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湖北省黄冈市区2014高考英语阅读理解3月联合训练题（3）及答案
【2013届广东省六校第二次联考】
LEEDS, England—A Leeds University psychology professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Britons forgive their enemies.
"The hate we hold within us is a cancer, " Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
More than 70 people have become members in Hart's first 20-week workshop in London—a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.
These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian- born Hart.
The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.
The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. "People have lots of negative attitudes towards forgiveness," he said, "People confuse forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one."
Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.
"The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with," said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.
Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people "want to get free of the past".
36. From this passage we know that________.
A. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hate
B. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors
C. without hate, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart
D. people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies
【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。

文章第二段“......holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.”说明心怀愤怒可能导致如高血压和心脏病之类的问题。

所以没有仇恨，人们将有更少和血液心脏有关的麻烦。

故选C。

37. If you are angry with somebody, you should________.
A. attend Hart’s course
B. never meet him or her any longer
C. persuade him or her to have a positive talk with you
D.treat him or her positively instead of negatively
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。

通过文章第6段可知，如果你生某人的气，你应该以一种积极的态度去对待他（她），而不是消极的。

38. In Hart's first 20- week workshop, people there can ________.
A. meet their enemies
B. change their attitudes
C.enjoy the professor's teaching
D. learn how to quarrel with others
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。

通观全文，我们可以看出人们在Hart的工作室能够学会原谅，改变他们对仇恨的态度。

故选B。

39. If you are a member in Hart's workshop, you'll________.
A. meet in eight or ten groups
B. get rid of the illness of cancer
C.attend a gathering twice a month
D. pour out everything stored in your mind
【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。

第五段“The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.”说明成员们每两周聚集一次，也就是一个月两次。

40. The author wrote this passage in order to________.
A. persuade Britons to go to Hart's workshop
B. tell us the news about Hart's workshop
C. tell us how to run a workshop like Hart's
D.help us to look at various kinds of angers
【答案】B
【解析】推理判断题。

第三段“More than 70 people have become members in Hart's first 20-week workshop……”和第七段“Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.”都说明作者写这篇文章是为了告诉我们关于Hart的工作室的消息。

【2014高考英语江西省景德镇质量检测】
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Italy's highest court has upheld（支持）the prison sentence handed down to the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud（税收欺诈）. However, because of his age, Mr Berlusconi is unlikely to go to jail and instead faces house arrest or community service. Alan Johnston reports from Rome. "For nearly 20 years, Silvio Berlusconi has been the single most influential figure in Italian politics, he has been Prime Minister three times and yet judges have now decided that he is guilty of tax fraud and should go to jail. It's the first time in all his many court cases that he has been definitively convicted（定罪）. There can be no appeal. Mr Berlusconi will surely see this as one of the darkest moments in his extraordinary political life."
The United States says it's extremely disappointed by Russia's decision to agree to Edward Snowden temporary asylum（庇护）. Mr Snowden, a former U.S. intelligence analyst, has been charged by the U.S. with spying for leaking details of secret government surveillance（监视）programs. Mark Mardell reports from Washington. "The White House says granting Edward Snowden asylum undermines (暗中破坏) cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. And they insist he is not a whistle blower, not a dissident. He's been charged with criminal offenses. They openly admit that the relationship with Russia is already difficult with many points of conflict. Up until now, a most serious was over the approach to Syria which makes some very uncomfortable body language between President Obama and President Putin at the recent G8 meeting. Now, the White House spokesman Jay Carney says they are considering pulling out of a planned summit between the two leaders."
Share prices in the U.S. reached all time highs, the Dow Jones index set a new record while the wider index of the U.S. market the S&P 500 went over 1700 points for the first time. Here's Andrew Walker. "The share price gains partly reflect some upbeat(乐观的) news about the U.S economy,
the survey of manufactures showed stronger activity last month. There has also been a decline in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits, but the exceptional policies of the Federal Reserve are also an important and persistent factor driving the stock market. The statement from the FED on Thursday has been interpreted that suggesting its efforts to stimulate stronger economic growth will not be cut back very soon.
61.Which column do you probably see the passage ?
A. Entertainment
B. News
C. Science
D. Advertisement
62.From the first paragraph we know that ____________.
A. Berlusconi is the former Italian president.
B. Berlusconi is likely to go to jail.
C. Berlusconi has been Prime Minister for three years.
D. Berlusconi will surely experience the darkest moments .
63.From the second paragraph we know_______.
A. The White House think Edward Snowden is innocent.
B. Edward Snowden escaped from Japan.
C. Edward Snowden event may influence the relationship between Russia and America.
D. The UN express its regret about Edward Snowden
64.According to the third paragraph we know _______________.
A. America wants to stimulate economic growth through share market.
B. The higher share prices in the U.S suggests fewer unemployment.
C. The Dow Jones share prices depend on world economic growth
D. The share price gains mean the boom of the US economy.
65．Which of the following is True.
A．Berlusconi has been in jail.
B. Berlusconi has a great influence on Italian politics.
C. Russia and America agree with each other on Syria issue .
D. The number of people applying for unemployment benefits is increasing in America.
【参考答案】61-65 BDCAB
【2013界广东省深圳市一模】
At railway stations all across Britain next week, groups of students will gather with their backpacks to wait for the trains that will carry them home for Christmas. This is as large a movement of human beings as before, but with more contradictory traffic flows, so that trains filled with the young pass each other travelling in every direction.
At first, I went home every weekend with my washing, but then those visits became less regular. How did I let my parents know I was coming? They had no phone. Perhaps I wrote to them ("Expect me with dirty shirts this Friday afternoon"), but more likely I didn't let them know, and just turned up or didn't turn up, not understanding that my parents' dashed hopes of seeing me were a greater casualty of my carelessness than a spoiled tea.
And in all this I suspect I was typical, at least of young men. As for our fathers and mothers, none of them talked of "empty-nest syndrome", even though its implication that the principal human duty is to protect and feed the young would have suited their generation better than ours. Then, the feelings of loss went without a name. Today, it's a condition with remedies, which will make parents feel more enjoyable in their life. The Mayo Clinic, for example, suggests you try to maintain regular contact with your children through "visits, phone calls, emails, texts or video chats". If you feel depressed, lean on loved ones or your mental health provider. Above all, stay positive: "Thinking about the extra time and energy you might have to devote to your marriage or personal interests after your last child leaves home might help you adapt to this major life change."
What can’t be denied, however, is that children often leave home. In modern societies, this is what they do. Christmas is the very time they can be depended on to return. For the non-religious, that may be this season’s true comfort and significance.
文章大意：本文是一篇故事，讲述了圣诞前夕英国大批青年学生乘火车回家，由此引发了作者回顾自我的经历并意识到，当年他根本没有意识到父母对孩子的关爱。

