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reading
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In the previous two units,
you were given practice in reading for the main idea.
Generally, in a one-paragraph selection
you read all the sentences to find the main idea, while
in a longer passage you put together the main ideas of the
various paragraphs to determine the overall main idea.
To understand the main idea thoroughly, however, you
must recognize the important facts or details which
help deve1op or support it. These facts and details give
you a deeper understanding of the main idea. They may prove
a point, show a relationship between ideas, or serve as
examples to help you understand the main idea more fully.
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Skill: Basic Reading Skill
I How to Read a Text (Part II )
- Reading in Thought Groups
Here are some ways to help you recognize important facts
or details:
1. Read for the main idea. If you have identified
(认出) the main
idea. You can more easily
recognize the important facts that support it.
2. Keep it in mind that not all facts or details
are equally important. Look only for the facts
related to the main idea.
3. To check on your understanding of the material
you have read, review the facts or details
which you have decided are the most important. Then consider
if they support what you
have identified as the main idea. If adding up the facts or
details does not lead 1ogically
to the main idea, you have failed either to identify the main
idea or to recognize the
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Exercise
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Key
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1.
It was Galileo’s wise use of the telescope
that helped him
understand that the sun is the center
of the planets.
2.
c, d, e
3.
By means of his telescope.
4.
Twelve.
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Read the following
paragraph and answer the questions after it.
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It was the use of the
telescope (望远镜) of course, that opened the modern age of astronomy
(天文学) and made
possible the growth (发展) of all
our current theories (理论). Jonhannes
Kepler and Tycho Brahe tried to answer some questions
about the so1ar system (太阳系), but
it was Galileo who made the first use of the telescope
to observe the heavens close up. Born in l564,
Galileo added greatly to our knowledge of the stars before
he died in 1642. By means of his telescope he discovered
moons in orbit (轨道) around Jupiter (木星 ). Although
he saw on1y four, scientists after him discovered eight
more moons. Galileo a1so discovered that the planet (行星)
Venus(金星 ) did no
always appear the same size, It was
his wise use of the telescope that helped him understand
this important fact: that the sun, and not the earth,
is the center of the planets. |
1. What is the main idea
of this paragraph?
2. In this paragraph we may find the following facts or
details, of which some are important
and some are not very
important. Please circle those you think important.
A) Kepler and Brahe answered
questions about the solar system.
B) Galileo
was born in l564 and died in 1642.
C) He
discovered moons around Jupiter.
D) Galileo
observed the planet Venus.
E) He
came to understand that the earth is not the center of
the stars' system.
3. How did Galileo learn about the star?
4. How many moons does Jupiter have?
5. Galileo's major contribution to our
knowledge of the planes was
A) his invention (发明) of the
telescope.
B) his
study of Brahe and Kepler.
C) his
observation about Jupiter and Venus.
D) his
understanding that planets go round the sun.
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Exercise
B
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Key
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1. c 2. b-d-c-a
3. c
4. d
5. a
6. c 7. d
8. b
9. d 10.
b 11.
d
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The following
is a short story written about a black woman and a black
boy. Read it and answer the questions that follow.
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words to know
purse n. 钱包
strap n.
带子
balance n.
平衡
unexpected a.
意外的
loose a.
松的； 不加约束的
bother vt.
打扰；麻烦
furnish vt.
装备， 布置
rear vt.
后部
dash vi.
猛冲，飞奔
frown vi.
皱眉
screen n.
屏幕；屏风；帘
gas n.
煤气； 气体
refrigerator n. 电冰箱 |
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Thank You, M’am
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Chinese
translation |
She
was a large woman, walking alone, carrying a large purse
about eleven o’clock at night. A boy ran up behind her
and tried to take her purse. The strap broke, and the
boy lost his balance under the unexpected weight. He fell
on his back. (1) The woman turned around and kicked
him, reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt, and
shook him until his teeth rattled (发出格格声).
Then she said, “Pick up my pocketbook, boy and give it
here.”
She still held him tightly. But she
bent down far enough so that he could pick up her purse.
Then she said, “ Now aren’t you ashamed of yourself?”
"Yes, m'am," the boy said
weakly. -
"If I turn you loose, will you run?" asked
the woman.
“ Yes, m'am."
"Then I won’t. Your face is dirty. Don't you have
anyone at home to tell you to wash your face?" She
asked.
"No, m'am. ''
"It wi1l get washed tonight,” she said, starting
up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her.
The woman said, "You ought to be my son. I'd teach
you right from wrong. Right now I will at 1east see that
you wash your face. Hungry?"
"No, m'am. Just turn me loose.”
"Was I bothering you when I turned
that corner?" asked the woman.
“NO, m'am..”
