第二部分  阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)

第一节  阅读短文(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将

该项涂黑。

A

Read with Greater Speed

Do you have difficulty reading in class? If so, a special reading programme that helps match(匹配)sounds with letters could speed up your brain.

At least one out of every five elementary school students in the U.S. has trouble learning to read, even when the students are good at other subjects. The biggest challenge for many of these kids, scientists say, is matching sounds with letters.

Researchers from Yale University(耶鲁大学), U. S.， studied a group of children from New York and Connecticut State. As part of the study, 37 struggling readers received special tutoring.

Every day, instructors worked with them on recognizing how written letters represent units of sound called phonemes(音素). The students also practiced reading aloud and spelling.

By the end of the school year, these children could read faster than before. They also made fewer mistakes, and understood more of what they read than they could earlier in the year.

As part of their study, the researchers used a special machine to take action photos of the students' brains.

The pictures showed an increase in activity in the back of the brain on the left side. This is the same part of the brain that becomes active when good readers read. This activated brain area appears to include a structure(结构)that helps people recognize familiar written words quickly. In lower level readers, this structure remains inactive.

A year later, the brain structure was still working in the students who had gone through the special tutoring,_and they continued to do well in reading tests. Another group in the study who went through a more traditional reading programme didn't show the same progress. However, some researchers still doubt the study. They believe that reading without making any noise or linking words to sounds is more efficient.

31.The reading programme talked about in this passage is designed specially to help________.

A.young pupils who are backward in general subjects

B.elementary students who can't match sounds with letters

C.elementary students whose brain structure is inactive

D.small pupils who have difficulty in reading

32.The programme talked about in the passage seems to________.

A.improve students' ability in studying      B.improve students' ability in reading aloud

C.activate the brain area on the left side     D.activate the brain area on the right side

33.The researchers who doubt the programme believe that students should________.

A.reading aloud                        B.read silently

C.match sounds with letters               D.improve their reading ability naturally

34.The underlined word“tutoring”in the last passage has a similar meaning to________.

A.training     B.effect          C.struggle     D.purpose

B

You know you have to“read between lines.”I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to“write between the lines.”Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient(效率高的)kind of reading.

I insist that making_up_a_book is not an act of damage but of love.

There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you have by buying it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of buying is only the first step to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. A comparison may make the point clear. You buy a piece of beef from the butcher's icebox. But you do not own the beef in the most important sense until you eat it and get it into your blood. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood to do you any good.

There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and bestsellers unread, untouched. The second has a great many books—a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. The third has a few books every one of them worn, shaken and loose­ended by continual use, marked from front to back.

Why is making up a book necessary to read it?

First, it keeps you wide awake. In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked books is usually the thought through the book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.

35.The third kind of book owners must be________.

A.experienced readers   B.untidy readers

C.efficient readers    D.careless readers

36.The underlined phrase“making up a book”probably means________.

A.writing down difficult sentences

B.finding the extra meanings of unknown words

C.writing in the space the ideas you get through reading

D.making notes to show you understand what you have read

37.How does the author persuade you to own a book?

A.To make it a part of yourself by writing in it.

B.To write down words and sentences that bring up rich ideas.

C.To mark puzzling questions that challenge you.

D.To note whatever disagreements you may have with the book.

38.One of the advantages of making up a book is to________.

A.absorb all the brilliant ideas it contains

B.keep either your thoughts or the writer's in mind

C.make yourself awake so that you can get more pleasure

D.enable yourself to pick up the book for continual reading