山西省太原双语中学2012届高考英语 专题精选阅读理解强化训练集（七）

用心 爱心 专心 1 山西省太原双语中学山西省太原双语中学 20122012 届高考英语专题精选阅读理解强化训练集届高考英语专题精选阅读理解强化训练集 七 七 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的四个选项 A B C 和 D 中 选出最佳选项 A Today in many high schools teaching is now a technical miracle of computer labs digital cameras DVD players and laptops Teachers can e mail parents post messages for students on online bulletin 公告 告示 boards and take attendance with a quick movement of a mouse Even though we are now living in the digital age the basic and most important element of education has not changed Most students still need that one on one teacher student relationship to learn and to succeed Teenagers need instruction in English math or history but they also want personal advice and encouragement Kids talk with me about their families their weekend plans their favorite TV shows and their relationship problems In my English and journalism classes we talk about Shakespeare and persuasive 富有哲理的 essays but we also discuss college basketball the war in Iraq and career choices Students show me pictures of their rebuilt cars their family vacations and their newborn baby brothers This personal connection is the necessary link between teachers and students that no amount of technology can improve upon or replace A few years ago I had a student in sophomore English who was struggling with my class and with school in general Although he was a humorous young man who liked to joke around I knew his family life was far from ideal Whenever I approached him about missing homework or low test grades he always had the same reply It doesn t matter because I m quitting school anyway Even though he always said this in a half teasing way I knew he needed to hear my different opinion and my value of a high school education lecture He needed to hear this speech from me After he left my class he struggled through the next two 用心 爱心 专心 2 years of school But he did finally graduate because we kept telling him to hang in there We d cared about him finishing school Recently I saw this former student working at a local Italian restaurant I told him again how proud I was of him He said that he was hoping to go back to school to become a certified electrician I encouraged him to get that training Students rely on compassionate teachers to guide to tutor to listen to laugh and to cry with them Teachers provide the most important link in the educational process the human one 1 The first paragraph mainly talks about A the variety of modern teaching methods B the wide use of modern technology in education C the importance of teacher parent relationship D the importance of using modern technology 2 The underlined word compassionate in Para 5 means A ambitious B knowledgeable C sympathetic D generous 3 According to the text the most important element in education is A teachers good instruction B advanced technology C teachers encouragement D personal connection 4 The author states his view of education by A example B description C figure D comparison B Australia The vote for euthanasia 安乐死 was finally taken at 3 45 this morning After six months argument and final 16 hours hot debates Australia s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die The bill was passed by the vote of 15 to 10 Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up half a world away by John Hofsess the director of the Right to Die Society of Canada He sent it on through the group s on line service Death NET Hofsess says We posted it all day long because this isn t just something that happened in Australia It s world history 用心 爱心 专心 3 The full import may take a while to understand The NT Rights of the Terminally III law has left physicians and citizens trying to deal with its moral and practical meaning Some have breathed sighs of relief but others including churches right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association bitterly attacked the bill and the haste 匆忙 急忙 of its passage But the tide is unlikely to turn back In Australia where an aging population life extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to for euthanasia In the US and Canada where the right to die movement is gathering strength observers are waiting for the dominoes 多米诺骨牌 to start falling Under the new Northern Territory law an adult patient can request death probably by a deadly injection or pill to put an end to suffering The patient must be diagnosed as incurably ill by two doctors After a cooling off period of seven days the patient can sign a certificate of request After 48 hours the wish for death can be met For Lloyd Nickson a 54 year old Darwin man suffering from lung cancer the law means he can get on with living without the fear of his suffering a terrifying death from his breathing condition I m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view but what I was afraid of was how I d go because I ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks he says 5 According to the text which of the following statements is TRUE A Australia now is the only country in the world to pass the law of euthanasia B All people in Australia don t have the same positive attitude to euthanasia C Many patients will ask their doctors for euthanasia because they are afraid of death D According to the law if a patient requests death his or her wish will be met after 48 hours 用心 爱心 专心 4 6 The underlined sentence in Para 2 observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling means that observers are waiting to see A the result of the game of dominoes B that people s attitude to euthanasia will be changed C that the bill about euthanasia in Australia will come to an end D the similar bills will be passed in other countries 7 Australia was the first country to pass the bill of euthanasia but not USA or Canada Which one is NOT the reason A In Australia the technology of extending life is advanced B In Australia it is easy to deal with the moral and practical meaning C In Australia old people take up great part in the population of the whole country D Australians gradually realize suffering from a terrible disease is worse than immediate death 8 It can be inferred from the text that A when Lloyd Nickson dies he will face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia B physicians and citizens in Australia share the same view on euthanasia C other countries are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia D under the bill patients requesting death are sure to be injected by deadly medicine 9 What s the author s attitude to euthanasia A Negative B Critical C Positive D Doubtful C A person named Bernard Jackson today is a free man but he has many bitter memories He spent five years in prison after a jury 陪审团 wrongly convicted 判处 有罪 him of raping two women At Jackson s trial although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the time 用心 爱心 专心 5 of the crime he was convicted anyway Why The jury believed the testimony 证 词 of the two victims who positively identified Jackson