高中英语学业水平考试阅读理解解题指导
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阅读理解一：
Little Tom down the street calls our dog "The keep dog". Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say" Sheep"，it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always bringing things home for us to keep！I'll tell you about some of them.
Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk.
We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a moment Mary，my big sister，told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded（点头）and held my nose. "What do you think it is？"
"It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot （污点）off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry."
"Along came Zip. And good-bye shoe！" I said. "We should take it back."
"We can't ".said my sister.
"Maybe little Tom is right，" Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog！"
1.The writer and Mary didn't know______.
A. what Zip's first present was
B. how Zip carried its first present home
C. who owned Zip's first present
D. what Zip's first present was made of
2.Tom calls Zip "the keep dog" because ______.
A. the dog likes keeping things
B. the dog likes playing with shoes
C. he doesn't know the dog's name
D. he can't pronounce the word " sheep" well
3.What made the shoe strange was ______.
A. its colour
B. its smell
C. its size
D. that it was a silk one
4.The word "keep" in the last sentence means "_____"
A. keeping things for itself
B. bringing things for other to keep
C. not letting it run about
D. taking care of a small child
5.We can know from the reading that the dog _____.
A. likes to give presents to people
B. has been kept in at the writer's home
C. has brought some trouble
D. likes to be called "the keep dog"
阅读理解二：
During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape（逃离）. When I traveled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”
So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn't I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn't move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn't move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.
That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.
My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make.
I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.
I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats' milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn (玉米) fields. And so many years went by.
1. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.
A. escape in it
B. get to the other side of the island
C. use it for food
D. go around the island
2. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.
A. keeping goats for milk
B. making clothes from animal skins
C. working in the cornfields
D. going fishing in the sea
3. Why didn't the writer use his first canoe?
A. Because it was too small for a long journey.
B. Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.
C. Because there was something wrong with it.
D. Because the writer was busy building a second house.
4. From the story, we can learn that _____________.
A. the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island
B. the writer had nothing to do on the wild island
C. the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed
D. the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom
5.What is the best word to describe the writer?
A. excited
B. brave
C. adventurous
D. hard-working
阅读理解三：
In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience (经历) four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will be summer at this time of a day.
In England, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter they can swim sometimes, and in summer sometimes they should take warm clothes.
When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella (伞)or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them.
If you don't take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret (后悔) later in the day.
1.Why do people in England often talk about the weather?
A．Because they may have four seasons in one day
B．Because they often have very good weather
C．Because the weather is warm just like in spring
D．Because the sky is sunny all day
2.From the story we know that when _________come,there is a heavy rain.
A．sunshine and snow B．black clouds
C．summer and winter D．spring and autumn
3."People can also have summer in winter."Means "it is sometimes too
______in winter."
A．warm B．cool C．cold D．rainy
4.In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because ________.
A．their friends ask them to do so B．it often rains in England
C．they are going to sell them D．they are their favourite things
5.The best title for this passage is ________.
A．Bad Seasons B．Summer or Winter
C．The Weather in England D．Strange English People
阅读理解四
A jobless man wanted very much to have the position of “office boy”at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test,”he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the form to fill in and the date when you may start.”The man replied, “But I don’t have a computer,