(整理版高中英语)市高考英语阅读理解短文改错训练(12)(答案

省随州市高考英语阅读理解、短文改错训练〔12〕〔答案或解析〕
Outside her shabb y cottage, old Mrs. Tailor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children lay hidden in the leaves of a nearby tree watching her every move. They were determined to find out if she really was a witch.
They watched as she took a broomstick to clean the dirt from her stone steps. But, much to their disappointment, she did not mount the broomstick and take flight. Suddenly，the old lady’s work was interrupted by the cackling of her hen—a signal that an egg had been laid in the warm nest on top of the haystack.
The old broomstick was put aside as she hobbled off towards the haystack followed by Sooty, a black cat she had rescued from a fox trap some time back. With only three legs, it was hard for Sooty to keep up with the old lady. The cat provided proof—the children were sure that only a witch would own a black cat with three legs.
There ，standing on a wooden box, was Mrs. Tailor, stretching out to gather her precious egg. Taking the egg in one of her hands, she began to climb down when, without warning, the box broke and the old lady fell.
“We have to go and help her, 〞whispered Amy.
“What if it is a trick？〞replied Ben.
“Don’t be silly, Ben. If she were a witch, she would have turned us into f rogs already，〞reasoned Meg. “Come on Amy, let’s go. 〞The girls climbed down the tree and ran all the way to the haystack.
Approaching carefully, they could see a wound on the old lady’s face. She had knocked her head on a stone and her ankle was definitely broken. “Go and get Dad，〞Amy yelled to her brother. “Tell him about the accident.〞
The boys did not need another excuse to leave. They ran as fast as they could for help, hoping that Mrs. Tailor would not wake and turn the girls into frogs.
[语篇解读] 孩子们对住在破旧房舍里的、用扫帚柄扫台阶的、后面跟着一只黑色的三条腿的猫的Old Mrs.Tailor是不是巫师很感兴趣，于是躲在附近的树上偷偷观察，结果如何呢？本文的寓意又是什么呢？
1. Why were the children hiding in the tree?
A. They wanted to watch Mrs. Tailor do her housework closely.
B. They were playing a hide-and-seek game.
C. They wanted to find out if the rumors about Mrs. Tailor were true.
D. They were pretending to be spies.
[解析] 事实细节题。

由首段尾句They were determined to find out if she really was a witch.可知孩子们想看看人们对老太太是巫师的传言是否是真的。

[答案] C
2. Mrs. Tailor stopped sweeping when________.
A. her front steps were clean
B. she noticed the children in the tree
C. she was ready to take a flight
D. she heard th e hen cackling
[解析] 事实细节题。

由第二段倒数最后一句可知答案为D。

[答案] D
3. Ben did not rush to help Mrs. Tailor because________.
A. he thought that she could be tricking them
B. he knew that they should not have been in the tree
C. he did not see the old lady fall down
D. he was afraid of the three-legged cat
[解析] 推理判断题。

从文中描述的内容可知，Ben认为Mrs. Tailor是一个巫师，他认为可能是Mrs. Tailor在使诡计，所以在两个女孩子前去救助时，他依然没有奔向前去帮助Mrs. Tailor。

[答案] A
4．Wh ich of these old sayings best suits the story’s lesson for us?
A. Make hay while the sun shines.
B. Ne ver judge a book by its cover.
C. People in glasshouses should not throw stones.
D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
[解析] 推理判断题。

通读全文可以推知，作者想告诉我们“不要以貌取人或仅从事物的表象来判断事物〞。

[答案] B
*************************************************结束
短文改错 (共10小题;每题1分,总分值10分)
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号〔∧〕，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线〔\〕划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意： 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者〔从第11处起〕不计分。

