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一、高中英语任务型阅读
1．根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出最佳选项。

选项有两项为多余选项。

Although most parents don't like doing it after a long and exhausting workday, reading bedtime stories does make a positive influence on your child's emotional and mental health. ________
It helps to develop children's imagination.
Reading bedtime stories can develop your children's ability to form pictures or ideas in their mind.
A healthy imagination makes their minds work well and teaches them to think quickly yet effectively. ________
It improves children's language.
Reading also improves your children's language. ________They'll most likely use those words in the stories you read right after they hear them. Listening to many stories helps kids to express their opinions better.
________
Reading books makes people more learned. When children hear the stories you tell, they learn grammar and vocabulary, for example. It helps them be successful in school as they already know a lot from your stories. What's more, every story has its moral aspect and tells them what's good and what's bad.
These reasons leave no chances of doubting whether to read bedtime stories to your children or not. ________They will thank you in future, I promise.
A. It fosters children's affection for reading.
B. It makes children knowledgeable.
C. Take a look at the best benefits of it and you'll never be lazy to do that.
D. So however tired you are, find time to read bedtime stories to your children.
E. Bedtime stories create just unforgettable moments.
F. They remember most words you say and enlarge their vocabulary.
G. They'll be successful in many aspects thanks to a wonderful imagination.
【答案】 C；G；F；B；D
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇说明文。

文章叙述的是“读睡前故事的好处”。

不管你有多累，找时间给你的孩子读睡前故事。

（1）上文提示“尽管大多数父母不喜欢在漫长而疲惫的工作日之后做这件事，但阅读睡前故事确实会对孩子的情绪和心理健康产生积极的影响。

”承接上文，C项Take a look at the best benefits of it and you'll never be lazy to do that.（看一看它的好处，你就不会偷懒了。

）切题。

该项中的benefits和上文中的a positive influence相吻合。

故选C。

（2）上文提示“健康的想象力使他们的头脑运转良好，并教会他们快速而有效地思考。

”承接上文，G项They'll be successful in many aspects thanks to a wonderful imagination.（他们将在许多方面取得成功，这要归功于出色的想象力。

）切题。

此处关键词imagination（想象力），故选G。

（3）上文提示“阅读也能提高你孩子的语言能力。

”再根据下文提示“他们很可能会在你听到的故事中使用这些词。

”承接上下文，F项They remember most words you say and enlarge
their vocabulary.（他们记得你说的大多数单词，并扩大他们的词汇量。

）切题。

该项中的enlarge their vocabulary与上文中的improves your children's language和下文中的use those words相吻合。

故选F。

（4）此空是一个小标题。

根据上面两个小标题的结构，可知在A/B中选。

根据第四段第一句Reading books makes people more learned.（读书使人们更有学问。

）可知，B项It makes children knowledgeable.（它使孩子们知识渊博。

）切题。

该项中的knowledgeable与本段第一句的more learned相吻合。

故选B。

（5）上文提示“这些理由不让你怀疑是否给你的孩子读睡前故事。

”再根据下文提示“我保证，他们将来会感谢你的。

”承接上下文，D项So however tired you are, find time to read bedtime stories to your children.（不管你有多累，找时间给你的孩子读睡前故事。

