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2016湖北枣阳市高考英语二轮教育类阅读理解选练（5）2016高考英语阅读理解教育类 many teenagers(青少年) feel that the most important people in their lives are their friendsthey believe that their family members dont know them as well as their friends doin large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas it is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friendseven when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phonethis communication is very important in childrens growing up, because friends can discuss somethingthese things are difficult to tell their family members however, parents often try to choose their childrens friends for themsome parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friendshave you ever thought of the following questions? who chooses your friends? do you choose your friends or your friends choose you? have you got a good friend your parents dont like? your answers are welcome【小题1】many teenagers think that _ can understand them better afriendsbbrotherscsistersdparents【小题2】when teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents, they usually_ astay alone at homebfight with their parentscdiscuss it with their friendsdgo to their brothers and sisters for help【小题3】the sentence (句子) “your answers are welcome” means _ ayou are welcome to discuss the questions with usbweve got no idea, so your answers are welcomecyour answers are always rightdyou can give us all the right answers 2016高考英语阅读理解教育类 “the really big concern over the last decade,” according to dr. david whitehead, “is the relative loss of opportunities for children to engage in child-led play.” thats true. one of the exhausting aspects of modern parenting is that everything, even doing nothing, has to be purposeful. now that “parenting” has become a verb a state of doing, rather than simply being it can fed unnatural to leave your children to their own devices. yet it creates spaces in which good things can happen. the psychology lecturer is responding to a survey showing that 80 percent of parents of small children feel under pressure to fill their days with “structured” activities. this, says dr. whitehead, is a mistake. leaving your children to play on their own or with their peers enables them to develop “self-regulation abilities”, which in turn leads to better academic achievement. one afternoon last autumn, sitting on a bench doing no parenting at all, i suddenly felt i was getting the hang of it. that afternoon, my sister and i took our children to the park. we had lots to talk about, so we sat down on a bench and drove the children away. after briefly complaining, the cousins wandered off and started jumping into puddles (水洼). they jumped and jumped, and then one of them kicked some muddy water at the others. my sister and i, deep in conversation, didnt notice this. so my nephew became more adventurous. he scooped up a handful of mud and threw it on my sons head. my son caught his breath happily, wiped the mud out of his eyes, and threw one back. my nephew, who has a talent for naming things, puffed out his tiny chest and roared: “lets play muddikins!” the rules of muddikins are simple. you run around throwing mud at each other until everyone is so thickly coated that you can no longer be sure which child is whose. nothing is learnt from it; nobody is improved. it is pure fun, of the sort that can only happen when parents drop the reins (缰绳). they did it. “ whoa, thats so cool,” said one. “i wish my mum was like you.”【小题1】what is stressed in paragraph 1? achild-led play matters in the development of children.bparents concern over their children is unnecessary.cchildrens activities should be well organized.dparenting is everything in a family.【小题2】what does the author think of the behavior of the children in the puddles? aamazing. btroublesome.cadventurous. dworthwhile.【小题3】by saying “they did it” in the last paragraph, the author means that _. athe reins were dropped.bshe failed to distinguish her child.cthe children learned from the muddikins.dshe confirmed dr. david whiteheads theory.【小题4】the text is mainly about the relationship between _. aparents and childrenbindividual and groupcplay and acquisitiondtheory and practice 阅读理解-banne whitney, a sophomore at colorado state university, first had a problem taking tests when she began college. i was always well prepared for my tests. sometimes i studied for weeks before a test. yet i would go in to take the test, only to find i could not answer the questions correctly. i would blank out because of nervousness and fear. i couldnt think of the answer. my low grades on the tests did not show what i knew to the teacher. another student in microbiology had similar experiences. he said, my first chemistry test was very difficult. then, on the second test, i sat down to take it, but i was so nervous that i was shaking. my hands were moving up and down so quickly that it was hard to hold my pencil. i knew the material and i knew the answers. yet i couldnt even write them down!these two young students were experiencing something called test anxiety. because a student worries and he is uneasy about a test, his or her mind does not work as well as it usually does. the student cant write or think clearly because of the extreme tension and nervousness. although poor grades are often a result of poor study habits, sometimes test anxiety causes the low grades. recently, test anxiety has been recognized as a real problem, not just an excuse or a false explanation of lazy students.special university counseling courses try to help students. in these courses, counselors try to help students by teaching them how to manage test anxiety. at some universities, students take tests to measure their anxiety. if the tests show their anxiety is high, the students can take short courses to help them deal with their tension. these courses teach students how to relax their bodies. students are trained to become calm in very tense situations. by controlling their nervousness, they can let their minds work at ease. learned information then comes out without difficulty on a test.an expert at the university of california explains. with almost all students, relaxation and less stress are felt after taking our program. most of them experience better control during their tests. almost all have some improvement. with some, the improvement is very great. 