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陕西三原县2016高考英语【二轮】阅读理解基础训练（6）阅读理解 diana jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart. “i have two kids in college, and i want to say come home, but at the same time i want to provide them with a good education,” says jacobs.the jacobs family did work out a solution: they asked and received more aid form the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. they will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school. with unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the jacobs. more students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. college administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around. at the same time, tuition（学费）continues to rise. a report from the national center for public policy and higher education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade, “if we go on this way for another 25years, we wont have an affordable system of higher education,” says patrick m. callan, president of the center. “the middle class families have been financing it through debt. they will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.” financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. the good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.66. according to paragraph 1, why did the plan of jacobs family fail?a. the twins wasted too much money.b. the father was out of work.c. their saving ran out.d. the family fell apart.67. how did the jacobs manage to solve their problem?a. they asked their kids to come home.b. they borrowed $20,000 from the school.c. they encouraged their twin sons to do part-time jobs.d. they got help from the school and the federal government.68. financial aid administrators believe that _.a. more families will face the same problem as the jacobsesb. the government will receive more letters of complaintc. college tuition fees will double soond. americas unemployment will fall69.what can we learn about the middle class families from the text?a. they blamed the government for the tuition increase.b. their income remained steady in the last decade.c. they will try their best to send kids to college.d. their debts will be paid off within 25 years.70.according to the last paragraph, the government will .a. provide most students will scholarshipsb. dismiss some financial aid administratorsc. stop the companies from making student loansd. go on providing financial support for college students【文章大意】这是一篇关于学费贷款的文章。66.答案b。根据文章第一段的her husband lost his job可以得出，双胞胎儿子好上学交学费，丈夫事业，家庭陷入困境。停止，两者是对立关系。阅读理解-（b）goldies secret she turned up at the doorstep of my house in cornwall. no way could i have sent her away. no way, not me anyway. maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. were moving house.; no space for her any more with the baby coming. we never really wanted her, but what could we have done? she was a present. people find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. and she was one of the most beautiful dogs i had ever seen. i called her goldie. if i had known what was going to happen i would have givenher a more creative name. she was so unsettled during those first few days. she hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. there was nothing i could do to make her happy, it seemed. heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owners. but eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire. thats why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. we were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. eventually i couldnt hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could. by the time i reached the farm i was very tired and upset with goldie. but when i saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) i started to feel sympathy towards them. we didnt know what had happened to her, said the woman at the door. i took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared. she must have tried to come back to them and got lost, added a boy from behind her. i must admit i do miss goldie, but ive got nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. and ive learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.( ) 1. how did the author feel about goldie when goldie came to the house? a. shocked. b. sympathetic. c. annoyed. d. upset.( ) 2. in her first few days at the authors house, goldie . ai felt worried b. was angry c. ate a little d. sat by the fire( ) 3. goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she . a. saw her puppies b. heard familiar barking c. wanted to leave the author d. found her way to her old home( ) 4. the passage is organized in order of . a. time b. effectiveness c. importance d. complexity阅读技巧：夹叙夹议，叙为议服务，议为叙指导。把握了这句话就把握了阅读此类文章的真谛。叙述不分重点关注人物，情节的变化；议论一定看清楚作者想表明的道理。答题技巧：本篇题目由3个细节题和一道文章结构题组成，难度都不大。细节题要求学生把握文章中的原文，做合理推断和转述。比如57题，将unsettled理解成worried。文章结构题基本属于送分题，要求学生作答，此篇记叙文按照时间顺序发展。56.b情绪推断，较难题。此推断题的难点在于，原文没有直接的形容词表述，要求学生通过具体的描述总结。原文第2段she hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. there was nothing i could do to make her happy, it seemed. heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owners.划线句子表明作者同情被遗弃的小狗，希望帮助它高兴起来。57.a细节题，较难题。要做对此题主要要排除c项的干扰，原文第2段she hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. hardly ate anything的表述与ate little是不一样的。前者是几乎什么都不吃，后者是吃得少，此错误选项属于改变否定/肯定的程度。58.d原因推断题，简单题，通过原文第4段的描写可得正确答案。59.a问文章的行文结构，简单题，此篇记叙文按照时间顺序发展。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出最佳选项。the american sleep deficitthere are many things that divide americans. but at least one thing unites us. most of us - 64 percent, to be precise - are sleep-deprived. a recent survey by the national sleep foundation found that lack of sleep interferes with the daily activities of 40 percent of adults.now before you yawn, rub your eyes and hit the snooze button, consider the consequences of living in a nation of sleepyheads. according to the national highway traffic safety administration, sleep deprivation is responsible for at least 100,000 crashes and 1,500 deaths a year. but while we have national campaigns against drunk driving and speeding, there is no outcry against driving while sleepy. maybe its because we cant measure fatigue with a yawnometer. but i think the real answer lies in our workaholic cultures contempt for a time-waster like sleep. i never sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death, nas rapped in n.y. state of mind.anything which tends to slow work down is a waste, thomas edison said, predicting that the light bulb would make 24-hour workdays possible. and, indeed, over the past century americans have reduced their average nightly sleep time by more than 20 percent - wearing the dark circles under their eyes like badges of honor. our political leaders are particularly proud of how little rest they get. none of us have had a great deal of sleep, a bleary eyed president bush said after burning the midnight oil deciding whether or not to bomb iraq.unfortunately, there is a strong correlation between poor decision-making and lack of sleep. a nasa study found that 21 percent of pilot errors are related to fatigue. the american airlines crash in arkansas earlier this month may have been due to the pilots impaired judgment after 13 1/2 straight hours on duty. and sleep deprivation has been a factor in some of the biggest disasters in recent history, including chernobyl, the exxon valdez spill, the challenger explosion and the marriage of pamela anderson and tommy lee.even putting aside disasters like these, sleep deprivation costs us businesses $100 billion a year in accidents and reduced productivity. prof. moore-ede of the harvard medical school has recommended napping policies for corporations, an in some offices nap times are starting to replace coffee breaks. dr. james maas, author of power sleep, is also an advocate of sleeping on the job: by napping for 15 to 20 minutes, you can regain creativity and problem-solving skills.imagination, originality, the ability to think - all qualities conspicuously lacking in our leaders -are the first casualties of sleep deprivation. those aspiring to leadership should read history. thomas jefferson, winston churchill and ronald reagan were all renowned nappers. dont think, churchill warned his colleagues, you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. thats a foolish notion held by people who have no imagination. you will be able to accomplish more.maybe we should spend more time worrying about how many hours our leaders are sleeping rather than whom they are sleeping with. now that our budget is in the black, how about turning our attention to the national sleep deficit? 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出最佳选项。a few reasons to hate april fools dayapril fools day is an odd holiday, and not to everyones liking. in fact, many people dislike it.when i was growing up i was mostly indifferent to it. celebrations such as christmas, easter, and thanksgiving made perfect sense to me, and i eagerly anticipated them, principally because they involved food. april fools day, on the other hand, was just a date on the calendar. if i thought about it at all, it conjured up visions of fake vomit, and prank phone calls, none of which i was particularly interested in since i was quite serious and gloomy as a child. it was only when i was older, after my early seriousness had collapsed into a cynical fascination with the comedic aspects of life, that i acquired an interest in the traditions and history of april fools day.what i have learned about april fools day, after much study, is that most people regard it with as much indifference as i formerly did. of all the major holidays, it is arguably the least celebrated. most people, if they show any awareness of the day at all, do so only in a purposeless fashion. for instance, they might remark that oh, its april fools day, when they notice the date to be april 1st. very few actually do anything to mark the occasion.but enough people do cele