2024高考英语阅读理解拉分特训(4)及答案

2014高考英语阅读理解拉分特训（4）及答案

阅读理解

（201*·陕西卷）C

In early autumn I applied for applied for admission to college. I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University,but my mother fought strongly againsnst it. When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of Cornell,she tore it up.

“You can’t say it’s not a great university,just because Papa went there.”

“That’s not it at all.And it is a top university.”She was still holding the pieces in her hand. “But we can’t afford to send you to college.”

“I wouldn’t dream of asking you for money.Do you want me to get a job to help suppont you and Papa?Things aren’t that bad,are they?”

“No,”she said. “I don’t expect you to help support us.”

Father borrowed money form his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop,His chief customers were his old college friends.To get new customers,my mother had to help.She picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women,so that she cound get to know more people. Whether those people would turn into customers was another question. I knew that my Parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投资) could show returns.What’s more ,they had not wanted enough to be roch and successful ；otherwise they cound not possibly have managed their lives so badly.

I was torn between the desave to help them and change,their lives,and the determinstion not to repeat their mistakes.I had a strong belief in my power to go what I wanted.After months of hard study I won a full college scholarship（奖学金）.My father could hardly contain his pride in me,and my mother eventually gave in before my success.

53.The author was not allowed to go to Cornell University mainly because【D】 A. his father grduated from the university B. his mother did not thinks it a great university C. his parents needed him to help support the family D. his parents did not have enough money for him

54.The father srarted his small shop with the money from .【C】 A.a local league B.his university

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C.his relatives D.his college friends

55.Why did the mother renew her membership in the league? 【A】 A.To help with her husband’s business B.To raise money for her son C.To meet her long-forgotten friends D.To better manage her life

56.According to the text,what was the author determined to do in that autumn? 【C】 A. To get a well-paid job for himself B. To improve relations with his mother C. To go to his dream university D. To carry on with his father’s business

第三部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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(2012·河北省普高质检)

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the City of Melbourne's tourism program. If you would like to receive an email advising you of the next recruitment session, please email tourism@ melbourne. vic.gov. au.

Volunteering with Tourism Melbourne

Volunteers play a vital role in the City of Melbourne's tourism services. They provide information on Melbourne to around two million visitors each year. Their love and knowledge of the city and regional Victoria adds to Melbourne's reputation as a friendly, welcoming and culturally vibrant(有活力的) city.

The City of Melbourne's tourism branch generally conducts two volunteer recruitment intakes each year for the following tourism programs：

·City Ambassadors

·Melbourne Visitor Booth at Bourke Street Mall ·Melbourne Visitor Centre at Federation Square ·Melbourne Greeter Service

Places are limited and potential volunteers must participate in a selection process based around the following criteria. Volunteers must be：

·passionate about Melbourne ·customer service focused

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·familiar with computer

·available for one four-hour shift (either morning or afternoon) each week for a minimum of one year

·team players who love meeting peopleapplication)

·More information

To find out more about becoming a volunteer, contact us online or phone the City of Melbourne's Volunteer Project Officer, Tourism Melbourne on (03) 9658 9658.

For other volunteering opportunities, see national volunteer recruitment website Go_Volunteer. 文章大意：你对成为墨尔本旅游志愿者感兴趣吗？墨尔本正在招聘旅游志愿者，看看你是不是符合条件呢？

56．Where will you most probably read the above passage? A. In classified tourism advertisements. B. In a radio report of a tourism program. C. In a book review about volunteering. D. On a local government website.

答案：D 推理判断题。由第二段和最后一段可知，这是当地政府网站。 57．Which of the following is NOT one of the qualifications for a volunteer? A. Owning a driver's license. B. Enjoying meeting persons. C. Having computer skills. D. A four-hour period each week.

