高中英語(yǔ)閱讀理解精題薈萃附答案、解析、翻譯

1、閱讀理解Passage1TherearestiesabouttwoUS.presidents，rewJacksonMartinVanBuren，whichattempttoexplaintheAmericanEnglishtermOKWedon’tknowifeitherstyistrue，buttheyarebothinterestingThefirstexplanationisbasedonthefactthatPresidentJ

2、acksonhadverylittleeducationInfact，hehaddifficultyreadingwritingWhenimptantpaperscametoJackson，hetriedtoreadthemthenhadhisassistantsexplainwhattheysaidIfheapprovedofapaperhewouldwrite“allcrect”onitTheproblemwasthathedidn

3、’tknowhowtospellSowhathereallywrotewas“olkekt”Afterawhile，heshtenedthattermto“OK”ThesecondexplanationisbasedontheplacewherePresidentVanBurenwasbn，Kinderhook，NewYkVanBnren’sfriendsganizedaclubtohelphimbecomePresidentTheyc

4、anedtheclubtheOldKinderhookClub，anyonewhosupptedVanBurenwascalled“OK”P(pán)assage1這里要講述rewJackson和MartinVanBuren這2屆美國(guó)總統(tǒng)的小故事。這2個(gè)小故事也許可以解釋美語(yǔ)中OK一詞的來(lái)歷。故事的真實(shí)性我們不得而知，不過(guò)內(nèi)容卻很有意思。第一個(gè)解釋來(lái)源于總統(tǒng)rewJackson的故事。rewJackson幾乎沒(méi)有受到過(guò)什么教育，事實(shí)上，他對(duì)于日常

5、的讀寫(xiě)都有困難。當(dāng)收到重要文件的時(shí)候，在嘗試閱讀之后，還是讓他的助手幫忙解釋文件的內(nèi)容。如果批準(zhǔn)一份文件，rewJackson就在上面寫(xiě)“allcrect”。麻煩的是，他不知道怎么這2個(gè)單詞怎么拼寫(xiě)，因此，實(shí)際上他在文件上寫(xiě)的是“olkekt”。過(guò)了不久，他又把這2個(gè)單詞縮寫(xiě)為“OK”。第二個(gè)解釋來(lái)源于總統(tǒng)MartinVanBuren的家鄉(xiāng)的名字——紐約的Kinderhook。為了幫助VanBuren成為總統(tǒng)，他的朋友為此組織了一個(gè)社團(tuán)

6、。他們把這個(gè)社團(tuán)叫做OldKinderhookClub，社團(tuán)中支持VanBuren的人都被稱(chēng)為“OK”31TheauthCA.believesbothofthestiesBdoesn’tbelieveawdofthestiesCisnotsurewhetherthestiesaretrueD.istellingthestiesjustffun32.Accdingtothepassage，PresidentJacksonD_Acouldn

7、’tdrawupanydocumentsatallB.didn’tliketoreadimptantpapersbyhimselfCoftenhadhisassistantssigndocumentsfhimD.wasn’tgoodatreading，writingspelling33Accdingtothefirststytheterm“OK”CA.wasapprovedofbyPresidentJacksonBwasthetitle

8、ofsomeOfficialdocumentsCwasfirstusedbyPresidentJacksonDwasanoldwaytospell“allcrect’’34.Accdingtothesecondsty，theterm‘‘OK”DAwastheshtwaytosay‘‘oldKinderhookClub”BmeanttheplacewherePresident38What’sthemeaningofthewd“metrop

9、olitan”inthedleofthepassage(A)A.OfalargecitywithitssuburbsBOfsmalllargetownsCOfurbanareasDOfruralareas39Accdingtothepassage，whatcanwelearnaboutsmalltownsintheUnitedStates(B)AMostsmalltownsbecomegraduallycrowdedBSmalltown

10、sarestillsimilartoeachotherCAsthetraditionalpictureischanging，townsaredifferentD.Smalltownsareturningintolargecities40Whyisithardtosaywhenapieceofcountrybecomesasuburb(C)ABecausetheyarethesameBBecausetherushtakesplacetoo

11、quicklyCBecausetheprocessisgradualDBecausememeAmericansliveinmetropolitanareasPassage3Ifwewereaskedexactlywhatweweredoingayearago，weshouldprobablyhavetosaythatwecouldnotrememberButifwehadkeptabookhadwritteninitanaccounto

12、fwhatwedideachday，weshouldbeabletogiveananswertothequestion.ItisthesameinhistyManythingshavebeenfgottenbecausewedonothaveanywrittenaccountofthemSometimesmendidkeeparecdofthemostimptanthappeningsintheircountry，butoftenitw

13、asdestroyedbyfireinawarSometimestherewasneveranywrittenrecdatallbecausethepeopleofthattimeplacedidnotknowhowtoWriteFexample，weknowagooddealaboutthepeoplewholivedinChina4，000yearsagobecausetheycouldwriteleavewrittenrecdsf

14、thosewholivedafterthemButweknowalmostnothingaboutthepeoplewholivedeven200yearsagoincentralAfricabecausetheyhadnotlearnedtowriteSometimesofcourse，evenifthepeoplecannotwrite，theymayknowsomethingofthepastTheyhaveheardabouti

15、tfromolderpeople，oftensongsdancesstieshavebeenmadeaboutthemostimptanthappenings，thesehavebeensungactedtoldfmanygenerationsFmostpeopleareproudtotellwhattheirfathersdidinthepastThiswemaycall’rememberedhisty’Someofithasnowb

16、eenwrittendown.Itisnotsoexactsovaluabletousaswrittenhistyis，becausewdsaremuchmeeasilychangedwhenusedagainagaininspeechthanwhencopiedinwritingButwheretherearenowrittenrecds，suchspokenstiesareoftenveryhelpfulPassage3當(dāng)我們被問(wèn)起

17、準(zhǔn)確的說(shuō)書(shū)一年之前的這個(gè)時(shí)候我們正在做什么，我們可能不得不承認(rèn)記不得了。但是，如果我們有個(gè)冊(cè)子，上面記錄了每天我們做過(guò)什么的話，這個(gè)問(wèn)題就不難給出答案了。對(duì)于歷史的記錄也是如此。許多事情由于沒(méi)有任何書(shū)面的記錄而被人遺忘。有時(shí)也有人會(huì)對(duì)于他們國(guó)家發(fā)生的重要事件進(jìn)行記錄，但是這些記錄往往毀于火災(zāi)或者戰(zhàn)亂。有時(shí)也因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)地方或那個(gè)時(shí)代的人不會(huì)寫(xiě)字，而根本不會(huì)有書(shū)面記錄的存在。譬如說(shuō)，因?yàn)橹袊?guó)4千年前的古人會(huì)寫(xiě)字而且給后人留下了很多文獻(xiàn)，所以我