1、1阅读理解-词义猜测三1、 The Edinburgh International Film Festival, after 60 years as one of the citys cultural focuses in August, will move to June from next year. Artistic director Hannah McGill said the festival needed more breathing space.“There are huge advantages in having all these cultural events in on
2、e place and time,” she said. “But there is limited space. Its like when a child has a birthday on Christmas Day it all comes on top of each other.”Ms McGill said that the film festival wanted to use extra places to organize events and conferences which Edinburgh was too crowded to provide in August.
3、 She spoke of her difficulty, for example, being unable to hold an exhibition as part of the film festival because of limited space.However, Jon Morgan, the director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, deprecated the film festival s move which suggested the city was overburdened in August. “There are
4、still hundreds of spaces that arent used,and there is still room for it to expand,” he saidThe move to June made sense. It would allow more air between it and the London Film Festival, providing for more distinctive (有特色的)programming. “June will give us the breathing space to expand and create our o
5、wn identity, allowing us to further develop our position as one of the worlds most innovative(创新的) and challenging annual film events,” Ms McGill saidThe festival organisers thought that the move to June would not reduce audiences,saying film-lovers would visit Edinburgh in early summer. Ginnie Atki
6、nson, the festivals managing director, said, “Our audiences are very film-focused. Last year we asked in our market research if they would come if we were the only show in town and they said yes.”1.The passage intends to tell us that the Edinburgh International Film Festival _.A.needs improvingB.enj
7、oys great success2C.needs more breathing spaceD.will move to “quieter” June2.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph suggests that _.A.having two important events in one place and time has many advantagesB.having two important events in one place and time will cause pressureC.wonderful thing
8、s always go hand in handD.having a birthday on Christmas Day is a lucky thing3.The underlined word “deprecated” in Paragraph 4 probably means _.A.disagreed toB.approved ofC.supportedD.held4.We can infer from the passage that _.A.the move to June will affect the number of people who visit EdinburghB.
9、the festival is one of the world s most innovative and challenging annual film eventsC.the festival has been one of Edinburghs cultural focuses for 60 yearsD.it is generally believed that August is a busy month to the cultural circles in Edinburgh2、 Stonehenge, the world-famous circle of stone colum
10、ns may 12. have had a brother. A much bigger, older brother.University of Bradford researchers announced they had discovered about 100 stones covering several acres thought to have been built around 4,500 years ago. The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project discovered the monument, which is near Durr
11、ington Walls, also known as “ superhenge”. Stonehenge, which is believed to have been completed 3,500 years ago, is about 2 miles away. “What we are starting to see is the largest surviving stone monument, preserved underneath a bank, that has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe,”
12、 said Vince Gaffney.3The evidence was found under 3 feet of earth. Some of the stones are thought to have stood 15 feet tall before they were toppled. “Our radar data have shown an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones, a number of which have survived after being pushed over, and a large bank plac
13、ed over the stones,“ said professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology.“ In the east,up to 30 stones . have survived below,” he said. “The extraordinary scale and details of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidd
14、en Landscapes Project, which the new discoveries at Durrington Walls, is changing fundamentally(根本上) our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it,“ Neubauer added.“Everything written before about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be rewritten,” said
15、 Paul Garwood, a scientist and lead historian on the project at the University of Birmingham. The findings were announced on the first day of the British Science Festival being held at the University of Bradford.1.It is believed that the superhenge is _ earlier than the Stonehenge.A.1,000 yearsB.2,5
