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1 四川高中英语阅读表达专练四川高中英语阅读表达专练 练习练习 1 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Even if you really enjoy your job it s still possible to battle boredom as you work You may not be able to make big changes or change your job but you can make small adjustments to your routine that can make every day seem well a little less routine 1 Switch Your Seat Change your outlook at the office by changing your office Ask your manager to help you find a new desk Even switching desks with a neighboring coworker can offer a fresh atmosphere If it s not possible to change your location see if you can change your desk s direction A new view can be just as refreshing as a new location 2 Change the way to go to work Start and end your day in a different way Consider a new means of transportation if it s possible Take a subway Ride a bike on sunny days Carpool with a coworker Use a new route to get to your job You needn t change it for ever just long enough to help you escape the boredom 3 Find a New Work Style Sick of attending that long standing Monday morning meeting Try to change it to the afternoon If you find yourself feeling most bored in the afternoons try to arrange to do your favorite tasks then and handle less desirable projects in the mornings If via email and text messages start dealing with people face to face Increased communication with coworkers may help improve your mood 4 Get and Set a Goal If your work is short of objectives 目标 it s no wonder that work has become boring Identify a goal and set an achieve by date for it Your goal needn t be great as long as you have enough enthusiasm for it Perhaps you want to make a new project Maybe you d like to get promoted Or you may even set a goal of finding a new job altogether Whatever it is actively move toward an objective 56 What is the purpose of the passage within 15 words 2 57 Which sentence in the text can replace the following one Drive to work together with one of your colleagues 58 Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words within 8 words 59 List three ways of dealing with boredom in your studies within 7 words for each 60 What is important concerning a goal according to the last paragraph within 15 words 练习练习 2 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Critics often speak of the rich as if those at the very top of the income ladder are dishonest or as if becoming rich is difficult and means others must become poorer However we must add that achieving the status of the rich is not particularly difficult contrary to popular wisdom The rules for acquiring huge wealth are few and simple one of which is to avoid temptations That is easier said than done and we don t necessarily recommend all people lead a pure and joyless life To have a good chance at being rich most individuals will need at least a college education which will double their incomes over what they would have earned with only a high school diploma A professional degree will result in an average annual income of about twice that of college graduates The first auxiliary 辅助 rule for becoming rich is to or if out of school go back to it Of course to stay in school isn t enough and they will learn something worth the time and effort It has never been easier to get an education College costs have been rising steadily for more than a decade However the rate of return on a college education has been rising as well making the investment a good deal The second auxiliary rule for becoming rich is to pick your education carefully Teachers will find getting rich tougher than engineers given that the former can expect to earn half as much over their careers Music professors may earn much less than their students who major in business 3 The third auxiliary rule for becoming rich is to marry someone with an equal or higher education and then stay married By itself marriage seems to provide a stable institutional setting that promotes greater earnings which affords greater savings From my perspective becoming rich is really a matter of choice and opportunities existing in large numbers 56 What impression do the rich often leave on critics No more than 5 words 57 Why is a college education essential to become wealthy No more than 10 words 58 Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words No more than 5 words 59 Why can one make use of marriage to become rich No more than 15 words 60 Which of the three auxiliary rules do you think is the most important and why No more than 20 words 练习练习 3 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Until the twentieth century cigarettes were not an important threat to public health Men used tobacco mainly in the form of cigars Most women did not use tobacco at all The cigarette industry began in the 1870s with the development of the cigarette manufacturing machine This made it possible to produce great numbers of cigarettes very quickly and it reduced the price Today cigarette smoking is a widespread habit About forty three percent of the adult men and thirty one percent of the adult women in the United States smoke cigarettes regularly It is encouraging to note however that millions of people have given up the smoking habit Seventy five percent of the male population and forty six percent of the female population have smoked cigarettes at some time during their lives but twenty six percent of these men and eleven percent of the women have stopped smoking The number of persons who have given up smoking is increasing Men as a group smoke more than women Among both men and women the age group with 4 the highest proportion of smokers is the age group 24 44 Income education and occupation all play a part in determining a person s smoking habits City people smoke more cigarette than people living on farms Well educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer years of schooling and lower incomes On the other