浙江省2019-2020学年高一上学期期末英语试卷精选汇编：阅读理解专题

阅读理解专题
浙江省绍兴市201-2020学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题
第一节（共12 小题；每小题 2 分，满分24 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
A ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small island.
The two survivors, also good friends, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other choice but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they divided the land between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.
The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree beside him and he ate its fruit. The other man’s land remained barren (贫瘠的).
After a week, the first man was lonely so he prayed for a wife. The next day, another ship was completely destroyed, and the only woman survivor soon became his wife. On the other side of the island, there was still nothing.
Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes and more food. The next day, like magic, all of these were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.
Finally, the first man prayed for a ship. In the morning, he found a ship at his side of the island. The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island behind, because he considered the other man unworthy to receive God’s blessings, since none of his prayers had been answered.
As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from heaven, “Why are you leaving your companion on the island?”
“My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them,” the first man answered. “His prayers were all unanswered and so he does not deserve anything.”
“You are mistaken!” the voice rebuked him. “He had only one p rayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings.”
“Tell me,” the first man asked with great curiosity, “What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?”
“He prayed that all your prayers be answered.”
1. It can be learned from the passage that .
A. the men prayed for each other selflessly
B. the first man was a reliable and devoted friend
C. the men got along well with each other on the island
D. the men stayed separated to test the power of their prayers
2. What does the passage imply about the second man?
A. He lost his chances since he was not brave enough to show his needs.
B. His wife was another survivor sent by God to keep him company.
C. He lost heart in trouble so he deserves no God’s blessings.
D. It was his prayers that helped his friend get out of trouble.
3. What does the underlined word “rebuked” in paragraph 9 most probably mean?
A. Ignored.
B. Requested.
C. Criticized.
D. Recognized.
4. What is the message conveyed in the story?
A. Helping others is more important than helping yourself.
B. Our blessings are the fruits of our prayers alone.
C. A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
D. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
【答案】1. D 2. D 3. C 4. A
【解析】
【分析】
这是一篇记叙文。

主要通过讲述一个善良的人总是为别人祈祷的故事，告诉我们帮助他人就是帮助自己，作者通过这篇文章鼓励我们要多帮助他人。

【1题详解】
细节理解题。

根据第二段最后一句However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they divided the land between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.（然而，为了找出谁的祈祷更有力量，他们彼此把土地划分开，分别住在岛的两边）可知这些人被分开以测试他们祈祷的力量。

故选D。

【2题详解】
推理判断题。

根据最后一段“He prayed that all your prayers be answered.”（他祈祷你所有的祈祷都能得到回应。

）可推知是第二个人的祈祷帮助他的朋友摆脱了困境。

故选D。

【3题详解】
词义猜测题。

根据上文“You are mistaken!”可推知上帝的声音在责备第一个人错了，故划线单词意思为“责备，批评”。

故选C。

【4题详解】
推理判断题。

根据文章最后一段“He prayed that all your prayers be answered.”（他祈祷你所有的祈祷都能得到回应。

）以及文章主要内容为讲述一个善良的人总是为别人祈祷的故事，可知本文想告诉我们帮助他人就是帮助我们自己。

故选A。

【点睛】词义猜测题是高考阅读理解中常考题型之一，可以大致分为
①定义猜词，可以根据定义信息和举例猜测词义。

如文中常用refer to，be called或that’s to say，such as 等。

②逻辑猜词可以根据同义词、反义词、因果关系词等猜测词义，例如，similarly,the same
as,but,however,while,on the other hand,since ,because等，所猜词与这些提示词前/后面部分的含义一样、相反或是前因后果。

③语法猜词，可以根据构词法，再结合上下文进行猜词。

④语境猜词，猜测词义离不开上下文的语境，通过上下文提供的情景和线索进行合理的分析，同时还要关注其所在的整段及整篇文章。

⑤指代猜词即找出人称代词、指示代词、关系代词或关系副词等所指代的内容，做题时要注意指代词的位置，以便于判断，然后用所找的指代内容替换划线代词，核实其逻辑、意义、位置等是否一致，最后比较所找部分与选项，确定意思最接近的选项。

