【2013届高考英语一轮复习】M1U2话题类阅读(2011高考真题)

1、2012-2013 学年高三英语一轮复习话题类阅读a small step makes a big difference. 1 2011 年江西高考真题mum, what does it mean when someone tells you that they have a skeleton (骨骼 ) in the closet ( 衣橱)? jessica asked. a skeleton in the closet? her mother paused thoughtfully. well, its something that you would rather not have a

2、nyone else know about. for example, if in the past, someone in dads family had been arrested for stealing a horse, it would be a skeleton in his familys closet. he really wouldnt want any neighbor to know about it. why pick on my family? jessicas father said with anger. your family history isnt so g

3、ood, you know. wasnt your great-great-grandfather a prisoner who was transported to australia for his crimes? yes, but people these days say that you are not a real australian unless your ancestors arrived as prisoners. gosh, sorry i asked. i think i understand now, jessica cut in before things grew

4、 worse. after dinner, the house was very quiet. jessicas parents were still quite angry with each other. her mother was ironing clothes and every now and then she glared at her husband, who hid behind his newspaper pretending to read. when she finished, she gathered the freshly pressed clothes in he

5、r arms and walked to jessicas closet. just as she opened the door and reached in to hang a skirt, a bony arm stuck out from the dark depths and a bundle of white bones fell to the floor. jessicas mother sank in a faint (晕倒 ), waking only when jessica put a cold, wet cloth on her forehead. she looked

6、 up to see the worried faces of her husband and daughter. what happened? where am i? she asked. you just destroyed the schools skeleton, mum, explained jessica. i brought it home to help me with my health project. i meant to tell you, but it seemed that as soon as i mentioned skeletons and closets,

7、it caused a problem between you and dad. jessica looked in amazement as her parents began to laugh madly. theyre both crazy, she thought. 56. according to jessicas mother, a skeleton in the close means _. a. a family honor b. a family secret c. a family story d. a family treasure 57. what can we lea

8、rn about some australians ancestors from paragraph 2? a. they were brought to australia as prisoners. b. they were the earliest people living in australia. c. they were involved in some crimes in australia. d. they were not regarded as criminals in their days. 58. jessicas mother fell down into a fa

9、int because she was _. a. knocked b. frightened c. injured d. surprised 59. why did jessica bring a skeleton home? a. she was curious about it. b. she planned to keep it for fun. c. she needed it for her school task. d. she intended to scare her parents. 60. jessicas parents laughed madly at the end

10、 of the story probably because _. a. they were crazy b. they were over excited c. they realized their misunderstanding d. they both thought they had won the quarrel 2012-2013 学年高三英语一轮复习话题类阅读a small step makes a big difference. 2 2011 浙江高考真题it was saturday. as always, it was a busy one, for six days

11、shall you labor and do all your work was taken seriously back then. outside, father and mr. patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. inside their own houses, mother and mrs. patrick were engaged in spring cleaning. somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. now, even a

12、t the risk of having brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string (线). it seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today. my mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping. again she cast a look toward

13、the window. come on, girls! lets take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute. on the way we met mrs. patric, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls. there never was such a day for flying kites! we played all our fresh string into the boys ki

14、tes and they went up higher and higher. we could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again. even our fathers droppe

15、d their tools and joined us. our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. i think we were all beside ourselves. parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. perhaps its like this in the kingdom of heaven. i thought confusedly. i

16、t was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the houses. i suppose we had some sort of supper. i suppose there must have been surface tidying-up, for the house on sunday looked clean and orderly enough. the strange thing was, we didnt mention that day afterward. i felt a little embarrass

17、ed. surely none of the others had been as excited as i. i locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep the things that cannot be and yet they are. the years went on, then one day i was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my thr

18、ee-year-old insistently cried her desire to go park, see duck. i cant go! i said. i have this and this to do, and when im through ill be too tired to walk that far. my mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. its a wonderful day, she offered, really warm, yet theres a f

19、ine breeze. do you remember that day we flew kites? i stopped in my dash between stove and sink. the locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. come on, i told my little girl. youre right, its too good a day to miss. another decade passed. we were in the aftermath (余波 ) of a great war. al

20、l evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest patrick boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. he had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. what was he thinking of - what dark and horrible things? say! a smile slipped out from his lips. do you remember

21、- no, of course you wouldnt. it probably didnt make the impression on you as it did on me. i hardly dared speak. remember what? i used to think of that day a lot in pow camp (战俘营 ), when things werent too good. do you remember the day we flew the kites? 2012-2013 学年高三英语一轮复习话题类阅读a small step makes a

22、big difference. 3 56. mrs. patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought _. a. she was too old to fly kites b. her husband would make fun of her c. she should have been doing her housework then d. her girls werent supposed to play the boys game 57. by we were all beside ourselves the writer means that they all _. a. felt confused b. went wild with joy c. looked on d. forgot their fights 58. what did the think after the kite-flying? a. the boys must have had more fun than the girls. b. they should have finished their work before playing. c