广西省北海市2021高考英语阅读明白得巩固全程训练（10）

广西省北海市2021高考英语阅读明白得巩固全程训练（10）及答案
阅读以下短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最正确选项，并在答题卡上将该选项标号涂黑。

【浙江省2021高考英语模拟冲刺卷】A
I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such an attractive and exciting, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.
Many intelligent people still consider happiness equal to fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more lasting emotion.
Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.
I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spell s “happiness”. But in memoir (回忆录) after memoir, famous people expose the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun depression, alcoholism (酗酒), drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and extreme loneliness.
Ask an unmarried man why he refuses to get married even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he’s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment (许诺). For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they want a nd sleep as late as they want. Couples with
babies are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.
The way people stick to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever achieving real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness, then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very efforts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain unavoidably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment and self-improvement.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating (解放) realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time now we can devote more hours to activities that can truly increase our happiness. It liberates money buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
41. According to the passage, which of the following people are more likely to achieve happiness?
A. People living in fun-filled places.
B. People taking pains to raise children.
C. People living a wealthy life.
D. People who are free from responsibility.
42. According to the writer, an important role Hollywood stars have to play is to ______.
A. give audience enough fun
B. write memoirs to introduce their lives
C. tell people what happiness is
D. show unhappiness beneath fun
43. In the writer’s opinion, marriage ______.
A. means responsibility
B. means the end of fun
C. leads to raising children
D. leads to less sleep
44. Many people fail to enjoy real happiness because ______.
A. they believe fun is equal to happiness
B. they get married and have children
C. they don’t have religious beliefs
D. they can’t free themselves from commitment
45. If one understands the nature of happiness, he will ______.
A. stop seeking fun from daily life
B. enjoy life by spending all his wealth
C. keep himself with his family
D. make more efforts to take responsibilites
Passage A
【语篇解读】本文是一篇关于何为幸福的本质的议论文。

作者通过论述fun与happiness的区别向读者说明了自己关于幸福本质的熟悉。

41．B．【解析】判定题。

结合主题及文中的例子，答案应为B。

42．C．【解析】事实细节题。

可从语篇第四段的首句得出答案。

43．A．【解析】推理判定题。

可从语篇第五段推知。

选项中的responsibility事实上中段中commitment的替代词。

44．A．【解析】推理判定题。

可从语篇第七段的首句推知。

45．D．【解析】推理判定题。

依照全文及最后一段推知。

阅读明白得-----B
Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladian, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladian received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps
build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael. Bloomberg, New York's ma yor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announ ced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
( ) 1. What is the purpo se of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph? A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D. T o compare old and new boiler rooms.
( ) 2. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
A. Lower running costs.
B. Costing less in construction.
C. Less air to be lost in hot days.
D. Better prices for homeless people.
( ) 3. It can be learned from the text that,
A. New York City is seriously polluted
B. people’s daily life causes many carbon emis sions in New York City
C. a great number of people i n New York City do n't have houses to live in
D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
( ) 4. What is the main purpose of this text? A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D. T o introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.
语篇解读：本篇文章为科技说明文。

作者以Fox Point居住群的boiler rooms为切入点，论述此类屋子的环保节能的优势，和各城市专门是纽约队建造此类建筑的踊跃响应。

1. 答案：C
考点：作者的写作用意
解析：从第一段最后两句，作者描述开水房仅是从一个侧面展现整个建筑群的节能，环保，能够得出答案。

2. 答案：A
考点：细节明白得
解析：依据文章第三段倒数第二句：Meeting the st andards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可取得答案。

句意为“达到这一标准会将建筑本钱提高2%，但专门快会被它的低本钱运行本钱补回”
3. 答案：B
考点：细节明白得
解析：依据文章第四段第二句：Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing..可得出答案
4. 答案：D
考点：作者的写作目的
解析：本文要紧让读者了解这种健康、环保、经济类住房。

阅读明白得-----B
Feel tired lately?Has a doctor said he can’t find anything wrong with you?Perhaps he sends you to a hospital,but all the advanced equipment there shows there is nothing wrong with you.
Then,consider this:you might be in a state of sub-health(亚健康).
Sub-health,also called the third state or gray state,is explained as borderline state between health and disease.
According to the investigation by the National Organization,over 45 percent of sub-health people are middle-a ged or elderly.The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam-week.
Symptoms(征兆)include a lack of energy,depression,slow reactions,insomnia(失眠),agitation, and poor memory.Other symptoms include shortness of breath,sweating and aching in the waist and legs.
The key to preventing and recovering from su b-health,according to some medical experts,is to form good living habits, alternate work and rest, exercise regularly,and take part in open air activities.
As for meals,people are advised to eat less salt and sugar.They should also eat more fresh vegetables,fruits,fish because they are rich in nutritional elements—vitamins and trace elements(微量元素)—that are important to the body.
Nutrition experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract(消化道).They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding sub-health.
36.When you are in a state of sub-health,you should ________.
A.stay home and keep silent
B.go to a doctor and buy some medicine
C.not consider it very serious
D.find out the reasons and relax yourself
提示:从全文能够看出，亚健康是躯体对压力、疲劳的一种反映，即便最先进的仪器也查不出病因。

