贵州省遵义市2014高考英语二轮短文阅读类训练（21）

1 遵义市遵义市 20142014 高考英语二轮短文阅读类训练 高考英语二轮短文阅读类训练 2121 及答案或解析及答案或解析 When women sit together to watch a movie on TV they usually talk simultaneously 同时地 about a variety of subjects including children men careers and what s happening in their lives When groups of men and women watch a movie together the men usually end up telling the women to shut up Men can either talk or watch the screen they can t do both and they don t understand that women can Besides women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen During the ad breaks a man often asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going He is unable unlike women to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships For a woman speech continues to have such a clear purpose to build relationships and make friends For men to talk is to relate the facts Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people but a woman sees it as a means of bonding A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and when she returns home telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning the fact that girls mothers talked to them more is the reason why girls talk more than boys Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition conducted experiments that found mothers talked to and looked at baby girls more often than baby boys Scientific evidence shows parents respond to the brain bias of their children Since a girl s brain is better organized to send and receive speech we therefore talk to them more Consequently mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually disappointed to receive only short grunts in reply 语篇解读 女人在一起总是有说不完的话 甚至能一边看电影一边聊 男人却做不到 这是为什么 因为她们认为感情联络很重要 而且她们的大脑在这方面有着特殊功能 1 While watching TV with others women usually talk a lot because 2 they A are afraid of awkward silence with their families and friends B can both talk and watch the screen at the same time C think they can have a good time and develop relationships D have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands 解析 考查细节理解 根据文章第一段的最后一句可知妇女们聚在一起总有说不完的 话是因为她们认为在一起就要玩得愉快 同时加深关系 答案 C 2 After a vacation with her girlfriend a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours in order to A experience the happy time again B keep a close tie with her C recommend her a new scenic spot D remind her of something forgotten 解析 考查细节理解 根据文章的第三段中的 a woman sees it as a means of bonding 可知 女人度假回来会给朋友打电话长聊是因为她们把电话看做维系关系的纽带 答案 B 3 What does the author want to tell us most A Women s brains are better organized for language and communication B Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men C Men do not like talking because they rely more on facts D Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking 解析 考查写作意图 根据文章最后一段中的 Since a girl s brain is better organized to send and receive speech 一句可知 作者最想让读者知道的就是她们能滔 滔不绝的原因是她们的大脑在交流当中更善于处理信息 答案 C 4 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage A Women Are Socially Trained to Talk B Talking Maintains Relationships C Women Love to Talk D Men Talk Differently from Women 解析 考查标题归纳 本文是围绕女人喜欢讲话这个话题来展开的 因此 C 项为最佳 标题 答案 C 3 结束结束 Seen from space the earth is covered with a blue mantle It is a planet on which the continents 洲 大陆 are dwarfed 相形见绌 by the ocean surrounding them and the vastness of the marine 海洋的 area An astonishing 80 percent of all life on earth is to be found hidden beneath the waves and this vast global ocean drives the natural forces which keep life on our planet The ocean provides necessary sources of protein energy minerals and other products and the rolling of the sea across the planet creates over half our oxygen drives weather systems and natural flows of energy and nutrients around the world transports water masses many times greater than all the rivers on land combined and keeps the earth suitable for living things to survive Without the global ocean there would be no life on earth It is seriously worrying then that we are damaging the ocean on a level that is unimaginable to most people We now know that human activity can have a serious influence on the vital forces of our planet We have fundamentally changed our global climate and are just beginning to understand the consequences of that As yet largely unseen but just as serious are the influences we are having on the ocean A healthy ocean has diverse ecosystems and strong and healthy habitats The actual state of our ocean is a far cry from this natural state A lot of pressure is being put directly and indirectly on ocean ecosystems by human activities Consequently ecosystems are breaking down as marine species are in danger of dying out and ocean habitats are being destroyed With the decrease in their diversity ocean ecosystems are losing their natural way of recovery We need to defend the ocean now more than ever because climate change is having a potentially disastrous impact on the marine world 1 What can we learn from Paragraph 2 A What the ocean looks like 4 B What the ocean is made up of C What live in the ocean D What functions the ocean has 2 According to the text the ocean directly provides people with A water forming rivers B comfortable habitats C all the natural forces they need D driving forces for energy and nutrients 3 It is not realized by many people that we have A done great harm to the ocean B benefited greatly from the ocean C fundamentally changed our global climate D begun to suffer the consequences of pollution 4 The best title for this text would be A Protecting Our Planet B Defending Our Ocean C Getting to Know Our Planet D Make Good Use of Our Ocean 参考答案 参考答案 参考答案 DDABDDAB 结束 So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading Douglas insists that reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes They differ in 5 kind and function The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read Teaching is also a public activity It can be seen and observed Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language Almost all of it is private for learning is an occupation of the mind and that process is not open to public scrutiny If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest 探索 for knowledge Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions Make learning to read