如第三小题，根据上文“You are mistaken!”可推知上帝的声音在责备第一个人错了，故划线单词意思为“责备，批评”。

故选C。

B
Vietnam aims to solve the relations between economic development and cultural preservation. Vietnamese cultural departments and activists have tried to preserve the historical and cultural relics in the country.
Vietnam now has more than 40,000 historical relics. These relics of various forms and history are treasures for future generations.
However, hundreds of relics are severely damaged due to the negative influence of time, war and human activities. Head of Hanoi Relics Management Board, Nguyen Doan Tuan, says rescue work must preserve the relics’ soul: “We cannot replace rui ned construction with new materials. We must preserve its shape, size and style. We need to pay attention to every brick replaced so that it looks exactly like the original.”
Most relics have to rely on tourist fees for repair and rescue work. Director of Van Mieu Cultural and Science Center, Dang Kim Ngoc, says that the relics must be promoted widely to attract more visitors and bring
in more income for repair and preservation: “We provide constant guide services for visitors so that they understand more about our relics. At the same time, a natural surrounding of the relic has been ensured, including the grass field and garden to improve its scenic value.”
The local government agreed that the relics must be turned to the community for shared efforts in the preservation work. Director of Vietnam Revolution Museum Dang Quoc Quan, said that the community must be guided in the preservation and protection, “The UNESCO aims to let local community take part in the preservation of relics. We have seen limitations in the preservation of relics, especially festival-related groups of buildings. This requires management and guidance by the government.”
Nguyen Thi Minh Ly from the Department of Heritage says the community should be guided in proper behaviors towards reli cs: “This will ensure the protection of cultural relics in later generations. Creative restoration (修复) must be based on previous (先前的) values.”
Experts have called for a systematic (系统的) guidance by the state in local level preservation while promoting creative thinking in restoration for each relic.
5. Where is the passage most probably taken from?
A. A government survey.
B. A research paper.
C. A newspaper report.
D. A travel guide.
6. Which of the following is not the reasons for the damaged relics in Vietnam?
A. Human activities.
B. Poor building materials.
C. War influence.
D. The passing of time.
7. It can be inferred from paragraphs 4-6 that to preserve relics, the government should .
A. turn to the UNESCO for financial help
B. improve the scenic value by raising tourist fees
C. encourage the community to join in the rescue work
D. make full use of the money raised by the local people
8. What might be the best title for the passage?
A. Guide the Community in Proper Behaviors
B. Replace the Ruined Construction with a New Style
C. Hundreds of Relics in Vietnam Are In Ruins
D. Experts Call for a Systematic Way to Preserve Relics
【答案】5. C 6. B 7. C 8. D
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。

主要说明了越南文化部门和活动人士一直在努力保护本国的历史和文化遗产，文章说明了文物遭受破坏的原因和文物保护的现状。

就此专家们呼吁国家对地方一级的保护进行系统的指导，同时促进对每一件文物的创造性修复。

【5题详解】
推理判断题。

根据第一段中Vietnamese cultural departments and activists have tried to preserve the historical and cultural relics in the country.（越南文化部门和活动人士一直在努力保护本国的历史和文化遗产）以及文章主要内容为介绍专家们呼吁用一种系统的方法来保护文物，分析选项可推测文章最有可能来自一份新闻报道。

故选C。

6题详解】
细节理解题。

根据第三段第一句However, hundreds of relics are severely damaged due to the negative influence of time, war and human activities.（然而，由于时间、战争和人类活动的负面影响，数以百计的文物遭到严重破坏）可知B选项“建筑材料差”不属于越南文物损毁的原因。

故选B。

【7题详解】
推理判断题。

根据第五段中The local government agreed that the relics must be turned to the community for shared efforts in the preservation work. Director of Vietnam Revolution Museum Dang Quoc Quan, said that the community must be guided in the preservation and protection, “The UNESCO aims to let local community take part in the preservation of relics.（当地政府同意，文物必须移交给社区，共同努力进行保护工作。

越南革命博物馆馆长Dang Quoc Quan说，社会必须在保护和保护的指导下，“联合国教科文组织的目的是让当地社会参与文物的保”）可以推断，为了保护文物，政府应该鼓励社区参与救援工作。

故选C。

【8题详解】
主旨大意题。

根据最后一段Experts have called for a systematic guidance by the state in local level preservation while promoting creative thinking in restoration for each relic.（专家们呼吁国家对地方一级的保护进行系统的指导，同时促进对每一件文物的创造性修复）以及结合文章主要内容为越南文化部门和活动人士一直在努力保护本国的历史和文化遗产可知，故D选项“专家们呼吁用一种系统的方法来保护文物”符合文章标题。

故选D。

C
Earthquakes usually happen on the edges of large sections of th e Earth’s plates. These plates slowly move over a long period of time. Sometimes the edges, which are called fault lines, can get stuck, but the plates keep
moving. Pressure slowly starts to build up where the edges are stuck and, once the pressure gets strong enough, the plates will suddenly move causing an earthquake.
Generally before and after a large earthquake there will be smaller earthquakes. The ones that happen before are called foreshocks. The ones that happen after are called aftershocks. Scientists don’t really know if an earthquake is a foreshock until the bigger earthquake occurs.
Shock waves from an earthquake that travel through the ground are called seismic waves (地震波). They are most powerful at the center of the earthquake, but they travel through much of the earth and back to the surface. They move quickly at 20 times the speed of sound.
Scientists use seismic waves to measure how big an earthquake is. They use a device called a seismograph (地震仪) to measure the size of the waves. The size of the waves is called the magnitude.
To tell the strength of an earthquake scientists use a scale called the Moment Magnitude Scale or MMS (it used to be called the Richter scale). The larger the number on the MMS scale, the larger the earthquake. You usua lly won’t even notice an earthquake unless it measures at least a 3 on the MMS scale. Here are some examples of what may happen depending on the scale:
4.0-Could shake your house as if a large truck were passing close by. Some people may not notice.
5.0-If you are in a car, it may shake. Glasses and dishes may rattle. Windows may break.
6.0- Items will fall off shelves. Walls in some houses may crack and windows break. Pretty much everyone near the center will feel this one.
7.0- Weaker buildings will collapse and cracks will occur in bridges and on the street.
8.0- Many buildings and bridges fall down. Large cracks in the earth.
9.0 and up- Whole cities flattened and large-scale damage.
9. If a 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit your area, what might happen?
A. Your house might shake violently.
B. People might feel no shaking at all.
C. The family photo may fall off the wall.
D. There might be cracks everywhere on the street.
10. What does the author mean by saying the underlined sentence in paragraph2?
A. It’s still hard to tell foreshocks from main earthquakes.
B. Scientists can’t exactly measure the strength of an earthquake.
C. People may ignore foreshocks when an earthquake is not so strong.
D. The earthquake won’t cause any damage unless it reaches 9.0 MMS.
11. The writer explains the concepts concerning the earthquake by .
A. listing examples
B. giving explanations
C. making comparisons
D. offering data
12. The passage is written mainly to .
A. enrich people’s knowledge of self-rescue in disasters
B. stress the importance of earthquake rescue
C. issue early warnings before an earthquake
D. present facts about the earthquake
【答案】9. C 10. A 11. B 12. D
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。

主要介绍了关于地震的相关事实，如地震产生的原因、大地震前后会有小地震、地震波的含义、地震强度的测量方式以及不同级别的地震可能会发生的一些事情。

【9题详解】
推理判断题。

根据倒数第五段5.0-If you are in a car, it may shake. Glasses and dishes may rattle. Windows may break.（如果你在车里，它可能会摇晃。

杯子和盘子可能会发出响声。

窗户可能破碎）分析选项可知C选项：如果你所在地区发生5.0级地震，全家福可能会从墙上掉下来有可能发生。

故选C。

【10题详解】
词义猜测题。

根据上文Generally before and after a large earthquake there will be smaller earthquakes. The ones that happen before are called foreshocks. The ones that happen after are called aftershocks. 一般来说，大地震前后会有小地震。

之前发生的被称为前震。

之后发生的称为余震。

可推知直到大地震发生，科学家才真正知道这次地震是否是前震。

可知划线句子意思为“前震和主震仍然很难区分”，故选A。

【11题详解】
推理判断题。

根据第一段中These plates slowly move over a long period of time. Sometimes the edges, which are called fault lines, can get stuck, but the plates keep moving. Pressure slowly starts to build up where the edges are stuck and, once the pressure gets strong enough, the plates will suddenly move causing an earthquake.（这些板块在很长一段时间内缓慢移动。

