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1、Module 6 Old and New Period 3 Grammar. 阅读理解AAs is known to us all, baths and bathing have long been considered of medical importance to man. In Greece there are the ruins of a water system for baths built over 3, 000 years ago. The Romans had warm public baths. In some baths, as many 3, 000 persons
2、could bathe at the same time. Treating disease by taking a bath has been popular for centuries. Modern medical bathing first became popular in Europe and by the late 1700s had also become popular in the United States. For many years frequent bathing was believed to be bad for ones health. Ordinary b
3、athing just to keep clean was avoided, and perfume was often used to cover up body smells! By the 1700s doctors began to say that soap and water were good for health. They believed that it was good for people to be clean. Slowly, people began to bathe more frequently. During the Victorian Age of the
4、 late 19th century, taking a bath on Saturday night became common. In the United States ordinary bathing was slow to become popular. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, many Americans were known as “The Great Unwashed! ” In one American city, for example, a person was only allowed to take a ba
5、th every thirty days! That was a law! Frequency of bathing today is partly a matter of habit. People know that bathing for cleanliness is important to health. Doctors know that dirty bodies increase the chance of diseases. As a result, in the United States, people generally bathe often. Some people
6、bath once a day at least. They consider a daily bath essential to good health. 【语篇概述】文章讲述了洗澡的起源, 以前的人们并不喜欢洗澡, 而后来医生说洗澡有利于健康时, 洗澡很快开始流行起来, 直到现在成为了全世界人们的习惯。1. A water system for baths was built byover 3, 000 years ago. A. the GreeksB. the RomansC. the AmericansD. the Europeans【解析】选A。细节理解题。从文章第一段的第二句可知
7、, 在3 000多年前希腊建立了洗澡的水系统。2. In the 18th century doctors believed that being clean was. A. good for healthB. unimportantC. harmfulD. important【解析】选A。细节理解题。从文章第四段的第一句可知, 答案选A。3. The underlined word “perfume” in the third paragraph probably means. A. a strange smelling substanceB. good healthC. a sweet s
8、melling substanceD. large wealth【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据第三段第二句可知, 用香水来掩盖他们身体的气味。4. Which of the following gives the main idea of the passage? A. Everybody in America takes a daily bath. B. A bath a day keeps the doctor away. C. Bathing has become easier and cheaper. D. Taking baths has become popular in the
9、world. 【解析】选D。主旨大意题。从最后一段可知, 现在洗澡在全世界都非常流行了。BThis may be one of the few occasions where death doesnt seem to be such a horrible thing. Yang Jiang, a renowned Chinese author and translator, passed away on May 25 in Beijing at the age of 104. It is a great loss for Chinese literature. But for her, its
10、 probably like going home. After losing her daughter Qian Yuan in 1997 and her husbandthe well-known writer and poet Qian Zhongshu-in 1998, Yang described the toll death has affected her life. “We three have separated, leaving only me behind to clean up the scene, ”Yang wrote in her book We Three(我们
11、仨), which was published in 2004. “I am alone, missing us three. ”The spouse(配偶)of an influential scholar like Qian Zhongshu, who wrote the masterpiece Fortress Besieged(围城), could have easily been overshadowed. But Yang was not. Even Qian himself described her as“the most chaste wife as well as the
12、most talented girl”in China, a place where it was once believed to be impossible for a woman to be both a wife and a gifted scholar. One of Yangs best-known novels is 1998s Baptism(洗澡). With“her patent style of irony and wit”, Yang described how Chinese intellectuals(知识分子)adjusted to the new social
13、order brought by the“Cultural Revolution”(19661976), commented David Der-wei Wang, a professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. “Even when political fervor and human cruelty is being observed, Yang Jiang never loses her sense of humor and compassion, ”he said in a blurb for her book. Yan
14、g was also a devoted translator. Having studied in Britain and France, she was fluent both in English and French. But after considering several English and French translations of the Spanish classic Don Quixote(唐吉诃德)unsuitable, she started learning Spanish from scratch at the age of 47, and became t
15、he first person to translate Don Quixote into Chinese. 【语篇概述】杨绛先生逝世, 她终于可以和最爱的丈夫和女儿“我们仨”团聚了。5. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean? A. She likes going to heaven. B. She misses her husband and daughter. C. She doesnt want to live. D. She misses her own home. 【解析】选B。句意理解题。根据文章第二段可知,
16、“1997年女儿钱瑗去世, 1998年著名作家和诗人、丈夫钱钟书去世, 杨绛说两人的离世让她倍受打击”, 又根据第三段中的“I am alone, missing us three. ”可知选B。6. Qian Zhongshu thoughtof his wife Yang Jiang. A. badlyB. nothingC. highlyD. poorly【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据文章第四段中的Even Qian himself described her as“the most chaste wife as well as the most talented girl”in China, a place where it was once believed
