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Students shouldn’t have Part-time Jobs E. A few years ago I was shopping with a friend and his 12-year-old daughter in downtown San Francisco. A street musician, whom my friend happened to know from his own musician day, was playing the saxophone on a street comer. His name was Clifford, and he had attracted a large crowd with his performance. After he finished, my friend introduced him to me and his daughter. Clifford asked her if she played any instrument. When she replied that she was taking trumpet(小号) lessons and played in her junior high school band(乐队), he said, "That's fine, little lady. Learn your instrument well and you can play anything." Somehow these simple yet wise words struck me as proper not only for a trumpet player but also for a reader. If you learn to read well, you can read anything you want---not just newspapers and magazines, but more difficult material like philosophy, film criticism, military history---whatever interests you as your confidence grows. You would not be limited(限制)in any way. If you have the vocabulary-or at least a good dictionary near at hand--you can pick up a book, concentrate on it, and made sense of the author's words. In the United States, reading instruction often ends at elementary school, so students sometimes have difficulty as they progress through school. They must take their assignments, armed only with their elementary school reading skills. The result, too often, is frustration and loss of confidante. And the assigned reading in your college courses will be even greater than they were in high school. Developing Reading Skills is designed to accomplish(完成) several tasks: to show you the skills that will enable you to read with greater comprehension, to help you cope with reading assignment with confidence, and to teach you to become an active reader. 16. The talk between the girl and Clifford serves as an introduction to _____. A. the importance of reading B. the connection (关联) between playing instruments and reading C. the necessity of learning to play an instrument D. the variety of reading materials 17. It can be inferred (推断)from the story that ______. A. Clifford was good at playing the saxophone B. the author's friend was once a street musician C. the 12-year-old girl played the trumpet very poorly D. Clifford was a good music teacher 18. We can infer from the last paragraph that Developing Reading Skills _______. A. is directed to elementary school students B. centers around vocabulary building skills C. aims (目的)at helping students read better D. offers elementary reading skills 19.. The underlined word "struck" in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______. A. impressed (留下印象) B. influenced C. proved D. awakened(觉醒) 20. With good reading skills, you can . A. understand anything you read without difficulty B. work out the author's meaning only if you concentrate on the book C. understand what you read with the help of a good dictionary D. concentrate on whatever you read 六、单句改错。(共10分，每小题1分) 1. He is always making a lot of noises. 2. You’ll regret to have said those words. 3. What a useful advice he has given me! 4. The young athlete came to the FINISH without realize that he had become the champion. 5. Sally is such a shy girl that she never joins her classmates’ conversations. 6. Have you ever tried to talk to your son like a friend? 7. He was used to take a walk after dinner, but now he is too busy for that. 8. The book is not worth being read. 9. She died to know what her boyfriend would buy for her birthday. 10. The question of whom first saw the continent of Antarctica is not solved yet. 七、句子翻译。(共10分，每小题2分) 1. 你没有必要为了你的长相而羞愧。 _____________________________________________________ 2. 那个小女孩偷偷把一只小兔子带到了学校里。 ___________________________________________________ 3. 在一些国家，把小孩子独自留在家里是违法的。 ____________________________________________________ 4. 他听从了他老师的建议，赢了那场比赛。 __________________________________________________________ 5. 在南京，每一个青少年都渴望得到一张音乐会的票。 __________________________________________________________ 八、书面表达。(15分)某教育电视台来你校了解课外活动(out-of-class activities)开展情况，请根据下面表格所提供的内容，用英语写一篇100词左右的短文。活动时间 4：50---5：50 p.m. 主要内容 1. 周一、周三：图书阅览;篮球、足球、其它体育项目。 2. 周二：看英语电影、听广播。 3. 周四：兴趣小组(interest group)：电脑、绘画、歌舞、制作。 4. 周五：英语角。你的建议 1. 增加课外活动时间。 2. 减少作业量 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 参考答案与提示一、1. 选C。fun是不可数名词。 2. 选A。keep fit是系表结构。Keep doing 是坚持一直做某事。Work out 是锻炼的意思。 3. 选A。step up sth 是加强加快的意思。Step into 踏入。Step on 是踩上踏上。 4. 选B。 先行词在定语从句中做宾语。 5. 选D。 must have done是肯定已经做了某事，这里没有具体的表示过去的时间，所以不用did来提问。 6. 选B。 provide sth for sb 为某人提供某物;supply sb with sth 把某物供应给某人;set out to do 开始做某事;turn in 是上交。 7. 选D。 前一个that是定语从句来修饰way的，后面一个that 是强调句句型中的。 8. 