有时被称为断层线的边缘会被卡住，但板块仍在移动。

在边缘被卡住的地方，压力开始慢慢增大，一旦压力足够大，板块就会突然移动，引起地震）主要为解释地震产生的原因，可知作者通过解释原因的论证方式来解释了有关地震的概念。

故选B。

【12题详解】
推理判断题。

根据文章第一句Earthquakes usually happen on the edges of large sections of the Earth’s p lates.
（地震通常发生在地球板块的大部分边缘）以及后文主要说明了关于地震的相关知识，可知这篇文章主要是为了介绍地震的相关事实。

故选D。

浙江省湖州市2019-2020学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题
第一节（共10 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分25 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
This past fall, my husband and I stopped into the local Aldi for shopping. While checking out, I did my usual practice of replying to the cashier's usual “How are you today? with a short but real answer. Then I looked at her and said, "And how are YOU doin g?” and waited kindly and expectantly for an answer.
She was a little surprised, but then she got started. As it turned out, her elderly grandfather was the most important in her mind, but he had been struggling lately and in hospital. Her worry was obvious, despite her bravery. "I know he is ninety-one, but...,” Her voice turned into a sad whisper before she caught herself. “If it won't offend （冒犯）you, I will pray for him," I said. “Oh, tha nk you!” she replied.
Several weeks or so in the future, we wound u p in her line again. After the usual “How are you?”I paused, then quietly asked,“I hope this is not a bad question, but how is your grandfather doing?”
I could tell she had to think a moment to place me and to recall why I was asking. The her face split into a huge smile full of light, and she started excitedly telling us about how he was a tough old bird, how he had recovered, and was doing well. She kept bubbling over even after we had moved to the bagging area.
I was amazed at how something so seemingly small meant so much to her, but it makes sense, really. Sometimes all we need is for someone to see us and care, to care if we are hurting and to celebrate with us in our joy.
Taking the time to listen when we ask, “How are you?” is such an almost small action, only taking a few moments out of our day, yet how important that tiny amount of time can be!
We really are all in this together.
21.Why did the cashier feel a little surprised at the word by the writer?
A. Because she didn't know how to answer her greeting at all.
B. Because she was in deep thought of her grandfather completely.
C.Because she was praying for her grandfather in the heart then.
D.Because she hadn't thought the writer greeted her with great concern.
22.What does the phrase kept bubbling over in paragraph 4 really mean?
A. Continued bubbling.
B. Talked on and on.
C. Moved here and there.
D. Greeted to us all the time.
23.What can we learn from the story?
A. When meeting, greet each other.
B. Greeting warmly, reward fully.
C. A warm greeting makes a difference.
D.Treat anybody like your relatives.
B
A severe drought (干旱)has caused water levels in Southeast Asia’s Mekong River to drop to their lowest in more than 100 years. It may have harmful effects on fish, as well as the tens of millions of people living and working along the river, experts warn.
This year, the dry conditions in the Mekong region happened due to warm Pacific Ocean currents (洋流)known as the El Nino effect. But climate change is also a driving factor, experts say, causing the monsoon (季风)season to shorten sharply. The situation was made worse by water dam operators upstream, withholding water for their own purposes.
Many rice farmers in the area have been unable to plant their main crop, raising fears of a heavily decreased harvest this fall. Less water flow could also have a bad influence on fish reproduction in the Mekong River basin. This is normally the time when fish use rising water levels to reproduce their young, but there is little sign of this happening so far this year.
Perhaps even more alarming, experts expect that droughts and damage to the water of the Mekong will become more common, and they warn that it could eventually destroy the entire ecosystem.
