As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical (激進的) ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and shock my fellow students with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; I searched the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982, it had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奧的) knowledge of post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading.
Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. I didn't stop reading, you can't avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals (操作手冊) and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book "on the go" for the duration of aeroplane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even got a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
My new TV is an extra circuit board (電路板) inside my computer. It's on a desk in front of a working chair and I can't see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it's nice to have it on while I'm typing this… but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading about six at the same time. I don't want to be any of the characters. I don't care if a thousand people have already read them. I don't have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
【小題1】The writer enjoyed reading “l(fā)iterature” between the ages of nine and fourteen because ________.
| A．he thought it was important for a schoolboy to do so |
| B．he was still too young to understand other books |
| C．he believed all the real historical figures were his friends |
| D．he could imagine himself being the characters in the books |
| A．a(chǎn) library intended for teenagers | B．a(chǎn) kind of books on traditions |
| C．a(chǎn) philosophy theory | D．a(chǎn) kind of reading skill |
| A．he found watching TV was more interesting |
| B．he became too busy to read any books |
| C．he found books were of little use to his work |
| D．he had to read a lot of manuals, contracts and documents |
| A．to find back his youth in books | B．for the pure pleasure of reading |
| C．so as to help kill his spare time | D．for only business purposes |
| A．The Years with Books | B．Books and TV Programs |
| C．Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover | D．Reading Makes One Excellent |
【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】C
【小題4】B
【小題5】A
解析試題分析：本文主要講述的是我多年以來閱讀的心路歷程，從小時候到大學(xué)再到大學(xué)以后工作了，曾經(jīng)有一段時間放棄了閱讀，最后又重新拿起課本進行閱讀的過程。
【小題1】D 推理題。根據(jù)第二段1,2行I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves.后半句中我們有足夠的時間去做White Fang, Robinson Crusoe。說明他把自己想象成了文學(xué)作品中的角色。故D正確。
【小題2】C 推理題。根據(jù)本句Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奧的) knowledge of 以及最后一段2,3行You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. 可知post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism.可知post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism.都是一些深奧的哲學(xué)理論，故C正確。
【小題3】C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章最后一段1,2行Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't seem to be much in books that would actually get things done.可知很多的書在我的工作以后都沒有用了。所以我也就不讀這些書了。故C正確。
【小題4】B 推理題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)3行There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.可知我實際上喜歡的是拿起書閱讀的快樂。故B正確。
【小題5】A 主旨大意題。本文主要講述的是我多年以來閱讀的心路歷程，從小時候到大學(xué)再到大學(xué)以后工作了，曾經(jīng)有一段時間放棄了閱讀，最后又重新拿起課本進行閱讀的過程。故A正確。
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Everyone gathered around and Paddy read out loud, slowly, his tone growing sadder and sadder． The little headline said: BOXER RECEIVES LIFF SENTENCE．
Frank Cleary, aged 26, professional boxer, was today found guilty of the murder of Albert Gumming, aged 32, laborer, last July．The jury （陪審團） reached its decision after only ten minutes, recommending the most severe punishment to the court．It was, said the Judge, a simple case．Cumming and Cleary had quarreled violently at the Harbour Hotel on July 23rd and police saw Cleary kicking at the head of the unconscious Gumming．When arrested, Cleary was drunk but clear-thinking．
Cleary was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour．Asked if he had anything to say, Cleary answered, "Just don't tell my mother．"
" It happened over three years ago," Paddy said helplessly．No one answered him or moved, for no one knew what to do．"Just don't tell my mother," said Fee numbly （麻木地）．"And no one did! Oh,God' My poor, poor Frank!"
Paddy wiped the tears from his face and said．"Fee, pack your things．We'll go to see him．"
She half-rose before sinking back．her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead．"I can't go," she said without a hint of pain, yet making everyone feel that the pain was there．"It would kill him to see me．I know him so well—his pride, his ambition．Let him bear the shame alone, it's what he wants．We've got to help him keep his secret．What good will it do him to see us?"
Paddy was still weeping, not for Frank, but for the life which had gone from Fee's face, for the dying in her eyes．Frank had always brought bitterness and misfortune, always stood between Fee and himself．He was the cause of her withdrawal from his heart and the hearts of his children．Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank look it away．But Paddy's love for her was as deep and impossible to wipe out as hers was for Frank．
So he said, "Well, Fee, we won't go．But we must make sure he is taken care of．How about if I write to Father Jones and ask him to look out for Frank?"
