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Thousands of years ago , people didn’t live in cold places because they didn’t know how to keep themselves warm . Later they learned to make clothes .when an animal was killed ,they made use of its skins to cover their bodies . The skins kept them warm .
Nature is people’s good friend . It once helped people find fire ,when lightning hit a forest and started a fire . People took some of this fire to their homes .The fire kept them warm , and also frightened wild animals . .Soon people found the food cooked tasted much better ,so they began to use the fire to cook food .
But people still didn’t know how to make a fire .when they got a fire from the forest they tried to keep it burning .If it went ort ,they had to wait for years .
But later they found different ways to make fire .For example , they made fire by burning wood or knocking two pieces of stones .
Today it’s easy for people to make fire because they have matches ,lighters and different kinds of heaters .They can make fire at any time they need .
（ ）91.Once people lived only in hot places because they did not know how to ______ .
A. kill animals B. take fire from forest . C. keep themselves warm . D. make matches .
（ ）92.People use animal skins _____in those days .
A. for food . B. to make fire . C. for burning . D. to warm themselves .
（ ）93. People later learned how to use fire to ______ .
A. cook food . B. kill animals . C cut off an animal’s skin . D. burn wood .
（ ）94.People later learned to make fire by boring _____ .
A. stones B. wood . C. dry leaves . D. animal skins .
（ ）95.Today most people in the world use ____ to made fire .
A. heaters . B . matches or lighters . C. stones . D. lightning .
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A good reader is very much like a driver. He must change his reading speed (速度 ) to fit( 適應(yīng)) what he is reading and what he is reading for, just as a driver does to fit the road situation(狀況 ).
A good reader may read at 1,000 WPM(每分鐘---詞 ) when he looks for something for a report in the library. But once he finds what he needs, he may slow down to 100
WPM. A good reader may read newspapers and story books at 600 WPM. But he may read his science or maths books at 150 WPM. Just as a driver has a wide change of driving speed, so a good reader has a wide change of reading speed.
( )1. The writer thinks that a good reader can____.
A. read at 1,000 WPM B. read as fast as he can
C. spend more time reading
D. change the reading speeds as he needs
( )2. ____ decides the speed of reading.
A. How many books he is reading B. What he is reading for
C. Where he is reading D. When he is reading
( )3. a good reader may read fastest____.
A. when he reads newspapers and story books
A. when he reads something most useful to him
B. when he is trying to work out a maths problem
C. when he is trying to find something for his report
( )4. The word “once” in the passage means____.
A. one time B. only C. as soon as D. at once
( )5. Which is the best title(題目 ) for this passage?
A. the Importance of Having Different Reading Speed
B. The Difference Between Driving and Reading
C. The Best Way of Fast Reading
D. A Good Reader and His Reading Speed.