高中英語閲讀理解練習題《Travel》

現在高中的期末考試複習已經在進行中了。不少學生表示自己的英語閲讀理解能力不行。下面，小編為大家送上一篇高中英語閲讀理解練習題，希望對大家有所幫助。

Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?

The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker‟s family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn‟t tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.

He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.

31. The main idea of the passage is __B_.

A. James Watt invented the steam engine

B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure

C. how much power does a horse have

D. why Watt‟s engine is called a ten horse-power engine

32. The story says that Watt made the first __D__.

A. engine B. horse-power engine C. useful engine D. widely used steam engine

33. James Watt was born in _A___.

A. a worker‟s family B. a farmer‟s family C. a teacher‟s family D. a doctor‟s

steam engine

34. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___.

A. measure the work his engine could do B. tell people how powerful his engine was C. lift a 3300-pound weight D. both A and B

35. One horse-power means the __A__.

A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse

　附：高中英語閲讀中的三大障礙

1.語言的障礙。

Readingis a comprehensive skill because it concerns the

recognition of configuration, pronunciation, grammatical inflexion and

the comprehension of words, sentences and paragraphs.(魏立明，孫長順：2001

)由於有的`單詞往往有幾種甚至幾十種意思，而一個詞的確切含義只有在具體的文章之中根據上下文才能確定。因此，詞義的轉換和搭配仍是閲讀中的障礙。所以要

避免進入見詞就查字典的誤區。

2.文化背景知識的障礙。

因為文化背景知識是閲讀的無形障礙。由於不瞭解英語國家的文化背景，因此有時很難做出判斷。People

believe that both visual and non-visual information is involved in

reading comprehension. As a matter of fact, it seems that the more

non-visual information the reader possess, the less visual information

is needed.(魏立明，孫長順：2001 )。 所以多做泛讀的訓練將有所幫助。

關於這兩個障礙的排除在本文的以下部分中也有較詳盡的論述。

3.閲讀技巧的障礙。

而這一障礙又是多方面的。如找中心思想，推斷文章中有沒有直接説明的意思，確定作者的語氣等。本文將就這一方面進行重點論述。