英语阅读（1）复习提要

责任教师聂光华

《英语阅读》（1）是四川广播电视中等专业学校2003级英语专业开设的必修课，所用教材为《高中英语阅读》第1册。为帮助同学们更好地进行期末复习，现将复习要点及考试题型说明如下,并附上一份综合测试题。

一、复习要点

1，词汇

telegraph， operator， experiment， invent， instrument， message， reach， a galaxy，

rush， an astronomer， crocodile， grab， drag， vehicle， camp， thigh， mow， craft，orphanage， the aged， lawn， museum， club， organization， as a result， at the end of，grow up， look after， for the first time， stand for， reflect， desert， crater， object， spaceship， planet， phonograph， invention， favorite， honor， contribute， elect，celebrate， birthday， slavery， candy， entire， serve， president， program， mayor，meteorologist， predict， balloon， weather satellite， figure， international， obtain，problem， wash， symbol， stream， melt， bark， powder， due to， destruction， chimney，exhaust， fume， decorate， cure， protect， rat， vessel， shipwreck， plant， crop，

engine， float， petrol， passenger， skillful， steer， plain clothes， arrest，a uniform， escape，explain， a traffic， energy， calcium， body cells， vitamin C， scurvy，protein， usually， even， right， certain， low-lying， cargo， breed， knitwear

2，课文

1） EDISON’S FIRST INVENTION

2） YOUNG GIRL SAVES MAN

3） VOLUNTEERS

4） THE MOON

5） THE SEA

6） FEBRUARY

7） DONATING BLOOD

8） WEATHER MAPS

9） LEPHANT

10）THE CAR IN AMERICA

11）THE SILENT LAKE

12）FLYING TODAY

13）QUICK THINKING

14) CLARENCE NASH AND DONALD DUCK

15）POLITE BEHAVIOUR

16）WE ARE MORE THAN SEVENTY PER CENT WATER

17）THE ORKNEY ISLAND

二、考试题型

1，词义选择 2，词义搭配

3，正误判断题 4，选择题

三、综合测试题

A thirteen-year-old girl saved a man from a 3.6 metre long crocodile at Channel Point， 198 kilometres south-west of Darwins last Friday . The man, Mr Hilton Graham，23，was standing in shallow water near his boat when the crocodile attacked. It grabbed his arm and started to drag him into deeper water. The young girl，Peta-Lynn Mann，rushed to help Mr Graham when she heard his cries for help. She pulled Mr Graham free but while they were heading for the shore the crocodile attacked again. It bit Mr Graham's right thigh and cut it badly. Peta-Lynn dragged the badly injured Mr Graham up the bank to safety. They got in their jeep and Peta-Lynn drove to their camp. There she bandaged Mr Graham's wounds and radioed for help. The people who came in the rescue vehicle took Mr Graham to hospital. Mr Graham is now in Casuarina Hospital in Darwin. He has a broken left arm and his right thigh is badly cut. Doctors say that he is in a satisfactory condition.

1 . Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false :

l) Darwin is a city in Australia.

2) The full name of the man who was attacked is Peter Graham.

3) The man is younger than the girl.

4) The crocodile is 3.6 metres long.

5) The man was swimming in the river when the crocodile first attacked.

6) The girl did not dare to help the man at first.

7) The crocodile attacked twice.

8) The girl took the man to the hospital in a jeep.

9) The man is now in a satisfactory condition.

1O) The girl saved the man's life.

Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.

Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.

Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.

Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

l . Choose the best answer to each question:

l ) Where can you often find volunteers in the United States?

A. At a bus-stop.

B. In a park.

C. In a hospital.

D, In a shop.

2) How do volunteers usually help those who are sick or old?

A: They mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their houses.

B: They cook, sew or wash their clothes.

C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.

D. They clean, wax and repair their cars.

3) What is Big Brothers?

A. It's the name of a club.

B. It' s a home for children who have no brothers.

C. It's the name of a film.

D. It' s an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.

4) Why do most of the boys' and girls' clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers?

A. Because they have a lot of free time.

B. Because they can remember the problems of younger boys and girls.

C. Because they know how to do the work.

D. Because they like the work.

5 ) What do volunteers believe?

A. In order to make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.

B. The happiest people in the world are those who make themselves happy.

C. The happiest people in the world are those who are young and healthy.

D. Bringing happiness to others makes them the happiest people in the world.

2. Match each word in Column I with a phrase in Column II :

I II

l) mow A. a home for children without parents

2) craft B. to cut grass

3) orphanage C. the art of making things by hand

4) the aged D. a place where you can play games or learn crafts

5) lawn E. a building where things are shown to the public

6) museum F. an area of grass

7) club G. old people

8) organization H. a group of people for a special purpose

III

Although February is a very cold month in many parts of the United States, many nice things happen during February. It is the month when Americans celebrate the birthdays of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Alva Edison. Washington, for whom the capital was named, was the first president of the United States. Lincoln, who was also a president, is especially remembered for ending slavery in 1862.

Thomas Edison is the most honored American inventor. He invented the electric light, the phonographs and the moving picture-- three of the most important inventions of the modern world.