6. to “blank out” is probably_.a. to be like a blanket b. to be unsure of an answerc. to be unable to think clearly d. to show wrong knowledge to the teacher7. poor grades are usually the result of _.a. poor hygienic habits b. lazinessc. lack of sleep d. inability to form good study habits8. test anxiety has been recognized as _.a. an excuse for laziness b. the result of poor habitsc. a real problem d. something that cant be changed9. to deal with this problem, students say they want to _.a. take a short course on anxiety b. read about anxiety and know how to deal with itc. be able to manage or understand their anxietyd. take tests to prove they are not anxious10. what can be inferred from the passage? _.a. all students could overcome the anxiety after taking a special test anxiety programb. most of the students felt relaxed after taking a university of california counseling coursec. students found it difficult to improve even though they had taken a special test anxiety coursed. students found it easy to relax as soon as they entered a university of california counseling course【参考答案】610、cdcab 阅读理解-cive been writing for most of my life. the book writing without teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. the distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. while you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. if you are listening to that 5th grade english teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting(稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. if you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. you must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.the practice that can help you pass your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what elbow calls “free writing”. in free writing, the objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. no stopping, no going back, no criticizing. the goal is to get the words flowing. as the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that youve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.instead of staring at a blank screen start filling it with words no matter how bad. halfway through your available time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.11. when the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel” (line 4, para. 1) in the writing process, he means _.a. no one can be both creative and criticalb. they cannot be regarded as equally importantc. they are in constant conflict with each otherd. one cannot use them at the same time12. what prevents people from writing on is _.a. putting their ideas in raw formb. attempting to edit as they writec. ignoring grammatical soundnessd. trying to capture fleeting thoughts13. what is the chief objective of the first stage of writing?a. to organize ones thoughts logically. b. to choose an appropriate topic.c. to get ones ideas down. d. to collect raw materials.14. one common concern of writers about “free writing” is that _.a. it overstresses the role of the creative mindb. it takes too much time to edit afterwardsc. it may bring about too much criticismd. it does not help them to think clearly15. whats the main idea of the passage?a. it introduces the authors writing method.b. it tells us something about the creative mind.c. it highlights the importance of critical mind.d. it shows the difficulties to write on the fly.【参考答案】1115、dbcba阅读理解-dthe record rise in world food prices last month is not only a start to a possible food price shock in the coming months, but also an obvious warning that the international community cannot afford to ignore. the fearful consequences of long-term climate change are more closing now and divided response to the global financial crisis could make them worse. early this week, the united nations food and agricultural organization announced that its benchmark food price index had jumped to 214.7 points in december, above the previous peak of 213.5, which was set in june 2008 and caused food riots(暴乱) in some poor countries. with the world economy showing little sign of emerging out of the mess any time soon, the record increase in food prices is certainly shocking. the 2008 food crisis was a silent tsunami for the worlds poor. so, what will happen if food prices remain high over the next several months? the obvious answer is: the number of hungry people across the world, about 1 billion according to un estimates, will almost certainly increase. hence, the international community should prepare to solve a food crisis similar to that in 2008. for the moment, that means policymakers across the globe should make joint efforts to prevent panic over food prices both at home and in the global market. but to prevent such food crises from happening again, the international community must first recognize that our future is likely to be affected by extreme weather more seriously than feared earlier if we continue to drag our feet in the fight against climate change. the looming food crisis calls for a stronger sense of urgency than what negotiators, especially those from developed countries, have shown at un climate change conferences in recent years. besides, soaring world food prices also highlight the threat of super-loose monetary policies that some rich countries have adopted to let rapid inflation erode（腐蚀） the real value of their debt burden. excessive liquidity from developed countries has pushed up commodity prices in the world market and created considerable inflationary(通货膨胀) pressure on developing countries. this is unfair to developing countries, which are relatively poor and suffer a lot more from food-led inflation. as the worlds most populous country, china can draw some comfort from its bumper harvest last year, which was also its seventh continuous rich harvest. the countrys success in feeding one-fifth of the worlds population with less than 10 percent of global farming land shows that its great efforts to increase agricultural production have paid rich interest. but chinese policymakers cannot assume that such favorable conditions will continue. rapid urbanization and population changes in the country will make it increasingly difficult to further raise grain output. therefore, china should take the record rise in world