镇海中学英语IB练习.doc

英 语 题号：05 阅读理解（分两节，共5题，每小题2分，满分10分） 阅读下面短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。 Manhattan Island is the oldest and most important of the five boroughs that make up New York City. It is 21.7 kilometers long and 3.8 kilometers wide at its widest point. It contains New York’s tallest buildings as well as some of the largest schools and colleges, and the most famous financial and theater districts in the United States. It has skyscrapers and Central Park, the old and the new, the best and the worst. ① To understand Manhattan, we must know something of its early history: its early days of Dutch colonists and English settlers; the waves of nineteenth-century European immigrants who arrived at its shores; the African-Americans who moved north after the Civil War; recent immigrants from China and other parts of Asia; and young people who go to New York from all over America. ② The United States is a nation of immigrants and no other city displays this fact as well as New York City, From Chinatown and Little Italy to Harlem, ③ Most immigrants went to America with very little money. They were the poor and unhappy in their own countries. America lifted her lamp beside the golden door. Millions of immigrants have prospered in America. On July 4, 1884, the people of France gave to the United States as a symbol of friendship, a statue sculptured by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. This statue was placed on an island in New York Harbor. It is 46 meters high and is the first sight immigrants see as they come into New York City by ship. ④ On the statue is a poem written by Emma Lazarus. This poem sums up the American tradition of accepting people from other countries. It reads as follows: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest—tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! [来源:学科网] 第一节：根据短文内容， 从A、B、C、D和E中选出最适合填入短文空缺处的选项，并将序号及相应答案写在答题卡