2012高考英语 阅读理解课堂练学案（7）

用心 爱心 专心1 20122012 高考英语 阅读理解课堂练学案 高考英语 阅读理解课堂练学案 7 7 Passage Seventeen On the President s Program President Arling has put his long awaited economic restructuring program before the Congress It provides a coordinated program of investment credits research grants education reforms and tax changes designed to make American industry more competitive This is necessary to reverse the economic slide into unemployment lack of growth and trade deficits that have plagued the economy for the past six years The most liberal wing of the President s party has called for stronger and more direct action They want an incomes policy to check inflation while federal financing helps rebuild industry behind a wall of protective tariffs The Republicans however decry even the modest graduated tax increases in the President s program They want tax cuts and more open market They say if federal money has to be injected into the economy let it through defence spending Both these alternatives ignore the unique nature of the economic problem before us It is not simply a matter of markets or financing The new technology allows vastly increased production for those able to master it But it also threatens those who fail to adopt it with permanent second class citizenship in the world economy If an industry cannot lever itself up to the leading stage of technological advances then it will not be able to compete effectively If it cannot do this no amount of government protectionism or access to foreign markets can keep it profitable for long Without the profits and experience of technological excellence to reinvest that industry can only fall still further behind its foreign competitors So the crux is the technology and that is where the President s program focused The danger is not that a plan will not be passed it is that the ideologues of right and left will distort the bill with amendments that will blur its focus on technology The economic restructuring plan should be passed intact If we fail to restructure our economy now we may not get a second chance 1 The focus of the President s program is on A investment economy C technology D tax 2 What is the requirement of the most liberal wing of the Democratic party A They want a more direct action They want an incomes policy to check inflation C They want to rebuild industry D They want a wall of protective tariffs 3 What is the editor s attitude 用心 爱心 专心2 A support distaste C Disapproval D Compromise 4 The danger to the plan lies in A the two parties objection different idea of the two parties about the plan C its passage D distortion 5 The passage is A a review a preface C a advertisement D an editorial Vocabulary 1 reverse 逆转 2 slide 滑坡 3 plague 瘟疫 折磨 困扰 4 tariff 关税 5 decry 谴责 诋毁 6 lever 杠杆 用杠杆撬动 7 crux 症结 8 ideologue 空想家 思想家 9 intact 原封不动的 完整无损的 10 investment credit 投资信贷 11 research grant 研究基金 难句译注 1 This is necessary to reverse the economic slide into unemployment lack of growth and trade deficits that have plagued the economy for the past six years 参考译文 这对扭转经济滑坡 滑到失业高 增长少和已经困扰经济达 6 年之久贸易赤 字来说是必要的 写作方法与文章大意 这是一则有关总统向国会提交的经济计划评论 作者采用对比手法来突出其计划之正确性 第一段就讲了计划的涉及面 投资 研究 教育 税收等 目的是制止经济滑坡 提高美 国工业竞争力 第二 三两段叙述了计划遭两方面的反对 总统党内的右翼要求更强硬 更直接的行动 而共和党对即使逐渐稍稍提高一点税收都予以谴责 第四段提出两者都忽略我们面临经济问题的独特性质 它不是市场或财政问题 掌握新技 术的人大量增产 而不能采用新技术的人面临在世界经济中成为二等公民的危险 工业不 能达到先进水平 就不能有效地竞争 那么任何保护主义或进入外国市场都不能长期奏效 用心 爱心 专心3 没有技术优势的经验和利润的再投资 工业经济只能依然落后于外国竞争对手 最后一段点出总统计划的要点就是工艺技术 作者提出 要求全面通过这一重新建设计划 如果我们不能重建经济 我们可能不会有第二次机会 答案详解 1 C 工艺技术 最后一段第一句 问题的症结就在于工艺技术 这就是总统计划的要点所 在 第四段 对掌握新技术的人来说 新技术使他们大大增产 而新技术对不能掌握它 的人来说 在世界经济中他们面临沦为永久性的二等公民的危险 如果不能做到这一点 那么任何政府保护主义 进入国际市场都不能有效地竞争 如果不能有技术优势的利润和 经验再投资 工业只能进一步落后于国外竞争对手 这些都说明总统计划的重点再工艺技 术 A 投资 D 税收 只是总统计划的涉及面 B 经济 太笼统了 2 A 更直接行动 第二段 总统的党内几段自由翼要求更强硬 更直接行动 他们要求用 收入 税收 政策来制止通货膨胀 联邦财政在关税保护下 帮助重建工业 B 他们需要制止通货膨胀 C 重建工业 D 保护关税墙 都只是他们要求中的不分内容 不完整 3 A 支持 第四 五段集中了评论者的观点 支持的理由和论点 B 厌恶 C 不赞成 D 调和妥协 4 D 歪曲 最后一段第二句 其危险不在于计划将不被通过 而在于左和右的思想理论 家们用修正案来歪曲提案 使计划要点蒙尘模糊不清 