福建省安溪蓝溪中学高二英语 阅读训练6

阅读训练6
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On a freezing-cold February morning in Indiana, Jhaqueil Reagan, 18, left home to walk to a job interview — ten miles away, over muddy roads.
Reagan had been looking for work for months. His parents had died two years earlier, and he was the only 36 of his younger brother, Cole, 16, and sister, Jazzlyn, seven. He was 37 for a regular salary 38 cutting lawns and doing other temporary jobs.
Three hours later, Reagan had covered only three miles. He paused outside a 39 called Papa Roux to ask for directions from 40 Art Bouvier, who was clearing ice and snow from the parking lot.
“I told him to get on the bus,” says Bouvier. “He 41 me and went on his way.”
Fifteen minutes later, Bouvier 42 in his car beside Reagan as he walked along.
“You’ve 43 got to be on the bus,” he told Reagan.
“I don’t have money for the bus,” Reaga n replied. Bouvier offered him a 44 . On the way, he asked the boy about his job search.
“I thought, This is the kind of kid I want working for me,” says Bouvier. He got the teen’s 45 number and dropped him off for his 46 .
Later that day, Bouvier 47 about Reagan on Facebook. “He doesn’t know it yet, but he 48 on Monday,” Bouvier wrote. “It’s been a while since I’ve met someone so 49 !”
A few hours later, Bouvier called to offer Reagan a job. 50 , the teen accepted on the spot. A television reporter caught wind of the 51 and interviewed the pair on camera that night.
Today, Reagan is washing dishes, filling orders, and greeting Papa Roux 52 for
$8.50 an hour.
The publicity has brought in so many 53 customers that Bouvier plans to open
a second restaurant by the end of the year. Reagan has 54 enough money to move into
a new apartment.
Now, when the weather is 55 , he takes the bus to work.
36. A. relative B. friend C. teacher D. caretaker
37. A. glad B. sorry C. nervous D. desperate
38. A. before B. until C. after D. since
39. A. hotel B. restaurant C. hospital D. store
40. A. owner B. waiter C. consumer D. assistant
41. A. comforted B. refused C. moved D. thanked
42. A. cheered up B. threw up C. pulled up D. looked up
43. A. normally B. always C. really D. finally
44. A. chance B. lift C. car D. ticket
45. A. phone B. bus C. identity D. account
46. A. party B. job C. conference D. interview
47. A. wrote B. talked C. heard D. cared
48. A. finishes B. returns C. starts D. leaves
49. A. strong-minded B. poor C. healthy D. kind-hearted
50. A. Tired B. Encouraged C. Confused D. Shocked
51. A. story B. reason C. joke D. truth
52. A. bosses B. passengers C. reporters D. customers
53. A. regular B. private C. new D. big
54. A. borrowed B. earned C. spent D. collected
55. A. warm B. bad C. co
阅读理解
A
“Good Fortune in a Wrapping
Cloth” is a story about a Korean
girl named Ji-su who lived many years ago. Ji-su’s mother, Eomma, is honored by being chosen by the Korean king, Yongjo, to come and be a seamstress(女裁缝) at the royal palace in Hanyang where she will sew wrapping cloths, or bojagi. Ji-su is heartbroken at her mother’s leaving, for she will not get to see her again. Realizing that the only way to be reunited with her mother is to become an equally gifted and outstanding seamstress, Ji-su makes up her mind to do just that, despite many difficulties.
Eomma’s parting gift to Ji-su is a sewing box. In it Ji-su finds the tools of her mother’s trade: a needle, thread, a ruler, a pair of scissors, and a small iron called an indoor. Ji-su wipes her tears and asks her aunt, Gomo, if she can teach her to stitch(缝) bojagi now that her mother is gone. Her aunt begins to teach her the very next day. From then on Ji-su works very hard to become an artist as well as a seamstress, for that is the only way she will be reunited with her mother.
Ji-su carefully stitches a bojagi full of good luck fabric bats she has made to send her mother a message of good fortune, cheer, safety and happiness. The story continues, and despite disappointments and defeats, Ji-su eventually achieves her goal of being chosen to sew for the king and being reunited with her mother, although she gives up many hours of normal childhood pleasure to achieve her goal.
Beautiful paintings of delicate scenes in Korea accompany every page of “Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth,” and examples of creative bojagi or wrapping cloths from the San Francisco Asian Art Museum are shown after a list of Korean terms used in the story. “Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth” is a beautiful multicultural studies book for children, filled with many lovely teaching moments.
