2019-2020年高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精练(4)(IV)

1、2019-2020年高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精练(4) (IV)写人记事（阅读理解）It was Saturday.As always,it was a busy on e,for“ Six days shall you labor anddo all your work ” was taken seriously back then.Outside,Father and Mr.Patrick nextdoor were busy chopp ing firewood .In sidetheir own houses,Mother and Mrs. Patrick wereen gaged i

2、n spri ng clea ning.Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites.Now,even atthe risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets,they had sent him to the kitchenfor more string（线）.It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites wouldfly today.My mother looked at the sit

3、t ing room,its furn iture disordered for a thoroughsweep in g.Aga in she cast a look toward the win dow.“ e on, girls!Let s take stri ngto the boys and watch them fly thekites a minu te.”On the way we met Mrs. Patrick,laughing guiltily as if she were doing somethingwron g,together with her girls.The

4、re never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string intothe boys kites and they went up higher and higher.We could hardly distinguish theorange-colored spots of the kites.Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back,watching it dancing up and dow n in the win d,a nd fin ally brin

5、ging it dow n to earth,just for the joy of sending it up aga in.Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us.Our mothers took theirtur n,laughi ng like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves.Pare nts forgottheir duty and their dignity;childrenforgot their everyday fights and littlej

6、ealousies. “ Perhaps it s like this in the kingdom of heaven, ” I thought confusedly.It was grow ing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the houses .I supposewe had some sort of supper.I suppose there must have bee n a surface tidy in g-up,forthe house on Sun day looked clea n and orderly eno

7、 ugh.The stra nge thing was,we did n t men ti on that day afterward .I felt a little embarrassed.Surely none of the others had bee n 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,thenone day I was hurryi

8、ng about my kitchenin a cityapartment,trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-oldinsistentlycried her desire to “ go park,see duck. ”“I can t go! ” I said. “I have this and this to do,and when I m through I llbe too tired to walk that far.”My mother,who was visiting us,looked up f

9、rom the peas she was shelling.“It sa wonderful day, ” she offered, really warm,yet there s a fine breeze.Do you remember that day we flew kites? ”I stopped in my dash betwee n stove and sin k.The locked door flew ope n and withit a rush of memories.“e on, ” I told my little girl.“You re right,it s t

10、oo gooda day to miss. ”Another decade passed.We were in the aftermath（余波）of a great war.All eveningwe had been asking our returned soldier,theyoungest Patrick Boy,about his experiencesas a prisoner of war.He had talked freely,but now for a long time he had been sile nt.What was he thinking of what d

11、ark and horrible thin gs?“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips.“Do you remember no,of course youwouldn t.It probably didn t 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 weren t toogood.Do you reme

12、mber the day we flew the kites? ”Mrs. Patrick was laugh ing guiltily because she thought.she was too old to fly kitesher husba nd would make fun of hershe should have bee n doing her housework the nher girls weren t supposed to play the boys gameBy “we were all beside ourselves ” ,the writer means t

13、hat they all.felt con fused B.we nt wild with joyC.lo oked on D.forgot their fightsWhat did the writer think after the kite-flyi ng?（The boys must have had more fun tha n the girls.They should have fini shed their work before play ing.Her pare nts should spe nd more time with them.AII the others mus

14、t have forgotte n that day.Why did the writer fin ally agree to take her little girl for an outi ng?()She sudde nly remembered her duty as a mother.She was remin ded of the day they flew kites.She had finished her work in the kitchen.She thought it was a great day to play outside.The youn gest Patri

15、ck Boy is men ti oned to show that.the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memorieshis experie nee in POW camp threw a shadow over his lifechildhood frien dship means so much to the writerpeople like him really cha nged a lot after the war语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。作者讲述了自己小时候和伙伴们一次放风筝的美好经历，给自己留下了深刻的印象。这次

16、经历对自己以及大家都有积极的影响。答案及剖析:1.C事实细节题。根据第一段中Mother andMrs.Patrick were engagedin spring cleaning. ”可知，这个时候女人们应该在家里做家务活而不是和男孩子们出去玩，所以答案为C项。B 句意猜测题。根据下一句 “Parents forgot their duty and theirdignity;children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies.”可知 ,人们玩得非常尽兴，故选B项。D 事实细节题。根据第七段中The strange thing

17、 was,we didn t mention that day afterward .I felt a little embarrassed.Surely none of the others had bee n as excitedas I. ”可知，作者认为别人都把那天放风筝的事情给忘了，故选D项。B 事实细节题。根据文中Do you remember that day we flew kites? ”可知 ，作者 在听到母亲提到那次放风筝的经历后，马上意识到在这样的好天气带孩子出去玩的意义。故选B项。A 推理判断题。作者十分珍惜那次放风筝的经历。the you ngest Patrick

