第16讲考试题型专讲专练四：阅读理解(3)(一)

1、 欢迎阅读本文档，希望本文档能对您有所帮助！ 欢迎阅读本文档，希望本文档能对您有所帮助！ 感谢阅读本文档，希望本文档能对您有所帮助！ 感谢阅读本文档，希望本文档能对您有所帮助！ 欢迎阅读本文档，希望本文档能对您有所帮助！ 感谢阅读本文档，希望本文档能对您有所帮助！第四篇This is not a diet (减肥食谱) or a hard exercise program. Nobody can stick to those for long. Instead, its a simple way to make weight loss a natural part of the life yo

2、u already live. And guess what? Its fun! You dont have to give up the foods you love or do regular exercises. Its about balancing calories(平衡卡路里) in tiny ways that add up to big benefits (好处). You just use some tricks the naturally thin people do. Pick the ones you like, stick with them, and youll l

3、ose weight and be strong!Talk it UP. Every time you pick up the phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and h half hours more every day than thin people, according to a study.Get face time. We use e-mail so much that weve forgotten what our colleagues look like. Pick a colle

4、ague or two who sit farthest from you: and deliver 10 of those daily messages in person. And go out of your way: go to a bathroom or a copy machine on another floor and take the stairs, of course.Think about your drink. Consider beer or wine instead of a frozen drink. A glass of regular beer has 140

5、 calories and a serving of wine has 126 calories, while a strawberry daiquiri has about 300 and a margarita 340. Reduce a total of 100 calories each day and youll be able to lose about 10 pounds in a year. This is really not difficult to do.4. What is mainly talked about in the passage?A. How to do

6、exercises daily.B. How to lose weight easily.C. How to work comfortably.D: How to eat and drink regularly.答案：B解析：了解文章的结构和主题，再对四个选项进行排除。第五篇Among the few scientists who have had a great effect on science and history, Albert Einstein is perhaps the greatest. An American university president once commen

7、ted that Einstein had created a new view of the universe. His theory has completely changed the way scientists understand time and space, Now, more and more people agree that the universe is something complicated than what they have ever thought before.Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. By 1914,

8、young Einstein, internationally famous, became a professor at an institute in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited opportunities for study. However, his peaceful life was soon broken by the First World War.Einstein hated violence. He was deeply affected by the war; he sat unhappi

9、ly in his office doing little and lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.In the years following the First World War, people showered honors upon him. He became the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Nob

10、el Prize for Physics and was greatly honored and respected in Germany. However, his life was again disrupted. The Second World War broke out and Einstein had to move to the US, where he lived until his death in 1955.5. The first paragraph is mainly about _.A. the secret of the universe B. Einsteins

11、great influence C. an American college president D. the difficulty of Einsteins theory 答案：B解析：找出关键词，用排除法和逻辑推理。4. 词意判断题专讲专练：第一篇In 2000, with little but a bar and a church left to make it a destination, tiny St. James, Nebraska, was taken off state highway maps. Then the church closed, and the small f

12、arm village in the states northeast corner looked set to just disappear. Thanks to five devoted women, it didnt.In May 2001, after meeting with staff from the Center for Rural Affairs, the friends-Louise Guy, Vicky Koch, Jeanette Pinkelman, Mary Rose Pinkelman and Violet Pinkelman-opened a weekend m

13、arket for vendors (小商贩) to sell handcrafts and local food.We felt like, what can we do to bring the community together? says Mary Rose Pinkelman. We decided to make a place to sell local goods.” They set up shop in the church school, which, though closed for nearly 40 years, had been well maintained

14、. The first weekend, 16 vendors took over an old classroom. The result was an instant hit. Today, the market draws up t0 70 vendors-who sell such items as homemade jellies, baked goods, hand-woven rugs, and farm-grown produce-and what Pinkelman calls an unexpected number of visitors. In the process,

15、 the market has made St. James a destination again, putting it back on the state road map.1. What does the underlined phrase an instant hit (Paragraph 3) mean?A. A fast blow. B. A sudden beat.C. A big strike. D. A quick success.答案：D解析：在文章中找出词组出现的部分，通过和对上下文进行逻辑推理和使用排除法得出答案。第二篇Joseph Lemasolai wrote a

16、 book about his life. His people, The Maasai, are nomads, meaning they do not stay in one place for long. They move their villages in search of good grass and fresh water for their cattle. 39“The cow is the centerpiece of pretty much everything we do,” Joseph explains. “Thats why we move. We could n

17、ot be nomads without cattle. You cant move for nothing- you cant just walk around!”When he was very young, 40Joseph spent much of his time looking after his familys cattle, taking them to food and water and watching out for lions. He played on the grassland with his friends.When Joseph was about six

