(完整版)高一英语期末阅读训练

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My grandmother often said to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was true. However, I’ve now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make a few “best” friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.

One type of friends is the type I call the “football mom friends”. My neighbour Sally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and someone has to take them to practise and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.

Another type is called the “hobby friend”. Tha t’s the person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example

of this type. We’re all in a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Michael and Cater, of course. We just share interest in birds.

Then there’s the “other half the couple” type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I have known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that I would have to be Jim’s friend if I want to continue to be Rose’s. Jim and I don’t share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.

36. What does the first paragraph tell us about?

A. We need true friends in our lifetime.

B. We have few best friends in our lifetime.

C. A true friend is different from a best friend.

D. We must be friendly to all our friends.

37. Many people are mentioned in this passage. Who is the writer’s true friend?

A. Sally.

B. Michael.

C. Jim.

D. None of these.

38. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.

B. Michael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.

C. The writer herself takes her kid to the football club.

D. Sally and the writer are close friends.

B

Helen Keller was one of America’s best-known women. She was admired for her courage and achievements although she couldn’t see or hear. She was also known throughout the world for her self-sacrificing work to improve the condition of the blind, the deaf and the speechless. When she died on June 1, 1968, the newspaper Washington Post wrote: “Her life was truly one of the most remarkable phenomena of our time and her death just short of the age of 88 leaves the whole world poorer.”

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For the first

19 months of her life, she was a pretty and happy baby, normal in every way. Then

a sudden illness destroyed her sight and her hearing. Because she could not hear sounds to imitate(模仿), she could not speak. Helen used to say that her real birthday was not June 27th, 1880, but March 3rd, 1887 —the day when Anne Sullivan entered her life. It was Anne Sullivan who taught Helen to spell certain words by a special system, Braille, and even to talk.

Anne Sullivan could not teach Helen Keller to speak until some other important things had been learned. The little girl had to learn to control her actions and feelings. She had to learn that she could not always do what she wanted to do. She had always been able to get what she wanted by using force. The teacher had to change such habits without breaking the child’s spirit.