文章还给上了年纪的人如何排解空巢的孤独感和孩子们一些建议。

31．The main reason for the busy traffic across Britain next week is that .
A．young students will travel home for Christmas
B．young people will travel in every direction
C．it is a large movement of human beings
D．the traffic flows will be more contradictory
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。

根据文章第一段groups of students ...will carry them home for Christmas 年轻人坐车回家过圣诞节，可知选A。

32．From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer .
A．went home every week to wash dirty clothes
B．understood his parents’ desire of seeing him
C．didn’t understand his parents’ feelings
D．went home to see his parents regularly
【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。

根据文章第二段内容not understanding that my parents' dashed hopes of seeing me were a greater casualty of my carelessness than a spoiled tea可知选C。

33．The underlined word “remedies” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to . A．reasons B．excuses C．habits D．solutions
【答案】D
【解析】词义猜测题。

根据该句后面定语从句的解释which will make parents feel more enjoyable in their life可知是补救办法，纠正办法，解决方法之意。

故选D。

34．From the last paragraph we know that .
A．in modern society, children should leave home
B．Christmas is likely a time for family reunion
C．the significance of Christmas is celebration
D．Christmas is not a comfort for the non-religious
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。

根据最后一段理解Christmas is the very time they can be depended on to return可知圣诞节是家人重聚的日子。

故选B。

35．From the passage we can infer that by writing the article the writer’s purpose is to. A．persuade the young to show concern for their parents
B．ask the young to go home regularly
C．make the young unde rstand their parents’ interest
D．enable the young to be more independent
【答案】A
【解析】推理判断题。

根据理解整个故事可知作者的目的是劝诫年轻人要对父母表示关心。

故选A。

【2014高考英语江西省景德镇质量检测】
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A new study suggests that middle-class teenagers are less intelligent than a generation ago due to the dumbing down (简化)of youth culture and school tests.
IQ tests show that scores for the average 14-year-old have dropped by more than two points between 1984 and 2012. For those in the upper half of the intelligence scale--a group typically dominated(支配) by the children of middle-class families--average IQ scores were six points down on 28 years ago. Their leisure time is increasingly taken up with playing computer games and watching TV instead of reading and holding conversations.
Education experts said a growing tendency in schools to "teach to the test" was affecting youngsters' ability to think laterally.
For the study, Professor James Flynn, of the University of Otago in New Zealand, analysed UK children's scores in IQ tests over time. He found a regular pattern that IQs increased among children aged between 5 and 10 over the 28-year-period, at the rate of up to half a point a year. He believes these gains are linked to changes to the home environment children experienced when they were young, with parents increasingly providing stimulating activities.
But Professor Flynn also found that teenagers' scores had dipped slightly over the past generation. It is the first time IQ scores have fallen for any age group during the past century, his research suggests. "While we have enriched the cognitive(认知的)environment of children before their teenage years, the cognitive environment of the teenagers has not been enriched."
"Other studies have shown how pervasive teenage youth culture is, and what we see is that the parents' influence on children’s IQ will slowly diminish with age." "What we know is that youth
culture is more visually orientated around computer games than they are in terms of reading and holding conversations."
He said previous studies have tended to show IQ increasing as teenagers move into adulthood, entering university or starting work. Previous studies have claimed that using text messages and email can temporarily reduce IQ by causing concentration to drop, while smoking marijuana(大麻) has also been linked with a decline in IQ.
66.We can infer from the passage that _______________
A. IQ tests scores for the average 14-year-old have dropped by more than two points in the past decade.
B. Original youth culture and school tests are more beneficial to middle-class teenagers’ intelligent development.
C. Now middle-class teenagers are more intelligent than a generation ago
D. Now youth culture and school tests have a good influence on students
67.Which of the following can cause a decline in IQ?
A. reading
B. holding conversations
C. starting work
D. smoking marijuana
68.According to Professor Flynn’s study one’s IQ scores can be increased at most _______ points .
A. 2.5
B. 5
C.14
D. 7
69.The underlined word in paragraph 6 means___________.
A. reduce
B. strengthen
C.increase
D. disappear
70.What’s the main idea of this passage ?
A. Parents have an influence on children’s IQ.
B. Using text messages can reduce IQ.
C. It is about a new research on teenager’s IQ.
D. The way of testing IQ scores has been found.
【参考答案】66-70 BDCAC。