18、 years old, he left his family to attend a boarding school. There, Joseph faced difficulties much like other children do. He was laughed at because he was fat. He got into trouble daily with his teachers.But Joseph also faced difficulty most children do not. 41“Every time school closed for vacation,

19、 I had to find my way home,” Joseph says. “That was ones of the hardest things: The village might be 5 miles away, or it might be 50. Sometimes I wouldnt know exactly where my family was. I had to search for them.”Joseph later attended high school in a city. After graduation, he went to college. Fin

20、ally, he became a social studies teacher, and now he is teaching seventh graders at a school.Every summer, Joseph travels back to the grassland to visit his mother, brothers, and friends. 42And he takes a group of students with him to see both the beauty and the difficulty of growing up in the part

21、of the country. “ I like to show them the other side of the coin,” Joseph says. 2. The word “centerpiece” in Paragraph 1 means “_”.A. the reason of movingB. the things already doneC. the most important part D. the animal in the middle 答案：C解析：了解文章的主题，在相应的段落中用对词法和逻辑推理，再对四个选项进行排除。第三篇By the time she got

22、 the box open, Nancy was so excited that she could hardly contain herself. Eagerly she removed the cotton surrounding the small object inside the box, and held it up to the light. It glittered and sparkled- made alive by the bright sunlight pouring through the window. Nancy turned the object slowly

23、in her hands, first this way and then that way. It continued to sparkle and shine as if it had a light of its own. She cried out in delight. Her diamond engagement ring had been found and returned to her, just as the woman on the phone had promised. For two weeks, Nancy almost collapsed after losing

24、 the ring on the subway. She had placed ads in the newspapers and on the radio, offering a reward for the return of the ring. And, she had almost given up hope when the phone call came.A kind, elderly female voice informed her that she had found the ring between seat cushions. She had called, she sa

25、id, to make sure of the e exact address and had promised to return the ring by insured mail the next day. And then she had added sweetly: “Theres no need to send a reward either. I lost my engagement ring once when I was young, and some kind, unknown person returned it to me the next day. I feel Im

26、only paying back an old debt of thanks.”Nancy had thanked the finder profusely and asked her name, but the other woman had said that it wasnt important. And, now, here was the ring once again in her hand. She put it back on her finger and breathed a huge sigh of relief.3. The word “object” in the fi

27、rst and second paragraphs refers to the _ A. box B. ring C. cotton D. sunlight 答案：B解析：在相应的段落中用对词法和逻辑推理。第四篇Nancy Bright and her husband John had been working overtime and saving for a long time so that they could pay the advance for Nancys dream house. Today was the day that they had enough money in

28、hand to make a down payment on the house. But the real estate （房地产） agent informed them that she had received another offer for the house. Although the other offer was slightly less than that of Nancy and Johns, that person with the new offer was willing to pay the whole amount at once .The owner, i

29、n urgent need of money, wanted to accept the second offer.Nancy and John looked at each other with disappointed looks. They walked back home feeling very low about having lost the house. Soon they recovered and involved themselves into their daily lives, though once in a while Nancy would sink into

30、a mild depression over losing the house.One day Nancy woke up in the morning feeling even lower than usual. She kept feeling sick, even lost interest in her routine coffee. She pull all these symptoms down to the stress of working hard and losing her dream house. A week passed and she seemed to get

31、worse. John was worried and insisted on taking her to the doctor. The doctor, after taking a few tests, informed them with a huge smile that Nancy was two months pregnant! John and Nancy were overjoyed but also worried about not having their own house before the baby was born.One evening Nancy wande

32、red into the street where her dream house was, and as she passed by it, she was surprised to see that there were notices stuck on all the house. On closer examination she found that the notices were for all the residents to move out of the house as they were building a highway and the whole row of t

33、he houses needed to be pulled down. Nancy suddenly realized that not getting her dream house had been a blessing in disguise. She thanked God and decided to be happy with the blessings she had and started looking forward to the birth of her child.4. What does the phrase “a blessing in disguise” in t

34、he last paragraph mean?A good luckA dirty trickA secret wishA false alarm答案：A解析：找出文章的核心，再看结尾段，用排除法对四个选项进行排除。第五篇Advice on Public speakingBuilding confidence （信心）Faith in yourself, you topic and your healthy mind is a must if you are to be a better public speaker. Many speakers are not prepared and lo

35、se confidence because of that. But others lack confidence because they are afraid of being judged-and possibly made fun of -just like they were in high school speech class. Build your confidence by using all your tools and knowing that you are excellent.Knowing whats upYou have to know your topic inside and out. Nothing kills your speech like “um” and “uh” in ever y sentence. Research your subject to the point where you are an expert. And thats half the battle.PracticingResearching and knowing your topic is one thing, b