电大网考英语阅读理解1

A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This was in 1868, before they

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A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind person. Dogs chosen for such training must show good…

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A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is…

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A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents..

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A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée（未婚妻）...

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After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new …

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Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's liberation movement in the United States. She was…

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Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like to invite friends to their homes for an evening of food,..

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An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for his journey back home.

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Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded…

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Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that

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trees do communicate with…

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Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world. An Arab traveller in India in the year 900 wrote that it was…

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China's former volleyball star Lang Ping has been invited to coach the US women's national team for the…

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Clowns(小丑)like to make people laugh. They paint their faces and put on funny noses. Sometimes they put on…

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Computers can injure you. Most other injuries happen suddenly. For example，if you fall off a bike and break…

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Computers are very important to modern life. Many people think that in the future computers will be used…

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Do you want to know something about the history of weather? Don't look at the sky. Don't look for old weather…

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Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed. China has banned free…

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Everyone knows what a needle is. Of course there are needles for sewing machines, needles for injection,…

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For several years，Americans have enjoyed teleshopping－watching TV and buying things by phone. Now …

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Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of priceless, individually tailored stories with

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Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground? They are always boasting. They say things…

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If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers…

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In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney. He had an unusual…

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In 1920, barely out of his teens, Alfred Hitchcock went to work for an American film company which had opened..

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In Sydney there is a special long-distance running race called the City to Surf. The race takes place on the …

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It was Monday. Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in

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the house. Mrs. Smith took a

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Jean-Michael Lourdis was a promising young pianist. But when the young man played, it seemed to him,

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Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest ...

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Large modern cities are too big to control. They impose their own living conditions on the people who live in ...

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Last Friday a storm tore through two villages in the New Territories destroying fourteen homes. Seven others …

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Let's watch the weather forecast on television. We may go to Scotland, we may go to Wales or London. We can…

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Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal…

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Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. One of them,…

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Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s…

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Many people now keep animals as pets. Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Other

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Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters．One Sunday，Mrs. White said to her husband，

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Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said: \"Were you ever in a hospital …

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Mr. White lived in a small village. His parents hadn't enough money to send him to school. He had to help…

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Mr. Young ran his own business and worked very hard. His wife was afraid that he would get sick if he…

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Nancy and Peter McCall like sports. In the summer they swim and in the winter they ski. They are planning…

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No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon（外科医生） and part of it taken out

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No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water

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ices and milk ices may have been…

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Now, you'll be coming back here to brush up your English, so you'll want to make as much conversation as ...

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Oil is so important that it is sometimes called \"black gold\". Almost half of our energy comes from oil…

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On February 14th many people in the world celebrate an unusual holiday, St. Valentine's Day, a special day for…

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One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had a student who finished…

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One way that scientists learn about man is by studying animals, such as mice and monkeys. The scientists in this…

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Our child's behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. Our reactions help to …

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People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's …

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Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snow has looked red, green,.

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Some British and American people like to invite friends and colleagues for a meal at home. You should not be…

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Taking away a city's rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up…

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The climate of any place is the kind of weather it usually has over a long period of time. The kind of homes we…

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The fourth Thursday in November is called Thanksgiving Day. In the United States, it is an annual occasion to…

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The Spring Festival together with the winter holidays often means sharing cakes, candies and other delicious food..

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The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single-engined ...

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There are many kinds of ants in the world that always live in companies. They are the most hard-working …

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There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had a

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job in a big company and was…

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There was once an ant that was very thirsty. It ran here and there looking for some water…

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There was once a man in South America who had a parrot(鹦鹉), a pet bird that could imitate(模拟) human ...

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These days, children often think of superheroes(超级英雄) as cute(帅气的), cool and strong supermen. A poor,…

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Today the official language of the United Sates and most of Canada is English. However, French almost became

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Two years ago, my husband bought me a bike. If you live in a town, it is often faster than a car and you don't …

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Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner didn't know what to do…

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When you want to go shopping，decide how much money you can spend for new clothes. Think about the kind…

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Younger people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about life, work and…

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