I was born in a farmer family in Suizhong county, Liaoning
Province in June, in 1965． When I was a child, I dreamed of flying
in the sky． I joined the army in June, 1983． In 1992, I was sent to
the air force base． In August, 1996, I was one of the first 14 members
from 1,500 pilots through the physical examination． I worked hardly,
because I was among the first astronauts of our country in 1998 .
I was chosen one of the first man space aircraft astronauts later．
On Oct．15, , I successfully fly to space, circled
around the earth about 14 circle and then returned ． I was honored
to have given the chance to be the first Chinese to travel in space．
参考答案短文改错
1．farmer改为farmer,s
2．去掉1965前面的in
3． an air force base。

4．把hardly改为hard
5．把because改为so
6．在chosen后加as
7． manned
8． flew
9．把circle改为circles
10．在have后面加been
******************************************************结束
第二局部：阅读理解〔此题有两小节，第一节共20小题；每题2分，第二节共5小题；每题2分；总分值50分〕
第一节：阅读以下材料，从每题所给的四个选项〔A、B、C和D〕中，选出最正确选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

A
〔选自市四校联考卷阅读理解B篇〕
It’s a nightmare for Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST): within a week, two students committed suicide by jumping off dorm buildings.
Officials from the university are re luctant(不情愿的) to give interviews.
“We had a hard time calming down students who were shocked at the suicides,〞said Zhang Jingyuan, head of HUST’s center for research and guidance for students’ development.
“Media coverage(报导) may arouse some students’ negative emoti ons again. Suicide can be contagious(传染性的),〞 Zhang said.
The university reacted promptly to the first suicide on October 23.
Advisors and class leaders conducted dorm-to-dorm checks to find students suffering depression. Then psychologists offered one-on-one counseling to them.
Notice boards publicizing tips for identifying peers’ mental problems and offering help were set up in front of dorm buildings. Leaflets(传单) carrying similar information were handed out to each dorm.
However, the second s uicide came seven days later.
Both students were described as men of few words. Their schoolmates didn’t see anything to indicate suicide.
Zhang revealed that the two students had been bothered by mental disorders. But the school didn’t know this until the students’ close friends outside school and their parents unveiled(揭露) the truth after the suicides.
According to Zhang, there are only three full-time counselors (心理辅导专家)working in the university’s counseling center for its 60,000 student s. He complained: “It’s unrealistic to rely only on counselors to detect students’ mental problems.〞
Some universities in the US may be able to offer solutions to Zhang’s worries. They have established programs to train st udents to be the bridge betwe en troubled
friends and counselors.
At Worcester Polytechnic Institute, at Worcester, Massachusetts, US, young people in the Student Support Network role play to learn how to detect SOS signals from their schoolmates.
They also practice how to gently persuade emotionally troubled students to go for professional help.
To develop such empathy(同理心), many universities in China have organized campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health. But these are not that attractive to students.
Ke Ju anjuan, 24, is pursuing a master’s degree in English translation at HUST.
Ke has found that few of her peers will pay attention to activities about mental health when they are not troubled by it.
Rather than bombard students with the words “men tal health〞, Ke suggested the school organize lectures and workshops concerning study, job-hunting and relationships. She explained: “Students care about these topics. They tend to have problems in these areas and may thus get stuck in depression.
“By helping students better deal with these problems, the school can effectively prevent self-inflicted injury and suicide among students.〞
Effective prevention comes from long-term education for life instead of temporary intervention(干预) to meet an emerge ncy, said Hu Yi’an. Hu delivers a course of lectures on life and death at Guangzhou University. He worries that universities have paid little attention to education for life.
“Education for life helps students respect and love life so they won’t resort 〔诉诸〕 to ending their lives when they have difficulties,〞 said Hu.
According to Hu, the principles can be incorporated(结合) into everyday teaching.
50.In which column of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?
A. Forum
B. Campus
C. Advertisement
D. Culture
51.Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons why officials from the
university are reluctant to give interviews?
A. The university reacted promptly to the first suicide on October 23.
B. They had a hard time calming down students who were shocked at the suicides.
C. Media coverage may arouse some students' negative emotions again.
D. Two suicides within a week is really a nightmare for the university.
52. The writer mentions Worcester Polytechnic Institute to______.
A. encourage universities in China to organize campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health.
B. show their students are good at persuading emotionally troubled peers to go for professional help.
C. give an example of the universities in the US that have established programs
to train students to be the bridge between troubled friends and counselors.
D. show that Zhang's complaint is wrong.