选A。 否定加上比较级有最高级的意思，这里的意思是“我非常赞成”。 9. 选C。had intended to do 本来打算做某事，实际上没做。 10. 选B。是两者所以不用none，同时这里是非限制性定语从句。 11. 选D。被保存的尸体所以用被动;为某人所知是be known to;作为是as。 12. 选C。settled 是已经解决，to be settled 是还没有解决的。根据句子的意思新总统将有一段艰难的时候，所以是还没有解决。 13. 选A。前面的consider是考虑做某事，后面加doing。后面的consider是认为的意思，consider to be。 14. 选C。现在完成进行时强调从过去到现在一直进行的动作;现在完成时，这里的含义是到现在还没有得出结论。 15. 选B。 have effect on 固定搭配。二、1. average 2. immediately 3. puzzled 4. qualified 5. survivors 6. recovery 7. including 8. properly 9. relaxed 10. recognizing 三、1. dropping 2. will be flying 3. included 4. has been raining 5. had been sent 四、1. 选C。 在后面的文章中有提到老师和家长为了孩子们的健康发展，应该严格控制他们，不准他们阅读一些有害身心的读物。 2. 选D。 有害读物是一种污染。 3. 选B。 下文提到有人在街上兜售这种读物。 4. 选C。 这些印刷物看起来像报纸。看起来像是look like。appear是“似乎”的意思。没有seem as的搭配。 5. 选B。 have something to do with 是“与什么有关”，这里是与报纸没有一点关系。 6. 选C。 前面是strange，所以是没有人相信。 7. 选D。 frightening story 是恐怖故事;puzzling story 是让人迷惑的故事。 8. 选B。 这种恐怖故事更加糟糕，影响青少年的成长。 9. 选A。 这种印刷读物是有害的，poisonous是有害的意思。 10. 选C。 这里是非限制性定语从句，which指代poisonous reading，主语是物的时候“花费”用cost。这句话的意思是“他们把本来应该去买早饭的钱去买了这些读物，反而给他们带来了恶梦和邪恶的想法。” 11. 选B。 ordinary 是普通的;valuable是有价值的，珍贵的;unpunished是免受惩罚的。根据文章的意思，应该是选邪恶的。 12. 选A。 根据上文的意思，青少年的时间都用在阅读有害的印刷品了，作业自然就没有时间做了。 13. 选C。 作者，出版者，印刷工，无论是谁。 14. 选B。 挣钱是make money。 15. 选B。 allow是允许;forbid是禁止;separate是分离;leave是离开。根据文章的意思应该是禁止。 16. 选D。 两者都用both。 17. 选C。 “不幸的是”，根据后面的句子可以判断出来。 18. 选C。 你越是想禁止，他们越是想看。 19. 选C。 “有时候”，不可能是“一直”。seldom 是“很少 ”，hardly是“几乎不”。 20. 选B。 有时候你甚至可以发现几个小孩子，由于好奇心的驱使，凑在一起看一张传阅了很多次的破烂的纸。五、1. 选B。 这是一道细节题，从第一段可以知道。Once a neighbor stole one of Washington's horses.Washington went with a police officer to the neighbor's farm to get the horse。。。 2. 选D。 这也是一道细节题，从第一段第二句话可以得知。but the neighbor refused to give the horse up;he claimed(声称)that it was his horse. 3. 选A。 这是一道推断题。从整个文章可以看出，华盛顿捂住马的双眼，邻居一开始说是右眼瞎了，但是结果错了，然后又改口说左眼瞎了，结果又错了。所以马的双眼根本就没有瞎。 4. 选A。 从这件事情可以反映出华盛顿是个非常聪敏睿智的人。 5. 选A。 这是一道细节题，从第一段第二句可以知道。The bus for London would not leave until five to twelve. 6. 选D。 这也是一道细节题，从第一段最后一句话可以得知。Tom looked around but there was nowhere for him to sit. 7. 选A。 这是一道推断题，十一点半在镜子中看是十二点半。 8. 选A。 从文章中可以找出答案。The next bus was not to leave for another hour. He has never liked mirror since then. 9. 选B。 这个是一道细节题目。从第二段可以看出。We bought it for him eighteen months ago for his birthday. 10. 选B。 这个是一道推断题。从第二段后半部分可以推断出来。“And do you think it's good for him?” was my question. “No, we don't. We worry about him,” said Mrs. Stokes. “He doesn't have any other interests now. And he hasn't done any work for school exams.” 11. 选C。 从最后一段可以知道。“I love computers,” he said, “I soon got tired of playing games though. I like writing programs much better… 12. 选C。 文章中有提示。第三段Even worse, I hadn’t enough time to join my classmates in the college(大学) activities. 13. 选D。 这个是一道细节题。The latest test result proved that my grades were getting worse. Even worse, I hadn’t enough time to join my classmates in the college(大学) activities. Sometimes I felt tired and unhappy because of both my study and my part-time job. 14. 选C。 从最后一段可以得出结论。Most students don’t consider(考虑) the relationship between study and work correctly. In my opinion, if it isn’t a must for money, students should be careful about doing part-time work. 15. 选B。 这篇文章作者的观点是大学生并不是一定要做兼职。兼职工作可能会使你失去另外的东西，例如成绩下降，没有时间参加学校的活动等等。所以应该仔细权衡之后再决定。 16. 选B。 由演奏乐器联想到阅读，两者之间有相似的地方。 17. 选A。 从第一段可以看出来。 His name was Clifford, and he had attracted a large crowd with his performance. 18. 选C。 培养阅读技巧并不是仅仅限于初中，也并不是只要词汇量大就可以提高阅读技能。 19. 选A。 strike的意思是“有强烈的感受，造成深刻的印象”，在这里与impress的意思最接近。 20. 选B。 根据第二段末尾可以得出结论。If you have the vocabulary-or at least a good dictionary near at hand--you can pick up a book, concentrate on it, and made sense of the author's words. 六、1. noises改成noise 2. to have改成having 3. 去掉a 4. realize 改成realizing 5. join 改成join in 6. to talk 改成talking 7. 去掉was 8. being read 改成 reading 9. died 改成was dying 10. whom改成who 七、1. You don’t have to be ashamed of your appearance. 2. The little girl brought a rabbit to school in secret. 3. In some countries, it is against the law to leave children on their own. 4. He followed his teacher’s advice and won the competition. 5. Every teenager in Nanjing is dying to get a ticket for the concert. 八、One possible version We usually have the out-of-class activities from 4:50 to 5:50. There are many kinds of activities. We can read books in the reading-room and play basketball, football and other games on Monday and Wednesday. On Tuesday some go to see an English film and others listen to the broadcast programs. We also have some interest groups. Many of us go to computer rooms on Thursday. Some like drawing, singing, dancing and making things. We have an English corner on Friday. We like talking in English there. We hope we can spend more time on such activities and less time on homework. (责任编辑：admin) |