高三第一学期英语阅读理解4篇酒英语
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When I was a boy, my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to. Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city. And so he did.
When I was 16, Dad looked cloly at the violin I played and announced that he wanted to make one. He read about violinmaking, and then became a violinmaker at the age of 43. He bought the tools and materials, opened a small store and t Mom up as the shopkeeper, while he worked at a local company. He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.花痕
Dad often guesd why the Stradivarius violins sound so beautiful. Some experts claimed that it was the unique varnish(清漆) that gave tho instruments their beautiful sound. Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish---if that were the answer.
One of Dad’s friends asked him once which kind of wood was ud to make violins. When
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Dad explained that the top was made of spruce（云杉）, his friend said that he had an old piece of spruce Dad might be interested in.
He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be a superior violin and it would become Dad’s masterpiece. He was convinced that the cret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itlf.
Later, the instrument was stolen. Dad’s spirit was broken by the robbery, and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old, lling guitars and violins.
My father has been gone for 14 years now. The violin has been missing for more than 25 years. Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone. The owner today may never understand why this ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius.
1. The author mentions his father’s developing color prints .
A. to show that his father’s real interest was not in making violinshappy new year什么意思
B. to prove that his father could do anything he wanted to
C. to give an example proving that his father was an inventor
D. to describe the real thing that made the author believe his father
2. What did the author’ father think about Stradivarius violins?
A. The varnish was different from others.
B. The way of making them was special.
C. The wood of the violins was special.
D. They could only be analyzed by chemists.
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A. liked the violin very much B. got crazy after this happened
C. lost interest in instruments D. didn’t want to become famous
4. We can infer from the last paragraph that the author tcf.
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koeyA. really hates the thief B. miss his father a lot
C. really wants to play the violin D. wonders who’s playing the violin now
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There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health and wealth and other comforts of life, one becomes happy and the other becomes unhappy. This aris from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and the resulting effects upon their minds.
People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things: the pleasant parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine and the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Tho who are to be unhappy think and spea
k only of the opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the pleasure of society, offend many people, and make themlves disagreeable everywhere. If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The intention of criticizing and being disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation. It grows into a habit, unknown to its posssors. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when tho who have it realize its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warning may be of rvice to them, and help them change this habit.
Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has rious results in life since it brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Tho people offend many others; nobody loves them, and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently puts them in bad temper and draws them into arguments. If they aim at getting some advantages in social position or fortune, nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak a word to favor their hopes. If they bring on themlves public objections, no one will defend or excu them, and many will join to criticize their w
rong doings. The should change this bad habit and be plead with what is pleasing, without worrying needlessly about themlves and others. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them. Otherwi, it can be disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient, especially when one becomes mixed up in their quarrels. 一个小tips是啥意思
