阅读理解 A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特定) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality(时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day''s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own news paper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
单选题 A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】是非题。本题问及现代报纸值得注意的原因,但问的是for all the following except its。四个选项的意思分别是:wide coverage广泛的新闻报道(范围);uniform style统一的风格;speed in reporting news新闻报道的速度;popularity大众性,普及性。依据文章第二句“…the range of news from local crime to international poetics,from sports to…as well”可知选项A是原因。依据文章中间“What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality,its immediate relation to what is happening in your would and your locality now.”可知选项C是原因。再依据此前一句“A good modem newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers.But far more than any one reader is interested in.”可知选项D也是原因。只有选项B在文章中没有提及,所以选项B正确。
单选题 According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the same newspaper is that______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节题。文章倒数第二句“For all these reason,no two people really read the same paper:what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day's paper,his own selection and sequence,his own newspaper.”认为没有两个读者真正阅读了“相同的”报纸,是因为:每个人所做的都是从当天的报纸中按他自己的选择和顺序把他自己的报纸放在一起,也就是说人们看报是看他们自己感兴趣的内容。故选项A正确。选项B“不同的人喜欢不同的报纸”和文章所说的“在当天的报纸中找到他感兴趣的部分”不是一回事。而选项C“人们很少对同一种新闻感兴趣”也不对,作者隐含的意思是“人们所感兴趣的东西很少会完全一样”,而选项C并不是这个意思。
单选题 It can be conclude from the passage that newspaper readers______ .
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】推断题。根据第37题的讨论,可以看出:没有两个读者阅读同样的报纸,是因为每个读者都有自己感兴趣的内容。再根据文章最后一句“For all these reasons,reading newspapers efficiently,which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time,demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.”可以得出结论“读者看报通常是有选择性的”。所以选项D正确。选项A“熟练地应用阅读技巧”和文章所说的“当你修正和应用阅读技巧时要求熟练和自我意识”不是一个意思。
单选题 A good newspaper offers a variety to readers because______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节题。依据文章中间“A good modem newspaper offers a variety t0 attract many different readers,but far more than any one reader is interested in.”可以看出,报纸提供各种各样的内容,是为了满足不同类型、有不同阅读需求的读者。选项A正确。
单选题 The best title for this passage would be______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】主旨题。选项A、C都有文章涉及到的具体方面,但不足以用来概括整个文章的内容。选项D“关于如何读报纸的一些建议”并不是文章的主要内容,只是在文章末尾涉及到基于好的现代报纸的特点对阅读提出的要求。至于文中提到了读者多半是有选择性地阅读报纸这一点,也是作者分析得出的实际结果,并不是给读者的建议。进一步分析,如果文章前面讨论的是所有报纸的特点,而不是好的现代报纸的特点,进而以建议的口气提出“读者应该有选择性地阅读报纸”,那么选项D似乎尚可考虑。选项B概括了整个文章的大意,反映了文章的主题和作者的写作意图,是作为文章题目的最佳选择。