阅读教程2答案

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阅读教程2答案

1、 C A C B B D 2、 F T T T F T

3、 ①对于太多的人来说，学习似乎是使自己的意志屈服于外

界的指引，是一种奴役。

②然而，只要幸运，有决心，指导得法，人的精神不仅经得起贫穷而且经得起富裕的考验。

③对一个人来说，形成完整和协调的人格与保持自身的卫生、健康以及经济上的是同样必要的，那些从来没有认识到这一点的人已经吃尽苦头。

4、①First off all,the writer point out that there is a mistake about learning.Some young people dislike learning simply because they are educated in the wrong way.Learning is a natural pleasure that should be enjoyed.Then he develops this idea by examples to illustrate the different aspects:learning from books ,by travel and through practice.Learning can expand one＇s knowledge over a period of time. ②The chief danger of learning is laziness,sloth,routine,stupidity.It sneaks into people＇s mind like wind though the shutters ,causing people to slowly give up learning .We should realize that learning is a life-long endeavor,and only by continuous learning can one gain a 2

meaningful and rewarding life. Reading Skills 1、 2、 3、 4、 5、 6、 Students have improved SAT scores. Teenagers planned patrols. TV programs are less thorough than newspaper. Welcome to Our City is about the South and its people. Some films show little children fascinated at the world. One can communicated with the writer as one reads a book. 第二篇 1、 2、 A D C A C B ①朱丽让我们如此为难，我真有点生气。难道圣诞老人不存在的事实不是从同学那里得知的吗？ ②我给他讲述了事情的经过，尽量使它听起来滑稽有趣，希望他不要注意到我和杰里在处理这个问题是有多拙劣——我已经开始把它称为“圣诞老人事件”了。 ③我可以看出，他正在努力想办法，任何办法，只要可以解释我们的行为，使其听起来不那么有欺骗性，那么错误和愚蠢，虽然事实确实如此。 ④事情就这样结束了。圣诞老人不存在的事实悲伤了片刻之后，生活又恢复了正常。 3、 ①Santa Claus is an imaginary old man with a long white beard and a red coat.Traditionally,young children in many countries are told that he brings them Christmas presents. Some legend goes like this:Santa 3

lives in nouthern Europe.There are varlous versions of the story,and some wonderfull movies,too. ②(Answer may vary,depending on your understanding.) 第三篇 1、 2、 A B B D C D ①他一去世，我自以为会长生不老的幻觉突然破灭了。 ②以后的岁月中，每当我默默期盼父亲的信任支持时，总会不出预料遇到一副怀疑的表情。

③现在回想起来，他是故意不让我们知道，免得扫了大家的兴。

④捧着沉重的盒子，我猛然醒悟到，不管父亲说的话听上去多么令人泄气，也抹杀不了他在我离开后用一张张剪报填满盒子的实际行动。

3、 ①（Answers to this question may vary according to

individual opinions.）

②His father is a hard-working and casring person.Afer he returns from the Second World War to the United States,he starts a family and devoteds himself to raising the children.He is kind but strictwith the children.When he expresses his doubt about his son’s choice career,the son breaks up with him.But he is still very concernedabout his son’s future,and

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givehim guidance from time to time.He also shows his love by silently collecting informationabout his son’s career.When the writer receives the box from his father party two weeks before he died,he suddenly realizes that his father has been caring for him all the time. 第四篇

1、 C D A C D C

2、 ①collect herself-if you collect or your thought,you

make an effort to calm yourself or prepare yourself mentally.镇定下来 collect-get control of one’s feelings

and

thoughts,especially

after

shock,surpriseor laughter.

②flash that big smile-if you flash a look or smile at someone,you suddenly look at them or smile at them.(脸上)露出微笑flash-show something for a short time.

③make deals with the rats与老鼠做交易（即故意留东西给老鼠吃）make deals with:reach an agreement for mutual benefit

④stand for welfare cheaters容忍stand for-endure or tolerate

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⑤rest his mind感到宽慰rest-relax

⑥poke around the house-if you poke around or about for something,you search for it,usually by moving lots of objects.四处搜索poke-search for something 3、 ①“贫穷”是人们无法摆脱的一种心境，而“没钱”只是