"But you put yourself in contact
with me. That contact is not going to end fast. Sir, you'll
remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”
The boy’s face became sweaty, and he
began to struggle. Mrs, Jones stopped, Jerked (猛拉) him around
in front of her, put a half-nelson(扼颈) about his neck and continued to drag him up street. At her door
she dragged the boy inside, down a hall and into a large
kitchenette-furnished room at the rear of the house. She
turned on the 1ight and left the door open..
She said, "What's your name?"
" Roger”.
"Then, Roger, you go to that sink
( 洗涤槽) and wash your face," sad the woman as she turned him for at
last. Roger looked at the door -- at the woman - at the
door -- and went to the sink.
"Are you going to take me to jail?"
asked the boy, bending over the sink.
“Not with that face. I wouldn't take
you anywhere,” said the woman. "Here I am trying
to get home to eat, and you try to take my pocketbook.”
Maybe you haven't had your supper either. Have you?"
"There's nobody home at my house,”
said the boy.
"Then we'll eat,” said the woman.
(2 ) “I believe you’re hungry --- or you’ve been hungry
--- to try to steal my pocketbook.”
"I want a pair of blue suede (sweid/
绒皮面) shoes,” said the boy.
"Wel1, you didn't have to steal,"
said Mrs. Jones "You could have asked me.”
"M'am?" The boy looked at
her. There was a long silence. The door was open. He would
dash down the hall.
The woman was sitting on the bed. After
a while she said," I was young once and I wanted
things I couldn't get." There was another long pause.
The boy's mouth opened and he frowned. (3 ) “You thought
I was going to say, but I didn’t steal people’s pocketbooks.
WeIl, I wasn't going to say that.” Pause. Silence. “ I've
done things too, which I wou1d not tell you, son. Everybody's
got something in common. Sit down while I fix us something
to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so you
look nice.
In another corner of the room behind
a screen was a gas ring and refrigerator. Mrs. Jones got
up and went behind the screen. She didn’t watch the boy,
nor did she watch her purse, which she had left behind
her on the bed. (4 ) But the boy took care to sit where
she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye
if she wanted to.
Later, when they had finished eating,
she said, "Take this ten dollars and buy yourself
some blue suede shoes. I need to rest now, but from now
on I hope you behave yourself.”
She led the way to the front door and
opened it. “Good night. Behave yourse1f, boy,” she said.
(5 ) The boy wanted to say something
other than “Thank you, m’am” but he couldn’t even say
that, although his lips moved as he looked up at the large
woman in the doorway. Then she shut the door.
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Langston Hughes
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1.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
a. This
story took p1ace late at night.
b. A hay
tried to steal a large purse from a big strong woman.
c. The
big woman knocked the boy down and kicked him.
d. The
woman told the boy to pick up the purse for her.
2. Rearrange the following sentences
according to the Sequence (顺序) of action in the story.
a. Roger
washed his face.
b. Mrs.
Jones dragged Roger up the street.
c. Mrs.
Jones asked Roger his name.
d. Mrs.
Jones took Roger to her room.
3. Mrs. Jones refused to let go of the boy because
a. she
wanted to get his face washed.
b. she
wanted to punish him for trying to take her purse.
c. she
wanted to get him to mend his ways (悔过自新)
d. she
intended to take him to jail, though she changed her mind
later.
4. When the boy asked Mrs. Johns if she
would send him to jail,
a. she
told him plainly that she would not.
b. she
said she would , unless he got his face washed.
c. she
said she would, but not until he got his face washed.
d. she
said she would not, but he had to get his face washed.
5. Roger tried to steal Mrs. Jones’ purse
because
a. he wanted
to buy some shoes.
b. he
was an experienced criminal.
c. his
parents needed some money badly.
d. he wanted
to buy some food.
6. Mrs. Jones told the boy that when
she was young
a. she
had never stolen anything.
b. she
had been in jail.
c. she
had done something bad.
d. she
had things common to all.
7. Mrs. Jones left her purse on the bed
when she went to cook, because
a. she
simply forgot all about it.
b. she
was trying to punish Roger.
c. she
was trying to trap (使中圈套) Roger.
d. she wanted
Roger to know she trusted him.
8. Roger chose to sit where she cou1d
easily see him
a.
because he was afraid to make her angry.
b. because
he did not want to be mistrusted
c. so that
she could concentrate on her cooking.
d. for
no reason at all.
9. When they finished eating,
a. Mr.
Jones gave the boy some money to buy shoes.
b. Mr.
Jones told the boy not to steal again.
c. Mrs.
Jones 1ed the boy to the front door and said good-bye
to him.
d. All
of the above
10. Roger
a. wanted
to say anything but "Thanks" to Mr. Jones.
b. wanted
to say more than "Thanks" to Mrs. Jones.
c. just
left after saying "Thank you, m'am.”
d. moved
his lips and murmured his "Thanks" to Mrs. Jones.
11. Mrs. Jones was.
a. rough and unkind.
b. seemingly rough and unkind.
c. a woman with a heart
of gold.
d. both b and c.
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