St. Valentine's Day also comes in February. It is the day when young people give valentine cards or candy to their favorite boyfriends or girlfriends. Valentines often have the shape of a red heart and are a nice way to say, "I love you. "

The entire month of February has been named "Black History Month". Cities, schools and clubs often plan programs to honor the black men and women who have contributed so much to Ameri0can culture. Los Angeles, Washington and Cleveland are some of the big cities that have elected black mayors. These Black Americans have come far since the days of slavery.

1 . Choose the best answer to each question:

l) Who was the first president of the United States?

A. Thomas Alva Edison.

B. George Washington.

C. Abraham Lincoln.

D. Benjamin Franklin.

2) What did Edison invent?

A. The electric light.

B. The computer.

C. The TV.

D. The radio.

3) What kind of shape do valentines often have?

A. A red face.

B. A red heart.

C. A red shape.

D. A round heart.

4) What kind of people do cities, schools and clubs often plan programs to honor?

A. The black men and women who have done a lot for American culture.

B. The black men who have been mayors.

C. The black American writers.

D. The black Americans who have come far since the days of slavery.

5) How many years ago did black people in the United States become free?

A. A hundred years ago.

B. Less than a hundred years ago.

C. More than a hundred years ago.

D. Two hundred years ago.

2. Match each word in Column I with a word or phrase in Column II:

I II

l) celebrate A. the slave system

2) birthday B. a sweet sugary food

3) slavery C. the day on which someone was born

4) candy D. whole

5) entire E. work for

6) serve F. a plan of things to be done

7) president G. head of a city

8) program H. head of a government

9) mayor I. do something to show that a day is important

Have you ever seen an aeroplane like the one in this picture? It was the first aeroplane to have flown successfully. It was made by two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright. It does not look like a modern aeroplane, does it? Can you see what the biggest difference is? Can you see any other differences ?

The Wright brothers were skillful young men. They first used their skill to make a glider. A glider is an aeroplane without an engine. A glider floats on the air like a kite. A man can sit in a glider and steer it, but it cannot stay in the air very long. It has no engine.

In those days motor cars had petrol engines but they were heavy. The Wright brothers made a very small and light engine. They put it in their glider. Then one of them sat in the aeroplane and started the engine. Some men held the wings until the engine was going very fast. Then they let go. The aeroplane ran quickly along on the ground. Then, at last, it rose a few feet into the air. A man had really flown for the first time! This happened on the 17th of December, 1903.

Soon the whole world heard about the Wright brothers' success. They became famous. Other people also made aeroplanes. They became bigger and better. Today great aeroplanes carrying hundreds of people fly at great speed all over the world. But it all started with the brave and skillful Wright brothers.

Planes carry cargo as well as passengers and this has to be looked after. Cargo means things carried from one place to another by a ship or an aeroplane. For examples we can send letters or parcels to another country by air. This is called airmail . Airmail is one kind of cargo that is carried by aeroplanes.

Perhaps one day you will go to an airport and watch the aeroplanes arriving and leaving. When you see them, remember the Wright brothers!

1 . Read the text again and decide whether these statements are true or false.

l) The Wright brothers' aeroplane looks like a modern aeroplane.

2) They made a glider before they made an aeroplane.

3) A glider has a very small engine.

4) The Wright brothers were both old men when they made their first aeroplane.

5) They invented the petrol engine.

6) Their aeroplane did not fly very high the first time.

7) No one heard about the Wright brothers and their aeroplane.

8) They were brave and skillful men.

9) Ships and aeroplanes both carry cargo.

An old porter (搬运工人) had worked for the railway for a very long time. One morning he was standing in one of the big railway stations and waiting for travellers (旅客) to ask him to help them with their luggage (行李), when he saw a small man running towards the trains with a big bag in his hand.

The porter watched the man for a few seconds, and then the man saw the porter.At once the small man ran up to the porter and said, "Can I catch(赶上) the 10:35 train to London, porter? " He was breathing (喘息)very fast, and he seemed worried.

The old porter looked at him for a moment and then said with a smile, " Well, sir, I'd like to help you, but I can't answer your question because I don't know how fast you can run along rails. You see, " he explained, " the 10:35 train to London left five minutes ago. "

1. The old porter's job was ____.

A. to stand in the railway station

B. to answer the travellers' question

C. to help the travellers carry their luggage

D. to ask the travellers to help him

2. One morning a small man ____.

A. was waiting for the porter to help him

B. was running along rails

C. was waiting for the train to London

D. was in a hurry to catch the 10:35 train to London

3. The small man looked worried because ____.

A. he couldn't run so fast as the train

B. he wondered if he could catch the 10:35 train to London

C. the porter watched him for a few seconds

D. he lost his bag

4. At the end of the story, the porter ____.

A. told the small man there was no 10:35 train to London

B. told the small man when he could catch the train

C. helped the small man to catch the train

D. played a joke on(开某人的玩笑) the small man

5. When the porter told the man the train had left, the time was ____.

A. 10:40 B. 10:35 C. 10:30 D. 10:45

Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around the edge of this huge dry part are large sheep and cattle farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. Often the nearest neighbours are many hundred miles away.

