胜利中学2011届英语专项练习阅读理解1.doc

胜利中学2011届英语专项练习 阅读理解一 (A) A hard-working Chinese rice farmer was supporting his children, wife and his old father. He worked long and hard each day, but still he was hardly growing enough to feed his children and wife. One day he didn’t work for the whole day. Instead, he built a small cart(手推车) out of some wood that he had. The next day he went to his old father and told him that the old man was no longer able to help the family. His old father was only eating and taking up precious resources(宝贵资源). So the farmer loaded him into the new cart and headed up a nearby mountain. When he got to the top, he stopped and turned the cart to face down the mountain, but before he could start to roll（使…滚动） the cart, his father stopped him, saying , “Wait! Son, I can understand what you are doing, and even why you are doing it, but please save the cart. Your son will need it.” 根据短文内容，判断下面的句子是否正确，对的涂（A），错的涂（B）。 ( ) 1. The Chinese rice farmer didn’t work hard each day. ( ) 2. He built the cart so that he could put more rice into it. ( ) 3. His father was old and he wasn’t able to work for the family. ( ) 4. His father understood that his son wanted to kill him. ( ) 5. The words that the old man said to his son was educational(有教育意义的). B Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. He was the most famous westerner to visit Asia during the middle Ages. He wrote a book about his travels. In his book he wrote all the things he saw and heard. Many people read the book but few believed what Marco Polo said. He spoke of strange people and places that nobody knew about at that time. 　 As a young man, Marco Polo decided to travel together with his father. It took them more than three years to travel to China. He became the Chinese emperor’s friend. He learned the Chinese language when he traveled around and talked to many people. Before he reached the age of thirty he was made a Chinese official. 　After nearly seventeen years in the east, Marco and his father prepared to return home