2015高考二轮英语阅读理解提速专练(四) 阅读理解(社会现象类)+任务型阅读

阅读理解提速专练(四)阅读理解(社会现象类)＋任务型阅读

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(2014·兰州高三一模)Millennials consist of people born from 1980 to 2000. In America, Millennials are known as the Meme generation, whose selfishness has only been more obvious than ever.

Millennials got this way partly because, in the 1970s, people wanted to improve kids’chances of success by stressing self-importance. Though they are overconfident of their places in the world, Millennials are also challenged, with a much longer life stage between teenagers and adults. Now that cell phones allow people to communicate with others at every hour, Millennials are communicating all day but almost entirely through a screen. They are deeply anxious about missing something better.

However, Millennials’self-importance isn’t the result of over-protection but the adaptation (适应) to a more colorful world. Because of online dating, Facebook circles and the ability to connect with people internationally, Millennials no longer have to marry someone from their high school class or even their home country.

So here’s a more rounded picture of Millennials. They are sincere and optimistic. They are life tinkers more than dreamers. They want constant approval (认可) — they post photos from the dressing room as they try on clothes. They have a fear of missing out and have a similar name for everything. They want new experiences all the time. They love their phones but hate talking on them.

So yes, we have all that data about Millennials’selfishness, laziness and self-importance. But a generation’s greatness isn’t determined by data; it’s determined by how they react to the challenges that fall on them, and, just as important, by how we react to them.

1．Meme generation refers to those________.

A．who are from the US

B．who are always selfish

C．who lived in the 1970s

D．who were born in the late 20th century

2．In the passage, Millennials are generally believed to be________.

A．sincere and determined

B．patient and optimistic

C．selfish and self-important

D．anxious and overconfident

3．Which word can best describe Millennials’life?

A．Successful.B．Scaring.

C．Rich. D．Modern.

4．How will the author react to Millennials?

A．He will choose to believe in them.

B．He will try to do everything for them.

C．He will show his sympathy for them.

D．He will feel disappointed with them.

B

(2014·陕西西北九校第二次联考)A white child sold a pack of cannabis (大麻) at his local high school. A black child did a part-time job like this in his local neighborhood. When caught, both of them were first-time violators (违反者). And then the white child walked into juvenile (青少年的) court with his family, an excellent lawyer and insurance. The black child walked into court with his dad, no lawyer and no insurance. The grand justice let the white child leave with his family. Besides, he was placed in a well-condition treatment program. The black child had no choice. He was under restraint (限制)．

Generally speaking, what we have mentioned above happened more and more often in the juvenile-court system. Minority youths who were caught on violent affairs were more than 5 times as white youths to be sent out of the juvenile justice system and tried (审判) as adults, according to a study released last week by The Ne w York Times. Once minority children were in adult courts, young black violators were 20 times more likely to be put into prison. “Discrimination against minority children develops at every stage of the justice system and it is going to skyrocket when young criminals are judged as adult criminals，” said Mr.Din.

Low age crime dropped from its peak in the early 2000s. In the past six years, 33 states have passed new laws that made it easier to try juveniles as adults. In New York and Mississippi in 1996, all the young criminals in prison were minorities. In fact, most of the children who were tried as adults should not be treated like that.

Instead, adult prisons were a hell to juveniles. Adult prisoners were 10 times more likely to commit killing people and 7 times more likely to be about sexual abuse. Jim King Cary, a spokesman, a reform group in Washington D. C．，said once they got out, they were going to commit more and more violent crimes. The system, in fact, was training career criminals. And it was doing its great harm to minorities.

5．From the beginning we learn that________.

A．the white child is as lucky as the black child

B．the grand justice treated the white child and the black child differently