人教版高中英语选修8语篇提能练习题及答案解析5.doc

语篇提能
Ⅰ.阅读理解
Across the United States, there are several places where two independent towns grew together to become one city — but kept both their names.
Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the plateau (high land), between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina. The Winston part is a relatively new place, founded early last century. It's home to the nation's biggest open-air tobacco market.
The giant R．J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds' best-known cigarette brands. Fast-growing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem，so in 1913, people in the area voted to combine them into a single place.
From a historical and tourist point of view，Salem，or Old Salem, as it's called today, is the interesting and unusual part of town.
Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians. They spoke German，and their community was religiously based, with single men and single women living apart in separate dormitories. The Moravians greatly valued women's work and brainpower. In fact, one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women —the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 — is still in operation.
Over the years，Salem lost its Moravian character. That all changed, though, when a non-profit group began to rehabilitate the historic area. These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum, with exhibits, music, and tours of 18th-century houses, taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in
Winston-Salem.
The historic community is booming again. Just as R．J. Reynolds is taking in millions of dollars making cigarettes across the town, Old Salem is generating about $15 million a year in tourism revenue and donations.
1．From the passage we can know that ________.
A. Winston-Salem is the name of a city
B. Salem is home to the tobacco market
C. the city Winston-Salem has two names
D. Old Salem is the name of a tobacco brand
答案与解析A推理判断题。

文章第一段介绍在美国，两个原本独立的城镇会逐渐合二为一，第二段第一句就说Winston-Salem就是其中的一个，由此可推知Winston-Salem是一个城市的名字，故答案选A项。

2．It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ________.
A. the two cities benefited each other
B. Salem developed faster than Winston
C. R．J. Reynolds Company has moved into Salem
D. the combination meets the wishes of the people
答案与解析D推理判断题。

从文章第三段中的“so in 1913, people in the area voted to combine them into a single place”推断知，人们投票同意将两个地方合并，所以是“满足了人们的愿望”，故选D项。

3．The city Salem is special for its ________.
A. boarding school
B. lifestyle and tradition
C. respect for brainpower
D. religious belief
答案与解析B推理判断题。

从文章第四段至第六段可知，Salem是一个具有较长历史传统和独特风格的老城，同时又是一个较著名的旅游景点城镇，故选B项。

4．The underlined word “rehabilitate” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to “________”．
A. reconstruct
B. evaluate
C. enlarge
D. decorate
答案与解析A词义猜测题。

Salem和Winston是两个融二为一的城镇，再结合画线词前面的内容可知，当有一个非营利机构开始重建这一历史城镇时，Salem原有的特色都改变了，故rehabilitate意为“重建；再建”，答案选A项。

Ⅱ.阅读理解七选五
Can't get out of the office? Try these tips for a healthier, less stressful workday.
●__1__
For upper－body strength: Stand a yard or more away from your desk, with your feet together. Place your palms on the edge of the desk a shoulder's width apart. Lower your chest to the edge of the desk, and push back up. Remember to breathe out on the way up. Do 20 times.
●The little mermaid(美人鱼) at work.
Sit upright in your chair. Hold your right wrist over your head with your left hand and pull it, stretching your right side. Make sure to keep your shoulders down as you bend. Hold for 10 seconds. __2__ Take hold of your left wrist over your head with your right hand and stretch the other
way. Repeat five times on each side.
●Shoulder spin(肩部拉伸训练)．
A good move for flexibility(灵活). Sit tall in your chair and reach your left hand behind your back, between your shoulder blades(肩胛骨), palm out. Then reach your right hand up toward the ceiling, bend it down, and try to touch your left hand. __3__ Hold for 10 seconds. If not, grab onto your shirt and keep practicing. Switch arms and repeat.
●The wooden leg.
For lower－body strength: Sit in your chair, extend one leg out straight in front of you and hold for two seconds. Then raise it up as high as you can, and hold it again for two seconds. __4__
●The magic carpet ride.
This works your core and arms. __5__ Then place your hands on the armrests, suck in your gut(内脏) and raise yourself a few inches above the seat, using your belly muscles and hands. Hold for 10 to 20 seconds. Rest for
30 seconds. Repeat five times.
A. Repeat with each leg 15 times.
B. Invisible chair sit.
C. Desk push ups.
D. If you can reach it, great!
E. Sit in your chair, legs crossed and feet on the seat.
F. Return to upright posture.
G. Release and raise your arms toward the ceiling again.
答案 1.C 2.D 3.G 4.A 5.B。