Starting from the Tibetan highlands, the Mekong River flows through six Asian countries, including China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, before emptying into the South China Sea. The river basin is home to the largest inland fishery in the world and more than 60 million people depend on it to make a living.
Few rivers in the world rise and fall with the seasons as much as the Mekong, which can drop up to 40 feet in some places at the end of the dry season. When the monsoon rains arrive, they normally produce a flood that brings with it sediments（沉枳物) as well as enormous amounts of larvae（幼虫）and tiny fish, including many endangered species, such as the Mekong giant catfish, that are swept into the Tonle Sap Lake where they
can grow.
24.How many reasons are there for the drought of Mekong River this year?
A. One
B.Two
C. Three
D. Four.
25.What can we know from the passage?
A.Droughts are likely to happen more frequently in the future.
B.The water levels of the Mekong River is becoming lower and lower.
C.The Mekong River starts from the Tibetan highlands and ends in the Tonic Sap Lake.
D.The harvest offish in the River hasn't been greatly a fleeted because of the droughts.
26.What's the attitude of experts to water flow of Mekong River in future?
A. Positive.
B. Unconcerned.
C. Worried.
D. Negative.
27.In which magazine can we most probably find this passage?
A. National Geography.
B. Scientific American.
C. Overseas English.
D. Tourism.
C
Not too long ago a thirty-year-old financial analyst was complaining to me over a period of months about her tendency to procrastinate（拖延）in her job. We had worked through her feelings about her employers and how they related to her feelings about authority in general, and to her parents specifically. We had examined her attitudes toward work and success and how these related to her marriage, her sexual identity, her desire to compete with her husband, and her fears of such competition. Yet despite all this standard psychoanalytic（精神分析的）work, she continued to procrastinate as much as ever. Finally one day, we dared to look at the obvious.
"Do you like cakes?" I asked her.
She replied that she did.
“Which part of the cake do you like better,”I went on, “ the cake or the frosting（糖霜）?”
“Oh, the frosting!” she responded enthusiastically.
“And how do you eat a piece of cake?” I inquired, feeling that I must be the most silly psychiatrist that ever lived.
“I eat the frostin g first, of course,”she replied.
From her cake-eating habits we went on to examine her work habits, and, as was to be expected we discovered that on any given day she would devote the first hour to the more satisfying half of her work while the remaining six hours to the objectionable （令人反感的）another half.
I suggested that if she were to force herself to finish the unpleasant part of her job during the first hour, she would then be free to enjoy the other six.
It seemed to me, I explained, that one hour of pain followed by six hours of pleasure was preferable to one hour of pleasure followed by six hours of pain. She agreed, and, being basically a person of strong will, she no longer procrastinated.
Delaying satisfaction is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to improve the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only good way to live.
28.Why did the author ask about her friend's cake-eating habits?
A. To have a relaxing chat with her.
B. To know more about her habits in her life and work.
C. To share their favorite food.
D. To find out something obvious.
29.What was the advice from the author?
A. Forcing herself to finish the unpleasant part of the job.
B. Being free to enjoy the job.
C. Experiencing and overcoming the pain first.
D. Being a person of strong will.
30.Which of the following will be the best title of the passage?
A. A friend's problem.
B. Delaying your satisfaction.
C. Experience the pain.
D. A cake in life.
21. D 22. B 23. C 24. C 25. A 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. C 30. B
浙江省台州市2019-2020学年第一学期高一年级期末质量评估英语试题
第一节(共10小题:每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

