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云南省昆明市2016高考英语阅读练习（4）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.1. 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.2. 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.3. 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 fall4.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.5.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。【参考答案】1-5、bdacd阅读理解。 tim richter and his wife, linda, had taught for over 30 years near buffalo, new york-he in computers, she in special education. teaching means everything to us, tim would say. in april1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. it was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about lifes purpose. not long after the surgery, tim saw a brochure describing imagination library, a program started by dolly parton s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singers home town of sevier, tennessee. “i thought, maybe linda and i could do something like this when we retire, tim recalls. he placed the brochure on his desk, as a reminder. five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, tim clicked on imagination library .com. the program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.the quality of the books was of great concern to the richter. rather than sign up online, they went to dolly wood for a look-see. “we didnt want to give the children rubbish,” says linda. the books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and dolly wood board members-included classics such as ezra jack keatss the snowy day and newer books like anna dewdneys llama llama series. satisfied, the couple set up the richter family foundation and got to work. since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their in their area. megan williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “this program introduces us to books ive never heard of.” the richter spend about 400 a month sending books to 200 children. “some people sit there and wait to die,” says tim. “others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”( ) 1.what led tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?a. his health problem. b. his love for teaching.c. the influence of his wife. d. the news from the web.( ) 2.what did tim want to do after learning about imagination library?a. give out brochures. b. do something similar.c. write books for children d. retire from being a teacher.( ) 3.according to the text, dolly parton is .a. a well-known surgeon b. a mother of a four-year-oldc. a singer born in tennessee d .a computer programmer( ) 4.why did the richter go to dolly wood?a. to avoid signing up online.b. to meet dolly wood board members.c. to make sure the books were the newest.d. to see if the books were of good quality.( ) 5.what can we learn from tims words in the last paragraph?a. he needs more money to help the children.b. he wonders why some people are so busy.c. he tries to save those waiting to die.d. he considers his efforts worthwhile.【文章大意】文章通过介绍richter夫妇从接触一个名为imagination library的项目到成立自己的基金会的历程并找到生活的真正价值61.答案a。细节理解题。由文章第1段的he learned he would need a heart operation. it was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about lifes purpose.可知答案。阅读理解。 people from east asia tend to have more difficulty than those from europe in distinguishing facial expressions and a new report published online in current biology explains why. rachael jack, university of glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as westerners do, easterners fix their attention on the eyes. we show that easterners and westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions, jack said. westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth. according to jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. as a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations. the researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 western caucasian and 13 east asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. they compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies. it turned out that easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did westerners. the cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions, jack said. our data suggest that whereas westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, easterners use the eyes more and mouth less. in short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. from here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, easterners and westerners will find themselves lost in translation.( ) 1. the discovery shows that westerners . a. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth b. consider facial expressions universally reliable c. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways d. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions ( ) 2. what were the people asked to do in the study?a. to make a face at each other. b. to get their faces impressive.c. to classify some face pictures. d. to observe the researchers faces. ( ) 3. what does the underlined word they in paragraph 6 refer to?a. the participants in the study.b. the researchers of the study.c. the errors made during the study. d. the data collected from the study. ( ) 4. in comparison with westerners, easterners are likely to .a. do translation more successfullyb. study the mouth more frequentlyc. examine the eyes more attentivelyd. read facial expressions more correctly( ) 5. what can be the best title for the passage? a. the eye as the window to the soulb. cultural differences in reading emotionsc. effective methods to develop social skillsd. how to increase cross-cultural understanding【语篇解读】本文为科普说明文。主要介绍了最新的科学研究发现：东方人比西方人更难于读懂他人的面部表情。66. 答案：a考点：细节理解题解析：根据第三段 “westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth.” 可以得出答案67. 答案：c考点：细节理解题解析：根据第五段 “by recording the eye movements of 13 western caucasian and 13 east asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral.”可以判断选c68. 答案：a考点：词义猜测解析：根据定语从句 “that they show”所修饰的 eye movements 在研究中为the participants 所作（从the eye movements of 13 western caucasian and 13 east asian people”可知）可判断选a69. 答案：c考点：细节理解题解析：根据第六段 “it turned out that easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did westerners.”可判断选c70. 答案：b考点：主旨大意题解析：文章首先指出科学研究的最新发现：东方人比西方人更难于读懂人的面部表情。之后更具体地介绍研究的结构及其研究过程，最后得出结论：文化差异丰富了理解情感的基本社会技巧，即：不同的文化背景使人理解他人情感的方式也不尽相同。由此判断最佳标题应为b完形填空 one day, when i was working as a psychologist in england, a boy named david1in my office. he kept walking up and down restlessly, his face2, and his hands shaking slightly. his head teacher had3him to me. “this boy has lost his family, ”he wrote. “he is understandably very sad and4to talk to others. can you help him? ”i looked at david and showed him to a5. how could i help him? there are problems psychology doesnt have the answer6. sometimes the best thing one can do is7openly and sympathetically. the first two times we met, david didnt say a word. i8we play a game of chess. he nodded. after that he played chess with me every wednesday afternoonin complete silence and without9me. usually, he arrived10than agreed. it seemed as if he enjoyed my11. but why did he never look at me? “perhaps he12needs someone to share his pain with, ”i thought. “perhaps he13that i respect his suffering. ”some months later, 14we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly. “its your15, ”he said. after that day, david started16. he got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. now he had really started to17his own life. maybe i gave david18. but i also learned that onewithout any wordscan19to another person. all it20is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens. 【文章大意】本文作者用亲身经历说明, 一个人无需用语言也能触及到另一个人的心灵, 所需要的只不过是一个拥抱, 一个哭泣时可以依靠的肩膀, 一次友好的抚摸和一只愿意倾听的耳朵。1. a. showed upb. put upc. went upd. took up【解析】选a。词语辨析题。show up出现, 露面; put up张贴, 举起; go up爬上, 上升; take up从事, 占据。2. a. redb. palec. seriousd. angry【解析】选b。逻辑推理题。根据上下文, david焦躁地在房间里走来走去, 手轻微地颤抖, 可知他的脸色变得苍白。故选b。3. a. offeredb. askedc. referredd. preferred【解析】选c。习语搭配题。refer sb. to sb. 把某人介绍给某人; david的校长曾经向“我”介绍过david的情况。4. a. likesb. refusesc. forgetsd. decides【解析】选b。逻辑推理题。根据后文可知, 因为家庭的变故, david变得沉默寡言, 拒绝与其他人进行交流。5. a. bookb. notec. pend. chair【解析】选d。背景常识题。“我”看了看david, 示意让他坐在椅子上。6. a. ofb