高一英語文章閱讀

　　文章閱讀是英語的重要部分，在英語考試中佔很重要的比例。下面就是小編給大家整理的，希望大家喜歡。

　　篇一

　　Joan Chen is famous both in China, where she grew up, and in the United States，where she now lives. How did Joan become a famous actress in two countries? It’s an interesting story.

　　Joan Chen was born in Shanghai in 1961. When she was 14, some people from a film studio ***製片廠*** came to her school and chose her to study at the studio. She was happy about this chance, but mainly she liked the idea of getting out of school. Soon, however she discovered that she really liked acting. At age 18, she won the Golden Rooster, China's top film prize.

　　In the late 1970s, Joan's parents, who were doctors, moved to the United States. Joan joined them when she was 20 and went to college there. Her parents hoped she would study medicine. Instead, she majored in film and later looked for work as an actress. To work in the United States, Joan had to start all over again. She told Hollywood that she was an actress in China, but she only got some small parts in TV shows.

　　One day Joan went to speak to a director who was making a movie called Tai - pan. The interview didn't go well. As she walked away, a man in a car noticed her. The man was Dino DeLaurntiis, the film’s producer. He immediately offered her a leading part. A year later, she started in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and was on her way to worldwide fame.

　　1. What was turn about Joan Chen when she was 14?

　　A. Some people came to her school and chose her as an actress.

　　B. She liked to study at the studio just because she wanted to be famous.

　　C. The most important reason for her going to the studio was that she wouldn't like to stay at school.

　　D. She found she. was fond of acting even before she was 14.

　　2 When did she move to the States?

　　A. In the late 1970s. B. After she graduated from college.

　　C. In the late 1980s. D. In the early 1980s

　　3.The interview with a director ____.

　　A. made her on the way to being famous in the world

　　B. led to no immediate good result

　　C. made her play a leading part in Tai - pan

　　D. gave her a chance to act in The Last Emperor

　　篇二

　　A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

　　A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises ***出現*** from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

　　There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar ***奇怪的*** that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.

　　No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

　　4.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .

　　A . repeated without any change B. treated as a joke

　　C. made some changes by the parent D. set in the present

　　5.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____ .

　　A. in a realistic setting B. heard for the first time

　　C. repeated too often D. told in a different way

　　6.The advantage claimed ***提出*** for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.

　　A. makes them less fearful

　　B. develops their power of memory

　　C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

　　D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

　　7.The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.

　　A. fairy stories are still being made up

　　B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

　　C. people try to modernize old fairy stories

　　D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

　　8. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

　　A. they are full of imagination

　　B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

　　C. they are not interesting

　　D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach

　　篇三

　　With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most heated argument across the United States today is the death penalty ***死刑***. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent ***威懾*** to murder, while others think there is no enough proof that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.

　　The argument advanced by those opposed ***反對*** to the death penalty is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is tile mark of a bad society and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime ***罪行*** anyway.

　　In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary action. Throughout recorded history there have always been those peculiar persons in every society who made terrible crimes such as murder. But some are more dangerous than others.

　　For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in time of blind anger, but quite another to coldly plan and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of different degree. While it could be argued with some reason that the criminal in the first instance should be merely kept from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer.

　　The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to discussion. But the majority of people believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is proved by the fact that the death penalty prevents murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was carried out from time to time in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100, 000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been done only once, and the muder rate has risen to10.4 murders for each 100, 000 population. The sharp climb in the state's murder rate, which began when killings stopped, does not happen by chance. It certainly shows that the death penalty does deter many murderers. If the law about death penalty is vetoed ***否決***, some people will be murdered- some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is really a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of people must be protected.

　　9. The main purpose of this passage is to _____.

　　A. speak for the majority B. support a veto

　　C. speak ill of the government D. argue for the value of the death penalty

　　10. Which of the following is among the heated arguments across the USA besides death penalty?

　　A. Air pollution. B. The war against Iraq.

　　C. Equal rights. D. Election of president.

　　11.The numbers in the last paragraph show that ______.

　　A. if they stick to death penalty, the number of murders will be reduced

　　B. death penalty almost stopped from 1954 to 1963

　　C. the population of California has risen

　　D. death penalty is of little value

　　12. It can be inferred that the writer thinks that ______.