高一英语阅读理解竞赛(含答案)

泉州十五中2013-2014学年第二学期高一年段阅读能力竞赛第一篇Today, roller skating is easy and fun. But a long time ago, it wasn't easy at all. Before 1750, the idea of skating didn't exist. That changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin. Merlin's work was making musical instruments. In his spare time he liked to play the violin. Joseph Merlin was a man of ideas and dreams. People called him a dreamer.One day Merlin received an invitation to attend a fancy dress ball(化装舞会). He was very pleased and a little excited. As the day of the party came near, Merlin began to think how to make a special entrance at the party. He had an idea. He thought he would get a lot of attention if he could skate into the room.Merlin tried different ways to make himself roll. Finally, he decided to put two wheels under each shoe. These were the first roller skates. Merlin was very proud of his invention and dreamed of arriving at the party on wheels while playing the violin.On the night of the party Merlin rolled into the room playing his violin. Everyone was surprised to see him. There was just one problem. Merlin had no way to stop his roller skates. He rolled on and on. Suddenly, he ran into a huge mirror that was hanging on the wall. Down fell the mirror, breaking to pieces. Nobody forgot Merlin's grand entrance for a long time!1. The text is mainly about ____________.A. a strange manB. an unusual partyC. how roller skating beganD. how people enjoyed themselves in the 18th century2. People thought Merlin was a dreamer because he__________.A. often gave others surprisesB. was a gifted（天才的）musicianC. invented the roller skatesD. was full of imagination3. Merlin put wheels under his shoes in order to________.A. impress the party guestsB. arrive at the party soonerC. test his inventionD. show his skill in walking on wheels4. What is the main point the writer is trying to make in the last paragraph?A. The roller skates needed further improvement.B. The party guests treated Merlin as a fool.C. Merlin succeeded beyond expectation.D. Merlin got himself into trouble.5. It is clear that Merlin was a _______.A. a dreamerB. a violinC. a farmerD. a maker of musical instrument第二篇As prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself'(DIY) trend（趋势）in the U.S. continues to grow.“We needed furniture（家具）for our living room,” says John Ross, “and we just didn't have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset (焦虑)about it. Now I've finished a car repair course（课程）, I should b e able to fix the car by myself.”John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don't have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.1. We can learn from the text that many newly married people_______.A. find it hard to pay for what they needB. have to learn to make their own furnitureC. take DIY courses run by the governmentD. seldom go to a department store to buy things2. John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to______.A. run a DIY shopB. make or repair thingsC. save time and moneyD. improve the quality of life3. When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim___.A. makes shoes in his homeB. does extra work at nightC. does his own car and home repairsD. keeps house and looks after his children4. Jim Hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourselfer when_______.A. his car repairs cost too muchB. the car repair class was not helpfulC. he could not possibly do two jobsD. he had to raise the children all by himself5. What would be the best title for the text?A. The Joy of DIYB. You Can Do It Too!C. Welcome to Our DIY Course!D. Ross and Hatfield: Believers in DIY第三篇Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a g enius.“ There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.1. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. Edison invented the electric light.B. Many other people have changed Edison’s life.C. Edison has changed the life of many other people.D. Few men in history can change other people’s life.2. Edison thought .A. he could be happy if he was a geniusB. genius plays the most important part in one’s successC. hard work could do better than geniusD. genius could do better than hard work3. Edison was .A. very much interested in natureB. interested in discovering the secrets of natureC. interested in changing people’s ideasD. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature4. In Edison’s opinion, .A. thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as helpB. people’s success lies mostly in geniusC. hard work is the second important thing in making people successfulD. there are few secrets for him to discover later5. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies .A. life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beingsB. Edison made 100 inventions in his lifeC. Edison was able to live and work for 100 yearsD. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years’ work第四篇Suppose you are a visitor in the land of Mongolia, some friends ask you to eat with them. What kind of manners do they want you to have? They want you to give a loud burp after you finish eating. Burping would show that you like your food. In some coun tries, if you give a big burp, you are told to say “Excuse me, please”.In many places people like to eat together. But in some parts of Polynesia it is bad manners to be seen eating at all. People show their good manners by turning their backs on others while they eat.What are manners like in an East African town? The people try not to see you. They are being polite. You may see a friend. He may not see you at all. If you are polite, you will sit down beside him. You will wait until he finishes what he is doing. Then he will talk to you. Manners are different all over the world. But it is good to know that all manners begin in the same way. People need ways to show that they want to be friends.1. In Mongolia, burping is a way of showing that __________.A. you are impoliteB. you enjoyed the meal prepared by the hostC. your meal was not enoughD. you are friendly with your host2. In Polynesia, to be polite while eating you should __________.A. eat quicklyB. sit stillC. turn your back on othersD. say “Excuse me, please”3. People in an East African town are being polite by __________.A. waiting for a long time before visitsB. sitting down beside othersC. seeing a friend quicklyD. trying not to see you4. We have good manners to show that we __________.A. are different from other peopleB. don’t want other people to worry usC. begin all manners in the same wayD. want to be friends with other people5. The best title for this passage is __________.A. Good MannersB. All manners is the Same WayC. Different Kinds of MannersD. Do Have Manners第五篇During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old and up. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty.This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic (经济的) position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married their school-leaving age is sixteen. Many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to fuller part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage (婚姻), with the husband accepting agreater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.1. We are told that in a family about 1900__________ .A. few children died before they were fiveB. seven or eight children lived to be more than fiveC. the youngest child would be fifteenD. four or five children died when they were five2. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she __________.A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselvesB. does not like children herselfC. needn’t worry about food for her childrenD. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty3. Many girls are now likely to __________.A. give up their jobs for good after they are marriedB. leave school as soon as they canC. marry so that they can get a jobD. continue working until they are going to have a baby4. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to __________.A. stay at home after leaving schoolB. marry men younger than themselvesC. start working again in lifeD. marry while still at school5. Now a husband probably __________.A. plays a greater part in looking after childrenB. helps his wife by doing much of the houseworkC. feels dissatisfied with his part in the familyD. takes a part-time job so that he can help in the home答题卡班级姓名得分第一篇CDACD第二篇ABDAB第三篇BCBAA第四篇BCDDA第五篇DADCB。