that animals seem “to be catching on”, he means _. A. animals begin to realize the dangers on the road. B. animals begin to learn to use ecopassages C. animals are crossing the road in groups D. animals are increasing in number 【Keys】: B【解析】: 根据文章下一句话的解释“Animals as different as salamanders and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses. ”可推出答案选B。6学科网（北京）股份有限公司