【正文】 s side(11)There has been, in history, a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. The man39。(10)In 1977 , a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a nineteenmonthold baby in a most unusual way. The author was Agatha Christie, a gentle married lady and one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world.In June 1977 , a baby girl became seriously ill in Qatar (卡塔爾) , near Sandi Arabia(沙特阿拉伯) . Doctors were unable to find out the cause of her illness, so she was flown to London and sent to Hammersmith Hospital. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to discover that they, too, were puzzled by the very unusual signs of illness. While they were having a discussion about the baby39。s bodies really weaker?The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4．5 minutes. Women39。(6)Over two thousand years ago Rome（羅馬）was the center of a huge empire. The Romans needed a way to move their large armies quickly so that they could protect their huge country. They needed land trade routes, so they joined all parts of their empire by a network of roads（公路網(wǎng)）. Beginning in 300 B．C．, the Romans built roads in Europe, Asia and North Africa. By ., they had built 50, 000 miles of almost straight roads. To build their roads, the Romans moved away all soft soil. They dug until they reached hard ground. Then they added layers（層）of stone and other things. The most important roads were paved（鋪設(shè)）with large flat（平）stones. Main Roman roads were sometimes as wide as ours today. To build their roads, the Romans sometimes had to dig tunnels through mountains. But they didn39。t go to school2．When he got married, Daniel Boone first planned to ______.A． set up a large farmB．go on a journey with his wifeC． find food, new land for his farmD．live a peaceful life with his family3．Daniel Boone became famous because ______ .A．he travelled a lot in the western landsB．he was very good at telling storiesC．he found better animal skins than othersD．he was the first to climb the Appalachian Mountains4．Why did the Indians want to make friends with him?A．Because they wanted to learn from him.B．Because he wanted to make peace with them.C．Because they wanted to make friends with white people.D．No reason is told in this article.5．In this article, Daniel Boone is best described as ______ .A．warmheartedB．strongC．carefulD．brave. . . .高中英語閱讀理解能力提升練習(xí)50篇(1)One should be moderate（適度） in all things. Moderation is always the safest way to do things and a virtue（品質(zhì)）we should have. Let39。答案：ADADD(3)Scientists around the world have been studying the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as El Nino. The appearance of El Nino is known to affect the weather around the world. Scientists still do not pletely understand it. Yet they now find they can use it to tell about the future in different areas of the world.One example is the work of two scientists at Columbia University in New York, Mark Cane and Gordon Eshel. A scientist of Zimbabwe, Roger Buckland worked with them. They have found that when El Nino appears, Zimbabwe has little or no rain. This means corn crops in Zimbabwe are poor. The last El Nino was in 1991 to was when southeastern Africa suffered a serious lack of rain.The scientists wrote about their recent work in the publication Nature. Their puter program can tell when an El Nino will develop up to a year before it does. They suggest that this could provide an effective early warning system for southern Africa, and could prevent many people from starving.1．El Nino is known as ______ .A．the changing of the weather in southern AfricaB．the warming of waters in the Pacific OceanC．the weather which brings drought（旱災(zāi)）to AfricaD．the weather phenomenon（現(xiàn)象）that brings heavy rains to Africa2．Scientists study El Nino in order that ______ .A．they can provide a kind of early warning to the place that will suffer from droughtB．they can tell why Zimbabwe has little or no rainC．they can do some research work in this field.D．they can put all this information into their puters.3．Which of the following is true according to the article?A．Scientists e to understand how El Nino appears.B．Three scientists from the . work on this subject.C．Southern Africa suffered a serious drought and many people died from hunger.D．El Nino has something to do with Zimbabwe39。t have any machines to help them. So they heated the rock with fire and then threw cold water over it. When the rock cracked（裂）, they dug it out. Roman soldiers and slaves built the roads with their hands and simple tools, but the roads were so well built that they were used for hundreds of years. 1．The story tells us ______ . A．building roads without modern machines was Roman soldiers’ only jobB．it was no easy job for the Romans to build their roadsC．people in advanced countries still use the old Roman way to build their roads todayD．most people in the African countries still use the old Roman way to dig their tunnels through the mountains2．To build mountain roads, the old Romans had to ______ . A．explode the rock before they started to digB．crack the rock with fire and cold waterC．dig through the hard rock with their handsD．invent some machines to help them with the work3．On the whole, the story is about ______ . A．how to build up our modern roads todayB．Roman tools in building a wide straight roadC．the Romans’ roads built two thousand years agoD．the reason why the Romans had to build their roads4．Why did the Romans build so many roads at that time? It was because ______ . A．their slaves and soldiers had to do something, or, they would have nothing to doB．they dared not sail in the ocean and the roads were their only choiceC．they needed land trade roads and the roads to move their grand armies as quickly as possibleD．the old