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高考时文阅读限时训练（二）（A）字数: 281 阅读时间：3ˊ30〞题数：5 难度：﹡﹡﹡A recent surve y of teachers found that an unhealthy passionwith celebrity culture is having a negative impact on Britishstudents’ studies and it discovered that celebrity couple, theBeckhams, are the favorites among most students. Many studentsare ignoring building their own careers to seek a chance at fameinstead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) surveyfound.Almost two-thirds of teachers said sports stars were thetype of celebrity many pupils wanted to follow while more thanhalf of students wanted to be pop stars.The survey said the celebrities that students aspired to mostly were David and Victoria Beckham who live in Los Angeles now. Soccer player Beckham is on the top of the surve y while in second place, with almost a third of the survey’s votes, was his 33-year-old pop star wife.Almost half of the 300 teachers surveyed said pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing "unsuitably"."We are not surprised about the influence of celebrity culture in schools —it reflects the current media passion with celebrities and the effect of celebrity culture on society as a whole," ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said in a statement."Celebrities can have a positive effect on pupils. They can raise pupils’ aspirations and desires for the future. However, celebrity culture can spread the idea that celebrity status is the greatest achievement and reinforce the belief that other career choices are not as valuable," said one primary school teacher. "Too many of the pupils believe that school success is unnecessary, because they will be able to get fame and fortune quite easily through a reality TV show."1. The story mainly tells us that ______.A. the Beckhams are mostly admired in BritainB. most students think that being pop stars is more valuable than other career achievementsC. the celebrity passion has a harmful impact upon British students’ studiesD. a survey was made recently about the popularity of the stars2. According to the survey, Victoria Beckham ______.A. is a pop star most students admireB. goes in the second place of the celebrities admiredC. won two-thirds of the votesD. lives in New York now3. Why does the author mention that pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing “unsuitably”?A. The pupils think it interesting to pretend to be the celebrities.B. The behavior or the dress of celebrities can be followed as examples.C. The author wants to show the negative influence these celebrities had on the students.D. The author just wants to show being pop stars is very valuable to the students.4. What is not TRUE according to the story?A. Celebrities can’t have positive impact on the students.B. Beckham and Victoria are husband and wife.C. The so-called celebrity culture does harm to the pupils’ ideas about achievement.D. Many students believe that school success is unnecessary.5. The best title of the story is _____.A. Sports Star David BeckhamB. Survey of Students about CelebritiesC. Harmful Effect of Celebrities on StudentsD. Better to Be Pop Stars Than Sports Stars（B）字数：281 阅读时间：3ˊ30 〞题数：5 难度：﹡﹡﹡Pierre is a 25-year-old penguin at the California Academyof Sciences. Due to his old age, he was going bald, which madehim feel too cold to swim in the pool. Therefore, biologistsat the academy had a wetsuit created for this penguin to helphim get back in the swimming pool.Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of blubber tokeep them warm, penguins depend on their waterproof feathers.Without them, Pierre was unwilling to jump into the swimmingpool and ended up trembling on the side of the pool while his 19 peers played in the water."He was cold; he would shake," said Pam Schaller, a senior biologist. Schaller first tried a heat lamp to keep Pierre warm. Then she got another idea: if wetsuits keep humans warm in the cold Pacific, why not make one for Pierre?Schaller designed the suit, which covered Pierre’s body and had small openings for his flippers."I would walk behind him and look at where there were any gaps, and cut and refit and cut and refit until it looked like it was extremely suitable," she said.One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new suit, but in fact, they accepted his new look. He swam freely and got along with others well, although he was the only penguin with a black stomach.Schaller couldn’t say for sure whether the wetsuit allowed Pierre to recover his fine feathers, but "certainly we were able to keep him comfortable during a period of time that would have been very difficult for him to stay comfortable".Pierre will take off his suit after his new feathers grow back.1. Pierre felt too cold to swim in the pool because of _____.A. not having a layer of blubberB. having few feathers due to old ageC. having no wetsuitD. others penguins rejecting him2. The idea of making a wetsuit for Pierre came from _____.A. total inventionB. the use of wetsuit on humansC. the use of heat lampD. waterproof feathers3. Schaller followed Pierre in order to see _____.A. whether other penguins would reject himB. if anywhere of wetsuit needed to be cut and refitC. if the wetsuit kept warmD. whether the wetsuit would keep the feathers from recovering4. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?A. feeling scaredB. staying aloneC. shaking with coldD. keeping warm5. The best title of the passage is _____.A. Wetsuit for An Old PenguinB. Old Penguin Getting BaldC. Unwilling to SwimD. Strange Look of Pierre（C）字数：283 阅读时间：3ˊ30 〞题数：5 难度：﹡﹡﹡Lego, the inventor of those colorful bricks that have inspired kids’ imaginations world-wide, has celebrated its 50th anniversary.On January 28, 1958, a man named Godtfred Kirk Christiansen created the plastic building bricks that can now be found in almost every child’s toy box. The simple building block has become one of the most well-known and popular toys around the world."The Lego brick continues to be very attractive, because it allows children, and others, to develop their creativity and imagination," said Charlotte Simonsen, a spokeswoman of the Danish Lego company.The company’s building brick allows an infinite numberof links. With just two bricks there are 24 different links,and with six, there are 915 million possibilities, accordingto Lego.A half-century after its creation, more than 400 millionchildren and adults spend five billion hours a year puttingthe bricks together and pulling them apart. Also, the bricksmade today can still interlock with those made in 1958.Lego bricks are not just child’s play: they also attract the interest of adults. South Korean adventurer, Heo Young-Ho, who climbed Mount Everest in 1987, left a Lego toy behind in the snow during his climb.After its great success Lego experienced a severe crisis at the end of the 1990s, hit hard by fierce competition from electronic games. This so-called "Toy of the Century" then suffered a dark period that lasted several years.With great efforts, the company began to prosper again, and in 2006 it earned about 1.5 billion dollars in 130 countries. Seven boxes of Lego are now sold every second around the world, and 19 billion bricks are produced each year: enough to encircle the Earth five times！1. The Lego bricks have remained popular in the past 50 years as a result of _______.A. attracting many children worldwideB. brought imagination to the children worldwideC. making the children and even adults worldwide creative and imaginativeD. having infinite links that bring many imagination2. The author gave the example of South Korean adventurer Heo Young-Ho in order to prove that ______.A. Heo Youn-Ho also loved playing Lego bricksB. the Lego bricks made him amountain climberC. the Lego bricks not only interest children but also adultsD. the Lego bricks are a must when on goes on an adventure3. It can be inferred from the text that ______.A. there are 915 different links with just 6 bricksB. the Lego Bricks Company has made a lot of money from the people worldwideC. the Lego Bricks can’t compare with computer gamesD. the bricks made today don’t change much compared with those made in 19584. The underlined word “hit” in the seventh paragraph means _____.A. defeated in a fight or a competitionB. have a crash in an accident or a fightC. get known through a songD. attack sb in a fight5. The main idea of the story is that _____.A. Lego bricks: brilliant past and struggling futureB. Lego bricks: an attraction of both children and adultsC. Lego bricks: making creativity and imaginationD. Lego bricks: making billions of money every year（D）字数：387 阅读时间：4ˊ30〞题数：5 难度：﹡﹡﹡﹡Powerful, blonde and over six feet tall, Maria Sharapova is the most brilliant tennis player who has ever stepped on tennis court. In the summer of 2004, seventeen-year-old Sharapova shocked the tennis world by defeating defending champion Serena Williams in the singles finals at Wimbledon, becoming the first Russian player to win the prestigious tennis event, and the third youngest winner in the history of the tournament.Born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, a town in western Siberia,Russia, Maria Sharapova was encouraged by her parents to tryeverything, from dancing and music to athletics. She discoveredtennis after her fourth birthday. Her parents liked to playtennis, too, so they began teaching her how to hit the ball.She proved to be a quick learner, and when she was six yearsold they traveled to Moscow for a youth tennis clinic.Sharapova and her father moved from Russia to Florida when she was nine so that she could study at the tennis academy of Nick Bollettieri. She won her first