56. Ji-su decides to learn to stitch bojagi __________.
A. because her aunt asks her to do so
B. because she becomes interested in it
C. in order to be together with her mother
D. so that she can become a famous seamstress
57. Which of the following can be used to describe Ji-su?
A. Honest.
B. Brave
C. Warm-hearted.
D. Determined.
58. What can we learn about the story?
A. It is written in Korean.
B. It has a happy ending.
C. It takes place at the royal palace.
D. It is about a kind of Korean clothes.
59. The passage is most probably taken form __________.
A. a book review
B. a personal diary
C. a history paper
D. a magazine report
B
“I feel fat.” “I hate my hair.” “I wish I were taller.” Julia Bluhm, 14, was sick of hearing comments like these. Many girls she knew seemed to worry too much about their appearance — their weight, skin, hair, even the shape of their faces.
So Julia decided to do something about it. Her target? Seventeen, a popular girls’ magazine. “I look at the pictures, and they just don’t look like girls I see walking down the street,” the eighth-grader from Maine told The New York Times.
Of course they don’t. Magaz ines use programs like Photoshop to remove zits(青春痘), add shine to hair, and slim waistlines. Often, girls are made to look like Barbie dolls.
Julia fears that these impossible standards of beauty make teens feel terrible about their own appearances. After all, even the models aren’t as perfect as they look in print!
So Julia launched an online petition(请愿书) asking Seventeen to put at least one unaltered photo in each issue. “I want to see regular girls that look like me in a magazine that’s supposed to be for me,” she wrote.
Days later, her petition had thousands of signatures. Julia and her mom traveled to New York City and joined a demonstration(集合) in front of Seventeen’ s offices. Then they were invited to meet with Seventeen’s editor-in-chief, Ann Shoket.
A few months later, Shoket announced that the staff of Seventeen had signed a “Body Peace Treaty.” They promised to “never change girls’ body or face shapes” and only use photos of “real girls and models who are healthy.” In addition, they promised to be more open about the ways in which images are changed before publication.
Julia’s fight against teen self-hate is far from over, but for now it seems she’s winning —and she’s thrilled. “This is a huge victory,” she wrote in a message on her petition pag e. “I’m so unbelievably happy.”
60.When Julia heard many girls say something like “I hate my hair”, she felt
_________.
A. natural
B. strange
C. worried
D. pitiful
61. Why did Julia launch an online petition?
A. To fight for real beauty.
B. To join a demonstration.
C. To set a standard of beauty.
D. To ask Seventeen to apologize.
62. The underlined word “unaltered” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. huge
B. recent
C. interesting
D. unchanged
63. We can learn form the passage that ___________.
A. Julia’s effort paid off
B. the campaign lasted a year
C. Julia is a teenager from New York City
D. Seventeen promised to never use Photoshop
C
We are now accepting submissions for our 13th annual photo contest.
As always, we want creative and beautiful photos. The topic of travel is broad, so have some fun with it: Experiment with lighting, angles, subjects and composition.
One photo per person, and the photo should be taken since July 31, 2013. If you submit several entries, we will consider only the first photo received. Also, you may submit only an image that you have taken yourself.
Please submit clear photos online at wapo.st/travelshot. Include caption information and the date the photo was taken, plus your name, e-mail address and phone number. We promise that we will not publish your personal information online or in any other way.
We’re looking for amateurs only; professional photographers (i.e., anyone who earns more than 50 percent of his or her annual income from photography) need not apply. Employees, officers, directors and representatives of The Washington Post, and their family members are not allowed to enter the contest.
Please do not submit images that have been greatly edited. It is acceptable to adjust images to achieve color balance that reflects the scene as you observed it.
Cutting is also acceptable. The Washington Post keeps the right to disqualify(取消资格) any image that it feels has been overly changed.
The deadline for entries is July 20, 2014. By entering, you give The Washington Post a license to use your photos, including to edit, publish, spread and republish them in any form. Photographers keep the rights to their images.
The winners will be determined by the Travel staff of The Washington Post and world-famous photography professionals invited. Only US residents can enter. The winning photos will be published on or around Aug 25.
The contest is subject to all federal, state and local laws. For complete rules and prize information, go to wapo.st/travelshotrules.
Now, it is time to take out your camera and start shooting. Surprise us with your excellent works. Maybe you will be the winner!
64. The photo for the contest must _________.
A. be in color
B. be sent online
C. be taken in 2014
D. be taken in the
USA
65. According to the passage, the participants _________.
A. should be native Americans
B. can be professional photographers
C. should be readers of The Washington Post
D. can not be related to staff of The Washington Post
66. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Edited photos are not acceptable.
B. Each participant can only submit one picture.
C. The photo contest has been held over 20 times.
D. By entering, participants lose the rights to their works.
D
There’s a guy like me in every st ate and federal prison in America, I guess —I’m the guy who can get these for you: cigarettes, a bag of cigar, if you want that, a bottle of wine to celebrate your son or daughter’s high school graduation, or almost anything else... within reason, that is. It wasn’t always that way.
