高考英语复习 快速阅读训练

2008高考英语复习快速阅读训练

一、完形填空 A 说明文

In some ways, the human body is both like a furnace and like an engine. It must have fuel to produce heat as a furnace 1 . It must have fuel to produce motion and do work as an engine does. The nutrients which 2 energy best are carbohydrates (碳水化合物) and fats. Protein can also be used as fuel. Minerals, vitamins and water, while extremely 3 to the body, cannot be used as fuel.

If the body takes in more carbohydrates than are used for energy, the excess (大量) is stored. The storage 4 are the liver and muscles. There is a limit, however, to the amount of carbohydrates they can 5 . When they are filled ( and they always should be for you to feel your best ), excess carbohydrates are changed to fat and 6 around the body.

If the body does not take in a sufficient amount of food, it will use its stored fat for energy. If you 7 at all, the body would use up all the stored fats and it would use its own protein in order to keep alive as long as possible.

Therefore, the 8 amount of food you eat should be in accordance with your energy requirements. It is not necessary, 9 , for you to go around counting calories and weighting food.

A coal-fire stove(炉灶)provided heating for Zhao Yaoqin's courtyard bungalow in a Beijing

hutong all her life.

This winter, however, the stove has disappeared from the 66-year-old's life, and an electric radiator takes its place beside her bed, a product of a government to use clean energy in the national capital.

With the Olympics to be staged in Beijing next August, the city is determined to eliminate the use of coal within the Third Ring Road that circles the city before the Games. The project to replace the stoves with electric radiators has been part of the effort. When the city's four-month long heating season started on Thursday, coal-fired stoves, known as a big source of pollution in the big city, have

disappeared from some 20,000 local households like Zhao's bungalow in the inner city "hutong" -- traditional alleyways(小巷) that date back centuries. "We used to boil water or bake bread on the stove," said Zhao, sounding sentimental(伤感) to the disappearance of the coal furnace from her life. Late in the 1990s, Beijing's air quality monitoring office found that the emissions(排放) of sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide from the hutong areas have been higher than the city's average in winter, mainly because of the coal stoves. With the project to switch to clean energy for heating launched in 1999, the emission level of the two poisonous substances decreased by 42 percent and 44 percent, respectively, this year from 2001 levels. Zhao said the fee for electrical heat for the entire winter was usually around 2,400 yuan (US$323) per household. With the government's subsidy（补贴）, however, she only needed to pay about 500 yuan, nearly the same price as that for coal.

1．Zhao Yaoqin’ example in the passage is to tell us that_______.

A.people in Beijing using electric radiators to welcome the Olympics.

B.people in Beijing are doing something to protect the environment.

C.hutongs in Beijing have a long history.

D. People pay more money to use electric

radiators than before.

2. The underlined word eliminate probably means________

A. cut down.

B. increase.

C. get rid of.

D. replace

3. We can infer from the passage that ______

A. Zhao Yaoqin has a strong and deep emotion with the use of coal-fire stove.

B. The government will pay most of the fee.

C. The air of Beijing has been badly polluted since 1990s.

D. The people do not use coal eight months in one year.

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The clean air is important when the Olympics Games is held in Beijing.

B. The success of the Olympics Games depends on the clean air.

C. The government spare no effort to make the environment better.

D. The emission level of poisonous substances will be low in 2008.

C

South China tiger photos are 'fake'

(China Daily) Updated: 2007-11-17 08:26

The controversy（争议）over the authenticity of photographs of the believed-to-be-extinct wild South China tiger seemed to have come to an end on Friday when a netizen(网民) posted online what he claimed was a "convincing proof" that the pictures are fakes— a New Year picture of a tiger that hangs on the wall of his home.The man, named "panzhihua-xydz", said: "It's the same picture. Even the stripes are identical". He left an online message that he bought the picture last year, but did