The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a telephone. A person can listen to someone else's talk and then give an answer.

When these radios first came into use, the Australian government set up a special two-way radio programme. Then, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor hundreds of miles away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was sick, and the doctor could let them know how to care for the sick person.

Since the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were set up for them in some areas. At a certain time each day, the boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities miles away.

Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbours. "Round robin(知更鸟)" talks by radio were started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was going away or who was sick or who was getting married. The men could talk about their sheep and cattle and how much money the market would pay for them.

In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.

1. This passage tells us something about ____.

A. how large Australia is

B. why the radio is important in Australia

C. how the radio is used in Australia

D. both B and C

2. The two-way radio is something like a telephone because ____.

A. the radio has two telephones

B. you can talk to and listen to someone by radio

C. the boys and girls can listen to teachers miles away by radio

D. people can talk to a doctor hundreds of miles away by radio

3. The children on the large farms ____.

A. could go to school

B. could talk to and listen to teachers in schools

C. could listen to teachers by radio at a certain time each day

D. could talk to and listen to teachers by radio at any time

4. Families on the large farms kept in touch with each other by ____.

A. radio

B. a newspaper

C. a bird

D. both B and C

VII

Mr Perkin stood at the bus-stop and watched the cars go by. Many of the cars were new Beta400s, and most of them were yellow. Mr Perkin always wore the same clothes as other men, ate the same food as other people, and did the same thing after work, and at the end of the week. Mr Perkin did not like to be different.

The following week, Mr Perkin bought a new, bright yellow Beta400.He was very pleased with it, and drove to work in it the very next day. He was even more pleased with his new car, when he saw all the other Beta400s,in front, behind, and on both sides of him. Mr Perkin parked his car in a big car-park near his office, and walked the rest of the way. But when he came back at five o'clock there were so many bright yellow Beta400s in the car-park, that Mr Perkin did not know which car was his.He tried his key in some of the cars,but people passing by gave him a look he did not like. So he stopped.

Poor Mr Perkin had to wait nearly two hours until his was the only yellow Beta400 in the car-park.

1.Mr Perkin wanted a new yellow Beta 400 because ___________.

A.the bus did not come

B.he liked new clothes, food and cars

C.he liked to do the same as other people

D.he liked to be different from others

2.He drove to work in his new car _______.

A.the day after he bought it B.a week after he bought it

C.a week after he bought it D.on the day he first watched the car passing

3.He was pleased with his new car ,because___________.

A.no-one else had a yellow one B.it was the same as cars all around him

C.he was in front of all the other cars

D.other cars were not as bright as his

4.At five o'clock, Mr. Perkin_____.

A .walked home B. drove his car out of the car-park

C. came back to the car-park D. did not know which was his car-park

5.People gave him a look in the car-park, because ______________.

A. he had a nice new car B. he could not open the door of his car

C. he was in the wrong car-park D. he was trying to open more than one car

VIII

FOR SALE-- A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY

Foulsham House is a fine, stone house of the 1790s.It stands high above the River Byre, in twenty-five hectares of the best farmland in the Southwest. Smithson built the house, and the story goes that George, the young Prince of Wales, well in love with the beautiful Lady Kitty Wake, at one of the first Lord Foulsham's wild parties. Many great men have ridden on the hills about Foulsham House, and many fine ladies have

taken tea in the Green Room.

The house has eight bedrooms, three bathrooms, two living rooms and a dining-room with a real Adam fireplace. The gentleman's library has a view over the park and the river that is quite without equal. All rooms are light and airy, with good, high windows, and wood floors.

At the back of the house, in buildings in which the third Lord Foulsham kept the horses which made him famous, there is garage-space for four cars. In many other ways, this house of the 1790s meets the needs of the 1970s.

If you wish to know more about Foulsham House, write to:

Harvey, Platt, Longford & Sons,

6, Castle Green, Gilham, Byreside.

1.Foulsham House _____________.

A. is an old farm-house

B. stands 25.hectares high above the River Byre

C. is an old, stone house, standing in very fine farmland

D. is twenty-five years old, and is of fine stone

2.People say that ______________.

A. Smithson built the house for Lord Foulsham's wild parties

B. Prince George fell in love with Kitty Wake at Foulsham House

C. Prince George and Kitty Wake fell in love with the Green Room

D. Lord Foulsham fell in love with a lady in Wales

3.The library ____________.

A. has a fine view of the park and the river

B. is where great men and fine ladies took tea

C. has an Adam fire-place, and a real wood floor

D. has eight bedrooms, three bath rooms and two living-rooms

4, All the rooms in the house____.

A. have a view over the park and the river

B. are light, have good windows and wood floors

C. have high floors and good wood windows

D. are high, and have fire-places and light floors

5.At the back of the house _____.

A. the third Lord Foulsham built a famous garage

B. the third Lord Foulsham kept four famous cars

C. there are now cars where once there were only buildings

D. there is space for cars where once there were horses