答案：A 细节理解题。由第七、八段文字可知，B、C、D三项都是志愿者必备的条件。 58．It can be inferred from the passage that________. A．the program's recruitments take place every two years

B．Go Volunteer offers information about Melbourne's volunteer program C．if you know Melbourne well, you're sure to be admitted as a tourism volunteer D．even though you're interested in the program, you can't be its member right now

答案：D 推理判断题。由文章最后两段可知，要成为志愿者，还要通过审核。A、B、C三项都不对。

59．What would be the best title for the passage? A. Does volunteering pay back? B. Welcome to the City of Melbourne! C. Tourism Volunteer Program D. Interest and Tourism Volunteering

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·able to demonstrate a commitment to the City of Melbourne's values (as outlined the online

答案：C 主旨大意题。由文章大意，结合第一段可知。

B

(2012·上海春招)

Frederic Mishkin, who's been a professor at Columbia Business School for almost 30 years, is good at solving problems and expressing ideas. Whether he's standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation, his hands are always waving and pointing. When he was in graduate school, one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office.

It turns out, however, that Mishkin's professor had it exactly wrong. Gesture doesn't prevent but promotes clear thought and speech. Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we talk form a kind of second language, adding information that's absent from our words. It's learning's secret code: Gesture reveals what we know. It reveals what we don't know. What's more, the agreement (or lack of agreement) between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readiness to learn.

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Many of the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. “We change our minds by moving our hands，” writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work. Particularly significant are what she calls “mismatches” between oral expression and physical gestures. A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one, for example, but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate, which is correct. Such differences indicate that we're moving from one level of understanding to another. The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem we're working on; we can't yet absorb these concepts into language, but we can capture them in movement.

Goldin-Meadow's more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to learn, but that it actually helps to bring learning about. It does so in two ways. First, it elicits(引出) helpful behavior from others around us. Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction. Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn, and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problem-solving techniques. The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning, bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts. A 2007 study by Susan Wagner Cook, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, reported that third-graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra (代数) were nearly three times more likely to remember what they'd learned than classmates who did not gesture.

文章大意：手势语对于我们的学习有着重要的意义。

60．According to Paragraph 1, Frederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands because________.

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A. he could better express his ideas that way B. he always pointed his finger at his professor C. his professor did not like his gesturing

D. his gestures prevented his professor from thinking

答案：C 细节理解题。由第一段最后一句话“When he was in graduate school, one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office.”可知，教授对他的学生的指手画脚的动作不满。

61．How is gesturing important in acquiring knowledge?

A．It draws tasteful responses from others and increases learning speed. B．It promotes second language learning and quickens thinking. C．It provides significant clues for solving academic problems. D．It reduces students' reliance on teachers' instruction.

答案：A 细节理解题。由最后一段第六句话“The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning, bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts.”可知。

62．What can be inferred from the passage about gesture-speech mismatches? A. They can stimulate our creativity. B. Instructors should make full use of them.

C. Teachers can hardly explain new concepts without them. D. They serve as a stepping stone to solving real life problems.

答案：B 推理判断题。由最后一段的介绍可知，老师、家长应该充分利用手势语。 63．What could be the best title of the passage? A. Hand Motions, a Second Language B. Gesturing: Signal of Understanding C. New Uses of Gesturing D. The Secret Code of Learning

答案：D 主旨大意题。纵观全文，讲述了手势语对于学习的重要意义。

If your preschoolers turn up their noses at carrots or celery, a small reward like a sticker for taking even a taste may help get them to eat previously disliked foods, a UK study said.

Though it might seem obvious that a reward could encourage young children to eat their

vegetables, the idea is actually controversial, researchers wrote in the American Journal of

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Clinical Nutrition. That’s because some studies have shown that rewards can backfire and cause children to lose interest in foods they already liked, said Jane Wardle, a researcher at University College London who worked on the study. Verbal praise, such as “Brilliant! You’re a great vegetable taster,” did not work as well.

The study found t hat when parents gave their small children a sticker each time they took a

“tiny taste” of a disliked vegetable, it gradually changed their attitudes. The children were also willing to eat more of the vegetables-either carrots, celery, cucumber, red pepper, cabbage or sugar snap peas-in laboratory taste tests, the study said.

Researchers randomly assigned（分派）173 families to one of these groups. In one, parents used stickers to reward their children each time they took a tiny sample of a disliked vegetable. A second group of parents used verbal praise. The third group, where parents used no special vegetable-promoting methods, served as a “control”

Parents in the reward groups offered their children a taste of the “target” vegetable every day of 12 days, Soon after, children in the sticker group were giving higher ratings to the vegetables-and were willing to eat more in the research lab, going from an average of 5 grams at the start to about 10 grams after the 12-day experience. The turnaround also seemed to last, with preschoolers in the sticker group still willing to eat more of the once disliked vegetable three months later.

