英语阅读2期末复习资料

英语阅读2期末复习资料

Part One

Passage l

Th is is a short passage about the wildebeest migration.

Every year around April , many thousands of wildebeest gather together on the Serengeti Plains in Tanzania in preparation for their long journey northwards. Although it is often referred to as ‘The Migration' , this great movement of animals is an endless year - round trek dictated by the seasons and the search for fresh grass and water.

By early July the long straggling columns of wildebeest , along with large numbers of zebra , begin to reach the Mara Reserve. They can enter anywhere and once inside their movements are erratic according to where forage is best. However, the herds do have one or two favorite river crossing places and after the Mara grasses have been gazed to the ground , they use these to move northwards out of the reserve.

Weak animals rarely survive the river crossings. Many are crushed to death by the sheer weight of numbers and some are eaten by huge crocodiles.

In late September. the herds begin to re- form for the journey back to the Serengeti

Plains. They arrive three months later and begin calving.

Read Passage 1 and decide whether the following statements are True or False.

1. In April the wildebeest travel from the Mara Reserve to the Serengeti.

2. The reason for ‘ T he Migration' is search for food.

3. In early June , the wildebeest reach the Mara Reserve.

4. The wildebeest' s movements are irregular when they go into the Mara Reserve.

5. At the end of the year , the wildebeest return to the Serengeti Plains and give birth to calves.

Passage 2

This is a short passage about the monster and Frankenstein •

Some time later , Frankenstein received a letter from his father telling him that his

young brother. William. had been murdered. All the family was shocked when Justine Moritz , the boy' s nanny , was accused of the crime and Frankenstein was horrified when she was executed for the murder because he felt that his monster had done it , not Justine. Throughout the following months , Frankenstein became more and more depressed.

Then , one day when he was traveling in the mountains , trying to forget his troubles , Frankenstein suddenly met the monster. He shouted furiously at him , accusing him of the crime, and telling him to stay away from him and his family. But the monster insisted on talking to his creator and told him the sad story of his life since he had run away from the laboratory where Frankenstein had made him.

The monster said that he had tried , in vain , to attach himself to humans , but nobody would have anything to do with him , because they found him so ugly and frightening. He told Frankenstein that even when he had saved a child who was drowning in a river , nobody thanked him. In fact , the father shot him in the shoulder because he was afraid of him.