16、00 yearsC.3,500 yearsD.4,500 years2.What do researchers think of the superhenge?A.It is the biggest monument discovered in the world.B.It was built much later than the Stonehenge.C.It is the largest surviving stone monument found in England.D.It is better protected than the Stonehenge.3.What do the
17、underlined word “toppled” most probably mean?A.Set up.B.Pushed down.C.Moved away.4D.Brought up.4.What is the best title of the passage?A.The southern England has many historic sitesB.The British Science Festival will be held againC.Bigger Brother to Stonehenge has been discoveredD.The Project at the
18、 University of Birmingham3、 If you are a fruit groweror would like to become onetake advantage of Apple Day to see whats around. Its called Apple Day but in practice its more like Apple Month. The day itself is on October 21, but sinceit has caught on, events now spread out over most of October arou
19、nd Britain. Visiting an apple event is a good chance to see, and often taste, a wide variety of apples. To people who are used to the limited choice of apples such as Golden Delicious and Royal Gala in supermarkets, it can be quite an eye opener to see the range of classical apples still in existenc
20、e, such as Decio which was grown by the Romans. Although it doesnt taste of anything special, its still worth a try, as is the knobbly(多疙瘩的) Cats Head which is more of a curiosity than anything else. There are also varieties developed to suit specific local conditions. One of the very best varieties
21、 for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but youll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so its a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it. At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affa
22、irs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games. Apple Days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards(果园).If you want to have a real orchard experience, try visiting the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale,
23、 near Faversham in Kent.51.What can people do at the apple events?A.Attend experts lectures.B.Visit fruit-loving families.C.Plant fruit trees in an orchard.D.Taste many kinds of apples.2.What can we learn about Decio?A.It is a new variety.B.It has a strange look.C.It is rarely seen now.D.It has a sp
24、ecial taste.3.What does the underlined phrase “a pipe dream” in Paragraph 3 mean?A.A practical idea.B.A vain hope.C.A brilliant plan.D.A selfish desire.4.What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A.To show how to grow apples.B.To introduce an apple festival.C.To help people select apples.D.To
25、promote apple research.4、 In the depths of the French Guianese rainforest, there still remain unusual groups of indigenous(土著的) people. Surprisingly, these people live largely by their own laws and their own social customs. And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been
26、 a colony(殖民地) of the French Republic since 1946. In theory, they should live by the French law is often ignored or unknown, thus making them into an interesting area of “lawlessness” in the world. The lives of these people have finally been recorded thanks to the effects of a Frenchman form Paris c
27、alled Gin. Gin spent five months in early 2015 6exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250,000 living in its capital, Cayenne. “I have a special love for the French Guianese people. I have worked there on and
28、off for almost ten years,” says Gin. “Ive been able to keep firm friendships with them. Thus I have been allowed to gain access to their living environment. I dont see it as a lawless land. But rather I see it as an area of freedom.” “I wanted to show the audience a photographic record touching upon
29、 the uncivilized life,” continues Gin. “I prefer to work in black and white, which allows me to show different specific worlds more clearly.” His black-and-white pictures present a world almost lost in time. These pictures show people seemingly pushed into a world that they were unprepared for. Thes
30、e local citizens now have to balance their traditional self-supporting hunting lifestyle with the lifestyle offered by the modern French Republic, which brings with it not only necessary state welfare, but also alcoholism, betrayal and even suicide.1.Why does the author feel surprised about the indi
31、genous people in French Guiana?A.They seldom follow the French law.B.They often ignore the Guianese law.C.They are separated from the modern world.D.They are both Guianese and French citizens.2.Gin introduced the special world of the indigenous Guianese as _.A.a tour guideB.a geographerC.a film dire
