中学英语阅读理解专练小卷（12）
If you want to understand China but can’t afford an expensive international flight, these four books can give you a complete overview of the country.
River Town
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler-This book is a journal of the author’s two years spent teaching English in a small town called Fuling, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River. Hessler writes about his experiences living in a foreign culture and observing the lives of the town’s residents. The book was published in 2001 and has won several awards, including the Kiriyama Prize.
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
It is a book that tells the story of China’s modernization. It was written by Ezra Vogel and published in 2011. The author describes how Deng Xiaoping’s policies led to significant changes in China’s economy and society. The book has received critical honors and won the
Lionel Gelber Prize In 2012.
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence
This book is a comprehensive history of China from the Ming dynasty to the present day. The author, a prominent scholar of Chinese history, provides a detailed analysis of the social, cultural, and political changes that have taken place in China over the past 500 years. The book was first put out in 1990 and has since been revised and updated several times. This book was the top bestseller for years.
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang, this book, published in 2008, is reportage on the lives of young women who leave their rural homes to work in factories in China’s cities. Chang, a former New York Times correspondent (someone who is employed by a newspaper or a television station etc. to report news from a particular area or on a particular subject), interviewed hundreds of factory girls to provide insight into the social and economic changes in China.
203．What kind of book is River Town?
A．Science fiction.    B．Nonfiction.
C．A travel guide of Fuling.    D．A reference book.
204．What is TRUE about The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence?
A．It was published 500 years ago.    B．It was written by a history teacher.
C．It was very popular.    D．It has remained the same since its first publication.less is more英文理解
205．Which book is written by a reporter?
A．River Town.
B．Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.
C．The Search for Modern China.
D．Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China.
Around the Sahara Desert, daytime temperatures can reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Centigrade). Not many organisms can survive in this severe environment. But an insect called the Saharan silver ant thrives. They quickly run onto the sand from their protected nests to gather up the bodies of less fortunate insects that have died from the heat.
“The hotter the day, the more insect bodies they will find and the more food they have.”says Sarah Pfeffer, an animal behaviorist at Ulm University in Germany. She says that to avoid sinking into the Saharan sand, where they could meet the same fate as their lunch, silver ants have to be fast.
To document just how quickly the ants move, Pfeffer and her colleagues set up high-speed cameras above a channel between the entrance to the hungry ants' nest and a food source. The researchers recorded top speeds approaching 35 inches per second.
“But if you really know how big the animals are, and you calculate the body length per second, you come up with a walking speed that is an astonishing 108 body lengths per sec
ond.” That figure makes them the fastest known ant on the planet.
The videos revealed how the ants achieve such great speeds. As they accelerate. their leg movements become synchronized (同步的). They increase their step length by bringing all six feet off the sand at once. “Really, all legs are lifted from the ground. They are in air, but it's not jumping. It's a very smooth run that they have” says Pfeffer.
Pfeffer says they're faster than a closely related ant species called Cataglyphis fortis, which has longer legs but a less impressive airborne phase (腾空阶段). That ant only reaches about 24 inches per second, or two thirds of the silver ant's maximum.
The Saharan silver ants' rapid speeds may be impressive, but two insects are even Laster: the California coastal mite and the Australian tiger beetle, both of which also thrive at life-threatening temperatures. Seems that to beat the heat, it pays to be fleet.
206．The underlined word "thrives" in the first paragraph probably means “________”.
A．becomes extinct    B．moves away    C．gets weaker    D．lives successfully
207．What can we learn about Saharan silver ants from the passage?
A．They sometimes die from the heat.
B．They are the fastest known animals on the planet.

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