Reading well begins with understanding the words on the page. In nearly three decades of teaching literature, I’ve noticed that many readers have been conditioned to jump so quickly to interpretation and evaluation that they often skip the fundamental but essential task of comprehending what the words actually mean. 1.. When I ask students to describe or explain a line or passage, often their first response is to turn their eyes upward in search of a thought or an idea, rather than to look down at the words on the page in front of them where the answer actually lies. 2.and this improves with practice.
Practice makes perfect, but pleasure makes practice more likely, so read something enjoyable. If a book is so agonizing that you avoid reading it, put it down and pick up one that brings you pleasure. Life is too short and books are too plentiful not to. Besides, one can't read well without enjoying reading.
3.A book that requires nothing from you might offer the same distraction as that of a television sitcom, but it is unlikely to provide intellectual, aesthetic (美学的), or spiritual rewards long after the cover is closed. 4.: books with sentences so exquisitely (精妙地) crafted that they must be reread, familiar words used in fresh ways, new words so evocative (唤起情感的) that you are compelled to look them up, and images and ideas so arresting that they return to you for days to come.
Also, read slowly. Speed-reading is not only inferior to deep reading but may bring more harm than benefits. 5.. Worse yet, “peed-reading gives you two things that should never mix superficial knowledge and overconfidence.”
A.This habit of the mind can be seen in the body
B.Therefore, demand books that make demands on you
C.Attending to the words on the page requires deep thinking
D.When you read, you should be faithful to the text and context
E.While reading is fun, not every minute of reading is enjoyable
F.When you read quickly, you aren’t thinking critically or making connections
G.On the other hand, the greatest pleasures are those born of labor and investment
高三英语七选五中等难度题
Reading well begins with understanding the words on the page. In nearly three decades of teaching literature, I’ve noticed that many readers have been conditioned to jump so quickly to interpretation and evaluation that they often skip the fundamental but essential task of comprehending what the words actually mean. 1.. When I ask students to describe or explain a line or passage, often their first response is to turn their eyes upward in search of a thought or an idea, rather than to look down at the words on the page in front of them where the answer actually lies. 2.and this improves with practice.
Practice makes perfect, but pleasure makes practice more likely, so read something enjoyable. If a book is so agonizing that you avoid reading it, put it down and pick up one that brings you pleasure. Life is too short and books are too plentiful not to. Besides, one can't read well without enjoying reading.
3.A book that requires nothing from you might offer the same distraction as that of a television sitcom, but it is unlikely to provide intellectual, aesthetic (美学的), or spiritual rewards long after the cover is closed. 4.: books with sentences so exquisitely (精妙地) crafted that they must be reread, familiar words used in fresh ways, new words so evocative (唤起情感的) that you are compelled to look them up, and images and ideas so arresting that they return to you for days to come.
Also, read slowly. Speed-reading is not only inferior to deep reading but may bring more harm than benefits. 5.. Worse yet, “peed-reading gives you two things that should never mix superficial knowledge and overconfidence.”
A.This habit of the mind can be seen in the body
B.Therefore, demand books that make demands on you
C.Attending to the words on the page requires deep thinking
D.When you read, you should be faithful to the text and context
E.While reading is fun, not every minute of reading is enjoyable
F.When you read quickly, you aren’t thinking critically or making connections
G.On the other hand, the greatest pleasures are those born of labor and investment
高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
For _____ person with reading habits, _____ printed page contains not only words but ideas, thoughts and feelings.
A.the; a B.the; the C.a; the D.a; a
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
While reading, you may focus on the Q(question) and A (answer) on the following web page.
Related Information Hotel Deals Today's deals Hotel Guide Hotel details Hotel Directory Contact info My Travel Hotel Preference Check Reservations Tool Weather Maps Driving Directions | Q My husband and I would like to spend five or six days in the Maldives. Could you suggest some low-priced hotels? We'll be there in November. Jan Davies, email. A Prices in the Maldives are high. The cheaper hotels (and there aren't many) mightn't be much to look at, with unpleasant rooms, iron roofs, old buildings, poor and rough vegetation and basic facilities, but they get their atmosphere from cheerful customers and an untidy, free island feel. Angaga (South Ari Atoll, phone 0011 960 450510), Asdu Sun Island (North Male Atoll, email info@asdu.com.mv) are both a bit like this. You'll be there in the low season (May to November), when its' still warm, but there's a greater likelihood of rain, so you should be able to get a double (standard ) room with full board (three meals a day) for $ 100 a night. However, pricing structures for the hotels are enormously complex for standard, superior and luxurious rooms. Q My husband and I are from Australia. We are planning a four-week trip to London, Dublin and Paris in October and we are shocked by the cost of hotels. We have searched the Internet and hotel books given to us by tourist authorities but we can't find anything cheaper than $ 150 a night. Joan Maloney, email. A For Australians traveling Europe, especially its capital cities, is expensive. You may have to increase your budget . However, if you can't afford these costs, then you should consider staying in hotels where the cheapest twin rooms with shared bathroom cost about$20 a person in Dublin and Paris and $35 in London. The minimum you would pay for a double room in a central area is $50 a person in Dublin and Paris and $70 in London. These prices are for shared bathroom facilities, though you will get a wonderfully unhealthy cooked breakfast thrown in. Not all hotels are equal, of course, and it's a good idea to consult a guidebook with a good reputation. |
1.The hotel Angaga in the Maldives_________.
