【正文】 is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone （荷爾蒙）injections（注射）. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very plicated（復(fù)雜的） when there are two separate sexes!1．Women are called the weaker sex because ______ . A．women do as much as menB．people think women are weaker than menC．sport is easier for men than for womenD．in sport the two sexes are always together2．Which of the following is true?A．Boys and girls study separately everywhere. B．Women do not run or swim in races with men. C． Famous Prime Ministers are women . D．Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe. 3．“That at least is what people say”means people ______ . A．say other things , tooB．don39。s crops.4．Which of the following is not true according to the article?A．The puter is used in this research work.B．Scientists know when an El Nino appears by means of puter program.C．The scientists published their results of the research work.D．Nature is the name of the article written recently by the scientists.5．Choose the best title for this article.A．Appearance of El Nino Predictable（可預(yù)報(bào)的）B．Drought in ZimbabweC．Early warning systemD．Weather in Africas early life was mainly spent in ______ .A．learning about natureB．hunting with his friendsC．learning useful skills from the IndiansD．studying at home because he couldn39。t win them all.”1．This passage deals with two sides of failure. In paragraph 1, the author talks mainly about ______ . A．the value of failureB．how people would failC．famous failuresD．the cause of failure2．The underlined phrase“made it”means ______ . A．succeededB．failedC．gaveD．got3．The lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce seems ______ . A．productiveB．straight forwardC．sorrowfulD．deep4．The author tells you to do all things except ______ . A．The think about the cause of your failureB．to check out whether your goals are right for youC．to consider failure as a part or lifeD．to bear in mind that you will never fail in your life5．Which of the following is NOT true?A．Bruce and Edison were successful examples. B．Failure may be regarded as a way toward success. C．Edison learned a lot from the lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce. D．One may often raise a question whether his goals are worth attempting.答案：AADDC(8)In sport the sexes（性別）are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called the weaker sex, or, if men want to please them, the fair sex. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men . A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68．Are women39。答案：BDACD答案：DABDC(12)s illness, a nurse asked to speak to them. “Excuse me,” said Nurse Marsha Maitland, “but I think the baby is suffering from thallium poisoning(鉈中毒) .”“What makes you think that?” Dr. Brown asked. “Thallium poisoning is very rare.”“A few days ago, I was reading a novel called ‘A Pale Horse39。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 Romans wanted to show how clever they were in building the roads5．According to the passage, which of the following four choices is correct?A．The old Romans found soft soil did not make a solid base for the road.B．The Romans built roads only on flat（平）landC．Flat stones were mostly used in the roads of AsiaD．The old Romans used to make use of the soft soil for the base of their roads in North Africa. . . .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。(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)）wit