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《全新版大学英语(第二版)快速阅读1》部分原文

《全新版大学英语(第二版)快速阅读1》部分原文A Country of ImmigrantsAs you walk along the street in any American city,you see many different faces.You see oriental faces of the United States,a country of immigrants from all over the world.Immigrants are people who leave one country to live permanently in another country.The first immigrants came to North America in the 1600s from northern European countries such as England and Holland.These people generally hadlight skin and light hair.They came to live in North America because they wanted religious freedom.In the 1700s and early 1800s immigrants continued to move from Europe to the United States.At this time there was one group of unwilling immigrants,black Africans.These people were tricked or forced to come to the United States,where they worked on the large farms in thesouth.The blacks had no freedom;they were slaves.In the 1800s many Chinese and Irish immigrants came to the United States.They came because of economic or political problems in their countries.The most recent immigrants to the UnitedStates,the Indochinese,Cubans,and Central Americans also came because of economic or political problems in their own countries.Except for theblacks,most of these immigrants thought of the United States as a land of opportunities,of a chance for freedom and new lives.In the United States,these immigrants looked for help from other immigrants who shared the same background,language,andreligion.Therefore,there are neighborhoods in each U.S. city made up almost entirely of one ethnic or racial group.There are all Italian,all Puerto Rican,or all Irish neighborhoods in many East Coast cities and all Mexican neighborhoods in the Southwest.In Dearborn,Michigan,there is a large group of Lebanese.There are racial neighborhoods such as oriental Chinatown in New York.There are also neighborhoods with a strong religious feeling such as a Jewish part of Brooklyn in New York.And,of course,there are economic neighborhooddivisions;in American cities very often poor people do not live in the same neighborhoods as rich people.This wide variety of neighborhoods in the cities is a reflection of the different groups in American society. American society is a mixture ofracial,language,cultural,religious,and economicgroups.People sometimes call America a melting pot and compare its society to a soup with many different ingredients.The ingredients (differentraces,cultures,religions,and economicgroups)supposedly mix together to make a smooth soup.But,in reality,there are a few lumps left in the soup.Andrew CarnegieOne of the captains of industry of 19th century America,AndrewCarnegie,helped build the American steel industry,a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richestentrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life,Carnegie sold hie steel business and systematically gave his fortune away to cultural,educational and scientific institutions for “the improvement of mankind.”Carnegie was born in Dunfermline,Scotland,in 1835.The town was a center of the linenindustry,and Andrew?s father was a weaver,a profession the young Carnegie was expected to follow.But the industrial revolution that would later make Carnegie the richest man in the world,destroyed the weavers? craft.When the steam-powered looms came to Dunfermline in 1847,hundreds of handloom weavers became unemployed.Andrew?s mother opened a small grocery shop and mended shoes to support the family.“I began to learn what poverty meant,”Andrew would later write.”It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work.And then and there came the determination that I would cure when I got to be a man.”The family moved to the United States in 1848,and began a new life inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania.William Carnegie secured work in a cotton factory and his son Andrew took work in the same building as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a ter,Carnegie worked as a messenger boy in the city?s telegraphoffice.He did each job to the best of his ability and seized every opportunity to take on new responsibilities.For example,he memorized Pittsburgh?s street layout as well as the important name and addresses of those he delivered to.Carnegie often was asked to deliver messages to the theater.He arranged to make these deliveries at night-and stayed on to watch plays by Shakespeare and other great writers.In what would be a life-long pursuit of knowledge,Carnegie also took advantage of a small library that a local benefactor made available to working boys.One of the men Carnegie met at the telegraph office was ThomasA.Scott,then a director at Pennsylvania Railroad.Scott was taken by the young worker and referred to him as “my boy Andy,”hiring him as his private secretary and personal telegrapher at $35 a month.“I couldn?t imagine,”Carnegie said many years later,”what I could ever do with so muchmoney.”Carnegie was always eager to shoulder new responsibilities,and he worked his way up the ladder in Pennsylvania Railroad and succeeded Scott as head of the Pittsburgh Division.As the outbreak of the Civil War,Scott was responsible for military transportation for the North and Carnegie worked as his right-hand man.The Civil War fueled the iron industry,and by the time the war wasover,Carnegie saw thepotential in the field and resigned from Pennsylvania Railroad.It was one of many brave moves that would typify Carnegie?s life in industry and earn him his fortune.He then turned his attention to the Keystone Bridge Company,which worked to replace wooden bridges with stronger iron ones.In three years he had an annual income of $50,000.Carnegie would continue making huge amounts of money for the next 30 years.To improve the efficiency of his steel plant,Carnegie would make use of the Bessemer Process,which was the first cheap process for mass-producing steel.Carnegie threw his own money into the process and even borrowed heavily to build a new steel plant near Pittsburgh.Carnegie was strict in keeping down costs and managed by the saying “watch costs and the profits take care of themselves.”“I thi nk Carnegie?s genius was first of all,an ability to foresee how things were going tochange,”says historian John Ingram. “Once he saw that something was of potential benefit to him,he was willing to invest enormously in it.”Still,Carnegie?s steel plants developed rapidly,and by 1900,Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of Great Britain.That was also the year that financier J.P.Morgan issued a major challenge to Carnegie?s steel empire.While Carnegie believed he could beat Morgan in a battle that couldlast five,10 or 15 years,the fight did not appeal to the 64-year-old man eager to spend more time with his wife Louise,whom he had married in 1886 at the age of 51,and their daughter,Margaret.Carnegie wrote the asking price for his steel business on a piece of paper and had one of hismanagers deliver the offer to Morgan.Morgan accepted immediately,buying the company for $480 million. “Congratulations,Mr.Carnegie,”Morgan said to Carnegie when they finali zed the deal, “you are now the richest man in the world.”Carnegie liked to say that “the man who dies rich dies disgraced,”and turned his attention to giving away his fortune.He disliked charity,and instead put his money to use helping others help themselves.That was the reason he spent much of his fortune on establishing over 2,500 publiclibraries as well as supporting institutions of higher learning.By the time Carnegie?s life was over,he gave away 350million dollars.I.M.PeiI.M.Pei is sitting in his living room and is talking about architecture or the designing of buildings. “It is not just an idea,but the way in which that idea is done,that is important.This is what I mean by the ?architecture of ideas.?I worry that ideas and the practice of architecture as a profession,as a business,do not come together often enough.”He stops,then adds: “Maybe my early training set me back.Maybe it made me too practical.”That is an unexpected comment from a man like Pei,who runs a business that employs manypeople and has important customers all over the world.I.M.Pei questioning the value of money.Yet his company,I.M.Pei &Partners,is more than just abusiness that designs buildings.It has always tried to bring together beauty and art with business sense,and today it is probably the leaderamong American architecture companies that do very well both artistically and commercially.It is hard enough to become well know either as an artistic or as a business success in architecture:to do so as both is unusual and surprising.I.M.Pei,a leader in his field for more than thirty years,seems to get better and busier as the years go by.One reason for his success is that he is well known as a kind and thoughtful person.But it is also because of the seriousness of his work.He believes in improving on and developing from styles and designs that have been used before,not in newness for its ownpanies hire himbecause they believe that his designs are strong and modern without being shocking.Pei?s style is based on geometric forms,like most of the architecture of modern times.But he has continued to use these forms while other important architects have begun to change theirstyles,making use of the forms of architecture from other countries and other periods in history.Ieoh Ming Pei was born in China in 1917,but he calls himself “an American architect -absolutely.”He went to the United States in 1935 to studyarchitecture,and remained there because of the war.In the late1940s he got a very good job and decided to become an American citizen.He has lived in New York since then,but he never forgotten the land of his childhood.In 1978 Pei was invited to design s hotel in China.It was a very difficult thing for him to do beca use “there seems to be only two choices - either to copy the old Chinese style with red columns and golden roofs or to build modern Western buildings.I do not think either of these is right.There has to be a third way.”Pei?s “third way”is very much li ke traditional Chinese architecture.It uses the same kinds ofmaterials and forms,and is only different in one important aspect:it well have a flat roof instead of a curved one because that kind is safer and less expensive.In New York City,IM.Pei&Partners will build a convention center,that is,a large building for meetings and shows that will be much bigger than the hotel in Beijing,and in some ways much simpler.In fact,the biggest problem is that the center may look too much like a large box.Therefore they are working to create a number of public areas within the one huge space.These will be used for other things even when there are no special meetings or shows,and will make the building itself into a tourist attraction.It is possible that Pei?s way of working may soon change,becoming morelike one or the other of the two major modern directions.He might decide to make more use of the styles and ideas of the architecture of older cultures (as he did with his hotel in China)or he might decide to treat his buildings even more artistically (as he did the Kennedy Library in Boston).But it does not seem likely that Pei?s work will move strongly in either direction.He believes his work gives hiscustomers what they want and he tries to make his buildings fit the jobs they are supposed to do.Internet Love Can WorkI had heard of the chat room on the Internet,but it had never appealed to me.Talking to total strangers that you cannot see struck me as too strange.One day I was surfing the net,when Idiscovered MSN?s chat rooms and making up a nickname decided to just watch and see what all the fuss was about.There on the screen were twenty or so people who were chatting away about anything and everything.As I studied the conversations,afraid to join on and expose myself as a “newbie”,I was drawn to one person.She was intelligent,witty and expressed a love of the UK,my home.Her name was Linda and she was from California,a part of the States I had never seen butwas interested in.So summoning up all my courage,I said hi and introduced myself.We began to chat and I found that it was very relaxed to the point that I was amazed when the conversation ended.We had been chatting for two whole hours,totally ignoring everyone else in the room.We parted company,saying that we hoped we would bump into each other again.All that next day,I wondered ifthat was just a polite goodbye or if she really wanted to continue our conversation.That evening I logged on,half of me hoping Linda would be there,the other half afraid that she wouldn?t.Sure enough,she wasn?t in the chat room and I sat at the computer screen only half reading the conversations that flashed up before me.Then Linda?s name appeared and with the usual “Hi room”, she said “Hi Vince”.My life suddenly became brighter in that instant.I kepttelling myself it was crazy,here was a woman I only just met,hardly knew and yet I had missed her all day.We chatted again,and the hours vanished,with the other chatters leaving us alone in the room.I had dated quite a few times in my then twenty-five years of life,but never had anyone taken my interest so completely as this stranger from across the sea.We discussed everything,ourlikes,dislikes,our troubles and our pleasures and the more we talked the more amazed we became at how much we had in common.Weeks went by and every evening we would meet up and talk,the two hours becoming three,then four.We exchanged pictures,but were both afraid we would blow it by doing so.And ,as I looked at her picture on my screen,I was amazed at the fact that no one had snapped up this American beauty in the years since her graduation from college.The weeks had become months and we both admitted we had feelings for each other,our friendship becoming something far greater.Then came the time that anyone who ever had an Internet relationship will know...the meeting.Linda had said that she would fly to the UK to meet me,but I insisted that I flew to the States.I explained to her my fears that should she come to me and for some reason we didn?t hit it off,then she would be a woman alone in a strange country where as for a guy it wouldn?t be so bad.Linda finally agreed and a week or two later I found myself on a plane winging my way to San Diego.We had arranged that I would be met by her brother who would drop me off at my hotel and that I would ring her once I had freshened up and she would come over and we would go out for a meal.Forty five minutes of pacing up and down after I made the call,there was a knock on the door.I opened the door to the most beautiful woman I had ever known.Both of us were nervous when we kissed hello.We looked into each other?s eyes and thatkiss became another filled with all the emotions that had developed over the months of online chatting.I stayed for two weeks taking Linda out after she finished work at the local hospital.And we fell head over heels in love.I returned home,and missed Linda like crazy,the online chat now seeming so pale in comparison with holding the woman I loved in my arms.Linda missed me too and so I jumped on a plane and went back this time for a month.This went on for five visits and each time I would extend my return ticket because we couldn?t bear to part.感谢您的阅读，祝您生活愉快。