hand he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day The situation is somewhat 有点 different for women There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family incomes and higher education than among the lower income and lower educational groups These more highly educated women tend to smoke more heavily Among teenagers the picture is similar There are fewer teenager smokers from upper income and well educated families High school students who are preparing for college are less likely to smoke than those who do not plan to continue their education after high school Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke 56 How did men mainly use tobacco no more than 1 word In the form of 57 What were the results of the development of the manufacturing machine no more than 4 words More cigarettes are 58 What are the three main factors closely related to one s smoking habits no more than 4 words 59 Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases no more than 9 words 60 Which kind of children is most likely to pick up the habit of smoking no more than 6 words Children are most likely to smoke 练习练习 4 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Many students want to find friends on the Internet as a way of practising their language skills and learning more about new cultures Traditional pen pals were the primary source for such con tacts and students could write each other letters With the Internet finding friends has become much easier and such relationships are called key pals However care and consideration should be given when finding friends on the Internet 5 Search the Internet for reputable 有信誉的 services Look for reviews of such sites to learn more about other students experiences Don t join a service until you have done your research Check to see if you can use a nickname instead of to protect your identity Never give personal information to anyone including your home address phone number and birthday Stop contact with others if you feel uncomfortable with the topics of conversation Again if you protect your identity this will be easier to do Tell your teachers parents or even local law enforcement 执法组 if problems arise Try to use the language you are studying in the classroom in your communication with others Ask appropriate 适当的 questions that will also help you learn about other cultures Re member that someone s personal experience might help you to understand a whole culture You have to talk to many different people and this will get you started 56 Why do many students want to find friends on the Internet no more than 15 words 57 What are the relationships between friends on the Internet called no more than 5 words 58 What are the missing words in the blank no more than 5 words 59 How many pieces of advice does the writer give about finding friends on the Internet no more than 4 words 60 What s the proper title for this passage no more than 10 words 练习练习 5 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Lacrosse invented by the Native Americans is a popular team sport in North America and a national summer sport for Canada It involves the use of nets or heads as they are called which consist of a wooden or metal stick with a net on the end Hockey is a game based on this sport The name lacrosse was named by the French settlers with Crosse meaning curved stick Lacrosse played a more serious role in Indian culture than anywhere else Lacrosse was not a very 6 well known sport until the late nineteenth century It was mostly a boy s game until a few years ago and now it is played by both boys and girls There were about three different forms of lacrosse based on the different tribes or places of how they played it One of the ways still played today is called double stick you play by using a two and a half foot stick in each hand and tossing a deer skin ball in between the two sticks Like many other ball games there are two teams in Lacrosse each with ten players There is one goalie three defensemen three midfielders and three attackmen The goalies defend the goals and if the ball goes into the goal the team who got the goal scores Whoever scores the most goals by the end of the game wins with an overtime period being played if the game is tied The game has four quarters and starts with a faceoff at the beginning of each quarter A faceoff is when the ball is on the ground to start the game and one person from each team fights for the bail 56 Who invented the game Lacrosse no more than 3 words 57 When did Lacrosse become a well known sport no more than 6 words 58 1 low many players are needed to play a Lacrosse game no more than 1 word 59 What is a goalie s job no more than 7 words 60 What happens if two teams score the same goals at the end of a game no more than 6 words 练习练习 6 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Many women today have the freedom to decide when they will have children if they want them Until about fifty years ago women spent most of their adult lives having children year after year This changed because of efforts by activists like Margaret Sanger She believed that a safe and sure method of preventing pregnancy 怀孕 was a necessary condition for women s freedom She also believed birth control was necessary for human progress She said that watching her mother suffer from having too many children made her feel strongly about birth control Her mother died at forty eight years of age after eighteen pregnancies She had to care for her father and her ten surviving brothers and sisters This experience led her to 7 become a nurse Margaret Higgins worked in the poor areas of New York City Most people there had recently arrived in the United States from Europe Margaret saw the suffering of hundreds of women who tried to end their pregnancies in illegal and harmful ways She realized that this was not just a health problem These women suffered because of their low position in society