2018年高一英语专题阅读理解专项练习：WeekOne时事新闻含答案

2018年⾼⼀英语专题阅读理解专项练习：WeekOne时事新闻含答案
Week One 时事新闻
⼀、阅读理解（共16⼩题；共32.0分）
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A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 young children, at a US school where his mother worked Friday morning in one of the worst school shootings in the country's history. Pupils who were rushed from the building through the terrible scene by police were told to close their eyes.
A police officer said the suspect, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and he was the son of a teacher at the school. The mother, Nancy Lanza, was found dead at home.
The attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School, just two weeks before Christmas, was the latest of several mass shootings in the US in the year of 2012, and it approached the deadly scope of the Virginia Tech university shooting in 2007 that left 32 dead.
This time, many who were killed were young children. Photos from the scene showed students, some of them crying, being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders. Children told their parents they had heard bangs and, at one point, a scream over the intercom(内部通话装置).
State police said 18 children were found dead at the school and two later were declared dead, and six adults were found dead at the scene. They said the shootings occurred in one section of the school but did not give details.
Police said another person was found dead at a second scene—someone who lived with the gunman died.
"Our hearts are broken today," President Barack Obama said. He said the children killed were 5 to 10 years old. He said the nation had been "through this too many times" with recent mass shootings and has to come together to take meaningful action.
1. How many people were killed in the accident altogether?
A. 20.
B. 26.
C. 28.
D. 32.
2. Why did the police ask the pupils to close their eyes?
A. Because the scene would frighten them.
B. Because the police didn't want them to rush.
C. Because their eyes would be hurt by the light.
D. Because they wanted to give the pupils some training.
3. From the third paragraph we can infer that .
A. shooting seldom occurred in elementary schools
B. mass shootings usually happened in universities
C. several mass shootings took place in 2012
D. this was the first school shooting since 2007
4. Who do you think was the person found dead at a second scene?
A. The headmaster.
B. Nancy Lanza.
C. Adam Lanza.
D. Another pupil.
B
The man in the picture has his back to the camera. He's desperately(绝望地) climbing up a subway platform, looking right at the train that's running down on him as he stands on the tracks.
It's a terrifying, heart-wrenching(令⼈揪⼼的) photo, and it's arising a lot of criticism for the newspaper that used it on its front page—New York Post.
Why didn't the photographer help? Why did the newspaper publish the photo?
A photographer took the photo Monday after someone pushed the man, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han, from a subway platform near Times Square. Seconds after photographer R. Umar Abbasi took the pictures, the train struck Ki. He died at a New York Hospital, leaving behind his wife and daughter.
"Doomed(命中注定)," the headline(标题) read. "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die."
In its story on the incident Tuesday, the Post reported Abbasi was waiting on the platform when he saw the man fall onto the tracks. He said he ran towards the oncoming train, firing his camera's flash to warn the driver.
"I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "In that moment, I just wanted to warn the train—to try and save a life."
Some critics, however, questioned Abbasi's motives.
One man questioned why someone's first instinct(本能) would be not to help the man, but instead to "snap a photo of him about to die and sell it to the NY Post".
The Post declined to comment. Media observers wondered Tuesday if the newspaper had gone too far this time.
5. What is the passage mainly about?
A. A terrifying subway accident reported in New York Post.
B. How a photographer took the terrifying photo.
C. A photo causing criticism for New York Post.
D. Photos used on the front page of New York Post.
6. According to Abbasi, he fired his camera's flash .
A. to warn other passengers on the platform
B. so that the driver could see it and stop the train
C. to take a photo of the man climbing up
D. in order to warn the man on the platform
7. The man questioned Abbasi's motives because he thought .
A. Abbasi wanted to make money with the photo
B. Abbasi didn't try his best to save the man
C. Abbasi shouldn't have taken a photo of Ki trying to climb up
D. Abbasi should have asked others to help Ki climb up
8. The underlined word "declined" most probably means .
A. preferred
B. agreed
C. pretended
D. refused
C
Vancouver is tops in Canada for quality of life with its nice climate contributing to its high ranking(排名), says an annual survey. The West Coast city has also remained its fifth-place spot globally in the 2012 Mercer Quality of Living survey.
Overall, Vienna keeps the top spot as the city with the world's best quality of living, also keeping its first place ranking, said the survey came out on Tuesday.
The survey said Canada offers some of the best quality of living in the world with Ottawa ranking 14th, Toronto 15th, Montreal 23rd and Calgary 32nd.
"One of the things that Vancouver has going for is that the other cities do not have its climate," said Mercer Canada's Eleana Rodriguez. "All four of the other Canadian cities that are on the ranking don't have the kind of climate it has, so clearly that's a factor to consider."
Of all the Canadian cities ranked in the top 35 cities in the world, Calgary advanced one ranking and Montreal dropped by one ranking.
"We score quite high," said Rodriguez, market business leader for Mercer Canada in Toronto.。