高中英語閱讀與測試

前言

　　在歷史跨入新世紀(jì)的今天，經(jīng)濟全球化進程日益加速，其影響已深入到全社會各個方面。作為世界性語言的英語已成為國際間溝通、交流必不可少的工具。隨著我國經(jīng)濟的快速持續(xù)發(fā)展，綜合國力不斷增強，我國各領(lǐng)域各個層面涉外活動曰益頻繁。在這種形勢下，全國范圍內(nèi)的“外語熱”便悄然興起。尤其是英語教育，如今已受到舉國上下從未有過的重視。對于廣大青年學(xué)生來說，這無疑是絕好的客觀環(huán)境。通過良好的學(xué)校教育，近二十年來，已經(jīng)涌現(xiàn)了一批又一批學(xué)有成就的優(yōu)秀外語人才。不過，就在學(xué)青年而論，在英語學(xué)習(xí)過程中，長期存在這樣或那樣困難，或?qū)W習(xí)上事倍功半的問題卻不在少數(shù)。例如，不少勤奮青年廢寢忘食地死記硬背大量單詞釋義，過于迷信商業(yè)運作介入后的某些所謂的英語速成法，造成了不少學(xué)習(xí)上的誤區(qū)，以致不少學(xué)生誤以為只要精讀課本，熟記大量生詞，不斷擴大詞匯量，便可精通英語，運用自如。殊不知，忽視英語泛讀，不保持精讀、泛讀的適當(dāng)比例并持之以恒，英語學(xué)習(xí)效果必然大打折扣。其實，歷來英語教學(xué)大綱均有明確規(guī)定：中學(xué)英語教學(xué)目的是對學(xué)生進行聽說讀寫的綜合訓(xùn)練，培養(yǎng)他們在口頭上和書面文字上運用英語的基本能力，其中十分側(cè)重培養(yǎng)閱讀能力?，F(xiàn)行大綱也著重指出，提高學(xué)生英語閱讀能力，單純通過課文教學(xué)是不易達到的，必須指導(dǎo)學(xué)生在課外閱讀相當(dāng)數(shù)量的原文讀物，而絕不是突擊記憶大量單詞能夠畢其功于一役的。這充分表明，英語精讀與泛讀是相輔相成、不可偏廢的，而且要保持適當(dāng)?shù)拈喿x量比例，并持之以恒。

內(nèi)容概要

　　其實，歷來英語教學(xué)大綱均有明確規(guī)定：中學(xué)英語教學(xué)目的是對學(xué)生進行聽說讀寫的綜合訓(xùn)練，培養(yǎng)他們在口頭上和書面文字上運用英語的基本能力，其中十分側(cè)重培養(yǎng)閱讀能力。現(xiàn)行大綱也著重指出，提高學(xué)生英語閱讀能力，單純通過課文教學(xué)是不易達到的，必須指導(dǎo)學(xué)生在課外閱讀相當(dāng)數(shù)量的原文讀物，而絕不是突擊記憶大量單詞能夠畢其功于一役的。這充分表明，英語精讀與泛讀是相輔相成、不可偏廢的，而且要保持適當(dāng)?shù)拈喿x量比例，并持之以恒。

作者簡介

　　陳淵，中國科普作家協(xié)會、上海翻譯家協(xié)會、上海外文學(xué)會、美國奧尼爾學(xué)會會員，上?？破兆骷覅f(xié)會譯委副主任。　　上海外國語大學(xué)副教授，曾受聘任國家教委優(yōu)秀學(xué)術(shù)專著評審委員會審讀組成員，上海市優(yōu)秀科普作品獎評獎專家委員會委員。因突出貢獻，曾由國家教委、國家新聞出版署，上海市人民政府和上海外國語大學(xué)授予榮譽證書、高等學(xué)校教材編輯特等獎和立大功獎勵證書等。主要著作有：主編上海市緊缺人才培訓(xùn)工程證書教程中的《中級英語教程》和中小學(xué)英語精讀、泛讀和聽力系列教材，以及《新編英語詞匯用法手冊》、《英語造句詞典》、《英語必考詞五用詳解詞典》等.譯述作品有《尤金·奧尼爾傳》、《醫(yī)生之家》、《茫茫黑夜》和世界第一部科幻小說《弗蘭肯斯坦》，以及《世界科幻小說精品叢書（三十卷）》等。