一种暂时的状况。

②她教导我们说，人们有两种摆脱生活困境的方法——笑或者哭。笑带来更多的希望。

③我们会站在后门廊里分发食物给邻居，仿佛我们在救济穷苦人，然后我们也会收下他们带来作为交换的事物。 ④当时的情景仍历历在目，那个社会福利工作者在屋子里四处搜索，冰冷的亚麻油毡地面上的煤炭、灰是他不由得皱起鼻子，而看到小虫在洗涤槽的脏盘子里爬来爬去的时候她就禁不住摇了摇头。

4、①The author’s mother is a very strong and capable woman.Being a single black mother with serveal kids and without a regular job,she receives relief from the government.But she doesn’s her hopes.Instead,she isi always optimistic in facing difficult in lifeand teaches the kids to face life courageously.When there is no money to pay the rent and the family is evicted by the landlord,she tries to persuade the landlord to

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let them stay on credit;when her children need money to by medicine,she spends the rent money on it.Then she work in a white family,doing all sort of household chores and eating little money to cover the family’s daily expreses .Yet she pays great attentions to the education of the children and hopes that they will have a better life when they grown up.②(The answer may vary,depending on different understanding of mother’s love.Mostly we can say that it is selfless devotion,care and concern,and spiritual guidance) Reading Skill

1、The views of New York from the bridge was beautifull 2、When I was an adolescent,I never have the best jobs:neither did I have the worst jobs

3、Marijoana use is associated with abnormal behavior 第五篇

1、 C D D C C B 2、 ①

They

are

mostly

educated,skilled

and as

middle-class,such

doctors,teachers,diplomats,businessmen,journalists,technical experts,etc.

②Africans think that black Americans are Americans

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first,blacks second

③He told them to be well prepared to face problems in Africa.They must be determined to help the black peopie in Africa

④He says that the decaying cities like Kinshasa and Dares Salaam seem to be future cities of Africa,while the developed cities like Johannesburge and Salisbury are becoming the past.He believes that the newly independent African countries will be the future of African⑤She recalled her experiences growing up in a black,middle-class community in Washinton D.C.,how she was discriminated,and how she excelled over white students at school

⑥It means that the black Americans who did go to Africa understood that they should have a correct attitudein helping their black brothers in Africa

3、②Because many black Americans who have returned to Africa found everything from joy to disillusionment,but no immediate acceptance simply because they are black. They would like to bring their expertise to help,but were

faced

with

suspicion,disdain,and

frustration.Because of the long separation of

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300years,because of the different environments in which they grow up,they find it difficult to embrace their homeland 第六篇

1、 B C C A D B

2、 ①或许自多纳.巴特米在20世纪60年代开始发表作品以

来，还没有哪一位作家在文学界引起过这么多议论 ②虽然他对拥有这份体面的工作心存感激，但是他并不真正认为具有写作天分的人一定能够教书

③他紧密结合原文，分析具体的细节，最后，谈到时他感动的作品时，他身上的紧张会突然消失

④对于雷蒙来说，批评就像小说一样，是一种共鸣，即把自己放在别人的位置来考虑问题

⑤对于一个腼腆的人而言，他爱交际的慷慨精神尤其难能可贵

3、①He was a shy,kind and generous person.As a writer,he didn’t see that anyone who had a gift in writing should be able to teach.Yet,as a teacher,he was respected by his students.His method of teaching is a spherical in that he preferred to listen to the students talk.He never asked his students to learn the theories,dut wanted them to conclude from practice.He felt that

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criticism was an art of empathy,and encouraged his students to achieve their own success.He was kind and generous in helping his students and friends to overcome difficulties 第七篇

1、 D B D B C A 2、 T T T F T T

3、 ①母亲的遗体还没下葬，我就已经领会了他的去世所隐含

的全部意义

②直到我乘火车离开斯科特堡去北方的那一天，我虽时很有可能或被殴打致死

③在那些日子里，我整天充满了幻觉，想着我帮助他逃脱一群白人暴徒的追打

④然而，当火车飞速行驶，电线杆向着我们呼啸而来又呼啸而过时，我觉得自己正逃离一种厄运，而我那些留在家乡的亲戚朋友已经深陷其中

4、①In paragraph 2,the writer first mentions that his family is a pious Christian one,contented with whatever they have for life.Then he lists some acts of racial discrimination,such as segregated schools,the peanut gallery and the drugstore in town.He also lists the insulting names by which the white people call the

