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1、.阅读理解一1. There was once an ant that was very thirsty. It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any. Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it. The ant drank the water, which saved its life. The water was actually a tear fro
2、m a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings. The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds. Why are you sad asked the ant. Im the prisoner of a giant. the girl
3、told the ant. He wont let me go until Ive made three separate heaps of grain, barley大麦and rye黑麦out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mi*ed together. That will take you a month! the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds. I know, the girl cried, and if I havent finished by tomorro
4、w, the giant will eat me for his supper! Dont cry, the ant said, my friends and I will help you. Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds. The ne*t morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go. Thus it was one of her tears that saved her
5、 life. 曾经有一只蚂蚁,它很渴,为了寻找水到处跑,但没找到。当蚂蚁几乎要渴死的时候,一大滴水掉了下来。蚂蚁喝了这点水,挽救了他的生命。那些水实际上是来自一位正在哭泣的小姑娘。因为她太伤心了,眼泪变得很神奇,突然蚂蚁开场说人类的语言了。蚂蚁抬起头,看到年轻的姑娘坐在一大堆的种子前面。你为什么伤心? 蚂蚁问。我是一个巨人的囚犯。女孩告诉蚂蚁。他让我把混合在一起的谷子,大麦、黑麦种子全局部开,才让我走。这将需要你一个月! 蚂蚁看了看这一大堆种子,说。我知道, 女孩哭了,如果我明天还没有完成,巨人将把我作为他的晚饭吃掉!不要哭了, 蚂蚁说,我和我的朋友会帮助你。不久,成千上万的蚂蚁为了别离这三种
6、种子一直在工作中。第二天当巨人看到这项工作已经做了,他让女孩走了。因此,正是她的眼泪挽救了她的生命。(1)、The ant was playing when it ran here and there.当蚂蚁到处跑的时候是他正在玩。A:TB:F答案:B(2)、The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.当蚂蚁快要死的时候,一滴水落到了它身上。A:TB:F答案:A(3)、The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.小女孩那会儿在哭因为她想吃晚餐。A
7、:TB:F答案:B(4)、The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.如果小女孩没能完成工作,巨人将会吃掉她。A:TB:F答案:A(5)、The ants friends saved the girls life.蚂蚁的朋友挽救了这个女孩的生命。A:TB:F答案:A2、Languages are remarkably comple* and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient
8、means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives. A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the
9、 other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is e*tremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as
10、the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.语言好似文化中非常复杂而奇妙的各种器官。在各文化中,语言包含了最快捷,最有效的沟通手段。要学习一门外语就是学习另一种文化。用一个诗人兼哲学家的话说 一个人能说多少种语言,他就能体验多少种生活。文化与语言的关系如同就大脑与身体,是必要的。其中一个是另一个的一局部,没有了另一个,任何一方
11、都不能正常运行。学习一门外语,最好先从语言的非语言因素开场学。比方手势,肢体语言等等。在英国,眼睛接触是非常重要的。直接的眼睛接触会带来理解,正如英语有句俗话说 :意见一样。 我们学会直视*人的眼睛,这样才能与说英语的本国人保持意见一致。(1)、The best title for this passage is Language and Culture. 这篇文章最好的题目是,语言与文化。A:TB:F答案:A(2)、According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learni
12、ng its body language. 根据这篇文章,学习外语的唯一途径是从学习肢体语言开场。A:TB:F答案:B(3)、According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language. 根据这篇文章,手势是语言中的图片。A:TB:F答案:B(4)、To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. 学习一门外语就是学习另一种文化。A:TB:F答案:A(5)、Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultur
13、es. 在所有的文化中,直接的眼睛交流带来的是相互理解。A:TB:F答案:B3、Oil is so important that it is sometimes called black gold. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the mat
14、erial. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil. Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways o
15、f finding oil. One tool measures the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this black gold. 石油非常重要,它有时候被称为黑金。我们大概一半的能源来自于石油。我们用它来驱动汽车,运转工厂,为我们的家,办公室和学校供暖。许多日常的东西都由石油制造。你T恤的材料里就可能有石油。你用来洗手的肥皂也可能来自于石油。你最喜欢的塑料玩具是石油做的。石油很难发现,因为它藏在地下深处。曾经,人们知道哪里有石油的唯一途径是看它从哪里冒出来。现在,我们有各种方法去探测石油。其中一种方法是测量