）切题。

此处关键词read bedtime stories to your children，故选D。

【点评】阅读理解七选五解题步骤
1）分析选项，串联主题：了解文章的主题、大意，会让解题的方向更明确。

2）研究空格前后，对比选项，选择答案。

3）复读短文，核对答案：为了保证答案的正确性，一定要把答案代入原文，进行核对检查。

2．请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

Do you know the look of wonder and joy that children get on their face when they listen to someone reading them a story？Schools across the nation are bringing in volunteers to guide children in this very way. If you simply enjoy spending time with children, being a reading volunteer can be a great way to help support the upcoming generation of readers.
Reading volunteers work with elementary school age children to promote reading. They may read books to children, listen to children read aloud, or distribute books to school children. Reading volunteers promote the activity of reading, rather than focusing on teaching reading skills. They may read to a whole class of children, to a small group, or be assigned a child to read to one-on-one. During the time they spend with new readers, reading volunteers encourage them to learn to read.
Almost anyone who knows how to read can be a reading volunteer. High school students, college students, parents, grandparents, and police officers are just an example of the kinds of people who become reading volunteers. Being able to read and wanting to spend time inspiring children to read are the only skills needed to be a successful reading volunteer.
Several educational research studies show that children who are involved in programs with adult reading volunteers improve their school performance levels. For example, in 1998, researcher Sara Rimm-Kaufmann found that first graders involved in a program with an adult reading volunteer three times a week had better letter recognition and reading skills than similar first graders who hadn't been involved in such groups. In 2000, the Eugene Research Institute found that fifth graders who had been in "SMART", an adult volunteer literacy program, were 60% more likely to have grade-level scores in standardized reading tests. Moreover, a 2006 study by Brian Volkmann showed that children who were read to by adult volunteers had improved
school attendance, which is a major predictor of high school graduation rates.
In addition, reading volunteers themselves can gain a lot of benefits that range from expanding their personal networks to adding valuable skills to their resumes. They also enjoy the special time they get to spend with young children. Many volunteers have heart-warming stories to share with the children they read to. The volunteers know that they are inspiring young children with a proved educational strategy. So, if you have time, energy, and skill to support children's literacy, it is a good idea to sign up to be a reading volunteer.
Requirements/Qualifications/Conditions；Benefits/Advantages/Effects；recognizing；pass；skipping；relationship(s)；job
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了阅读志愿者的工作内容，成为阅读志愿者的要求，成为阅读志愿者的好处以及阅读志愿者项目对孩子的积极影响等内容。

（1）考查信息转换。

根据第一段中的"Schools across the nation are bringing in volunteers to guide children in this very way"可知，“全国各地的学校都在招募志愿者，以这种方式指导孩子”可推断出“雇用阅读志愿者在全国范围内是一个普遍的/常规的做法”，common practice 意为“普遍做法”。

故填common/standard。

（2）考查推理判断。

根据第二段"Reading volunteers promote the activity of reading，rather than focusing on teaching reading skills."可知“阅读志愿者促进阅读的活动，而不是专注于教学的阅读技巧。

”可知，“阅读志愿者关注的只是阅读的活动而不是教学阅读技巧”。

故填
skills。

（3）考查信息转换。

根据第二段中的"During the time they spend with new readers, reading volunteers encourage them to learn to read"可知“在与阅读新手相处的时间里，阅读志愿者鼓励他们学习阅读”。

由此可知填encouragement/inspiration。

（4）考查信息归纳。

根据第三段的内容和表格右栏的内容可知，此处处主要讲述的是成为阅读志愿者的条件/资格。

故本空填Requirements/Qualifications/Conditions。

（5）考查信息概括。

根据最后两段的内容及表格右栏的内容可知，此处主要讲的是阅读志愿者项目的好处或影响。

故填Benefits/Advantages/Effects。

（6）考查信息转换。

根据第四段中的"first graders involved in a program with an adult reading volunteer three times a week had better letter recognition and reading skills than similar first graders who hadn't been involved in such groups."可知，阅读志愿者项目可提高孩子们的识别（recognize）字母的能力。

题干中的at为介词，因此本空填动词的ing形式，故填recognizing。

（7）考查信息转换。

根据第四段中的"...fifth graders who had been in "SMART", an adult volunteer literacy program, were 60% more likely to have grade-level scores in standardized reading tests."可知，阅读志愿者项目可帮助孩子们更容易地通过（pass）考试。

故填pass。

（8）考查信息转换。

根据第四段中的"showed that children who were read to by adult volunteers had improved school attendance, which is a major predictor of high school graduation rates."可知，阅读志愿者项目有助于提高孩子们的上课出勤率，即鼓励孩子们不逃课。

skip (不做应做的事)，不参加。

avoid doing sth.为固定搭配，意为“避免做某事”。

因此此处应填skipping。

（9）考查信息转换。

根据最后一段中的"reading volunteers themselves can gain a lot of benefits that range from expanding their personal networks t..."可知，阅读志愿者们自身也可从阅读志愿者项目中得到好处，包括拓宽他们的人际网，即改善他们的人际关系（relationship）。

