高一英語閱讀文章

　　學生的英語閱讀能力與其詞彙量、文化背景知識和閱讀策略等密切相關。下面就是小編給大家整理的，希望大家喜歡。

　　篇一

　　Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture ***製造*** of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass production, although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks.

　　Once this was ***lone, workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead, they might work only one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today's standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasn't the only loser, the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmer away. The increased mechanization ***機械化*** of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools, their skill was no longer valued, and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed, looked after and repaired the machines that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost.

　　13. In this passage, which of the following is NOT considered as a change caused by the use of scientific findings in the production of goods?

　　A. Other forms of energy have taken the place of human power.

　　B. The increased exploitation of workers in the 19th century.

　　C. The increased use of machines to make products in less time.

　　D. The use of machines producing parts of the same standard.

　　14. The underlined word this in the first paragraph refers to ____

　　A. the use of scientific findings

　　B. the practice of producing the same parts for a product

　　C. the human power being replaced by other forms of energy

　　D. the technology becoming the encouragement of historical change

　　15.The underlined word this in the second paragraph refers to the change that ______

　　A. each nail could be taken the place of by every other nail

　　B. each nail was exactly like every other nail

　　C. producing tasks became smaller and smaller

　　D. goods could be mass produced

　　16.According to the writer, highly skilled workers ______

　　A. completely disappeared with the coming of the factory system

　　B. were dismissed by the boss

　　C. were unable to produce goods of high standard

　　D. were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines

　　17. According to the passage, what did the farmers have to do with the coming of mechanization of agriculture?

　　A. Many of them had to leave their farmland for industrial centers.

　　B. They stuck to their farm work.

　　C. They refused to use machines.

　　D They did their best to learn how to use the machines.

　　篇二

　　Wind is the great maker of waves. There are exceptions, such as the tidal ***潮汐的*** waves sometimes produced by earthquakes under the sea. But the waves most of us know are produced by winds blowing over the sea .

　　Now before constructing an imaginary life history of a typical wave, we need to know certain

　　physical things about it. A wave has height, from trough *** low point*** to crest *** high Point*** . It has lengh-the distance from this crest to that of the following wave. The period of the wave means the time it takes for succeeding crests to pass a fixed point. None of these things stays the same--for all depend upon the wind, upon the depth of the water and many other matters.

　　The water that makes up a wave does not advance with it across the sea. Each drop of water turns around in a little circle with the passing of the wave, but returns very nearly to its original position. And it is fortunate that this is so. For if the huge masses of water that make up a wave actually moved across the sea, sailing would be impossible.

　　If we want to find the speed of a wave, we may use the following way :

　　Speed = wavelength × frequency

　　Here, wavelength is the distance between two high points ***crests*** , frequency means the number of cycles per second

　　18. What causes waves?

　　A. Earthquakes and nothing else. B. Only wind.

　　C. Wind causes most waves. D. Wind causes some waves.

　　19. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A. The water of a wave moves away across the sea.

　　B. The water of a wave remains almost at the same place.

　　C. The water of a wave goes with the passing of the wave.

　　D. The length of a wave means the distance from the top of a wave to the bottom.

　　20.The speed of Wave 1 is 100 cm/s, frequency 10. The frequency of Wave 2 is 300, while its speed is twice that of Wave 1. Which of the following is right?

　　A . The wavelengths of the two are equal.

　　B. The wavelength of Wave 1 is 10 times longer than that of Wave 2.

　　C. The wavelength of Wave 2 is longer than that of Wave 1.

　　D. The wavelength of Wave 1 is longer than that of Wave 2.

　　篇三

　　An old friend from California called from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was not able to leave the office, but I had made plans for his arrival. After explaining ***解釋*** where my new house was, I told him that I had left the key under the doormat ***門墊***. Since I knew it would be pretty late before I could get home, I suggested that he make himself at home and help himself to anything that was in the refrigerator***電冰箱***.①

　　Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of my records after having had a delicious meal. Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of orange juice. When I asked him if he had had any difficulty finding the house, he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat, but luckily, the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the I listened to all this in great surprise.② There is no apple tree outside my window, but there is one by the living room window of my next door neighbor's house!

　　根據文章內容，選擇正確答案：

　　1. An old friend of mine called ______.

　　A. to tell me to meet him at the airport B. to tell me about his arrival

　　C. to ask me to leave the office D. to ask me to make plans for his arrival

　　2. My friend climbed into the room because ______ .

　　A. there was an apple tree outside B. the living room window was left open

　　C. he had difficulty opening the door D. he hadn't found the key

　　3. My friend telephoned me two hours later ______ .

　　A. from my home B. at the airport C. in his office D. from my neighbor's house

　　難句註釋

　　① I suggested that he make himself at home and help himself to anything that was in the refrigerator. 我建議他不要客氣，隨意吃冰箱裡的東西。② I listened to all this in great surprise. 我很吃驚地聽著這一切。in surprise 意為“吃驚地”。

　　本文講述了一位朋友在拜訪作者時誤入他鄰居家卻渾然不覺的幽默故事。

　　1. B. 由第一段第一句 “...called...to tell me that he had arrived.”可知。

　　2. D. 細節題，由第二段 “...he had not been able to find the key...”可知。

　　3. D. 以第二段朋友所說的“apple tree”為線索，推知朋友誤入鄰居家。

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