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湖南省湘潭市2016高考英语完形填空和阅读理解暑假选练（8）阅读理解。arthur miller(19152005)is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. millers father had moved to the usa from austriahungary, drawn like so many others by the“great american dream”. however, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the great depression of the early 1930s. millers most famous play, death of a salesman, is a powerful attack on the american system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. in willy loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he cant do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the wagner company, and he must go. willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. he refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.when it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews，and it won the tony award for best play，the new york drama critics circle award, and the pulitzer prize for drama.it was the first play to win all three of these major awards.miller died of heart failure at his home in roxbury，connecticut, on the evening of february 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of death of a salesman on broadway.本文讲述了亚瑟米勒，美国著名的剧作家，以及他的著名的戏剧男售货员之死，当这部戏剧第一次搬上舞台时，赢得了巨大的成功，获得了三项大奖。1. why did arthur miller s father move to the usa?a. he suffered from severe hunger in his home country.b. he was attracted by the “great american dream”c. he hoped to make his son a dramatist. d. his family business failed.答案：b。细节理解题。根据短文第一段第二句话“millers father had moved to the usa from austriahungary，drawn like so many others by the great american dream”可知答案。2the play death of a salesman _.a. exposes the cruelty of the american business world b. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company c. talks about the business career of arthur miller d. focuses on the skills in doing business答案：a。细节理解题。根据短文第二段第三、四句话可知，willy loman已陷入美国社会制度的困境中，他已精疲力尽，在这残酷的商业世界中，他不知道应该怎样做，最后，他选择了自杀。由此可知a项正确。3. what can we learn about willy loman?a. he treats his employer badly. b. he runs the wagner company. c. he is a victim of the american system. d. he is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.答案：c。推理判断题。由短文第二段可知，willy loman在这残酷的商业世界中，根本没有情感可言，但是他又不能对不起他的雇主和公司，他又不知道如何处理自己的失败，只有选择自杀，由此可知他是美国社会制度的牺牲品。4. after it was first staged, death of a salesman_.a. achieved huge success b. won the first tony awardc. was warmly welcomed by salesmen d. was severely attacked by dramatists答案：a。细节理解题。由短文第三段可知，戏剧death of a salesman第一次搬上舞台，就赢得了三项大奖，故a项正确。5. what is the text mainly about?a. arthur miller and his family. b. the awards arthur miller won.c. the hardship arthur miller experienced. d. arthur miller and his bestknown play.答案：d。主旨大意题。综观全文可知，本文主要讲述了亚瑟米勒及他的名著death of a salesman，故d项正确。阅读理解。the week i turned 50, my marriage came to a sudden end. my house, furniture and everything id owned was sold to pay debts that i didnt even know i had. in a week i had lost my husband, my home and my parents who had refused to accept a divorce in the family. id lost everything except my four teenage children. i used every penny i had to buy five plane tickets from missouri to hawaii. everyone said i was crazy to think i could just go to an island and survive. i was afraid they were right.knowing that no one in the world was going to help us, i rented a cheap apartment. i worked 18 hours a day and lost 30 pounds because i lived on one meal a day. one night as i walked alone on the beach, i saw the red orange glow of the lave (火山岩) pouring out of kilarea volcano in the distance. it was time to live my imagination!the next day i quit my job and invested my last paycheck in art supplies and began doing what i loved. i hadnt painted a picture in 15 years. i wondered if i could still paint. my hands trembled the first time i picked up a brush. but before an hour had passed, i was lost in the colors spreading across the canvas in front of me. and as soon as i started believing in myself, other people started believing in me, too. the first painting sold for $1,500 before i even had time to frame it.the past six years have been filled with adventures. my children and i have gone swimming with dolphins, watched whales and hiked around the volcano. we wake up every morning with the ocean in front of us and the volcano behind us. the dream i had more than 40 years ago is now reality. im living freely and happily ever after.1. it can be inferred from the passage that _. a. the writer didnt expect her marriage would end b. the writers parents were content with her divorce c. the writers husband took away most of her property d. there was something wrong with the writers job 答案解析：答案为a。本题为推理题。从第一段的第一句话 “the week i turned 50, my marriage came to a sudden end.” 可以推断，作者迈入50岁的那一周，婚姻突然解体，这个是她所没有预料到的。故答案为a。 从第一段的 “my house, furniture and everything id owned was sold to pay debts that i didnt even know i had id lost everything except my four teenage children.” 可以推断，作者失去了所有的财产，而不是大部分财产，故c选项错误。又从 “in a week i had lost my husband, my home and my parents who had refused to accept a divorce in the family.”可推断，她的父母拒绝接受她的离婚，故选项b错误。d选项未提及。2. the writer went to hawaii to _. a. free herself from trouble b. spend her holiday c. earn a living for the family d. realize her childhoods dream 答案解析：答案为c。本题为推理题。由第二段前两句话 “knowing that no one in the world was going to help us, i rented a cheap apartment. i worked 18 hours a day and lost 30 pounds because i lived on one meal a day.”可知，作者带着四个孩子去夏威夷后，没人帮助，住廉价的公寓，一天工作18个小时，吃一顿饭，故可推断她去夏威夷为了谋生。3. which of the following is not true according to the passage ? a. the writer is a woman of great determination. b. the writer has been fond of painting. c. the writer sold her first framed painting for 1,500 dollars. d. the writer likes a life full of adventures. 