故填relationship(s)。

（10）考查信息转换。

根据最后一段中的"reading volunteers themselves can gain a lot of benefits that range from expanding their personal networks to adding valuable skills to their resumes"可知，阅读志愿者们从阅读志愿者项目中得到好处也包括充实自己的简历，即增加自身获得工作（job）的可能性。

故填job。

【点评】本题考点涉及信息转换，推理判断和信息概括三个题型的考查，是一篇介绍类阅读，要求考生准确掌握所给材料，结合相关的语法知识和词汇知识，做出正确答案。

3．阅读短文，按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

Seven years ago, my wife told our 6-year-old daughter about our wedding weekend. My wife had moved back home to spend the weekend with her family.
As I was tucking our daughter in (把女儿的被子掖好) later that night, she asked if she could "come home like mommy did" when she got married one day. (Hopefully, one day far off into the future...) I told her our house would always be open to her. She gave me a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. She was extremely happy.
After a few seconds, I could see her mind churning (思绪翻腾)—the happiness dissipated. She pushed her finger into my belly and told me in low spirits, "Your belly is too big and you are too fat. I don't know if you are going to make it."
I was shocked. It was true that my health had fallen into a huge decline in the previous five years as I was building Contegix. I had not thought of it as destroying a future with my family. A 6-year-old girl saw what I missed.
I decided to run a mile the next morning. I couldn't make it 1/4 mile. I didn't give up and went out the next morning.
Seven years later, I have lost 60 pounds and regularly run ultra marathons. I attempted my first 100 miles last August, but I missed the terminal point at mile 87 after running on a torn hamstring (腿筋撕裂) for the previous 79 miles.
Yet, the most important distance I will ever go will be walking her down the aisle (结婚) one day. I would not make it if it hadn't been for the honesty and innocence of a 6-year-old.
（1）Why was the author's daughter happy? (no more than 15 words)
（2）What does the underlined word "dissipated" in Paragraph 3 mean? (one word)
（3）What happened to the author as he was building Contegix? (no more than 10 words) （4）What does the author regularly do seven years later? (no more than 5 words)
（5）What do you think of the author? Please explain. (no more than 25 words)
【答案】（1）Because she was told the house would be always open to her.
Or: Because the author told her their house would be always open to her.
（2）disappeared. /vanished.
（3）His health declined. /His health fell into a huge decline.
（4）He regularly runs ultra marathons.
Or: Running ultra marathons.
（5）He's a good father because he didn't want to disappoint his daughter and began to take care of his health (take exercise regularly) for his family.
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，作者与女儿7年前的一段对话，是女儿所说的话让作者更加关注自己的健康并给了作者减肥的决心和动力，与此同时作者也不想让女儿失望。

七年之后作者减掉了60磅，并参加了超级马拉松，由于腿筋撕裂，作者没有完成比赛，但作者很满足，作者认为最重要的距离是在女儿结婚时，陪女儿走过红地毯的距离。

（1）考查细节理解。

根据第二段中的“I told her our house would always be open to her. She gave me a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. She was extremely happy.”可知，作者的女儿快乐是因为作者告诉她他们家的门永远向她敞开。

故填Because she was told the house would be always open to her. Or: Because the author told her their house would be always open to her.（2）考查词义猜测。

根据第三段中的“She pushed her finger into my be lly and told me in low spirits.”可知，女儿情绪变得低落，所以"dissipated"意思是Disappeared./Vanished (消失) 的意思，女儿的快乐了。

故填disappeared./vanished.
（3）考查细节理解。

根据第四段中的“It was true that my health had fallen into a huge
decline in the previous five years as I was building Contegix.”可知，作者在建造Contegix时，作者的健康状况急剧下降。

故填His health declined./His health fell into a huge decline.
（4）考查细节理解。

根据倒数第二段中的“Seven years later, I have lost 60 pounds and regularly run ultra marathons.”可知，七年后，作者减掉了60磅，并定期参加超级马拉松比赛。

