高二英语阅读训练六

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The International Olympic Committee(IOC) said on February 9 it would award its highest honour to Arthur Ashe , the tennis star and human rights fighter who died on February 6 of AIDS. He was 49.

The award ,called the Olympic Order , is awarded to sportsmen and others for service to the Olympics and its principled(原则).

Ashe never participated in the Olympics, but IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said: “I think he was really a thorough Olympian.”

Ashe is the first black man to win Wimbledon and the only black to win the Australian US open titles.

Last April 8, he announced he had AIDS, which he got from a blood transfusion during a heart operation in 1983.

Ashe often worked for racial equality in and out of sports. He said the happiest moment of his life was not winning Wimbledon, but when Nelson Mandela-South Africa’s antiapartheid(反种族隔离的) leader一was freed from jail in 1990.

A quote(引言) from Ashe: “I have good days and bad days. My ratio of good days to bad days is about six to one.”

1. The underlined word “award” in the second paragraph means “____”.

A. send a telegraph  B. give a prize

C. congratulate somebody  D. be in memory of somebody.

2. Arthur Ashe____.

A, won Olympic gold medals in tennis.

B, took part in several Olympic Games.

C, was a famous sportsman in the Olympic Games which was held in South Africa.

D, had not been in any Olympic games.

3. Arthur Ashe said that he had AIDS.AIDS is ____.

A. a new kind of sports   B. a piece of tiresome work

C. a new kind of illness  D. a kind of sickness caused by sports

4. _____made Ashe happier than anything else.

A. Nelson Mandela’s freedom B. Winning the Australian US open titles.

C. Juan Antonio Samaranch’s congratulation D. His good days in his life

5.Which is correct?

A. There were as many good days in his life as bad days.

B. His good days were equal to his bad days.

C. He had more good days in all his life than bad days.

D. He had six good days in all his life.

B

How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? Or one?

With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all .

1. What do you do with it ?

Go to a telephone box marked “Phonecard”. Put in your card, make your call and when you’ve finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card.

It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit(每单位时间),the same as any other payphone call.

You can buy them in units of 10、20、40、100 or 200.

2.Now appearing in a shop near you

Near each Cardphone place you’ll find a shop where you can buy one .They're at bus ,train and city tube(地铁)stations.

At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the Highway and shopping centers.

At airports and seaports.

3.No more broken payphones.

Most broken payphones are like that because they’ve been vandalized(破坏了的)。There are no coins in Cardphone to excite thieves’ interest in it .So you’re not probably to find a vandalized one.

Get a phonecard yourself and try it out .Or get a bigger wallet.

6.The passage is most probably___.

A. a warning B. a note C. an advertisement D. an announcement

7.There are three sections(部分)in the passage. Which section do you think is about why phonecards are good?

A. Section 1 B. Section 2 C. Section 3 D. None

8.Choose the right order of the steps under “How you use phonecard”.

a. Put in your phonecard.

b. Look at the screen to find out how many calls you can still make.

c. Go to the telephone box marked Phonecard”.

d. Make your call.

A. a,b,c,d B. c.a.d.b C. a.d,c,b, D. c,d,a,b

9.According to the information you get from the passage, how much does a card with 40 units cost?

A. 4 pounds B.40 pounds C.400 pounds D.100 pounds

10.The last sentence “Or get a bigger wallet.” means”____”.

A. Phonecards are cheap B. You cannot use all payphones

C. Thieves will not break cardphones D. People do not like carrying much money