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阅读理解训练题（四十六）AHere is a piece of news from a newspaper two years ago.English courses will be offered to primary school students in cities and in country schools beginning next year, said the director of the Department of Basic Education of Ministry of Education, Li Lianning.Primary school students will be required to take the English course beginning in Grade Three. In cities some primary schools may open the course for Grade One students. And in some country primary schools, the program wont be started until 2002.A new teaching method will be used for this English course. More emphasis will be placed on students speaking and reading abilities, instead of the traditional grammar and pronunciation teaching method.It is expected that students will learn more in a certain environment. Therefore, a situational method will be used during the class. Four English periods each week will be required. The lessons could be short, 20 or 30 minutes, but at least two lessons among the four should be 40 minutes.An eight-level test system will be used to cover all level of English from primary school students to senior highs. This would be the first official English assessment（评定）introduced into the high school education system.A junior high student is required to pass Band Five and a senior high should pass Band Seven. Students will not be required to pass Band Eight. This requires a large vocabulary of 4,500 words. The programme is one of the key parts of the education reform started by the Ministry of Education in the spirit of helping quality education.The reform is aimed at improving students comprehensive（理解）and lifelong learning abilities. The first five years of the ten-year plan is to introduce new teaching materials. These materials will be used by schools over the country in the following five.56Teachers will pay more attention to in the coming English course.Areading and writingBspeaking and readingCspeaking and writingDgrammar and pronunciation57Primary school students are asked to learn English because .Ait will do good to the 2008 OlympicsBthey have a good memory when they are youngCit suits the needs of modern societyDthis will help to improve students comprehensive and lifelong learning abilities58The main idea of the passage is .AEnglish is showing its importance in daily lifeBprimary school students should pay enough attention to EnglishCprimary school students will learn EnglishDhow to teach English in the English courseBHere are some advertisements taken from a newspaper.(1)Dear Drew Carter,Your first year on this earth has been a pleasure ride for all of us. We love you!Love,Dad and Mom and many friends(2)LawlisClarkeThe Doctors Virgil and Marjorie Lawlis are pleased to announce the engagement（订婚）of their daughter Diana Susan to Mr. Robert Brent Clarke, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Clarke of Herford, Texas.A spring wedding is planned in Houston.(3)IsbellFossMr. And Mrs. Davis K. Isbell announce the marriage of their daughter Dang to Mr. Stanley Foss, son of Mrs. John Sipe of Ada, Minnesota.The wedding will be early April at Abiding Love Lutheran Church.(4)StoryKurioMiss Stephanie Story and Mr. Warren Kurio married on February 5, at half past seven oclock in the evening at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. The bride（新娘）is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Brule Story Jr. of Dallas. The groom（新郎）is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stanley Kurio of Austin.59What would be the best title for the first advertisement?AWe Love YouBHappy 1st BirthdayCOne Year OldDOur One-Year-Old Son60Lawlis and Clarke are going to get married .Ain a churchBwhere Clarkes parents liveCagainst their parents willDto Lawliss parents joy61Who got or will get married in spring?ANot only Lawlis and Clarke but also Isbell and Foss.BNeither Lawlis and Clarke nor Isbell and Foss.CEither Isbell and Foss or Story and Kurio.DNeither Lawlis and Clarke nor Story and Kurio.62Who are now a married couple?ALawlis and Clarke.BDand Isbell and Foss.CStory and Kurio.DThe text doesnt say.(C)Long ago, the love apple was grown in flower gardens. The plants small yellow flowers were not very bright, but it has very beautiful fruit, round, smooth, and shiny, which turned bright red or yellow as it ripened（成熟）. It was beautiful but poisonous, or people believed so. Other people believed it had magic powers to cause.Early Spanish explorers（探索者）who found this plant growing wild is South and Central America, carried it back to Europe. These plants appeared in gardens in Italy as early as 1554. They must have been the kind that had yellow fruit, because the Italians called the plant “pomidoro”, or apple of gold. By 1750, the plant was grown as a curious plant throughout Europe. Some people were even daring enough to eat the fruit.1781 in America, Thomas Jefferson raised and ate love apples, but few followed his example. Thirty years later, the love apples were used as food in Louisiana, and by 1835, a few people in the northern states were willing to experiment with them too. But even as late as 1900, there were people who still believed that these “apples of gold” were poisonous.Although people did not eat fruit of this plant, they liked looking at it in their gardens. Later, when they learned it was both good-tasting and good for them, they moved the love apple plant from the flower garden to the vegetable garden. They learned to call it by a new name “tomato”63On the whole, the article tells about .Apoisonous fruits in AmericaBItalians who are very curiousCthe history of the tomato plantDthe fruits eaten by Thomas Jefferson64We can know from the passage that .Asome people are afraid to try new things Ball poisonous fruits are really tomatoesCall poisonous fruits are bright and colorful Dnortherners are more daring than southerners65Why did people raise this plant in their gardens? .AThey liked eating itBThey enjoyed looking at itCThey thought gold would growDIt was the only choice they had 66Which seems true according to the passage? .AWhat is not popular today may be popular tomorrowBThe apple of gold belongs only in flower gardensCThomas Jefferson ate all his plants DIt was the Americans who first ate tomatoes(D)In the United States, friends can be close, constant, intense, generous, and real, yet fade away in a short time if circumstances（环境）change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship where it left out and are delighted.In the States, you can feel free to visit peoples homes, share their holidays, enjoy their children and their lies without fear that you taking on a lasting obligation（负担）. Do not hesitate to accept hospitality（款待）because you cant give it in welcome or for various other reasons, such as crowded space, language difficulties, or family custom, outsiders are not invited into homes.In the United States both methods are used, but it is often considered more friendly to invite a person to ones home than to go to a public place, except in purely business relationships. So, if your host or hostess brings you home, do not feel that you are being shown inferior（次的）treatment.Dont feel neglected if you do not find flowers awaiting you in your hotel room either. Flowers are very expensive there, hotel delivery is uncertain, arrival times are delayed, changed, or canceled so flowers are not customarily sent as a welcoming touch. Please do not feel unwanted! Outward signs vary in different lands, the inward welcome is what matters, and this will be real.67In the United States, you will find friendships if circumstances change.Adie suddenlyBpass away Cdisappear gradually Dlast forever68Americans their foreign friends to make a return for their hospitality.AaskBwishCnever allowDdont expect69In some other counties, giving a dinner party at home is considered than in a restaurant.Aless friendlyBless hospitableCmore naturalDmore popular70According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? .AFlowers are available at all timeBFlowers are expensiveCFlowers are signs of outward welcomeDFlowers are not necessarily sent to guests71Which of the following is the best title for this passage? .AAmerican HospitalityBAmerican FriendshipsCAmerican InvitationDAmerican Welcome(E)Have you ever been at a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time.“On the contrary,” says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology, “daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldnt get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day. You cant possibly do all your thinking with a conscious（有意识）mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states of mind have silent dialogues.”Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.”Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. Its easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in your life and find out a possible way of dealing with them.Daydreams cannot be predicated（预料）. They move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.72The writer of this passage considers daydreams .Ahard to understand Bimportant and helpfulCharmful and unimportantDthe same as sleep dreams73The writer quoted（引用）L. Giambra and Eric Klinger to .Apoint out the wrong ideas of early experts Blist two different ideasCsupport his own idea Dreport the latest research on daydreams74Which of the following is TRUE?AAn unconscious mind can work all the problems out.BDaydreaming can give artists and scientists ideas for creation.CProfessor Eric Klinger has a better idea than L. Giambra.DEarly experts fully understood what daydreams were.75What is the main difference between daydreams and sleep dreams?APeople have daydreams and sleep dreams at different times.BDaydreams are the result of unconscious mind while sleep dreams are that of conscious mind.CDaydreams are more harmful. DDaydreams are more helpful in solving problems.阅读理解训练题（四十六）答案56-60BCBBD 61-65ACCAB 66-70ACDBA 71-75BBCBD5