2019届高三英语复习----阅读练习(二)

2019届高三英语复习----阅读练习（二）

B

When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and seeing other children suffer in other parts of the world. I would say to myself, “When I grow up, when I can get rich, I will save kids all over the world.”

At 17, I started my career here in America, and by the age of 18, I started my first charity organization. I went on to team up with other organizations in the following years, and met, helped, and even lost some of the most beautiful souls, tern six-year-old Jasmina Anema who passed away in 2010 from leukemia (白血病), whose story inspired thousands to volunteer as donors, to 2012 when grandmother lost her battle with cancer, which is the very reason and the driving force behind the Clara Lionel Foundation( CLF). We’re all human. And we all just want a chance：a chance at life, a chance in education, a chance at a future, really. And at CLF, our mission is to impact as many lives as possible, but it starts with just one.

People make it seem too hard to do charity work. The truth is, you don’t have to be rich to help others. You don’t need to be famous. You don’t even have to be college -educated. But it starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood. You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can. And today, I want to challenge each of you to make a commitment to help one person，one organization，one situation that touches your heart. My grandmother always used to say, “If you’ve got a dollar, there’s plenty to share.”

24. What did the author want to do at a young age?

A. Watch TV.

B. Grow up quickly.

C. Become wealthy.

D. Help other children.

25. What directly caused the author to create and develop the CLF?

A. A six-year-old kid’s request.

B. Her gra ndmother’s death of cancer.

C. Many volunteers’ inspiration.

D. Other organizations’ encouragement.

26. What does the underlined word “o ne” in Paragraph 2 refer to

A. A chance.

B. A task.

C. A life.

D. An organization.

27. What does the author suggest people do in the last paragraph?

A. Do little things to help those around them.

B. Work hard to get a college education.

C- Challenge their friends to offer help.

D. Do charity work whatever you are.

C

Alongside air and water, food is a necessity for human beings to survive and thrive. But

it’s a lot more than that. As Mariette Dichristina of Scientific American wrote：“T he most intimate (亲密的) relationship we will ever have is not with any fellow human being. Instead, it is between our bodies and our food.”

Nowadays, for most people in the worlds wealthiest countries, food is a hobby, an enthusiasm, and even something fashionable.

Turn on the TV in the US, UK or France, and you’ll find at least one channel feeding this popular obsession.

And most of us know at least one person who thinks of themselves as a “foodie”. It’s almost impossible nowadays to check our social media apps without at least two or three photos of delicious meals appearing on our screen.

But behind the fancy recipes and social media bragging (夸耀), many of us forget how much we take food for granted. This is why World Food Day is held each year.

Take Kenya for example. This east African nation has been suffering terrible droughts. The result is that people are beginning to starve. Children in particular are suffering, with some of them even dying.

This may seem shocking to know, especially as many cultures outside of Africa think of food in a completely different way. But even in the UK, families on low incomes are forced to use food banks—European organizations that hand out donated food to those who can’t afford to pay for it themselves.

So what can we do on World Food Day? One good way to spend it would be to feel humble and appreciate what we have. After all, food is essential for survival, but not everyone is as lucky as we are when it comes to dinner time.

28. According to Mariette Dichristina, what has the closest relationship with us?

A. Air.

B. Water.

C. Food.

D. Human beings.

29. What does the underlined word “foodie” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Delicious food.

B. A person fond of food.

C. A social media app.

D. A photo of delicious meals.

30. Who can get help from food banks?

A. Poor people in the UK.

B. Poor people in Africa.

G. Starving children in Kenya. D. People in the drought-stricken.

31. What’s the best title for the text?

A. Treat Food as a Hobby

B. Time to Appreciate Food

C. Food Shortage in Some Countries

D. How to Spend World Food Day

D

Traditionally, robots have been hard, made of metal and other rigid material：But a team of scientists at Harvard University in the US has managed to build an entirely soft robot-one that draws inspiration from an octopus (章鱼).