1高二英语周末练习高二英语周末练习第二部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题;每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）阅读下列短文 ，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项 。AWith the support of our readers, China Today has become successful in helping the world learn about China, and has built a bridge of friendship between the people of China and the rest of the world.Every day we receive many letters from our readers expressing their admiration for China and their suggestions for improving the quality of the magazine. Some letters are published in “Post-bag” while others are kept for reference.Many readers have suggested contests（竞赛）to develop closer contact between readers and editors. We held a History and Tourism Contest in 2013 and a China Trivia Contest in 2014. We received warm responses to both.This year, China Today is holding a Reading Contest. Questions, chosen from articles published this year, will appear every three issues. Entrants (竞赛者) must mail their answers before January 31, 2016. Fifty entrants with correct answers to all the questions will be named in the April 2016 issue.21We can know from the passage that China Today is _ .Aa magazine Ba newspaperCa TV guide Da teaching reference22How many contests has China Today held in the past few years?AOnly 1. BAt least 2. CMore than 3. DIts not clear23How did the editors deal with the letters from the readers?A. They put some letters in a big post-bag for referenceB. They looked up some information in the letters and then published in post-bag.C. They published some letters in the column (栏目)Post-bag and kept the rest for reference.D. They did nothing but keep all the letters for reference.24We can infer from the passage that _. .2Aall the people who answer three of the questions correctly will win prizesBpeople who answer all the questions correctly will surely win prizesCThe answers mailed after January 31 will be invalid.Dpeople who mail their answers before January 31 will see their own names in an issueB Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers?Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings-battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed-took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather repots, radio, television and film guides, book reviews. There are sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.Newspapers often have information on gardening, cookery and fashion, as well as a small but very popular section on jokes and cartoons.25. The habit of reading newspapers is_. A. widespread B. found among a few familiesC. not popular D. uncommon26. In the past, news was_.A. sent by telegraphB. sent by letterC. sent by telephoneD. passed from one person to another27. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Five hundred years ago news didnt take a long time to reach other countries.B. Large companies put big advertisements in the newspapers because they want to draw peoples attention to their products.3C. The news that we need in our newspapers is up-to-date.D. Though the newspapers are sold at a low price, people still gain profit.28. What does the underlined phrase “subscribe to“ mean in the first paragraph? A. contribute to B. write toC. agree to buy for a specified time D. appreciateCIf you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.The effect of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input alone, the researchers found. “Adults speaking to children help language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction， ” said Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers also found that TV viewing didnt have much of an effect positively or negatively as long as it wasnt displacing conversations bet