语篇分级演练(1)

- Passage 1 -

It was Jim’s birthday, and he was five years old. He got a lot of nice birthday presents from his family, and one of them was a beautiful drum (鼓). “Who gave him that thing?” Jim’s father asked when he saw it. “His grandfather did,” answered Jim’s mother.

Jim like his drum very much. He made a terrible noise with it, but his father didn’t mind. He was working during the day and Jimmy was already in bed. When he got home in the evening, he couldn’t hear the noise.

But one of the neighbors didn’t like the noise at all, so she took a sharp knife and went to Jim’s house while he was hitting his drum one day. She said to him, “Hello, Jim, there is something very nice inside your drum. Here is a knife. Open the drum and let’s find it.”

( )1. Jim got a lot of nice presents from his ________.

A. family B. friends

C. teachers D. classmates

( )2. Who gave Jim the drum?

A. His father.

B. His mother.

C. His grandfather.

D. His neighbour.

( )3. Why didn’t Jim’s father stop him from making noise with the drum?

A. Because he liked Jim very much.

B. Because Jim was in bed.

C. Because he didn’t hear the noise.

D. Jim only played in the evening.

( )4. One of the neighbors ________.

A. liked Jim very much

B. wanted to show Jim a sharp knife

C. didn’t like the noise at all

D. enjoyed listening to the sound of the

drum

( )5. What did Jim’s neighbor really want to do?

A. To make a noise on his drum with a knife.

B. To stop him making noises.

C. To show him how to hit the drum.

D. To find something nice in his drum.

- Passage 2 -

Some children are flying kites near the river. They are very high and Peter can see them in the classroom. After lunch his aunt comes to see his mother and brings a kite to him. It looks like a bird. He wants to fly it but his mother doesn’t let him do so. “It’s time to go to school,” says his mother, “You can play it after dinner.” The boy is unhappy, and says goodbye to his aunt and leaves. Now he is in the classroom but he doesn’t listen to Miss Black. She writes something on the blackboard and then turns to the class and finds this. “Name nine things with milk in them, Peter,” she says. The boy doesn’t hear her and still sits there. A boy in Row 4 taps (拍) his back and he understands it. He stands up and Miss Black asks him the question again. He thinks for some time and then says,“Yes, madam, tea, coffee, cake and... err... six cows (奶牛).”

( )1. There is ________ near Peter’s

school.

A. some water B. a river

C. a lake D. a park

( )2. In the classroom Peter can see

________.

A. some children playing in the park

B. his aunt buying a kite for him

C. some students reading beside the

lake

D. some children flying kites near

the river

( )3. Peter’s aunt comes to see his mother

________.

A. in the morning

B. in the evening

C. after dinner

D. after lunch

( )4. Peter’s mother tells him to play the kite ________.

A. after breakfast

B. quickly

C. after dinner

D. in school

( )5. In class Peter only thinks ________.

A. his teacher’s words

B. things with milk in them

C. how to fly the kite

D. how to answer the teacher’s

question

One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents and then rode off a forest to see how the trees were growing.

In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometers from their camp, it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He could not find the road. Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the other went to his house. But all was white snow. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?

Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometers in such cold weather!

It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped. Where were they? None of them could tell. Bob looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents!

( )1. Bob and his two friends went to the forest to ________.

A. build their camp

B. find their way home

C. enjoy the mountains in the snow

D. watch the trees in the forest

( )2. They could not find their way back because ________.

A. there was only one road to their

camp

B. they couldn’t decide which of the

two roads led to their tents

C. there were no roads in the mountains at all

D. everything was covered by the white

snow

( )3. It is clear that they wanted the horses to take them to ________.

A. John’s house B. the camp

C. the forest D. the mountains

( )4. The horses stopped because ________.

A. it was getting late

B. they were tired after running for a

long way

C. they knew that they had got to the

camp

D. they had seen Bob’s house

( )5. The story happened ________.

A. on a cold winter day

B. on a dark snowy evening

C. in a cold camp far from villages

D. at night when nothing could be

seen

Reading is the key to school success and, like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. An excellent sportsman practices until he can play quickly, correctly and without thinking. Educators call it “automaticity (自动性)”.

A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and finding the meaning of the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less, reading by the phrase (短语). With automaticity, he doesn’t have to think about the meaning of words, so he can give all his attention to the meaning of the text.

It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found that automatic readers in the first grade not only read almost three times as fast as the others, but also got better results in exams.

According to Rossman, the key to automaticity is the amount (数量) of time a child spends reading, not his IQ. Any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will probably reach automaticity. It can happen if a child turns off TV just one night for reading at home.

You can test yourself by reading something new which is suitable (适合) for your level. If you read aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, you probably are an automatic reader. If you read brokenly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, you need more practice.

( )1. “Reading is the key to school success” means that reading ________.

A. helps school develop faster

B. is a key to a successful school

C. helps students go to a key school

D. can improve students’ learning

results

( )2. Children with “automaticity” can read faster because they ________.

A. know how to read the words

B. do not have to think while reading

C. read by themselves without any help

D. pay attention to the meaning of the

text

( )3. Rossman tells that any child who ________ will possibly be an automatic reader.

A. turns off TV one night 4 weeks

B. reads books by the word quickly

C. spends an hour reading every day

D. gets the same grades as others in

exams

( )4. The underlined word “stumble” in the passage means “________” in Chinese.

A. 结结巴巴地读

B. 全神贯注地读

C. 心不在焉地读

D. 声情并茂地读

( )5. The best title for this passage is “________”.

A. IQ Is the Key to the Automaticity

B. TV Is Bad for Children’s Reading

C. Automaticity Depends on Practice

D. Automatic Readers Will Be Successful