A
Stop in fo r lunch at Drexell Honeybee's 15-table restaurant and you'll find a menu filled with down-home cooking:
beef and potatoes, chicken and dumplings, and mac and
cheese. What you won’t find on the menu: prices. At Drexell&
Honeybee’s, customers pay what they want--or what they can. They leave their money in a donation(捐
助)box near
the door. The box is behind a screen (屏幕)that separates it from the rest of the room, so if you can’t pay for your meal
today --as many people in this poor town often can't---nobody will
know, and, more importantly, nobody will judge.
How much a customer pays may be different, but it almost always comes with thanks.
“Today I wasn’t able to eat and
you guys helped me,” one customer wrote in a thank-you note. “Thank you for bringing blessing (福祉) to this town and
me.” Inside the note were twenty cents.
“We want to be that beacon of light to someone in need,” says Lisa Thomas- McMillan, who opened the restaurant
with her husband, Freddie McMillan, last year. “We might not be
able to pull it all out, but we're going to try to help you
in some kind of way.”
vegetables, and two farmers keep
separate gardens just for the restaurant. A 15-year-old boy
even tried donating his prizewinning pig. Thomas-McMillan
couldn't accept it (the pig hadn’t
been examined by the United States Department of Agiculture). The boy sold the pig and
put the $457 he made right in Drexell Honeybee's donation box.
21. The McMillans opened the restaurant to__________.
A. help those in need
B. donate money for the town
C. give thanks to locals
D. advertise down-home cooking
22. Why is the donation box behind a screen?
A. To make the box noticeable. B To leave the box in a safe place.
C. To save some customers' face.
D. To know how much customers pay
23. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. The restaurant owners have refused the locals' help
B. The whole town has supported the restaurant owners
C. The restaurant owners couldn't satisfy the whole town
D. The whole town has competed with the restaurant owners.
24. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. A Donation Box
B. A Bill of Good
C. A note of Thanks
D. A local Restaurant
B
According to a new study, running 50 minutes a week, at a pace between a 10-and
7.5-minute mile, helped lower the
risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease and other
causes. Working out more than that didn’t mean more health
benefits (益处), say the researchers, based on a review of a number of studies.
Because running is a popular form of physical activity, study coauthor Zeljko Pedisic and his workmates chose to take
a bird's eye view of what past studies of running and the risk
of death had concluded. The team collected 14 papers that
collectively studied over 230,000people for the effects of running on cardiovascular disease, cancer and other cau ses of
death. Most participants(参与者) were from U.S. and European populations.
Pooling the results from these 14 studes showed that running led to lowering the risk of
cancer-related death by 23%, the
risk of cardiovascular-related death by 30%, and the risk of
death from all other causes by 27%. Those benefits appeared
even when people ran relatively
slowly and for under an hour a week--less time than the World Health Organization recently.
There are some warnings to the research, though. Among other things, possibly these
benefits were found because all
the 14 studies of running and the cause of death only included healthy people from the get-go, the authors write. Also, only
two of the papers recorded how
people’s running habits changed over the years, and how often people ran was self-reported
in other papers.
Though the results suggest that people might need less of a workout than the WHO
might suggest, that doesn’t mean it's
time to change those standards, Pedisic says. There are
several other health factors that need to be examined besides the
risk of death, he says, and people need other ways to get fit, too.
25. What's the new study mainly about?
A. Running as slowly as possible could keep you healthy.
B. Running led to lower risks of death than other activities.
C. Running more than 50 minutes a week was bad for health.
D. Running for less than an hour a week could lower risks of death.
26. It can be learnt from the 14 studies that__________.
A. 12 of the studies self-reported how often people ran
B. most of the studies recorded people's running habits
C. only people from America and Europe were included
D. running lowered the risk of death from cancer by 30%
27. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. People should run more than what the WHO advises.
B. The WHO needs to change its standards for running.
C. The new study results need to be further proved
D. Running is one of the best ways to keep fit.
C
This is a common situation for beginner-level language learners---they want to read classic (经典的 )books, but what
their language skills allow are usually little more than children's books.
Oxford University Press tried to solve this problem back in 1988 by designing a series of
graded English reading
materials known as the Oxford Bookworms Library. It now has a
collection of over 200 books---many of them simplified
versions of classics---which fall into seven difficulty levels from "starter level" to level six.
However, there has always been a debate over whether shortened versions of classics
have less value. Some worry
that by reading them, students don’t get to learn the essence of the orginal (原版的)text.
Rob Waring, a Japanese professor, mentions one of his students, Satoko, as an example in his booklet The "Why" and
"How"of Using Graded Readers. Satoko was a Japanese
student majoring in English. But by the time she graduated, she
had only managed to finish
reading just one English book because it was far beyond her language level. " For Satoko,
reading in English was a fight; a fight that she lost, "wrote Waring, who suggested that
reading easy texts is necessary
because it helps language learners build up confidence and
fluency in reading. By reading a lot--rather than getting stuck in
one book --they can get used to kinds of English expressions and writing styles. Only by doing this can they reach what
Waring calls the"reading-with-ideas"level of reading.
So it doesn’t matter if the books are original classics or not--for beginner--level language
learners, the simple act of
reading is a form of learning in itself. “Stories offer a window to
other cultures, other worlds, real or imagined, beyond the
classroom,” Jennifer Basset, the
first editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, said in an interview with GetEnglishLessons.
28. Why did Oxford University Press design the Oxford Bookworms Library?
A. To attract as many English learners as possible
B. To allow English beginners to read classic books
C To make classics popular with more English learners
D. To help English beginners improve their language skills
29. From paragraph 4, Rob Waring points out that__________.
A. language learners are expected to read a lot
B. language learners don't need to read easy texts
C. reading a lot can build up language learners'confidence
D. reading easy texts can give language learners more ideas
30. What is the writer’s attitude to shortened books?。