A. attracts untidy people B. has some basic facilities
C. has the best landscape D. can be contacted by email
2.If you spend your holiday in the Maldives in February, _________
A. there is a greater likelihood of rain
B. standard, superior and luxurious rooms are all available
C. the weather will probably be better than that of the low season
D. a standard room with full board will cost less than $100 a night.
3.What is the advice for the couple planning to visit Europe in October?
A. They should stay in hotels in a central area
B. They could live in hotel rooms of lower standard
C. They should put up with the wonderfully unhealthy cooked breakfast.
D. They should buy a reliable guidebook instead of increasing the budget.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Reading may be fundamental, but how the brain gives meaning to letters on a page has been a mystery. Two new studies fill in some details on how the brains of efficient readers handle words. One of the studies, published in the April 30 Neuron, suggests that a visual-processing area of the brain recognizes common words as whole units. Another study, published online April 27 in PLOSONE, makes it known that the brain operates two fast parallel systems for reading, linking visual recognition of words to speech.
Maximilian Riesenhuber, a neuroscientist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., wanted to know whether the brain reads words letter by letter or recognizes words as whole objects. He and his colleagues showed sets of real words or nonsense(无意义的词语)words to volunteers undergoing fMRI scans. The words differed inonly one letter, such as “farm” and “form” or “soat” and “poat”, or were completely different, such as “farm” and “coat” or “poat” and “hime”. The researchers were particularly interested in what happens in the visual word form area, or VWFA, an area on the left side of the brain just behind the ear that is involved in recognizing words.
Riesenhuber and his colleagues found that neurons(神经元)in the VWFA respond strongly to changes in real words. Changing “farm” to “form”, for example, produced as great a change in activity as changing “farm” to” coat”, the team reports in Neuron. The area responded slowly to single-letter changes in made-up words.
The data suggests that readers grasp real words as whole objects, rather than focusing on letters or letter combinations. And as a reader’s exposure to a word increases, the brain comes to recognize the shape of the word. Meaning is passed on after recognition in the brain, Riesenhuber says.
The researchers don’t yet know how longer and less familiar words are recognized, or if the brain can be trained to recognize nonsense words as a unit.
1.Riesenhuber’s research probably focuses on whether the brain ______.
A. recognizes words as a unit or reads them letter by letter.
B. operates two fast parallel systems for reading
C. takes longer to read less familiar words or not
D. handles nonsense words as a unit
2.Riesenhuber and his colleagues carried out their research by ______.
A. giving pairs of real words totally different B. arranging the words in different order
C. showing pairs of different words D. making volunteers read some longer words
3.Riesenhuber’s research is significant in that it shows how the brain ______.
A. responds to familiar words B. relates meaning to letters
C. recognizes the form of a word D. reacts to made-up words
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Reading is the ability to process text, understand its meaning and to integrate it with what the reader already knows. Of all the reading skills speed-reading is a necessary skill in the Internet age. We skim over articles, e-mails and WeChat to try to grasp key words and the essential meaning of a certain text. Surrounded with information from our electronic devices, it would be impossible to cope if we read word by word, line by line. But a new trend calls on people to unplug and enjoy reading slowly, listing benefits beyond the intelligent stimulation.
A recent story from The Wall Street Journal reported on a book club in Wellington, New Zealand, where members meet in a cafe and turn off their smartphones. They sink into cozy chairs and read in silence for an hour. Unlike tradition book club, the point of the slow reading club isn’t exchanging ideas about a certain book, but to get away from electronic devices and read in a quiet, relaxed environment. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Wellington book club is just one example of a movement started by book lovers who miss the old-fashioned way of reading before the Internet and smartphones.
Slow readers, such as The Atlantic’s Maura Kelly, say a regular reading habit sharpens the mind, improves concentration, reduces stress levels and deepens the ability to sympathize. Another study published last year in Science showed that reading novels helps people understand others’ mental states and beliefs, a fundamental skill in building relationships.
Yet technology has made us less attentive readers. Screens have changed our reading patterns from the top-to-right, left-to-right sequence to a wild skimming and skipping pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text punctuated with links leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text. The Internet may have made us stupider, says Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian. Because of the Internet, he says, we have become very good at collecting a wide range of interesting news, but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, reflect, and relate all these facts to each other.
Slow reading means a return to an uninterrupted, straight pattern, in a quiet environment free of distractions. “Aim for 30 minutes a day,” advises Kelly from The Atlantic. “You can squeeze in that half hour pretty easily if only during your free moments, you pick up a meaningful work of literature,” Kelly said. “Reach for your e-reader, if you like. Kindles make books like War and Peace less heavy, not less substantive, and also ensure you’ll never lose your place.”
1.The book club in Wellington mentioned in Paragraph 2 shows____________.
