高考英语任务型阅读专项训练(30篇).doc

第二节 任务型阅读专项训练Type 1 认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。 （1） White-collar workers going to great lengths for stress reliefA soldier of the South Korean special attack corps paints his eyes during a friendly Taekwondo match at a South Korean Army Base in Pochon, north of Seoul.Stressed out white-collar workers are scaling（攀登） skyscrapers, camping out on rooftops, smashing up restaurants, pretending to be children and even visiting cemeteries in a bid to relieve the pressure of modern life.As the countrys economy continues to steam ahead, once popular forms of entertainment, such as karaoke, card games and even boxing bars, appear to be losing their appeal.Consider the members of Shanghais Cat Rain club. By day, this group of young women works executive jobs, but by night they climb buildings so they can spend the night on the roof.Its a good way to release our pressure. You feel relaxed when youre sitting on the roof, looking up to the sky and chatting with intimate（亲密的）friends, said Gong Ying, 25.The stress of work is not just limited to people in Shanghai.A recently opened restaurant in Beijing encourages customers to smash plates - as long as they are willing to pay to replace them.Though there has been some debate about the extravagance（奢侈）of such services, some psychologists say the activity reflects the desire of some white-collar workers to vent their angst.Some workers even appear eager to return to their childhoods. This May, hundreds of people took part in a festival in which adults pretended to be children. It was an adults-only event, and participants could read comics and eat sweets all day.Scenic places such as parks and rivers can also help people relax and put things in perspective. But a cemetery?Cemetery companies in Shanghai organized visits to local graveyards for stressed-out workers in March. The participants were taken to quiet spots in the cemetery where they could contemplate（考虑、打算）life and their futures.Roof-camper Chen Bin, an IT marketing professional, said she had camped out on a rooftop about 30 times. When shes not sleeping out under the stars, she also has several other adrenalin-fueled interests, such as downhill racing and paragliding.Pressure may bring us distress, but it doesnt mean we cant find ways out, Chen says. Life should be imaginative.White-collar workers going to great lengths for _1_ reliefThe ways for white-collar to relieve the pressure of _4_ life.Climbing buildings and spending the night on the _5_.Going to the restaurants which encourage customers to _6_ plates.Taking part in a festival in which adults _7_ to be children.Scenic places can also help people _8_ and put things in perspective._9_ out under the stars can also help.Old entertainment becomes less popular. Once _2_ forms of entertainment, such as Karaoka, card games and boxing bars, which were popular in the _3_, appear to be losing their appeal.Life should be _10_Pressure may bring us distress, but we can find ways out.Keys: 1. stress 2. popular 3. past 4. modern 5. roof 6. smash 7. pretend 8. relax 9. sleeping 10. imaginative （ 2 ）请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。 Do you raise salmon (鲑鱼) in your classroom at school? Do you ever have class while floating down a river in a canoe? Do you ever throw your school lunch leftovers into a compost (混合肥料) bin when you are finished? They are all part of a regular school day at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School in New Haven, Connecticut. Known as a “green” school, Barnard attracts students from all over the region who are interested in environmental studies. “We do Earth Day all the year round,” said Marjorie Drucker, Barnards Magnet Resource teacher. With the schools special classes, its 325 students study the environment all day long. “Being green means that everything in the building is designed with the environment in mind,” Drucker told Scholastic News. For example, the lights go off when people leave the room, and special windows provide “passive light”, cutting down on the need for electric lighting. When a window is open, the air-conditioning automatically turns off. Conserving energy is not all that students do to help the environment. While learning about the dying salmon population in the Connecticut rivers, students also do something to help out- they raise more salmon. In the classrooms there are fish tanks containing salmon eggs. The eggs are kept in water at two degrees Celsius. After the eggs hatch, students observe the baby salmon through all the stages of development, and then release the adult salmon into Connecticut rivers. Composting is another part of taking care of the environment at Barnard Students deal with their lunches by throwing the remaining food into a compost bin in a greenhouse. The compost is used to help grow plants. At Barnard, almost everything has to do with the environment. Students sing songs about the environment; their artworks have something to do with the environment; even their math classes are focused on protecting the environment. Barnard offers chances that students cant get in a regular school. The schools goal is to teach children to be good environmental role models. They also learn to live in a different way. To attend the school, students have to apply and express their interest in protecting the environment. “Students come here because they care about the environment,” said Drucker.They learn to live in a different way.It is (10) _that they become good environmental role models.Behaving: They deal with leftover food for the use of (7) _ plants grow better. They sing, dance, as well as have lessons (8) _ protecting the environment.Conserving energy: The power is cut (2)_ when they dont use electrical equipment in the building, unnecessary waste (3) _.All (1) _ the students do in everyday life are related to protecting environment.Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School(4) _ the balance of nature: Small creatures like salmon are (5)_ carefully so that when their number becomes (6) _, they are put into nature.(9) _ from the students in a regular school, they have more chances.答案：1. that 2. off 3. avoided 4. Keeping 5. raised / kept 6. smaller 7. making 8. on / about 9. Different 10. certain3请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。When people talk about the civilization of ancient Babylon, the Hanging Gardens must be brought into their discussion. It was not until the reign (统治时期) of Naboplashar (625605 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty that the Babylonian civilization reached its top honor. The ancient city of Babylon must have been a wonder to travelers. Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC), son of Naboplashar, then came to power and ruled for 43 years. It is he who is believed to have built the legendary Hanging Gardens. The Gardens were built to please his homesick wife. She found the dry, flat ground of Mesopotamia boring. In the place where she grew up, there was green grass and mountainous plains. The King wanted to recreate her homeland. A lot of people still believe in the existence of the Hanging Gardens, despite the fact that most descriptions of the Gardens come from Greek historians while Babylonian records remain silent on the Hanging Gardens. Even the historians who gave detailed descriptions of the Hanging Gardens never saw them. Modern historians argue that it was Alexanders soldiers that made up the story. When they reached the rich land and saw Babylon, they were impressed with the beautiful scenery. When they later returned to their poor homeland, they told about the amazing gardens in Babylon. And it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that mixed up all these elements to produce one of the worlds wonders. Some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were not solved until the twentieth century. Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the location of the Gardens, their water supplying system, and their true appearance. Some recent researchers even suggest that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib who ruled 100 years earlier than Nebuchadnezzar II did.The Hanging GardensNebuchadnezzar II is believed to (2) _ built the legendary Hanging Gardens during his rule of ancient Babylon for 43 years.To please his homesick wife, he wanted to recreate her homeland, (3) _ there was green grass and mountainous plains.Many people feel certain that there (4) _ the Hanging Gardens, though no historians saw them and Greek (5) _ than Babylonian historians described them.Modern historians held the opinion that it is the story made up by Alexanders soldier (6) _ from Babylon.The Gardens was (7) _ by poets and historians according to what the soldiers told about Babylon.It was in the twentieth century (8) _ some mysteries about the Hanging Gardens were solved.Archaeologists are still trying to collect evidence to decide where the Gardens was and what it looked (9) _.Some studies show that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaberib in about (10) _.The Hanging Gardens must have been one of the worlds wonders and is (1) _ discussion.答案：1. under 2. have 3. where 4. existed 5. rather 6. returning 7. imagined 8. before 9. like 10. 462 BC4. 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。Have you ever been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time. “On the contrary,” says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology, “Daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldnt get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day; you cant possible do all your thinking with a conscious (有意识的) mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the conscious and unconscious states of mind have silent dialogues.” Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures; daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.” Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. Its easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in your life and find out a possible way of dealing with them. Daydreams cannot be predicted; they move off in unexpected direction which may be creative and full of ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.5.请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。 Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have something to worry about. Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study, cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with their “host parents”, and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family type of living at a low cost. The advantages, however, have not prevented host families form worrying. On one hand, some host families are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now generally single and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family accommodation is communication practice. One the other hand, students expectations have risen. They are becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-economic groups in their own countries. To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of service. They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private bathroom, and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They are also providing students with structured family activities. It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students. Host Family AccommodationHost families are (1) _ the accommodation quality.Host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with students.AdvantagesProblems(2) _Language study: (3) _ students learn faster (4) _ in the short time they spend.Cultural communication: It is more (5) _ for students to communicate and learn things of the local place.Cost of (6) _: Sometimes it is the best way for students to spend (7) _.Loss of selling point: Hosts lack (8) _ time for students.Rise in (9) _: What students demand is more now.Service quality improvement: Hosts are (10) _ living conditions and organizing structured family activities答案：1. improving 2. Efforts/ Measures 3. Possibly 4. despite 5. convenient 6. living 7. less 8. enough 9. expectation 10. bettering6.请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。Wondering how many calories the banana cream pie on your plate has? Some Japanese have a novel way to find out: Photograph it with a cellphone and send the image to an expert. With cellphones becoming common in Japan and rising concern over expanding waistlines, health-care providers will allow the calorie-conscious people to send photos of their meals to nutritionists (营养学家) for advice. Public health insurance offices in Osaka in Western Japan have launched the service on a trial basis. About 100 cardiac (心脏病的) patients signed up in the first year, followed by diabetes and obesity patients in the second. “Japanese have been getting fatter, especially men in their 20s and 30s. There is concern over what they learned about nutrition when they were younger,” the Osaka official, Satomi Onishi, said. “Were hoping that this program can help us deal with the problem.” Osaka is using a system developed by Asahi Kasei Corp. The system is operating among about 150 health-care providers and local governments around the country Nutritionists can work with photos from one days meals to several weeks worth. Results come back in three days. People can also log on a website to get further information. Dr Yutaka Kimura has developed a similar system at Kansai Medical Universitys Hirakata Hospital, also in Osaka. Five patients have taken part in the programme, which costs $37 to join and $21 per month. Patients photograph meals over the course of three to seven days, and a nutritionist e-mails advice to them. “Patients used to fill in meal logs, but people tend to forget things or underestimate (低估) their portions (份),” Kimura said. “Photographing meals and e-mailing them can be easier and get more accurate results.” As Japanese have turned to bigger portions and more meat and fried foods, obesity and related illnesses such as high blood pressure have become a rising concern. The Health Ministry estimated last year that more than half of Japanese men and about one in five women between 40 and 70 years old were at the increased risk of heart disease, type II diabetes and other diseases because of obesity. With the Health Ministry hoping to see a 25% reduction in the number of people at the risk of these diseases by 2015, Osaka officials hope the cellphone program will help.New function of cellphonesReasonsCellphone cameras help Japanese lose (1) _.There is a growing concern about health and (2) _ slim.Obesity may result (3) _ diseases such as high pressure, heart disease, type II diabetes and so on.They hope the cellphone programme will help to (4) _ the number of people who are at the risk of these diseases.WaysThe service on a trial basis has been started to solve the problem of (5) _ fat.A system has been developed in which the value in (6) _ is told 3 days later according to the photos of meals (7) _ with cellphones.Another system has also developed in which advice is (9) _ to patients after a nutritionist gets (10) _ amount of nutrition from the photographed meals over the course of three to seven days.Further information can be got by (8) _ on a website.答案：1. weight 2. keeping 3. in 4. reduce 5. being 6. nutrition 7. taken 8. logging 9. e-mailed 10. accurate 7.请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。Quality after-school programs are designed to improve academic performance, decrease youth crimes and other high-ris