高三英语二轮专项练习——阅读理解.doc

高考资源网（），您身边的高考专家一AIll be the first to admit that I am a technophobe(对技术有恐惧感的人).Who would have guessed that a website would help repay a 20-year-old loan?I1l always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a party in the Sixth Form Common Room; Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to buy all the snacks. Im really looking forward to this party, Stingy, she said. Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didnt like to spend money. Actually, it was true.Theres lots of money in the kitty(零星凑起的一笔钱). Lets go crazy! Going crazy meant buying enough snacks to feed an army. It came to 19.90,which was a lot of money in 1982.Jenny gave me a guilty( 内疚的) look. Ive left-the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and Ill give you back the money?Sure, I replied, trying to look relaxed. Neither a lender or a borrower be was my motto but I didnt want to look stingy(小气). I gave 20 to the impatient shop assistant.Well, the Party was a great success. So great that I completely forgot about my loan until I was flying to America the next day. I was going to live with my uncles family until I started university.I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My 20 was lost. Until. Id heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old school friends. My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was, Jenny Frost.Im now married with a beautiful daughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Debbie Stingy Jones? I still owe her 20!We met two months later and the 20 was returned, plus interest(利息)of course. After all, Im a bank manager now, so loans are my business.1. Why did Jenny spend a lot of money on the snacks?A. Debbie had money. B. There was money she could use.C. She wanted Debbie to stop being stingy. D. She wanted to be crazy.2. How did Debbie get her money at last?A. Her husband found Jenny. B. Jenny had a website on the Internet.C. Debbie met Jenny. D. Debbie put a message on the Friends Reunited website.3. Which sentence best describes Debbie Jones?A. She didnt like to spend money at school and often uses computers.B. She sometimes lends money and doesnt like using computers.C. She sometimes lends money and uses, the computer whenever she can.D. She only lends money to friends and doesnt like using computers.4. We know from the passage that Jenny _ .A. liked parties at school and felt guilty about borrowing moneyB. had fun at school but soon forgot about her school friendsC. forgot her best friend at school until she saw the Friends Reunited websiteD. was forgetful about the moneyBSolomon Shereshevski was a man with an amazing memory. He was one of the worlds most famous me-monists (记忆能手). Born in Russia in about 1900, he spent much of his life performing memory skills that people found difficult to believe. He could memorize long lists of numbers after reading them through once, and he could then recite(背诵) them forwards or back-wards. He could also remember the same numbers months later. He could easily remember lists of names, dozens of playing cards or hundreds of cities.Although he had a wonderful memory, he found some normal skills very difficult. For example, he found it difficult to learn to read. He also found it difficult to recognize patterns in words or numbers. When presented with a long list of numbers like this : 1234 4231 5678 8765 6789 9876 he could not see that there was a pattern. If he could see or hear a collection of numbers, he could remember it. However, this did not mean that he could understand what he was looking at. He could remember long complex mathematical formulas, but could not understand what the numbers meant.Solomon suffered from a condition known as Synaesthesia. This meant that all of his senses were connected in a special way. In other words, when he heard a particular word he also experienced a unique taste, or saw a unique color. Each word that he heard brought a particular description into his mind. Each word for him was unique, because he remembered it as a taste, a smell, a color or a sound, or all of them together.He was not a clever man except this ability and people found him rather stupid. He found it difficult to, become friends with other people because his mind was so different. In a way, his memory was a curse(祸根). He remembered everything, and that made it difficult for him to understand anything.5. We know from the first paragraph thatA. all of his life, Solomon was kept busy doing memory tricksB. if Solomon read a list of numbers he could immediately remember themC. Solomon could memorize long list of numbers and found their patternsD. people thought Solomon could remember the most things in the world6. Solomon had very powerful memory, but he .A. could not read or writeB. never knew what people meant when they said to himC. could not work out some simple math problemsD. found everything he did was meaningless7. When a person suffers from synaesthesia, he (or she) . A. senses things usually in a wrong wayB. confuses feelings with c61ors or tastesC. often connects words he (or she) hears with things he(or she) experiencedD. each word he (or she) hears changes its meaning completely8. The author wants to express an idea that .A. one cannot be good at both memorizing and understanding thingsB. some people are actually quite stupid though they seem