课时跟踪练（一）Section Ⅰ Warming up & Reading — Pre-reading
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
Eton College is a British independent school for boys aged between 13 and 18. All the pupils board (寄宿). Founded in 1440 by King Henry Ⅵ， the school is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.
The school has a very long list of famous former pupils, including 20 former prime ministers. Eton has been referred to as “the chief nurse of England's statesmen (政治家)”， and has been described as the most famous public school in the world.
Most of Eton's 1,300 students enter the school at age 13. All candidates (参加考试的人) go through a pre-assessment (预评估) at age
11. The assessment includes an interview, a reasoning test and a report from the boy's school he is in. Those offered conditional places must then pass the qualifying examination at age 13, or do well in the more challenging King's Scholarship examination.
The school is usually able to offer conditional places to about one third of the candidates at age 11. Others are placed on a waiting list to substitute anyone who may give up later. A small number of boys who have not got conditional places may enter at age 13 by winning a King's Scholarship or Music Scholarship — both scholarships are highly competitive.
The school's major aim is to encourage each Etonian to be a self-confident, inquiring, positive young man, a well-rounded character with an independent mind, and someone who respects the differences of others. By the time he leaves school, the school wants each boy to have a purpose greater than himself, and in doing so to be of value to society.
语篇解读：本文向我们介绍了排名全球第一的英国最著名的中学——伊顿公学。 1．Paragraph 2 is meant to show Eton College's ________. A．differences C．background
B．achievements D．teaching methods
解析：选B 段落大意题。由第二段的内容可知，本段主要描述了伊顿公学在培养学生方面所取得的成就。
2．What should one do in order to enter Eton at age 13? A．Take a reasoning test. B．Go through a pre-assessment. C．Provide a report from his school. D．Take a qualifying examination.
解析：选D 细节理解题。由第三段中的“Those offered conditional places must then pass the qualifying examination at age 13”可知，应选D。
3．What does the underlined word “substitute” in Paragraph 4 mean? A．Remove. C．Replace.
B．Compare. D．Educate.
解析：选C 词义猜测题。由画线词前面的“Others are placed on a waiting list”以及画线词后面的“anyone who may give up later”可知，是用来“取代”那些人的。
4．What does Eton expect its students to be? A．Useful to society. C．Good at earning money.
B．Proud of themselves. D．Humorous and positive.
解析：选A 细节理解题。由最后一段中的“... in doing so to be of value to society”可知，学校希望学生将来对社会有用。
B
Londoners are great readers. They buy large numbers of newspapers, magazines and books — especially paperbacks (平装书), which are still cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which is said to be “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens' time. Some of these shops stock, or will make efforts to get, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on economics, politics or any other subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet.
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For really cheap second-hand books, collectors must venture_off_the_beaten_track,_to Farringdon Road, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and put lots of books onto small hand-carts (手推车) which line the streets. The collectors, some professionals and some amateurs (业余爱好者), who have been waiting for them, run quickly towards the books. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old book that may be worth many pounds.
语篇解读：伦敦人酷爱读书。本文介绍了在伦敦能买书的一些地方。
5．“Londoners are great readers” means that ________.
A．Londoners are great because they read a lot
B．there are a great number of readers in London C．Londoners are readers who read only great books D．Londoners read a lot
解析：选D 句意猜测题。根据文章大意及第一段中的“They buy large numbers of newspapers, magazines and books”可以推断出伦敦人喜欢阅读。故D项正确。
6．According to this passage, Charing Cross Road ________. A．is in the suburbs of London B．is famous for its bookshops C．contains various kinds of shops D．is the busiest street in London
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第二段中的一、二句“There are many streets in ... in the very heart of London.”可知B项正确。
7．In this passage, what does the underlined part “venture off the beaten track” mean? A．Buy books in a most busy street. B．Move away from a busy street. C．Waste time looking for books. D．Take a risk of losing one's life.
解析：选B 词义猜测题。由下文语境可知，在伦敦东部沿街有很多书商把书放在手推车上卖，在那儿花几便士就能买到价值很多英镑的书。也就是说要想买便宜的二手书，需要从繁忙的街道到僻静的地方，故B项正确。
8．The best topic for this passage is “________”． A．bookshops in London
B．the biggest bookshop in the world C．Charing Cross Road D．buying books in London
解析：选A 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章主要讲述的是伦敦的书店，从出名的书店到街边小推车，故A项正确。
C
The Swiss army knife is a popular device that is recognized all over the world. In Switzerland, there is a saying that every good Swiss citizen has one in his or her pocket. But the knife had poor beginnings.
In the late nineteenth century, the Swiss army issued (发给) its soldiers a gun that required a special screwdriver (螺丝刀) to take it
apart and clean it. At the same time, canned food was becoming common in the army. Swiss generals decided to issue each soldier a standard knife to serve both as a screwdriver and a can opener.
It was a lifesaver for Swiss knife makers, who were struggling to compete with cheaper German imports. In 1884, Carl Elsener, head of the Swiss knife manufacturer (maker) Victorinox, seized that opportunity with both hands, and designed a soldier's knife that the army loved. It was a simple knife with one big blade (刀片), a can opener, and a screwdriver.
A few years after the soldier's knife was issued, the “Schweizer Offizier Messer”， or Swiss Officer's Knife, came on the market. Interestingly, the Officer's Knife was never given to those serving in the army. The Swiss army purchasers considered the new model with a corkscrew (瓶塞钻) for opening wine not “essential for survival”， so officers had to buy this new model by themselves. But its special multi-functional design later launched (发行) the knife as a global brand. After the Second World War, a great number of American soldiers were stationed in Europe. And as they could buy the Swiss army knife at shops on army bases, they bought huge quantities of them.However, it seems that “Schweizer Offizier Messer” was too difficult for them to say, so they just called it the Swiss army knife, and that is the name which is now known by all over the world.
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章向我们介绍了瑞士军刀的起源。 9．What is the main purpose of the passage? A．To explain the origin of the Swiss army knife. B．To introduce the functions of the Swiss army knife. C．To emphasize the importance of the Swiss army knife. D．To tell a story about the designer of the Swiss army knife.
解析：选A 推理判断题。本文主要是围绕瑞士军刀的起源展开的，由此可推断作者写作的目的是向我们介绍瑞士军刀的起源。
10．What does “It” in the third paragraph refer to? A．The Swiss army needed a knife for every soldier. B．Every good Swiss citizen had a knife in his pocket. C．Swiss knives were competing with imported knives. D．Canned food was becoming popular in the Swiss army.
解析：选A 代词指代题。根据第二段最后一句“Swiss generals decided to issue each soldier a standard knife to ...”可知，it指代的是“瑞士军队的战士需要刀”这件事。故选A项。
11．Why didn't the Swiss army purchase the Swiss Officer's Knife? A．The design of the knife was too simple.
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