【正文】 t they? ____. A. No, they aren39。s boy B. pond ... the old man39。t like doing any work. He had to go to school of course, but he didn39。s face D. a man without a beard stole the painting 4. The second officer says that ____. A. Mr Hill stole the painting B. a man with a beard, from France, stole a painting in English C. an Englishman took his beard off and stole a painting D. a man with a beard, from England, stole a painting in Paris 5. Mr Hill taught ____. A. Jack Smith French at the No. 2 High School B. Jack Smith to be a first officer C. at the High School, in France D. French some years ago and his name was Smith, not Hill （五） A long time ago people thought that the sun went round the earth. In some countries people even said that the sun was a god(神 ). They thought the god drove across the sky each day on a golden horse. Now we know the earth goes round the sun. It takes the earth a year to go all way round the sun. Today men even know how far it is for the earth to go round the sun. They tell us that the earth travels over a thousand miles a minute on its journey round the sun. The sun is really a star. It is much bigger than the earth and it is very hot. Some people have been to the moon but we know that no one can ever go to the sun. It is far too hot for people to live anywhere near it. The sun is three hundred thousand times heavier than the earth and more than million times larger. 1. A long time ago, people said the sun was ____. A. a golden horse of god B. a god on a golden horse C. a god with golden dress D. a god and a golden horse 2. The earth travels over ____ miles an hour. A. 1,000 B. 100,000 C. 6,000,000 D. 600,000 3. One year is ____ A. the time for the earth to turn round. B. the time the earth travels one thousand miles. C. one circle the earth goes round the sun. D. the journey of the earth. （六） The Farmer, His Horse, and His son Once there was an old farmer, with a horse which was almost as old as himself. He set out one morning with his son to sell the horse before it died. Father and son walked, because the farmer did not want the horse to be too tired. They met two men on the road who said, “Why are you walking, farmer? You have a horse, It39。t like. So he stopped. Poor Mr Perkin had to wait nearly two hours until his was the only yellow Beta 400s in the carpark. 1. Mr Perkin wanted a new yellow Beta 400s because _________________________ A. the bus did not e. 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 very next day. B. the day he bought it. C. a week he bought in. D. on the day he first watched the cars passing. 3. He was satisfied with his new car because________________________ A. no one else had a yellow one. B. it was the same as other 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 o39。s hair looked the worst and then go straight to him. Why? A. Because he was certainly the best barber. B. Because he was free all the time. C. Because he was the worst barber. D. Because he wasn39。s shop in this town C. Jack often went to this barber39。t,” answered Bob. “Who cut that man39。s Shop(理發(fā)店 ) Jack went to a barber39。這是最后一點(diǎn)也是最重要的一點(diǎn)。提高自己的注意力不是說(shuō)出來(lái)的，而是練出來(lái)的，一定要 在平時(shí)自己做閱讀練習(xí)的時(shí)候嚴(yán)格要求自己。每天有空時(shí)，就拿出這小本子背誦記憶，這樣做不費(fèi)時(shí)，效果卻很好，因不時(shí)接觸，反復(fù)記憶，詞匯量增加得很快。因?yàn)槲恼碌念}目就是文章的主題，文章的內(nèi)容就是環(huán)繞主題展開(kāi)。 快速閱讀文章如同看樹(shù)林一樣，人站在樹(shù)林前不能把眼睛光看著一棵樹(shù)，甚至只盯著樹(shù)上的葉子，一張 一張地看，看到最后，還是一張一張葉子，葉子固然要看，但整棵樹(shù)也要看，整片森林更要看，我們必須迅速把視野擴(kuò)大，這樣才能對(duì)森林全貌有所了解。 （三）、選一本與你教科書(shū)程度相近或略難的帶有英語(yǔ)練習(xí)的英語(yǔ)書(shū)。 隨著近年來(lái)中高考英語(yǔ)試題難度和閱讀量的不斷增加，思維能力的局限越來(lái)越成為阻礙學(xué)生提高英語(yǔ)考試成績(jī)的一大障礙。因此，提高英語(yǔ)閱讀能力在英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)中常起著至關(guān)重要的作用。 盡管中學(xué)英語(yǔ)教學(xué)歷來(lái)重視培養(yǎng)學(xué)生的閱讀能力，但由于傳統(tǒng)的英語(yǔ)課堂教學(xué)過(guò)多地承擔(dān)了詞匯、語(yǔ)法等語(yǔ)言基礎(chǔ)知識(shí)的教學(xué)任務(wù)，英 語(yǔ)教師常把大量的時(shí)間、精力用于知識(shí)點(diǎn)的傳授、復(fù)習(xí)、掌握和操練上，專門(mén)的閱讀訓(xùn)練，尤其是以語(yǔ)篇能力、思維能力和閱讀技巧為核心的閱讀能力訓(xùn)練不足，導(dǎo)致學(xué)生的閱讀能力并沒(méi)有得到實(shí)質(zhì)性的提高。如近年來(lái)完形填空題的考 核已經(jīng)不再以語(yǔ)法知識(shí)為主，而是重點(diǎn)考查學(xué)生對(duì)文章意思的理解，即所要填寫(xiě)的詞只能從一定的語(yǔ)境中找出。這類(lèi)書(shū)的特點(diǎn)是書(shū)中的文章都是短小有趣，可讀性很強(qiáng)，因?yàn)槲恼潞笤O(shè)置了理解性的練習(xí)，讀者可讀了文章后做這些練習(xí)，以檢查是否看懂了，看懂多少。讀文章也是如此，如何才能加強(qiáng)對(duì)閱讀文章的理解呢？那就是在閱讀文章材料時(shí)要學(xué)會(huì)快速閱讀。首句很關(guān)鍵是因?yàn)槭拙涫俏恼碌膶?dǎo)入，點(diǎn)明作者寫(xiě)文章的意圖、背景等。 四、如何提高閱讀速度？ 做英語(yǔ)閱讀，就我自己的切身體會(huì)而言，最重要的一點(diǎn)就是要提高自己的閱讀速度，閱讀的速度越快，從整體上把握一篇文章的脈 絡(luò)的能力就越強(qiáng)?？匆黄恼碌臅r(shí)候要做到一口氣看完，不要斷斷續(xù)續(xù)，更不要養(yǎng)成邊看邊默念的習(xí)慣。我的閱讀速度的提高在根本上是個(gè)潛移默化的過(guò)程，也就是通過(guò)大量的閱讀英語(yǔ)文章、書(shū)籍，使自己的閱讀速度乃至閱讀能力有了一個(gè)質(zhì)的提高。s shop and had his hair cut, but when he came out, he was not happy with the result(結(jié)果 ). When his friend Bob saw him, he laughed and said, “What has happened to your hair, Jack?” Jack said, “I tried a new barber39。s hair? Just think it. He couldn39。s shop D. Jack had not been to this barber39。t the worst barber. 5. From the story we know that ____. A. it39。clock Mr Perkin________________________ A. walked home. B. drove his car out of the carpark. C. came back to the carpark. D. did not know which was his carpark. 5. People gave him a look because________________________ A. he had a nice new car. B. he could not open the door of his car. C. he was in the wrong carpark. D. he was trying to open more than one car. 6. Mr Perkin had to wait until________________________ A. there was only one yellow Beta 400s in the carpark. B. there was only one car in the carpark. C. there were no bright yellow cars in the carpark. D