易学快速阅读训练(1)问题

《启示》5891．用“√”选择文中[ ] 处填的词语。

（10分）（1）影响暴怒责怪剧烈（）（2）印象暴怒责备猛烈（）（3）影响暴怒责怪热烈（）2．文中划线的句子，让你体会到什么？（25分）3．“我”偷眼瞅父亲的原因是什么？当时，我心里想到的是什么？（25分）4．“父亲即刻[ ]地扬起了手，想刮我的耳光，但是，不知怎的，手掌还没有盖到我的脸上来，便颓然放下……”父亲想打我，但最终没打我，他是怎么想的呢？（25分）5．题目“启示”的含义是（）（15分）①做父母的不要随便打自己的孩子。

②做事要细心，粗心是要惹祸的。

③自己犯了错，要敢于承认。

不可迁怒他人，推卸责任。

《我代表我的祖国》3431、在文中括号内填上合适的关联词。

（10分）2、在文中找出能概括下面语意的词填在括号里。

（20分）（1）不平等地看待。

（）（2）借端生事，想要引起冲突。

（）3、联系上下文理解下列词语，然后造句。

（40分）（1）斩钉截铁――（2）不得不――造句4、徐悲鸿是怎样刻苦努力的？他为什么要这样做？（20分）5、选择最合适的中心思想，在括号里面画“√”（10分）（1）说明了徐悲鸿刻苦学习，画展轰动了巴黎美术界。

（）（2）说明了那个向徐悲鸿挑战的外国学生认输了。

（）（3）赞扬徐悲鸿刻苦学习，为国争光的精神。

（）《__________》4451、写出下列词语的反义词：孤立（）称颂（）镇定自如（）破碎不堪（）（10分）2、给文中带点的字选择正确的读音，用“”标出：（10分）3、“餐”字用部首查字法应查（）部，再查（）画；用音序查字法查音序（），音节是（），“餐具”的“餐”应解释为（）（1.吃；2..饭食）（10分）4、读句子，联系短文内容，写出带点词语的意思：（1）周总理步入宴会厅以后，一看这场面，心中全明白了。

“全明白了”指（2）周总理招呼大家说：“朋友们，让我们联合起来，消灭它吧！”“消灭它”的含义是（40分）5、写出短文的主要内容（要求写清时间、地点、人物、事件，在30字以内）（10分）6、总理维护祖国尊严的精神表现在：（10分）（1）；（２）。

大学英语六级考试快速阅读训练(1篇)

大学英语六级考试快速阅读训练(1篇)大学英语六级考试快速阅读训练 1一、快速阅读简介大学英语六级考试中的快速阅读题型是大学英语六级考试__后,在2007年6月首次出现的一个题型。

它要求考试者在15分钟之内阅读一篇英语文章,大约为1200词左右,回答10个问题,并且填涂答题卡的时间也包括在这15分钟之内。

通过对07年6月到09年12月的六份大学英语六级考试真题进行分析,快速阅读的内容比较杂,如07年6月是“Seven Steps to a More Fulfilling Job”,07年12月是“Seven Ways to Save the World”,08年6月为“What will the world be like in fifty years?”,08年12月是“Supersize Surprise”,09年6月是“Helicopter Moms vs.Free-Range Kids”,09年12月是“Bosses Say ‘Yes’ to Home Work”。

阅读后,要了解文章的大意,并能找出所需细节。

六份试题中有三份的第一个问题就是有关文章大意的,如08年6月第一个问题是“What is John Ingham’s report about?”,08年12月的第一问题是“What is the passage mainly about?”,09年12月的第一个问题又是“What is the main topic of this passage?”。

二、快速阅读的训练在快速阅读过程中要突出“快速”二字,这是区别于普通阅读的关键。

在阅读过程中,要一目十行,不能纠缠于文章中的某一细节,如果有的内容看不懂,先不用管它,要一直往下读,要以掌握文章的主要内容和中心思想为主,这样才能达到快速阅读的目的。

