高考英语阅读训练一
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In Britain in the 1890s there was a postcard
"craze"(热潮)." People formed clubs and collected
and exchanged(交换)postcards. Even Queen Victoria had her own
private(私人的)collection.
When Edward was the king ,the British had a cheap and
postal system(邮政体系). If anyone wanted to tell a friend that
they were coming for tea in the afternoon, they would send a postcard in the
morning." Drop me a card" was as common then as "give me a
ring" is now.
In 1902 an important step was taken. The government
said that half of side that was used for the address on the postcard could be
used for messages ,and the whole of the other side could be used for a picture
.It was then that the simple postcard, as we know now ,was created(创造，产生).
1.In Britain in the 1890s, _______.
A. people were interested in sending cards
B. people were interested in playing cards
C. people were interested in collecting postcards
D. people were interested in buying cards
2."Give me a ring" in the passage means
__________.
A. send me a gold ring B.
send me a card
C. give me a telephone call D.
give me a bell ring
3.Which statement is TRUE?
A.Postcards were not used in the 19th century .
B. It was not until 1902 that the simple
postcard as we know was created.
C.Postcards were used only for collection in the 1890s.
D.There was no message on the old postcard.
4.Choose the best title for the passage.
A. Postcards Old and New B.
Postcard Clubs in the 1890s
C.
Creation of the Present Postcard D. Postal System in Britain
B
Some
English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and
different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these
words ,you can see, have the same "post, "which come from the Latin
word, meaning "to carry" or
"to move" from one place to another. And according to the bit
at the beginning ,which we call the prefix the meaning changes.
"Import" means" to carry in "or "to bring into a
country;"" export," "ex" means "out of", so this word means "to carry out of
the country;" "re"
means "back," so the "report" means "to tell somebody,
to bring back information to somebody; " "transport, "
"trans" means "across" and it means "to carry across
one place to another."
Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and
exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up
of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who completes the verb. So
supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports
.Importer is somebody who imports and exporter is somebody who exports ,and so on.
5.In the first sentence the word "part"
means ____________-.
A. different beginnings and word different endings
B. the root of the word
C. the root of the word
D. the same root that has different meanings
6.By adding a prefix or a suffix to root, we can get a
word which has ___________.
A. the meaning of a Latin word
B. a different of meaning
C. the meaning of "in " or "out
of"
D. a lot of meanings
7.We can get a noun ________.
A. just by adding "er" to verbs
B. by changing a prefix
C. only by adding "er" to a root
D. by adding a suffix to a verb
8.According to the passage, if we talk about a man of
refinement, you may guess that he must be _______________.
A.ha man having good manners and education
B. a person who should be educated
C. somebody having bad manners
D. a person punished by somebody else