Question

A few years ago my sister moved from her home in Alabama to Buffalo, New York. Since moving to Buffalo she’s become a big hockey fan and has encouraged me to start watching it. Unfortunately it’s very difficult to find hockey on television here in Alabama. Since hockey games don’t air very much on television I’ve had to look for different ways to watch hockey games.

I often see websites that claim if you go to their website you can watch television on your computer. I try out many of these websites hoping that one of the television stations is a northern station that airs hockey games. Unfortunately, most of them don’t work. Either the site doesn’t really give you what they advertise or their video player doesn’t work properly. But finally I’ve found one website that actually works.

Free Tube is a site that you can go to and watch Television online for free. You don’t have to download any kind of special software or pay money or even sign up for anything. All you have to do is go to Free Tube, choose your channel and start watching. 

The different channels to choose from are separated into different categories like news, business, entertainment, music and sports. You’re not going to find channels like NBC or ABC so you can watch the latest episode of Heroes or Grey’s Anatomy but it does include some popular channels like Cartoon Network and ESPN.

There is also a movie section. Each movie channel airs different sorts of films like adventure, classics, comedy or horror and that channel will always air that kind of movies. The movie section also includes my favorite station called Maxx Trailers (預(yù)告片). Maxx Trailers airs nothing but movies trailers 24 hours a day. Some of the trailers are for movies coming out and some are for movies that have already been released but already released movies don’t go back farther than a couple of months.

So far I haven’t had any problems with Free Tube’s video player either. Whenever I choose a channel, the video almost always works and usually loads every quickly. The only problem I have with Free Tube is that there is currently a glitch if you’re using Firefox. Once you choose a channel you can’t select another channel to change to, your web browser will freeze up. So if you’re using Firefox, the only way to switch channels is to leave the site and re-enter the site, when choosing what channel you want to go to. However, Free Tube is aware of this glitch and is working with Mozilla to get it fixed right away.

If you’re missing some show everyone is talking about like Grey’s Anatomy or Heroes, this isn’t really a solution for that. But Free Tube is a good way to find channels that you weren’t aware of; there are several good stations to be found.

1.The author mainly ________ in this passage.

A. tells us his experience in using the Web

B. introduces Free Tube to the readers

C. shows us the disadvantages of Free Tube

D. shows us how to enjoy films online

2.The author got interested in watching hockey games ________

A. because he is a sports fan

B. due to his sister’s influence

C. since everyone enjoys the games

D. because he has nothing to do all day long

3.From the passage we can learn that ______________

A. the author is also very fond of movies           

B. Maxx Trailers airs to-be-released movies

C. ABC is a very famous TV station in America   

D. Firefox is the only software used to watch films online

4. The underlined word “glitch” probably means _________

A. cover                 B. change            C. note                  D. fault

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.B

3.A

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：作者主要給讀者介紹Free Tube網(wǎng)站。該網(wǎng)站能免費(fèi)看電視直播。有各種各樣的欄目,尤其是電影區(qū)，各種最新的電影和預(yù)告片給人全新的享受。唯一的問題是用Firefox(電腦的)瀏覽器通常會存在的一個(gè)技術(shù)問題。不過網(wǎng)站正在積極協(xié)商處理。所以Free Tube是一個(gè)能解決你各種問題的不錯(cuò)的網(wǎng)站。

1.主題歸納題。根據(jù)全文大意，和最后一句話可知，作者主要想給讀者介紹Free Tube網(wǎng)站。選B。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段第一、二句可知，姐姐自從搬到布法羅以來，就成了一個(gè)曲棍球大球迷，還鼓勵(lì)我看曲棍球。所以選B。

3.推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段的介紹可知，F(xiàn)ree Tube網(wǎng)站有電影分區(qū)。可以看到各種各樣的電影甚至是預(yù)告片。選A（作者也很喜歡電影。）。

4.詞意猜測題。根據(jù)該詞所在的句子中的the only problem后的解釋可知，網(wǎng)站有小故障時(shí)，F(xiàn)irefox(電腦的)瀏覽器會癱瘓，你需要關(guān)閉網(wǎng)站重新進(jìn)入而Free Tube 知道這個(gè)問題和Mozilla合作在修補(bǔ)。cover報(bào)道；change變化；note做筆記； fault過錯(cuò)。選 D。

考點(diǎn)：廣告類閱讀。