如果这一难懂的内容是自己确实要弄懂的问题,那么看完文章后,可以返回到这一段再仔细阅读。

在六级考试中,如是后面的问题与这一内容有关,再认真阅读也不迟。

《快速阅读1》的答案

Passage 1AACD 1. hero2. exceptPassage 2FFTF 1. he flunked / failed in examinations // he could not pass examinations2. Jonathan Livingston SeagullPassage 3CBDCA 1. environment2. fight againse challenges / hardships / difficultiesPassage 4FFFT 1. 362. reasonable /meaningfulPassage 5ADDB 1. broaden our viewpoints / enrich our life2. appreciatePassage 6TTFT 1. blame2. take / assume 100% responsibility / be fully responsibleUnit 2Passage 1BBDD 1. it separates us from nature2. more time outdoorsPassage 2FTTF 1. it is gentle and low-impact2. mind and body, as well as spiritPassage 3BDCA 1 without making proper preparations2. that will only make the injury worse and can lead to long-term problems Passage 4FTFF 1. regardless of2. fair and squarePassage 5DDAC 1. prevention2. a later start to the school dayPassage 6FFTT 1. Federer2. in the hope ofUnit 3Passage 1BDCC 1. there is only eight percent of the Ipv4 numbers of left in the world2. emerging and developing countriesTFFF 1. to blame / responsible2. animal-based charactersPassage 3BADD 1. download speeds will be limited to a maximum of 1 megabit per user2. The separated naturePassage 4TFTF 1. adequate evedence2. chicken-and-egg puzzlePassage 5BDDD 1. unique and hard-to-guess2. zero-responsibility pretectionPassage 6TTTF 1. our social and family lives2. Internet addictionUnit 4Passage 1CDAC 1. impractical2. she’s too sensitive to horsesPassage 2FFFF 1. a meaningful opportunity / chance2. a behind-the-scenesPassage 3DBCC 1. interreligious university2. what is God’s purposePassage 4FTFF 1. iron curtain2. graceful and simplePassage 5ABDD 1. highly skilled entertainers2. shamisenPassage 6TFFF 1. wait-and-see2. straightforward / direct and informativeUnit 5Passage 1DBDC 1. A heart failure2. a successful performer / King of Pop; a complex individual Passage 2TFFT 1. visual and verbal2. uniquePassage 3ABAD 1. unconscious thought processes and their relationship to mental symptoms2. he was born into a Jewish family / he was a JewPassage 4FFFT 1. nature2. the Apple stores are now retail leadersPassage 5DDAC 1. against2. a (returnig) heroPassage 6TTFF 1. transfromational-generative grammar2. cognitive scienceUnit 6Passage 1TFFT 1. economics students2. enjoy them / jokesPassage 2DCBA 1. body test; weight2. the weight you want to lose; time span; feasibilityPassage 3FFFF 1. we cannot explain or understand2. positive, the earth, naturePassage 4BDDC 1. constructive; developmental2. their share of the female gaming marketPassage 5FTFT 1. to control hundreds of future entertainment hours2. prevent you from seeing ever againPassage 6DBCB 1. chess has borrowed from the culures that took it in2. radical solutions to problems; risky moves with unpredictable resultsUnit 7Passage 1FFFT 1. suggestions, orders2. makes an order more acceptable, stimulates the creativity of the persons whomyou askPassage 2DBBA 1. the widenign gap between rich and poor; shifting social value; the difficulties of finding a mate.2. money, rich peoplePassage 3FFTF 1. doesn’t care about the relationship enough (to nurture it)2. experience different life events / have different experiencesPassage 4DDCC 1. cheer you up2. how you’v echanged for the betterPassage 5FTTF 1. start one yourself2. donate your time, get to meet peoplePassage 6BADD 1. similarities2. clear the credit-card debtUnit 8Passage 1FFTT 1. animal rights, the environment, health concerns2. resources, doing damagePassage 2CBDB 1. resist sudden heavy rains; compete with weeds2. in several Asian languages, the words for food and rice, or for rice and agriculture, are the samePassage 3TFFT 1. Sixty2. 330, 000Passage 4CBBD 1. spread2. cultural / racial implicationPassage 5TFTF 1. educated2. the Warring StatesPassage 6ABBD 1. calories, fat and sugar selling2. more deliciousUnit 9Passage 1FFTT 1. Hannover Exhibitin Centre2. transport goods and peoplePassage 2FFTT 1. concept cars, actual production car introductions / actual production cars2. high public demand for vehicles in everyday use; the fact that concept cars dominate the show; passenger cars and motorcycles; commercial vehicles.Passage 3TFFT 1. the Chinese National; Chinese Provinces2. Chinese culturesPassage 4BCAB 1. oversea /overseas / foreign2. to have a stand at eh Canton FairPassage 5BCAD 1. the history of the World Trade Center; the September 11 attacks; the public response2. audio pieces about the WTC; the Fresh Kills Recovery OperationPassage 6DBCA 1. better city, better life2. Chinese people are making continual effort to carry forward their traditional culture when China is intergrating itself into the worldUnit 10Passage 1FFFT 1. the Greek gods, the abilities of the Greek people2. the honour of being awarded a gold medal; the enormous amounts of sponsorship benefits given upon top sportspeoplePassage 2BCBC 1. an official presence2. his belief in the power of ideas; the need to communicate America’s views abroadPassage 3FTFF 1. forty2. keep the herd together, bad men and IndiansPassage 4BBDB 1. the Qinzhuan2. prevent his people to think freelyPassage 5TFFT 1. the Piri Reis map, Innocent’s tomb2. the latter (Bausani) is an authority on the Piri Reis mapPassage 6DBCD 1. it broke the rails, stram engines could be used to move trains2. Bullet Train, the TGV。

大学英语快速阅读1TheEarth27sAtmosphere带翻译

Unless it's raining or the wind is blowing, we don't usually pay much attention to the atmosphere, the blanket of air that surrounds the Earth. Yet, without the atmosphere, the Earth would be a desolate (荒芜的) planet with no signs of life!The atmosphere plays several roles in helping to make life possible. First, theatmosphere provides the three gases necessary for life: oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. All animals, including ourselves, breathe oxygen. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide are both needed for plant growth. Less important atmospheric gases include argon, neon, helium, and hydrogen.Second, the atmosphere also protects us from most of the sun's high-energy ultraviolet light rays, which are harmful tolife. Although these rays are only a small part of the sunlight striking the Earth, they are known to be very dangerous. However, 99 percent of all ultraviolet rays are absorbed before they reach the Earth's surface. They are absorbed by an atmospheric gas, called ozone, a type of oxygen gas. The ozone layer surrounds the Earth but is much thinner over the North and South Poles than over other regions of the Earth.The one percent of the ultraviolet light in the atmosphere that does reach the Earth's surface is known to cause sunburn and is now believed to also cause skin cancer in many people.Because of this, doctors recommend that people limit the amount of time they spend in direct sunlight and wear a suntan lotion ( 防晒油) that blocks the ultraviolet rays when they do sunbathe.Finally, the atmosphere generates all types of weather such as clear blue skies and storms. It acts as a huge energy machine, changing sunlight into other forms of energy such as heat and wind. As part of this role, the atmosphere regulates the temperature on the Earth's surface. First it allows only 46 percent of the sunlight striking it to pass through and actually reach the Earth's surface. Second, carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere controls theamount of warmth on the Earth's surface that is allowed to radiate ( 发散) back into space. By these two controlling devices, the atmosphere regulates the Earth's surface temperature.Choose the best answers to the following questions.1.Which of the following is trueaccording tothe passage?A.The ozone layer is much thicker over North America than over the North Pole.B.Ozone is a type of a nitrogen gas.C.Ozone can absorb some ultraviolet rays before they reach the Earth's surface.D.Ozone can protect us from anything harmful to our life.2.The main idea of the third paragraph isthat __ .A.the Earth is surrounded by a layer of ozoneB.99 percent of all ultraviolet light rays that reach the Earth's surface are absorbed by the ozone layerC.the o zone layer protects people from the sun's high-energy ultraviolet light raysD.ozone is an atmospheric gaswhich surrounds the Earth3.According to the article, carbon dioxide ________________________A.is a less important atmospheric gasB.controls the amount of warmth onthe Earth's surfaceC.allows only 46 percent of sunlightto reach the Earth's surfaceD.acts l ike a huge energy machine4.Doctors suggest that ______ .A.people should stay away from the sunlight to protect themselves from the sunburnB.people should block the ultraviolet rays when they do sunbatheC.people should wear a suntan lotion under direct sunlightD.people should know that skin cancer results from sunbathing5. The Earth would be a desolate planet without the atmosphere because __A.the atmosphere is mainly composedof oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen,which are indispensable to our life B.the a tmosphere plays several rolesin making life possibleC.the a tmosphere allows onlyharmless rays to reach the Earth D.the a tmosphere controls theamount of warmth on the Earth'ssurfaceComplete the following sentences with the information given in the passage.1. The ozone layer over other regions of the Earth is____ than that over theNorth and South Pole.KEY: much thicker2. It is____that changes sunlight into other forms of energy.KEY: the atmosphere3.Although_____are mostly absorbed by the ozorie layer, doctors suggest thatpeople should limit the amount of time spent in direct sunlight.KEY: high-energy ultravioletlight raysCompared with argon, neon andhydrogen,are more important inhelping to make life possible.KEY: oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide5. The purpose of wearing a suntan lotion is toKEY: protect people fromsunburn and skin cancer 翻译：地球的大气层除非下雨或风在吹，我们通常不会注重气氛，周围的空气，地球毯子。

六年级快速阅读学生用

小学语文六年级快速阅读与记忆训练教材（一）阅读速度：450字/分钟阅读总量：3644字阅读主题师生情1难忘的八个字字数430 时间58”我气恼，我愤恨——怎么一生下来就是裂唇！我一跨进校门，同学们就开始讥嘲我，我越来越肯定，除了家里人以外，没人会爱我，甚至没人会喜欢我。