故填He regularly runs ultra marathons.Or: Running ultra marathons.
（5）考查推理判断。

短文叙述了作者与女儿的7年前的一段对话，是女儿所说的话让作者更加关注自己的健康并给了作者减肥的决心和动力，与此同时作者不想让女儿失望。

七年之后作者减掉了60磅，并参加了超级马拉松，由于腿筋撕裂，作者没有完成比赛，但作者很满足，作者认为最重要的距离是在女儿结婚时，陪女儿走过红地毯的距离。

短文中充满了父亲对女儿的爱，对家庭的爱。

所以作者是一个好父亲，因为他不想让女儿失望，所以他通过锻炼的方式使自己更健康，是为了女儿，也是为了这个家。

故填He's a good father because he didn't want to disappoint his daughter and began to take care of his health ( take exercise regularly ) for his family.
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需要准确掌握所给材料，结合相关的词汇知识和词汇知识，写出正确的答案。

4．请阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入1个最恰当的单词。

Why the youth sense anger in faces
We tend to believe that older people are more positive and younger people are more sensitive to social cues (暗示).
Recently scientists investigated this idea by testing 10,000 men and women. They wanted to see if age affected a person's ability to identify facial emotions, such as fear and anger.
The researchers from McLean Hospital in the US used a Web-based platform to collect happiness data. It showed the participants two headshots (头部特写)of random people. They were then asked to identify which subject was angrier, happier, or more fearful.
The research found that younger people were able to better identify angry and fearful facial cues than older people.
"From studies and anecdotal evidence, we know that the everyday experiences of an adolescent are different from an older person, but we wanted to understand how these experiences might be linked with differences in basic emotion understanding,wrote Laura Germine, the study's senior author.
But what is it that makes young people more sensitive?
"This is the exact age when young people are most sensitive to forms of negative social cues, such as bullying," Lauren Rutter, the study's lead author, told Science Daily. "The normal development of anger sensitivity can contribute to some of the challenges that arise during this phase of development.
On the contrary across the whole 10,000-person survey, researchers found no decline in the perception (感知)of happiness among older participants.
"What's remarkable is that we see declines in many visual perceptual abilities as we get older, but here we did not see such declines in the perception of happiness, Germine told Neuro
Science News.
She added that these findings fit well with other researches, showing that older adults tend to have more positive emotions and a positive outlook.
Following the paper's release, Rutter told Neuro Science News that gathering their primary research online allowed the team to research into a "much larger and more diverse sample set" than previous studies.
Findings/Results/Conclusion；better；peak/summit/highest；decline；agrees/corresponds；diversity
【解析】【分析】这是一篇说明文，科学家们在网络上展开调查，收集1000个人识别面部表情的信息，结果显示的确年轻人比老人更容易识别出生气、害怕这样的表情，但是识别幸福的表情时相差不大。

这与其它一些科学家的发现一致。

老人更容易有积极情绪和乐观看法。

（1）考查信息转述能力。

根据第二段中的"Recently scientists investigated this idea by testing 10,000 men and women. They wanted to see if age affected a person's ability to identify facial emotions, such as fear and anger."可知，最近科学家们通过测试1000名男人和女人研究了这个想法。

他们想看看是否年龄会影响一个人辨别害怕、生气等这样的面部表情的能力。

"investigate"是一个及物动词，可以直接作宾语。

空格后的whether age affects people's ability to identify facial emotions与this idea是等位关系，所以填investigated。

（2）考查信息转述能力。

根据第三段中的"The researchers from McLean Hospital in the US used a Web-based platform to collect happiness data."可知，美国McLean医院的科学家们用一个网络平台来收集关于幸福的数据。

"collect（收集）"还可以表达为gather。

且第二个空格在句中作谓语，本段话使用的是一般过去时，故填collected/gathered。

（3）考查信息转述能力。

根据第三段中的"It showed the participants two headshots (头部特写)of random people."可知，平台会展示给参与者两个随机人员的头部特写。