There was no excitement in the eyes, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks．" Yes, Paddy, do that．Only make sure he knows not to tell Frank we found out．Perhaps it would ease Frank to think for certain that we don't know．"
【小題1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Frank was found guilty of murder because he was a professional boxer． |
| B．The family didn't find out what happened to Frank until three years later． |
| C．The jury and the judge disagreed on whether Frank had committed murder． |
| D．Frank didn't want his family to find out what happened because Paddy disliked him． |
| A．Frank did kill someone and deserved the punishment |
| B．Frank should have told Fee what had happened |
| C．what had happened to Frank was killing Fee |
| D．Frank had always been a man of bad moral character |
| A．Fee was so heart-broken that she could hardly stand up |
| B．Fee didn't want to upset Paddy by visiting Frank |
| C．Fee couldn't leave her family to go to see Frank |
| D．Fee struggled between wanting to see Frank and respecting his wish |
| A．"Her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead．" |
| B．"Let him bear the shame alone, it's what he wants．" |
| C．"Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank took it away．" |
| D．"There was no excitement in the eyes, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks．" |
| A．Son and brother． | B．Son and husband． |
| C．Brother and lover． | D．Lover and husband． |
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As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical (激進的) ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and shock my fellow students with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; I searched the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982, it had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奧的) knowledge of post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading.
Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. I didn't stop reading, you can't avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals (操作手冊) and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book "on the go" for the duration of aeroplane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even got a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
My new TV is an extra circuit board (電路板) inside my computer. It's on a desk in front of a working chair and I can't see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it's nice to have it on while I'm typing this… but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading about six at the same time. I don't want to be any of the characters. I don't care if a thousand people have already read them. I don't have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
1.The writer enjoyed reading “l(fā)iterature” between the ages of nine and fourteen because ________.
A．he thought it was important for a schoolboy to do so
B．he was still too young to understand other books
C．he believed all the real historical figures were his friends
D．he could imagine himself being the characters in the books
2.“Existentialism” (in paragraph 4) is probably ________.
A．a(chǎn) library intended for teenagers B．a(chǎn) kind of books on traditions
C．a(chǎn) philosophy theory D．a(chǎn) kind of reading skill
3.The main reason the writer stopped reading books was that ________.
A．he found watching TV was more interesting
B．he became too busy to read any books
C．he found books were of little use to his work
D．he had to read a lot of manuals, contracts and documents
4.Now the writer starts to read books again ________.
A．to find back his youth in books B．for the pure pleasure of reading
C．so as to help kill his spare time D．for only business purposes
5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A．The Years with Books B．Books and TV Programs
C．Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover D．Reading Makes One Excellent
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Does anyone want to buy a weather forecaster? With Liam Fox overseeing（監(jiān)管）the Ministry of Defence and promising to make cuts “cruelly and without mercy”, it is becoming ever harder to believe our national forecasting service will survive much beyond this glorious - dare I say it, - summer．
The trouble is, the Met Office（英國氣象局） is a soft target．We are more sceptical about scientists’ ability to predict the weather than we are about an octopus’s （章魚）ability to predict the outcome of a football match．This is largely to do with our own fear of complexity．
Few of us get enough information to judge the quality of the forecast．As I write, one forecast says the overview for the day is “a good scattering of showers mixed in with brighter weather for many of us”．Snow or hail would be a shock; beyond that, the words are fairly meaningless．
But, in fact, we don't want our forecasters to be more specific．The most scientifically accurate statements that a forecaster can make involve probabilities, but probabilities leave us in difficulty．A study in the United States, for example, showed that most people thought “a 50 percent chance of rain” meant that the forecasters hadn't a clue whether it would rain or not．
What it really means is that, in a given set of conditions, it rains half of the time．But who has time to think about when Newsnight is about to start? It's far easier just to let something concrete settle in our minds and, when the next day rolls around and it doesn't happen, complain that the forecast was wrong．But the World Meteorological Organisation thinks we have something worth holding on to: it consistently rates the Met Office as one of the world's top two （Japan is also blessed with accurate forecasters）．
Perhaps that praise alone should make us think twice about selling off the Met Office．To me, however, there is an even more convincing reason．
For most of us, the weather doesn't matter much - generally, we do what we do, come rain or shine．Accurately forecasting and monitoring climate change, on the other hand matters to everybody．The idea of making that function a slave to market forces sends a cold front down my back．
1．The underlined words “a soft target” mean that the Met Office is_________________．
A．deliberately chosen to survive the summer．
B．easily chosen to be done away with．
C．difficultly chosen to continue the forecasts．
D．roughly chosen to be bought．
2．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A．It is easy to get enough information to judge the quality of the forecast．
B．The octopus’s prediction of a football match is more accurate than that of the weather．
C．50 percent chance of climate change leaves people in trouble in their life．
D．Japan is only the world’s top country in accurate forecasts．
3．The forecasts have received a number of complaints about _______________．
A．the accuracy of the weather forecasts
B．the management of the weather bureau（局）
C．the organization of the weather agencies．
D．the timing of the weather forecasts．
4．The author thinks that selling off the Met Office is ____________．
A．unreasonable B．a(chǎn)cceptable
C．unavoidable D．legal
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