cleverC. having a good memory does not mean having good intelligenceD. the more you can memorize, the more stupid you will certainly beCLast year, my boyfriend suggested that I should run the London marathon(马拉松), and I laughed. He laughed too, but he laughed too long and too loud. That made me think. I realized that he didnt believe that I could do it. That made me angry, and determined, Now he knows that I can! Training wasnt easy, but I kept going. I didnt need special training but I did need to buy very goodshoes. Each day, I went a little further. By the end of three months, I was running five days a week. Some- times in the evenings I ran 10 km； on Sunday mornings, I sometimes ran about 30 kin. I used to comehome, have a shower and eat my breakfast. I felt wonderful !On the day of the race in London, I lined up with about 30,000 other runners. The faster runners were at the front, while slower runners like me were placed further back. In that way, the professional runners and club runners were not slowed down by the amateurs(业余爱好者).At first, there were so many runners close together that we were almost falling over each other. We could only run very slowly but that was a good thing because it meant that we didnt rush off too quickly. Gradually the runners spread out and there was more space. There were thousands of people watching us along the route and they cheered and clapped everyone, even the slowest runner. It was wonderful!For the first 10 km I felt very happy and my legs felt very comfortable. However, at 15 km I got a pain in my side and running became difficult, but I kept going and the pain disappeared. At the 30 km mark, I felt extremely tired, and wanted to stop, but I kept on going. I covered another 3 km and then I began to feel better again.By the time I reached the 35 km mark, I knew I was going to get to the end of the course. Somehow that confidence made me feel lighter and faster and it seemed as if my legs flew over the last few kilometers. I passed hundreds of slower runners, some of whom had passed me earlier, and I felt wonderful! AS I came round the last bend(弯道)and saw the finishing line, I could see three runners ahead of me. I raced past all of them to finish the race in just under four hours. The winner had completed the race in 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I didnt care! I had run 42 km and com-pleted my first marathon!9. The writers boyfriend laughed at her because .A. he thought she could run the marathonB. he .didnt think she could run the marathonC. he wanted her to run the marathon D. she wanted to run the marathon10. When the race began .A. all the faster runners were asked to stand before those slower onesB. many runners fell over each other C. all the runners were asked to run slowlyD. the professional runners and club runners ran very fast11. The hardest time for the writer was when she A. had run for 15 kilometers B. got a pain in her sideC. reached the 30 kilometer mark D. was about to reach the finish line12. The passage suggests that it is better to start a long race slowly . A. than to run at the same speed all the time B. than to run too fast at the beginningC. than to run slowly at the end D. than to run very fast all the timeDWhats on TV?6 : 00 Lets Talk! Guest : Animal expert Jim PorterCartoons NewsNews7 : 00 Cooking with Cathy Tonight: Chicken with mushrooms.Movie A Laugh a Minute (1955)James Rayburn.Spin for Dollars!Farm Report7 : 30 Double Trouble (comedy)The twins disrupt the high school dance.Wall Street Today. Stock Market Report8 ：00 NBA Basketball. Teams to be announcedMovie At Days End (1981)Michael Collier, Julie Romer.Drama set in World War 11. News SpecialSaving Our Waterways: Pollution in the Mississippi.13. The right order of the number of programs is .A. News art animals economic B. News economic art animalsC. Art animals news economic D. Art news economic animals14. Which program would probably interests a housewife most? A. Lets Talk! B. Wall Street Today.C. Cooking with Cathy. D. Farm Report.15. If youd like to watch a game show, you could turn on the TV to .A. Channel 5 at 6 : 00 B. Channel 8 at 7 : 00C. Channel 3 at 7 : 30 D. Channel 3 at 8 : 0016. Which is most probably the News Channel?A. 3. B. 5. C. 8. D. 9.EAll around us buildings shook. We decided to leave the town . We stopped once we had left thebuildings behind us. The carts(马车) were moving on opposite directions, though the ground was perfectly flat, and they wouldnt stay in place even with their wheels blocked by stones.In addition, it seemed as though the sea was being sucked(吸) backwards, as if it were being pushed back by the shaking of the land. Certainly the shoreline moved outwards, and many sea animals were left on dry sand.Behind us were frightening dark clouds that opened up to show fire-like lightening, but bigger. Not long after that the cloud reached down to the ground and covered the sea. Now came the dust, though still thin. I looked back. A dense cloud appeared behind us, following us like a flood pouring across the land. Then a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like being in a closed and unlighted room. You could hear women and children crying, men shouting. Some were calling for parents, others for children； they could only recognize them by their voices.Darkness and ashes came again, a great weight of them. We stood up and shook the ash off again and again, otherwise we would have been covered with it and crushed(压垮)by the weight.At last the cloud became thinner and thinner until it was no more than smoke or fog. Soon there was real daylight. The sight that met our still terrified eyes was a changed world, buried in ash like snow. from Plinys letter to a friend17. Pliny left the town after _ . A, the eruption B. the sky became darkC. the buildings began shaking D. the sea went back18. The carts wouldnt stay still because _ . A. the earth was shaking B. the sea sucked them backwardsC. the wheels had stones under them D. the lightening frightened the horses19. It was dark because _ . A. it was very late at night B. clouds of ash covered the sunC. there was a very bad storm D. there was no moon that night20. People tried to find their relations by calling out their names and . A. listening to their voices B. running about looking for themC. shaking the ash off people D. watching people as they ran past二APeople can be addicted to different things e. g. alcohol, drug, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive (强迫的): they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending large amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bar-gain hunters, however, often buy things that they dont need just .because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really ! playing an exciting game. When they can buy some-thing for less than other people, they feel that they are winners. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real one.It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business. They consider peoples needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods.Psychologists often use a method called behavior therapy (疗法) to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.According to the passage, the greatest pleasure of crazy shopping for a compulsive spender is . A. to get things they want B. to meet their strong psychological needC. to spend a lot of money D. to meet their basic needsAccording to the passage, compulsive bargain hunters constantly search for the lowest possible prices .A. because they feel satisfied if they spend less money than othersB. because they have money problemC. because they like to show off their success in getting things for less moneyD. because they want to save money to help heir budgetWhat does the passage mainly discuss? A. The use of the psychology of spending money in business.B. A special psychology of bargaining.C. A method to help compulsive spenders to solve the problem of money.D. The psychology of money spending habits.BIn the past, young people in Japan were expected to take on responsibilities to support their parents and grandparents. Now they expect to be supported well into young adulthood. The new breed, born since the 1960s, have never known anything but richness. Youth are seen as resistant to entering society as mature adults, to becoming social citizens. Once the great objective of reconstruction after the Second World War was accomplished, a new generation lost the motivating power that had united the nation together.Japans birth rate has been failing rapidly, partly because of economic decline, and the job and financial insecurity that it has caused. In 1999, the figure was1.38 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded. At the same time, youth crime, although still especially low by western standards, rose to its highest level since record-keeping began 32 years ago. Likewise, the proportion of students dropping out before graduating, at 2.5 also Very low by western standards, has never-the-less been rising.Entrepreneurial (企业家的) role models are few and far between. Bill Gates is often mentioned, but a foreign model can only have so much influence. The problem is that Japanese culture discourages people from revealing details of personal life, including such difficult or painful experience as starting a company. In the past, successful companies such as Honda or Hitachi provided role models of a sort. But today they have been faded by the downturn, and few others have risen to take their place.By the same reason, young people often feel isolated from their fathers, who worked too hard at their jobs to establish much of a relationship with their children. The one thing theyre sure of is that they dont want to be like their fathers. And the girls dont want to be with boys who are like their fathers, so the boys are sure not to be, says Professor Morishima.4. According to the passage, former young people were expected to .A. enter the society before adulthood B. hold togetherC. work hard and support their family D. study hard and find a good job5. The underlined word “it”(Para. 2) most probably refers to .A. economic decline B. job insecurity C. birth rate D. financial un-safety6. The author takes the two examples of the youth crime and students dropping-out before graduating to show .A. the youth are overburdened B. the educational system in Japan is not satisfyingC. public security and order in Japan are badD. the ethnical level of youth in Japan is dropping7. Today, entrepreneurial models are rarely found in Japan because . A. the discouragement of Japanese culture B. the worshipping of western modelsC. the lack of experience of starting a company D. the new breed dont want to work