也就是说随机的两个头部特征被展示给参与者。

故填random。

（4）考查信息转述能力。

根据第三段中的"They were then asked to identify which subject was angrier, happier, or more fearful."可知，参与者被要求识别哪一个人更生气、更开心或者更害怕。

也就是说参与者要识别哪个表情更情绪化。

故填emotional/sentimental。

（5）考查信息转述能力。

根据第四段中的"The research found that…"可知，下边讲述的将是调查结果或发现。

空格后是介词，前边没有限定词，"结果/发现"是可数的，所以空格处填可数名词的复数形式。

故填Findings/Results/Conclusion。

（6）考查信息转述能力根据第四段中的"younger people were able to better identify angry and fearful facial cues than older people."可知，年轻人能比老人更好的辨别生气和害怕的面部表情。

故填better。

（7）考查信息转述能力。

格局第七段中的"This is the exact age when young people are most sensitive to forms of negative social cues"可知，青少年这个年纪是年轻人对消极的社会暗示最敏感的年纪，也就是青春期时这些消极情绪的敏感度会达到高峰。

与"most sensitive"呼应。

故填peak/summit/highest。

（8）考查信息转述能力。

根据第八段中的"researchers found no decline in the perception (感知)of happiness among older participants."可知，在老人参与者中研究人员没有发现对幸福感知能力的下降，也就是说幸福感知能力没有随着年龄下降。

故填decline。

（9）考查信息转述能力。

根据第十段中的"She added that these findings fit well with other researches"可知，这些发现与其它研究人员的发现一致。

主语What the research proves为第三人称单数形式，故可填agrees/corresponds。

（10）考查信息转述能力。

根据第十一段中的“gathering their primary research online allowed the team to research into a ‘much larger and more diverse sample set’ than pre vious studies.”可知，与以前的研究相比，主要通过网络收集信息能让这个团队对"更大更多样性的样本组"进行试验。

也就是说这次样本的大小和多样性都比之前的研究有优势。

故填diversity。

【点评】本题考点涉及信息转述能力的考查，是一篇科研类阅读，要求考生准确掌握所给材料，结合相关的语法知识和词汇知识，做出正确答案。

5．（2019•天津）阅读短文，按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

Haze Mabry, who has worked as a school keeper for thirteen years, walks into the school building every day and empties garbage cans, wipes down bathrooms and mops wet messes in the hallways.
Last Friday, after he arrived at the school, instead of finding garbage to clean up, he found almost 800 students lining the hallways with handmade cards, blowing noisemakers and singing a full-throated happy birthday to him. It was his 80th. As he walked the long hallway, some popped out of lime to hug him. They handed him so many cards that they filled several large boxes. Touched by their enthusiastic expression of affection. Mabry thanked them all. "They're like my children," Mabry said.
On a regular day, students at the school sometimes come up to him to say they're not feeling well or other times to tell him about something that happened at break. He knows most of the kids at the school, but can't name each one. Some of them make him know them. Like Faith, who
often forgets her backpack in the cafeteria, and Lucy, who just wants a hug.
"He won't brag（夸耀）on himself, but it doesn't matter what he's doing or where he is, he will always stop what he's doing to take care of a child if that child is having a bad day. If a child approaches him, he will pause to give that child his undivided attention. He's the most loved one in this building," said Lori Gilreath, a reading teacher.
Mabry works circles around all the students, cleaning up messes others don't want to touch. He doesn't expect a lot. Mabry said he hadn't planned to do much for his milestone birthday, so he was happy the students had prepared the surprise celebration.
Over the weekend, he worked through the piles of handmade cards at his house. One card from a student stood out to him. It read: "Mr. Haze, you are my sunshine.”
（1）What is Mabry's daily work as a school keeper？（no more than 5 words）
（2）How did the students celebrate Mabry's birthday？（no more than 15 words）
（3）What does the underlined word in Paragraph 2 probably mean？（1 word）
（4）Why is Mabry's presence at the school important？（no more than 10 words）
（5）Who is the "sunshine" in your life？Please explain. （no more than 20 words）
【答案】（1）Cleaning the（school）building.
Or: Doing（the）cleaning.
Or: He cleans the（school）building.
Or: He does（the）cleaning.
（2）By lining the hallways，blowing noisemakers，singing a song，handing him cards，and hugging him.
Or: By lining the hallways with（handmade）cards，blowing noisemakers，singing a song，and hugging him.
Or: They lined the hallways，blew noisemakers，sang a song，handed him cards，and hugged him.
Or: They lined the hallways with（handmade）cards，blew noisemakers，sang a song，and hugged him.
（3）Love.
Or: Liking.
Or: Fondness.
（4）（Because）he loves/cares about（the）students and works hard.
Or: （Because）he loves（the）students and is devoted to his work.
Or: （Because）he is kind/caring/helpful to the students，and hard-working.
Or: （Because）he is regarded as a kind/warm-hearted/helpful/caring and hard-working man.
（5）My father/mother. （Because）he/she loves me and encourages me when I'm
faced/confronted with difficulties.
Or: My teacher. （Because）he/she cares about me and prepares me for my future career.
Or: My friend. （Because）he/she brings me joy/happiness and gives me a lot of comfort/help/encouragement.
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，清洁工Mabry的日常工作就是清扫学校大楼。

