上海牛津高一英语专项练习（阅读）Reading ComprehensionPassage OneMany people hurt their backs when they try to lift heavy things from the floor. It is easy to hurt your back muscles when you pick up a heavy object. However, there is a correct way to lift things from the floor if you pick up or lift heavy objects correctly, you probably will not hurt your back.To lift something from the floor correctly, first bend your knees and squat down. Keep your back straight. Do not bend over from your waist; keep your back and hips and waist in a line. If you bend over, the muscles in your lower back can become wounded very easily. If you keep your back and hips stronger, they have much more support. The other muscles can then help the lower back muscles.As you squat down, try to get as close to the object as possible. For example, if you are going to pick up a heavy box, squat down directly in front of it. Maybe you will have to spread your knees and legs. Put one knee on each side of the box. Remember at all times to keep your back straight.Put your hands under the objects that is in front of you, between your knees.To lift objects, you should stand up slowly. Use your leg muscles in order to stand up. In other words, lift with your legs, not with your back.1. If you try to lift heavy things from the floor, ______.A. you will hurt your backB. you may hurt your backC. you must hurt your backD. you never hurt your back2. According to the passage, how can you avoid hurting yourself while lifting things from the floor?A. To get yourself insured.B. Never to lift heavy things.C. To use the correct way to lift things.D. To do body exercises to have more strength.3 To lift a heavy object mainly depends on your _______.A. legsB. backC. kneesD. hands4. To lift a heavy box, the most important thing you should do is ______.A. to put your hands under the boxB. to bend your knees and squat downC. to put one knee on each side of itD. to keep your back straight at all times5. When you lift a heavy thing, which of the following is NOT true?A. Keeping your back and hips and waist in a line.B. Putting one knee in front of the thing.C. Standing up slowly.D. Putting your hands under the thing between your knees.6. What does the underlined word ”squat” mean in the passage?A. 站B. 蹲C. 爬D. 糖7. According to the passage, which part of your body is most likely to be hurt while lifting heavy things?A. legsB. armsC. hipsD. backPassage TwoEVENTS(赛事)Bicycle tour(旅行) and race（比赛）A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27(Sat.& Sun.). At 5:30a.m. the riders will leave Tian’ anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometer s as a training leg. Then the next 55 kilometer leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli.The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside of Nandaihe, covering a distance of 20 kilometers. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free for play at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing.Cost:200 yuan Telephone:4675027Rock climbingThe Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on August 26-27 at the Huairou Mountain-climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin and other places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibitive climbing. Free for spectators(观众)Take long distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou .Time/Dates:9-12a.m.,August 26and27Telephone; 7143117, 7144850, Wang Zheng Hua8. The main purpose of announcing the above events is to give information about______.A. visiting teamsB. famous playersC. things to do for the weekendD. prices to pay for the sports events9. If you take part in the bike tour, you will ride for ______.A. 35 kilometersB. 55 kilometersC. 75 kilometersD.110 kilometers10. The underlined word “leg” in “Bicycle tour and race” probably means ______.A. walkB. practiceC. part of the trainingD. part of the tour11. What is special about the rock climbing competition?A. A foreign team takes part in it.B. You can watch it without payingC. You don’t have to be a sportsman to take partD. The bus trip to the place the competition is freePassage Three“Depend on yourself” is what nature says to everyone. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others can still help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.There have been many great men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. Schools were few and not very good. They could not depend upon them for an education. They saw how it was, and set to work with all their strength to know something. They worked their own way up to fame.One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, “I cannot make verity men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves.”Some young men have no idea to be the top one in anything; and they are to be pitied. They can never achieve much unless they see their weak points and change their courage. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parent and teachers, and depend on their own honest efforts.12. “Depend on yourself” in this passage means______.A. rely on natureB. wait for others to helpC. rely on your own effortsD. count on your parents’ help13. Many of the great men in history succeed because______.A. they were very poor in childhoodB. they wanted very much to become famousC. they made great efforts to learn and workD. they could not depend on schools for an education14. According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can______.A. make his pupils worthy menB. help his pupils find a way to fameC. help his pupils make themselves useful menD. make his pupils men of strength and courage15. If young people depend on their own efforts, ______.A. they are to be pitiedB. they can be ambitiousC. they are nothing foreverD. they can be successful in their careers16. The best title for this passage is _______.A. How to Be FamousB. What Nature Says to Every ManC. Depend on YourselfD. Depend on OthersPassage FourAustralia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around the edge of this huge dry part are large sheep and cattle farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. Often the nearest neighbors are many hundred miles away.The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australia farms. It works much like a telephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then give an answer.When these radios first came into use, the Australia government set up a special two-way radio programme. Then people on the large farms could talk to a doctor hundreds of miles away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was sick, and the doctor could let them know how to care for the sick person.Since the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were set up for them in some areas. At a certain time each day, the boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities miles away. Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbors. “Round robin” talks by radio were started to keep families in touch with each other.They could talk about who was going away or who was sick or who was getting married. The men could talk about their sheep and cattle and how much money the markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.17.This passage tells us something about ______.A. how large Australia isB.why the radio is important in AustraliaC. how the radio is used in AustraliaD. both B and C18. Australia is ______America.A. just as large asB. almost the same size asC. larger thanD. as large as the smallest state in19. How many examples were given by the writer to show the use of radio on the great farms? ______A. Only oneB. TwoC. ThreeD. four20.The two-way radio is something like a telephone because ______A. the radio has two telephonesB. you can talk to and listen to somebody by radioC. the government set up a special two-way radio programmeD. people could talk to a doctor hundreds of miles away21. Families on the large farms kept in touch with each other by ______.A. radioB. a news paperC. a birdD. both B and CPassage FiveThe earth has a force that pulls things toward itself. We call this force gravity. This is something we live with all the time and we take it for granted and hardly ever think about it. But it is a most important factor in rocket operation and must be overcome if we are to get anywhere in space or off the ground at all.Take the throwing of a ball as an example. The harder the ball is thrown, the faster and higher it will go. What is the secret? It’s speed. If we could throw the ball hard enough it would go up and up forever and never come down. The speed at which it would have to be thrown to do this is known as escape speed. Of course, we cannot throw a ball hard enough because the speed required to escape completely from the Earth’s grav ity is seven miles per second, or over twenty-five thousand miles per hour.Once escape speed has been reached by a spacecraft, no further power is needed.A rocket aimed at the moon, for instance, will “coast”(滑行) the rest of the way because the Earth’s gravity cannot then pull it back, and there is no air resistance in space t o slow it down. This “coast” is known as “free fall”. That does not mean the rocket is falling down, towards the earth but that it is traveling freely in space without the aid of power, like a bicycle coasting downhill.Free fall is an important feature of space travel as it would be impossible to carry enough fuel to provide powered flight all the time.22. What is the most important factor for a rocket to escape from the Earth?A. To travel as fast as it canB. To overcome the Earth gravityC. To get away from the air resistanceD. To have strong power in its operation23. How fast will a rocket go to escape completely from the Earth’s gravity? ______A. Seventy miles per secondB. Seven thousand miles per hourC. Twenty-five thousand miles per secondD. Twenty-five thousand miles per hour24. As there is always the Earth’s gravitational(地心引力) pull, people ______.A. accept it without questioning itB. never notice its presenceC. hardly think about how to use it.D. often try to escape from it25. When a bicycle “coast” down hill, it ______.A. still needs much powerB. does not need any further powerC. runs freely to all directionsD. does not meet with air resistance26. Why is it not necessary to provide powered flight in space all the time?A. Few spacecraft’s complete their flight o perationB. The Earth’s gravity cannot be overcomeC. No future power is needed after the escape speed is reachedD. “Free fall” takes the place of the Earth’s gravity pullPassage SixAre some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environment. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We should soon find difference in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.27.The writer is in favor of the view that man’s intelligence is given to him ______.A.at birthB. through educationC. both at birth and through educationD. neither at birth nor through education28.If a child is born with low intelligence, he can ______.A. never become a geniusB. still become a genius if he should be givenC. exceed his intelligence limits in rich surroundingsD. not reach his intelligence in his life29. In the second paragraph, “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population…” means “if we ______.”A. pick any two personsB. take out two identical personsC. choose two persons who are relativeD. choose two persons with different intelligence30. The example of the twins going to a university and to a factory separately shows ______.A. the importance of their intelligenceB. the role of environment on intelligenceC. the importance if their positionsD. the part that birth place31.The best title of this passage can be ______.A. SurroundingB. IntelligenceC. Dependence on EnvironmentD. Effect on EducationPassage SevenBilly is 14 years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part-time job which gets him up every morning at 5 o’clock. He is a newspaper boy. Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the corner, where the newspapers are. The newspapers are delivered to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to carry them.In the winter it is still dark when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is light. Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch where it will be protected from wind and rain or snow. His customers think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him tips.Billy earns about ＄70 per month, and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest on records and clothes. Once a month, he has to collect money from his customers. Since many of them work during the day, Billy has to collect the money at night. Sometimes, when Billy is sick his brother has to deliver the newspapers. Once, Billy’s father had to help. Billy has seventy customs now, but he hopes to get more soon. Someday if he gets more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will still be happy if he wins a new bicycle.32. Keeping a part-time job tells us that Billy ______.A. has to make a living by himselfB. can not get any support from his familyC. has to pay for his school tuitionD. is independent and self-confident33. He did his work _______.A. perfectly wellB. twice a weekC. only for funD. to support his family34.To deliver newspapers means ______.A. to post newspapersB. to send newspapersC. to sell newspapersD. none of the above35. One of the purposes of delivering newspaper is ______.A. to get some money for college educationB. to have some tipsC. to have more customersD. none of the above36. The prize for an outstanding newspaper boy is ______.A. a trip to EuropeB. a new bicycleC. a tipD. both A and BPassage EightTrees are useful to man in three important ways; they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade and they help to prevent drought and flood. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these serious facts is the most important. In his eagerness to make money from trees, he has cut them down in large numbers. And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after young trees. So the forests slowly disappear.This doesn’t only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious, for where there are trees, their roots break up soil-allowing the rain to sink in and also bind(固定) the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top soil. When all the top soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It set up the empire but, without its trees, its soil became poor and it grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced with flood and starvation.37. The most important service of trees to man is that ______.A. they give him shadeB. they give him wood and other productsC. they help him make moneyD. they help him prevent flood and drought38. In many parts of the world forests slowly disappear because ______.A. Man has not paid enough attention to planting treesB. many trees have been cut