高考英语阅读理解精品抓分训练（31）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解抓分训练精品（31）及答案阅读理解-dhidden in our subconsciousness (意识) is a perfect mental picture. we see ourselves on a long trip that goes across the continent. we are traveling by train. out of the windows, we think in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle feeding on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, or row upon row of corn and wheat, of flat lands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hills, of city skylines and village halls.but uppermost in our minds is the final destination. on a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. bands will be playing and flags waving. once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw (拚图玩具) puzzle. how restlessly we pace the aisles(通道) ,condemning the minutes for loitering-waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.when we reach the station, that will be it!” we cry, “when im 38.” “when i buy a new 450sl mercdes benz!” “when i put the last kid through college.” “when i have paid off!” “when i get a promotion.” “when i reach the age of retirement, i shall live happily ever after! sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. the true joy of life is the trip. the station is only a dream. it constantly outdistances us. “relish (appreciate) the moment is a good motto, actually it isnt the burdens of today that drive man mad. it is the regret over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.so stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. life must be lived as we go along. then the station will come soon enough. 53. why does the author describe the mental picture?a. to lead us into a perfect world. b. to let people enjoy the scenery.c. to introduce an actual trip of his. d. to compare it to our lifes journey.54. how do people feel when theyre on their trip?a. puzzled. b. happy. c. relaxed. d. impatient.55. what does the author mean by regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today in paragraph 4?a. regret and fear are responsible for the loss of today.b. we must be careful of the two thieves : regret and fear.c. regret and fear stop us from enjoying our present life.d. were frequently challenged by the two : regret and fear.56. why does the author write the passage?a. to teach us a good lesson. b. to tell us the right attitude to life.c. to advise us to forget our worries. d. to stop us wandering along the aisles.参考答案53-56 ddcb 阅读理解-ei am sure that everybody in his/her life has used computers. nowadays you can feel their presence everywhere at home，at school，at work and they certainly make life easieron the other hand，there are people who cant work with themanyway，i believe their presence is a good thing. life with them seems easier, less difficult and more comfortable you can use them to choose your meal，to withdraw your money, and also save your time，because these operations are all controlled by computers. therefore you can hardly imagine the modern world without them；the whole planet seems to be one big computer societynevertheless，problems can often appear in this area, tooto have a computer means you have to be quite welloff and have the necessary skills to use ithowever，think about questions like “are computers so available for everyone, or rich and poor people，for people from villages and people from cities. arent they too expensive？is everyone able to learn how to use them and not everyone has the chance to access and work with them，how could everything in the future be dependent on them？”therefore，i think our society will be split into two partsone part will work with them and enjoy the benefits that computers can bring and the other part will be pushed out and will actually be far behind the other groupanother question that bothers me is，on the one hand，computers are important and good things in our life，but they arent everythingthey are good as a help at school，quite often as entertainment，especially for young people，as an necessary tool to help in research etc，but i think we shouldnt be so dependent on them，because computers are only machines and machines cant feel anything be human and sympathetic，and every action performed by computer can be interfered with another person，which could cause these machines to crash or work badlyin conclusion，i would like to say i am not against computersi use computers，too，but people should be wary all the time57. by saying “wary”（in the last paragraph）,the writer is trying to say “people should_.a. be strongly for the use of computers because of its convenienceb. be careful with computers that will also cause problemsc. master more necessary computer skillsd. not do something that causes computers to work badly58. which of the following best shows the structure of the passage？59. in the third paragraph，the author presents his idea by_a. asking questions for people to think aboutb. giving examples to support his argumentc. raising questions and answering themd. expressing his opinion directly60. the writers main purpose in writing the passage is_a. to encourage us to use computers in our societyb. to advise us to say no to computers from now onc. to remind us to care about the problems that computers bring.d. to inform us that the computer has become a necessary part of our life参考答案57-60 bbacc22013浙江卷 din 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, i took what i could geta teaching job at what i considered a distant wild area: western new jersey. my characteristic optimism was alive only when i reminded myself that i would be doing what i had wanted to do since i was fourteenteaching english. school started, but i felt more and more as if i were in a foreign country. was this rural area really new jersey? my students took a week off when hunting season began. i was told they were also frequently absent in late october to help their fathers make hay on the farms. i was a young woman from new york city, who thought that “make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time. but, still, i was teaching english. i worked hard, taking time off only to eat and sleep. and then there was my sixthgrade classseventeen boys and five girls who were only six years younger than me. i had a problem long before i knew it. i was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. i wanted to make literature come alive and to promote a love of the written word. the students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room. in college i had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. so i did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as i gave my students positive attention. it sounds reasonable, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seem reasonable. by the time my boss, who was also my taskmaster, known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior to praise. my boss sat in the back of the room. the boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. i just pretended it all wasnt happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. my boss, sitting in the back of the room, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. after twenty minutes he left, silently. visions of unemployment marched before my eyes. i felt mildly victorious that i got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period i had to face him. i wondered if he would let me finish out the day. i walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door. he was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. i said nothing. all i could think of was that i was not an english teacher; i had been lying to myself, pretending that everything was fine. when he spoke, he said simply, without accusation, “you had nothing to say to them.”