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1、1阅读理解训练题（十三） A The total area of land on earth is about 149 million square kilometers, or about 39 percent of the total area of the earth. The average height of the land is about 750 metres above the sea level .The Eurasian（欧亚 的）land mass is the largest with an area of 54,527,600 square kilometers .
2、The smallest continent is the Australian mainland, with an area of about 7,614,600 square kilometers, which together with Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, is described as Oceania .The total area of Oceania is about 8,935,500 square kilometres, including West Iran which is p
3、olitical in Asia . The worlds largest peninsula（半岛）is Arabia ,with an area of about 3,327,500 square kilometres . The largest island in the world is Greenland, with an area of about 2,175,600 square kilometres. The largest island surrounded by fresh water is the Ilha de Marajo (4,022 square kilometr
4、es) in the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil .The largest island in a lake is Manitoulin Island (2,766 square kilometres) in the Canadian section of Lake Huron . This island itself has on it a lake of 106 square kilometres called Manitou lake, in which there are several islands. 56The area of Tasman
5、ia, of New Zealand, of New Guinea and of the Pacific Islands add up to about square kilometres . A.8,935,500B.1,320,900C.7,614,600D.16,550,100 57Oceania is made up of .(Suppose I: Australia ;II: Tasmania and New Zealand ; III: New Guinea and the Pacific Is lands ) A.I and II B.II and IIIC.I and IIID
6、.I,II and III 58Which of the following diagrams （图解）shows the correct relationship between Manitoulin Island(MI), Lake Huron (LH), Manitou Lake (ML) and the “several islands” (SI) mentioned at the end of the passage ?59The largest island surrounded by fresh water is in . A.a river B.a lake C.a sea D
7、.an oceanBTea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea . People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like , mainly because tea was very expensive . It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could af
8、ford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity . Some of them were not sure how to use it . They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves . Then they served them mixed with butter and salt . They soon discovered their mistake but many people used
9、to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches .2Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century . During the next few years so much tea came into th
10、e country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it . At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea . Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it , but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like wh
11、en milk was added . She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk . Because she was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did ,they also drank their tea with milk in it . Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only v
12、ery few Britons drink tea without milk . At first , tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening . No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess （公爵夫人）found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four oclock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called
13、 it . She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so , tea-time was born . 60This passage mainly discusses . A. the history of tea drinking in Britain B. how tea became a popular drink in Britain C. how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea D. how tea-time was born 61Tea became a
14、popular drink in Britain . A. in the eighteenth century B. in the sixteenth century C. in the seventeenth century D. in the late seventeenth century 62People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because . A. it tasted like milk B. it tasted more pleasant C. it became a popular drink D. Madame de S
15、evinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea 63We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of . A. a famous French lady B. the ancient Chinese C. the upper(上层的) social class D. people in
16、 Holland CSix chimps(猩猩) were introduced to a slot machine called the Chimp- O- Mat, which would give out one grape when a white coin was insert into the slot. When Dr Wolf showed a young chimp named Moos how he could win himself a grape by inserting a coin, Moos immediately picked up another coin, pushed it into the slot, then stuc
