Translation of English Reading Comprehension

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One characteristic of American culture is to respect self-made people, which has almost become a tradition. Self-made people reach their peak through their own efforts, usually from scratch. Although a business or industrial leader or university professor holds a higher social status and is respected in society than ordinary workers or even skilled workers, he may take pains to point out that his father started his life as a farmer or a laborer in the United States.

This attitude towards manual labor still exists in many aspects of American life. A person is invited to a comfortable or even luxurious home for dinner. Furniture, there is ample evidence that this family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and children's college education; However, the hostess may cook, serve and then wash the dishes herself. Besides, dinner is not just a simple and quick combination of all kinds of canned food and cakes or pies bought in a nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in carefully preparing special dishes. A professional may talk about washing cars, digging flower beds and painting houses. His wife will even help with these things, just as he often helps her wash dishes. A son who leaves home for college may work as a waiter and wash dishes to make a living, or during the summer vacation, he may work at a construction site on the expressway to pay for his education.

1. From the paragraph 1, we can know that in the United States _ _ _ _ _.

A. People often think highly of self-made people.

B.people can always reach the top through their own efforts.

C. University professors win the respect of ordinary workers.

C. people will feel pain when they mention that their fathers are laborers.

2. According to the article, the hostess cooks by herself mainly because of _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A. American servants are hard to find. She is proud of what she can do.

C.she can hardly afford to hire a servant. It's easy to prepare a meal with canned food.

3. In the second paragraph, "serving the table" means "_ _ _ _ _ _".

A. working in a furniture store. Bookkeeping for a bar

C. serving customers in restaurants

4. Which of the following can be the best title of this article?

A. A respectable self-made family B. Americans' attitude towards manual labor

C. Characteristics of American culture D. Development of manual labor

This paper introduces the American culture that advocates self-struggle and respects manual labor.

1. Answer. Details. According to a characteristic of American culture that has almost become traditional, we can know that "advocating self-struggle" is the characteristic of American culture.

2.b. Inference questions. According to this attitude towards manual labor (labor can still be seen in many aspects of American life), it can be inferred that the hostess cooks herself because she is proud that she can do such manual labor.

3.d. guessing the meaning of words. Serving the table means "serving the customers". Note that washing dishes below also has some hints, so the answer is D.

4.b. Main topic. Throughout the whole article, the article mainly talks about the American cultural habits of advocating self-struggle and respecting manual labor. So the answer is B.

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A child who has been satisfied with a story usually likes to repeat it in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to regard printed fairy tales as official texts. Telling stories is always much better than reading stories from books, and it would be better if parents could improve the printed text in the actual situation of their children at that time.

One charge against fairy tales is that they hurt children by scaring them or making them think sadly. In order to prove the latter, people must show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy tales are more often sorry for their cruelty than those who have not. As for fear, I think some children are frightened by fairy tales. However, this is usually because children have heard this story. By repeating familiar stories, the pain of fear is transformed into the joy of facing and mastering fear.

Some people also oppose fairy tales on the grounds that fairy tales are not objective and true, such as giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets and so on. Does not exist; Moreover, don't like the strange side of fairy tales, but teach children to understand reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so strange that I don't know how to argue with them. If their situation is reasonable, the world should be full of lunatics. They try to fly from new york to Philadelphia with sticks, or cover the phone with kisses, believing that it is their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy tale claims to be a description of the real world, and no clever child believes it is true.

1. The author thinks that fairy tales are more effective in _ _ _ _ _ _.

A. Repetition without any change B. Being treated as a joke.

C. Some changes have been made, which are set by father Ting at present.

2. According to the article, when the story is _ _ _ _ _ _, children will have great fear.

A. In the real environment B. Hearing for the first time

C.d. tells it in different ways.

It is said that the advantage of telling fairy tales to children repeatedly is that it is _ _ _ _ _.

A. make them less afraid

B. Develop their memory ability

C. convince them that there is nothing to be afraid of

D. encourage them not to have strange beliefs

The author mentioned sticks and telephones to imply _ _ _ _ _ _.

A. fairy tales are still being fabricated

B.there are some misunderstandings about fairy tales

C. People try to modernize ancient fairy tales.

D. Nowadays people pay more attention to children's fears.

5. One of the reasons why some people disapprove of fairy tales is _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A.they are full of imagination

B.they just make up stories that are far from the truth.

C.they are not interesting

D. They make it difficult for history teachers to teach.

( 1—5 CBABB)

This article is a treatise, and the author refutes all kinds of accusations and misunderstandings about fairy tales.

1. C. Details. According to it, it is always much better than reading stories from books. If parents can produce something, it will be an improvement of printed text in time and children's actual situation, so much the better. It can be inferred that the answer to this question is C.

2.b. Details. According to this story, which originated from a child's hearing once, it can be inferred that the answer to this question is B.

3. Answer. Details. We can get this answer according to changing the pain of fear into the joy of facing and mastering fear by repeating familiar stories.

4.b. Inference questions. Some people think that myths are unrealistic, and they all teach children something that doesn't exist, which will have a bad influence on children. The author made a hypothesis with subjunctive mood. If these views hold water, it may happen that the world should be full of lunatics trying to fly from new york to Philadelphia with sticks, or trying to cover the phone with kisses. Liv, this is their beloved girlfriend. It can be seen that people who hold this view are actually a misunderstanding of myth.

5.b. Inference questions. According to the fact that … is not objective, true and does not exist, we know that some people disapprove of fairy tales because they are fictional and far from reality. So choose B.

