英语阅读考试

1、阅读积累

要提高阅读水平，词汇量与短语量非常重要。所以要提高阅读水平，我们就得学会积累词语。我们不妨这么做：在通读全文后看第二遍，遇到生词尽可能根据上下文来猜，仍猜不出意思的，就查词典，然后将这些词抄写在一本可随身携带的小本子上。

每当有空时，就拿出这个小本子来背诵记忆。这样做不但不费时，而且效果也很好。因为不时地接触、反复地记忆，词汇量会增加得很快。

2、根据上下文猜测词义

猜测词义也是一种英语阅读能力。英语阅读理解试题中有不少这样的题目。任何一个实词，只有在一定的上下文中才能表示一个确定的词义。

上下文的作用就是帮助确定上下文中的词、短语或句子的意义。据此，我们可以尽可能地利用上下文来猜测词义，即从已知推求未知，也就是用我们所熟悉的词或短语来猜测我们不熟悉的词的词义。

猜测词义时，我们可以从三个方面来考虑：1)根据上下文已知部分进行逻辑上的推理。根据上下文猜测词义的方法有下列几种：根据定义或解释猜测词义;根据并列、同位关系猜测词义;根据同义、反义、因果关系猜测词义。

2)运用语法知识进行语法分析。3)依靠常识和经验做出判断。

3、寻找出处，对号入座

由于阅读填表题要以所读材料为依据，在通常情况下，每个空格的所填内容一般可从给定材料中找到出处或依据，在做题时要充分利用这一特点，将“空格”与“出处”对号入座，然后根据表格中已有信息的表现形式，准确填出所缺内容。

同时，值得注意的是，如果表格所填信息与原文中的“出处”基本相同，则可直接对号入座;如果表格信息与原文中的“出处”有较大出入，则要进行适当的转换。

4、逻辑推理，做好深层理解题

在实际阅读中，有时作者并未把意图说出来，阅读者要根据字面意思，通过语篇逻辑关系，研究细节的暗示，推敲作者的态度，理解文章的寓义。要求读者对文字的表面信息进行分析、挖掘和逻辑推理，不能就事论事，以偏概全。推理题在提问中常用的词有：infer,imply,suggest,indicate等。

Acting is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young person thinking of going on the stage is“Don‟t!”.But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act，although the chances of his becoming famous are slim. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama only students who show promise and talent are accepted，and the course lasts two the young actor or actress takes up work with a theatrical company(剧团)，usually as an assistant stage manager This means doing everything that there is to do in the theatre and occasionally acting in very small parts It is very hard work indeed，the hours are long and the salary is tiny.

Of course，some people have remarkable chances which lead to fame and Success without this long and hard Pratt，for example，was just an ordinary girl working in a bicycle film producer happened to catch sight of her one morning waiting at a bus stop，as he drove past in his stopped and got out to speak to the asked if she would like to go to the film studio to do a test，and she thought he was joking Then she got angry and said she would call the police It took the producer twenty minutes to convince Connie that he was serious The test was within a few weeks she was playing the leading part opposite one of the most famous actors of the day But chances like this happen once in a blue moon

36 From the very beginning，the author puts it clearly that acting is a profession __A____

A sought after by too many difficult for young people

slim people only can go into without special training

someone who feels he must act，it is very likely that _D____

will become a film star at long last B he will become a stage manager

C he will be well paid will end up without any Success

film producer found Connie Pratt one morning when she was __D__

work in a bicycle factory past him in her car

to a film studio for a bus

few weeks after the Pratt found herself __B____

A the most famous actress of the world the leading female role in a play

famous as the greatest actor of the world less famous than the leading actor of the day

40 The concluding sentence “chances like this happen once in a blue moon” means D

A this is something which happens once in a while is a highly profitable chance

is something highly possible D this is a very rare chance

演艺界是一个人口密度过高的职业。对于想登上舞台的年轻人的唯一建议就是不要进入。但是想劝阻那些明知成功的机会很渺茫却执意要做演员的人，这种说教是无用的。要做演员通常办法就是去戏剧学院进修。通常这里只接受有前途和有天赋的学生，课程要花2年的时间。之后，年轻的女艺人或者男艺人以舞台助理的身份，参与到剧团的工作。这意味着要做和舞台相关的.所有事务和偶尔的跑龙套。这确实是很辛苦的工作，工作时间长，薪水又少的可怜。

当然，有些人没有经过长期辛苦训练，而是是通过不寻常的机会就获得了声望和成功。例如说，Connie Pratt原本是自行车厂的一个普通女工。某个早晨她在公车站等车的时候被一个开车路过的电影制作人看中了。制作人停车出来和她交谈，问她是否愿意来摄影棚试镜。Connie认为他只是在开玩笑罢了。最后她生气了，还威胁说要叫警察。最后制作人花了20分钟的时间让Connie相信他是认真的。试镜很成功。几个星期之后，她就作为女主角和当时很有名的一个男演员在一部戏中演对手戏了。但是，类似这样的机会少之又少啊。

Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?

The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker‟s family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn‟t tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.

He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.

31. The main idea of the passage is __B_.

A. James Watt invented the steam engine

B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure

C. how much power does a horse have

D. why Watt‟s engine is called a ten horse-power engine

32. The story says that Watt made the first __D__.

A. engine B. horse-power engine C. useful engine D. widely used steam engine

33. James Watt was born in _A___.

A. a worker‟s family B. a farmer‟s family C. a teacher‟s family D. a doctor‟s

steam engine

34. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___.

A. measure the work his engine could do B. tell people how powerful his engine was C. lift a 3300-pound weight D. both A and B

35. One horse-power means the __A__.

A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse