湖南省汝城二中高考英语一轮复习 阅读训练(12).doc

湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (12)第二部分：阅读理解：（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。ai was brought up in the british, stiff upper lip style. strong feelings arent something you display in public. so, you can imagine that i was unprepared for the outpouring of public grief(悲伤) at a chinese funeral.my editorial team leader died recently after a short illness. he was 31. the news was so unexpected that it left us all shocked and upset. a female colleague burst into tears and cried piteously at her desk. somehow we got through the days work. the next day was the funeral. our big boss stepped forward to deliver a eulogy and was soon in tears. she carried on, in chinese of course, but at the end said in english: there will be no more deadlines for you in heaven. next came a long-term colleague who also dissolved in tears but carried on with her speech despite being almost overcome by emotion. then a close friend of the dead man paid tribute(哀悼), weeping openly as he spoke. sorrow is speading. me and women were now sobbing uncontrollably. finally, the mans mother, supported between two women, addressed her son in his coffin. at one point, the mother almost collapsed and had to be held up. we were invited to step forward to each lay a white rose on the casket. our dead colleague looked as if he was taking a nap. at the end of the service i walked away from the funeral parlor stunned at the outpouring of emotion. in the uk, families grieve privately and then try to hold it together and not break down at a funeral. here in china it would seem that grieving is a public affair. it strikes me that it is more cathartic to cry your eyes out than try to keep it bottled up for fear of embarrassment, which is what many of us do in the west. afterwards, a chinese colleague told me that the lamenting at the funeral had been restrained(克制) by chinese standards. in some rural areas, she said, people used to be paid to mourn noisily. this struck me like something out of novel by charles dickens. but we have all seen on tv scenes of grief-stricken people in gaza and the west bank, in afghanistan, iraq and the relatives of victims of terrorist bombings around the world. chinese grief is no different. i realized that its the reserved british way of mourning that is out of step with the rest of the world. it was our newspapers production day. we were bussed back to the office to resume work. no more deadlines for our former colleague, but we had to pull together to put the newspaper to print. the boss invited the team to go out for dinner after work. we relaxed, smiled, joked. there was no mention of the funeral or our poor colleague. enough sorrow had been shed already. we needed a break.41the underlined words “stiff upper lip style” mean “ ”.acold-bloodedbwarm-heartedcself-controlleddlight-hearted42at the funeral, .afive individuals made speechesbthe bosss speech was best thought ofceveryone was crying out loudlydthe writer was astonished by the scene43according to the writer, people in the west .aare not willing to be sad for the deadbprefer to control their sadness in publicccry their eyes out at the public funeraldhave better way to express sadness44it is implied that .athe english might cry noisily for the dead in dickens timebchinese express their sadness quite unlike other peoplescvictims of terrorist bombings should be greatly honoreddenglish funeral culture is more civilized than the others45this passage talks mainly about .aan editors deathbbad funeral customscwestern ways of griefdcultural differencesbbelow is a passage adapted from the network edition of china daily.eventli yang, one of chinas most famous english teachers, apologized for beating his american wife more than a week after she posted photos of her injuries on the web and set off a bomb of criticism.“i wholeheartedly apologize to my wife kim and my girls for committing domestic violence. this has caused them serious physical and mental damage,” li said on his mieroblog at w, the countrys most popular social media site, on saturday. li, 42, is a mechanics major but is best known for his “crazy english,” a popular method of language learning that involves yelling at the top of ones lungs.he was at the center of public criticism after his wife kim lee put up posts on the web accusing him of abuse, showing her swollen forehead and knees.voicesxuemanzi, angel investoranti-domestic violence laws should be made as soon as possible, giving protection to the rights of women and children lawfully. police should not stand back from domestic violence any longer, even if no one reports them. society, as a whole, should attach greater importance to the crime.wuzhihong, psychiatrist and counselorextreme and crazy personality always goes hand in hand with violence and a low degree of tolerance.zhangxiaomeichinese are never taught about marital(婚姻的) relations, which mean not merely living together. a good marriage needs to overcome three differences: family background, gender and personalities. in addition to these, there is cultural gap in li yangs case. if the effects of these differences are not well understood, after the honeymoon period, they will turn into conflicts and endanger the marriage. lis domestic violence is a reminder that china needs such education.wuxiaolong, sina weibo userli yangs choice to resort to domestic violence really reflects his character. students who have attended his crazy english camp may know what i mean: li wants his students to worship him as an idol. i still remember he once had his students kowtow to him. he always teaches english by imposition(权威强制), which