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blacks.After that he tells the reader several possible ways of being killed,in order to show the cruelty of the prejudice and the fear on the part of the black people.Finally he mentions the killing in other places.Put together ,this details form a picture of the racial prejudice against the blacks and the cruel reality facing them.In paragraph 8,he describes his hometown in Kansas about the land,the seasonal changes,the animals,and the farming activities.He uses noun phrases instead of complete sentences to indicate that he thinks of all those objects

②The writer uses flashbacks in his narration.He begins the story from the time his mother was buried and his family were gathering money for his journey north.Then he recalls his childhood experience in his hometown,from general to the specific case of his cousin,who went out to the working the South,and ended up being wanted.Then he returns to his journey on the train,and expresses his deep felling for his native land.At the end of the story,as the train was moving closer to the destination,he remembered his mother’s words and looked forward to the future in the north.

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Reading for Facts

1、 Galileo’s use of the telescope helped to develop

modern astronomy. 2、 B

3、 Through the use of a telescope. 4、 16. 5、 D 第八篇 1、D C D A B C

2、①威利在拨动盘子里的食物，企图把其中一部分藏在餐刀下面，把其余的分散开，以便使盘子看上去是空的，但事实上他一口也没用吃。

②“看着我，儿子。你以为你父亲是什么样的人？你认为我会让你7岁就出去打工，然后拿你挣的钱花？”

③“你要提那些流血甚至牺牲的人想想。他们之所以这样做，就是为了不让其他的人只把你看成黑人剧团演出的一个杂耍而已。”

④“你不认为一个男人比你更了解应该怎样对他的儿子说话吗？你不认为我能让他像我一样成为一个真正的男子汉嘛？”

3、①Mr.Sherldan was cutting his steak with his left

hand.Mr.Sherldan was eating beans ,Willie was playing

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with his food on the plate and Emma was looking at them and ponderinin her mind. The mother was trying to let Willie eat some beans, but he just refused. Then she asked her husband about his trip to town, and they talked about it.Suddenly,Willie burst out with his idea of going to the summer stock with his uncle, and Mr.Sheridan was greatly annoyed.②Mr.Sheridan showed complete disagreement with Willie ’idea. He was excited ,annoyed and a little angered. Mr.Sheridan was more neutral on this matter, because her father ans brother were actors. She thought that Willir’s decision should be respected and that he should have the right to choose what he wanted to do. She tried to persuade her husband. 第九篇 1、B B C C A D

2、①我没有想到他会涉猎毒品。

②成年人的危险标准与他们的不同，他们也知道一点。因此他们总是对我们所说的话半信半疑。

③这就是一种最基本的代沟：父母最害怕自己的孩子发生不测，而孩子却总是极力摆脱父母的保护。

④也许我对基酰胺的重新出现所表现的真正警惕会给他提一

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个醒。

3、①The writer uses the following techniques in his essay

to convey his strong love for his son,as well as the message that parents should care about their children and warm them against drugs:1)by addressing the readers directlyat the beginning to arouse their attention;2)by using some short,simple sentences to express his strong feeling,such as“This isn’t going to be easy”etc.3)by alternating narration of the funeral with menmories of Joe;4)by using the italicized font to separate the recollection from the present.

②The writer thinks that kids don’t know treacherous drugs can be.They think they are invulnerable,and don’t listen to their parents so much.Adults’ standards of risk are different from theirs,and they discount what the parents tell them.They don’t believe that drugs are as dangerous as their parents warm of them.In a word,kids struggle constantly to free themselves of the protectionof their parents.The writer doesn’t expect them to obey their parents totally,he doesn’t want to smother them,but he doesn’t want to

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assume anything,either.Parents should warn them of the danger of taking drugs. 第十篇 1、A B C D D B

2、①但是，这种改变绝非顺利。专家们不断地推进这一变化，说互联网将会像电的发明和自来水的使用一样改变我们的生活。

②互联网仍然处在一个混乱的全球建设阶段，人们可以将其与一个多世纪前发达国家的电气化进程相比。

③我们正在通往数字化仙境的路上，在那里，互联网将神奇的变成无所不能的私人助理。

④戴维.库斯博坦预言，建设一个稳定的计算基础设施将会使互联网在2005年就可成为一种成熟的信息公用事业。 3、①The internet and the invention of electricity and running water are similar in:1)They are both significant and revolutionary in changing people’s life;2)They both spring up in a moment and spread quickly to almost everywhere;3)In the beginning,the infrastructure is lagging behind,so it is not stable to use.The internet affects our life in almost every aspect,from daily life to politics ,commercial,social and cultural lives.