二年级时，我进了老师伦纳德夫人的班级。

伦纳德夫人很胖很美。

她有着金光闪闪的头发和一双黑黑的、笑眯眯的眼睛。

每个孩子都喜欢她，敬慕她，但是，没有一个人比我更爱她。

因为这里有一个不一般的缘故：我们低年级同学都有“耳语测试”。

孩子们依次走到教室的门边，用右手捂着右边的耳朵，然后教师在她的讲台上轻轻说一句话，再由那个孩子把话复述出来。

可是我的左耳先天失聪，几乎听不见任何声音，我不愿把这些说出来，因为同学们会更加嘲笑我的。

终于轮到我了，我把左耳对着伦纳德夫人，同时用右手紧紧捂着右耳，然后，悄悄把右手抬起一点，这样就足以听清老师的话了。

我等待着……然后，伦纳德教师说了八个字，这八个字仿佛是束温暖的阳光直射我的心田，这八个字抚慰了我受伤的、幼小的心灵，我八个字改变了我对人生的看法。

这位很胖、很美的老师轻轻地说道：“我希望你是我女儿！”2 人生第一课字数530 时间1’10”这是一家普通的幼儿园。

刚刚入园的儿童被老师带进图书馆，很随便的坐在地毯上，接受他们的人生第一课。

“孩子们，我来给你们讲个故事。

”于是，老师从书架上抽下一本书，讲了一个很浅显的童话。

“孩子们，”老师讲完故事后说，“这个故事就写在这本书中，这本书是一个作家写的。

你们长大了，也一样能写这样的书。

”老师停顿了一下，接着间：“哪一位小朋友也能来给大家讲一个故事?”一位小朋友立即站起来：“我有一个爸爸，还有一个妈妈，还有我……”幼稚的童声在空中回荡。

然而，老师却用一张非常好的纸，很认真、很工整地把这个语无伦次的故事记录下来。

“下面，”老师说，“哪位小朋友来给这个故事配个插图呢?”又一位小朋友站了起来，画一个”爸爸”，画一个“妈妈”，再画一个“我”。

《快速阅读》优秀读书笔记（通用5篇）

《快速阅读》优秀读书笔记（通用5篇）《快速阅读》优秀读书笔记（通用5篇）细细品味一本名著后，相信你心中会有不少感想，不妨坐下来好好写写读书笔记吧。

那么我们如何去写读书笔记呢？以下是小编整理的《快速阅读》优秀读书笔记（通用5篇），供大家参考借鉴，希望可以帮助到有需要的朋友。

《快速阅读》优秀读书笔记1今天要练习的是如何使用引导物来加快阅读速度。

每一次的测试总是让我心怀忐忑又激动不已。

今天的测试结果还不错，速度721个字/分钟，理解率86%。

昨晚测试后我换了种引导方式进行第二次阅读，时间从4分16秒，缩减到2分27秒。

凡事皆有可能，只要你肯练。

两次阅读我都用的一只细长的圆珠笔。

第一次阅读是把笔放在要阅读的那一行字下方，然后从左到右平滑移动。

第二次阅读我把引导物——————圆珠笔放在了要读的那一行内容的正中间，然后平缓的在中间那一块平缓移动。

两次阅读我都进量让自己的眼睛跟书本保持在50厘米的距离。

因为这个距离能够让我们的眼睛每一次凝视可以摄入最多的信息符号。

最后，再一次感叹这本神奇的书和神奇的快读阅读技巧指导。

如果你看完了这篇读书笔记，不妨找一找身边可以使用的引导物：譬如一支细长的钢笔、一根筷子或是织毛衣的针，只要是它是细长的物体就好，然后，开始我们的快速阅读训练之旅吧！《快速阅读》优秀读书笔记2挺喜欢《快速阅读》这本书的。

每一章节都有练习测试题。

每一个测试题都附有答案。

可以检测自己是不是真的提升了。

在开篇的自我测试中，当下状态还是让自己小傲娇了一把：452个汉字/分钟的阅读速度，87%的理解率。

于是，定了一个1000字/分钟的小目标。

昨天定目标的时候，心理还是有点忐忑的。

今天的第二个小测试让我开始膜拜东尼博赞先生了。

就做了一遍提升的小练习，然后克制住了三个不良习惯，速度居然就到了790多了。

尽管理解率下降到了50%，但真的让我看到了突破的希望。

下午的时候，我把答案全部擦了，重做了一下。

阅读速度升至929，理解率升至78%。

大学英语快速阅读1The Earth's Atmosphere带翻译

全新版大学英语快速阅读1中文翻译.

成长的烦恼我想这不是苏格兰节。

我们不知道发生了什么,或者如果皮蓬只是感觉他的年龄。

毕竟,如何发展是一个四岁应有的行为吗?但要真正了解发生了什么,让我们从头开始。

玛丽和我已经邀请了我的侄子,皮蓬,在他星期日的晚餐。

我们一直期待有他因为他是个整洁的小男孩。

在这个特别的夜晚,他照常准时到达。

然而,而不是拥抱和亲吻,皮蓬刚刚推过去我们奔向沙发。

我再看一次确认这是正确的小男孩。

当我们等待烤chicken-scottie的favorite-to完成烹饪,我们坐在沙发上聊天。

在中东的一个句子,皮蓬突然说,“嘿,阿诺德叔叔,我想玩我的记录。

”谈话停了下来。

一分钟后,球员的纪录是在尽可能用“迪斯科”。

皮蓬是唱歌和跳舞,在房间的中间。

玛丽和我说话,但我不能听到她说。

我很困惑,我让这个问题只有通过轻微的评论。

不久,晚餐服务。

我们坐下来,点着蜡烛,开始吃。

苏格兰通常会是第一个开始吃,但今晚他只是坐在那里盯着我。

”你不饿吗。

我问。

”是的,”斯科特。

”然后你不去吃?”不,我不能,”他回答。

”这是你最喜欢的晚餐,说:“我的妻子。

”我不想吃,”斯科特。

不重视他的奇怪行为的时候,我说,“好的,如果你不想吃饭,你没有吃。

你可以坐,让我们公司直到我们完成我们的美味佳肴。

”我们继续我们的晚餐,皮蓬的脸看起来很困惑,不确定的。

宴会结束后,我们开始收拾盘子,离开斯考蒂坐在那里,看着他的脸上失望的。

当我把菜含有烤牛肉,他实在忍受不。

他站起来,把他的整个表餐巾。

不幸的是,它击中一个蜡烛着火了。

我不知道是谁喊的声音,自己或斯科特。

我们都站在那里,害怕的表情在脸上。

我把餐巾放出来。

斯考蒂开始哭泣。

”我很抱歉,”他说。

”我只是想成为丹尼斯。

我的老师给我们读了书中关于丹尼斯的威胁,我们认为所有的事情他很有趣。

但他们不是有趣当我做。

我不想成为丹尼斯的任何更多。

”我们很高兴他不是丹尼斯,只是我们的小朋友。

工作时你成长厨房manager-joe我一直在一家咖啡馆叫太平洋甜点两年。

云财大学英语快速阅读(选择填空)[1]

