Have you ever noticed this phenomenon? Sometimes Chinese English teachers are puzzled by such questions, "Could you please give me some advice how to improve my reading comprehension?"
Actually, many of the teachers can't give their students effective way to deal with reading. Anyway, they often simply say, "Read and practise more, and you will get more experience in reading comprehension. " Frankly, these teachers' good suggestions are only helpful to arouse (激起) students' interest in reading not helpful to deal with the questions in the examinations of reading comprehension. Personally, think the skill for reading comprehension should be based on the knowledge of English writing. the English passages are written under some rules or principles, the science of reading and understanding may have a close relationship with writing. Reading comprehension can't be independent the knowledge of
writing. So to do better in reading comprehension ever, we should learn the knowledge of writing, study how questions are designed and the relationship between questions and the reading materials.
I lost my sight when I was four years old when falling off a train to Atlantic City. But I was . My parents and my teachers saw something in me -a potential to live, you might call it -which I didn't see, and they encouraged me to blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have walked with a stick for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not _ talking about the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that. Although imperfect in some aspect, I am a real, positive person. There is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and this self-confidence. It had to start with the most basic things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was .
"I can't use this," I responded.
"Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around. "
The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! " By rolling the ball I could where it went. This gave me an how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to them one by one. I also knew my limitations. It was no good trying something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made .
1.A. unfortunate B. disappointed C. lucky D. ashamed
2.A. share with B. play with C. toy with D. fight with
3.A. meet B. learn C. avoid D. prepare
4.A. simply B. slightly C. frequently D. directly
5.A. unusual B. unfair C.unfamiliar D. uncomfortable
6.A. lengthen B. strengthen C. deepen D. widen
7.A. hurt B. amused C. greeted D. praised
8.A. find B. see C. smell D. hear
9.A. event B. offer C. idea D. excuse
10.A. receive B. achieve C. classify D. follow
11.A. refused B. removed C. caused D. replaced
12.A. sense B. mistakes C. friends D. progress
-Where can we get Mo Yan's new novel?
-I'm sorry, it and will come out next week.
A. has been printed B. will be printed
C. is being printed D. is printed
The world today different without the amazing discoveries produced by great scientists.
A. were B. had been
C. would have been D. would be
The captain as well as his team interviewed shortly after they won the gold medal.
A. are B. was C. is D. were
The boy, with his school work every day, felt rather tired and uncomfortable.
A. occupied B. occupying
C. to occupy D. being occupied