2014届各区二模英语试卷阅读理解 (D篇14套).docx

Answer the questions: (1)Uniforms, used for identifying people, are seen almost everywhere in the world. They are a part of everyday life. Lets look at some of the reasons why people wear uniforms and the types of people that wear uniforms.Many children have to wear a uniform at school. Boys and girls must wear the same coloured clothes and a school tie. There is often a school badge on the jacket or shirt. There are many reasons for having a school uniform. Firstly, the uniform shows that the children attend the same school. It is important for children to feel they belong to a school and that they identify with their school. Secondly, the uniform makes it easy for other people to tell which school they go to and the children are proud of their school. Thirdly, school uniforms are comfortable, smart clothing. Finally, it is cheaper for parents to buy one set of clothes for their child. Most parents cannot afford to buy lots of expensive, fashionable clothes for their children.It is not only children who wear uniforms. Think about police officers, bus drivers, security guards, chefs, waiter, and bank clerks. They all wear special clothes for their jobs. These clothes are comfortable and practical for their daily work. Their uniforms also allow the public to recognize them at once.Many other people wear uniforms too. A business person usually wears a dark suit, a white shirt, a tie, and carries a briefcase to the office. A builder wears jeans, strong shoes and a T-shirt. The clothes a person wears tell other people the kind of job the person does.Go to a shopping mall at the weekend. You will see groups of teenagers wearing blue jeans, colourful T-shirts and baseball caps. These clothes say, We are young and free. We do not need to work. But they are all wearing the same clothes as part of the same group. Although they may not like the uniform they have to wear at school, they like to have a group identity. At the weekend, they have a group identity by wearing the same styles of clothes as their friends. This is also a uniform - the uniform of youth.Clothes communicate many things about the wearers: their jobs, their social groups, even their attitudes. What do you want to tell people through the clothes you wear?1. Are children the only people who wear uniforms? _,_.2. Why are children on their best behaviour when they wear their school uniforms? _ _.3. Why do police officers wear uniforms? _.4. Can you describe a teenagers weekend uniform? _.5. What do teenagers clothes tell you about them? _.6. What do you want to tell people through the clothes you wear? _.Key: 1. No, they arent. / No, adults wear uniforms, too. 2. Because people know which school they can go to / and the children are proud of their school._3. Because they wear uniforms so that people can recognize them. / These clothes are comfortable and practical for their daily work. / because they think people can recognize them easily. 4. (Their weekend “uniform” is ) a pair of jeans, as colourful T-shirt and a basketball cap. 5. They tell us that) they are young and free. / that they dont need to work / that they are all part of the same group. 6. I want to tell people that I am a shiny, healthy and active young boy through the clothes I wear._Answer the questions: (2)He felt strange when he went back to his college in Oxford. He had left the college 25 years before, and he had never been back. As he walked up from station, he slowly began to feel the same excitement that he had felt when first went there as an 18-year-old boy. When he received the email inviting him to the reunion (重聚) for the people of his year at college, he had felt only happy and excited. Now, as he got nearer to the college, he was nervous, yes, definitely nervous. Perhaps his classmates had all been more successful than him, or at least earned more money than him. He was happy in his job as a university lecturer, but the others were probably all lawyers, accountants and cankers. Who would be there at the reunion? He wondered. He was proud that he had studied there and glad to be back, but at the same time sad that the college was no longer part of his life, sad that he couldnt bring back those days which meant so much to him. The porter gave him a key to a room in the college. He couldnt believe it. It was his old room. As he walked through the door, he was surprised to feel a tear rolling down his checks. He had never thought he would feel like this. He tried to remind himself that his times there had not always been happy, that there had been problems too. I t was almost time for dinner, so he put on his black dinner jacket and bow tie and walked down to the dining hall, wondering if any of his old friends would be there. He walked into the dining hall, and there she was. She had changed a little. The smile which had made him fall in love with her was still the same. But she was sitting with the man she had chosen to marry, the man she had chosen to marry instead of him. He had thought the pain had gone, but it hit him in the stomach like a boxers punch. Was it wrong for him to have come back? Or should he ? 1. How old was the writer when he went to college? _2. How did he feel when he received the email inviting him to his college reunion? _3. Why did he feel sad on his way to his college? _4. The old room made him think of happy and sad times in the college, didnt it? _5. What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to? _6. Please finish the last question. _Key: 1. 18 / Eighteen years old. 2. Happy and excited.3. Because the college was no longer part of his life / he couldnt bring back those days which meant so much to him. 4. Yes, it did.5 .”The pain.” 6. Should he come here with his wife? / Should he talk with them? Answer the questions: (3)Happiness is a feeling that lights up your eyes, makes your steps light and makes you want to sing for no reason. Everyone wants to be happy. But sometimes, a guest comes in without invitation. Its unhappiness. Dont let it get you down. Send it away. When you are happy, the world feels like a better place. As the saying goes: When you smile, the world smiles with you; when you cry, you cry alone. Wearing a smile makes you more charming(迷人的)and helps you to win lots of friends. A good mood（心情）always gives you hope, which makes trouble and problems easier to handle.No matter how happy you are, its normal to feel angry, sad or gloomy once in a while. Life is full of ups and downs. We cant change the way life is, but we can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. To help us do this, its good to know some of the factors（因素）that influence happiness.One of the biggest factors is social relationships. People who are close to family and friends are happier than people who dont have those relationships. Talking and sharing is a good way to relax and build confidence. Knowing someone is there for you will make you braver and more outgoing. Another factor is work or school. If you enjoy school, even if you have lots of homework or extra classes, you will feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you hate school, your negative attitude（消极的态度）may cause you to feel bored and upset that you hate to do so much work. A third factor is your attitude towards life. How do you feel if you fail in an exam? Maybe you think its unfair because you always study and should have got a good mark. You cant stop blaming（责备）yourself. Or, maybe you accept it. You go through the paper carefully, find out why you made stupid mistakes, and tell yourself, “Take it easy! Ill do better next time!” Your attitude makes a big difference. Do you smile a lot or wear a long face most of the time?1. Happiness is a feeling, isnt it?