down by manC. new trees are not looked after properlyD. all the above39. From the third paragraph of the passage we can infer(推断) that ______.A. a heavy rain might cause a serious flood where there are no treesB. forests can prevent land from being turned into desertC. without trees winds can bring a lot of sandD. young trees must be planted while old trees are being cut down40. The country mentioned in the passage suffered from floods and starvation because ______.A. it lost its treesB. it spent too much on its warshipsC. it was defeated by its enemy countries and fell to piecesD. there was a heavy rain41. Which title best fits the passage?A. How an Empire FellB. The Economic Uses of TreesC. Trees and Man.D. What Causes Drought and FloodsPassage NineI was walking along Orchard Road when I realized a tall young man wearing a jacket and tie was following me. I noticed him because not many people wear a jacket and tie in the middle of a hot summer day, and I had already seen this man four times that afternoon.To make sure he was following me, I walked on quickly, turned right into a shopping center and then stopped at another shop window. I walked on and stopped several times. When I stopped, he stopped, too.I began to be rather worried and decided to try to lose this strange man. When I saw a taxi coming, I jumped into it. As I was telling the taxi driver where to go, I found the man got into another taxi, which then followed mine. As the two taxis slowly made their way along Orchard road, I looked back at the taxi behind, and saw that the stranger was looking out at me.At MRT station, I told the taxi driver to stop and I got out. As I was paying my fare, I saw the man was getting out of his taxi.By now I got angry, so I turned and walked straight to him. I asked him why he was following me. At first he said he was not following me at all, but when I threatened to call the police, he admitted he was. He then told me that he was a journalist and that he was writing an article on how elderly people in the United States spend their time. He said he was observing me to gather materials for his article.42. The writer noticed that a strange man was following him because ______.A. the stranger was very tallB. the stranger seemed nervousC. the strange wore too much on a hot dayD. the stranger’s jacket and tie looked attractive43. The writer got into a taxi in order to ______.A. go to another shopping centerB. go to MRT stationC. follow the strangerD. lose the stranger44. What did the stranger do when the writer jumped into a taxi?A. The stranger tried o get into the same taxiB. The stranger tried to stop the writer’s taxi.C. The stranger got into another taxi and left immediatelyD. The stranger got into another taxi and continued his following45. The writer was probably _____.A. an American journalistB. an American travelerC. a retired manD. a young taxi driver46. Which of the following is true?A. The writer got tired, for he walked a long way.B. The writer asked a policeman to stop the strangerC. The stranger was following the writer only to find where he livedD. The stranger admitted what he was doing only after the writer threatened to call the police.Passage TenGARDEN RESTAURANTTelephone: 2706030Address: 9020 Bridgeport RoadOpen: Mon. to Fri. 7:00a.m.-2:30p.m.and 5:00p.m.-9:00p.m.Sat.7:00a.m.-11:00a.m.and 5:00p.m.-9:00p.m.Sun11:00a.m.-2:00p.m.and5:00p.m.-9:00p.m.NEW YORK MUSEUMTelephone: 7364431Address: Vanier Park, 1100 Chestnut St. New YorkAmerica’s lar gest museum specializing in American history and art of our native people.Open: Mon. to Fri.9:00.a.m.-5:00p.m. (Monday free)Sat.9:00a.m.-1:00p.m.LANSDWNE PARK SHOPPPING CENTRETelephone: 3562367Address: 5300No. 3RoadOpen: Mon., Tues. & Sat. 9:30a.m.-5:30p.m.Wed., Thurs. & Fri. 9:30a.m.-9:30p.m.Sun.11:00a.m.-5:00p.m.SKYLINE HOTELTelephone: 2785161Address: 3031 No.3Road (at Sea Island Way)*The Hangar Den-Wed. to Sun. Dinner from 5:30p.m.*Coffee Shop-Mon.-Fri.6:00a.m., Sat. 6:30a.m., Sun. 7:00a.m. Mon.-Wed. to 10:00p.m.,Thurs.-Sun.to 11:00p.m.47. If you want to buy a new jacket, you have to go to ______.A.3031 No.3 RoadB. 5300 No.3 RoadC. 9020 Bridge port RoadD. 1100 Chestnut Street48. If you want to go out for lunch on Sunday you can call up the number ______.A. 2785161 or 2706030B. 2806030 or 3562367C. 7364431 or 2785161D. 3562367 or278516149. You don’t have to go out to pay on Mondays if you go to ______.A. Skyline HotelB. Lansdowne Park Shopping CentreC. New York MuseumD. Garden Restaurant50. If you want to enjoy yourself on Sunday mornings, you can go to ______.A. New York MuseumB. Lansdowne Park Shopping centreC. the Hangar Den attached to Skyline Hotel.D. Coffee Shop attached to Skyline HotelAnswer Sheet1.B2.C3. A4.D5.B6. B7. D8.C9.D 10.D 11.B 12.C 13.C 14.C 15.D 16.C 17.D 18.B 19.C 20.B 21.A 22.B 23.D 24.A 25.B 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.B 31.B 32. D 33.A 34.B 35.A 36.D 37.D 38.D 39.B 40.A 41.C 42.C 43. D 44.D 45.C 46.D 47.B 48.A 49.C 50.D。