经济重建计划应原封不动地通过 这是作者的态度 也是他所担心之处 A 两党的反对 B 两党对计划的不同看法 C 它的通过 5 D 社论 A 评论 社论也是评论的一种 但它是报纸主编所撰 常常是有关国内外大事评论 B 前 言 C 广告 Passage Eighteen Strictly Ban smoking If you smoke and you still don t believe that there s a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles heart disease and lung cancer then you are certainly deceiving yourself No one will accuse you of hypocrisy Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of wishful thinking This needn t make you too uncomfortable because you are in good company Whenever the subject of smoking and health is raised the governments of most countries hear no evil see no evil and smell no evil Admittedly a few governments have taken timid measures In Britain for instance cigarette advertising has been banned on television The conscience of the nation is appeased while the population continues to puff its way to smoky cancerous death You don t have to look very far to find out why the official reactions to medical findings have been so lukewarm The answer is simply money Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax It s almost like a tax on our daily bread In tax revenue alone the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may conceivable be harmful it doesn t do to shout too loudly about it This is surely the most short sighted policy you could imagine While money is 用心 爱心 专心4 eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease Countless valuable lives are lost In the long run there is no doubt that everybody would be much better off if smoking were banned altogether Of course we are not ready for such a drastic action But if the governments of the world were honestly concerned about the welfare of their peoples you d think they d conduct aggressive anti smoking campaigns Far from it The tobacco industry is allowed to spend staggering sums on advertising Its advertising is as insidious as it is dishonest We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lungs early in the morning That would never do The advertisement always depict virile clean shaven young men They suggest it is manly to smoke even positively healthy Smoking is associated with the great open air life with beautiful girls true love and togetherness What utter nonsense For a start governments could begin by banning all cigarette and tobacco advertising and should then conduct anti smoking advertising campaigns of their own Smoking should be banned in all public places like theatres cinemas and restaurants Great efforts should be made to inform young people especially of the dire consequences of taking up the habit A horrific warning say a picture of a death s head should be included in every packet of cigarettes that is sold As individuals we are certainly weak but if governments acted honestly and courageously they could protect us from ourselves 1 Why do a few governments take timid measures toward smoking A because they are afraid of people Because diseases cost a lot C Because they are afraid of the cutting down of their revenue D Because they are afraid of manufacturers 2 The tone of this passage is A critical ironical C distaste D amusing 3 What does the sentence because you are in good company mean A you are backed by the government You are not alone C You have good colleagues D Governments are blind to evils of smoking too 4 What is the best title of this passage A World Governments should conduct serious campaigns against smoking World governments take timid measures against smoking C smoking is the most important source of income to many countries D tobacco industry spends a large sum of money on medical research 用心 爱心 专心5 Vocabulary 1 a wishful thinking 根据愿望的想法 不顾事实的想法 2 puff 喷 puff its way to 一路吞云吐雾走向 指抽烟抽到死 3 lukewarm 冷淡 漠然 4 insidious 阴险的 狡猾的 5 virile 年富力强的 写作方法与文章大意 这是一篇 要求政府禁烟 的论说文 采用因果对比手法 先以讽刺口吻指出政府对禁烟 的态度 软弱无力 然后点明软弱的原因 大量税收 再以抽烟大严重后果 机器所 花去的钱说明得不偿失 而烟草工业广告泛滥 毒化人们 从而提出政府应从禁止烟广告 作起 答案详解 1 C 因为他们害怕收入减少 答案见第二段 你不用看得很远就能发现为什么官方对医学 