题文

阅读理解。

In 1608 an Englishman named Thomas Coryate visited Italy. He liked the country and wrote down every interesting thing he found. But there was one thing which he found the most interesting. In his diary Thomas wrote, "When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands, because people do not always have clean hands."      Before leaving for England, Thomas Coryate bought a few forks.      At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the invention to his friends. When the steak (牛排) was brought out, he took out a fork and began to eat as they did in Italy.      Everybody looked at him in surprise. When he told his friends what the fork was, they all wanted to take a good look at the strange thing. All his friends said that the Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all.      Thomas Coryate tried to prove (证明) that his friends were wrong. He said it was not nice to eat meat with one's fingers because they were not always clean.      Everybody got angry at that. Did Mr. Coryate think that people in England always had dirty hands? And weren't the ten fingers we had enough for us?      Thomas Coryate wanted to show that it was very easy to use the fork. But the first piece of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to laugh and he had to take the fork away.      People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.

1. Why did Thomas Coryate bring forks to England? A. He wanted to surprise his friends. B. He believed that it was not nice to eat meat with fingers. C. Forks were beautiful. D. He wanted to make business selling forks. 2. Why did everybody look at Thomas when he began to eat like the Italians? A. They believed that was bad manners. B. Nobody ate meat with hands in England. C. Everybody thought it was an amazing invention. D. Nobody had seen a fork before. 3. People were _____ when Thomas said that they shouldn't eat meat with their fingers. A. unhappy B. sorry C. sad D. worried 4. The first piece of meat fell to the floor when Thomas took it with the fork because _____. A. the fork was very difficult to use B. the fork was bad C. Thomas could not use it quite well D. the steak was too hard

题型：阅读理解  难度：中档

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据专家权威分析，试题“阅读理解。 In 1608 an Englishman named Thomas Coryate visite..”主要考查你对  历史文化类阅读  等考点的理解。关于这些考点的“档案”如下：

历史文化类阅读

考点名称：历史文化类阅读

• 历史文化类阅读：
  本类题型常用的方式是夹叙夹议。叙述的目的是为了议，所以要把握其议才是主要方面。
  阅读这类文章，先弄清其引入的话题，再弄清里面人物对其不同的看法，然后理解作者本身对话题的观点看法或思考。

• 初中英语阅读理解的解题技巧：
  一、要注意养成良好的阅读心理，阅读时要去掉杂念，心绪要安定，精神要专一，要形成一种惬意的顺向心理。
  切不可一遇到几个生词难句，就心烦意乱，失去自控能力。心理学家告诉我们，任何恐慌，过分紧张的情绪都会形成一种消极因素妨碍大脑的正常思维功能。
  因此，遇到困难一定要从容不迫，心无旁骛。这样才能对所读的文章印象清晰，理解深刻。
  
  二、要提高视读的速度，考阅读理解，从另一个方面来说，考的是考试速度。因此做阅读理解时，要注意培养自己快速阅读的习惯。
  切不可在个别难懂的词句上磨蹭，只要全篇理解了，个别难懂的词句可以根据上下文和构词法去猜测，去推断。
  
  三、对文章的评价分析，一定要坚持“词不离句，句不离篇”，要理解文章作者的原意，而不能按你自己的意愿去想当然。
  切记：一想当然，就会出错。