書籍目錄

Unit One Food and DrinkPassage 1 British Pub CulturePassage 2 The Story of Ice CreamPassage 3 Lunch in Urban DistrictPassage 4 Fast Food and TV DinnersPassage 5 Healthy EatingExercises for Unit OneUint Two SportsPassage 1 The Essence of SportPassage 2 Racing in the WaterPassage 3 The Sexes in SportPassage 4 A Message of Friendship and PeaceExercises for Unit TwoUnit Three Animals and PlantsPassage 1 The Non-flying BirdsPassage 2 The MosquitoPassage 3 Foxes and FarmersPassage 4 Human Beings Responsibility for EnvironmentPassage 5 Energy Changes Make Things HappenExercises for Unit ThreeUnit Four Buying and SelingPassage 1 SupermarketsPassage 2 The Big Department StorePassage 3 Why Banks Are Useful?Passage 4 The Role of AdvertisingExercises for Unit FourUint Five Libraries and MuseumsPassage 1 About MuseumsPassage 2 Shanghai Science and Techno|ogy MuseumPassage 3 Shanghai LibraryPassage 4 School LibrariesPassage 5 Public Libraries in BritainExercises for Unit FiveUint Six LanguagePassage 1 LanguagesPassage 2 The Language ArtsPassage 3 Are You Afraid of Speaking in Public?Passage 4 Words and Word OriginExercises for Unit SixUint Seven Friend FriendshipPassage 1 On Making FriendsPassage 2 True FriendshipPassage 3 A friend and a TrialPassage 4 PerplexityPassage 5  The Colour of FriendshipExercises for Unit SevenUint Eight Exploring NaturePassage 1 The Discoverer of X-raysPassage 2 Newtons DiscoveryPassage 3 Cosmic RadiationPassage 4 An Efficient MethodExercises for Unit EightUnit Nine LiteraturePassage 1 A Lonely MotherPassage 2 Not Poor, Just BrokePassage 3 Finding a Happy ManPassage 4 William Sydney PorterPassage 5 An American Foremost PlaywrightExercises for Unit NineUnit Ten Adventures and DisastersPassage 1 Some Strange JourneysPassage 2 A Tragic AccidentPassage 3 The EarthquakePassage d The Spirit of AdventureExercises for Unit TenReference Answers

章節(jié)摘錄

　　And the Middle East. Languages such as Arabic, which is spokenthroughout the Middle East and many of the local languages of theSahara Desert region are members of the same family.　　Another large family is Bantu. Bantu includes most of thelanguages spoken in central and southern Africa. There are over 250varieties of this family.　　In the past few hundred years, Africa has undergone greatchanges, and outside languages, such as French, are now spoken insome areas of central Africa and southern Africa as well.　　A fourth large group of languages is the Sino-Tibetan family. TheSino-Tibetan family includes all the dialects of Chinese, which isperhaps the most widely used language in the world. There are nearly1500 million speakers of Chinese dialects. The Sino-Tibetan family alsoincludes the languages of the southeast Asia, languages such asVietnamese and Thai. Of course, not all the languages of east Asiabelong to this family. Some languages such as Japanese seem to becompletely unrelated to the Sino-Tibetan family.　　Still another major language family is Polynesian. The Polynesianlanguages are island languages. They are spoken on the islands aroundIndonesia, and on many of the islands eastward all the way to Hawaii,and on the islands westward all the way to Madagascar, off the eastcoast of Africa. Hawaiian and Indonesian are examples of Polynesianlanguages. Apparently, these languages were spread from island toisland by travelers and then each group of islands developed its ownindividual language.　　These five language groups, or language families, that we havementioned here are only a few of the major language families around theworld. There are many more. You should also note that each majorlanguage family has several smaller families within it.　　There are over 3.000 languages that are used throughout the worldtoday. Almost all of these languages belong to a much smaller number oflanguage families. All of the languages within a language family arerelated and all of them have a similar history. Therefore, the grammar,vocabulary, and sounds of related languages are somewhat similar. Inaddition, the way,of thinking and the style of talking among relatedlanguages are also, to a certain degree, similar.　　Even though there are over 3,000 languages that are used today,there are only about 20 or 30 major language families.　　Lets take a brief look at some of the largest language familiesincluding many individual languages.　　The language that we are using now is English and English is, ofcourse, a member of a large language family. English is a member ofthe Indo-European language family. The Indo-European language familyincludes most of the languages that are spoken throughout Europe,languages such as English, French and Greek. Of course, many Indo-European languages are now spoken in other parts of the world. Forinstance, Spanish, which is an Indo-European language, is spokenthroughout South and Central America, but originally it was spoken onlyin Europe.　　Another large language family is the Afro-Asiatic family. The Afro-Asiatic family includes most languages used in the area of North Africa.

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