任务型阅读在初中英语检测中逐步升温，要引起英语教师的重视。任务型阅读围绕一定的逻辑顺序展开，考查学生的思维能力、分析能力、词汇能力以及挖掘语言含义的能力等。任务型阅读题目围绕不同的阅读技能和语言应用而展开，涉及词性转换、词语释义、同义替换、归纳演绎、结构分析、细节理解等。任务型阅读有字数限制，表达部分也暗含有一些要求，诸如大小写、答题的一致性及词性等等，这些隐性的规范需要学生自己去揣摩。任务型阅读也随着阅读材料内容、文体、题目设置、答题要求的不同而呈现不同的难易度。学生学会分析语篇，加工信息，完成文字表达的任务，显得十分重要。

本篇刊载了四篇任务型阅读训练题，并附上答案，作为初三年级的热身练习。

1．阅读下列短文，在空格里填入适当的词语。

Young people and old people do not always agree with each other. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in a program in New York, adults and teenagers live together in peace.

Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for 8 weeks as members of a work group. Everyone works several hours each day. The aim is not just to keep busy. It is to find meaning in work. Some teenagers work on the farm near the village. Some learn to build a house. The adults teach them.

There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours, some of the teenagers learn painting. Others sit round and talk or sing. Each teenager has his own way to spend his free time.

When people live together, rules are always needed. In this program the teenagers and adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They ask, “Why did it happen? What do we have to do with it?”

One of the teenagers has this to say about the program, “You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”

76. in peace  77. find meaning  78. on the farm   79. weekends  80. breaks a rule

2． （答案不超过4个单词。）

Ten-year old Obama was one of the only three black students at his school in Honolulu, Hawaii. The young boy didn’t look the same as most other students. White girls wanted to touch his hair. A white boy asked him whether his father ate people. “I lied to them that my father was a Kenyan prince, but I kept asking myself who I was,” said Obama.

However, 37 years later, the boy made history. Barack Obama became the first black president in U.S. history. Obama was born on August 4, 1961. His father is an African（非洲人） and his mother is a white American. This unusual background made him want to know who he was. With the help of his friends, Obama finally went to college. His hard work made him a star at Harvard University, a famous university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later, he became the third black senator（议员）in U.S. history.

During his competition for U.S. president, Obama talked about his background. He called for a United States of America, rather than a white America or a black America. Obama’s success is a historic victory(胜利). It made Martin Luther King’s dream come true. That is: A man should not be judged by the colour of his skin, but by the content of his character.

62. first black  63. August 4  64. three  65. different from 66. his friends  67. his hard work 68. the third black  69. United States of America 70. U.S. president  71. Obama’s success

3．（每空最多4个词。）

    In Canada and the United States，people enjoy entertaining(请客) at home．They often invite friends over for a meal，a party or just for coffee and conversation．

    Here are the kinds of things people say when they invite someone to their homes：

   “Would you like to come over for dinner this Saturday night?” “Hey，we’re having a party on Friday．Can you come?”

    To reply to an invitation，either say thank you and accept，or say you’re sorry and give an excuse．“Thanks，I’d love to．What time would you like me to come?” or “Oh，sorry．I’ve tickets for a movie．”

    Sometimes，however，people say something like invitations but which are not real invitations．For example：“Please come over for a drink sometime.” “Why not get together for a party sometime？” “Why don’t you come over and see us sometime soon？”

  They are really just polite ways of ending their talk．They are not real invitations because they don’t mention a certain time or date．They just show that the person is trying to be friendly．To reply to expression_r_rs like these，people just say “Sure，that would be great!” or “OK. Yes，thanks．”

  So next time when you hear what sounds like an invitation，listen carefully．Is it a real invitation or is the person just being friendly?

76. enjoy entertaining./ enjoy entertaining at home  77. I’d love/like to  78. that would be great/nice  79. friendly/polite  80. time and date

4．（每空不超过4个单词。）

Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day I open my books in class and start lessons. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?

Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many books, few people learned to read.

Then printing was invented in China. The first printed books were made by putting ink on a wooden block and holding the paper against it. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread(传播) quickly, in a way that can be compared with the introduction of the Internet in the 20th century.

But will books be needed in the future? Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP4 players. These machines are smaller and lighter than books so that they can be carried very easily.

Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I don’t think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!

76. looks through magazines                        77. posters of sports players

78. silk, cotton and bamboo                        79. were made / produced by hand

80. wood                                           81. invention

82. was developed greatly                          83. online

84. keep information                               85. (not) be replaced

（To be continued)