A. the new trend of slow reading B. the decline of electronic devices
C. the importance of exchanging ideas D. the increasing number of club readers
2.According to Patrick Kingsley, people are stupider partly because of_____________.
A. a non-stop reading pattern B. the straight, left-to-right screen
C. a wide range of interesting news D. the lack of reflection
3.According to the passage, slow reading___________.
A. contributes to understanding among people
B. promotes the current technology advances
C. provides people with a quiet environment
D. cures the memory loss of elderly people
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Benefit of Reading Clubs B. Return of Slow Reading
C. Reading of the Internet Age D. Influence of Speed Reading
高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
In English, certain nouns are spelt with ___ capital letter at the beginning of ______ word.
A. a; the B. a; a C. the; a D. the; the
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The previous lecture focused on the reading problems in new words, while this lecture will turn to______in complex sentence structures.
A.that | B.one | C.those | D.ones |
高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
I don’t talk with passengers on airplanes. My flight time is ______ for turning the pages of a good book. That changed, ______, on a flight from Tampa to Newark when I sat next to her ---the lady in Seat 26B.
After ______ my seat, I opened my book.
Then she ______me. “And where are you traveling to? Home or on vacation?”
“Heading home,” I closed my book. “You?”
“Oh, home, too,” she began, “I come from a(n) ______ family. Nine kids! I’m the oldest ______ alive---eighty-nine!” And then she laughed, joyfully. I wouldn’t have ______ she was nearly ninety, though.
“Good book?” she asked, pointing to my paperback.
“Yes. Do you read?”
“Oh, I don’t have ______ to read,” she replied.
I’m sixty years younger than 26B, yet she’s the one who’s too busy to read? What on earth could she be doing with her ______?
“Well,” she began, “I work at Costco. There are ______ nice people. There are also the ______ ones, but I enjoy them, too!” She laughed again, and I ______ her ability to not let negative energies affect her ______. I wondered how I could ______ that, too.
“What’s your secret,” I asked, “to sounding so ______ and healthy?”
“My husband died ten years ago,” she said, ______. “I thought to myself, I’m not going to just ______! That’s when I got my Costco job. I believe in being active.”
“Life is so good,” she ______, “I’m just excited every day to live it!”
I wanted that plane ride to reroute to California so I would have more time to learn about her energy for life. I became more ______ with each mile we flew.
I told myself, if someone who is eighty-nine years old can choose to live her life with such ______ and passion, I can, too. If you have the drive!
1.A. reserved B. adjusted C. squeezed D. limited
2.A. thus B. instead C. though D. rather
3.A. slipping into B. searching for C. clearing up D. settling into
4.A. came to B. bent to C. turned to D. pointed to
5.A. complex B. nuclear C. wealthy D. extended
6.A. yet B. even C. still D. ever
7.A. predicted B. admitted C. guessed D. doubted
8.A. time B. patience C. abilities D. chances
9.A. days B. talent C. books D. interest
10.A. really B. actually C. seemingly D. probably
11.A. learned B. weird C. ambitious D. innocent
12.A. weighed B. admired C. realized D. identified
13.A. aim B. fate C. taste D. mood
14.A. obtain B. manage C. control D. imagine
15.A. academic B. realistic C. positive D. creative
16.A. sadly B. coldly C. seriously D. peacefully
17.A. hang out B. sit around C. step back D. get away
18.A. responded B. continued C. recalled D. declared
19.A. astonished B. satisfied C. delighted D. inspired
20.A. desire B. wisdom C. courage D. confidence
高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The beginning of November means winter is well on its way. 1. It's great to stay indoors surrounded by people that make you happiest. I've always felt homes that have the warmest atmosphere are those that feel the most lived in. Here are my personal tips on how to feed that coziness(温馨)into your home this winter.
It makes sense to fill your home with textured(有纹理的)decorations which feel warm and easy. You can throw a textured blanket on your couch or bed. I'm also a huge fan of carpets on top of the wooden floors. Of course, carpets will help to physically warm your space by offering a cozy spot for your feet. 2.
It's also a good idea to display your creations and collections in your home. My wall was feeling bare one day, so I filled the space with a simple wall hanging. 3. Simple, yes, and it makes me feel warm every time I see it. Do any of you have a love for windowsills(窗台)like I do? Make use of your windowsill by displaying decorations like feathers, candleholders, rocks... anything you've collected over the years.
4. There's a homey feeling that goes along with letting your bed stay unmade for the day, or slipping your shoes off in the middle of your bedroom. Leave your closet door half open; hang necklaces on your wall; leave your curtain over the top of a mirror instead of getting it neatly away. 5.
A.A warm home usually feels casual.
B.I made it from a stick and some string.
C.I'm proud of my gift for creating' wonderful artworks.
D.And the addition can make a space feel warmer, just by looking at it.
E.It's a good habit to take time to get everything well organized at home.
F.To me, there's nothing better than spending a cold evening in a warm home.
G.In a word, if you make your space feel lived in, you'll enjoy living there all the more.
高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
Deep reading is a process in which people critically think______ trying to catch the words on the page.
A.in addition to B.in favor of
C.in reply to D.in search of
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析