Why didn’t the verbal praise work? Wardle said the parents’ words may have seemed “insincere” to their children.

16．The purpose of writing the passage is .

A．to introduce a practical method of making children eat vegetables B．to show the procedure of an experiment on children’s diet C．to explain why children hate to eat vegetables D．to present a proper way of vernal praise to parents

17．The underlined word “backfire” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ”.

A．shoot from behind the back C．produce an unexpected result

B．make a lire in the hackyard D．achieve what was planned

18．According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A．Most children are born to dislike carrots or celery.

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B．It remains a question whether rewarding is a good way to get children to eat vegetables. C．Oral praise wokrs quite well in encouraging children to eat vegetables. D．Children in the sticker group will never lose interest in eating vegetables. 19．How did the researchers get their conclusion from the experiment?

A．By comparison.

B．By asking questions. D．By discussion.

C．By giving examples,

20．What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Children like rewards, not verbal praise.

B．Parents should praise their children in a sincere tone. C．Children are difficult to inspire. D．Parents should give up verbal praise. 16 A

The new studies show that fewer than half of the 9th graders in many of the nation’s largest cities, can ever graduate. The studies clearly show that the dropout rate isn’t dropping. And, in particular, the dropout rate isn’t dropping for poor and minority students.

Amazingly, though so many regret the rising dropout rate, our schools continue to lack formal plans--or any plans--to teach students motivation(动机). Most schools have no game plan to ensure that students understand that schooling will be completely necessary. Schools expect youth and children to act as though schooling is important, but they never teach them to believe that.

Years ago, families ensured that the children recognized the value of schooling. But in many modern families, the children may fail to recognize the importance of school life just because these families may actually tell their children that school is not important. Since many families are not motivating their children to be interested students, youth professionals, like teachers

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may need to provide this training. Otherwise, it is likely the dropout rate will continue not to drop, but only worsen.

Here are some strategies to convince even the most apathetic (无动于衷的) students that they must stay in school.

Ask students if they will ever need to work: The world has changed. 100 years ago, factory work was the booming job, and it required no education. Today, factories are increasingly automated. Most computer-related jobs require education and at least a high school diploma. Ask students which century they will be prepared for: In 1900, the most common jobs were farm laborer and domestic servant—education not needed. Now, the most common jobs are office and sales staff—education and diploma usually needed. An amazing 6 out of 10 people today work in a store or office.

Ask students to devise a way that the employee could be replaced. For example, the coming trend in fast food is to use computers rather than people to run the restaurant. A prototype is apparently already being tested. The students should discover that most jobs that lack education and diploma requirements may be ripe for automation. 11. What does the underlined part mean in Paragraph1? A. Few students can afford to go to school in large cities. B. A large number of the 9th graders can graduate now. C. There are still quite a few 9th graders leaving school early. D. Most schools in large cities have fewer and fewer students. 12. Without the help of youth professionals,_____.

A. more and more families will gradually recognize the value of school. B. it is likely that the dropout rate in schools won’t continue to drop. C. some parents will be more convinced of their children’s future. D. the schools will make proper plans to solve the problems with dropout. 13. The author takes factory work for example mainly to ______. A. tell us that many jobs requires certain education in the past

B. show that there are more factory work and employment in modern society C. show that employment in the computer field grows at a high rate

D. emphasize that modern jobs require education and schools are necessary

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14. It can be inferred that______.

A. both schools and families should answer for the high dropout rate B. many new jobs don’t need children’s high school diploma C. working in a store doesn’t require a high school diploma

D. most schools are ready to help students recognize the importance of study 15. If students play the “Replace Me” game, the result would be “______”

A. They will know that they can ‘always’ do without a diploma B. More of them will drop out early to go to work

C. They will discover that lack of education is a disadvantage in choosing jobs D. They will become better at using computers to hunt for a job

参考答案 11—15 、CBDAC

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