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②Optimists see a bright future of the internet.They keep pushing it forward,saying that it will be as life-changing as electricity or running water.They see the plan as a rite of technological passage.They also see enormous potential for the information network to increase human productivity.Pessimists see the problems of the internet as inadequate or under-developed,and they also warn the loss of privacy.The think that it may take away the time gor thought. Reading Skills ①、 Fact ②、 Opinion ③、 Opinion ④、 Fact ⑤、 Opinion ⑥、 Fact ⑦、 Fact ⑧、 Opinion ⑨、 Fact ⑩、 Opinion 第十一篇

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1、A B D C B C

2、①牢固建立起来的垄断公司将垮掉，我们将在人际接触上进入一个新的、没有电缆连接的时代，这将不仅改变人们的业务往来，而且改变人们的行为

②那些可以说像世界上第一次无线变革一样震撼地球的变化正在发生

③宽频本身就是无线发明怎样才能够摆脱常规智慧约束的一个闪亮的例子

④要记住的重要一点是，随着这些（无线通信的）方法越来越多地出现，其结果将与失去电缆越来越无关，而越来越是关于为以前无法想象的活动做好准备

3、①Because some breakthrough was achieve in

tele-communications in that decade.After the invention of telephone,people had been experimenting on wireless communications,and Guglielmo Marconl,the Italian inventor,invented the radio telegraph system that changed the way people communicated at that time ②Wi-Fi is a radio bandwidth that is used in connecting computers on the internet,hence it is called”wireless network”.It is extended to such applications as GPS,Bluetooth,REID and ZigBee 第十二篇

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1、C D A B C D

2、①They are archiving their lives as they happen through

blog entries and photos taken on cameras and phones,and they organize these together and openly on the web,l.e.they comment on each other regualarly ②Social networking sties will keep us in touch with friends even when our ageing minds cannot retrieve their manes.

③In his own archive,he keeps photos,songs,files and friends and connections.He tags his photos so that he won’t forget the persons in the pictures.In his parents’ box,they keep some old photos,but they couldn’t remember the person in the photos when they become old,and when they die,all the memories will be lost

④It is reshaping how our minds develop:destroying our capacity to organize our memory for ourselves,reducing memory to mere bits of disconnected stimulus and so,in the extreme,undermining our capacity to develop a distinct identity based on our own narrative of our lives

⑤He is glad that his past was not recorded in his

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friends’social networking sites,warts and all 4、 ①(Nowaday,many young people keep blogs or maintain

their own web pages by making use of the web services such as QQ,MSN,,hotmail,etc.Students may talk about what they keep on such pages) ②(Opinions vary) 第十三篇 1、C D C B A B 2、F F T T T F

3、①我从来没有想到她用手来触摸东西，抚摸我的脸或是我给她看东西的方式是奇怪的。

②接着她尖叫起来，并迅速的把手缩回去，然后我要立即把鸟扔到外面去，同时警告我不要再让她碰到这样的东西。。 ③凭着她那灵敏的耳朵和鼻子，她综合起来判断总会得出正确的答案

④当他们把我的宝贝儿子放在我的手臂上时，我，就如我的母亲一样，可以看到我的孩子并知道他有多漂亮

4、①The author shows her deep love for her blind mother

by using moving words to express her emotion and examples of her mother’s care.“It never accurred to me that it was strang...”“I never question her ability to do this task.”“I could never quite reckon

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with her powers of...”The author remembers how her mother “looked up”her picture,combed her hair,and applied bandage on her wounds.She also gives the following examples:1)The case of the dead bird;2)She took a cookie and her mother found out about it by hearing;3)Her mother brought a dog in the room and was found out;4)She use her mother’s perfume and her mother smelt it;5)She was watching TV and her mother knew it;6)She was playing with water rather than taking a bath,and her mother knew it

②Her mother said so because she knew her daughter so well

that

she

could

tell

what

her

characters,hobbies,wishes and worries were.She understood her personality since she brought her up personally.So she said she really knew what she looked like inside Reading Skills (1)at 6:30 p.m (2)A half-hour later (3)The storm kept coming (4)raindrops began pelting Singal words:

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c e h a g d f i b 第十四篇 1、B C D C A B