I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in the prison who is willing to admit what he did. I committed murder. I put a large insurance policy on my wife, who was three years older than 1 was, and then I fixed the brakes of the car her father had given us as a wedding present. It worked out exactly as I had planned, except I hadn’t planned on her stopping to pick up the neighbour woman and the woman’s son on the way down Castle Hill and into to wn. The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes, gathering speed. Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better when it hit the base of the Civil War statue in the town and burst into flames.
I also hadn’t planned on getting caught, but caught I was. I got a pass into this place. My state has no death penalty(死刑), but I was tried for all three deaths and given three life sentences, to run one after the other. That fixed up any chance of parole(假释) I might have, for a long, long time. The judge called what I had done “an extremely evil crime”, and it was, but it is also in the past now.
Have I transformed myself, you ask? I don’t know what that word means, at least as far as prisons and corrections go. I think it’s a politician’s word. It may have some other meaning, and it may be that 1 will have a chance to find out, but that is the future...
I was young, good-looking, and from the poor side of town. I met a pretty, headstrong girl who lived in one of the fine old houses on Carbine Street. She got pregnant later. Her father was agreeable to the marriage if 1 would take a job in the company he owned and “work my way up”. I found out that what he really had in mind was keeping me in his house and under his thumb, like a disagreeable pet that has not quite been housebroken and which may bite. Enough hate eventually piled up to cause me to do what I did.
Given a second chance 1 would not do it again, but I’m not sure that means I am transformed.
67. What do we know about the man from the passage?
A. He is the most powerful man in the prison.
B. He is quite an able person as a prisoner.
C. He is in charge of the federal prison.
D. He is treated unfairly in the prison.
68. By saying that “I got a pass into this place” (in Para. 3), the man means that________.
A. he has stayed in the federal prison before
B. he was allowed to go home
C. he was caught by the police without a pass
D. he has got to stay in prison
69. The man committed such an evil crime because__________.
A. his wife ha d looked on him as a pet and he didn’t feel respected
B. his wife’s family members had disapproved of their marriage
C. he had been angry for a long time with his father-in-law
D. he had made a secret deal with an insurance company
70. Which of the following is TRUE about the man?
A. He thinks the trial a mistake and is unfair.
B. He has found out the meaning of “transform”.
C. He regrets having committed the crime.
D. He will be out of prison in the near future.
E
Between 1996 and 2010, according to a study published in 2012, the use of computed tomography (CT)(计算机断层扫描) scans nearly increased by three times as much, from 52 scans per 1,000 patients to 149 scans per 1,000 patients. And those images certainly provided valuable information to help doctors diagnose(诊断) hidden conditions that wouldn’t have been possible without the added insight. But CT scans produce those detailed images using small amounts of radiation, and while the absolute risk of that exposure is small, on a population level, increased reliance on the scans could drive a slight bump in cancer risk from CT.
That’s exactly what the latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found. It’s the largest study to date — involving 10.9 million Australians born between 1985 and 2005. A team of researchers from Australia and Europe studied the cancer rates of Australian patients from birth to 19 years old who had CT scans in
early childhood, and compared them to those who did not receive the scans.
Most of the cases were followed for 10 to 17 years, and by the end of the study period, 3,150 of the 680,000 patients exposed to CT scans during childhood and young adulthood developed cancer and 57,542 of the remaining participants, who were not exposed, developed cancer. Those who were scanned had a 24% greater risk of cancer than those who did not receive them, with the risk increasing by 16% for each additional CT. The risk was highest for children who received scans before age five; they showed a 35% increased chance of developing a cancer during the study period than those who weren’t scanned at this age.
That research is still ongoing, however, and in the meantime, doctors and patients are left to find the delicate balance between how necessary scans are to diagnose disease, and their potential risk of causing cancer, which, most experts say, is still very small. “All parties, including patients and families, need to work together to make sure that CT scans are limited to situations where there is a definite(明确的) clinical(临床) indication,” the authors write. Only then will the benefits, they say, outweigh the risks of exposure.
71. The underlined word “bump” in Paragraph 1 most probably means __________.
A. touch
B. problem
C. rise
D. change
72. What can we learn about the participants of the study?
A. They came from both Australia and Europe.
B. Most of them are between 10 to 17 years old.
C. Some of them had developed cancer at the age of 19.
D. About 10.22 million of them hadn’t received CT scans.
73. Among the following, who will face the highest cancer risk after CT scans?
A. A one-year-old baby.
B. A seven-year-old student.
C. A fourteen-year-old teen.
D. A twenty-year-old adult.
74. Which might be a suggestion from the researchers of the study?
A. Patients should take a cautious attitude to CT scans.
B. Hospitals should provide more CT scan services.
C. Doctors should use CT scans to diagnose cancer.
D. Young people should say no to CT scans.
75. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To report a coming event.
B. To present a research result.
C. To tell an interesting story.
D. To introduce a diagnostic tool.
2016秋高二英语阅读训练6
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