答案解析：答案为c。本题为推理题。结合全文，作者50岁的时候，婚姻瓦解，带着四个孩子到夏威夷，偶然的机会发现了生财之道，利用自己以前的爱好谋生，自力更生，奋斗不息，可推断她是位有决心的伟大女性，故a选项正确。由作者的经历和最后一段的倒数第二句话 “the dream i had more than 40 years ago is now reality.” 可知，作者一直喜欢绘画，故b选项正确。由最后一段首句 “the past six years have been filled with adventures.” 可推断，作者喜欢冒险生活，故选项d正确。 由第三段最后一句话 “the first painting sold for $1,500 before i even had time to frame it.” 可知，作者的第一幅画在抽空上框之前就卖了$1,500，选项c与文意不符。故答案为c。4. what would be the best title for this passage? a. my broken marriage b. a hard life in hawaii c. adventures over 6 years d. my life after divorce 答案解析：答案为d。本题考查文章标题。全文描述了作者离婚后去夏威夷如何发现谋生的机会，如何过上幸福自由的快乐生活。故答案为d。阅读理解。for ten years jo eddings felt that she had been banging her head against a brick wall. “i cant describe my frustration. i felt so helpless,” she says. “what i wanted was the help with my very bright daughter who had a problem with language.” she was slow to learn to talk and at 9 her reading and writing were still poor.“we took her to psychologists and all sorts of experts, but for years nobody seemed to be able to give us a proper diagnosis or know what to do.” but that changed this month when she heard a radio program about an exhibition called genes talking at the institute of contemporary arts (ica) in london. it was about a research project to discover a gene lined with a condition known as specific language impairment. “as soon as i heard it i knew that this was what id been looking for,” she says. “i wasnt alone; i wasnt mad. there was someone who understood my daughter.”sli covers speech and grammar problems suffered by children, the most familiar of which is dyslexia (诵读困难). about 8 percent of children are recognized as dyslexic. but a similar number may be suffering from other forms of sli and are not recognized. the condition is the failure of different parts of the brain to deal with speech and language, and different failures manifest (表明) themselves in different ways.the scientist involved in the ica project was professor heather van der leiy, the director of the centre for developmental language disorders and cognitive neuroscience at university college london, and a leading expert on sli. “if we can find a genetic link, it will provide the kind of hard evidence that this is a genuine problem, which is needed if we are to cure the disease,” she says.1. the underlined part in the first paragraph probably means jo eddings couldnt _. a. understand her daughter and was very sad b. help her daughter out of trouble and felt helpless c. afford to treat her daughters disease and felt sad d. find where to treat her daughters disease and felt ashamed 答案解析：答案为b。本题为句意推测题。从划线部分后文 “i cant describe my frustration. i felt so helpless,” she says. “what i wanted was the help with my very bright daughter who had a problem with language.”可知，jo eddings 对于女儿的疾病感到沮丧、无助，他非常需要帮助。故答案为b。由第二段首句 “we took her to psychologists and all sorts of experts”可推测，他们带着女儿看了许多心理医生和各种专家，应该有能力支付治疗费用，故c选项错误。a选项和d选项的 “felt ashamed” 与文意不符。2. jo eddings was pleased when she _. a. visited and exhibition called genes talking b. heard a radio program about an exhibition c. discovered a gene linked with her daughters problem d. was given a proper diagnosis of her daughters illness.答案解析：答案为b。本题为细节题。由第二段 “but that changed this month when she heard a radio program” 可知，答案为b。3. which of the following is true according to the passage ? a. jo eddings daughter was lonely and mad. b. dyslexia is an unknown problem among the public. c. “sli” stands for specific language impairment. d. jo eddings daughters illness was cured at last.答案解析：答案为c。本题为推理题。由第二段 “it was about a research project to discover a gene lined with a condition known as specific language impairment.” 和第三段首句 “sli covers speech and grammar problems suffered by children, the most familiar of which is dyslexia.”可以推断，c选项正确。 由第二段倒数第二句话 “i wasnt alone; i wasnt mad.” 可知，选项a错误。由第三段 “about 8 percent of children are recognized as dyslexic.” 可知，b选项错误。d选项未提及。4. on which column can we read the above passage in a newspaper? a. education news. b. health news. c. business news. d. economy news. 答案解析：答案为b。本题为推理题。结合全文和最后一段研究sli的专家描述 “if we can find a genetic link, it will provide the kind of hard evidence that this is a genuine problem, which is needed if we are to cure the disease,” 可推断，jo eddings的女儿的疾病属于基因问题，和健康有关，故答案为b。完形填空。students will need to use all of their skills in order to understand the reading selections in readers choice. the book_1_many types of selections on a wide_2_of topics. these selections provide practices on_3_different reading skills to get the_4_of the writer. they also give students_5_in four basic reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for_6_comprehension, and critical reading. skimming involves reading quickly through a text to get an overall idea of its contents. this kind of rapid reading is_7_when you are trying to decide_8_careful reading is desirable or when there is not_9_to read something carefully.like skimming, scanning is also quick reading._10_， in this case the search is more_11_.to scan is to read quickly in order to_12_specific information. when you read to find a_13_date, or number you are scanning. reading for thorough comprehension is_14_reading in order to understand the total_15_of the passage. _16_this level of comprehension the reader is _17_to summarize the authors ideas but has not yet made a critical evaluation of those ideas. critical reading demands that a reader _18_judgments about what he or she reads. this kind of reading _19_posting and answering questions such as “does my own experience support that of the author？”， “do i _20_ the authors point of view？” and “am i convinced by the authors arguments and evidence？”文章大意：本文教你阅读理解的基本步骤，介绍了一些阅读方法与技巧。1a.containsbusescputdwrites答案：acontain“包含”，这是本包含很多话题的文选。2a.sensebvariet