英语阅读理解长难句的处理技巧

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近几年高考英语阅读理解 中一篇比较典型的集中含有长难句的文章。

A 38-square-mile island, is the farthest inhabited island in the world, acc

ording to the Guinness Book of Records. It is 1,510 miles southwest of its near

est neighbor St. Helena, and 1,950 miles west of Africa. Discovered by the Port

uguese admiral(

葡萄牙海军上将

) of the same name in 1506, and settled in 1810, t

he island belongs to Great Britain and has a population of a few hundred.

Comin

g in a close second

——

and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant island

—

—

is Easter Island, which lies 1,260 miles east of its nearest neighbour, Pitca

irn Island, and 2,300 miles west of South America.

The mountainous 64-square-mi

le island was settled around the 5th century, supposedly by people who were los

t at sea. They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousan

d years, giving them plenty of time to build more than 1,000 huge stone figures,

called moai, for which the island is most Easter Sunday, 1722, howev

er, settlers from Holland moved in and gave the island its name. Today, 2,000 p

eople live on the Chilean territory(

智利领土

). They share one street, a small a

irport and a few hours of television per day.

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SECTION A

(15 marks)

Directions

Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A

，

B

，

C and D

．

Choose one answer that best completes the sentence

．

parents are too hard ___ their children, they won’t tell them truth.

A. to

B

.on

C. for

D. with

our town, wood can ___________ a fire.

A. be used to make

B. be used to making

C. use to make

D. used to making

23. The boy ________ himself Mr Football is a freshman of a famous university.

A. called

B. calling

C. calls

D. to call

received an invitation to dinner, and with his work____, he gladly accepted it.

A. finished

B. finishing

C. having finished

D. was finished

insisted that he ______ right, and so he insisted that his plan ______ carried out at once.

A. was; be

B. be; would be

C. was; was

D. be; should be

’d better have your room_____. It’s_____.

A. clean, in mess

B. cleaned, in a mess

C. cleaned, in mess

D. clean, in a mess

football fans often __ ___ late to watch live broadcasts of football matches.

A. mix up

B. turn up

C. put up

D. stay up

ber 11, 2001 is the day ______ we will never forget.

A. that

B. when

C. on which

D. on that

29.---Go for a picnic this weekend, OK?

---_______. I love getting close to nature.

A. I couldn’t agree more

B. I’m afraid not

C. I believe not

D. I don’t think so

30. This is one of the most interesting books ________I have ________ read.

A. that; never

B. that; ever

C. which; never

D. which; ever

31. ---We will have a school trip next week.

--

That sounds ________.I’m sure we will have a good time there.

A. well

B. badly

C. bad

D. good

32. _________ is important for us to gain access to the Internet.

A. This

B. That

C. What

D. It

33. _______ is well known to all, the earth is round.

A. That

B. Which

C. It

D. As

34. _______ I accept that he is not perfect, I do actually like the person.

A. While

B. Since

C. Before

D. Unless

35. ---Lucy has made great progress recently.

--- _________, and __________.

A. So she does, so have you.

B. So she has, so have you

C. So has she, so you have

D. So has she, so do you

SECTION B (18 marks)

Directions

：

For

each

blank

in

the

following

passage

there

are

four

words

or

phrases

marked A

，

B

，

C and D

．

Fill each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context

．

Surfing: It’ s Not Just fo

r Boys Anymore

If you asked high school girls to name their favorite sports, most would probably say

basketball or volleyball. I happen to be one of the few girls who would answer: surfing

（冲浪运

动）

.

But isn’

t

that

a boy thing

? Some people

36

. Most certainly not.

I started surfing about five years ago and fell in love with the sport on the very first day.

Riding that first

37

was the best feeling I had ever experienced.

When I try to

38

surfing with other things, I find it very difficult because, in my

life ,there’ s nothing like it. It involves

（

牵涉到）

body, mind and soul. There’ s sand between

my toes and cool, salt water all

39

us. The feeling I get when I’ m surfing across that

40 ,

becoming one with the

41

, is like I’ m weightless.

The one thing I can

42

from surfing and not any other sport is endless challenge

（

挑战）

.

You can never be the “best surfer” because the ocean offers an uncountable variety of waves that

nobody can ever master. The variations of surfing styles are wonderful. Some surfers are free and

flowing; others are very aggressive

（活跃有力的）

and

43

. All of these things attract me to

surfing and make it

44

from any other sport.

I’ ve tried to tell every girl I know to do something that people don’ t think girls can do. It’ s

part of being human to advance to new levels, so

shouldn’ t it be expected that girls should step up

and start

45

the limits of things boys and men used to dominate

（主宰）

?

There’ re women

46 side by side with the President of our country, so why not side by side

with the boys on

the football team or out in the water surfing? Give girls a chance to 47

, and they

will.

36. A. wonder

37. A. wave

38. A. bring

B. understand

B. storm

B. connect

C. reply

D. believe

C. sail

D. boat

D. tie

C. compare

39. A. along

40. A. beach

41. A. sky

42. A. take

B. above

B. water

B. world

B. get

B. great

B. right

B. walking

B. succeed

C. around

C. board

C. earth

C. make

C. hard

C. far

C. pushing

C. fighting

C. perform

D. by

D. lake

D. ocean

D. keep

D. calm

D. different

D. setting

D. working

D. feel

43. A. sharp

44. A. known

45. A. reaching

46. A. sitting

47. A. think

B. accepting

SECTION C(12 marks)

Directions

：

．

Mr. Smith used to be in prison for three years, which may have you think he is not a good

man. But

48 _ a matter of fact, he is kind-hearted as well as honest. The reason

49

he was

put into prison was not that he himself broke the law, 50

that his six-year-old son blew up

（使

…

爆炸）

the bridge near his home, imitating what he had seen on TV

.

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this little boy did break

the

law,

he

was

too

young

to

be

put

in

prison.

According

____52__

_

the

local

law,

the

boy’s

parents had to be punished. As a result, Mr. Smith received the punishment. He was arrested and

taken to the police station finally. Most of the people in the town showed pity on him, but it was

useless.

After

all,

law

is

law.

Everybody

is

to

obey

53

.

As

the

proverb

of

“When

it

rains,

it

pours”, Mrs. Smith was out of wor

k before long. She had to move to a southern state,54

she was

born and grew up. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

55

the Smiths have experienced does

teach us a good lesson.

PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION

(30 marks)

Directions

：

Read

the

following

three

passages

．

Each

passage

is

followed

by

several

questions or unfinished statements

．

For each of them there are 4 choices marked A

，

B

，

C and

D

．

Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage

．

A

There

is

an

interesting

festival

in

China.

On

that

special

day,

people

in

Hunan

province

always have a dragon boat match. The dragon boat is quite long, like a dragon. There are pictures

of dragons on each side. The front of the boat is like the head of a dragon. During the match, about

twenty men in the boat make it move as fast as it can. Among them stands another man. He beats a

drum(

敲鼓

) to make the others boat in the same rhythm(

节奏

). It’s an exciting match, especially

when they are reaching the end. The audience along the lake shout for their favourite team. From

this match, we have the name of the festival

—

the Dragon Boat Festival.

This special day has another name---Duanwu Festival. In it we have a story. Long, long ago,

there was a famous poet(

诗人

) called Qu Yuan. He was famous not only for his poems, but also

for thinking a lot for(

为某人着想

) the people. After he died, people eat rice dumplings in memory

of him on this special day.

(

)56. What’s the name of this special festival? It’s called ______.

A. Chinese New Year

B. Mid-Autumn Festival