Fast ReadingDirections: Read the following passage and then answer the questions. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Passage 1Children's EatingRaising children can be a challenging job. It can also be rewarding. When it comes to eating, the more caregivers know about children's natural eating patterns, the easier and more rewarding the job of feeding children can be.Like many other behaviors, children's eating patterns are largely learned. Starting from infancy (婴儿期), a child learns what can be eaten and what cannot, what is appropriate within the culture and the family regarding food manners, what types of food are liked and disliked, and what cues are important in controlling the amount of food eaten. Children's eating patterns move through predictable stages of development that present challenges and opportunities for learning and mastering proper eating patterns. Early feeding interactions influence the set of skills and behaviors children possess as their eating moves from completely depending on their caregivers to relying more on themselves.Inborn (天生的) Abilities, Preferences, and Transitions (转变)Because a newborn spends about 50% of his waking time eating, the feeding interaction is perhaps an infant's most important experience. Feeding not only supplies energy for growth, it also establishes his bond with his mother, provides a sense of security and pleasure for the infant, and presents repeated opportunities for learning and social exchange.A child's transition to solid food is a dynamic (不断增长的) period of growth and learning. Eating patterns change more during this period than during any other time of life. This transition requires rapid learning about flavors, food, manners, and social exchange.An often unrecognized milestone (里程碑) in young children's eating behavior is dealing with a fear of new food. Young children are inclined to be afraid of new food when they are between 18-24 months of age. Children previously judged as "good eaters" often begin to reject new food and refuse formerly accepted, familiar items. Children's acceptance of new food does not happen right away. It requires repeated experience with new food to overcome fears and enhance acceptance. The Family Eating EnvironmentParents and caregivers greatly influence the eating environment in which children's preferences and eating patterns develop. Caregivers determine which foods are available to the child and what composes a child's diet. They also provide a model of eating behavior and guide a child's eating through feeding practices. By selecting the food that comes into the home, parents have direct control over the food children repeatedly eat.At any point in development, large differences may exist among parents in the extent to which they allow a child to control eating, including the timing of meals, as well as what and how much is eaten. Feeding practices that are too controlling are not effective, but rather may work against promoting healthy eating patterns. The use of pressure and restriction in child feeding seems to have an opposite effect on children's preferences. Another unintended consequence of using pressure inchild feeding is that it may cause eating to be influenced by factors other than a child's own hunger and fullness.The Contemporary Eating EnvironmentWhile the family is the most important environment in which children's eating develops, cultural and physical environments also play a role. Environmental factors affect a parent's ability to promote healthy eating patterns. Such factors include increased time demands in family life, loss of the family meal, increased television viewing during meals, increased dining-out (外出就餐) occasions, and increased use of childcare. Parents also struggle with the broader health and eating concerns of our society. This climate includes poor diet quality and an ever-increasing number of overweight parents and children. At the same time, society places an enormous emphasis on dieting and thinness.Promoting Healthy Eating BehaviorsA worthy goal for parents and caregivers is to create feeding environments that promote healthy eating behaviors and support healthy weight and growth. There are several important feeding issues for most children:1. Young children eat small amounts of food frequently; three meals and three snacks (点心) is a normal eating pattern until well into the school years.2. The appearance of irregular eating patterns is not necessarily evidence of poor eating habits. Parents should consider the amount of food eaten across the day and beyond, rather than focus on "getting a child to eat" at a particular eating occasion.3. Young children require fewer energy and smaller portion sizes. Because increasing portion sizes may increase energy intakes, be careful about routinely (习惯性地) offering adult-size servings of drinks and snacks.Keeping these issues and the following ten tips in mind will help parents and caregivers develop healthy eating behaviors in the children they care for.Ten Tips for Putting Information into Action1. Children benefit from eating routines (常规) and structure in the same way that they benefit from bedtime routines! Be sure to offer three meals and two to three snacks across the course of the day. In between, avoid feeding the child by adopting a "closed kitchen" policy.2. What does hunger have to do with it? Everything. Direct children towards internal cues like hunger and fullness. Speak plainly to children about hunger and fullness during mealtime and snacks.3. Avoid focusing on the amounts consumed. Instead, offer healthy choices and learn about appropriate portion sizes for children.4. Offer healthy snacks and routinely remind children that fruits and vegetables are available for snacking.5. Don't give up! Children need repeated experiences with new food before they learn to like them.6. Be conscious of low nutrient, high-energy drinks and food consumption.7. Be active! Turn off the television (limit of 2 hours per day) and encourage free play by GOING OUTSIDE!8. Make family meals a priority whenever possible. Try for at least three family dinners a week. Limit eating out to twice a week and try to choose restaurants with surroundings that permit conversation.9. Develop children's conversational styles and their sense of importance by eliminating distractions like television and music during family meals.10. Promote healthy eating—not dieting—in word and in deed. Adopt a moderate approach that includes all food in age-appropriate amounts.1. What can make feeding children more rewarding for caregivers? ________________A. Knowing more about children's natural eating patterns.B. Challenging children as they are being raised.C. Starting to feed them from the time they are in infancy.D. Teaching them about what is appropriate.2. What is influenced by early feeding interactions? ________________A. Opportunities for learning.B. Stages of development.C. Skills and behavior later.D. Caregivers relying on themselves.3. Children's eating patterns change most during ________________.A. the time between 18-24 monthsB. his bonding period with his motherC. the time before he is an infantD. his transition to solid food4. How do parents influence children's preferences and intake patterns? ________________A. By telling the child to overcome fear.B. By choosing the food that comes home.C. By feeding the child directly.D. By planning a child's diet.5. ________________ is not effective in promoting healthy eating patterns.A. Providing a modelB. Allowing the child to control foodC. Controlling food too muchD. Selecting the food that comes home6. The most important environment in developing a child's eating is ________________.A. physicalB. hunger and fullnessC. the cultureD. the family7. One of the eating concerns of our society is ________________.A. the increasing number of thin peopleB. the growing number of fat peopleC. the amount of care given to childrenD. the many children who eat little food8. The occurrence of irregular eating patterns doesn't always mean _____________.9. Both bedtime routines and _____________ are beneficial to children.10. ____________ should be given priority whenever possible.Passage 2News and Entertainment MediaAmericans spend about five hours each day on leisure activities. Those who live in or near large cities spend some of this time at theaters, opera houses, night clubs, zoos, and museums. Americans who live in rural areas do not usually have such places to visit, but like city residents, they can enjoy the most popular sources of information and entertainment as well: radio, television, movies, books, magazines, and newspapers.RadioAlmost every American family owns at least one radio, and many have three or four. Years ago, families gathered around one big living room radio. Today, people take small, lightweight radios with them into the bedroom (clock radios), on the street (transistor radios [半导体收音机], on the road (car radios), and into the fields (radios built into tractors). Radios have even been built into hair dryers and sunglasses.With the development of television, radio is no longer the major source of home entertainment; but Americans still turn to radio when they want the latest news quickly. Many stations broadcast up-to-the-minute news every half hour. Americans tend to listen to radios for short periods. In an effort to hold audiences, many radio stations appeal to special interests. Some offer only music or only news; others broadcast professional sports events. In large cities, some stations attract immigrants by presenting foreign-language programs. One New York City station broadcasts in thirteen languages!There are two types of radio broadcasting-AM and FM. FM can produce a wider range of sounds and can also broadcast in stereophonic (立体声的) sound. In recent years, FM has become increasingly popular. Many radios are equipped to receive both AM and FM.TelevisionTelevision was new in 1946, but by the 1950s it was a firmly established industry. Today, there are about 99 million TV sets in the United States; 99 percent of American households have at least one set, and 54 percent have two or more. Color TV is in 60 percent of American homes. The average American between his second and sixty-fifth birthday spends 3,000 entire days (almost nine years of his entire life) watching TV!In the United States, there is no government-owned television network. Commercial television attempts to please a vast audience of all age groups and educational levels by presenting entertainment that can be understood by all. Many adults are annoyed by the simplicity and dullness of most TV shows; they call the TV set the "idiot (傻瓜) box". A typical day's TV listing includes cartoons and other children's shows, family situation comedies, news and weather, mysteries, interview shows, sports, movies, and musical reviews.Public" television stations offer a wide variety of high-quality entertainment and information without the annoying commercials. Funds to operate public TV come from money given by individuals and industries and, to a small degree, from the government. Public television has been highly praised for imaginative, appealing shows which help children learn basic reading concepts, valuable psychological insights, and languages like English and Spanish. Fine dramatic and musical presentations, award-winning movies, and intelligent discussions of national problems often take up the evening hours on public TV. For those who seek self-improvement with the help of TV, there are "how-to" shows (daytime and evening) which teach cooking, skiing, sewing, instrument-playing,and dozens of other skills. Also offered are college courses which give academic credit to enrolled listeners.MoviesMost American movies are produced in Hollywood, California. Hollywood, which is actually not a separate city but a part of Los Angeles, is an ideal spot for the movie industry. The sun shines most of the time, and the climate is mild. Almost every kind of natural scenery is within a few hour's drive.Hollywood becomes the center of national attention on one evening each year-Academy Award night. At the Academy Award presentations held each spring, awards called Oscars are given to film industry winners in dozens of categories, including best actor, best actress, and best picture. The winners are chosen by members of the industry before the ceremony, but their names are kept secret until the presentation night, when they are announced in a long program broadcast on television. Motion pictures were extremely popular in the United States until after World War II, when television captured much of the movie audience. Geared to the masses, Hollywood movies offered much the same type of entertainment as television does. With free entertainment in their homes, many Americans simply stopped going to movies. Between 1946 and 1956, movie attendance was cut in half. At the same time, production costs increased. The movie industry was in trouble.The industry adjusted itself in a number of ways. Movie companies rented sound stages to TV companies and sold old movies to TV. To cut costs, Hollywood produced fewer movies and filmed many of them overseas. To attract audiences, the industry started using wider screens. Studios also began producing kinds of entertainment that could not be offered by TV-films