2、①Because they didn’t want to hurt her.They knew she was gaining weight,but they love her so much that it was out of the question to discuss the topic in front of her②First of all,after she entered adulthood,she begin to gain weight naturally.Then,marriage and settling down gave her a stable life,and without much worry,she could become fat easily.She just didn’t care about herself much,and ate and drank a lot all the time.She didn’t have the determination to reduce weight

③The author was deeply hurt by the boy’s words.They stung like a whip.She suddenly realized that she was just plain fat.She made up her mind that no one would ever call her fat again

④She was committed to shedding the weight and getting into shape.She started a rigorous program of running and dieting.She joined a gym and managed to make some friends.She prepared healthy food for the family and exercised regularly with the children

⑤She is feeling energetic ,healthy ,confident ,strong

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and pretty.She has changed her attitude,her life-style and self-image.She starts caring about how she feels rather than how she look 3、①People consider it offensive to call others

“fat”,because they think that one’s size is a personal thing,and others have no right to interfere.Also they think that “fat”has the connotation of “clumsy”,“stupid”,“dumb”.The author was deeply hurt by the boy’s words simply because her family loved her so much that no one in the family would like to point out the obvious fact

②It is one’s will and determination that is most important in combating factness.Also one needs perseverance.After she lost some weight successfully,she realized that the most important is one’s attitude,or one’s feeling for oneself.So long as you feel comfortable and lead a healthy life,it is OK whether you are fat or not

第十五篇 1、C D A C A B

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2、①罗斯知道，在这样的一团漆黑中，在这样的风雨中，田德菲尔德四周还有4000英尺高的群山，让飞行员降落是很困难的

②数分钟后，已经别无选择。一场反常的雷暴吞没了他的飞机——这是一名新手飞行员所碰到的最糟糕的事情 ③在任何情况下，侧风着陆都是危险的，而现在的危险就是他有可能机头先着陆，使机身侧翻打滚

④当时一点儿时间都不能耽搁。然而，此时此刻的时间却似乎向前无限延伸，即使在这雨中漆黑泥泞的飞机跑道上 3、①Nathan Ross noticed a small airplane circling Tenterfield.As the plane was bucking and yawing,the pilot must have been in trouble.Ross used his ham radio to get into contact with the pilot,comforting him and promising to help him.Then he got a call from Robert Wild,and the two of them decided to guide the pilot to the airstrip in town.When they were preparing to light the runway,a sudden lightning struck the town and cause a blackout.Ross used the flash light on his car and other cars to guide the pilot to a safe landing

②Yasi was completing a solo exercise and building up hours in the sky to that he could get a license as a commercial pilot.Half an hour after he took off,a storm

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was forming and approaching him.He was caught in the storm.He tried stay calm,listen to instructions by Ross,and fly carefully to the airstrip.He controlled the airplane carefully,first reducing the speed,then aiming at the runway with the help of the car lights.Finally he succeeded in landing on the ground 第十六篇 1、B A C C D C

2、①你能对自己自立的能力充满自信，不用时刻惶恐不安，担心没有了他你无法适应生活

②即使你和某位男士交往颇深，但作为单身女性，你还可以选择与他断绝来往，改变主意而重新开始自己的生活 ③白马王子虽然难求，但在人生路途中说不定在某个时刻有那么一个人至少会让你考虑结婚的问题

④虽然单身生活对某些人有无限的吸引力，但总的来说，结婚的好处及其长期效应应给大多数人带来最大的满足 3、①The advantages of a single life are:1)you have the freedom that married people don’t have;2)you are in charge of your own life;3)there is less pressure on you to adhere to the traditional role model for a woman;4)the single lady often holds mystery and allure;5)as a single woman,you have the option of

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cutting loose with anyone;6)you can avoid the dull routine of life.The advantages of married life are:1)you don’t feel londly;2)you are not regarded as unable or unwilling to commit;3)you don’t live like a pig and are not a “bird wheel”;4)it has the satisfaction and rewards that a single life doesn’t have;5)even after a divorce,you are considered brave because at least you tired

②The writer compares the divorced people to lemmings in order to tell us that married is not like the cliff or the sea that the lemmings go to for death.He wants to tell us that there is a lot going for marriage,and that’s why the divorced people remarry again and again to search of the good of it Reading Skills Exercises

1、The way migrant workers are treated by the growers is worse than it ought to be 2、B 3、A 4、A 第十七篇

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1、C C A D B D

2、①经过12个月全职呆在家里，那些再次成为家庭主妇的人一定会报名去读艺术基础班，或者是开始接受心理教育 ②按照帕金森法则，一件工作可以拖延至抽得出的时间去完成，但是，但是即使你以最悠闲的方式也不可能把照看十几岁的小孩变成一份全职工作

