阅读复习--英语参考答案.doc

Passage 1Some people argue that the pressures (压力) on international sportsmen and sportswomen kill the essence (本质) of sport—the pursuit of personal excellence. Children kick a football around for fun. When they get older and play for local school teams, they become competitive（好竞争的；竞争性的）but they still enjoy playing. The individual 个人）representing his country cannot afford to think about enjoying himself, he has to think only about winning. He is responsible for an entire nation’s hopes, dreams and reputation.A good example is the Football World Cup. Football is the world’s most important sport. It is even more important now that the United States is seriously taking it up. Winning the World Cup is perhaps the summit of international sporting success. Mention “Argentina” to someone and the chances are that he’ll think of football. In a sense, winning the World Cup “puts Argentina on the map”. Sports fans and supporters get quite irrational about the World Cup. People in England felt that their country was somehow important after they won in 1966. Last year thousands of Scots sold their cars, and even their houses, and spent all their money travelling to Argentina, where the finals were played.So, am I arguing that international competition kills the idea of sport? Certainly not! Do the Argentineans really believe that because eleven of their men proved the most skillful at football, their nation is in every way better than all others? Not really. But it’s nice to know that you won, and that in one way at least your country is best.1.What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?A. To prove that football is the world’s most important sport. B. To show that Argentina is better than all others.C. To compare Scotland with Argentina.D. To explain the role of sport.2. The word “summit” means ______.A. highest point C. mountain top B. award D. summary3. According to the passage, Argentina is world-famous because of its ______.A. large number of sports fans and supportersB. successes in the Football World CupC. obvious position on the mapD. excellence at all important sports4. According to the passage, if a sportsman only thinks about winning, he will ______.A. fail to succeed C. lose enjoymentB. be successful D. be irrational5. What is the author’s attitude towards international games?A. Nations that meet on a football field are unlikely to meet on a battlefield.B. Nations that win the Football World Cup are regarded as best in all aspects.C. Nations that win in international games prove best on the sports field at least.D. Nations that give much attention to international competitions are world-famous in many ways. Passage 2 To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor: you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear. Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit motionless before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along. I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage play because their brains wouldn’t keep discipline: they could not keep strictly to what another had written. 6. What is the text about? A. How to become a good teacher. B. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom C. What teachers and actors could learn from each other. D. The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s. 7. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that _______;A. students can move around in the classroomB. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’tC. no memor。