with controversial or shocking themes, films with huge casts and expensive settings. As a result of these changes, today the American motion picture industry is prosperous.Since industries prefer to advertise where they will reach the largest number of potential customers, the mass media do everything they can to hold the largest audience possible. On commercial TV, this goal leads to a great deal of sports and generally inadequate analyses of the national and international situations. It also means very little opera, classical music, or Shakespearean drama, and a great deal of unsophisticated comedy. Generally, the mass communications media try to please the public by reinforcing popular and traditional ideas rather than helping the public to understand (or at least, accept) new ideas.It would be foolish to think that news in the United States is always "the whole truth and nothing but the truth." However, the concerned citizen who exposes himself to a wide variety of publications and broadcasting stations can obtain a reasonably accurate picture of what's happening in the world. The United States government cannot control the news and entertainment media except to protect the public. It can prohibit misleading advertising and ban the sale of unhealthy materials, but it cannot examine and thus delete the news or ban its release. Public officials sometimes keep back information concerning governmental activities from the news media. Attempts to do this, however, are often exposed by persistent reporters.The guarantee of freedom of expression allows writers, news reporters, and public figures to state their opinions openly, without fear of governmental evaluation. No official power controls what is said to the public. No particular point of view is forced upon the news media. No American needs be ignorant about public affairs in this nation where freedom of speech makes a wide range of events and ideas available to the public.1. American Rural and city people are the same in that they can ________________.A. go to theaters and opera housesB. visit zoos and museumsC. dance at clubsD. read books and magazinesCorrect answer: D2. What do Americans do when they want the latest news quickly? ________________A. Carry radios into the street.B. Look for a foreign-language program.C. Watch TV.D. Turn on the radio.Correct answer: D3. According to the passage, ________________% of American families own a color TV.A. 99B. 54C. 60D. 65Correct answer: C4. Why do the Americans call TV the "idiot box"? ________________A. Because they are not pleased with the simple TV programs.B. Because TV always provide cartoons and other children's shows.C. Because the TV programs are for the public.D. Because there are too many commercials.Correct answer: A5. If one wants to improve himself, it would be better for him to watch ________________.A. fine dramatic presentationsB. "how-to" showsC. family situation comediesD. intelligent discussionsCorrect answer: B6. Why is Hollywood an ideal spot for movie making? ________________A. Because of the actors and actress.B. Because of the national attention.C. Because of the Oscars.D. Because of the mild weather.Correct answer: D7. What can only be offered by movies but not TV? ________________A. Controversial or shocking themes.B. Sound stages.C. Advertising.D. Commercials.Correct answer: A8. The best way for the mass media to attract and please the audience is to put more __________ ideas on shows.9. In the US, information about governmental activities is sometimes held back by __________.10. People may feel free to say their opinions in public because the US guarantees __________.Two Major Parties in BritainPoliticians can be roughly divided into those who are reasonably satisfied with things as they are, and those who are not. The former respect tradition, and oppose rapid changes; the latter believe more in progress, and they want to change some things quickly and completely. When we talk of "the Right" we are referring to politicians of the first kind; when of "the Left", to those of the second.The Conservative PartyIn Britain, the party of the Right is the Conservative Party. Their opponents often call them the Tories (保守党), which was their old name. The Conservatives are supported by most land-owners and businessmen, i.e. those who have something to conserve; and generally speaking it is true to say that the older and more successful you are in life the more likely you are to be a Conservative. Farmers too, are businessmen of a sort, self-employed, independent owners of land; and country people generally, are mostly Conservatives. The party is associated particularly with the middle class, though it has many working class supporters too, especially among non-industrial workers. Beliefs and oppositionOne of the central characteristics of Conservatives is a belief in "private enterprise". They believe in the capacity of a private individual to build up his own business, working hard, sacrificing his leisure, having the courage to risk his own money, making his own decisions and working out his own plans and in the end, harvesting his own reward. That is the right of everyone. And it is people like this, they believe, who have built up our modern civilization, benefiting not only themselves, but the society as a whole.Thus, Conservatives are against too much government control of industry. They feel that people and business as a whole, in doing what is best for them, can be trusted to do what is best for the community. They are particularly opposed to the taking-over of private industries by the state, for not only does this take the control away from the owners and the builders of industry, but it leads to inefficiency. A man who runs a business for his own profit cannot afford to be inefficient, and he has a personal reason for seeing that his employees are efficient too. But the state is impersonal. The leader of a state-run industry is merely a representative. He has a fixed salary. If he and his staff are inefficient, what difference does it make to him? There is always government money to make good the lack of profit: the taxpayers will be a little poorer, that is all.Conservatives also tend to believe in a governing class. Certain kinds of people with certain backgrounds have a tradition of governing and therefore develop a natural ability for it. To these we may add the newer leaders of industry whose very success is the evidence to their capabilities. All those who have a recognized position in life, all those who have a share in their country by virtue of owning land or business in it, also deserve a special share in its government and future.The worst type of Conservatives are those who live an easy life as a result of luck rather than effort, hating those who are less fortunate than themselves, knowing nothing about them, having no sympathy for them, and making no efforts to understand their difficulties. Such groups oppose all changes because they themselves have nothing to complain of.But the Conservative Party as a whole has survived because it has shown a willingness to accept controls and changes when it sees that they are inevitable. And it has shown itself able to makeThe Labor PartyThe party of the Left is the Labor Party, whom their opponents prefer to call Socialists. This is a comparatively new party, having formed its first government in 1924. It is with the working class that the Labor Party is particularly associated.BeliefsThe central belief of the Labor Party is that businessmen cannot be trusted to serve the best interests of the community. They point to the past troubles of the workers at the hands of their masters: long hours of labor, poor wages, lack of holidays, hard and sometimes dangerous work in unpleasant conditions, periods of unemployment, poor housing, and a lack of welfare services. This is no fiction, as anyone who has studied the history of the last two centuries knows. Some people have personal memories of the poverty and unemployment of the early 1930's, when the over-confidence of businessmen caused a world economic crisis. The workers themselves reacted early to their sufferings by forming "trade unions", so as to be strong enough to bargain with their employers, and if necessary to force them to do what they wanted by collective refusal to work, and the Labor Party was formed with the strong support of the trade unions so as to give the workers political power. Thus the Labor Party believes in the supervision of industry by government, and prefers the government take over certain industries, which means public ownership instead of private enterprise. They do not agree that a state-owned industry is necessarily less efficient than a privately-owned one. True, the drive for profit is lacking, but on the other hand a state industry has all the aids to efficiency which belong to large-scale organizations: mass production, sharing of resources between one department and another, and the like. And above all the workers are protected. Which is better, to put huge profits into the pockets of a few owners, or to sacrifice profit for the sake of better wages and better conditions for everybody?OppositionThe Labor Party believes that no businessmen, however clever and hardworking they might be, deserve the high salaries that some of them get. And further, that many rich men have done nothing for their money: they are just living an easy life on money they inherited from their family or received from playing the stock market, gathering the fruits of someone else's labor, while the people who do the hard work do not even have enough money to live on. Thus, by means of heavy taxes on high profits and incomes, the Labor Party seeks to even out the distribution of wealth so that everyone has a fair share. This is the main principle of socialism.Naturally, the Labor Party has no patience with the belief that certain people have a natural right to govern and to enjoy special privileges. They believe in equal opportunity for everybody, with merit as the only standard.The worst type of Labor supporter is the ignorant and self-pitying worker who does as little work as he or she can for as much as he or she can get, and do not trust anyone who tries to do more. Such people never recognize any merit in their superiors: they are jealous (妒嫉的) of them and never cooperate with them. But the Labor Party as a whole has unselfish ideals which have made a very important contribution to the general improvement in living standards during the present century. CommonsBoth the Conservative Party and the Labor Party have a nation-wide organization, with hundreds oflocal branches. The Conservative organization is richer, and its members often have a higher standard of culture and experience. The Labor Party has fewer resources, and relies heavily on the trade unions for financial help, but it has always attracted a strong body of intellectuals who have supported the struggle of the workers on more theoretical grounds.When it comes to concrete problems, particularly problems of foreign policy, there is not always much difference in the attitude of the great parties. It is perhaps fair to say, however, that where the Conservatives tend to stand for existing authority (Particularly British authority), the Labor people show more kindness. Thus it is the Labor party that has shown rather more readiness to oppose racial discrimination, to promote self-government in the Commonwealth (英联邦), to abolish capital punishment for criminals, and to organize the welfare state.1. Politicians of "the Left" are those who ________________.A. are reasonably satisfiedB. oppose rapid changesC. believe more in progressD. respect tradition2. ________________ can be considered as Tories by their opponents.A. The ConservativesB. Successful peopleC. Non-industrial workersD. People of the Left3. Characteristically, Conservatives believe that a private individual is able to________________.A. become a non-industrial workerB. do what's best for their partyC. build up his own businessD. control the government4. The Conservatives are against the idea that the state take charge of the private industriesbecause ________________.A. the state will take the rewardsB. the state will then fix salariesC. the state opposes the communityD. the state causes inefficiency5. ________________ are considered as the worst kind of Conservatives.A. People who have nothing to complain aboutB. People who oppose all changesC. People who lead an easy life due to luckD. People who set up business through hard work6. Because of ________________, Labor Party members don't believe that businessmen are thebest leaders for the country.A. the workers' poor wagesB. the past troubles of the workersC. the poverty and unemploymentD. the unpleasant conditions7. According to the Labor Party, the best advantage of governmental supervision of the industry is________________.A. the drive for profitB. mass productionC. the resources are sharedD. the workers get protection8. The Labor Party tries to distribute the wealth evenly by __________ on high profits andincomes in order that everyone shares fairly.9. ____________ has theoretical reasons for supporting the struggle of the workers.10. The party that is more willing to fight racial discrimination and organize the welfare state is_____________.。