③在我过去13年作为公共管理顾问的工作中，那个词组是我听到的用来描述我每天疯狂忙于工作、孩子、家庭和丈夫频率最高的一个词语

④他们需要得到安慰、鼓励、擦干眼泪、接送、有用的信息、你所读过的书，以及你的经历

3、①Because teenagers under the age of 16 are not eligible for applying a driver’s licence,they need their parents to take them to school,to the movies,etc,all the time

②(Students may be ask to talk in groups) 第十八篇 1、B A D C C B

2、①She encouraged her to make wishes and work hard to get them

②After the divorce from her husband,Blair’s mother moved to Annapolis,MD so that she could stay with her

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parents while she looked for work

③She chose the program that allows students to combine school school with paid internships that help fund tuition

④She made a network call to Cisco asking for professional advice

⑤She worked very hard and earned the support the CEO.She was very aggressive and willing to learn ⑥He showed her a good example in managing a big company 3、 ①(Answers may vary,but the following factors are

equally

important

in

Blair’s

success.Belief ,attitude ,and the role modest set by her mother) ②(Answer is open) 第十九篇 1、D B B D B A 2、F T T T F F

3、①我花很多时间思考语言的力量——如何激起某种情绪，引发某种视觉形象、某种复杂的思想或简单的真理

②就在上个星期，当我和母亲一起沿着街道走过时，发现自己在关注我所使用的英语，我和她在一起的时候所说的英语③我一直感到烦恼的是，除了用“破碎的”一词之外，我实

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在想不出别的什么词来描述妈妈所说的英语，好像它是受到损坏，需要修理的，好像她想缺少某种整体性和完美性 ④尽管我的英语技能从未被认为有欠缺，但与数学相比，英语课不能算是我的强项

4、①The writer is not being self-contradictory.When she says that her mother’s English is broken,that it limits her perception of her,that it had an effect on her possibilities,she is simply repeating the facts that are known to all.But she grew up with that kind of English,and it still using it with her family.So it can be said that her mother’s language is perfectly clear, natural,that it helps to shap her way in life.She has all the reasons to show respect for her mother’s use of English

②(The answers may depend on the readers,but there are a

variety of ways to analyze the sample) Reading Skills

1、 The experience of enjoying a watermelon

2、 The watermelon sunning:telling if it is ripe;the melon

cooling in a tub of water;the children standing around;the cutting;the sight of the meat and seeds;the eating

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3、 We go through all the steps from the cooling to the

serving to eating 第二十篇 1、D C A B B D

2、①In English,“proud”means to have proper respect for oneself,one’s

work,one’s

family,etc.

In

Italian,orgoglioso means self-importance

②They use it frequently,and with pride,to demonstrate how much you love someone

③Because whenever she and husband bring gifts to their relatives in the Italy,they all love them and cry out,“That’s beautiful!”

④She describes it as “the ugliest thing I’ve laid eyes on since Grandma James decided to make a Cabbage Patch doll with her own pantyhose.”It is a rectangular,beige agate with a metal stick in the center

⑤Because there are cultural implications with the words in the language used by the people.They associate the words with the realities in their lives to make them meaningfull

3、①The meaning of a word is related to its cultural

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implications which are projected in the word as people of a country use it in its own way.For example,“sexy”in English means “causing or intending to cause sexual desire;erotic”.In Italian,it means beautifull,and is the ultimate compliment

②They should learn the meanings from the context,both textual and situational.They should understand the cultural implications that go with the words 第二十一篇 1、 C A B C D B

2、 ①据说人们思考是以说话开始的，而说话则是以思考为结

束的，因为语言和文化很有趣的交织在一起

②然而，尽管英式英语与美式英语共享一个语法体系，其中两者只有一些细微的差别，而且主要表现在口语层次上，美式英语的词汇还是在诸多方面赋予了美语鲜明的特色 ③最初的定居者到达北美后，看到种种不同于他们家乡的地理特征，不断发现新的动植物，而人们也从事各种新的活动，发展新的兴趣

