前哲流风 日新其格 澧县一中2012届高三英语二轮复习阅读简答 编者： 审定：
3.The man's sense of humor
4.Problems caused by words that sound alike
Passage7
1. It is slowly recovering.
2. Because their attendance will boost the world economy. 3. Because it broght profits /confidence to the US economy. 4. Shanghai World Expo builds confidnce for world economy .
Passage8 1. Happy / Pleased.
2. They got impatient and angry. / They sped, horned or shouted.
3. Because they knew the author was in weak. / Because they saw the author's weakness. / Because the author's weakness brought out their kindness.
4.Stop pretending we're brave or strong. / Don't pretend feeling strong or brave. / Don't pretend that we feel strong or brave.
Passage 9
1.To encourage people to discover the pleasure of reading and to honor great writers 2.A person who loves reading
3.Learn a foreign language better, know more about culture, know more about the outside world(任选其二) 4.World Reading Day and Reading
Passage10
1. Shopping carts.
2. To make shopping easier and attract more business. 3. Because few customers used his carts.
4. Because he wanted to promote his shopping carts.
Passage 11
1 It can help us save our precious fuel.
2. It will run for another several billion years. 3. Because we can cut down on pollution problems. 4. The benefits and limits of the use of solar energy.
Passage 12
1．Because she took good care of him and he loved her, too. 2．He decided to leave his brother there and he himself ran to find it.
/He decided to ran and find it while keeping his brother staying where he was. 3．People are always more important than things.
4．He put them in a taxi and sent them to their destination.
Passage 13
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1. They both offer undergraduate degrees and help young people to earn a living. 2. The college, university, school and institute.
3. A group of people organized for a common purpose.
4.An introduction to the places of American higher education. (or) What is the difference between a college and a university.
Passage 14
1. Because it can increase appetite. 2. About 7 hours.
3. Through the food chain.
4. A number of aspects of modern living may be closely related to the weight problems of many people.
Passage 15
1. Fifty-five /He’s 55.
2. A small window of her house was broken by the author.
3. He wanted to apologize/say sorry and cover the cost for repairing her window. / To apologize and cover the cost of her window. /To say sorry and cover the cost of her broken window. 4.Because she wanted to show her forgiveness to the author.
/ Because she wanted to express that she had already forgiven the author.
Passage 16
1. Water gush into the shafts./That water gushed into the shafts./ Water’s gushing into the shafts. 2. By drilling a vertical hole. /Through a vertical hole.
3. Clamping down on small, unsafe operations, consolidating or taking over many private mines. 4. 115 miners’ surviving after being trapped over a week.
/The survival of 115 miners after being trapped over a week.
Passage 17 1.He was busy day-dreaming about the fishing trip. 2.He was sensitive to bee sting
3.He kept his father’s words in mind and didn’t panic 4.He hid himself under the water.
Passage18
1. They think anybody over 50 is old and has nothing to contribute. 2. Her great-grandmother.
3. Improvements in healthcare and living conditions.
4 They can take a major role in child-care; do some voluntary work;
and contribute through their creative abilities and charity work. (四点中任选三点即可)
Passage 19 1.It used tunnel fans to circulate air 2.150mililion.
3.Cut pollution, save money and energy, and make the neighbors happy.
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前哲流风 日新其格 澧县一中2012届高三英语二轮复习阅读简答 编者： 审定：
4.Tthe benefits of planting trees to poultry farms.
Passage 20
1. In December 1966.
2. To read the meter of Dr Bentley’s home.
3. Some strange smell and the presence of some light blue smoke. 4. Because his pipe was found in another room.
Passage 21 1.Incurable
2.He was diagnosed with cancer.
3.In the face of death, try to avoid thinking something to lose and follow one’s heart. 4.Death is the destination we all share./Death is very likely the single best invention of life. /Death is just that the old make way for the new.
Passage22
1. Money and education.
2. Because of financial problems.
3. By dating enough./You’ve probably dated enough./ Through some crucial life experiences. 4. It’s not advisable to get married before 25 years old. / You’d better not wed until mid-20s. / Put off marriage until your mid-20s or later.
Passage 23
1 She was more satisfied with her writing children’s book. 2. To teach children some of her past life lessons.
3. The English Roses and Mr. Peabody’s Apples.
4 .Four girls’ friendship and their mutual envy of a beautiful classmate.
Passage24
1. He drew pictures for books.
2. It means working hard./It means hard work.
3. By changing Chinese literature and philosophy into humorous comic stories. 4. Because of his great achievement.
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