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Terra-cotta Warriors
As the greatest archaeological findings of the 20th century, Terra-cotta Warriors has a really long history.In 246 BC, Qin Shi Huang, later the first Emperor of all China, had begun to prepare for his mausoleum which took 11 years to finish to defend him in the afterlife.There are over 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, bronze chariots, and even weapons found in it now.Terra-cotta Warriors was listed by UNESCO in 1987 as one of the world cultural heritages and it has made Xi’an a famous city for tourists.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda has a history of over 1,300 years and is a typical ancient Chinese building.It is located in the south of Xi’an City.Because Master Xuanzang stored his classics brought from India in the pagoda, it is also a holy place for Buddhists.As a National Key Cultural Relic Preserve, it won the title of an AAAA Tourist Attraction as well.
Xi’an Ancient City Wall
As one of the landmarks of Xi’an, Ancient City Wall still stretches round the old city today, dividing the city into the inner part and the outer part.Ancient City Wall was originally built during the old Tang Dynasty (618 — 907) and then enlarged by Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, thus forming the modern Xi’an City Wall.After the extension, the wall now stands 12 meters tall, 12-14 meters wide at the top and 15-18 meters thick at the bottom.
小题1:What is The Big Wild Goose Pagoda most famous for?
A.It has a history of over 1,300 years.
B.It is a typical ancient Chinese building.
C.It is a holy place for Buddhists.
D.It won the title of an AAAA Tourist Attraction.
小题2:When was the modern Xi’an City Wall formed?
A.In the Tang Dynasty.B.In AD907.
C.In modern times.D.In the Ming Dynasty.
小题3:Who are the text written for?
A.Archaeologists.B.Scientists
C.Tourists.D.Artists

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:C
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试题分析:本文叙述了西安的秦始皇兵马俑、大雁塔及西安古城墙的历史,兵马俑被列入联合国教科文组织在1987年作为世界文化遗产之一,它使西安著名的旅游城市。大雁塔作为国家重点文物保护区,它赢得了国家AAAA级旅游景点。明朝时,形成了现代的西安城墙。
小题1:细节理解题。根据Because Master Xuanzang stored his classics brought from India in the pagoda, it is also a holy place for Buddhists 故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, thus forming the modern Xi’an City Wall.明朝时,形成现代的西安城,故选D。
小题3:推理判断题。根据从题目以及短文的内容来看是写给旅行者的,故选C。
点评:细节理解题是阅读理解题中必考的一种题型,其解题依据主要在阅读材料中找。笔者发现,这种题型可以用“重现”的方法来解答。所谓“重现”,就是指某一个单词或短语的同义、反义、上下义、同根词或原词在文中重复出现的现象。这种方法常用于解答完形填空,但用来解答阅读理解细节题也同样管用。细节理解题的重现指的是:正确答案选项语句中的单词或短语与阅读材料中的单词或短语构成一种重复出现的关系。它同样可以分为:同义、反义、上下义、同根词或原词。
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Johann Gutenberg, who worked as a goldsmith (金匠), took what had already been discovered, and created a small invention that changed history. He created a machine that allowed him to move small blocks of letters in such a way that written material could be printed and mass-produced. Few people could read before Guttenberg made the invention, but once books became less expensive, more Europeans could read and write.
Block printing existed long before Gutenberg. The Chinese had been using wood blocks to print books as early as 868, but a new set of woodcuts (木刻印版) had to be made for each book. Producing one book was not easy; producing all kinds of books was more difficult.
Writing ink dates from about 2500 BC in Egypt and China. Gutenberg used an oil-based printing ink that would last longer than other inks used in his time. We don’t know much about Gutenberg because he was not famous during his lifetime. He was born in Germany about 1400. In 1448, Gutenberg developed signatures for each number, letter, and punctuation mark (标点符号). He then built the molds (模型) to hold the signatures in place. Gutenberg published the first mass-produced book: a 1,282 page Bible. To this day, more copies of the Bible have been printed than any other book.
Copies of Gutenberg’s invention spread throughout Europe, but the German goldsmith did not get rich from his invention. Some officials denounced the invention of printing because they feared that it would spread bad ideas. By 1500 there were 1,700 printing presses in Europe. The presses had already produced about 20 million volumes (册) of 40,000 different books.
小题1:What happened after Johann Gutenberg’s invention?
A.People could afford to read books.
B.People became interested in inventing.
C.It was still difficult to print all kinds of books.
D.Punctuation mark began to be used in printing.
小题2: Compared with block printing in China, Johann Gutenberg’s method _____.
A.was difficult to run
B.needed harder paper
C.used a new kind of ink
D.was put into use earlier
小题3:The underlined word “denounced” in the last paragraph means _____.
A.fought against B.accepted
C.laughed at D.supported
小题4:What is the best title for the text?
A.A famous 1,282 page Bible
B.The life of a famous inventor
C.An invention that changed history
D.The development of printing

