6:第二篇Reading Comprehension: Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the
A.disrupt people's natural relations
B.make them worry about crime
C.cause them not to show concern for one another
D.cause them to be suspicious of each other
A.disrupt people's natural relations
B.make them worry about crime
C.cause them not to show concern for one another
D.cause them to be suspicious of each other
第二篇
A Tale of Scottish Rural Life
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song(1932)was voted “the best Scottish novel of all time” by Scotland's reading public in 2005. Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspens of the lives of Scotland’s poor rural farmers. It has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades.
The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War l. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the community and a little outside it.
Grassic Gibbon gives US the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine(女主人公). We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father;experience tragedy(her mother's suicide and murder of her twin children); and learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.
But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris. 1t is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening section tells of Kinraddie's long history, in a language that imitates the place’s changing patterns of speech and writing.
The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. It is told from Chris’ point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows eye, body else’s business and nothing is ever forgotten.
Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War l. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris’ husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in the way his widow is told. In fact, the Germans aren’t responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.
If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks ahead. It is a “Sunset Song” but is concerned too with the new Kinraddie, indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.
36 What is Sunset Song mainly about?
A The First World War.
B The beauty of the sunset.
C The new European world.
D The lives of rural Scottish farmers.
A. on the American continent.
B. in the southeastern part of the US.
C. beyond the Mississippi River.
D. in the western territory.
第二篇
Mental Retardation(智力迟钝)
Mental retardation is a condition in which people have lower than normal intelligence and are unable to function at the level expected for their age. People with mental retardation are usually born with it, or it develops early in their lire. They may also have some difficulty with daily living skills such as learning to read and write and caring for themselves.
Doctors and other professionals determine that a person has mental retardation based on their intelligence and how well they can do everyday activities. Intelligence is the ability to learn and understand. Levels of intelligence are measured by special tests called intelligence tests. The score a person gets on one of these tests gives a numerical(数字的)measure of a person's intelligence. This is called an intelligence quotient(智商)or IQ.
An average score on an IQ test is about 90 to 110. A person with mental retardation will usually score below 75 on an IQ test.
The IQ test alone does not determine whether someone is mentally retarded. A person must also have trouble with everyday activities such as getting dressed, eating, washing, or learning basic reading Writing and arithmetic skills.
Mental retardation is not a disease itself. It cannot be cured and it's not contagious(传染的). This condition can be caused by several things that injure the brain or don’t allow the brain to develop normally. Many times we don't know why a person has mental retardation.
Sometimes it may be caused by genes. Genes are chemical units found in every cell. They carry the instructions telling cells what to do. Sometimes, children receive abnormal genes from their parents.
A defective gene may also develop spontaneously. Neither parent would have passed on the gene, but the gene changes before the baby develops.
Some other problems that can cause mental retardation also happen before a child is born. It is important for the brain to develop properly if a child is to have normal intelligence. "Planning a pregnancy is the most important decision most of us will make in our lifetime. A healthy lifestyle. and good medical care should begin before a woman becomes pregnant and continue throughout the pregnancy," says Jodi Rucquoi, a genetic counselor from Connecticut. If a woman abuses alcohol or drugs or doesn't eat well, there is a risk to the developing baby. Also, a premature birth or problems during childbirth can sometimes harm the baby's developing brain. While premature babies are generally fine. There is a greater chance that they may have mental retardation.
In some cases, a young child can develop mental retardation after being sick with a serious infection or other illness, or after suffering a bad head injury.
36 A child can be taken as mentally retarded If he or she
A was born prematurely.
B has lower than normal intelligence.
C has low intelligence and low daily liing skills.
D has normal intelligence but difficulties In learning.
A、English for science and technology
B、New horizon college English
C、reading strategy for CET 6
D、English for forestry science
A Survey on Reading
The Results of Survey on Reading
The Number
of Students
Percentage of
the Total
The Total Amount
of Reading in a Term
Reading Speed
(words per hour)
Performance
(scores)
100
40%
350,000
3,000
>80
80
32%
300,000
2,500
70-73
60
22%
250,000
2,000
60-69
30
6%
<100,000
1,500
<60
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