高一英语阅读理解强化训练Day20
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高一英语阅读理解强化训练Day 20
Passage 1
supramaxGood manners play an important part in keeping peace and goodwill（友好）in a community. A man with good manners doesn’t hurt other’s feelings, and therefore he’s on good terms with everyone. In this way he helped to keep peace in society.
But a man with bad manners has no respect for others He us words carelessly and behaves rudely towards others and caus a lot of unpleasantness. In the end, he himlf will suffer most. Everyone will avoid him and he will be forced to live a lonely life.
To live well in society, money alone is not enough. We should also have good manners, for it’s human nature to ek friendship；and friendship cannot be bought with money. Friendship has to be earned through our own attitude towards others. If we are kind to others, they will be kind to us, and kindness is esntial to good manners. Bad manners dri
ve away friends as well as our own family members.
A man with good manners has many friends. He commands the respect of all tho who come into contact with him. He doesn’t talk ill about others. Even when he’s provoked, he tries his best not to offend others. He has sympathy for the weak and the disabled.
There are, however, many people who behave so well outside their homes that they are respected and admired by everyone. But in their own homes they are wor than the devil. Such people cannot be said to have good manners. It doesn’t take long for others to discover this.
If one’s manners are good, one behaves well everywhere, even when one is away from the critical eyes of others. It is therefore esntial to have good manners.
1. The greatest benefit that people with good manners bring to society is ________ .
A. peace
B. joy
C. respect
neutralD. friendship
2. The underlined word“provoked“ in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by“________ ”.
A. got tired
B. proved friendly
C. made angry
D. left alone
3. We can infer from the text that for people only behaving well outside their homes, ________ .
数字翻译成英文A. they will still be respected by people outside.
B. it is difficult to say whether they have good manners or not.
C. they can keep friends but will drive away family members.
D. they only pretend to be friendly
Passage 2
In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, hors, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, "No, thanks. I've got a good hor under me."inception
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The city planner decided to build an underground drainage(排水) system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or rai the city. An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced me the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raid the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.
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This of cour created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into baments, and the cond stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?
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That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some hou-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews(螺旋千斤顶) beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each ction of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman's signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising thestudent的音标
building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening. Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago's early history, every
engineering solution emed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.
