内容正文:
Reflecting
[答案 P20]
hear of与hear from用法辨析
1.I'm very pleased to hear from my pen pal in the UK.
2.Have you ever heard of such a girl who can sing very well in our school?
base、basic与based用法辨析
1.Cooking is the basic life skill.
2.The town is an ideal base for touring the area.
3.His good grades are based on his hard work.
effect与affect用法辨析
1.The teacher's encouragement affected his life.
2.The film had a big effect on children's mind.
doubt的用法
1.I doubt whether they can swim across the river.
2.There is no doubt that they will show interest in our good products.
on time、in time与at times用法辨析
1.At times the man acts differently. Let's keep away from him.
2.The young man ran fast and caught the bus in time.
3.The train still arrived on time though it rained.
用never、ever、already、just或yet填空。
I have 1.already/ever read this Chinese classic Journey to the West twice. I like Sun Wukong best. But I have 2.never read the foreign novel Around the World in Eighty Days 3.yet. My friend Jim has 4.just/already/ever read it. He is now recommending it to me. It is about adventures in different countries. He says it's a good book.
一、阅读五选四。
阅读短文,从方框内所给的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,其中有一个多余的选项。
As readers, we are always looking for ways to improve: We want to read more, read faster and achieve a better understanding. Improvement sometimes happens by breaking bad reading habits. However, many people don't realize the problems they have in the reading process. 1.C
Reading at a wrong speed
Many readers pay little or no attention to their reading speed and that is a mistake. Whether you are reading too fast or too slow, the reading experience will be badly influenced. 2.D Reading at a speed that is too high can influence your understanding of what you read.
Not paying attention to your reading environment
3.E Not choosing your location properly can lead to plenty of problems. For example, a noisy environment makes it hard for you to focus on the things you are reading. That will cause you to read the same passages over and over again. Wherever you read,make sure the location isn't too noisy, that the lighting is good, and that you won't be interrupted(打扰).
4.B
Probably the most common bad reading habit is doing it without paying attention.Focusing on other things while reading is going to badly influence our performance in many ways. Our reading speed will be lower than usual. Besides, we will remember less from what we read, and our understanding level will be much lower.
A.Not having a clear reading plan
B.Not focusing on what you are reading
C.Here are several bad reading habits you can kick off from your life.
D.Reading too slow makes the process boring.
E.Where you read is almost as important as what you read.
二、完形填空。
阅读短文,理解其大意,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Almost everyone has his own hobby. My hobby is reading. When I was young, I didn't have any hobbies. I always watched TV at home all day and my parents were 5 about me.
One day, my father took me to my aunt's home. When I got there, I saw my cousin 6 in his room. I ran to him and said, “Reading books is so boring. Why not go out to play games? That's more 7 .”
“I don't think so. Reading is really interesting, and I can also gain a lot of 8 from my books.” Then my cousin asked me some questions, but I couldn't 9 most of them. He was two years younger than me, but he 10 much more. My face turned red.
That day he told me many interesting stories. I lost myself in his 11 . From then on, I became interested in reading. Now I have a room 12 books. In my free time, I'm happy to be 13 and read the books. I do well in my subjects because of all the books I've read, and I'm especially good at 14 . I have won many prizes in writing competitions. That makes me feel very proud.
(C)5.A.excited B.scared
C.worried D.surprised
(B)6.A.singing B.reading
C.playing D.crying
(B)7.A.important B.interesting
C.surprising D.relaxed
(C)8.A.activities B.programs
C.knowledge D.toys
(C)9.A.receive B.repeat
C.answer D.speak
(B)10.A.told B.knew
C.took D.thinks
(B)11.A.hobbies B.books
C.games D.sports
(A)12.A.full of B.short of
C.opposite of D.similar to
(C)13.A.lazy B.late
C.alone D.lonely
(A)14.A.writing B.English
C.P.E. D.food
三、语篇填空。
阅读短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给词的正确形式填空,使短文通顺、连贯。
Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway's father taught him on 15.how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life.
Instead 16.of going to college, Hemingway became a reporter for The Kansas City Star. Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver for the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years 17.later(late), he moved to Paris, where he hoped 18.to improve(improve)his writing. There he became friends with other American writers, including Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Hemingway developed a style of writing that was 19.simple(simply)and direct. He chose words sparingly(俭省地), avoided 20.using(use)adjectives, and trusted the readers to understand the meaning of his writing. As he put it, “I always try to write on the principle(原则)of the iceberg(冰山). There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows.” This style continues to influence writers today. In his career(生涯), which lasted about 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the 21.twentieth(twenty)century.
For a while Ernest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was 22.a cat with six toes(脚趾), which a ship's captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are 23.children(child)of Hemingway's sixtoed cat. Hemingway got 24.married(marry)four times and had three sons. He died in 1961.
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