高考阅读理解猜测词义练习

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Exercises

Read the following passages and see if you understand the words or phrases that may be new to you: Passage 1.

We can not feel speed. But our sense let us know that we are moving. We see things moving past and feel that we are being shaken. We can feel acceleration, an increase in speed. But we notice it for only a short time.

For example we fee it during the takeoff run of an airplane.

1. Acceleration is the name for _______. D

A. any kind of movement

B. the movement of a plane

C. a steady speed

D. an increase in speed

Passage 2.

A tornado can do a lot of damage. The wind of a tornado rushes at great speed around a funnel-shaped cloud.

It travels in a path a few hundred feet wide and about twenty-five miles long. As the wind circles, the funnel spirals higher and higher.

2. A tornado is a _______. C

A. rainstorm

B. dust storm

C. great circle wind

D. huge funnel of water

Passage 3.

STOCKHOLM—A Swede and two Americans won the 2000 Nobel Prize for medicine on Oct. 9 for studies on how messages move around the nervous system. The discovery makes it possible to develop drugs against Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia. Arvid Carlson of Sweden and Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel of the United States share the first prize of the millennium, worth nearly US$ 1 million, for their discoveries, Sweden’s Karlinska Institute said. (2009NMET)

3. What does the underlined word “schizophrenia” probably mean?A

A. a kind of illness

B. a new discovery

C. a name of a subject

D. a new drug

Passage 4.

New Y ork: when the first jet struck 1 World Trade Center at 8:48 am on Tuesday, the people in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast…. Among the uncertainty about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the south tower instructed people to stay put, telling them that the building was in good condition and the threat was limited to the other tower. C

4. The underlined words “stay put”means______.

A. to keep silent

B. to leave at once

C. to stay in the building

D. to put everything back and then leave

Passage 5.

All the athletes try to be at the closing ceremony. They have forgotten all their fears and worries. It does not matter whether they have done well or not. All the teams walk round the stadium together. Everybody in the village clears up and gets ready to leave. Everyone is hunting for local products. People exchange track suits, hats, running vest and so on. There is a last chance to take photographs and get addresses of new friends.

Then each team starts its journey home.

5. The underline phrase “clears up”in the paragraph means______. A