【正文】 o reading in English as part of your schoolwork or job. Putting off reading improvement with this type of reasoning is one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your languagelearning planning. The purpose of reading practice is far more than just improving reading prehension. Through reading your can improve your English ability in so many ways. By ing into contact with new words and being able to understand their meaning, you are able to increase your word power. The same is true for idioms. Through repeated contact with new and notsofamiliar sentence construction, you improve your understanding of grammar. With this increase in knowledge and use of vocabulary, idioms, and grammar, your writing ability will improve, your speaking ability will improve, and even your listening prehension will improve, too. ? The best title for the passage is______________. A. “The Purpose of Reading” B. “The Importance of Reading” C. “The Importance of Language Ability” D. “The Improvement of Reading Ability” LOGO Britain and France are separated by the English Channel, a body of water that can be crossed in as few as 20 minutes. But the cultures of the two countries sometimes seem to be miles apart. Last Thursday Britain and France celebrated the 100th anniversary（周年紀(jì)念） of the signing of a friendship agreement … The agreement marked a new beginning for the countries following centuries of wars and lovehate partnership. But their relationship has been ups and downs over the past century... The history of divisions may well be because of the very different ways in which the two sides see the world. Whatever the answer is, as both sides celebrate 100 years of “doubtful friendship”, they are at least able to make jokes about each other. Here’s one: What’s the best thing about Britain’s relationship with France? The English Channel. ? What does the last sentence mean? A. As long as the English Channel exists, no further disagreement will form between France and Britain. B. The English Channel can prevent anything unfriendly happening in both France and Britain. C. France and Britain are near neighbors, and this will help balance the relationship between them. D. The English Channel is the largest enemy between France and Britain. LOGO A story is told about a soldier who was finally ing home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. Mom and Dad, I39。當(dāng)然，有時(shí)候主題句藏在一段的中間，甚至壓根兒就沒有主題句。 主題句通常在一段的開頭或者結(jié)尾部分。 常見命題方式： ? A: What is the general topic of the passage? ? B: The best title for this passage is ______. ? C: The main idea of this passage is______. ? D: What is the passage about? ? E: What does this passage mainly discuss? 這類問題選擇答案時(shí)切忌過于具體，不能選擇概括全篇文章中某一段落的主題的、或是某個(gè)細(xì)節(jié)的選項(xiàng)；另外也不要選擇過于籠統(tǒng)的答案，致使選項(xiàng)中包含的內(nèi)容超越了文章的主題。t he see the letter or the contents of the purse? Truly, everyone, even those living as a couple, needs room — not only in threedimensional (立體的 ) space, but in the heart. ? The word “tolerate” means ______________. A. get rid of B. fet C. bear D. beat LOGO Those tiny, little hairs above our eyes that many women pay so much attention to play a very important role in keeping moisture out of our eyes. Just like an umbrella keeps our bodies dry from the rain, our hairy eyebrows keep our eyes dry from rain or sweat. When it39。t realize that Americans wouldn’t tolerate it. He thought being a couple was like being one person。 it wasn’t good enough. Sometimes he would leave a job unfinished, and never e back to plete it. Other times his writing would be so illegible that you couldn’t read it. Or he might disappear from the office for an hour or so with no explanation of where he had been. Once or twice he sat unoccupied for a while, doing nothing at all, until someone noticed him and gave him some work. ? In the passage “illegible” refers to ______________. A. difficult or impossible to read B. easy and ready to read C. easy and smooth to write D. difficult or impossible to write LOGO For the rest of the 1920s, Hitchcock worked on one film after another, in Britain and on location in Germany. Filming was often a roughandready (匆忙做成的 ) affair and the assistant director was required to step in and plug gaps. A cameraman went missing, Hitchcock became a cameraman. A scene needed rewriting, Hitchcock rewrote it. Someone needed to be in charge of money when the film crew was on location, Hitchcock looked after the money. ? According to the context (上下文 ), “step in and plug gaps” means__________. A. take one’s place to do something B. ask for one’s help C. make up one’s mind to do something D. congratulate someone on something LOGO Is there privacy between husband and wife? One of Sonia39。 LOGO Paper, like many other things that we use today, was first made in China. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very monly used before the year 1400. The Egyptians wrote on a kind of material made of a water plant. Europeans used parchment for many hundreds of year. Parchment was very strong。因此，表示轉(zhuǎn)折的聯(lián)接詞 but, unlike, while, however, on the contrary就成了這類題目的標(biāo)志詞；（ 4） 事例證明法 。作者用了一個(gè)生詞的時(shí)候，一般會(huì)在下文用一個(gè)同義詞來暗示這個(gè)單詞的意思；（ 3） 反義對(duì)比法 。作者用了生詞，然后馬上就用一些簡單的單詞來解釋它。 ? A: According to the passage, which of the following is (NOT) true? ? B: According to the passage, which of the following statements is wrong? LOGO