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England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theater written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright(剧作家) with several famous plays.
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalog(目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theaters around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard Ⅲ and Henry Ⅴ are very famous.
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde’s plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw’s plays are loved so much that an entire theater company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.
Harold Pinter
The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.
小题1:The writer wrote this passage to       .
A.advise us to spend more time enjoying plays
B.explain why England has so many wonderful plays
C.tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works
D.tell us the differences among some British playwrights
小题2:What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in common?
A.They are all Shakespeare’s early works.
B.They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.
C.They are all Shakespeare’s famous comedies.
D.They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare’s plays.
小题3:Which of the following plays were most probably written in the same period of time?
A.The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance.
B.Richard Ⅲ and A Woman of No Importance.
C.An Ideal Husband and Candida.
D.Candida and Betrayal.
小题4:Who was mentioned in this passage that he had received the Nobel Prize because of his writing?
A.William Shakespeare.B.Oscar Wilde.
C.George Bernard Shaw.D.Harold Pinter.

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Bungee jumping is not a new activity. Men on Pentecost Island in the South Pacific have been doing land jumping for hundreds of years. The men tie long vines(藤) from plants around their ankles(踝关节). They spend days building tall towers out of vines and logs(圆木). Then they jump off them.
According to their beliefs, the first land diver was a woman. She decided to run away from her rude husband. So she climbed up a tall tree and tied some vines around her feet. Her husband also climbed up the tree and tried to catch her, but the woman jumped and the man followed. The vines saved her life, but her husband died.
This ancient custom caught the interest of some students at Oxford University in England. In the late 1970s, they formed a group called the Dangerous Sports Club. They were some of the first people to test several of what are now called extreme sports. They are said to have invented modern bungee jumping.
In the spring of 1979, members of the group jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. They were attached to the bridge by a bungee cord, a long elastic rope that stretches. The group soon received even more attention when they organized a bungee jump off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
A man named A. J. Hackett of New Zealand decided to make the sport into a business. He started developing bungee ropes and material with a friend. They held a major jump in 1987 off the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. They later got permission to open the first bungee jumping operation on the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand. Many people paid 75 dollars to jump off the bridge with a bungee cord attached to their ankles.
小题1:The second paragraph tries to tell us________________.
A.a story about a woman land diver
B.the beginning of modern bungee jumping
C.the beginning of land jumping on Pentecost Island
D.a story about a brave woman and her rude husband
小题2:The underlined word them in the first paragraph refers to__________.
A.plantsB.tall towersC.vinesD.logs
小题3: The Dangerous Sports Club first caught people’s attention when they jumped off_________.
A.the Eiffel TowerB.the Kawarau Bridge
C.the Golden Gate BridgeD.the Clifton Suspension Bridge

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__小题1:__ This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.
___小题2:___ He decided to turn his little school house into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the school house was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. ___小题3:___ This was the first hostel (青年招待所).
Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other. When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their cards of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. ___小题4:___
Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period.___小题5:___  For this reason, a few weeks spent ‘hostelling’ can be just as useful a part of one’s education as classes in school.
A.In 1970, a young German school master had an idea which changed this situation.
B.People can stay in the hostel if they brought enough equipment with them.
C.One can learn a lot about other places, just by meeting people from those places.
D.As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby.
E. For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe seldom left their cities to see the beauties of the countryside.
F. More and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays.
G. This card will permit them to stay in a hostel all over the world for very low prices.
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Most Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are which Americans live by. They have never given the matter any thought.
Over the years I have introduced thousands of international visitors to life in the United States. This has caused me to try to look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors, I am confident that the values listed in this booklet describe most (but not all )Americans, and that understanding these values can help you, the international visitor, understand Americans.
It is my belief that if foreign visitors really understand how deeply these 13 values are ingrained in Americans, they will then be able to understand 95% of American actions —actions which might otherwise appear “strange,”“ confusing,” or “unbelievable” when evaluated from the perspective (aspect) of the foreigner"s own society and its values.
The different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter (meet) an action, or hear a statement in the United States which surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed in this booklet.
小题1: An ordinary American can"t tell you his / her value system because______.
A.this is something an American lives by
B.everyone will have his/her own system
C.he/she has never thought about it
D.values are something often in their thought
小题2: The author lists 13 values in his booklet to_____.
A.invite foreigners to visit America
B.look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors
C.describe the confusing actions of most Americans
D.help international visitors understand Americans
小题3:The underlined word “ingrained” in Line 2, Paragraph 3 most probably means ______.
A.rooted in the minds B.found in the grains
C.planted for foodD.prepared with grain
小题4: Visitors sometimes find Americans behave in a strange, confusing or unbelievable way, probably because___.
A.Americans are hard to understand
B.Americans have values which are entirely different from their own
C.they view Americans according to the values in their own society
D.it is difficult to understand any people when you first encounter them

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