全新版大学英语快速阅读第一册 Unit1(素文整理)

Unit 1I. Directions:Read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each of the questions or incomplete statements.Passage 1It was Monday, and Mrs. Smith‟s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.Considering that there was no better way, Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote: “Give my dog half a pound of meat.”Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gnetly, “Take this to the butcher, and he‟s going to give you your lunch today.”Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher‟s. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized it was really the lady‟s handwriting and did as he was asked. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up immediately.At midday, the dog returened to the shop. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.The next day, the dog came again exactly at midday. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in its mouth. This time, the butcher did not look at the paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers.But, the dog came again at four o‟oclock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself, “This is a small dog. Why does Mrs Smith give it so much meat to eat today?”Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it!(Words: 276)1. When Mrs. Smith found there was no meat in the house, she ___________ .A)went to the butchers‟B)wrote a noteC)shouted at the dogD)sold her dog2. The butcher gave the dog some meat the next day, because he _____________ .A)read the paperB)saw the paperC)felt sorry for the dogD)wanted the dog to go away3. The writer of this passage suggests that the butcher was fooled because ________ .A)he could not readB)the dog cound writeC)he was a creature of habitD)the dog looked hungry4. In total, how much meat did the dog get form the butcher?A)Half a pound.B) A pound.C)One and a half pounds.D)Two pounds.5. It can be learned from the passage that the dog was __________ .A)lovelyB)smartC)naughtyD)troublesomePassage 2Most people rest and relax when they are old. They do not work. And most people certainly are not famous. But Grandma Moses is different. She starts a new job at age 76. This is her story. It begins in 1860. She is born a poor farmer‟s daughter. Her parents name her Anna Mary Robertson.She is one of 10 children. She works on other people‟s farms to make money. It is 1887. She marries Thomas Moses. He is a farm worker, too. They both work on a farm.Now it is 1930. Anna Mary Moses is 70 and a grandmother. She paints pictures. She makes paintings of country life. One day, her daughter takes her paintings to a store in town. Her paintings are put in the window. A man from New Y ork sees the paintings in the window and buys them. And he wants more!The man likes Grandma Moses‟paintings. He wants to help her. So he takes her paintings to galleries (画廊) in New Y ork. Otto Kallir has a famous gallery there. He likes the paintings by Grandma Moses. Now it is 1940 and Grandma Moses‟paintings are in Kallir‟s gallery. She is 80 years old.Grandma Moses suddenly becomes famous. Everyone wants her paintings. So she paints more and more. She wins many prizes for her paintings. She becomes famous in the United Stats and Europe.When she is 100 years old, the state of New Y ork makes her birthday “Grandma Moses Day.”After her 100th birthday, she paints 6 more paintings. She dies at age 101. She leaves 11 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, and a lot of people who think she is amazing.(Words: 277)1. How does Grandma Moses differ form most other old people?A)She has more grandchildren.B)She makes more friends.C)She likes an easy life.D)She starts a new job.2. Grandma Moses doesn’t paint pictures until __________ .A)she is 60 years oldB)she becomes a grandmotherC)her husband diesD)her daughter asks her to do that3. Grandma Moses’ paintings are first noticed by ___________ .A)her daughterB)the owner of town storeC)a man from New Y orkD)Otto Kallir4. The writer of the passage suggests that _____________ .A)many people buy her paintings only because she is famousB)Grandma Moses is too old to paint at the age of 100C)many people like her paintings but do not like herD)it is never too late to start a new job5. The best title for the passage is __________.A)Grandma Moses‟ DayB)Grandma Moses‟ LifeC)Grandma Moses and FameD)Grandma Moses and PaintingII. Directions: Read the following passages, and then fill in the blanks with the missing information.Passage 3Imagine a classrom missing the one thing that has long been considered a necessary part to reading and writing: paper. No notebooks, no textbooks, no test paper. And there are no pencils or pens, which, after all, always seem to run out of ink at the critical moment.A “paperless classroom”is what more and more schools are trying to achieve. Students don‟t do any handwriting in this class. Instead, they use palm-sized (手掌大小的，掌上的), or specially-designed computers. The teacher downloads（下载）texts from Internet libraries and sends them to every student‟s personal computer.Having computers also means that students can search the Web. They can look up information on any subject they‟re studying, from math to social science.And exams can go oneline, too. At a school in Tennessee, U.S.A., students take tests on their own computers. The teacher records the grades on the network for everyone to see and then copies them into his or her own electronic grade book.A paperless classroom is a big step towards reducing the waste fo paper. The school teacher, Stephanie Sorrell in Kentuky, U.S.A., said she used to give about 900 pieces of paper each week to the students. “Think about the money and trees we could save with the computers,” she said.But, with all this technology, there‟s always the risk that the machines will break down. So, in case of a power failure or technical problem, paper textbooks are still widely available for these hi-tech students.(Words: 244)1. Students use ___________________ instead of doing any handwriting in a paperless classroom.2. Texts for a paperless classroom are from ____________________________________ .3. When an exam goes online, the teacher will easily ____________________________ .4. The last but one paragraph mainly tells us that ___________________ can be saved by the use of computers.5. Paper textbooks are used in a paperless classroom if __________________________ .Passage 4Wally worked in a shop that sold clocks. One day his next door neighbor, Harry,came into his shop. Harry was very stingy （吝啬的）. Wally said to him, “When are you going to buy a clock?”“Never,” Harry said. “I don‟t need a clock.”“Everyone needs a clock,” Wally said. “How do you know when to get up?”“The man who lives on the other side of me turn on his radio at seven o‟clock,” Harry said. “I hear the announcer say, …The time is seven o‟clock. Here is the news.”“OK. But how do you know when to go to work?”“By the time I get out of bed, wash, and shave (剃胡子), it‟s half past seven,” Harry said. “By the time I‟ve eaten my breakfast, it‟s eight o‟clock, time to leave for the office. By the time I get to the bus stop, it‟s ten past eight. The bus arrives in a few minutes and by the time it gets to my stop, the time is half past eight. That‟s the time I start work.”“OK. But how do you know when it‟s time to go home?” Wally said.“The factory siren（号笛，警报器）rings.”“How do you know when it‟s time to go to bed?”“The television programs come to an end.”“OK,” Wally shouted, really angry. “Now tell me what would happen if you woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to know the time?”“That‟s easy,” Harry said. “I‟ve got a hammer.”“A hammer! What good is a hammer?”“I use it to knock on your wall. Y ou‟d shout at me. …What are you doing knoking on my wall at three o‟clock in the morning?”(Words: 279)1. Wally talked to Harry in the hope that _______________ .2. Harry found out it was time to get up by _____________ .3. It took Harry __________________ from home to the office.4. According to Harry, the end of _______________ was a signal for him to go to bed.5. I can be learned from the passage that Wally failed to persuade Harry into __________.III. Drections:Read the following passages, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).Passage 5Mrs. Green gave her husband her letter to post when he was going to work. But sometimes Mr. Green forgot to do so and kept them in his pocket for days.One fine morning in March, Mrs. Green asked him to post a letter. “Please post this letter and don‟t forget,” she said. Mr. Green put the letter in his pocket and said, “I am sure to post this one. “ Mrs. Green smiled and said, “Y es, I believe that you will this time.” Mrs. Green looked at his back, and was still smiling when she closed the door.Mr. Green walked slowly along the street. Soon a man came up form behind him. When he walked by, the man looked back and smiled, “Don‟t forget to post the letter!”Then a girl walked by, and she turned and smiled, too. “Don‟t forget to post the letter!” she said.Mr. Green said to himself, “Why are these people smiling at me? And how do they know I have a letter to post?At last he came to a post office, posted the letter, and walked on. But after a whle, a boy came up from behind and asked him, “Did you post your letter?”“Y es, I did,” said Mr. Green.“Then I can take off this paper,”said the boy.He took a large piece of paper from the back of Mr. Green‟s coat and showed it to him. On the paper were these words----“Ask him to post the letter.”(Words: 251)( ) 1. Mrs. Green asked her husband to post her letters on his way home.( ) 2. Mr. Green sometimes forgot to post the letters immediately.( ) 3. Many people in the street knew Mr. Green.( ) 4. Mr. Green had his wife put the large piece of paper on his back.( ) 5. The paper on his back was a good hint to help Mr. Green remember to post the letter.Passage 6No one is sure how many Americans belong to reading groups called book clubs. Y et publishers and bookstores report that more an dmore people throughout the United States are joining them.Most of the clubs work the same way. Members read the same book at the same time. Then they meet to talk about the book.Memembers may be friends or people who live near each other. Or, they may be eople who work together. Religious and community groups often establish book clubs.Some Americans belong to reading groups on the Internet. Thee groups include people around the world who communicate about books they read. These people send electronic mail instead of meeting to discuss books.Book clubs may be for only women or only men. Or, they can be for husbands and wives together. Some are family groups where parents attend with their children. Children may belong to book clubs of their own.Most reading groups study books by a number of writers, Howerver, some grousp read the work of a single woriter, usually one that has been famous for a while. William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Jane Austen, George Bernard Shaw and Mrak Twain are some examples.Other groups may be named for an important person in the work of the woriter, like a Sherlock Homes Club. Holmes is the great British crime investigator (调查者)created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Members of these book clubs often are experts about their chosen reading material. For example, one member of a Hlmes reading group can identify almost every person in every Sherlock Holmes Story.(Words: 263)( ) 1. Many important writers are first members of book clubs.( ) 2. Children can apply to join a book club when allowed by their parents.( ) 3. The writer of this passage suggests that book clubs are good ways for people to become good writers.( ) 4. Some groups are named after important characters in the works of writers.( ) 5. Book clubs are becoming more and more popular in the U.S.KeyUnit 1Passage 1B BCD BPassage 2D B C D DPassage 31. palm-sized, or specially-designed computers2. Internet libraries3. record the grades on the network and then copy them inot an electronic grade book.4. money and trees5. there is a power failure or technical problemPassage 41. Harry would buy a clock2. listening to his neighbor‟s radio3. half an hour4. the television programs5. buying a clockPassage 5F T F F TPassage 6F F F T T。