_, _.2. What makes you more charming and gives you hope? _3. What does the underlined sentence mean according to paragraph 3? _. 4. What can we do when we cant change the way life is? _.5. How many factors influence happiness? What are they?_. 6. How do you make yourself happy in your daily life? Give an example. _.Key: 1. Yes, it is.2. Wearing a smile and a good mood.3. No matter how happy you are, its normal to feel angry, sad or gloomy once in a while./There are happiness and sadness in our life.4. We can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. 5. Three. Social relationships, work or school and your attitude towards life.6. Any reasonable answer is ok. Answer the questions: (4) The first time I saw Jim Wooten I really understood him. He was a great TV news reporter. When he was reporting in Rwanda, one heartbreaking moment made a deep impression on me. When the camera showed all of the children who were dying, suffered from terrible diseases, Jim ended his piece by saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children. Then I realized that he was different, that he didnt fall into any of the modern television-news tricks, that he was not giving us any awful, artificial (假的) television-journalist reports out of（出于) pity. Instead, I was watching a real reporter with a gift (天赋) for both words and slight differences.Then I read his book, We Are All the Same, about his friendship with Xolani Nkosi, a South African boy who became the international spokesman for AIDS (艾滋病). It is about the friendship between Wooten and a black child who was ten years old and already dying of AIDS. It is also a book about a great teacher and his student. But the teacherthe one with real wisdom and understanding about lifeis the little boy, not the journalist. And, finally, its about a love story of Gail Johnson, Nkosis white mother who does her best to save the boy, and their love for each other. When reading the book, I felt touched from time to time. 1. How did Jim Wooten feel when he saw the dying children in Rwanda? _.2. What would an ordinary journalist do on TV when he saw these dying children? _.3. How did Jim end his piece when he saw the dying children in Rwanda? _.4. Who is the teacher in the book, the little boy or the journalist? _.5. Why did Nkosis mother do everything possible to save the boy? _.6. Whats the writers attitude to Jim Wooten? How do you know that? _.Key: 1. He felt very sad./He was heartbroken2. He would give us some awful, artificial television-journalist reports out of pity./He would fallinto some of the modern television-news tricks.3. By saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children.4. The little boy. (1分题）5. Because she loved the boy./Because the boy was dying of AIDS. 6. He respected Jim./He admired Jim. The writer wrote/mentioned that Jim was a great TV news reporter.（3分题）Answer the questions: (5) One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, I am blind, please help me. There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write? The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way. What he had written was, Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it. Do you think the first sign and second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind. The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story. The first is: Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help. The second is: Be creative (有创造力的). Think differently. There is always a better way！1. Who sat on the steps of a building asking for help? _2. A man walked by and gave the boy a few coins, didnt he? _3. What did the man do to the boys sign? _4. What happened to the boys hat soon? _5. How did the man write the sign? _6. Which sign do you prefer, the first one or the second one? Why? _Key: 1. A blind boy.2. Yes he did.3. He turned it around and wrote some new words.4. The hat began to fill up.5. He wrote the truth, but in a different way.6. I prefer the seconed one.The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind ,and it tell us to try our best to help those who need your help.Answer the questions: (6) One young excellent person was trying to find a high position in a big company. It was the director who would make the final decision. The director discovered that the young man did an excellent job in his college, which interested him a lot. The director asked, “Who paid for your college?” The young man answered, “My father passed away when I was one year old, so it was just my mother.” “What did your mother do?” The director seemed surprised. “She is a clothes cleaner,” the young man answered, with no feeling. “Have you ever helped your mother wash some clothes before?” “Never. My mother always wanted me to study and read more books. She could wash clothes faster than me,” the young man seemed puzzled (迷惑) when answering. “Well, now I need you to do something. When you go back home today, clean your mothers hands and see me tomorrow.” The youth was happy when hearing this because he felt that his chance of getting the job was great. When he went home, he happily asked his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange but happy. With mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid. The young man cleaned his mothers hands, with tears falling. It was the first time he noticed that his mothers hands were so wrinkled (皱的), and there were so many wounds. This pair of hands enabled him to go through college. This pair of hands was the price that his mother had to pay for his life and his future. The next morning, the director asked the young man, “Now tell me what you learned yesterday.” After hearing what he said, the director knew the young man had learned his lesson. “This is the man whom I am looking for. We want you to be our member.”1. Did the young man do quite well in college? _, _.2. Who paid for the young mans college?_.3. Why hadnt the young man helped clean the clothes before?_.4. What did the director ask the young man to do when he went back?_.5. Why did the mother feel strange but happy when her son wanted to wash her hands? _.6. The young man had learned his lesson. What can you learn from his lesson? _.Key: 1. Yes, he did.2. His mother.3. Because his m