④这种形象的或隐喻的特征可以从与美国生活有关的其他一些表达法上看出来

3、 ①In the colonial days,settlers who came to North

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America were mainly from Europe.In addition to the British immigrant,people from other countries also came to settle there.They brought their own languages with them,and added to the English vocabulary with some

words

from

their

native

languages.Later,immigrants from Asian countries alos brought their language with them,thus there are Chinese,Japaness and Korean elements in the Ehglish vocabulary.As the settlers labored to make a living,they encountered new land,new animals and new plants.They engaged in new activities.So more words are coined to meet their needs.They also use old words in new senses to accommodate their needs in daily activities.All these can be seen in American language ②(The answer to this question depends on how the students view the Chinese language and what examples they may prohuce) 第二十二篇 1、A C B D A D

2、①在一层冰凉的积雪覆盖下，冰层积累到几千英尺厚然后在自身重量的作用下开始移动，严寒夏天的边缘一点点的向赤道推进

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②除非可能发生核战争——这样大量的物种灭绝可能是人类有史以来面临的最严峻的威胁

③有些分子太复杂，有些分子制作起来花费太高，因此人工无法制作，如果我们想受益于各种物种，物种本身就必须得到保护

④动物园、园圃，种子库以及其他各种为保护单个物种建立的场所可以起到至关重要的帮助作用，但因为人力物力，我们不可能面面俱到

3、①The most important cause is the ice age,in which ice covered most past of the earth.Glaciers,volcanoes.and perhaps even meteors and comets have razed the earth and wiped out numerous species.Extinction is a normal by-product of evolution.As new species come into being,old ones that are not adaptable to the environment would die out naturally

②First of all,human beings depend on other species for medicine.Many natural species have the chemicals that humans need but cannot synthesize easily.The store of food for humans also depends ultimately on the continued existence of wild species.Human beings have cause damages to the ecology of the earth,which may cause some species to die.Only by protecting whole systems can we

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begin to stop the flood of extinction Reading Skills Exercises 1、 D 2、 B 3、 C 4、 B 5、 B 6、 A 第二十三篇 1、B A B D A C

2、①The Copernicans were imagined human-like creatures inhabiting

the

imaginary

planet

called

the

Copernicus ,which is actually the name of a Polish astronomer

②The picture will be desolate and dreary in the first months,without much to be seen.Because the universe was at its beginning stage,and the earth was just forming

③The spectators will become alarmed in the fear that

man has somehow been left out.They have been watching the film for mouths but still they don’t

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see any signs of the man

④The civilization of human beings only occupies the last five or six minutes of the film,as compared to the long history of the earth,which runs the duration of a whole year

⑤They have cause a great damage to the earth by cutting down the burning the trees,depriving the soil of its protective cover.They have impoverished the land and created pollution.They have plundered its wealth 3、①This scientific fable is similar to other fables in two ways.First,the story is built upon the analogy of the evolvement of the universe as seen on the time-lapse film.Second,it has a moral,which is about men’s relation with the environment.The basis of the analogy is the fact that the universe formed over a long,long time.In order to illustrate the time it took for the universe to evolve and that since human civilization began,the writer compares the former to almost the whole year,i.e.365 days,and the later to five or six minutes ②It is very difficult to answer the question in a complete way.We are optimistic that humanity will last forever,since the development in science will help us

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solve all the problems we encounter.On the other hand,there are evidences that humans will incur great disaster or even the doom.One example may be the greenhouse effect on the earth.The other may be the supply of food or energy.Students may develop the ideas on their own 第二十四篇 1、A C D B D C

2、①此时大楼隆隆作响，摇晃不停，我开始清醒过来，拉住我的一名同事，迅速躲到一扇门后

②我打电话给家里的保姆，让他传呼我的妻子，告诉她说有一颗爆炸了，我还好，正在往外跑

③到了85楼，我和一名勇敢的同事折回到我们的办公室，想把那位留在里面的搭档拉出来

④从这一层开始，消防队员、，不带狗的WTC K-9人员，只要是带徽章的人，都往楼上走，而我们往下走

⑤不管怎样，现在我们知道，并不是爆炸，而且可能会有更多的飞机飞过来。我们明白过来

3、①When the first plane hit their building,l.e.the North Tower,they had no idea of what happened,They felt as if there were an earthquake.They suspected that a bomb had gone off somewhere.Then,as ceilings collapsed and smoke

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came in,they started to go downstairs to leave the building.Some even stayed in the office,waiting for rescue.They climbed downstairs in an orderly way ②Because they thought that the worst was over.None of them had expected the building to collapse in 20 minutes.But they also want to be calm,steady and act like a gentleman

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