快速阅读第1册答案

快速阅读第1册答案Key to Fast Reading (Book One)Unit 1 Festivals and HolidaysIn-Class Reading1. Carnival in Brazil (502 words)Key: 1. N 2. Y 3. Y 4. NG 5. N2. Valentine’s Day (480 words)Key:1. the 5th century2. lottery3. married young men4. recover her sight5. CupidAfter-Class Reading1.Chinese Festivals: Keeping Traditions Alive (1,099 words)Key: 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. A2.The First Thanksgiving (1,073 words)Key: 1.C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. AUnit 2 Campus LifeIn-Class Reading1. How to Deal with College Classes (500 words)Key: 1. books and notebooks 2. their reading 3. all their classes/every class 4. days or weeks5. teachers and upperclassmen2.The Virtual College (501 words)Key: 1. N 2. Y 3. Y 4. Y 5. NGAfter-Class Reading1. The American Education System (945 words)Key: 1. B 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. C2.Saying Goodbye (991 words)Key: 1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. DUnit 3 VIP & VIP’s TalksIn-Class Reading1. Bill Gates’ Advice to Students:Get a Sound, Broad Education (506 words)Key: 1. N 2. NG 3. Y 4. N 5. Y2.Yang Zhenning: When Will There Be a Nobel Prize –Winning Work on Chinese Soil? (487 ) Key: 1. economic foundations2. a miracle/success3. China was isolated4. biology and medicine5. historyAfter-Class Reading1. Condoleezza Rice (1,017 words)Key: 1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C2.Yao: A Life in Two Worlds (1,111 words)Key: 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. BUnit 4 Love StoriesIn-Class Reading1.Love for Rose (501 words)Key: 1. Y 2. N 3. N 4. N 5. Y2.Banjo (486 words)Key: 1. on the doorstep2. single/unmarried3. nuisance4. ten-week’s5. in the woodsAfter-Class Reading1. Go Out and Make a Difference (915 words)Key: 1. D 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. A3. A Small Boy’s Mother (1,143 words)Key: 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. DUnit 5 Cultural DifferenceIn-Class Reading1. Avoiding Cultural Taboos (499 words)Key: 1.Y 2.N 3.N 4. Y 5. NG2. Table Manners: a Cultural Difference (495 words)Key:1.not used to2.highly restrictive rules3.smacking/slurping4.not allowed5.chopsticksAfter-Class Reading1.Traveling Student (1,092 words)Key: 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. A2.Beyond Assumptions: One Woman's Experience of Living Abroad in the U.S.A. (1,183) Key: 1. C 2. B3. A4. D5. DUnit 6 Interpersonal RelationshipIn-Class Reading1. As My Daughter Leaves for College，I let Go (490 words)Key: 1.N 2. NG 3. N 4. Y 5.Y2.Cybercourtship (500 words)Key:1.romantic courtship online/romance online/ virtualromance2.meeting in person3.fewer inhibitions4.freer and faster5.physical cues/ feedback; body languageAfter-Class Reading1. After Twenty Years (1,193 words)Key: 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. C2.“Of My Friend Hector and My Achilles’ Heel” (1,042 words)Key: 1. C 2. B 3.A 4. D 5. AUnit 7 Science and TechnologyIn-Class Reading1.Wireless Wearable (500 words)Key: 1.N 2. Y 3. Y 4. NG 5.N2.The World Is Getting Smaller (487 words)Key:1.next industrial revolution2.one-thousandth3.size and strength4.manufacturing, environment, medicine5.swallowed or injectedAfter-Class Reading1. The Internet: What Lies Ahead? (1,074 words)Key: 1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. B2.New Genes – New Hope Or Future Disaster? (1,154 words)Key: 1. B 2. A 3. C 4.D 5. DUnit 8 Life & HealthIn-Class Reading1. You Have A Cold! (516 words)Key: 1. NG 2. N 3. Y 4. Y 5. N2.Protein (522 words)Key: 1. the tissues 2. basic units 3. protein-rich foods 4. incomplete 5. your weightAfter-Class Reading1. Yoga (957 words)Keys: 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. B2.What You Eat Can Sabotage Your Sleep (992 words)Key: 1. D 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. DUnit 9 AnimalsIn-Class Reading1. How Do the Animals Spend the Winter? (517 words)Keys: 1. Y 2. N 3. N 4. NG 5. Y2.Cats and Man (507 words)Key: 1. definite 2. forbidden 3. tell time 4. eyes opened 5. blue After-Class Reading1. Animals as Teachers (984 words)Key: 1. A 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. C2.Animals “Speak” Many Strange Languages (1,017 words)Key: 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. AUnit 10 Sports & Leisure TimeIn-Class Reading1. Lessons for Your Life and Business from Wimbledon (496 words) Key: 1. Y2. N3. Y4. N5. NG2.Beijing 2008: Five Mascots for the Beijing Games (482 words) Key: 1. mark 2. syllables3. prosperity4. sixteen days5. pandaAfter-Class Reading1. Sports and Exercise Safety (1,085 words) Key: 1. B2. C3. A4. B5. C2.Tennis, Then and Now (986 words) Key: 1. C 2. A3. B4. C5. B。

快速阅读练习1-3答案

Passage 11. D 在文章的第一段，作者说明右撇子远比左撇子多，这是人类一种特有的现象。

就连我们的近亲猿都不是这样。

故正确的答案是D。

2. A 在文章的第一段，作者介绍Bryan Turner教授研究了关于左撇子的文献，然后发现人类存在偏向现象；在10个人中，9个人习惯用右手，8个人是用右脚。

3. C 在文章的第一节（The Genetic or Inherited Element）中，作者指出研究表明左右撇子现象与遗传有关。

例如：父母都是右撇子，只有6%的孩子可能是左撇子；父母都是左撇子，大约40%的孩子是左撇子；如果父母一方是左撇子一方是右撇子，那么15－20%的孩子是左撇子。

故正确的答案是C。

4. C 在文章的第二节（Researchers Turning to the Brain）中，作者介绍了Dr PaulBroca的研究成果，然后又介绍了心理学家的结论：95%的右撇子语言中心在左脑，而左撇子只有30%的人语言中心在右脑。

据此判断，70%的左撇子语言中心在左脑。

5. B 在文章的第三节（The Evolution of Speech Went with Right-handedPreference）中，作者介绍了Brinkman博士的研究：如果一个左撇子左脑受伤，恢复语言能力的速度要快于同样情况下的右撇子。

据此判断，如果左脑受伤，左撇子恢复语言能力的速度更快。

6. D 在文章的第三节（The Evolution of Speech Went with Right-handedPreference）的末尾，作者介绍虽然一般认为猴子的大脑不会像人类一样，左右大脑控制不同的功能，但是Brinkman博士认为猴子有可能会像人类一样左右大脑控制不同的功能。

7. B 在文章的第五段，作者介绍根据两位美国研究人员Geschwind和Galaburda的研究结果，大脑在形成之初显现女性特征，男性胎儿在分泌荷尔蒙之后才会显现男性特征。

英语快速阅读Unit1-TextA

原文Foreign Students at U.S. Colleges Have Several Ways to GetFinancial Aid美国大学的外国学生有多种方法来获得经济援助Some international students want to know how to get a scholarships from an American college,and others want to know the differences among various kinds of financial aid. These include assistantships, grants, scholarships and fellowships.一些国际学生想知道如何获得美国大学的奖学金,和其他想知道的差异在各种金融援助。

这些包括助教奖学金,助学金,奖学金和助学金。

An assistantship is a job a student does. In exchange, the student receives money or attends classes for free. Graduate students usually get assistantships. The student works about twenty hours a week helping a professor. The student may teach classes, help grade papers and tests, or do research in a laboratory.研究生助教奖学金是学生做一份工作。

作为交换,学生收到钱或免费参加类。

毕业的学生通常可以得到奖学金。

学生工作一周帮助教授约二十个小时。

学生可能会授课,帮助批改作业和测验,或在实验室里做研究。

A grant is a gift of money to pay for some or all of the costs of college. Unlike loans, grants do not have to be re-paid. Private groups or organizations generally give grants to students who need the money.格兰特是钱的一份礼物来支付一些或所有大学的费用。

快速阅读答案及解析

大学英语四级快速阅读专项突破(一)【答案与解析】1.N当出现all这种过于绝对的词语时，考生应该引起注意。

一般这样的命题多数是不正确的。

首段中有句话：“All spiders produce silk, but only some construct webs to catch their hcmes...”命题中all的说法过于绝对。

2.Y该命题是对原文第二段首句话的同义改写。

3.N原文中第二段首句中写到，“of the 600 spiders in Britain only 12 are str ong enough to pierce the human skin”，因此并不是命题中说的当它们刺进人的皮肤通常能致人死亡。

4.N原文中说，“Arachne became depressed after this ϳand in the end she hung herself.”注意代词this指代上面的句子，结合上一句一起理解，命题显然是错误的。

5. NG文章中只出现过一次Tim Tegenaria，所以该题很好定位，即最后一段的第二句。

可是文章中并没有出现tarantula spiders。

6.Y该命题定位在最后一段倒数第三句话处。

7.NG首先定位Money spiders出现的位置是文章的最后的两句，可是并没有提到它是最小的。

8.32,000该题由关键词species of spider定位在第二段倒数第二句。

9.looking at their palps 该题定位在倒数第二段的首句。

10.the Goliath spider 本题答案在最后一段的首句。

大学英语四级快速阅读专项突破(二) 【答案与解析】1. NG关键词语是new to all the tourism professionals,原文没说到。

2. N关键词语是stir up，意思为挑拨，挑起，贬义词;原文是encourage鼓励，鼓舞。