Mabry 爱学生，关心学生。

学生们也尊敬他，喜欢他。

在他80生日那天，学生们用自己的方式祝贺他的生日，表达了对Mabry的热爱。

（1）考查细节理解。

根据第一段中的“Haze Mabry, who has works as a school keeper for thirteen years, walks into the school building every day and empty garbage cans, wipes down bathrooms, and mops wet messes in the hallways.”可知Haze Mabry是一位清洁工，他的日常工作就是清扫学校大楼。

因此本句的答案可为：Cleaning the (school) building. /Doing （the） cleaning. /He cleans the (school)building. /He does (the) cleaning.
（2）考查细节理解。

根据第二段中的“Last Friday,...he found almost 800 students lining the hallways with handmade cards, blowing noisemakers and singing a full-throated happy birthday to him.和some popped out of line to hug him.”可知，上个周五，他发现几乎有800名学生在走廊里排队，拿着手制卡片，吹口哨，为他唱了一首响亮的生日快乐歌，拥抱他。

因此答案为：By lining the hallways, blowing noisemakers, singing a song, handing him cards, and hugging him. /By lining the hallways with (handmade) cards, blowing noisemakers, singing a song, and hugging him. / They lined the hallways, blew noisemakers, sang a song, handed him cards, and hugged him. / They lined the hallways with (handmade) card, blew noisemakers, sang a song, handed him cards, and hugged him.
（3）考查词义猜测。

根据第二段学生们为Mabry庆祝生日的方式和划线词后的内容“Mabry thanked them all,”以及“They're like my children.”可知 Mabry 爱学生，把学生当作自己的孩子。

那么学生们也表达了他们对Mabry的热爱。

因此Mabry被学生的爱所感动，故所以的“affection”相当于“Love”，故填love /Liking /Fondness.
（4）考查细节理解。

根据倒数第二段中的“...he will always stop what he's doing to take care of a child if that child is having a bad day. If a child approaches him, he will pause to give that boy his undivided attention. He's the most loved one in this building.”以及最后一段中的“Mabry works circles around all the students, cleaning up messes others don't want to touch. He doesn't expect a lot.”可知，Mabry 关心爱护孩子，帮助孩子，是一个善良、热心的人。

一个不怕脏不怕累、勤奋工作的人。

因此答案为：(Because) he loves/cares about（the）students and works hard. / (Because) he loves the students and devoted to his work. /(Because) he is kind/caring /helping to the students , and hard-working. / (Because) he is regarded as a kind /warm-hearted /helpful/caring and hard-working man.
（5）考查学生的观察综合表达能力。

本题的题目：who is the "sunshine" in your life?”谁是你生活中的阳光？只要在生活或学习中帮助过你，关心你、爱护你的，鼓励你，安慰你的都可称为your sunshine。

