2021学年高考英语三轮复习天天练：Day2阅读理解(记叙文)附答案解析

高考英语三轮复习天天练

Day 2阅读理解(2)(记叙文)

Passage 1

文体：记叙文词数：259 限时：7分钟

Bryan Forbes, who was born in London on 22 July 1926, made his first screen acting appearance in 1918.

He landed supporting parts in several outstanding British films, including An Inspector Calls(1954) and The Colditz Story(1955), but it was not long before screenwriting and directing attracted him behind the camera. Together with Richard Attenborough, he set up Beaver Films in 1959. Its first film, The Angry Silence(1960), was written by Forbes and Attenborough played the lead role.

His directing career began in 1961 with Whistle down the Wind, featuring child star Hayley Mills. Forbes directed many more films in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1969 he took over as head of production and managing director of EMI—MGM Elstree, and the studio achieved outstanding successes. But it was a torrid time for the company. Troubled constantly by financial difficulties and staffing issues, Forbes quitted in 1971. He then directed The Stepford Wives, based on the novel by Ira Levin, and in 1975 International Velvet, starring T atum O’Neal, in 1978.

Forbes, who counted the late Queen Mother among his friends,

continued directing, writing and acting throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. He also found success as an author with a number of novels, the

s Story, was published last year.

latest of which, The Soldier’

After Forbes passed away, film critic(批评家) Mark Kermode said, “once I had fun—boyish pleasure of telling Bryan Forbes how much I loved Stepford Wives. He was charming and modest. A great loss.”

1.Having played several supporting roles, Forbes began to ______.

A.work as a cameraman

B.make a lead actor

C.build his own company alone

D.write and direct films

2.Which of the following is the first film directed by Forbes?

A.An Inspector Calls.

B.The Colditz Story.

C.Whistle down the Wind.

D.The Angry Silence.

in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by 3.The underlined word “torrid”　

______.

A.suitable

B.tough

C.precious

D.steady

4.Which of the following can be best used to describe Forbes?

A.Talented.

B.Well-educated.

C.Proud.

D.Attractive.

Passage2

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I really love my job because I enjoy working with small children and

like the challenges and awards from the job. I also think my work is

important. There was a time when I thought I would never have that sort

of career.

I wasn’t an excellent student because I didn’t do much schoolwor In my final term I started thinking what I might do and found I didn’t

have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasn’t the type to have a car

I then found myself a job, looking after two little girls. It wasn

bad at first. But the problems began when I agreed to live in, so that I

would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the evening. We

agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week, she’d give me tim the next. But unfortunately, it didn’t often work out. I was getting

extremely tired and fed up, because I had too many late nights and early

mornings with the children.

One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and met Megan

who used to go to school with me, I told her about my situation. She

suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification if I wanted to

work with children. I didn’t think I would be accepted because I didn

take many exams in school. She persuaded me to phone the local college

and they were really helpful. My experience counted for a lot and I got on