1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家江西龙泉高中2011届高三考前英语阅读日日练（二）Passage 1If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm. Young people do not have to go to school. They can do many activities outside, like playi
2、ng sports and swimming at the beach or the pool. They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights. People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer. These are some of our favorites.One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwins opera “Porgy and Bess
3、”. He wrote the music in nineteen thirty-five. The opera takes place in the southern United States. It opens with these words: “Summertime and the livin is easy. Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high.” Leontyne Price sings the song.The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenager
4、s enjoying their summer vacation from school. The songs are about having fun, swimming in the ocean, driving in cars. However, for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games. Some of them had to work to earn money.1. Why do most Americans like summer?A. The weather is warm. B. People
5、do not have to go to schools.C. Sunny days and warm nights. D. Both A and C.2. Why did people write and record so many songs about summer?A. Summer is warm. B. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm.C. They can do many activities outside. D. They like summer.3. What is NOT true about “P
6、orgy and Bess”?A. “Porgy and Bess” is an opera. B. “Porgy and Bess” appeared in 1935.C. “Porgy and Bess” was written by Leontyne Price. D. “Porgy and Bess” is about summer.4. Which of following statements is NOT true?A. There are 1950 or 1960 songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from
7、 school.B. Many songs are about teenagers having fun in summer.C. Teenagers have not only fun and games but other things in summer.D. Some teenagers have to work to earn money in summer5. Please choose an appropriate title for the passage.A. Summer. B. Children in Summer.C. Summer and Children. D. S
8、ongs about Summer.Key: DDCBAPassage 2Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. The servants were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky. By 3 oclo
9、ck on the Sunday morning, the glow had become so bright that one of the servants, Jane, woke her master to see it. Pepys went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked as though the fire was dying down, though
10、he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything.While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard that the fire was a bad one: three hundred houses had been burned down in the nigh
11、t and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burnin
12、g. Someone told him that the fire had started in a bakers house in Pudding Lane, and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corn
13、er.1. The servants were up very late because _.A. they were chatting B. they were having a partyC. they were preparing for a dinner D. they were watching a fire2. Pepys went back to bed because _.A. he was not interested in chatting about a fire B. he did not think the fire was anything specialC. th
14、e fire was far away D. the fire had died down3. When Pepys was tidying his room and things, Jane came in and told him that _.A. the fire was dying down B. the fire had been put outC. the fire was a bad one D. no flame could be seen4. The fire started _.A. on London Bridge B. in a bakers houseC. beca
15、use the lane was too narrow to allow people to come to helpD. because people could not get enough water to put it out5. Pie Corner was _.A. the site of the Tower of London B. the site of the Great Fire of LondonC. the place where the fire ended D. the place where Pepys livedKey: CCCBCPassage 3Langua
16、ge is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the languages do not change either. The earliest known language had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary（词汇）. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the Engli
17、sh and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.There are seve
18、ral major（主要的）language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divided them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3% of the people in the world speak lang
19、uages that are not in these major families.1. The early language had _.A. a lot of problems B. many words and easy grammarC. words but no grammar D. difficult grammar but not many words2. In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _.A. stay exactly the same B. change a great dealC. chan
20、ge only a little D. add more words and drop some grammar3. This article shows that _.A. language changes fast B. language changes with changes in societyC. language really doesnt need changing D. only Spanish and English have changed4. From this article we can know that _.A. language can change very
21、 slowly or very quickly B. language will become easier and easierC. we should give our plants new namesD. English and Spanish are the only languages that have changed5. The first English and Spanish people arrived in America more than _ years ago.A. 200-300 B. 600-700 C. 1600-1700 D. 300-400Key: DBB
22、ADPassage 4An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that he had nothing left, when that happened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man a
23、nd often helped people when they had troubles.“My money has finished and my friends have gone,” said the young man. “What will happen to me now?”“Dont worry, young man,” answered Nasreddin. “Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier.”The young man was very gl
24、ad. “Am I going to get rich again then?”“No, I dont mean that,” said the old man. “ I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and having no friends.”1. An old man died and left his son _. A. nothing B. some gold C. much money D. only a house2. When the son was _, he went to see Nasreddin. A
25、. short of money B. quite poor and sickC. in trouble D. quite poor and alone3. The young man was very glad because Narseddin said that _. A. he would become rich again B. he would soon feel much happierC. he would become clever D. he would have more friends4. Nasreddin meant the young man _. A. woul
26、d get rich again B. would get used to having nothingC. would get used to being in trouble D. would get out of poorness5. What this story tells us is _. A. that money is everything B. that money makes the mare goC. to save each penny D. that misfortune tests the sincerity of friendsKey: CDBBC高考资源网版权所有，侵权必究！
