高中英语阅读理解练习题《Travel》

现在高中的期末考试复习已经在进行中了。不少学生表示自己的英语阅读理解能力不行。下面，小编为大家送上一篇高中英语阅读理解练习题，希望对大家有所帮助。

Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?

The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker‟s family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn‟t tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.

He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.

31. The main idea of the passage is __B_.

A. James Watt invented the steam engine

B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure

C. how much power does a horse have

D. why Watt‟s engine is called a ten horse-power engine

32. The story says that Watt made the first __D__.

A. engine B. horse-power engine C. useful engine D. widely used steam engine

33. James Watt was born in _A___.

A. a worker‟s family B. a farmer‟s family C. a teacher‟s family D. a doctor‟s

steam engine

34. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___.

A. measure the work his engine could do B. tell people how powerful his engine was C. lift a 3300-pound weight D. both A and B

35. One horse-power means the __A__.

A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse

　附：高中英语阅读中的三大障碍

1.语言的障碍。

Readingis a comprehensive skill because it concerns the

recognition of configuration, pronunciation, grammatical inflexion and

the comprehension of words, sentences and paragraphs.(魏立明，孙长顺：2001

)由于有的`单词往往有几种甚至几十种意思，而一个词的确切含义只有在具体的文章之中根据上下文才能确定。因此，词义的转换和搭配仍是阅读中的障碍。所以要

避免进入见词就查字典的误区。

2.文化背景知识的障碍。

因为文化背景知识是阅读的无形障碍。由于不了解英语国家的文化背景，因此有时很难做出判断。People

believe that both visual and non-visual information is involved in

reading comprehension. As a matter of fact, it seems that the more

non-visual information the reader possess, the less visual information

is needed.(魏立明，孙长顺：2001 )。 所以多做泛读的训练将有所帮助。

关于这两个障碍的排除在本文的以下部分中也有较详尽的论述。

3.阅读技巧的障碍。

而这一障碍又是多方面的。如找中心思想，推断文章中有没有直接说明的意思，确定作者的语气等。本文将就这一方面进行重点论述。