高考英语浙江教师用书专题强化训练：阅读提速练(四)+Word版含解析

阅读提速练(四)

(建议用时：30分钟)

阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)

第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

(2019·浙江瑞安高三第一次调研)When Huang Lizhi took her first

class in African sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South

Africa in February, her professor asked her and her classmates what

impressed them most when it came to Africa.

Unexpectedly, Huang, 31, found that words like “poverty”and “safari”—negative words that were often associated with the continent in media reports—were the kind of terms her African classmates didn’t want to hear. Instead, they preferred to hear the question answered in this way：“Africa is the cradle of humankind”and “Africans are passionate and generous”．Apparently, there are some misunderstandings between us. It’s true that with incidents like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the emergence(出现) of pirates off the coast of Somalia hitting the news, it’s easy for us to keep forgetting that Africa has one of the world’s oldest civilizations—Egypt, born by the world’s longest river, the Nile. The proof is in the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza, which are both popular among tourists. And the tombs of ancient Egypt have also become endless sources for the literature and film industries.

When it comes to the natural environment of Africa, our misunderstandings are only bigger. But the truth is that instead of being extremely hot all year round and covered by desert, the continent has large areas of savannas(稀树草原) where lions, giraffes and zebras live, the snow­capped Kilimanjaro—the highest mountain in Africa—and even thick forest on the island of Madagascar. These misunderstandings are one of the reasons why the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China­Africa Cooperation was held on Sept. 3 and 4—to understand each other better.

Indeed, only by visiting Africa herself did Huang see the convenient living conditions, the amazing natural beauty and the friendly people. In her eyes, her classmates were as hopeful about the future of their own countries as they were about Africa as a whole, and they were quick to demonstrate both their strong will and activity. “At that moment, I knew exactly what they wanted —they wanted their culture to be respected.”

1．Which of the following best explains the underlined “cradle” i n paragraph 2?

A．A small bed for babies.

B．A basket to hold something.

C．A place for people to relax themselves.

D．A place where something important began.

2．Which of the following would Huang agree with?

A．To see is to believe.

B．Think twice before you do.

C．A miss is as good as a mile.

D．Don’t judge a person by his appearance.

3．What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Valuing a Culture

B．Understanding Africa

C．Paying a Visit to Africa

D．Discovering a Continent

B

Have you ever heard of agritourism where you can experience the farm

life? If not, Dr. Cindy Ayers­Elliott will tell you the real story of Food Print

Farms.

The original concept of building Food Print Farms was simple. When

Ayers­Elliott returned to her hometown after graduation, she didn’t have to look any further than her state’s alarming health statistics to find a mission. Everywhere she turned, there were reports of high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and heart disease. “The problem was already identified，”explains Ayers­Elliott.“Too many Mississippians were seriously unhealthy and it didn’t take research to see that. And many of the state’s greatest health challenges could directly result from poor diet.”

These days, Food Print Farms, which started with a few raised beds of herbs and vegetables, is making fresh, naturally grown food. “When speaking of the key to my success, the co­op model works because we share the work and rewards，”notes Ayers­Elliott. “A perfect example is the Wingfield High School football team. To earn the money for equipment and other items, players committed to working five hours a week on the farm, and by the end of the summer they produced 1，000 melons and the profits from their sales helped to buy weights, T­shirts, sweat suits and pregame meals. But the lessons they learned about the rewards of hard work and working together to accomplish something were even more valuable products of their efforts.”

“It’s a model that can easily be learned in other places and I’m looking forward to seeing some of our current partners do just that—to take what they have learned here and spin it off in other communities，”Ayers-Elliott remarks. She is now looking forward to developing an agritourism area to the farm, where visitors can experience the farm life, learn new skills and take with them seeds of inspiration they can sow in their own communities when they return home.