18、 Boy 提到在战俘营的黑暗日子里时常想到那次放风筝的经历，由此推断出，那次经历对大家都产生了深远Research past recipients (接受者 ). Check out the websites of the organizations的影响 , 故选 A 项。疑难词汇解读】母亲正忙着洗衣服。1.be engaged in.忙于做冒险做某事Mother is now engaged in washing.2.at the risk of doing sth.He jumped into the river to save the child at the risk of losi

19、ng his own life.冒着生命危险跳入河里救那个孩子。长难句子分析】up我把那份记忆尘封在我内心深处 , 在那里 , 我们保存着那些不可能存在然而却偏偏在那里的东 西。xx 高考英语陕西省一模联考试题】Homework and stress are rarely reduced inside the classroom. Meanwhile, outside the classroom, the pressure is on to find scholarships for college.According to Braintrack, a higher education dat

20、abase with worldwide reach, more than 3 billion US dollars (18 billion yuan) in private scholarships are awarded to college students annually. Average awards range from $2,000 to $3,000.The scholarship application process is similar to the college application process: forms to be pleted, test scores

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22、ip Book: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe.Be selective. Thoroughly research the qualifications required by each of the scholarships. Don t waste your time applying forthose that are need-based if youcan t produce the appropriate documents.spon sor

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26、holarships for US colleges.To inform readers of the scholarship application process.To in troduce some typical scholarships offered by US colleges.To give tips on appl ying for US college scholarships.If you want to lear n about past recipie nts of a scholarship, you can use _.collegexpressthe annua

27、l scholarship guidebooks publishedby Peters on sthe websites of the orga ni zati ons spon sori ng the scholarshipsThe Ultimate Scholarship Book: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and PrizesThe underlined word “dazzle ” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _in flue neeB. impress C. guide

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29、 talk like they do【参考答案】DCBC阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。【xx界上海市宝山区质量监测】We Are Now Ope n Daily thru Columbus DayThe museuma nd store are ope n from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the seas on. Trolleyrides start with the first departure at 10:05 a.m. and continue until the end of theday with the

30、last ride being at 4:15 p.m. We are ope n Rain or Shine!April 30 to May 21Open Saturdays and Sun days OnlyMay 28 to October 10Open Every DayOctober 15 to October 30Open Saturdays and Sun days OnlyIce Cream & Sun set Trolley Ride Special ( $3.50 per pers on )At 7:30 p.m., every Wedn esday and Thursda

31、y evening in July and August, jo in us for a special sun set trolley ride with ice-cream in cluded. Bring the whole family!Regular FaresSenior Citize ns:$5.50Adults:$7.50Childre n (Ages 616):$5.00Childre n 5 and un der:FreeDisco unts are available for tour groups.Admission includes unlimited trolley

32、 rides, access to the MuseumGrounds and Exhibits, and use of our pic nic areas to enjoy your own pic nic lun ch.69. From now on to Columbus Day, the museum is ope nonly on Sun days and SaturdaysB. on sunny days70. If a family of 4 pers onsone senior, a couple and a 12-year-old boyaretaking a sun set

33、 trolley ride, how much is the total admissi on fee?A. $18.B. $25.5.C. $33.D. $39.5.Which one of the following is NOT included in the admission?Un limited sun set trolley ride.Access to the Museum Groun ds.A visit to the Museum Exhibits.A use of the museum pic nic areas.【参考答案】69 71 CBA阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四

34、个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。【xx界上海市宝山区质量监测】Discoveries in scie nee and tech no logy are thought by“ un taught minds ” to e inblinding flashes or as the result of dramatic accidents. Sir Alexander Fleming didnot, as lege nd would have it, look at the mold （霉）on a piece of cheese and getthe idea for penicill

35、inthere and then. He experimented with antibacterialsubstancesfor nine years before he made his discovery. Inventions and innovations almost always e out of tough trial and error. Innovationis like soccer; even the best players missthe goal and have their shots blocked much more freque ntly tha n th

36、ey score.The point is that the players who score most are the ones who take most shotsat the goal and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity. The primediffere nee betwee n inno vati on and others is one of approach. Everybody gets ideas,but inno vators work con sciously on theirs, and t

37、hey follow them through un til they prove practicable or otherwise. What ordinary people see as fan ciful abstract ions, professi onal inno vators see as solid possibilities.aCreativethinkingmay mean simply the realizationthat there s no particulargoodness in doing things theway they have always bee

38、n done. ” Wrote Rudolph Flesch,a language authority. This accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels that make life more convenient:“ How e nobody thought of that before?”The creative approach begins with the proposal that nothing be as it appears.Innovators will not accept that there is only one way to do anything. Faced with getting from A to B, the average person will automatically set out on the