英语趣味阅读

　　Do you remember what a true story about someone's life is called? Yes, it is called a biography(传记). (1) he writes a biography of a person, an author(作者)must (2) a lot of research (3) facts about the person. Do you know how an author might go to find facts about (4) ?

　　After he has collected (5) facts, the author must then put them (6) and make an interesting story. In order to(为了) (7) ,the author must (8) guess what the person said and (9) he thought (10) . Then he must sometimes make up (虚构) some talks (11) the person and other people and he (12) make up some actions(活动) of the person. But authors (13) that these parts agree with(和……一致) (14) actions and talks of the person. (15) a biography is a true story of a person's life, (16) parts of it (17) made up by the author.

　　A true story about a person's life may not be a (18) . It can be an autobiography(自传). An autobiography is a true story about a person's life (19) it (20) be written by that person himself.

(1)

[　　]

(2)

[　　]

(3)

[　　]

(4)

[　　]

(5)

[　　]

(6)

[　　]

(7)

[　　]

(8)

[　　]

(9)

[　　]

(10)

[　　]

(11)

[　　]

(12)

[　　]

(13)

[　　]

(14)

[　　]

(15)

[　　]

(16)

[　　]

(17)

[　　]

(18)

[　　]

(19)

[　　]

(20)

[　　]

Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries, too. New words are also made by adding two words together. “Postman” and “grandfather” are words made up of two parts. Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. The word “photo” was made from photograph by cutting off the end of the longer word. “Plane” was made by cutting off the front part of airplane. “Smog” was made by using only the first two and last two letters from the words “smoke” and “fog”. The names of people and products can become new words. Our sandwich was named after a man named “Sandwich” .

1. The English language needs new words　　   . 　　　　

A. to make it more beautiful

B. to make up some stories

C. for new inventions and new ideas

2. The passage makes you think that　　   .

A. all the new words are borrowed from other languages

B. languages do not stay the same all the time

C. the English language has more words than other languages

3. On the whole, the passage is about. 　　　　　　　　　　

A. borrowing words from other languages

B. naming new products

C. the development of the English language

4. The word “coffee” is an example to show that　　   . 　　 

A. the English language is always changing very fast

B. English can change by borrowing words from other languages

C. English is not as perfect as some other languages

5. Which of the following is true?　　　　　　　　　　　　

A. New words in the English language come into being in different ways.

B. New English words must be longer than the older ones.

C. All the languages except English always stay the same.

英语趣味阅读

　　Do you remember what a true story about someone's life is called? Yes, it is called a biography(传记). (1) he writes a biography of a person, an author(作者)must (2) a lot of research (3) facts about the person. Do you know how an author might go to find facts about (4) ?

　　After he has collected (5) facts, the author must then put them (6) and make an interesting story. In order to(为了) (7) ,the author must (8) guess what the person said and (9) he thought (10) . Then he must sometimes make up (虚构) some talks (11) the person and other people and he (12) make up some actions(活动) of the person. But authors (13) that these parts agree with(和……一致) (14) actions and talks of the person. (15) a biography is a true story of a person's life, (16) parts of it (17) made up by the author.

　　A true story about a person's life may not be a (18) . It can be an autobiography(自传). An autobiography is a true story about a person's life (19) it (20) be written by that person himself.

1．

[　　]

2．

[　　]

3．

[　　]

4．

[　　]

5．

[　　]

6．

[　　]

7．

[　　]

8．

[　　]

9．

[　　]

10．

[　　]

11．

[　　]

12．

[　　]

13．

[　　]

14．

[　　]

15．

[　　]

16．

[　　]

17．

[　　]

18．

[　　]

19．

[　　]

20．

[　　]

阅读理解(Reading comprehension)

阅读下面短文，按要求完成文后各题。

　　Read the passage about ways to help you remember information (信息). Match (匹配) the techniques (方法) with pictures 1－6.

　　It's one thing to study, but another to actually remember the information. Have you tried these techniques?

　　a A mnemonic is a way of remembering a list of items (项目) by finding a word which contains (包括) the first letter of each. For example, to remember the names of the five Great Lakes of America－Huron, Ontario, Erie, Michigan and Superior－take the first letter of each and re-order them to make the word HOMES. Now every time you need to remember the names of the lakes, just think of lots of homes by a lake!

　　b Why not make up tapes of things you have to remember and listen to them on the way home from school, when you're cleaning your teeth, or even when you're sleeping?

　　c Little rhymes and chants help you to remember all kinds of information. For example, if you want to remember the spelling of the word beautiful, you can learn this chant:

　　Mr. B, Mr. E, Mr. A-U-T, Mr. I, Mr. F-U-L!

　　d Make up some question and answer cards, and play a quiz (知识竞赛) game with your friends. Add new questions every time you play it.

　　e Try putting your different revision notes on different coloured paper.

　　f Bombardment is a way of constantly(不断地) reminding (提醒) yourself of facts. Draw huge multicoloured fact charts (示意图) and posters (大画片) for Science, History, Geography, and any other subject where there are a lot of facts to learn. Stick (粘贴) them everywhere－inside your bedroom door, on your wardrobe (衣柜), in the kitchen.

1．________　　2．________　　3．________

4．________　　5．________　　6．________