as the man who had attacked them The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the real criminal Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony For instance witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a group of people They can become confused by seeing many photographs of similar faces The number of people in the group and whether it is a person or a photograph may also affect a witness s decision People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them Many people believe that police officers are more reliable than ordinary people Psychologists decided to test this idea and they discovered that it is not true Two psychologists showed a film of crimes to both police officers and civilians The psychologists found no difference between the police and the civilians in correctly remembering the details of the crimes Despite all the possibilities for inaccuracy courts cannot omit eyewitness testimony from a trial American courts depend almost completely on eyewitness testimony to resolve 决定 court cases Sometimes it is the only evidence to a crime such as rape Furthermore eyewitness testimony is often correct Although people do sometimes make mistakes and convict innocent people more importantly eyewitness testimony has rightly convicted a larger number of guilty people American courts depend on the ability of the twelve jurors and not the judges to determine the accuracy of the witness s testimony It is their responsibility to decide if a certain witness could actually see hear and remember what happened 10 Bernard Jackson was found guilty and sentenced 5 years prison because A the victims insisted that he was the attacker 用心 爱心 专心 6 B he admitted the crime of raping two women C the police discovered evidence leading to his guilt D the eyewitness proved the victims testimony 11 The following statements may be the reasons for why sometimes the eyewitness testimony is not accurate EXCEPT A the eyewitness is confused by the police s questions B the eyewitness is shown photos of many similar faces C the eyewitness lacks the professional help from police D the eyewitness can t identify people of other races clearly 12 An inaccurate eyewitness testimony may lead to A the misunderstanding of the case B the disbelief in the court C the disrespect for the eyewitness D the conviction of an innocent person 13 Eyewitness testimony is important because A it can be relied on to detect criminals in all cases B it is sometimes the only way to resolve court cases C it is sometimes the only clue for police investigation D it is more reliable than physical evidences to a crime 14 According to the text we can infer that A eyewitness testimony is valuable though sometimes incorrect B police identification is more reliable than that of the ordinary people C crime victims often fail to give positive identification of the suspects D the jury relies on the judge than the eyewitness for a decision D For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish At first a young boy Manolin had shared his bad fortune but after the fortieth luckless day the boy s father told his son to go in another boat From that time on Santiago worked alone The boy loved the old fisherman and always helped him with money and food Usually they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or about American baseball after supper while at night alone in 用心 爱心 专心 7 his cottage Santiago dreamed of lions on the beaches of Africa where he had gone years before He no longer dreamed of his dead wife On the eighty fifth day Santiago set off to fish before dawn Two of his baits 饵 were fresh tunas 金枪鱼 the boy had given him as well as sardines 沙 丁鱼 to cover his hooks Then he set his lines which went straight down into deep dark water As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore A bird showed him where dolphin were chasing some flying fish This time Santiago saw tuna jumping in the sunlight A small one took the hook on his line Pulling the fish aboard the old man thought it a good fortune Toward noon a marlin a common fish in the sea started eating the bait which was one hundred meters down Gently the old man played the fish a big one as he knew from the weight on the line At last he struck to settle the hook The fish did not come out of the surface Instead it began to pull the boat to the northwest The old man followed it Although he was alone and no longer strong he had his skill and knew many tricks He waited patiently for the fish to be tired It was cold after the sunset When something took one of his remaining baits he cut the line with his knife Once the marlin leaned suddenly pulling Santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek By dawn his left hand was cramped 抽筋的 The fish had headed northward there was no land in sight Hungry he cut pieces from the tuna and chewed them slowly That morning the fish jumped Seeing it Santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had ever seen Then the fish went down and turned toward the east Santiago drank a little water from the bottle during the hot afternoon Close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited He lifted it aboard careful After he had rested he cut meat from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its stomach That night he slept He awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped Feeding line slowly he tried to tire the marlin After the fish slowed its run he washed 用心 爱心 专心 8 his cut hands in sea water and ate one of the flying fish At sunrise the marlin began to circle Faint he worked to bring the big fish nearer with each turn Almost exhausted he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon 鱼叉 The fish was two feet longer than the boat No fish like it had ever been seen in Havana harbor An hour later he sighted the first shark a fierce Mako and it came in fast to chase after the dead marlin The old man struck the shark with his harpoon The Mako rolled and sank carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin bloody He knew the smell would spread Watching he saw two sharks closing in He struck at one with his knife and watched it sliding down into deep water The other he killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin When the third appeared he thrust 刺 it with the knife The other sharks came at sunset At first he tried to beat them with the tiller 舵柄 from the boat but his hands were bleeding and there were too many in the sea In the darkness as he steered toward the harbor of Havana he heard them hitting the boat again and again But the old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of the big marlin All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his boat He could just make out the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on In his cottage he fell on his bed and went to sleep 15 The above story is adapted from A Treasure Island B The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer C The Old Man And The Sea D The Son