成果的反应如此冷淡 答案就是钱 烟草是征税的最奇妙的商品 几乎就像日用面包的税 收 光烟草税收一项 英国政府就从抽烟人身上征到足以支付整个教育措施的费用 所以 在当局那么谨慎地指出吸烟有害时 可以想象 喊叫得太响时不行的 A 他们害怕人民 D 他们害怕厂商 文中没有 B 疾病花费很大和软弱无力的禁烟措施有 关 不是花费大而采取弱政策 2 B 讽刺语气 特别表现在第一段 第四段 A 批评语气 整篇文章都在批评 这不是什么语气问题 这里时以讽刺的口吻加以批评政 府软弱的禁烟政策 C 厌恶 D 有趣 3 D 政府对吸烟的恶果也是视而不见 A 政府支持 太明朗化 B 你不是单独一人 和 C 你有好同事 都是似是而非的答案 这 可以上下文说明 第一段 假如你吸烟 依然认为吸烟和支气管炎 心脏病 肺癌等毫 无关系 那你是自欺欺人 可没有人会说你虚伪 我们可以说你是患有一厢情愿病 这你 无需太难受 因为你有好伙伴 每当提出吸烟和健康有关的问题时 大多数国家的政府对 其恶果视而不见 听而不闻 嗅而不觉 4 A 世界各国政府应该开展眼里的禁烟运动 因为前面四段都是现象 政策软弱 如英 国政府只在电视上禁止烟草广告以高位人们的良知 另一方面人民继续一路吞云吐雾走到 癌症死亡 讲烟草的税收高 所以不严禁 这项政策的后果是疾病花费大于烟草税收 烟草广告泛滥毒害人 唯一解救的办法就是禁烟 最后一段是结论 也是画龙点睛的主 题和标题 作为起步 政府可以从禁止烟草广告开始 然后应开展抵制吸烟的广告运动 一切公共场合 如戏院 电影院 返点等应禁止吸烟 应竭尽全力告诫青年 尤其是告诫 他们染上恶习的严重后果 在零卖的每包烟盒上应有一令人胆战心惊的警告 例如 一幅 骷髅头画像 作为个人 我们力量薄弱 可是如果政府真诚地鼓舞人心的行动起来 他们 可以保护我们 B 世界各国政府采取禁烟政策软弱无力 C 吸烟是许多国家重要收入 这两项是不分具体 内容 D 烟草工厂在医疗研究上花了大笔费用 用心 爱心 专心6 Passage Nineteen TV s Harmfulness Yes but what did we use to do before there was television How often we hear statements like this Television hasn t been with us all that long but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it Before we admitted the one eyed monster into our homes we never fond it difficult to occupy our spare time We used to enjoy civilized pleasures For instance we used to have hobbies we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them we used to go outside for our amusements to theatres cinemas restaurants and sporting events We even used to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks occasionally All that belongs to the past Now all our free time is regulated by the goggle box We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that programme We have even given up sitting at table and having a leisurely evening meal exchanging the news of the day A sandwich and a glass of beer will do anything providing it doesn t interfere with the programme The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme he is quickly silenced Whole generations are growing up addicted to the telly Food is left uneaten homework undone and sleep is lost The telly is a universal pacifier It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living room and turning on the set It doesn t matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence so long as they are quiet There is a limit to the amount of creative talent available in the world Every day television consumes vast quantities of creative work That is why most of the programmes are so bad it is impossible to keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well When millions watch the same programmes the whole world becomes a village and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in preliterate communities We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication pictures and the spoken word Television encourages passive enjoyment We become content with second hand experiences It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working Little by little television cuts us off from the real world We get so lazy we choose to spend a fine day in semi darkness glued to our sets rather than go out into the world itself Television may be s splendid medium of communication but it prevents us from communicating with each other We only become aware how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains far away from civilization In quiet natural surroundings we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly 1 What is the biggest harm of TV A It deprives people of communication with the real world People become lazy 用心 爱心 专心7 C People become dependent on second hand experience D TV consumes a large part of one s life 2 In what way can people forget TV A Far away from civilization To a mountain C By the sea D In quiet natural surroundings 3 What does a mother usually do to keep her children quiet A Let them watch the set Put them in the living room C Let them watch the rubbish D Let them alone 4 What does the first sentence in th