2011新大考博英语完型及阅读

Enjoying dry-skiing

Britain may not have produced a downhill skiing champion, but there is still area of the sport in which it is a leader: dry-skiing. As a result of this, more man-made ski slopes are found here than in the rest of the world. The first dry slope was built in London thirty-five years ago. Now there are a hundred and fifty slopes in Britain starting from the smallest size 30 metes to one of 471 metes just outside Edinburgh. The bigger centres operate like golf or squash clubs because they offer their members a full range of well-organized facilities.

Many people want to go the dry-ski centres because they are close to the cities. For those who never skied before, they can without doubt save a lot of time and money by going to one of the centres for beginners. Instructors will go over the equipment and teach the basic skills of skiing. For those that can ski, it is a(n) rarely good way of keeping fit and practicing new techniques. For many regular skiers it has become a part of their entertainment.

英国可能不会产生一个下坡滑雪冠军，但仍有面积的运动，它是一个领导者：dry-skiing。因此，人造滑雪斜坡被发现在这里比在世界其他地方。第一个干坡建于三十五年前在伦敦。现在有一百五十个斜坡在英国从最小尺寸为30米到471米外爱丁堡。更大的中心运作，因为他们喜欢高尔夫球、壁球俱乐部为其成员提供全方位的组织严密的设施。

许多人想去dry-ski中心，因为他们是附近的城市。对于那些谁从来没有滑过雪，他们可以毫无疑问节省很多时间和金钱去一个中心为初学者。教师会在设备和教滑雪的基本技巧。对于那些可以滑雪，这是一个（）很少好的健身方式和实践新的技术。许多普通滑雪者已成为他们的娱乐。

杭十中二OO六学年第一学期高三英语期中考试试卷_百度文库

I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.

I wasted a lot of time looking for the “typical” village. Yet no such thing exists. Conditions are quite different from village to village. But the villages I stayed in had much in common—poor, dirty and backward. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled and doubtful. Why had I come? I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else. But to understand how three-quarters of the world population live, and what effect their future might have on ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.

In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along a rocky road. Then I came a rough walk down a steep path to the river. After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to catch my breath, there was a beautiful scene. After several hours’ walk the village came into sight.

一年前我来印度找到一个村，在哪里我可以生活和写作，但这是许多个月之前，我愉快地安顿下来在这个喜马拉雅山社区。

我浪费了很多时间寻找“典型”村。没有这样的东西存在。条件是相当不同的村庄。但村庄我呆在有很多common-poor，肮脏的，落后的。经常的村民感到疑惑和怀疑。为什么我来吗？我把我的工作作为一个政治记者因为我的想法已改变了。