easy which means making reading a meaningful enjoyable and frequent experience for children When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are and when both teacher and learner fulfill them appropriately then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of leaning to read by reading 41 The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first paragraph is that A it is one of the most difficult school courses B students spend endless hours in reading C reading tasks are assigned with little guidance D too much time is spent in teaching about reading 42 The teaching of reading will be successful if A teachers can improve conditions at school for the students B teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading C teachers can devise the most efficient system for reading D teachers can make their teaching activities observable 43 The word scrutiny in Para 3 most probably means A inquiry B observation C control D suspicion 6 44 According to the passage learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when A children become highly motivated B teacher and learner roles are interchangeable C teaching helps children in the search for knowledge D reading enriches children s experience 45 The main idea of the passage is that A teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to read B teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible C reading ability is something acquired rather than taught D reading is more complicated than generally believed 参考答案 41 45DBBAC 结束 完形填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 20 分 请认真阅读下面短文 从短文后各题所给的 A B C D 四个选项中 选出最佳选项 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 An eight year old child heard her parents talking about her little brother All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no 36 left When she heard her daddy say to her 37 mother Only a miracle 奇迹 can save him now the little girl went to her bedroom and took out her piggy bank She 38 all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully Then she 39 her way six blocks to the local drugstore And what do you want asked the chemist It s 40 my little brother the girl answered back He s really really sick and I want to get a 41 His name is Andrew and he has something 42 growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him We don t 43 miracles here child I m sorry the chemist said 7 smiling 44 at the little girl In the shop was a 45 customer He bent down and asked the little girl What kind of miracle does your brother 46 I don t know she replied He s really sick and mommy says he needs a n 47 But my daddy can t pay for it so I have brought my 48 How much do you have asked the man One dollar and eleven cents 49 I can try and get some more she answered quietly Well what a coincidence 巧合 smiled the man A dollar and eleven cents the 50 price of a miracle for your little brother 51 me to where you live I want to see your brother and 52 your parents That well dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong a surgeon 外科医生 The operation was completed 53 and before long Andrew was 54 again The little girl was happy She knew exactly how much the miracle 55 one dollar and eleven cents plus the faith of a little child 36 A timeB medicine C moneyD food 37 A tearfulB hopeful C helpfulD regretful 38 A emptiedB pulled C putD poured 39 A followedB made C feltD found 40 A withB about C forD from 41 A drinkB doctor C tabletD miracle 42 A badB small C extraD new 43 A displayB offer 8 C sellD store 44 A calmlyB sadly C strangelyD coldly 45 A well dressedB kind hearted C well behavedD good looking 46 A haveB need C makeD like 47 A companionB surgeon C protectionD operation 48 A savingsB wishes C ideasD worries 49 A becauseB so C thoughD but 50 A sameB exact C properD reasonable 51 A BringB Send C TakeD Drive 52 A helpB encourage C persuadeD meet 53 A surprisingly B secretly C successfullyD separately 54 A happyB well C strongD fat 55 A meantB covered C measuredD cost 参考答案 36 40 CADBC 41 45 DACBA 46 50 BDADB51 55 CACBD 结束 9 链接链接 2 2 2012 北京卷 In wilderness 荒野 is the preservation of the world This is a famous saying from a writer regarded as one of the fathers of environmentalism The frequency with which it is borrowed mirrors a heated debate on environmental protection whether to place wilderness at the heart of what is to be preserved As John Sauven of Greenpeace UK points out there is a strong appeal in images of the wild the untouched more than anything else they speak of the nature that many people value most dearly The urge to leave the subject of such images untouched is strong and the danger exploitation 开发 brings to such landscapes 景观 is real Some of these wildernesses also perform functions that humans need the rainforests for example store carbon in vast quantities To Mr Sauven these ecosystem services far outweigh the gains from exploitation Lee Lane a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute takes the opposing view He acknowledges that wildernesses do provide useful services such as water conservation But that is not he argues a reason to avoid all human presence or indeed commercial and industrial exploitation There are ever more people on the Earth and they reasonably and rightfully want to have better lives rather than merely struggle for survival While the ways of using resources have improved there is still a growing need for raw materials and some wildernesses contain them in abundance If they can be tapped without reducing the services those wildernesses provide the argument goes there is no further reason not to do so Being untouched is not in itself a characteristic worth valuing above all others I look forwards to seeing these views taken further and to their being challenged by the other participants One challenge that suggests itself to me is that both cases need to take on the question of spiritual value a little more directly And there is a practical question as to whether wildernesses can be exploited without harm This is a topic that calls for not only free expression of feelings but also the guidance of reason What position wilderness should enjoy in the preservation of the world obviously deserves much more serious thinking 67 John Sauve