英語閱讀練習：Passage Three

　　在日常學習、工作生活中，我們都不可避免地要接觸到練習題，只有多做題，學習成績才能提上來。學習就是一個反復反復再反復的過程，多做題。一份什么樣的習題才能稱之為好習題呢？以下是小編為大家整理的英語閱讀練習：Passage Three，歡迎閱讀，希望大家能夠喜歡。

　　英語閱讀練習：Passage Three 篇1

　　As any homemaker who has tried to keep order at the dinner table knows, there is far more to a family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how much more.

　　Lewis and his co-workers carried out their study by videotaping the families while they ate ordinary meals in their own homes. They found that parents with small families talk actively with each other and their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents' efforts to control the loud noise they make. That can have an important effect on the children. “In general the more question-asking the parents do, the higher the children's IQ scores,” Lewis says. “And the more children there are, the less question-asking there is. ”

　　The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have a harder time in life than their siblings. Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest, who needs the most attention.

　　“Middle children are invisible,"says Lewis. “When you see someone get up from the table and walk around during dinner, chances are it’s the middle child. ” There is however, one thing that stops all conversation and prevents anyone from having attention. “When the TV is on,” Lewis says, “dinner is a non-event. ”

　　1. The writer's purpose in writing the text is to ______.

　　A. show the relationship between parents and children

　　B. teach parents ways to keep order at the dinner table

　　C. report on the findings of a study

　　D. give information about family problems

　　2. Parents with large families ask fewer questions at dinner because______.

　　A. they are busy serving food to their children

　　B. they are busy keeping order at the dinner table

　　C. they have to pay more attention to younger children

　　D. they are tired out having prepared food tor the whole family

　　3. By saying “Middle children are invisible” in paragraph 3, Lewis means that middle children_____.

　　A. have to help their parents lo serve dinner

　　B. get the least attention from the family

　　C. are often kept away from the dinner table

　　D. find it hard to keep up with other children

　　4. Lewis research provides an answer to the question_______.

　　A. why TV is important in family life

　　B. why parents should keep good order

　　C. why children in small families seem to be quieter

　　D. why middle children seem to have more difficulties in life

　　5. Which of the following statements would the writer agree to?

　　A. It is important to have the right food for children.

　　B. It is a good idea to have the TV on during dinner.

　　C. Parents should talk to each of their children frequently.

　　D. Elder children should help the younger ones at dinner.

　　英語閱讀練習：Passage Three 篇2

　　A new analysis of federal money that public schools receive for low-income students shows that a record number of the nation’s school districts will receive less in the coming academic year than they did for theone just ended.

　　For the 2005-2006 school year, spending under the Department of Education’s Title I program, which helps low-achieving children in high-poverty areas, is increasing by 3.2 percent, to $12.6 billion. But because of population shifts, growing numbers of poor children, newer census data and complex formulas that determine how the money is divided, more than two-thirds of the districts, or 8,843, will not receive as much financing as before.

　　The analysis, based on data from the department, was made by the Center on Education Policy, a group advocating for public schools. A similar study by the group last year showed that 55 percent of the schools would receive less money than they did in the previous year.

　　“It’s an alarming number,” said Tom Fagan, a former department official who conducted the analysis. “It’s clear that the amount of overall increase is not keeping pace with the number of poor kids.”

　　Susan Aspey, a department spokeswoman, defended the spending levels for Title I，saying, “President Bush and Congress have invested record amounts of funding to help the nation’s neediest students.”

　　But Mr. Fagan said the increasing number of districts that are losing money is making it harder for the schools to meet the goals of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the Bush administration’s signature education program, which measures progress through annual tests in math, reading and science. That is giving critics of the program more grounds to accuse the administration of not sufficiently financing the program while demanding greater results.

　　Title I provides the largest component of financing for No Child Left Behind.

　　“The federal government is concentrating more money in fewer districts," said John F. Jennings, the president and chief executive of the Center on Education Policy. “It means there is lots of anger and lots of tension. They’re asking us to do more and more with less and less.”

　　練習題：

　　Choose correct answers to the question:

　　1.As it is indicated in the passage, the new analysis _____.

　　A.studied the federal money spent on low-income students

　　B.aimed at promoting the establishment of more public schools

　　C.showed that about half the schools would receive less money

　　D.was conducted by the Department of Education’s Title I program

　　2.Which of the following factors does NOT lead to the result that more than two-thirds of thedistricts will get more poorly financed?

　　A.People often move from one place to another.

　　B.There are more children from poor families.

　　C.The way of distributing money has changed.

　　D.Spending under the Title I program decreased.

　　3.Susan Aspey looks at the funding by the government with _______.

　　A.criticism

　　B.consent

　　C.Indifference

　　D.expectation

　　4.According to Tom Fagan, ______.

　　A.the government has done its best to finance the poor children

　　B.the goals of No Child Left Behind Act are difficult to realize

　　C.the way of measuring progress by annual tests should be changed

　　D.the Bush government shouldn’t have approved the Title I program

　　5.When the government concentrates more money in fewer districts, _____.

　　A.more poor children will get benefited

　　B.more public schools will have to be closed

　　C.it will arouse more people’s dissatisfaction

　　D.No Child Left Behind Act will be realized sooner

　　1.[A] 事實細節題。本題考査對長句的理解。從第1段首句中的“…of…”這一結構可知這個最新分析是要研究聯邦政府資金問題的。所以排除B。由第3段第1句可知這項最新分析是由the Center on Education Policy 進行的，因此排除選項D。根據第3段最后一句，選項C中show的行為主體應為similar study。

　　2.[D] 事實細節題。本題考查因果關系。第2段第2句指出有三個原因造成超過2/3的地區得到的資金減少，選項A、B、C是對這三個原因的近義改寫，但其中選項C與原句的形式分別最大，容易造成誤選。

　　3.[B] 觀點態度題。本題考查文人物的觀點。蘇珊·阿斯貝的觀點態度只能從第5段推斷出，從這一段中的defended和record amount of funding可知她對教育部的撥款數是認同的。選項A和C都是貶義詞，不可 能表達她的'觀點;選項D雖是褒義詞,但蘇珊是在陳述已發生的事實，而不是發表對教育部的期望。

　　4.[B] 推理判斷題。本題考查對復合句的理解。由文中第6段第1句中的harder... to meet...可知選項B正確。選項C最具干擾性，要排除這個干擾，關鍵是要理解第6段第1句中由which引導的非限制性定語從句的作 用。這個從句是對前面“the Bush administration’s signature education program”的附加事實信息，不屬于湯姆·法甘的看法。

　　5.[C] 推理判斷題。根據第6段第1句可知選項A和D與事實不符。最后一段倒數第2句中的anger和tension兩詞，可推斷人們對此表示不滿。

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