32、ctorD.a photographer3.What is Gins attitude towards the lives of the indigenous Guianese?A.Cautious.7B.Doubtful.C.Uninterested.D.Appreciative.4.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?A.The modern French lifestyle.B.The self-supporting hunting.C.The uncivilized hunting.D.Th
33、e French Republic.5、“Indeed,“ George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.“ But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a ce
34、ntury, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about
35、 a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to, bug, that is, “t
36、o install(安装) an alarm“. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others conversations. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat“, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That mean
37、ing dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties“ that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering a bug in his inven
38、ted 8record player.“1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that .A.Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bugB.George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bugC.the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth centuryD.both Englishmen and Americans used the word bu
39、g in the eighteenth century2.What does the word “flaw“ in the last paragraph probably mean?A.ExplanationB.FindingC.OriginD.Fault3.The passage is mainly concerned with .A.the misunderstanding of the word bugB.the development of the word bugC.the public views of the word bugD.the special characteristi
40、cs of the word bug 6、 Ask people in the UK what the words “Sunday roast” mean to them, and theyll probably take you back to their grandmothers dining rooms maybe with a few stories of “the greatest puddings” and “the best ever steak”. But now the traditional Sunday roast seems to have been left back
41、 in the old days. According to the Daily Mail, just one in 50 British families sits down to this weekly meal together.There are many reasons why the roast is becoming less popular. In the busy modern world, where breakfast is a slice of toast eaten on the way to work or school and lunch is a quick s
42、andwich in front of the computer screen, people just dont seem to have the time or patience to make a roast.And Sunday was once a day when people could easily go to the kitchen to cook. Nowadays, people are often out shopping or at the cinema until its far too late to start thinking about heating th
43、e oven(烤箱) up.9However, a recent article from The Telegraph warned against being carried away by our tight schedules: “It would be a shame to let this fine old tradition disappear.”The Guardian further explained that the eating of the big meal is only the half of it .The Sunday roast also makes for
44、relaxed morning activities in the kitchen, and the table becomes the perfect place to share good food and chat with family and friends. “For busy moms and dads, even if you can manage to turn off your mobile phone and the TV only once a week and turn the Sunday roast into a real family event, childr
45、en can have fun cooking the food and clearing up together.”1.The best title for the passage is probably _.A.SundayBest Time for FamilyB.Sunday Roast Dying OutC.Its the Perfect Time for UsD.Lets Sit Down Together2.Why do people pay less attention to Sunday roast?A.They have a busy lifestyle.B.They ha
46、ve no interest in cooking.C.They dont think it worthwhile.D.They are living in the modern society.3.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?A.A recent article.B.A traditional kitchen.C.The fine old tradition.D.Sunday morning activity.4.How does the author feel towards Sunda
47、y roasts dying out?A.Doubtful.B.Positive.C.Sorry.D.Uncertain.1011答案以及解析1答案及解析：答案：1.D; 2.B; 3.A; 4.D解析：1.主旨大意题。文章第一段就指出了本文的主题爱丁堡国际电影节明年要从 8月提前到 6月。2.句意理解题。由第一段可知,艺术总监 Hannah McGill 说电影节需要有喘息的机会,有足够的活动空间;第二段又指出在同一地点和吋间,多种文化活动会因为有限的空间而造成压力,作者接着打了一个比喻,同样也是为了说明这一问题。3.词义猜测题。由 however 和“There arc still hun
48、dreds of spaces that arent used,and there is still rexjm for it to expand.以推测出 Jon Morgan不同意爱丁堡电影节时间的变动,故答案为 A。4.推理判断题。由文章第二段和第三段可知,8 月份爱丁堡要举行各种各样的文化活动,由此可推出对爱丁堡的文艺界来说,8 月份是一个繁忙的月份。A 项与最后一段第一句不符;B、C 两项文中有明确表述,不是推出的结论。2答案及解析：答案：1.A; 2.C; 3.B; 4.C解析：1.细节理解题。根据第二段第一句中的“.thought to have been built aroun
49、d 4,500 years ago. ” 和第二段第三句中的 which is believed to have been completed 3,500 years ago”可知,超级巨石阵比巨石阵早了 1000年。2.细节理解题.根据第二段中的“. is the largest surviving stone monument. that has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe” 可知,C 项与题意相符。3.词义猜测题。根据画线词前面的“Some of the stones are thought to have stood 15 feet tall before they were.“ 中的 to have stood可推断,该词应该是“倒塌;使倒塌”的意思,所以选 B项。4.主旨大意题。根据文章第一段中的“.may have had a brother. A much bigger, older brother. ”可知,文章主要讲述的是巨石阵还有一个“大哥哥”的事情,故选 C项。3
