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1、 Unit 1 Cultural relics Period 3 Learning about Language课后阅读训练. 阅读理解AGarden building is considered an important part of Chinese culture. Some people say that if you have never walked through a Chinese garden, you cannot say that you have really visited China. Traditional Chinese gardens are located(
2、位于)in North China in such places as Beihai Park, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City. In larger imperial gardens(御花园), the main buildings are connected by an imaginary(虚构的)line in the middle of the garden on the north-south axis(轴). Other features(特征)of imperial gardens are colored paintings, man-
3、made hills and lakes. Most private gardens are found in the south, especially in cities south of the Yangtze River. Private gardens were mostly built at one side or at the back of the houses. Around the beautiful scene are small open areas with beautiful shaped doors through which visitors can enjoy
4、 the sights. They are open on all sides and are often near the water so that the whole scene can be enjoyed. Suzhou, known as the home of gardens, displays the most and the best Chinese traditional private gardens. Different parts of it are examples of the garden style of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qi
5、ng Dynasties. The landscape garden contains a number of pleasant natural scenes and some fairy tales. The ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape“Jing”, which means“scene”in English. Good examples include the ten West Lake Scenes in Hangzhou, the twenty-four slim West Lake Scenes in Yangzh
6、ou and the eight Daming Lake Scenes in Jinan. 【语篇概述】本文介绍了中国园林建筑的文化。1. The passage tells mainly about_. A. an important part of Chinese cultureB. the characteristics(特征)of different styles of Chinese garden buildingsC. where foreigners can find Chinese gardensD. how to appreciate Chinese gardens【解析】选
7、B。主旨大意题。本文第一段第一句是主题句。本文主要讲中国的三类园林建筑:御花园、私家园林和风景园。故答案为B。2. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the imperial gardens?A. There is a north-south axis in the centre of the garden. B. There are man-made hills and lakes in the gardens. C. They were built because of some fairy tales. D. They have col
8、ored paintings. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。由第四段可知风景园包含童话故事, 而御花园没有, 故C项表述不正确。3. In the third paragraph, the underlined word “They” refers to_. A. private gardens B. beautiful scenesC. the houses D. rivers and lakes【解析】选A。词义猜测题。第三段主要讲的是私家园林, 故答案为A。4. “Jing”which the ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscap
9、e actually means“_”in English. A. wellB. tightC. gardenD. scene【解析】选D。细节理解题。由最后一段的第二句The ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape“Jing”, which means“scene”in English. 可知, 答案为D。BThere are many types of tombs(坟墓)in Egypt. However, throughout Egypts past, the tombs of kings and high officials,
10、 upper class artists and craftsmen, and poor people were very different. For poor people, the types of tombs they used stayed about the same, but the tombs of kings and high officials changed a lot over time. At first, the kings of Egypt were buried in what are known as mastabas in southern Egypt, m
11、ainly at a place called Abydos. They had a pit(坑)where the dead were buried in the ground covered by stones above around. Later mastabas sometimes had many rooms below and above ground to store the items that the dead person wished to take with him or her into the afterlife. Later, during a period k
12、nown as the Old Kingdom, the kings decided to be buried in a more northern location around the capital of Egypt. It was a city called the White Walls, but the Greeks called it Memphis. There were several cemeteries(墓地)around Memphis. The first was a place called Saqqara, where the earliest pyramids(
13、金字塔)were located. These were not true pyramids, as they had stepped sides rather than being smooth. Later kings experimented with true pyramids at a place called Dashure, where they finally built the first true pyramid tomb. However, the largest and grandest pyramids were later built at a place call
14、ed the Giza Plateau, which is now just outside of the modern city of Cairo, Egypt. However, there were a number of other locations where the kings of Egypt built pyramids, but almost all of them were built near Memphis in the north or only as far south as a place called the Fayoum. 【语篇概述】本文向我们介绍了古埃及
15、坟墓尤其是国王的坟墓的变化。5. With time passing by, the tombs of poor people in Egypt_. A. became deeper and deeperB. changed a lot in shapeC. moved from place to placeD. didnt change much【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据文章第一段末句For poor people, the types of tombs they used stayed about the same可知答案。6. According to Para. 2, why we
16、re many rooms built in a mastaba?A. To keep stones in them. B. To bury the dead peoples families. C. To make the tomb look bigger. D. To store things for the dead people. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据文章第二段末句Later mastabas sometimes had many rooms below and above ground to store the items that the dead person wished to take with him or her
