高中英語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”Passage1這里要講述rewJackson和MartinVanBuren這2屆美國總統(tǒng)的小故事。這2個小故事也許可以解釋美語中OK一詞的來歷。故事的真實性我們不得而知，不過內(nèi)容卻很有意思。第一個解釋來源于總統(tǒng)rewJackson的故事。rewJackson幾乎沒有受到過什么教育，事實上，他對于日常

5、的讀寫都有困難。當收到重要文件的時候，在嘗試閱讀之后，還是讓他的助手幫忙解釋文件的內(nèi)容。如果批準一份文件，rewJackson就在上面寫“allcrect”。麻煩的是，他不知道怎么這2個單詞怎么拼寫，因此，實際上他在文件上寫的是“olkekt”。過了不久，他又把這2個單詞縮寫為“OK”。第二個解釋來源于總統(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社團

6、。他們把這個社團叫做OldKinderhookClub，社團中支持VanBuren的人都被稱為“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當我們被問起

17、準確的說書一年之前的這個時候我們正在做什么，我們可能不得不承認記不得了。但是，如果我們有個冊子，上面記錄了每天我們做過什么的話，這個問題就不難給出答案了。對于歷史的記錄也是如此。許多事情由于沒有任何書面的記錄而被人遺忘。有時也有人會對于他們國家發(fā)生的重要事件進行記錄，但是這些記錄往往毀于火災或者戰(zhàn)亂。有時也因為那個地方或那個時代的人不會寫字，而根本不會有書面記錄的存在。譬如說，因為中國4千年前的古人會寫字而且給后人留下了很多文獻，所以我