【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 he historical development of silent reading shows that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in last century saw a gradual increase in literacy（讀寫(xiě)能力）and thus in the number of readers increased, so the number of listeners dropped, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read reading for the benefit of listeners grew less mon, so came the popularity of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, trains and offices, where reading aloud would disturb other readers in a the end of the century there was still heated argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally this argument remains with us still in , whatever its advantages are, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and magazines for a specialized readership on the the end of t he century students were being advised to have some new ideas of books and to use skills in reading them which were not proper, if not impossible, for the oral social, cultural, and technological developments in the century had greatly changed what the term“reading” referred was reading aloud mon before the nineteenth century? silent reading had not been there were few places for private few people could read for people depended on reading for development of silent reading during the nineteenth century change in the position of literate people change in the nature of reading increase in the number of books increase in the average age of readers are still arguing importance of silent reading amount of information provided by books and newspapers effects of reading on health value of different types of reading material is the writer of this passage attempting to do? explain how present day reading habits change people’s way to show how reading methods have encourage the growth of Sherlock Holmes is considered by many people as the greatest detective in fictional is, in fact, more famous than his own creator, Sir Arthur Conan the popular series of stories, Holmes is described as “tall and lean, popesmoking, always in his cape and speaks in a splendid manner”.Doyle gave Holmes’ address as 221B Baker Street, London, and to this day some visitors to London still go to Baker Street to search for course, there never was really any such ’ flat was supposed to be shared by the lovable, but sometimes clumsy Doctor Watson who went around with Holmes trying to solve crimes before Holmes Dr Watson lost out to Holmes every gave Holmes a masterly skill of deductionthe ability to e up with interesting conclusion from the simplest clues found at the scene of a said that the description of Holmes was modeled on one of his lecturers at Edinburgh University where he studied man was Dr Joseph Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet published in was so loved by all that when his author killed him off in one of his stories, readers wrote in anger to refused to allow Holmes to die!Holmes was brought back to “l(fā)ife” and appeared in further stories of Sherlock Holmes have been reprinted many times ever since we can watch Holmes at work on cinema and television screens as well as on Holmes greatest detective who ever lived Joseph Bell Conan Doyle a character made up by Arthur Conan Dolye Watson and learn but always clumsy but sometimes clumsy and never clumsy was supposed to have Dr Dr Joseph Bell the greatest Doyle made up the description of his own imagination on a famous London doctor on Dr Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University on a model of Holmes答案與解析 根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容可知答案。、C、D三個(gè)選項(xiàng)在文章中第三段都提到了。 根據(jù)文章中第三段第二句話I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love 。 結(jié)合本段主題及It also deserves a place …more central than it presently 。 根據(jù)第三段第一句話I have e to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for the classroom(在課堂上)可知答案。 從最后一段可找到答案。 文中第四段的第一句話作了明確說(shuō)明。 作者寫(xiě)此文的目的正是向我們說(shuō)明現(xiàn)代的閱讀習(xí)慣是如何變化的、發(fā)展的。 從第一段前兩句話可知：Holmes(福爾摩斯）被公認(rèn)為是虛構(gòu)文學(xué)中最偉大的偵探家，事實(shí)上他比他的創(chuàng)作者Arthur Conan Doyle 先生還出名，由此可知Holmes是Arthur Conan Doyle 筆下虛構(gòu)的一個(gè)人物形象。 由第一段倒數(shù)第二句話可知：福爾摩斯和很可愛(ài)但有時(shí)難免笨拙的華倫醫(yī)生住在一起。華倫醫(yī)生伴隨福爾摩斯左右并試圖在福爾摩斯之前破案，但可憐的他每次都輸給福爾摩斯。由此可知答案。 由第一段倒數(shù)第二句可知在小說(shuō)中Holmes即福爾摩斯被安排和華倫醫(yī)生住在一起，故選A。 由第二段第二句話可知福爾摩斯的原型來(lái)源于愛(ài)丁堡大學(xué)的Joseph Bell 博士。第四篇：高考英語(yǔ)二輪專(zhuān)題限時(shí)訓(xùn)練動(dòng)詞與動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)(含答案)專(zhuān)題限時(shí)訓(xùn)練(五)[動(dòng)詞與動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)(一)](限時(shí)：10分鐘)1．I don39。t feel I can ________ on their ．remend B．order C．ment D．summarize 2．As you ________ new words in the passage, it is a very good method for you to guess their ．e about B．e across C．e out D．e up 3．When I visited her, she was ________ in writing a lecture speech on AIDS ．occupied B．occupying C．taken up D．a(chǎn)bsorbing 4．Though having lived abroad for years, many Chinese still________the traditional ．observe B．possess C．perform D．support 5．The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature ________ to Mo Yan, Chinese writer，whose novel Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in ．returned B．distributed C．a(chǎn)warded D．went 6．Most young people can easily ________ the new life ．a(chǎn)djust to B．refer to C．prefer to D．look forward to 7．I39。m writing to apologize for my absence from last week39。s was unexpectedly ________ at ．picked up B．given up C．held up D．made up 8．Legal experts are ________ the Criminal Law to be changed after a number of incidents have e to ．looking for B．standing for C．sending for D．calling for 9．More and more rich people have promised to ________ their wealth after death to help the