高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 227

高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 227Passage 1Holidays are really important. Many of us will have childhood memories of summer holidays where we were taken away from home to experience new environments and learn in different ways.But holidays are expensive and, for those on low wages or living on benefits, they are often unobtainable. Even the cheapest holidays require travel and other additional costs that are difficult for many families to meet.For working parents, the long summer break can be a very difficult problem for childcare. When an annual leave allowance amounts to only five weeks, there is a need to spread this across the year. Couples can find themselves taking leave in turn in order to care for children who are on holiday. For some, this makes even an affordable family holiday difficult.The schools that I visit in Nottingham are full of experienced staff committed to giving our children a caring and inspiring learning environment. The number of children receiving free school meals is quite large in Nottingham and many schools have breakfast clubs to make sure that children get a healthy start to the day. Most schools undertake programs of group or individual educational support. Schools also have an important role in safe guarding children's welfare through the ongoing touch and support with their pupils. During the long summer holidays, much of this is missed.While teachers are holidaying in the UK, many of their pupils spend the whole six weeks on the street where they live. The lack of free school for six weeks can result in pressure on a family budget and an inability to afford the inspiring experiences that help children to continue their learning.In setting out its plans for a five-term year, Nottingham City Council (委员会) is seeking to reduce the summer holiday down to four and a half weeks, with a more balanced five terms of roughly eight weeks, each followed by a two-week break. We believe this will give real "down time" for school staff and pupils alike but will be short enough not to cause a real break in learning.We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff, particularly whose own children are educated in other authorities. However, this must be weighed against the benefits for city children for whom we all have the greatest duty of care.1. The passage is probably written by ________ .A. an experienced teacherB. a working parentC. an inspired studentD. a city council member2. The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to ________ .A. environmentsB. holidaysC. wagesD. benefits3. It is suggested in the passage that the summer break be reduced to ________ .A. 2 weeksB. 4. 5 weeksC. 5 weeksD. 6 weeks4. The plans for a shorter summer holiday will help students ________ .A. obtain the cheapest holidays without additional costsB. get a chance to spend six weeks a term with teachers in schoolC. benefit more from the caring and inspiring learning environmentD. have more school days to receive free school meals5. It can be inferred from the passage that ________ .A. working parents can enjoy a five-week break to care for their childrenB. the suggested plans for a five-term school year can hardly be carried outC. the long summer holiday gives teachers and students real "down time"D. some school staff will say "No" to the plans for a shorter summer holidayPassage 2Commuting to work by bus, train, bicycle or on foot makes people happier than those who use their car each day instead, research suggests.The study of 18, 000 British workers by a team at University of East Anglia found commuting that involved some physical activity improved feelings of worthlessness, sleepless nights and unhappiness.Lead researcher Adam Martin, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said, "One surprising. "Finding was that commuters reported feeling better when travellingby public transport, compared to driving."You might think that things like disturbance to services or crowds of commuters might have been a cause of considerable stress. But as buses or trains also give people time to relax, read, socialize, and there is usually an associated walk to the bus stop or railway station, it appearsto cheer people up. "He added, "This research shows that if new projects such as London's proposed separated cycle ways, or public transport schemes such asCross rail, were to encourage commuters to walk or cycle more regularly, then there could be noticeable mental health benefits. "It was found that the likelihood of reporting being constantly under stress or unable to concentrate were at least 13 per cent higher for those participants who used car travel, when compared to active travel.The researchers said that commuting by bus or train has the beneficial effects of being physically active as most journeys will involve walking to the station or stop but also include time to read or talk to friends while travelling. . .It was also found that people who had longer walks to work within their commute had high scores on the well-being test.Switching from driving to other forms of commuting increased the well-being score.Writing in the journal Preventive Medicine, the researchers said,"Together, these results appear to suggest that avoiding car driving maybe beneficial to well-being. This view agrees with existing evidence of a negative association between driving and physical health and is