小学六年级英语专项复习

阅读专项

（一）Poor man

Look at this man. What is he doing? He is carrying a very big box. The box is full of big apples. He wants to put it on the back of his bike and take it home. Can he do that? No, I don’t think so. Why not? Because the box is too full and too heavy. Look! What’s wrong? He drops the box. Poor man.

1.What’s the man doing? He is _____.

A.Riding a bike

B. eating some apples

C. carrying a box

D. making a box

2.What’s in the box?

A.Some books

B. some bikes

C. some apples

D. some boxes

3.Can he carry the box?

A.Yes, he can

B. yes, he is

C. no, he can’t

D. no, he isn’t

4.Is the box full or empty?

A.Yes, it is.

B. No, it isn’t

C. It’s empty

D. It’s full

（二）A new student

Kate is a new student. She is twelve. She is from America. She can speak English very well and she can speak a little Chinese. She is in Nanjing. Her parents are doctors. Kate is studying in a school near her home. She has classes from Monday to Friday. On Saturdays and Sundays, she often plays games with her Chinese friends. She loves china and her Chinese friends.

1.Kate is _______.

A. a new student

B. a Chinese girl

C. a doctor

D. a driver

2.Kate can _______.

A.Speak a lot of Chinese

B. speak English well

C. speak a little Japanese

D. speak little

English

3.Kate often studies______.

A.From Monday to Friday

B. in Beijing

C. on Saturdays and Sundays

D. at home

4.Her parents______.

A.Are working in a school

B. have classes on Mondays

C. often play games with Kate

D.

are doctors

（三）A Clever Crow

A crow was thirsty, but he couldn’t find water. He looked here and there. At last, he cried happily,” I can see a jar and there is some water in it,” he said to himself.” I can put my beak quite close to it.” But still he cannot drink,” What should I do? I want to drink.” He looked around, and then he picked up a small stone in his beak and carried it to the jar of water and dropped it into the jar.” Soon the water will be high in the jar, and I can drink,” said the crow. So he began to do that until water was high enough to drink.

开心词典：crow n. 乌鸦beak n. 鸟嘴

根据短文回答问题。

1.Why did the crow look here and there?

______________________________________________________.

2.Why did the crow cry happily?

________________________________________________________.

3.Can the crow drink the water only by his beak?

_______________________________________________________.

（四）The Secret of Success

Albert Einstein was a great German scientist. One day a young man asked him a question,”You are so successful, what is the secret?” he asked. The scientist told him that it is hard work. A few days later the young man asked him the same question again. Einstein was very annoyed. He did not say anything but wrote a few words on a piece of paper and handed it to the young man. The young man looked at the piece of paper. He saw this on the paper: S=X+Y+Z.

“What does this mean?”asked the young man. “S means success,”the old scientist explained.” X stands for hard work, Y stands for good methods, and Z means stop talking and get down to work.”

开心词典：successful adj. 成功的method n. 方法

根据短文回答问题。

1.Who was Albert Einstein?

_________________________________________________.

2.What does the young man want to know from Einstein?

_________________________________________________.

3.How was Einstein when the young man asked him the question again?

_______________________________________________.

（五）Travels by Bike

On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes went into the hall of the Capital Hotel in Xi’an with his bike. The hotel workers received him, and then called the manager for they had never seen a man on a bike trip, even though they lived in the “Kingdom of Bikes”.

Robert Friedlander, an American, went to Xi’an during his bike trip across Asia. He had started his trip the previous(之前的) December in India.

When Robert was eleven, he read a book about Marco polo, and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now after forty-four years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his youthful dreams were coming true.

Robert’s next destinations were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi and so on. He finished his trip in Pakistan.

开心词典：kingdom n. 王国destination n. 目的地

Silk Road 丝绸之路Pakistan n. 巴基斯坦（南亚国家）

根据短文回答问题。

1.Who was on a bike trip?

______________________________________________.

2.When did he get to Xi’an with his bike?