高考英语二轮复习 专题限时训练(三十六) 社会生活型阅读理解配套作业(二)（解析版新课标）.doc

专题限时训练(三十六)社会生活型阅读理解(二)(一)a serious problem for todays society is who should be responsible for our elderly and how to improve their lives. it is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society. i would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem. first, employers should take the responsibility for their retired employees. to make this possible, a percentage of profits should be set aside for this purpose. but when a company must take lifelong responsibility for its employees, it may suffer from a commercial disadvantage due to higher employee costs. another way of solving the problem is to return the responsibility to the individual. this means each person must save during his working years to pay for his years of retirement. this does not seem a very fair model since some people have enough trouble paying for their daily life without trying to earn extra to cover their retirement years. this means the government might have to step in to care for the poor. in addition, the government could take responsibility for the care of the elderly. this could be financed through government taxes to increase the level of pensions(养老金). furthermore, some institutions should be created for senior citizens, which can help provide a comfortable life for them. unfortunately, as the present situation in our country shows, this is not a truly viable answer. the government can seldom afford to care for the elderly, particularly when it is busy trying to care for the young. one further solution is that the government or social organizations establish some working places especially for the elderly where they are independent. to sum up, all these options have advantages and disadvantages. therefore, it is reasonable to expect that some combination of these options may be needed to provide the care we hope to give to our elderly generations. 1what is the passage mainly about? athe problem faced by the old in society. bwhy we should take responsibility for the old. chow we can improve the lives of the old. dwhere the old can go to get their pensions.2according to the passage，how can the government help to improve the lives of the retired people? aset aside some profits to help people with problems after they retire. bincrease saving levels of people during their working years. cincrease the discounts for food and transport for the old. dmake available pensions for those who have retired.3the underlined word “viable” most probably means_. aimpossible bpractical cuseful dsuccessful4what can be concluded from the passage?athere is no single solution to the problem of the old. bemployers should allow their workers to retire at a later age. cbecoming independent should be the goal of most old people. dtaking care of the old is mainly an issue of money.(二)for anyone who is determined to be a fashion(时尚) designer, it is not enough to have succeeded in college.the real test is whether they can survive, and become established during their early 20s, making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can be as important as talent and creativity.fashion is a hard business.there is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant and extremely fast speed to prepare for the next seasons collections.it is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to make attractive advertisements of the latest fashion in newspapers and magazines.it also requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is hard to satisfy.“we try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is.” says lydia kemeny, the head of fashion at st.martins school of art in london.“and we point out that drive and determination are absolutely necessary.”this may seem far removed from the popular opinions of fashionable young people spending their time designing pretty dresses.that may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college wont be slow in introducing students to commercial realities.“we dont walk our feet on the blossoming (绽放的) flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the restrictions of price, producing ability, marketing and so on.”almost all fashion design is done to a brief.it is not a form of selfexpression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and creativity.most young designers are going to end up as employees of a producer or a fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style of their employer.even those students who are most modern in their own taste of clothes may need to adapt to produce designs which are right for the mainstream of market.they also have to be able to work at both the expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be demanding.1which of the following is mainly discussed in the passage?atalent in fashion.bgood marks at college.cability to create new designs.dbusiness skills in fashion industry.2what can we learn from the second paragraph?afashion designers are highly motivated and really determined.bgood preparations for the next season can reduce stress.cconsumers appetite for new ideas keeps changing.dadvertisement business is very competitive.3how does st.martins school of art train her students of fashion?ato encourage the new students to design freely with imagination.bto require students to develop their creativity in their designing.cto demand students to make pretty dresses for companies.dto offer commercial courses for the new students.4what does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 3 refer to?alydia kemenys opinion.bthe competitive business world.cthe warning to the young designers.dthe real situation in fashion industry.(三)many cities in the world are benefiting from the night activities of a group of people who call themselves guerrilla (游击队) gardeners. armed with trowels, spades and a van full of flowers and plants, guerrilla gardeners turn abandoned urban land into a blaze of color. in city centre locations where there was mud, weeds and empty plastic bottles, residents often wake up to find that the wasted area has been transformed overnight with brightlycolored bedding plants.in most british cities, local governments and police turn a blind eye to the effort of the gardeners, whose activities are always carried out under cover of nightfall. and so far, there has been nothing but praise from the astonished and delighted local residents when they find their neighborhood transformed in such a striking fashion.not only do the guerrilla gardeners beautify neglected places, they also return regularly to water the plants and weed the flower beds. they also make sure that at least some of the plants they bring are evergreens, which means that the area doesnt look depressing in the winter months.the first guerrilla gardener in london was richard reynolds, whose day job is at an advertising agency. mr. reynolds, a graduate of oxford university, began his efforts two years ago when he moved to a flat in a tower block in south london. from his balcony, he could see several empty concrete pots, placed by the local governments to contain plants but never used. he went out after midnight and filled the pots with plants, and then planted more flowers in the path leading to the entrance to the block.he then set up a website to explain his plan and called upon more gardeners to join him. cash donations flooded in and, more importantly, volunteers rushed to be part of the campaign. within six months, there were five hundred people in london prepared to come out at very short notice to restore neglected parts of the urban landscape. there are now unofficial but carefullyorganized groups in many cities in britain and north america and there is also a website where wouldbe urban gardeners can find out the location of the next expedition.1. these guerrilla gardeners do their work _.a. at the request of the government bnearby their housescoften in return for others help dout of their own free will2. richard reynolds decided to fill the pots with plants in order to _.a. plant more flowers in the pathbbeautify the neighborhoodcattract attention for his ad agencydmake the plants a feast for his eyes3. the guerrilla gardeners often return to their night working places with the purpose of _.a. looking after these plantsbenjoying these beautiful flowerschelping plants live through winter monthsdchanging the varieties of the plants4. it can be inferred from the text that these guerrilla gardeners _.a. are mainly from the united kingdombwill later get well paidcare still not accepted by the local governmentdbecome more and more organized4专题限时训练(三十六)(一)【解题导语】本文是一篇议论文。关注老人并改善他们的生活是当今社会需要特别强调的问题之一。文章从四个方面分析了做好这些工作的方法及其可行性，而且指出了这些方法的优点和不足。1c主旨大意题。根据第一段中的i would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem. 和下文中提到的四个方面的内容可知c项正确。 2d细节理解题。联系第四段中的this could be financed through go