1、高一英語閱讀理解訓練二十ABeltana Station Stay with a differenceBeltana Station is a fully working sheep and cattle （牛 ） station, and a great place for a holiday with a real difference in Australia. Here the animals are not just to be looked at. They are part of everyday working life at the historic Beltana Stat

2、ion.What to doSee how a station really works. Join in the daily working life with station workers.Shearing （剪 羊 毛 ） and camp-outs are part of Beltana Station's activities.Farm animals to see: sheep and cattle. For the kids, depending on the season,there will be animals to feed lambs and calves 小

3、羊和小牛（）.The station is a joy for painters and photographers. There is a family games room.Three roads for 4-wheel-drive cars through the station take in such views as Lake Torrens, Mount Deception, relics （遺跡 ） in Old Beltana town and much more.Where to live? the historic 1860s shearers' rooms? t

4、wo-room small houses （1860s）? one small historic country houseBeltana Station is not a resort （度假勝地） hotel. Unlike other places, you can experience reallife with real people in Beltana.1. What would be a proper activity for children at Beltana Station?A. Camp-outs with station workers. B. Sheep shea

5、ring. C. Driving cattle. D. Feeding lambs.2. What may people learn when visiting Beltana Station?A. Skills needed for long walks in mountains. B. Knowledge of Australian history.C. What to do in team sports.D. How to keep pets.3. What is special about Beltana Station?A. It is a large wild park.B. It

6、 offers real-life work experience.C. It has seasonal family activities.D. It is a good place for weekend picnics.BTaylor Pollard rememberswhen her younger sister, Kheris Rogers, was in first grade, she once asked to stay in the bathroom longer she hoped it would make her skin lighter. Kids were maki

7、ng fun of Rogers' dark complexion. So Erika Pollard, the girls' mom, moved Rogers to another school. Kids still made fun of her, but this time the kids bullying （霸凌） her were black.Taylor Pollard wanted to help her sister feel good about herself. In 2017, she took a picture ofKheris. She pos

8、ted it online. She wrote Kheris was “ flexingin her complexion ” T.hat is an expression their grandmother used often to encourage the girls to feel beautiful. Complexion means skin color. Flexing is a term for “ showing off or ”“ showingpride ”.Then the sisters received many messages supporting Roge

9、rs and decided they wanted to direct that energy （能量）. Together, they came up with the idea of putting the messageon a T-shirt. Theirbusiness, Flexin' In My Complexion, started shortly after that in April 2017. Erika gave the sisters about $100. Then their project got off the ground. They used s

10、ome of the money to build a website. They also learned how to screen print T-shirts. The sisters set up shop in the garage （車庫 ） behind their mom's house in L.A.The sisters are co-CEOs. So far the sisters have sold more than 10,000 T-shirts. Flexin' In My Complexion has done more than make m

11、oney for the sisters. It's also helped Rogers become confident （自信的 ）. When she was being bullied, Rogers says she would come home from school upset.“ I would always come home crying; I wouldjust have tears coming down my face, ” “shMeysays. confidence is probably 10 million times higher right n

12、ow. You have no way of knowing but my confidence back then was probably as low as it couldbe. ”4. What made Rogers' classmates laugh at her?A. Her skin color. B. Her behavior. C. Her schoolwork. D. Her family background.5. How did Pollard help her sister?A. By sharing her picture online.B. By ch

13、oosing a new school for her.C. By introducing her to kids with similar experiences.D. By visiting their grandmother and asking her for help.6. Why did the sisters start their business?A. To remember their grandmother.B. To advertise their T-shirts.C. To support their family.D. To encourage others.7.

14、 Which of the following words can best describe Rogers today?A. Brave and confident. B. Honest and polite.C. Popular but unhappy. D. Hard-working but impatient.CHumans have loved eating sweet things since sugarcane 甘蔗（） was first used around 8000 BC.We were eating honey even before then. In 2000 BC,

15、 the Egyptians began mixing fruit and nuts （堅 果 ） with honey. Thousands of years later in the early 19th century, factories began to produce sweets in large numbers. They were able to do this because sugar had become less expensive.Machines were invented to help with the production. Sweets no longer

16、 had to be made by hand. In1827, a sweet shop opened in a small town called Pateley Bridge in the north of England. It was called The Oldest Sweet Shop in England. In 2013, Guinness World Records confirmed 實）it as being the longest running sweet shop in the world. And it continues to sell many kinds

17、 of sweets that our parents, grandparents and even our great grandparents enjoyed when they were small. It is one of the few traditional old sweet shops still selling retro sweets of a bygone age.Some of the sweets are still made within the shop and heated in 100-year-old pans. The shop also looks a

18、s if it has come directly from an old storybook with large bottles filled with all kinds of sweets of different tastes and weighed on old-fashioned scales老式的秤）.When it's time to pay, a till （放錢的抽屜） looking as if it is as old as the shop is still used.The shop is owned by Keith and Gloria Tordoff

19、, who bought it in 1993. Keith says he has always had a sweet tooth and likes to try all the sweets. He tells everyone that he does this to examine if the sweets are good. Perhaps he just has the best job in the world? Keith says, “ To me, sweets are all about remembering. You remember sweets from y

20、our childhood, just like you remember a song. You remember the sweets your grandparents gave you, ogriving Love Hearts to a girl you liked.”8. What does the underlined word“ this in” the first paragraph refer to?A. Sugar being produced less expensively.B. Producing sweets in large numbers.C. Mixing

21、fruit and nuts with honey.D. Sugarcane being used.9. What can we know about the sweet shop in Pateley Bridge?A. It has the longest history of selling sweets. B. It specially makes sweets for parents.C. It was opened by the Tordoffs.D. It only sells hand-made sweets.10. Which word can best describe t

22、he inside of the shop?A. High-tech. B. Traditional. C. Modern. D. Tidy.11. Why does Keith taste all kinds of sweets?A. To meet his need to eat sweet things. B. To give customers suggestions.C. To check the sweets' standard.D. To remember his childhood.DMy seven-year-old daughter has a friend rou

23、nd for dinner. They're playing with raspberries （覆盆 子 ）. I could say no. Instead, I smile. It's not that I think table manners 禮儀（） are unimportant. I don'twant to raise dirty kids. But I've always felt that if I wanted my children to grow up with a happy and healthy attitude to food

24、, asking them from a young age to behave like grown-ups at the dinner table was going to do harm to them.When I was a child, my mom always asked me to hold my knife and fork right. I decided, if I wanted my children to explore （ 探索 ） food by eating it, I was going to have to relax and let them explo

25、re it in other ways, too.Anna Groom is a dietitian, whose job is to give people advice about the kind of food they shouldeat. She works with children who are挑uSSy （勺）eaters ” . “It's really important to let childrenexplore the food as a whole not just what it tastes like, she says. ”“ It makes t

26、hemowknmore about it. It makes them feel safe' with it. ” The ideaairsethmaot rteheliykely to try it, and less likely to become fussy.So even at age seven I will continue to let my daughter play with her food. I am teaching her table manners, but I'm doing it step by step. In fact, I believe

27、 it is more useful if I talk to her about table manners away from the table, when she's not hungry and trying to enjoy her food.My other child is now 14. He has always eaten everything and anything that comes his way. How are his table manners? Pretty good. I've noticed he still likes to have an animalistic sniff （ 嗅 ） of a frankfurter before he puts it in his mouth, but he knows