高三英语二轮复习 高考保分巩固练 五.doc

高考保分巩固练 五限时50分钟. 阅读理解studies show that you may be lied to every day anywhere from 10 to 200 times. we say, “nice song. ”“honey, you dont look fat in that, no. ”but another study showed that strangers lied three times within the first 10 minutes of meeting each other. we lie more to strangers than we lie to coworkers. men lie eight times more about themselves than they do about other people. women lie more to protect other people. if youre married, youre going to lie to your wife/husband in one out of every 10 communications. if youre unmarried, that number drops to three. but look, if at some point you got lied to, its because you agreed to get lied to. truth about lying: lyings a cooperative act. not all lies are harmful. sometimes were willing to lie for the sake of social dignity(尊严), maybe to keep a private secret. lying is complex. its woven into the fabric of our daily and business lives. were deeply disturbed by the truth. we explain it, sometimes for very good reasons, other times just because we dont understand the gaps between ideals and realities in our lives. were against lying, but secretly were for it in ways that our society has practiced for centuries and centuries. its as old as breathing. its part of our culture and history. think the stories from dante, shakespeare, the bible, news of the world. lying has great value to the evolution of human being. researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species is, the more likely it is to lie. we human like to become leaders. it starts really early. how early? well, babies will pretend to cry, pause, wait to see whos coming and then go right back to crying. one-year-olds learn hiding truth. two-year-olds bluff(虚张声势). five-year-olds lie out right and try to control via flattery(讨好). nine-year-olds, masters of covering up. by the time you enter college, youre going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions. by the time we enter this work world to be breadwinners, weve entered a world that is just full of fake digital friends, business media, identity thieves, world-class cheats, in short, a post-truth society. what do you do? well there are steps we can take to guide our way through the bushes. trained lie spotters get to the truth 90% of the time. the rest of us, were only 54% accurate. why is it so easy to learn? there are clever liars and stupid liars. therere no real original liars. we all make the same mistakes. we all use the same techniques. 【文章大意】这是生活类文章阅读。文章主要告诉我们撒谎的真相, 人们喜爱撒谎的原因, 和人们如何透过谎言看到真相。1. from para. 1 we learn that lying is very_. a. harmfulb. easyc. interestingd. common【解析】选d。细节理解题。根据文章的第一句话studies show that you may be lied to every day anywhere from 10 to 200 times. 判断撒谎是非常常见的。2. according to the passage, a lie works when_. a. the liars words are sweet enoughb. it is given to a complete strangerc. someone gives the liar cooperationd. we are willing to lie for the dignity【解析】选c。细节理解题。根据文章第一段的truth about lying: lyings a cooperative act. 可知有人与你合作撒谎时, 撒谎才会有效。3. lying is complex because_. a. it is practiced by clever onesb. people are for it as well as against itc. ancient stories are full of liesd. it is the whole part of great culture【解析】选b。细节理解题。通读文章第二段, 根据该段的were against lying, but secretly were for it in ways that our society has practiced for centuries and centuries. 可知人们对于撒谎是既支持也反对。4. the examples of kids lying in the passage show_. a. lying is a sign of intelligent developmentb. lying is good for childrens growing upc. at what age children begin to tell liesd. 9-year-old children are masters of lying【解析】选a。细节理解题。根据文章第三段对孩子成长中撒谎的不同方式, 并根据该段的researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species is, the more likely it is to lie. 可知, 撒谎是智力发展的一种方式。5. what will the writer most likely talk about if he continues the passage? a. how to become clever liars. b. how to avoid stupid lies. c. how to get through the bushes. d. how to tell truth from lies. 【解析】选d。推理判断题。根据文章的最后一段推断下一段可能讲述如何判断谎言和真相。you could feel sorry for alberto torres, who is blind. the last thing he remembers seeing was his daughter being born 13 years ago. then the world went blank; he can only imagine what his only child looks like now, as a teenaged honor student. bad luck is no stranger to this warm and thoughtful 37-year-old man. his mother died of cancer when he was 4, and his father, who was often ill, had to give him up to the care of the state when he was 11. he later worked for 19 years in a workshop making household goods, deathly boring work. earlier this month, alberto torress wife, who had just been laid off from her job, had to have a breast removed due to cancer and now faces a year of radiation treatments. things seemed always to go from almost incredibly bad to worse. even mr torress good luck has a dark side: five years ago, his lovely guide dog pulled him out of the path of a truck. mr torres was not hurt. the dog was killed. but mr torres does not feel sorry for himself. “these are just little bumps you have to go over in your life, ”he said. at 5 a. m. on a recent morning, we caught up with mr torres at a subway stop in brooklyn, new york, near where he lives in a third-floor apartment(with no elevator). he had been up since 3 a. m. , feeding his new dog, making coffee, getting ready. “when youre blind, it takes a little longer to do things, ”he said. mr torres was beginning his two-hour trip to his job developing film in the x-ray department of the emergency room of the bronx hospital. he would take the g train