directly reflects his desire for power.sikaozhe, sina weibo userin the us, the punishments for domestic violence are even more severe than strealing. if the police arrive at the wifes call during a fighting between a couple nd find injuries on her, they will immediately arrest the husband. even if the wife doesnt call the police, they may also show up as neighbors could well do their part.ykxin sina weibo userdont blindly worship anyone, because in every closet there may hide a skeleton. as a famous chinese saying goes, “only they who do well in their daily routine tasks can fulfills their dreams on great occasions”. not surprisingly, one who focuses too much on his career and ignores his family, like li yang, will fail in both. dont judge a person by his career success, wealth, or any other material aspect, because what finally decides a person is his character.aftermath(余波)although li yang publicly apologized to his wife, promising to love his daughters even if he and lee divorce, the damage, perhaps permanently, has been done to his wife, his three daughters and the whole family.wang xingjuan, founder of the maple womens psychological consulting center, a non-profit organization, said nearly half of domestic violence abusers are people who have higher education, senior jobs and social status. she said this was probably because such people were usually under more mental stress.domestic violence occurs in 30 percent of the 270 million chinese families, with more than 85 percent of sufferers being women, according to a survey conducted by the all china womens federation in 2007. about 100,000 chinese families break up each year as a result of domestic violence, the federation said.46this passage is focused on li yangs .aenglish-teaching careerbinternational marriagecmicroblog articleddomestic violence47zhangxiaomei holds the view that .alaws should be passed to protect women and childrenbcrazy personality accounts for violence and ill tempercovercoming background gap is necessary for marriagedli is wrong to have his students worship him as an idol48who thinks that character plays the most important role in ones life?axuemanzibwuxiaolongcsikaozhedykxin49according to wang xingjuan, .apeople under stress lend to have domestic violencebpeople of h igher education wont easily lose tempercpeople in lower social status often beat their wivesdpeople with senior jobs seldom have family troublechas the threat of cyber(网络)-war entered a significant new stage? look at the reports of activity on the digital battlefield. cyberspace, some call it the new field of war, after land, sea, air and space. the 2010 stuxnet(蠕虫病毒) cyber-attack on irans uranium enrichment plant(铀浓缩厂), suspected to have come from israel or the us, seemed to confirm the existence of this kind of war.stuxnet raised the fear of cyber-attack. the recently discovered computer virus called duqu trojan, which contains some stuxnet code, is built to steal information about computers controlling industrial palnts. it security experts suspect duqu came from the same source as stuxnet, and may be seeking weak points for future attack.despite all this activity, the nature of cyber-threats remains unclearly described. experts have been warning for years about dangers of being attacked in us government and private computer networks. in 2009, obama launched a 60-day cyberspace security review to assess the threats. it concluded they were horrible, and urged the government to figh the threat under the direction of the us national security council, along with cooperation with other countries and private industry.firewalls guarding us military(军事) information are attacked mercilessly, sometimes successfully. “over the past decade, large quantities of data have been taken out by foreign hackers,” then us vice defense secretary william lynn said in july. a single such attack in march saw 24,000 files stolen. yet cyber-war goes far beyond this activity. there is industrial spying; criminal attacks, including stealing military secrets; and selling fake military parts on the internet, which can damage or destroy equipment. opposition groups create their own threats. thus security must go far beyond protecting government documents and facilities.unavoidable offence is studied too, secretly. but governments are unwilling to attack openly. news reports in the us claimed that barack obamas administration chose not to launch a cyber-attack against libyan air defenses in march. “the us decision not to aim at libya was largely political,” says james lewis, a white house high official. also, he adds, obama did not want to be the first to openly launch a new form of war. october saw a great deal of talk about cyber-war. also in october, the us department of defense announced that the countrys highest military officers were reviewing the rules of engagement for cyber-war. a few days later, another report suggested a certain country may have launched a cyber-attack against two us civilian satellites.caution and a focus on defense make sense. computer technology spreads fast. it does not pay to attack if your weapons can be turned against you. the computer virus duqu trojan is troublesome, but more extensive stuxnet cyber-attack could lead to a real cyber-war.50the cyber-attack on irans plant mentioned in paragraph one shows us .ait is wrong to invade a countrybcyber-attack isnt far from usca uranium enrichment plant is illegaldisrael or the us is dangerous51cyber threats .acan hardly reach americabarent paid much attention tocraise great alarm to americadare limited to stealing information52america didnt launch a cyber-attack against libya mainly for the reason of .atechnologybeconomycpoliticsdmilitary53the passage suggests it is wise to a cyber-war.astartbpreventccontinuedspread54the proper title for this passage is .acyber-war is worse than real onebamerica will win a cyber-warccyber-war clouds are gatheringdobama avoided the cyber-wardthe policeman moved up the avenue impressively. it was barely 10 oclock at night, but the chilly wind with rain had kept people out of the streets.the policeman suddenly slowed his walk. in the doorway of a darkened store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. as the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly. “its all right, officer,” he said, “im just waiting for a friend. its an appointment made twenty years ago. well, about that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands big joe bradys restaurant.”