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高一英语阅读理解训练
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Thomas was quite
mean. He had a younger brother called Sam and he
seldom shared his toys
with him.
“You
must
share,
Thomas,”
said
his
mother.
“One
day
you
will
want
somebody
to
share
something with you and
they won’t. Then you will be very upset.”
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“I will be fine, Mom,” Thomas replied.
“As long as I have my own toys, I will always be
fine.”
“Very well,” his mother
said. “It seems that you know best.”
One day Thomas’ mother decided to teach
him a lesson. At Christmas, she knew that both
boys
wanted the same video game. She
knew that if she bought it for Thomas, Sam would
never get to
play it. So she bought the
game for Sam.
When Christmas Day
arrived, both boys were patiently waiting for
their presents in front of the
fireplace. As Sam opened his present,
he was very excited. Thomas saw it was the game he
wanted
and smiled.
“Thank you so much, Mom!” Sam
said.
“There is just one thing,
Sam,” his mother said. “You cannot share this game
with your brother.”
Thomas
hardly believed his ears! “Why not, Mom?” he
asked
furiously
without much thought.
“Because you don’t
share any of your toys with Sam and it wouldn’t be
fair,” his mother replied.
“If you
share some of your toys with Sam, then I am sure
he will let you play his game.”
“OK,” Thomas said slowly, “that seems
fair.”
From that day on, the two
boys shared all their toys and games.
1. Which of the following can be put in
the blank
（空白）
?
A.
Thomas left the room angrily.
B.
Thomas asked some questions.
C.
Thomas thought for a moment.
D.
Thomas followed his mother’s advice.
smiled when he saw the video game
because ______.
A. he knew that
Sam wanted it a lot
B. he didn’t
want to make his mother angry
C.
he didn’t want to show that he was upset
D. he thought that he would be able to
play it
3. What does the
underlined word“furiously”mean?
A. angrily
B. politely
C. secretly
D. normally
word
best describes Thomas’ mother?
A. shy
B. brave
C. honest
D. wise
B
The
Boston
Marathon(
波士顿马拉松
)
is
one
of
the
world’s
oldest
and
most
famous
races.
Nearly
half
the
competitors(
竞争者
)
in
the
26.2
-
mile
race
are
women.
But
for
most
of
the
race’s
120
-
year history, only men were allowed to compete.
A
woman
named
Gibb
helped
change
that
in
1966.
That
year
she
took
part
in
the
Boston
Marathon and finished
ahead of most of the men.
Gibb
first saw and got to know the Boston Marathon in
1964. And she wanted to run the race
herself.
For
nearly
two
years,
Gibb
trained
hard
to
prepare
for
the
when
she
sent
in
an
application(
申请
) for the 1996 race, she wasrefused.
At the time, the longest official races
forwomen were only 1. 5 miles. Many people didn't
think
women were able to run longer
than that. But the
23
-
year
-
old Gibb refused to give up her
came up with a
plan to run the race April 19,she showed up at
the marathon. She woreher
brother's
shorts and a sweatshirt to disguise
(
隐瞒）
that she was a woman.
Gibb hid near the starting line. When
the race began, she jumped into the crowd. Shortly
into
the race, Gibb took off her
sweatshirt. To her surprise, the crowd cheered
when they realized she was
a woman.
Gibb finished the race in 3 hours and 21
minutes
----
faster than two thirds of the men.
In the years that
followed, she and other women ran in the Boston
Marathon, even though the
rules
still
stopped
women
from
running
in
the
race.
Finally,
in
1972,
the
marathon
was
officially
opened to
women.
for Gibb’s first Boston
Marathon, she finished _______.
A.
first
B. last
C. faster than most of the men
D. slower than most of the men
of
the following is TRUE according to the
text?
first saw the Boston
Marathon in 1996.
B. Gibb’s
brother took part in the Boston Marathon with
her.
C. Gibb spent about two
years training for her first marathon.
D. People were angry when they saw Gibb
in the marathon.
’s the text
mainly about?
A. The history of
the Boston Marathon.
B.
SomefamousBostonMarathonrunners.
to prepare for the Boston
Marathon.
D. The first woman to
run the Boston Marathon.
C
Throughout history
scientists have risked(
冒险
)their health and their lives in their search for the
truth.
Sir
Isaac
Newton,
the
seventeenth
century
scientist,
was
very
smart,
but
that
didn't
stop
him
from
doing
some
pretty
stupid
things.
In
his
laboratory
in
Cambridge
he
often
did
the
strangest
experiments. Once,
while testing how light passes through
lenses
(
晶状体
), he put a long needle into
his
eye, pushed it to
the back, and then moved it
around just to
see what
would happen.
Luckily,
nothing
long
-
lasting
did.
On
another
time
he
stared
at
the
sun
for
as
long
as
he
could
bear,
to
discover
what
effect
this
would
have
on
his
sight.
Again
he
escaped
suffering
permanent
damage,
though he had to spend
some days in a darkened room before his eyes
recovered.
In the 1750s the
Swedish chemist Karl Scheele was the first person
to find a way to produce
phosphorus
(
磷
).
He
in
fact
discovered
eight
more
chemical
elements(
元素
)
including
chlorine
(
氯
),though he didn't get any praise for them. He was a very clever scientist, but his one failing was a
curious habit of tasting a little of
every substance he worked with. This risky
practice finally caught
up with him,
and in 1786 he was found dead in his laboratory
surrounded(
包围
) by a large number of
dangerous chemicals, any of which might
have caused his death.
Eugene
Shoemaker was a respected geologist .He spent a
large part of his life studying craters
(
火山口
) on the moon, and how they were formed and later did research into the comets(
彗星
) of the
planet Jupiter. In1997 he and his wife
were in the Australian desert where they went
every year to
search
for
places
where
comets
might
have
hit
the
earth.
While
driving
in
the
Tanami
desert,
normally one of the emptiest places in
the world, another car crashed into them and
Shoemaker was
killed
on
the
spot(
当场
).
Some
of
his
ashes
(
骨灰
)
were
sent
to
the
moon
aboard
the
Lunar
Prospector
spacecraft and left there
-----
he is the only person who has had this honor.
does the
underlined word “permanent” in Paragraph 2
mean?
A. Short
B. Slight.
C. Lasting.
D. Common.
did Karl Scheele like doing when
performing experiments?
A.
Tasting chemicals.
B. Staying in
the empty lab.
C. Experimenting
in darkness.
D. Working together
with others.
special honor was
Shoemaker given after his death?
A. He was buried in the Tanami
desert.
B. Some of his ashes
were placed on the moon.
C. One
comet of Jupiter was named after him.
D. A spacecraft carrying him traveled
around Jupiter.