因此没必要去医院，也没必要吃药，可是不能听其自然，不认真对待。

正确的方式是找出缘故、减轻压力、排除疲劳、平稳膳食。

答案:D
37.Middle-aged people may be easy to get sub-health because ________.
A.they have used up their energy
B.they have lost their living hopes
C.they have more pressure in life and work
D.they have changed their way of life
提示:亚健康的起因与疲劳有关系，但不是已将体力用完，排除A项。

B、D两项文章没涉及。

依照常识和第四段最后一句，咱们也能判定正确答案为C项。

答案:C
38.The key to preventing you from falling into a state of sub-health is to ________.
A. keep on worki ng regularly
B. go to sleep a bit earlier
C. form good living habits
D. take medicine if necessary
答案:C 文章倒数第三段第一句“…is to form good living habits”
39.The underlined w ord “alterna te”in this passage is closest in meaning to ________.
A. arrange by turns
B. cause to take place
C. make up for
D. keep away from
答案:A 从文中可看出：形成好的生活适应，要劳逸结合，即连番工作与休息
阅读以下短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最正确选项，并在答题卡上将
该项涂黑。

【湖北省2021高考英语第二次联考试题】A
T he boys crowded in two teams at the front of Charlene Skinner’s class as they thought over the math problem that flashed on the whiteboard. “That’s not right,” one boy said. “It says find the slope,” another boy said, instructing his classmates. Next door, in Roo m A114, the girls spent five minutes in Justin Anderson’s science class writing down everything they know about DNA. Whe n the assigned time was up, Anderson asked the students to share some of what they noted down. “Nobody’s DNA is alike,” one girl said after raising her hand. “You get it from your parents,” said another.
This is how some lessons are taught at Jame s Gholson Middle School in Prince George’s County: boys in one classroom, girls in another. Advocates argue that separating boys and girls removes distractions (分心) and sex prejudice in the classroom, taking the lead from expensive private schools and boarding schools that have relied on single-sex learning for generations. But opponents say there is little evidence that such separation works, that it can be discriminatory (歧视) and that it doesn’t properly prepare students for a world that is mixed.
Some experts say single-sex classes can break down sex stereotypes (定式), create opportunities for students and improve test scores. Kathy Couture, an education professor at Stetson University in Florida and a board member of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, said students tend to be more focused on their curriculum and less concerned about impressing or getting attention from the opposite sex. She said girls tend to “dumb themselves down for boys” when they are together in math and scie nce classes.
But a report published last week by the Psychological Bulletin — which reviewed 184 studies to compare the outcomes of learning in single-sex and mixed classrooms — raised questions about whether there are any real advantages to single-sex classrooms.
Janet Hyde, one of the report’s co-authors, said there w as no evidence to support the argument that boys do better orally or that girls improve in math and science when in single-sex settings. What is more important is that separating students might not adequately prepare them for college and careers. “One of the major purposes of school is to prepare students for the adult world, and that world is mixed,” Janet Hyde said. “I think we do harm to students by not preparing the m for the adult world.”
51. What purpose does the first paragraph serve?
A. To show how boys and girls are taught separately.
B. To show how the students behave in class.
C. To show how the two lessons are different.
D. To show how the class activities are organized.
52. Why does James Gholson Middle School teach students separately?
A. Because single-sex classes are popular in America.
B. Because students may be more concentrated in single-sex classes.
C. Because girls tend to look down upon boys in mixed classes.
D. Because it is a private and expensive school.
53. According to Kathy Couture, what is the disadvantage of a mixed class?
A. Students are not interested in their curriculums.
B. Students may be disturbed by the opposite sex in their study.
C. Girls are often absent from math and science classes.
D. Students have fewer chances to have tests.
54. What is the point of Janet Hyde’s statement on single-sex classes?
A. Single-sex classes do not improve boys’ speaking ability.
B. Single-sex classes lead to worse academic performance.
C. Single-sex classes harm the students in their future study and work.
D. Single-sex classes do not help students’ physical devel opment.。