“until five years ago,” said the policeman. “it was torn down then.”the man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. the light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. his scarf pin was a large diamond.“twenty years ago tonight,” said the man. “i dined here at big joe bradys with jimmy wells, my best friend, and the finest guy in the world. he and i were raised here in new york, just like two brothers, together. i was eighteen and jimmy was twenty. the next morning i was to start for the west to make my fortune. you couldnt have dragged jimmy out of new york; he thought it was the only place on earth. well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. we figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be.”“it sounds pretty interesting,” said the policeman. “rather a long time between meets, though, it seems to me. havent you heard from your friend since you left?”“well, yes, for a time we corresponded,” said the other. “but after a year or two we lost track of each other. yet i know jimmy will meet me here if hes alive, for he always was the truest guy in the world. hell never forget. i came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and its worth it if my old partner turns up.”the policeman twirled his club(警棍) and took a step or two, saying: “ill be on my way. hope your friend comes around all right.”“ill give him half an hour at least. if jimmy is alive hell be here by that time. so long, officer.”“good-night, sir,” the policeman went away.the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.about twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar tuned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street. he went directly to the waiting man.“is that you, bob?” he asked, doubtfully.“is that you, jimmy wells?” cried the man in the door.“bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both the others bands with his own. “its bob, sure as fate. i was certain id find you here, well, twenty years is a long time.”“youve changed lots, jimmy. i never thought you were so tall by two or three inches.”“oh, i grew a bit after i was twenty. come on, bob; well go around to a place i know of, and have a good long talk about old times.”the two men started up the street, arm in arm. the man from the west, his egotism(自负) enlarged by success, was beginning to outline the history of his career. the other, hidden in his overcoat, listened with interest.at the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights. when they came in, each of them turned to gaze upon the others face.the man from the west stopped suddenly and released his arm.“youre not jimmy wells,” he said sharply. “twenty years is a long time, but not long enouth to change a mans nose from straight to flat.”the tall man said, “youve been under arrest for ten minutes, bob. chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and asks us to have a chat with you. going quietly, are you? thats sensible. now, before we go on to the station heres a note to you. you may read it here at the window. its from patrolman （巡警） wells.”the man from the west unfolded the little piece of paper. his hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little when he had finished. the note was rather short.“bob: i was at the appointed place on time. when you struck the match to light your cigar i saw it was the face of the man wanted in chicago. somehow i couldnt do it myself, so i went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. jimmy.”55the man leaning in the doorway was waiting to .atell a policeman an extremely moving storybkeep an appointment made 20 years beforechelp the police to catch a wanted criminaldshow off his great success in his adventure56twenty years before, jimmy used to be .aa policemanba boss of a restaurantcbob best friendda keen-eyed guy57the underlined word “corresponded” here means “ ”.aagreed with each otherbwere equal or similarcsuffered from lonelinessdexchanged some letters58the policeman went away in order to .aget he man from the west caughtbkeep going on guard of the streetcfind the man wanted by the policedget off duty and go home for good59bob in the story is described as a man who .awas good at cheatingbwas modest by naturecstuck to his promisedbetrayed his friend60the end of the story shows that .atime will wait for no man bfriendship is preciouscjustice can hardly be donedlife is hard to predict浙江省四校2012届高三联考试题（英语）第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）第一节：阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。aa few years after i was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. from the beginning, dad was fascinated with this charming newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. the stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on. as i grew up, i never questioned his pla