consistent with the assumption that car driving, a non-passive travel mode that requires constant-concentration, can give rise to boredom, social separation and stress. ""However, this view is also consistent with the assumption that intrinsic (内在的) enjoyment is gained from the exercise or relaxation associated with active travel. "1. "Commuters" in the passage refers to people who ________ .A. walk or cycle more regularly to workB. travel a long distance to work every dayC. like travelling by bus, train, bicycle or on footD. feel better while travelling by public transport2. According to the passage, the following are the effects of car driving EXCEPT that ________ .A. it may make the driver boredB. it may put the driver under pressureC. it may separate the driver from othersD. it may improve the driver's well-being3. What conclusion can you draw from the passage?________A. The more you drive, the more harm it will probably do to your physicalhealth.B. Commuting by car or bus will improve feelings of worthlessness and sleeplessness at night.C. Commutingby car or train has a positive connection with physical health merely because of the walking.D. Commuters find it hard to concentrate when travelling by bus or train for they talk a lot with each other.Passage 3As I was thinking about language learning the other day, the image of baking bread came into my mind. I compared some of the exercises and drills that we put ourselves through in order to learn a language to the various ingredients that go into baking a loaf of fresh bread.Real language learning takes place in human relationships. No one sits down and eats a cup of flour, even if he is hungry and in a hurry. You don' t become bilingual (双语的) by learning lists of vocabulary. You don' t become a speaker of a language by memorizing verb conjugations (动词的词性变化) and grammatical rules. You become bilingual by entering a community that uses that other language as its basic means of communication.I am not suggesting that we can make bread without ingredients. Flour is necessary, as are yeast, salt, water and other ingredients. V ocabulary ispart of any language and will have to be learned. Grammatical rules exist in every language and cannot be ignored. But merely combining the appropriate ingredients in the recommended proportions does not result in bread. At best, you only end up with a ball of dough (面团).In order to get bread, you have to apply heat to the dough. And in language learning, that heat comes from the community. Anyone who has learned a second language has experienced that heat. It creeps up your neck when you ask the babysitter "Have you already been eaten?" when you meant to say, ''Have you already eaten?" When you try to say something quite innocent and the whole room bursts into laughter, you are experiencing the heat that turns raw dough into good bread.Remember the old saying, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". This is where language learning often breaks down because we find the heat uncomfortable and we stop the baking process. In other words, we can't stand the heat, so we get out of the kitchen.However, the language learner who stays in the kitchen-in the heat-until the combined ingredients are thoroughly transformed will enjoy the richness of a quality loaf of bread. He is glad that he did not "get out of the kitchen" at the important moment when the oven seemed too hot. The dedicated language learner knows that becoming bilingual cannot be achieved without the heat!1. The passage is mainly about ________ .A. how we can make baking bread with various ingredientsB. how to become bilingual by communicating with othersC. what an important role "heat" plays in learning a languageD. what a high quality of bread you may achieve in the kitchen2. According to the author, you can possibly become a speaker of a language by ________ .A. bearing millions of words and expressions in your mindB. using the language to communicate with those around youC. knowing verb conjugations and grammatical rulesD. saying something innocent to be laughed at by others3. What's the purpose of illustration of the examples—you ask the babysitter, " Have you already been eaten?" when you meant to say, " Have you already eaten?" ________A. To prove that you are sure to make some mistakes when you enter a community.B. To show that you should combine the ingredients in the recommended proportions.C. To prove that you may experience "heat" from the community in language learning.D. To indicate that being bilingual calls for your courage confidence and perseverance.4. According to the passage which of the following is NOT the necessityof baking bread and learning language? ________A. Wonderful skills.B. Various ingredients.C. Appropriate proportions.D. Uncomfortable heat.Passage 4When I first got an email account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my email, I have an endless series of advertisements and other correspondence that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need specific laws that make spamming (发送垃圾邮件) a crime.If lawmakers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to send hundreds of millions of emails almost instantly. As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products, individual (个人的) email boxes are often flooded with spam emails. Would people continue to use email if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time?This problem is troubling for individuals and companies as well. Many spam emails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on email for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable tocommunicate effectively. Such a situation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks. These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passed on to the consumer.For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spam. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. Email is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenienc.1. According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam?________A. Companies rely on email for communications.B. More people in the world communicate by email.C. More advertisers begin to promote sales through spam.D. Many computer viruses contain spam emails.2. According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spam?________A. The business.B. The advertiser.C. The consumer.D. The employee.3. What is the purpose of the text?________A. informB. educateC. instructD. persuadePassage 5To me, my parents' relationship is like a Bollywood movie. Anil, an actor, and Sunita, a former model and fashion designer, met in high school, fell in love, and have been happily married for 35 years. They support one another's goals and work together to raise their family, regardless of what society demands.When my dad was struggling at the start of his acting career, my mom supported the two of them financially through modeling work, even though she hated being in front of the camera. And when I was five or six, my dad—who was always identified as a feminist (女权主义者)—would help to take the pressure off my mom, which was unheard of at the time and still uncommon.With these kinds of actions, my parents taught us their progressive principles. Watching them, I learned the value of hard work, honesty, tolerance and a strong moral compass, and that what I could accomplish didn' t have to be limited or decided by my sex.While this may be common knowledge in other parts of the world (in theory if not always in practice), growing up in India, this was revolutionary. Here, many of us worship (敬奉) goddesses and elect women to the most powerful offices, yet women still aren' t seen as equal to men. ①But at home, there was no difference between my brother and I,between my mom and my dad. Seeing my parents interact as equals, I knew I too could have a voice someday. I felt powerful enough to stand up for myself. ②In the past, this meant walking away from so-called great films where I wasn't receiving the treatment or pay I felt I deserved, and others that didn't agree with my worldview. But my upbringing has also led to exciting projects that have the power to spread my values further.Cinema can be a reflection of what society is going through, but once in a while, you can be part of something that can actually change the way people think. ③My dad and I recently worked on our first film together, "This is How I Felt When I Saw That Girl", in which he plays my father, and I play his secret lesbian (女同性恋) daughter, trying to find a way to come out to him.As the first Bollywood movie about a lesbian relationship, we knew it wasn't going to be a commercial hit in conservative India, and since we filmed it before gay (男同性恋) sex was made legal last September, we weren' t sure whether the film would come out. But my dad said, "We need to change the way people think about these things. You have to be OK with loving whoever you want to love, or being whoever you want to be. " I couldn't agree more. ④Last year, I followed in my parents' footsteps and married my own best friend, a kind, sensitive man who is comfortable expressing his feelings and cares deeply about the world around him. When I look at him,I see so many of the values that were passed down to me. In fact, I don't know if I would have chosen him had I not been raised to value those qualities—and I have my parents to thank for that. Inheritance (遗产) is not about money, or property. It's the values you teach your children. Teach them to do the right thing and to stand up for themselves and others, for the benefit of their future selves and the people around them.1. It is safe to assume that the author's parents ________ .A. are used to living a typical Indian lifestyleB. fell in love at first sight when starring in a movieC. struggled to become famous immediately they got marriedD. have a deep affection for each other and are committed to family2. What does the word "this" in Paragraph 4 refer to?________A. The positive influence that her parents had on her in her youth.B. The value of hard work, honesty, tolerance and a moral compass.C. The belief that one's achievements shouldn't be decided by sex.D. Common knowledge that is widely accepted in Indian society.3. Where should the sentence "The actions and values I observed at home have guided me throughout my career, and in many ways shaped it. " be put in the article?________A. ①B. ②C. ③D. ④4. The author mentions the film "This is How I Felt When I Saw That Girl" in Paragraph 6 because ________ .A. it helped to further spread her valuesB. it focused on gay sex for the first timeC. it was the first film she and her father worked onD. it had the potential to become a commercial hit5. The author is grateful to her parents for ________ .A. marrying her to a good guyB. helping shape her worldviewC. leaving her a large fortuneD. forcing their opinions on her参考答案Passage 11. D推理判断题。