因此答案可为：My father/mother.(Because) he/she loves me and encouraged me when I'm faced/confronted with difficulties. Or: My teacher.(Because) he/she cares about me and prepares me for my future career. Or: My friend.(Because) he/she brings me joy/happiness and gives me a lot of comfort/ help/ encouragement.
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测以及综合表达能力等题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需要准确掌握所给材料，进一步根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析推理，从而做出正确答案。

6．请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

If there is one word to describe the progress made in the last 100 years, it's connectedness. From the telephone to the radio to the TV to the Internet, we have found ways to bring us all closer together, enabling，constant worldly access.
I don't think I need to highlight the benefits of all this. But the downsides are also beginning to show. Beyond the current talk about privacy and data collection, there is perhaps an even more detrimental side-effect here: We now live in a world where we're connected to everything except ourselves. According to Pascal, we fear the silence of existence, and we dread boredom and instead choose aimless distraction and use the noise of the world to block out the discomfort of dealing with ourselves.
However, we ignore the fact that never facing ourselves is why we feel lonely an anxious in spite of being so intimately connected to everything else around us.
Fortunately, there is a solution. The only way to avoid being ruined by this is to face it. It's to let the boredom take you where it wants so you can deal with whatever it is that is really going on with your sense of self. That's when you'll hear yourself think, and learn to engage the parts of you that are masked by distraction.
The beauty of this is that, once you cross that initial barrier, you realize that being alone isn't so bad. Boredom can provide its own stimulation.
When you surround yourself with moments of solitude and stillness, you become intimately familiar with your environment in a way that forced stimulation doesn't allow. The world becomes richer, the layers start to peel back, and you see things for what they really are, in all their wholeness, in all their contradictions, and in all their unfamiliarity.
You learn that there are things you are capable of paying attention to than just what makes the most noise on the surface. Just because a quiet room doesn't scream with excitement like the idea of immersing yourself in a movie or a TV show doesn't mean there isn't depth to explore there.
Sometimes, the direction that this solitude leads you in can be unpleasant, especially when it comes to introspection (内省)—your thoughts and your feelings, your doubts and your hopes—but in the long term, it's far more pleasant than running away from it all without even realizing what you are.
Being alone and connecting inwardly is a skill nobody ever teaches us. That's ironic because it's more important than most of the ones they do.
Solitude may not be the solution to everything, but it certainly is a start.
blame；solution(s)；Instead/Rather/Actually；comprehensive/thorough/ overall；exploring；loneliness
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇议论文，信息技术的发展让我们可以和除了自己以外的一切事物保持联系，也让我们害怕孤独和无聊。

事实上，独处不仅能让我们克服这种恐惧，也能让我们认清自己和更全面的看清问题。

孤独也许不是解决一切问题的办法，但它确实是一个开始。

（1）考查细节理解。

根据第二段中的”But the downsides are also beginning to show. Beyond the current talk about privacy and data collection, there is perhaps an even more detrimental side-effect here: We now live in a world where we're connected to everything except ourselves.“可知，让人们变得更近的科技最近展示出了缺点，那就是我们生活在一个除了和自己，我们和一切都有联系的世界。

故可推出"科技的发展"和"我们和一切都有联系，除了自己"之间是转折意义。

填Although/Though/While。

（2）考查推理判断。

根据第二段中的”We now live in a world where we're connected to everything except ourselves“可知我们生活在这样的一个世界，除了自己我们和一切都有联系，即我们没能与自己联系，fail to do sth，固定短语，"没能做某事"。

空格处是主句谓语动词，一般现在时，主语是we，故用动词原形，填fail。

（3）考查推理判断。

根据第二段中的”we fear the silence of existence“可知我们害怕独处。

此处考查用a__________ state of existence替换silence of existence，通过分析可知空格处应填形容词，a silent/quiet state of existence=silence of existence(独处)。

故填silent/quiet。

（4）考查推理判断。

根据第二段中的”we dread boredom and instead choose aimless distraction and use the noise of the world to block out the discomfort of dealing with。