Margaret saw that not having control over one s body led to problems that were passed on from mother to daughter and through the family for years She said she became tired of cures that did not solve the real problem In 1902 Margaret married William Sanger They had three children Margaret compared her own middle class life to that of the poor people she worked among This increased her desire to deal with economic and social issues At this time Margaret Sanger became involved in the liberal political culture of an area of New York City known as Greenwich Village Sanger became a labor union organizer She learned methods of protest and propaganda 宣传 which she used in her birth control activism 56 What has changed to the women in the past 50 years according to the passage within 15 words 57 What led Margaret to be a nurse within 10 words 58 What did Margaret think of birth control within 9 words 59 What was the real reason that women had to suffer to end their pregnancies within 8 words 60 What does the passage mainly tell us within 9 words 练习练习 7 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 A new smart phone has caused excitement recently It is Mi 2 launched by a China based company called Xiaomi Technology Lei Jun the man behind Xiaomi won the Best Newcomer at 2012 CCTV China Economic Person of the Year Awards The company he founded less than three years ago is valued at 4 billion People become great because they have dreams said Lei As a student in Wuhan University he read a book Fire In the Valley which tells the story of Apple s Steve Jobs Encouraged by the book the 21 year old set up a company But his venture soon failed because he lacked a long term plan After graduation Lei joined Kingsoft a software company In 16 years he became one of the 8 top IT company leaders His life could have continued this way successful and steady But he always felt his dream calling for him every night At 38 he left Kingsoft and started his own company This time he knew what would make a promising new company following the trends but keeping your innovation He entered the smart phone market Lei is a big fan of the iPhone But instead of creating a copy of it Most big companies view phones as an accessory 附属品 to computers However Lei wanted to replace computers with smart phones The greatest challenge was making the phone s input and output methods as convenient as a computer s Mi Liao a chat tool on Mi smart phones is Lei s idea With access to the Internet you can send voice messages rather than typing to your friends Mi Liao was launched in December 2010 one month earlier than Tencent s WeChat Meanwhile Lei managed to make smart phones affordable Mi 2 has high end functions comparable to the Samsung Galaxy S3 but sells at half the price Lei is a visionary founder focusing on cutting edge innovation Forbes commented Becoming a household name in such a short time seems mission impossible but Xiaomi has accomplished it That s also what Mi is short for 56 What is the key to Lei Jun s success 1 word 57 What does Mi stand for Within 3 words 58 Why did Lei Jun leave Kingsoft Within 8 words 59 Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words Within 10 words 60 What did Lei Jun do to make Mi 2 a household name in such a short time Within 15 words 练习练习 8 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 When young people in the United States gather for fun there is a good chance that they will soon be dancing If there are no musicians they will play records If there are no records someone is certain to have a radio One way or another there will be dancing 9 The ways that boys and girls dance will often change every year or two You may hear them say that the very latest steps are in while last year s steps are out Each boy and girl takes pride in learning newest things They feel that this is important to remaining popular with their friends Years ago the dances of young people were not very different from those of their parents but high school and college students of today have created their own music and have invented their own dances thanks to people like Chubby Checker the Beatles and Elvis Presley These musicians helped to make popular an exciting new kind of music that people began to dance to in a different way In the late 1950s Chubby Checker started a dance that he called the twist The twist like so many new dances was lively and people who performed it used a lot of energy The word chubby means a little bit fat which is why this singer and dancer called himself Chubby After demonstrating his new dance hundreds of times however Chubby was no longer chubby This is one of the advantages Even if older people do not like the new dances they must agree that people get much more exercise from modern dances than they ever got from a waltz 56 What are three ways to have music for dancing no more than 4words 57 How often do ways of dancing to rock music change no more than 4 words 58 For what purpose do young people learn the newest dance no more than 6 words 59 Why did Chubby Checker become famous no more than 6 words 60 What is an advantage of modern dancing no more than 3 words 练习练习 9 第一节 阅读表达第一节 阅读表达 共共 5 小题每小题小题每小题 2 分 满分分 满分 10 分 阅读下面短文并回答问题分 阅读下面短文并回答问题 Americans think that travel is good for you some even think it can help one of the country s worst problems crime Crime worries a lot of people Every year the number of crimes goes up and up And many criminals are young They often come from sad homes with only one parent or no parents at all There are many young criminals in prison But prison doesn t change them Six or seven in 10 ten will go back to crime when they come out of prison One man Bob Burton thought of a new idea In the old days young men had to live a difficult life on the road They learned to be strong and brave So Bob Burton started Vision Quest He takes young criminals on a long long journey with horses and wagons 马车 3 000 miles thro