53. Which one of the following sentences is NOT true?
A. According to Ke Juanjuan, students tend to have problems in study, job-hunting
and Relations.
B. Effective prevention comes from temporary intervention to meet an emergency.
C. According to Hu Yi'an, education for life helps students respect and love life
so they won't commit suicide when they have difficulti es.
D. According to Hu, education for life can be incorporated into everyday teaching.
54. What is most likely to be talked about in the paragraph following the passage?
A. The function of education for life.
B. The ways of education for life.
C. The importance of education for life.
D. How to incorporate education for life into everyday teaching.
参考答案 50-54 BACBD
***************************************************************结束
I left baseball, not for physical reasons but because it was my season for change.
So I decided to walk away and once I did, like the vast majority of players, I was lost. It would be the first time since I learned to swing a bat that I would spend an entire summer without ever putting on a uniform. Once you leaves the pitch it’s no longer you against that fastball, it is you against yourself.
So you swim around trying to figure out what young, retired baseball players do with their lives. For me, the moment was completely without the guiding wisdom of my father, who could communicate with me with just a nod of his head, but he passed away two years ago.
Since my retirement, I have searched for the next passion. It is a discouraging journey, and many players never find that next love, even though they kept looking.
Of course my father could never be replaced. His passion was writing. He left behind a body of poetry that guides me now.
I didn’t stay lost forever. I found something that I wasn’t looking for: a
voice through writing. Writing intro duced me to people who were otherwise strangers and made them guests at my table. Only later did I understand that this would be
a bridge to understanding my father in another way. A way that led me to connect
to a passion I didn’t realize we both shared.
After my first book was published, I realized that writing was passion and even therapy(疗法), but now I also thought that maybe I’d found my next profession.
Thankfully, I always knew my father was proud of me. But despite living the dream of so many Americans and reaching its highest level, I have no doubt that he would be even prouder of what I am doing with my words. Words that I can leave for my son to read one day.
53. Why couldn’t his father offer him any help at the moment?
A. Because his father had been dead for two years.
B. Because his father was busy writing poems.
C. Because his father was away on business.
D. Because his father had a head injury two years ago.
54. How did the author get over the most difficult time in life?
A. By swimming the entire summer.
B. By communicating with his father face to face.
C. By turning to his friend for help.
D. By reading his father’s works and writing his own.
55. According to the passage, the author was most likely to become a_______.
A. reporter
B. writer
C. coach
D. player
56. The author picked up writing as a career mainly because_______.
A. he couldn’t find any other job after he left baseball
B. his father asked him to continue his lifelong hobby
C. writing was another way to understand his father
D. it could help him to make a more comfortable life
参考答案 53、ADB 56——60 C
********************************************************结束
“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!〞Annabel, my close friend, stunned me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where
I was substituting. “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!〞My friend burst out laughing, and then made he r “Olympic〞 comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob〞 for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly〞 when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot〞 when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.
In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.〞“How many did you have on your list?〞 I asked.
“Fifteen,〞she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’〞
My jaw d ropped. “What did you do?〞
“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’〞
“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’〞
My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!
God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.
45. What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?
A. The writer is a good athlete.
B. The writer scolds herself too much.
C. She is encouraging the writer.
D. A gold medal is not a big deal.
46. What does the writer intends to tell us through the second and third paragraphs?
A. She has low self-esteem over some small things.
B. She often makes serious mistakes in daily life.
C. She is a third-grade teacher.
D. She cares too much about her appearance.
47. We can infer that the underlined word “slob〞 might be _____.
A. something untidy
B. someone dangerous
C. something dirty
D. someone lazy
48. What does the writer mean by the last sentence of the passage?
A. She is ready to turn to God for help.
B. She will be kind to all children.
C. She won’t insult herself as well as others.
D. She is willing to be a child of God.
参考答案45-48 BADC
******************************************************结束。