高中英语学业水平测试过程性阅读 习题及答案.docx

1、高中英语学业水平测试过程性阅读 习题及答案 专题十四 阅读Happy birthday! Do birthdays really make people happy? Of course they do. Birthdays celebrate the day we were born. Besides, that extra candle on the cake suggests another year of growth and maturity (成熟) and we all like to imagine that were getting wiser and not just ol

2、der. Like people in most cultures, growing up is a wonderful process(过程).1. Growing up is a wonderful process because _.A. people can celebrate their birthdaysB. people can become more mature and wiserC. people can receive many presentsD. people will feel younger at heartThe time you spend at the of

3、fice may be the most stressful(紧张的) part of your day, but it doesnt have to be. You have a greater ability to shape your office environment than you may realize.Take breaks throughout the day. It will help clear your mind and relieve pressure.2. Which of the following can work out your stress atwork

4、?A. Having breaks during the day. B. Doing hard work in the afternoon. C. Never to learn new things. D. Getting up early or staying up late.An allowance(零用钱) is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions. Children remember and learn from mistakes when their

5、own dollars are lost or spent foolishly. How large an allowance is appropriate(合适的)? Experts say there is not right amount. Actual amounts differ from area to area, and from family to family.3. What does the text mainly discuss?A. How to teach children.B. How to work up a budget.C. How to teach a ch

6、ild to save money.D. How to teach a child to manage money matters.More and more museum directors have realized that people learn best when they can become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, the visitors are encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover sci

7、entific rules for themselves.The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also help people feel at home in the world of science. If people dont understand science, they will be afraid of it; and if they are afraid of science, they will not make the best use of it.4. The directors of the museums have

8、realized _.A.the importance of scientific rulesB.people learn best in the museumC.visitors cant learn anything from museumsD.the museum needs changesEarly one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the desi

9、gn of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.5.According to the passage, Elias Howe was_.A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleepB. much more hard-working than other inventorsC. th

10、e first person to design a sewing machine that really workedD. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreamsLanguage learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners .

11、Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.6.Before children start speaking_.A.they need different amounts of listeningB.with asking questionsC.they are all eager to express themselvesD.they cant make themselves understood The greatest re

12、cent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a womans life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or

13、eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old.7.We are told that in an average family about 1990_.A.many children died before they were fiveB.the youngest child would be fifteenC.seven of eight children lived to be more than fiveD.four or five children died when they were

14、fiveNew technology will let people stay in closer touch with those we care most about. I know this from personal experience. E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours arent necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fe

15、wer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than before.8. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to _.A. spend less time workingB. have more free time with his childC. work at home on weekendsD. work at a speed comfortable to himEveryone has got two

16、 personalities the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You dont show your secret personality when youre awake because you can control your behaviour, but when youre asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently ch

17、ange their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.9. According to the writer, you naturally show your secret and real personality _.A. only in a normal nightB. only when you go to sleepC. only when you refuse to show yourself to the worldD. only when you change sleeping

18、positionThere are some special traditions in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors a lei along necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright flowered shirts, and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese, Japanese and Fili

19、pino holidays and all the holidays from the United States. They call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means “I love you”.10. The special tradition in Hawaii includes_.Agiving visitors a lei of beautiful fresh flowers. BMen wear bright flowered shirtsCWomen often we

20、ar long flowered dresses DAll of the above.“How can I learn English well?” This is a question many students ask. In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. If you can recite the text and write it out, youve learned it fairly well. And if you can tell, in your own words, what

21、 the lesson says youre a very successful learner indeed. Your English will be quite perfect.This is a difficult task. However, if you try to learn by heart only part of each lesson, youll find it not half so hard as you might have thought. Learning this way, you will make rapid progress. Of course,

22、writing is also necessary. It helps you a lot on our way to success in English. Equally important is to feel the language. You should be able to laugh at jokes and be shocked at bad news. When using English, try to forget your mother tongue. Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way

23、. So, never try to see English through translation.11. In the writers opinion, the most effective way in learning English is _.A. to practise speaking, writing and feeling itB. to forget your own native languageC. to translate everything into his own languageD. to memorize the English words and gram

24、matical rules12. “Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way.”This sentence means that memorizing your own language can _.A. help you to study English wellB. stop you mastering EnglishC. make English easy to learnD. help you notice mistakes13. Equally important is to feel the languag

25、e. “to feel the language” here means_. A. to get a knowledge of English by touchingB. to be able to read and write EnglishC. to translate English into your own by imaginingD. to be able to experience the rich sensation of the languageTrees are useful to man in three important ways: they give him woo

26、d and other useful things, they give him cool places, and they help to stop drought and flood.Unluckily, in many parts of the world, man has not found that the third of these points is the most important. Man wants to make money from trees,so he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that

27、without them he has lost the best friends he had. And also, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even worse: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil-make the

28、rain in-and also bind the soil, thus stopping it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.14. The most important poi

29、nts of trees to man is _.A. they help him to make moneyB. they give him cool C. they give him wood and other thingsD. they help him to stop drought and floods15. In many places forests slowly disappear because _ .A. many trees have been cut down by manB. new trees are not well looked after C. man ha

30、s not paid enough attention to planting treesD. all the above16. Land becomes desert after all trees are cut down because _ .A. roots of trees break up the soilB. there are too many rainfallsC. strong winds bring a lot of sandD. there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil.17.

31、 Which title best fits the passage?A. Trees and Man B. The Function of Tree WoodC. How do People do with Trees?D. The Usage of Tree RootsLet children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. H

32、e notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other peoples. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things: they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances w