Passage 1

题目
Passage 1
Sante re, New Mexico multimillionaire Fortest Fenn has always loved a good adventure. As asmall child before eight, he and his brother, Skippy spent summer vacations making exploration inYellowstone National Park.
As a teen, Fenn idolized the decorated World War II fighter pilot, called Robin Olds and latteremulated his hero during The Vietnam War as an Air fighter pilot to go to New Mexico and settledthere as an arts and antiques dealer, hunting down valuable paintings, rugs, war memorabilia, andother antique to sell.
In 1998, Fenn was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer. As he had always been doing, heconceived a grand adventured that he assumed would be his last one. "I wanted to create someexcitement, some hope, before I died," says Fenn,82, adding that he also wanted to "get kids out ofthe game room and offthe couch." With those ideas in his mind, he started to devise a treasure hunt.
Little by little, Fenn began stocking a small bronze chest with gold coins, prehistoric braceletsand other valuable things. When his cancer went into remission in 1993, he decided he would carryout his plan anyway.
In 2010, Fenn topped offthe chest with jewels and valuable stones and hid it somewhere deepin the Rocky Mountains, north of Sante Fe. Later that year, he wrote a poem for his self-publishedmemoir, The Thrill of the Chase. It contained nine clues about the treasure box′ s whereabouts. Onestanza reads like this: Begin it where warm waters halt/And take it in the canyon down/Not far, buttoo far to walk/Put in below the home of Brown.
A few months later, a story about the treasure appeared in a magazine. Since then, Fenn hasreceived thousands of e-mails from treasure hunters. Some request more clues to the box. But mostly "people thanked me for bringing their family together," he says with a self-comforting smile on hisface.
In April, Fenn told a crowd at an Albuquerque bookstore that two groups of treasure huntershad gotten within 500 feet of the chest. "They walked right by it," he said.
Fenn is confident that the treasure will be unearthed eventually and says i_t will take the rightcombination of cunning and perseverance. "It will be discovered by someone who has read the cluescarefully and successfully. But nobody is going to happen upon it," he predicts.
He hopes that whoever finds the loot will relish the riches and the adventure of finding them.
Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase"topped off"inPARAGRAPH FIVE


A.Filled.

B.Covered.

C.Fixed.

D.Decorated.
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第1题:

According to the passage, the screen or cutters are fitted to __ (1)kill bacteria (2)break up the solid waste (3)remove solid matter with large size

A.(1)

B.(2)

C.(2)(3)

D.None of (1)(2)(3) is true


正确答案:B

第2题:

小学英语?阅读
一、考题回顾



二、考题解析
【教学设计】
Teaching aims:
Knowledge aim:
Students will master the meaning and usage of the structure “be doing” through reading the passage.
Ability aim:
Students will apply the “be doing” to communicate with each other in real situation.
Emotional aim:
Students will be more interest in learning English.
Key and difficult point:
Key Point: Students will master how to improve reading abilities through finding main idea and details.
Difficult Point: Students will apply the “be doing” to communicate with each other in real situation.
Teaching procedure:
Step 1: Warming-up
1. Greetings.
2. Play a riddle and students guess the animals, such as “long nose, big ears and strong body——elephant”, then lead to the topic of “let’s go to the zoo to see what animals are doing”.
Step 2: Pre-reading
1. According to the title, students have a prediction about what kinds of animals are mentioned in the passage.
Step 3: While-reading
1. Fast reading: students read the passage fast and figure out what kinds of animals are mentioned in the passage then make a list.
2. Careful reading: students read the passage carefully and answer the question: what are the animals doing? Then fill in the blanks.



1. How do you improve students’ interest in learning English?
2. What principle should you use in the post-reading step?


答案:
解析:
1.
In the process of English teaching, teachers should enrich the teaching approaches, not only teach students through "listening, speaking, reading", but also integrate situational teaching, so that students can feel the diversity of teaching and learning.
Besides, teachers can make use of the form of cooperative study and organize various practice activities in the classroom to create an atmosphere of mutual assistance and cooperation, so that students have positive sense of learning.
2.
First, we should persist in the communicative principle. In the production step of reading
class, students should be organized in groups to cultivate their speaking ability and communicative ability. In this way, we can reach the New Curriculum Standard.
Then, we should insist on the truth principle. That means we should provide more real materials that are closet to students’ real life, such as situation creation like what I did in this class. In this way, students’ interest can be aroused and they can apply what they’ve learned in real communication.

第3题:

As used in this passage,the word “valid” in the second paragraph means______

A. foreign

B. 1egal

C. monetary

D. illegal


正确答案:B
[解析] Valid[律]合法的,选legal。

第4题:

单选题
The primary purpose of Passage 1 is ______.
A

to persuade the author of Passage 2 of the validity of evolutionary theory

B

to describe the process by which protein is created by hemoglobin

C

to counter a common misconception about the composition of the human body

D

to deny the practical application of macroevolutionary theory

E

to deride those who underestimate the complexity of the human body


正确答案: D
解析:
作者首先提出,人们普遍认为人体是一个精致的时间机器,但他不这样认为,接着作者用血红蛋白的例子证明自己的想法,故选C项。

第5题:

单选题
Which of the following most accurately states the role of the first paragraph in relation to the passage as a whole?
A

It summarizes two theories. the relative merits of which are debated in the passage.

B

It puts forth an argument that the rest of the passage is devoted to refuting.

C

It introduces a new concept that the rest of the passage expands upon.

D

It frames the background and relevance of the material to follow.

E

It outlines the majorthemes of each of the four paragraphs to follow.


正确答案: D
解析:
推断题。第一段讲述了科学家们在了解疟疾方面所做的努力:“It took scientists centuries to deconstruct”,然后将疟疾与人类的健康联系“has contributed to the difficulty of devishag effective public health measures to combat the disease”,故D项的表述正确。

第6题:

To grasp the gist of a passage in a quick way, what may a reader focus on?

A.The transitional paragraphs.
B.The whole passage.
C.The topic sentences.
D.Every sentence in the passage.

答案:C
解析:
考查阅读策。题目问“要想快速抓住文章要点,读者应该集中关注什么”。因为是要求在短时间内就迅速抓住要点,很显然找到主题句是最快捷的方式。the transitional paragraph“过渡段”,the whole passage“全篇”。the topic Sentences“主题句”,every sentences in the passage“文章每一个句子”。故选C,

第7题:

高中英语?阅读
一、考题回顾



二、考题解析
【教案】
Teaching aims:
Knowledge aim:
Students can know the basic meaning of passage and are able to master the different greeting for the strangers.
Ability aims:
Students can practice guessing content of next paragraph according to the clues which is given in the passage.
Emotional aim:
Students are able to love learning English and like to read different English passage after this lesson.
Key and difficult point:
Key Point: guess the content of next paragraph according to the clues and know the “learned” body language, especially different greetings
Difficult Point: improve students’ reading interest.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Warming-up
1. Greetings.
2. Play a video about Chaplin’s mime and ask students several questions:
What kind of body language can you see from this video?
Do you know the meaning of these body language?
Step 2: Pre-reading
Present the passage on the screen and read it for all the students. Before reading, ask students one question: What’s the main ideas of these two paragraphs? And guess the main to topic of this lesson?
Then invite several students to share their ideas.
Step 3: While-reading
1.Lead the students to think one question: Is this a whole passage? And ask students to scan the whole passage and give the teacher answer.
2.Ask students to discuss in group and after 10 minutes to invite several students to share their ideas with all the students.
3.And different students may be just guess the content of several paragraphs. So give students a chart, ask them to finish discussing in 5 minutes. Then invite two representatives to state the whole passage.



Step4: Post-reading
Guessing game: Present another passage on the screen. And give students 10 minutes to read and discuss.Then make a chart and tell your own stories according to chart in your own group .Then invite the representatives to make a report for the whole class.
Step5: Summary and Homework
Summary: ask a student to conclude the content of the lesson and summarize with the whole class.
Homework: Present a passage and ask students to read and write a short passsage,which will be put behind of last paragraph.
Blackboard design:



1.Do you have the experience in teaching?
2. What will you do if you pass this exam?


答案:
解析:
1.
Yes, I do. I have taught a teenager in high school. She was the junior. I mainly taught her grammar. I found her grammar was not very systematic. So I taught her from the grammar in words to the grammar in sentences in order to make her master the whole grammar, especially those always appeared in her exams. And during the teaching, I find the most important that it is the teacher should have a better understanding of the whole grammar and the high school English course. Besides, the teacher should pay more attention to the patience. It will make students relax when their learning and get along with the students.
2.
First, I will find a teaching job to practice my teaching ability. And at the same time to prepare the teachers’ exams for school. When I prepare, I think the most important it’s to know the content of text in high school and do many exercises to practice these knowledge.
Second, I will visit some good teachers who is teaching the high school and learn some experience and practice my teaching ability.
Last, I need to reflect myself to improve my knowledge and my teaching procedures.

第8题:

According to the passage,your supervisor is most likely your______.

A.visitor

B.teacher

C.workmate

D.1eader


正确答案:D
这道题要根据文章的描述推测supervisor是个类似于什么地位的人。根据Tip 4中要向supervisor请示工作的职责知道应该是个类似领导的人。所以答案选D。

第9题:

单选题
The primary purpose of the first four sentences of Passage 1 is to ______.
A

introduce a discussion with a story

B

establish the author's main thesis

C

define several key concepts

D

provide the historical background to a debate

E

characterize two positions on an issue


正确答案: A
解析:
第一段的前四句话描述的是回收利用的支持者和反对者的立场的特点。

第10题:

单选题
It can be inferred from the passage that the manufacturers mentioned in paragraph 1 expected that the measures they implemented would _____.
A

encourage innovation

B

keep labor output constant

C

increase their competitive advantage

D

permit business upturns to be more easily predicted


正确答案: D
解析:
由“manufacturers in the United States have been trying to improve productivity—and therefore enhance their international competitiveness—through cost-cutting programs”可知,C为正确选项。第三段提到,cost cutting并不能encourage innovation,所以A错误。B项是对cost cutting的解释。

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