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          在新课程的改革下，对于学生的英语综合能力有了更新、更清晰、更高的要求。尤其是在培养学生英语阅读能力方面有了更明确的要求。教师在平常的教学中，不仅要培养学生的阅读理解能力，还应该增加学生的课外阅读量。学生的阅读不能只满足于选对正确答案，应该有意识地培养自己的阅读能力，而这种能力不是一朝一夕就能够培养出来的，这是长期日积月累的结果，是坚持不懈刻苦努力的结果。

          为提升中学生的英语阅读理解能力，助力孩子们在抗击疫情的非常时期，宅在家里也能线上学习，我将精选各类短小精悍的阅读材料用于训练作答。材料一般是关于名人轶事、生活故事、幽默小品、历史故事等。短文题材丰富，体裁多样，内容生动，篇幅适当， 难度适中，贴进生活，具有时代气息。期待同学们认真阅读和答题，然后在文末核对答案，充实地度过非常时期，用每天的进步和收获去迎接美丽春天的来临！

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        The Antarctica is a actually a desert. It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake.

          The Antarctica is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature ever recorded (所记录的) there is zero at the South Pole. Explorers (探险家) used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snow falls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times that much moisture (水份) falls in parts of the Sahara.

        The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts (融化). It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep it is turned to ice by the weight of snow above it.

1. Antarctica is called a desert because it ________.

A. is sandy                         

B. has the same temperature as a desert

C. has little moisture and no lakes or rivers 

D. there are no people there

2. Antarctica has ________.

A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara

B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara

C. about one—tenth of the moisture of the Sahara

D. none of the above

3. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it ________.

A. never stops falling                         

B. piles up year after yea.

C. never melts                                 

D. both B and C

4. The snow turns to ice when ________.

A. it gets wet                           

B. the next snowfall comes

C. the temperature gets colder           

D. the snow above it is heavy enough.

5. The best title (题目) for the passage is ________.

A. A Strange Continent                         

B. An Ice Continent

C. Snowfall at the South Pole                     

D. The World’s Desert

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        Today I’ll be talking about the invention of the camera and photography. The camera is often thought to be a modern invention, but as early as 1727, a German physicist discovered that light darkens silver salt. Used as a camera, a big box was set up,and a small hole was cut in one side to let the light in; he made temporary pictures on the salt. Silver salt is still the base of the photographic film today. Then a French scientist made the first permanent (永久的) picture by using a special piece of metal which was covered with silver salt. A photograph he made in 1826 still exists.

          The painter De Gear improved the process (制作法) by covering the metal also with placing the common salt which we can eat. This was in 1839, the official date of beginning of photographs. But the problem was the printing of the photographs. And it wasn’t until other scientists developed the kind of photographic paper we now use that good prints were possible and photography became truly modern. In the 1870’s, Matthew Bradey was able to take his famous pictures in American Civil War. In the 20’s of this century, Georges Mann of the United States simplified film developing (冲洗), and Dr Edward Lane invented the so-called Instant Camera, which uses self-developing film. If we say photography came into existence in 1839, it follows that it took more than 100 years for the camera to reach its present condition of technical refinement (密度).

6. What discovery was the basis of photography?

A. Light darkens silver salt.               

B. Light darkens natural salt.

C. Light darkens silver.                   

D. Light darkens self--developing film

7. How was the first permanent picture made?

A. By making use of special paper.       

B. By adding common salt to silver salt.

C. By giving a slight colour to the silver salt. 

D.By using a special piece of metal.

8. What does the speaker regard as the official date of beginning of photography?

A. 1727.           

B. 1826.             

C. 1839.             

D. 1870.

9. According to the speaker why is Matthew Bradey remembered today?

A. He was a soldier.                         

B. He took war photographs.

C. He painted portraits.                     

D. He designed a portable camera.

10. What did Doctor Edward Lane invent?

A. A cheap process of developing film at home.         

B. A new kind of film.

C. An automatic printer.         

D. An‘instant camera’ that develops its own film.

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答案：C  A  D  B  B ，A  D  C  B  D