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It is estimated that in Shakespeare's time, there were about five million English speakers. It is estimated that about 260 million people speak English as their mother tongue today, mainly in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard English varieties found in these areas, there are many regional and social varieties of this language, as well as different levels of usage in spoken and written language.

In fact, it is impossible to estimate how many people in the world have gained enough knowledge. Working knowledge of English besides their own language. The purpose of English learning is so different from the environment in which this learning takes place that it is difficult to explain, let alone judge what constitutes enough working knowledge in each situation.

The main reason for the widespread demand for English is its importance as a world language today. Apart from satisfying the unlimited needs of English-speaking people, English is also a language, and some important works in science, technology and other fields are created in this language, and not always by English-speaking people. It is widely used in meteorological and airport communications, international conferences and the dissemination of information through radio and television networks in many countries. For many developing countries, especially the former British colonies, English is a more widely used language. Many of these countries have multilingual populations. They need a language for internal communication in government, commerce, industry, law and education, as well as a language for international communication and understanding of western scientific and technological development.

1. What is the best title of this article?

A. Difficulties in learning English B. International communication

C. Standard variants of English D. English as a world language

2. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

A. About 260 million people in the world have mastered enough working knowledge of English.

B. About 260 million people in the world speak English as their mother tongue.

C it is almost impossible to estimate how many people have enough working knowledge of English.

D. People learn English for various reasons.

3. According to the article, what is the main reason why English is widely used?

A.it was very popular in Shakespeare's time.

B.it was used in former British colonies.

C. it meets the needs of native English speakers.

D. it is a world language used for international communication.

4. What constitutes an adequate working knowledge of English?

A. the ability to read newspapers. B.it's hard to judge, because every situation is different.

C. Be multilingual. D. English as the mother tongue.

5. What kind of developing countries are most likely to use English?

A. those countries that are geographically close to the United States.

B.those who are interested in American culture.

C. former colonies of Britain.

D. countries hosting international conferences.

This paper introduces the development and changes of English, and expounds the reasons why English finally becomes the world language and its importance in contemporary society.

1.d. Main topics. According to the 1 sentence in the third paragraph and the full text: the application of English in various fields in various countries, it can be inferred that the answer to this question is D.

2. Answer. Details. According to the description of the second sentence in paragraph 1 and the second sentence in paragraph 1, it can be inferred that the answer to this question is A.

3.d. Inference questions. According to the description in the last paragraph of the article, it can be inferred from the use of English in different fields and regions of the world that the answer to this question is D.

4.b. Details. According to the last sentence of the second paragraph of the article, it can be inferred that the answer to this question is B.

5.c. Details. According to the penultimate sentence of the last paragraph of the article, it can be inferred that the answer to this question is C.

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"If there is one thing I am sure of, it is that we will still read newspapers in one hundred years. This is not to say that newspapers are a necessity. Even now, some people get most of the news from TV or radio. Many people only buy newspapers on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people, reading newspapers has become a habit handed down from generation to generation.

The nature of news may change. What makes news is basically what affects our lives-major political events, and reports on wars, earthquakes and other disasters will continue as before. I think there will be more reports about scientific research. It has happened in areas that may directly affect our lives, such as genetic engineering. In the future, I think there will be more reports about the scientific explanation of why we feel this way-because we have a better understanding of how the brain works and what our feelings really are.

It is very likely that in the next century, journalists will be transmitted. Print it electronically from Fleet Street and print it in our own home. In fact, I'm quite sure what will happen in the future. You may choose from the menu and make your own newspaper by choosing what you want to read-sports and international news.

When people talk about competition between different media, I think they understand it wrong. . They are actually interdependent. Some people predicted that television would kill newspapers, but this did not happen. The content on the printed page lasts longer than the picture on the screen or the sound in the air. As for the Internet, reading on the screen is never a pleasant thing.

1. What is the best title of this article?

A. The best way to get news B. Changes in the media

C. Make your own newspaper

2. In the author's opinion, in the future, _ _ _ _ _ _.

A. More major political events, wars and disasters will become news.

B.newspapers will no longer be printed in publishing houses.

C.newspapers will report more scientific research.

D. More and more people will watch TV.

3. What will be published in your own newspaper?

A. sports and international news. A menu of important news.

C. the most important news. What are you interested in?

4. From the article, we can infer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A. Newspapers will win the competition among different media.

B. Newspapers will be with us along with other media.

C.television will replace newspapers.

D. The author thinks that some media will die out.

The phrase "feed off" in the last paragraph means _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A. rely on B. compete with C.

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This paper puts forward the view that newspaper, a news media, will not disappear in a hundred years, and analyzes its reasons.

1.d. Main topics. From the article 1 sentence: 100 years later, people will still read newspapers, to the following article about the relationship between newspapers and people's lives, the form and content of newspapers, the answer to this question can be summarized as D.

2.c. Details. According to the second paragraph, I think there will be more reports about scientific research. It can be inferred that the answer to this question is C.

3.d. Inference questions. From the last sentence of the third paragraph of the article, you will be able to choose from a menu. By choosing what you want to read to form your own newshopper, you can infer that the answer to this question is D.

4.b. Details. According to the third sentence of paragraph 1, even now, some people still get most news from TV or radio. Many people only buy newspapers on Saturday or Sunday, and it can be inferred that the answer to this question is B.

5. Answer. Guess the meaning of words. In the first sentence, the author said that people mistakenly think that different media compete with each other, while in the next sentence, the author said that they actually feed each other. Combining the four options given, we can see that A is the right choice.