to queens plaza station to the r train, heading towards manhattan. he would then ride the r train to 59th street where he would walk upstairs to switch to the number 6 train. at one point along the journey, he might chat with a stranger. at another, someone would pat his dog, calling him by name. people offered assistance, even seats. at 125th street, mr torres would transfer to the number 4 train by crossing the platform. at 149th street, he would go down to the number 2. he would take that to east 180th street where he nearly always has a long wait for his final train, to pelham parkway. then he and his dog would walk 20 minutes to the hospital. it was a hard job to come by. before he got the job, mr torres was determined to escape the workshop run by an organization dedicated to help people who cant see. he wanted a job developing x-ray film, something that everyone must do in the dark. he had to handle the long trip, as well as the work. “our philosophy here is that blind people can do just about anything except driving buses, ”it was the thinking about disabled people at the bronx hospital. “we find what a person can do rather than what he cant do, ”said the hospitals director. one day a while ago marked the first anniversary of mr torress hiring. he developed 150 or so x-rays, his usual output, to celebrate. mr torres works by himself in a small, dark room that smells of chemicals. he cannot wear gloves, because he needs to feel. it is a hard work, related to emergency of lives. his immediate supervisor says he trusts him 100%. mr torres makes mym 20, 000 a year. but his motivation goes beyond money. “if i start feeling like a victim, that makes me bitter. and why be bitter? that makes you go into a hole and stay there. ”he said. “im not doing anything out of the ordinary, ”insisted mr torres as he quickly completed the task. 【文章大意】这是传记类的文章。文章主要讲述了alberto torres先生自女儿出生就失明并惨遭各类非常人能忍受的打击, 但他依然像正常人一样顽强地生活。6. mr torres became blind when_. a. his daughter was just bornb. he was thirteen years oldc. his mother died of cancerd. his wife was out of work【解析】选a。细节理解题。根据文章第一段的第二句话the last thing he remembers seeing was his daughter being born 13 years ago. 可知, 他是在女儿出生时失明的。7. mr torres does not feel sorry for himself because he_. a. was once saved by his lovely guide dogb. is taken good care of by the governmentc. thinks its natural to have setbacks in lifed. believes it takes a little longer to do things【解析】选c。细节理解题。根据文章第二段的mr torres所说的话these are just little bumps you have to go over in your life. 可知, 他认为生活中的不幸都是自然的。8. the description of mr torress long trip to work shows_. a. the effective traffic systemb. the kindness of new yorkersc. the loyalty of his guide dogd. his will to overcome difficulties【解析】选d。推理判断题。根据文章第三、四段的描述, 是mr torres的坚强意志让他克服了困难。9. what is the principle of the hospital in employing a worker? a. sympathy counts most. b. ability comes first. c. preference for the blind. d. easy job for the weak. 【解析】选b。细节理解题。根据文章第四段的“we find what a person can do rather than what he cant do, ”可知该医院雇用人时是能力为先。10. mr torres works very hard in order to_. a. make plenty of moneyb. win his supervisors trustc. live like a normal persond. complete his daily task【解析】选c。细节理解题。根据文章最后一段的im not doing anything out of the ordinary. 可知, mr torres工作就是为了像正常人一样。11. in the eyes of the writer, alberto torres is a man of_. a. deep thinkingb. weak motivationc. special talentsd. great independence【解析】选d。细节理解题。通读全文, 并根据文章对主人翁的描述可知, 在作者的眼中alberto torres很多工作都是自己独立完成的, 故他是一个独立的人。. 短文改错下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(), 并在其下面写上该加的词。删除: 把多余的词用斜线()画掉。修改: 在错的词下画一横线, 并在该词下面写上修改后的词。注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词; 2. 只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。my best friends gave me a present in a box on my birthday. it was a little heavy, which made me very curiously. so i intended to open it at once but she prevented me do so. she said i mustnt open it until i went back home but gave me a naughty smile. although there is a strong desire in my mind to know that was inside the box, i just did as she said. on the way to home, all i did was thinking about the puzzle. finally i opened the box. it was a cup printing with a pink wordfriendship. it was so lovely that i liked very much. now, every time i use a cup, i will think about her and the friendship between us. 答案: my best friends gave me a present in a box on my birthday. it was a little heavy, friendwhich made me very curiously. so i intended to open it at once but she prevented me curiousdo so. she said i mustnt open it until i went back home but gave me a naughty doing andsmile. although there is a strong desire in my mind to know that was inside the box, was whati just did as she said. on the way to home, all i did was thinking about the puzzle. finally i opened the box. it was a cup printing with a pink wordfriendship. it was printedso lovely that i liked very much.itnow, every time i use a cup, i will think about her and the friendship between theus.1. 【解析】第一句中的friendsfriend。考查名词。根据下文的a present判断friend应用单数形式, 故friends改为friend。2. 【解析】第二句中的curiouslycurious。考查形容词。根据前面的动词made判断此处是形容词作make的宾语补足语, 故curiously改为curious。3. 【解析】第三句中的dodoing。考查非谓语动词。prevent sb. (from)doing sth. 阻止某人做某事, 故do改为doing。4. 【解析】第四句中的butand。考查连词。此处前后的两个动作是并列关系, 故but改为and。5. 【解析】第五句中的iswas。考查时态。根据上下文语境应该用过去时。故is改为was。6. 【解析】第五句中的thatwhat。考查宾语从句。know的宾语从句中缺少主语, that引导宾语从句不作句子成分, 应用what引导。7. 【解析】第六句中home前面的to去掉。考查副词。home是副词, 前面不用加介词to。8. 【解析】第八句中的printingprinted。考查非谓语动词。cup是print的动作承受者, 应用过去