junior championship title at the age of thirteen, and turned professional in 2001. Then Sharapova steadily worked her way up through the professional ranks, claiming her first WTA victory in Japan in 2003. Her crowning moment came the next year, when she won Winbledon, at a young age of 17, solidifying a consistent spot in the top five. She gained her second and third major titles by beating Justine Henin at the 2006 US Open and Ana Ivanovic at the 2008 Australian Open. Sharapova has earned a spot on Forbes magazine’s "Celebrity 100"list as the highest paid female athlete in the world.Sharapova hopes to win Wimbledon, the Australian, French, and US Opens in the same year. No other female player has done so since German champion Steffi Graf in 1988. Sharapova also looks forward to a career beyond tennis. She has done somemodeling, is a devoted reader of fashion magazines,and has even helped design some of her court outfitswith Nike. Fashion design might be a career optionwhen she retires from tennis. Acting would be an-otherchoice. "Nothing scares me," she said, "because I’mnot worried about failure. You never know until youtry. So if you don’t try, you’ve failed. All I knowis, I’m starving to be the best."1. Which of the following is not TRUE?A. Sharapova became the champion of the Wimbledon tournament at the age of 17.B. The third Russian player in the history of Wimbledon to win the champioC. Sharapova began to play tennis at the age of fourD. The Wimbledon Tournament is an important event2. Sharapova won her first junior championship title _____.A. sixB. fourC. seventeenD. thirteen3. According to the story, the Forbes magazine _____.A. is a youth tennis training centerB. holds the Wimbledon tournamentC. ranks the famous people worldwide every yearD. introduces fashion4. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?A. An office providing medical serviceB. Sports training centerC. Stadium holding competitionsD. A person offering medical service5. The best title of the story is _____.A. An Outstanding Tennis StarB. History of The Wimbledon TournamentC. Success from YouthD. Championships Sharapova Has Got（E）字数：262 阅读时间：3ˊ30 〞题数：5 难度：﹡﹡﹡Energy-saving Finns invented the first ice skate more than 5,000 years ago, as a practical method of transport to make getting across frozen lakes less of a struggle.The earliest skates would have been blades made from bones and are one of the oldest means of transport ever discovered —they may even have been essential survival tools.Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that ice skates would have saved energy by 10 percent, and suggest that they were developed for practical use and were not used for recreation, as they are today.They think the most likely birthplace of skating is southern Finland, where there are many icy lakes.The scientists have put their theory to the test and made replica skates modeled after examples held at the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.Volunteers on ice rinks in the Alps had their heart rates, oxygen intake and skating speeds measured while they skated with the replica skates. From this experiment, re-searchers were able to calculate energy consumption and the efficiency of their skating. They discovered that skating over the land in ancient Fin-land would have saved 10 percent of people’s energy. The result is based on the fact that Finland has the highest concentration6 of lakes in the world. The ancient Finnish people could benefit more than others from developing this tool for transport.In a time and environment in which the balance between energy taken from food and energy required to live was crucial; the least cost of energy might have helped humans survive in extreme conditions.1. The first ice skate invented by the Finns was used for _____.A. recreationB. transportation across lakesC. saving energyD. sports2. The birthplace of skating might be southern Finland because _____.A. there are many icy lakes thereB. people need more oxygen to breathe in thereC. people feel tired easily thereD. transportation there is more difficult3. Scientists have experimented with replica skates and found that with those skates the ancient Finnish people would have _____.A. crossed a lot of lakesB. saved 10 percent of energy when crossing the lakesC. climbed the Alps easilyD. otherwise wasted a lot of food and energy4. It can be inferred from the story that _____.A. the Finnish people were clever enough to invent the practical skatesB. there were a lot of lakes in ancient FinlandC. the living conditions were very hard for the ancient Finnish peopleD. it was very cold in ancient times in Finland5. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the fifth paragraph mean?A. a copy of somethingB. an example of somethingC. an artificial productD. something that is fake【答案与解析】1. B 主旨大意题。