阅读理解(2).doc

1、阅读理解(2)练习Passage 1Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once. Have you ever heard of online learning? If you are unfamiliar

2、 with it, please read the following 1 introduction. Online courses are very useful 2 your goal is gaining new skills or advancing towards a certificate. You can also use online classes for meeting professional 3 . With online classes, you choose when and where you 4 . There are no live classes to at

3、tend. Instead, lectures, coursework, and other activities all 5 at your convenience. You choose the place - at home, at school, -wherever you have 6 to a computer. Youll get the same high-quality teaching from the 7 . The difference is that you wont have the day-to-day barriers of 8 classes. This is

4、 good, because its these things that 9 so many of us from reaching our goals. After people are offered the 10 of online learning, going to campus becomes a thing of the past. Its change your life! Word Bank A. opportunity I. participate B. access J. take up C. path K. take place D. requirements L. w

5、hether E. assignments M. briefF. instructor N. simpleG. hinder O. regular H. block Keys: 1. M 2. L 3. D 4. I 5. K 6. B 7. F 8. O 9. G 10. A Passage 2Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank given below. Each choice in the Word Bank is ide

6、ntified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once. I hear many parents saying that their teenage children are rebelling, and I wish it were so. At their age they ought to be 1 from their parents and learning to make their own decisions. But take a good look at the present situatio

7、n of our teenagers. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they 2 with their parents. They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new 3 in music. But somehow they all 4 listening to the same crowded loud music. Their re

8、ason for thinking or 5 one way or another is that the crowd is doing it. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to 6 against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly developed a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what ever

9、y 7 teenager should have and be. All this 8 to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. And it has a 9 influence on him or her. But the 10 is worth climbing over. They should try to find themselves and be themselves. Word Bank A . stand up I. waysB. break up J. barrier

10、C. end up K. disagreeD. adds up L. argueE. growing away M. individualF. growing up N. uniqueG. acting in O. negativeH. directionsKeys : 1. E 2. K 3. H 4. C 5. G 6. A 7. M 8. D 9. O 10. J Passage 3Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank g

11、iven below. Each choice in the Word Bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words more than once. My father was a lawyer with no sons, so he decided that his older daughter, Susie, would follow his career. It was his plan that shed 1 his business when he died. By the time Susie co

12、uld read and write, my father read law books to her at bedtime. He enjoyed having her show off to visitors in his office and they were 2 at her reciting difficult passages. When Susie finished high school, she followed my father to the university where he 3 her into the first-term courses to enter l

13、aw school. Everything went smoothly for a while, and no one in the family was 4 of the slow change that came over Susie. One day Susie 5 that she would like to take piano lessons. Dad, a supporter of an all-round education, did not 6 her wishes. He just 7 her not to spend too much time on the piano.

14、 He said that one lesson a week would be enough, 8 the heavy schedule she kept at the university. The added noise of playing the piano was not disturbing at the beginning because Susie practiced only half an hour each day, but gradually she 9 her practicing to several hours per day. Slowly but surely it began to 10 the conversations between Dad and his clients next door. Finally my father realized that as the piano playing had increased, the study of law had decreased. Word BankA. reminded I. take over B. remembered