“you had nothing to say to them，” he repeated. “no wonder theyre bored. why not get to the meat of the literature and stop talking about symbolism. talk with them, not at them. and more important, why do you ignore their bad behavior？” we talked. he named my problems and offered solutions. we roleplayed. he was the bad student, and i was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher. as the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. he helped me identify my weaknesses and my strengths. in short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of emersons words: “the secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”fifteen years later i still drive that same winding road to the same school. thanks to the help i received that difficult first year, the school is my home now. 55it can be inferred from the story that in 1974 _. a. the writer became an optimistic personb. the writer was very happy about her new jobc. it was rather difficult to get a job in the usad. it was easy to get a teaching job in new jersey56according to the passage, which of the following is most probably the writers problem as a new teacher? a. she had blind trust in what she learnt at college. b. she didnt ask experienced teachers for advice. c. she took too much time off to eat and sleep. d. she didnt like teaching english literature. 57what is the writers biggest worry after her taskmasters observation of her class? a. she might lose her teaching job. b. she might lose her students respect. c. she couldnt teach the same class any more. d. she couldnt ignore her students bad behavior any more. 58which of the following gives the writer a sense of mild victory?a. her talk about symbolism sounded convincing. b. her students behaved a little better than usual. c. she managed to finish the class without crying. d. she was invited for a talk by her boss after class. 59the students behaved badly in the writers classes because _. a. they were eager to embarrass herb. she didnt really understand themc. they didnt regard her as a good teacherd. she didnt have a good command of english60the taskmasters attitude towards the writer after his observation of her class can be best described as _a. cruel but encouraging b. fierce but forgivingc. sincere and supportive d. angry and aggressive【要点综述】 这是一篇感人的文章，作者历经千辛万苦获得了一份教师的工作，但由于初为人师，教条主义和理想化成了她教学的最大问题。有一天老板来听课，却看到作者对学生恶劣的行为置之不理，所以只听了二十分钟便离开了，作者感觉自己可能要失去教学的工作。她虽然没有在课堂上哭泣而坚持讲完了剩下的课，但毫无疑问，这仍然是一堂失败的课。终于，老板告诉她问题的症结所在没有真正了解学生。55c考查推理判断。从全文第一段提到的“in 1974, after filling out fifty applications，”推知，在1974年要想在美国得到一份工作是非常艰难的事情，所以答案选c项。56a考查推理判断。从文章第三段的“i was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher.”和第四段中的“in college i had been taughtbut the text evidently ignored the fact”推知，作为一位新老师，作者过于理想化和教条主义，所学知识和现实之间有很大的差异，这是作者的问题所在，由此可知a项为最佳答案。57a考查推理判断。从文章第五段“visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.”可以推断出，当老板坐在课堂上听课，而我却对学生束手无策时，一种要丢掉工作饭碗的预感深深困扰着我，由此答案选a项。58c考查细节理解。从第六段“i felt mildly victorious that i got through the rest of class without crying”可知，令作者还有些成就感的是她终于顺利地上完了课，而且也没有哭，答案选c项。59b考查推理判断。从文章倒数第三段“you had nothing to say to them”推断知，老板认为作者没有真正地对学生发问，也就是说作者没有真正地了解学生，走近学生，所以学生们在她的课堂中表现很差，答案选b项。60c 考查观点态度。从倒数第三段中“he named my problems and offered solutions.”知，作者的老板对作者非常友善，他指出了作者的不足并积极提供解决方法，由此可知他是一个很真诚并且给予帮助的人，故答案c项最佳。阅读理解-amore than half of young black men in the united states do not finish high school. many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and violence. sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in prison by the age of thirty-five.joe marshall co-founded the omega boys club in san francisco, california, twenty-three years ago. mr. marshall tries to give boys and girls a safe refuge and a chance at a better future. every week, he has two basic messages for his young students: stop the violence and dont do drugs.mr. marshall taught math in middle school and expected to see his best students go to college. he got a lot of horror stories a lot of his former students ended up dead or in prison for selling drugs, being involved in gangs, and girls ended up getting pregnant（怀孕）. the omega boys club serves more than four hundred young people every year. two times a week, it offers after-school classes in math, reading, family and life skills, and college preparation.joe marshall sees gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem. thats what these young people get. they develop a street mentalityanger, fear and pain. then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free.but his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio. in 1991, joe marshall started “street soldiers,” a weekly call-in show. marlena, one of the graduates of the omega boys club, is at southern university right now, going into her third year. she talked about what she had learned by coming to omega, by listening to “street soldiers,” and she said she had learned how to love herself.the club provides guidance and financial assistance to help students stay in school. over ninety percent of members who were accepted into college have graduated.41. the passage is mainly about_.a. what problems many young black men are faced withb. how mr. marshall helps his students to go to collegec. why many young black men end up in prisond. how an organization helps young black people42. the passage mentioned marlena in order to _.a. showcase the success of the clubs effort b. invite girls to attend the after-school classesc. highlight the failure of normal schoolsd. prove the importance of after-school classes 43. “street soldiers” is _ .a. an armed force b. a gang of blacksc. a tv program d. a radio program44. according to the passage, which of the following is true?a. the omega boys club help the government to keep male students at school.b. gangs and violence are public health problems that need to be dealt with.c. the club offers after-school classes in basic knowledge and living skills.d. over ninety percent of the members have graduated from college.参考答案4144 dadc c22013重庆卷 athe morning had been a disaster.my tooth was aching，and id been in an argument with a friend.her words still hurt：“the trouble with you is that you wont put yourself in my place.cant you see things from my point of view？”i shook my head stubbornlyand felt the ache in my tooth.id thought i could hold out till my dentist came back from holiday，but the pain was really unbearable.i started calling the dentists in the phone book，but no one could see me immediately.finally，at about lunchtime，i got lucky.“if you come by right now，”the receptionist said，“the dentist will fit you in.”i took my purse and keys and rushed to my car.but suddenly i began to doubt about the dentist.what kind of dentist would be so eager to treat someone at such short notice？why wasnt he as busy as the others?in the dentists office，i sat down and looked around.i saw nothing but the bare walls and i became even more worried.the assistant noticed my nervousness and placed h