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（二十一）

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 二十一 二十一 阅读下列短文 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的四个选项 从每题所给的四个选项 A A B B C C 和和 D D 中 选出最佳选项 中 选出最佳选项 A A Census figures 调查数据 published last Friday indicate that the number of women in management jobs rose by 95 between 1980 and 1990 Most evidence shows that women are still in the lowest class of management and in the lowest paying industries I first noticed that girls were different from boys when I was about 4 years old No experiences either in my personal life or in my business life have caused me to change my opinion Throughout my adult life however I have had to evaluate again and again these differences between men and women and how they affect the way men and women relate to one another and to the environment in which they work Working with women has given me deep understanding I would never have gained in any other way Women are working at a decided disadvantage in the business world created by men to make things comfortable for men To me this means men often understand the rules without having to be taught or even having to think about them It is not so easy for women If I may fall back on typically male sports terms women have had to learn both the game and the game plan at the same time At least in my own observation women in business tend to be more honest than men A direct question to a woman often results in a direct response This quality makes it more difficult for women to yes an employer It also makes women more trustworthy than the men who often can t or won t give a straight answer to a question Women are also more open than men about their feelings their ambitions and everyday situations in the office This makes them easier to be hurt than men Traditionally women in business have been more severely judged than men They have had to be better in a job than a man to get ahead 1 What is this passage mainly about A the unfair treatment the working women suffering in business B the differences between working men and women C the qualities of the working men and women D the author s pity on the working women 2 The author mentions the sports terms to show that A women are more diligent than men B women are often looked down upon by men C women are slower in learning new things than men D men always make things comfortable for themselves 3 How many good qualities of women are mentioned in the last paragraph A Two B Three C Four D Five 4 Which of the following will most probably be the first sentence of the fifth paragraph A For example I have interviewed many people for the job of advertising salesperson B Another difference between working men and women is that men take more chances C Of all the differences that I have noticed one in particular stands out D On the other hand men also enjoy more rights than women B B People say teenagers are no good They make too much noise in shopping malls they drive recklessly up and down America s main streets they carry chips on their shoulders as big as the Sears Tower And at least some of the time those 用心 爱心 专心 2 things are true But we shouldn t forget that there are hard moments in the life of a teenager too I watched such a moment not long ago at a woman s funeral I didn t expect the event to affect me Through much of the ceremony in fact I remained unmoved The teenage grandson stepped forward With his very first deep breath every heart in that church was achingly reminded of something we had all forgotten Softly he began I want to share a few values that Nana taught me She never failed to see light in any situation When our family dog would truely attract her what would Nana say oh what beautiful barking that dog has That was Nana She was a strong woman who often lived in the shadow of my grandpa who was a successful businessman in this city But she was the one behind the scenes who provided the strength and support for my grandpa s career he said with a voice now trembling That was Nana s way Through a low sob he continued Whenever she did anything worth recognition you d have to hear about it from a different source because she was never one to show off Finally in a voice breaking free of sorrow he looked up and said Nana taught me courage She put up an incredible fight to the end when she died peacefully which is how she lived her life That was Nana s way and I hope I can carry on in the same manner There are no hearts as sensitive as those of teenagers because everything is happening to them for the first time The trouble with teenagers is that they haven t learned to be controlled When that boy rose to speak about the woman who surely had been his truest and dearest friend his honest voice dragged each of us out into the open where we could no longer hide in the calm ceremony He exposed us to the truth about this very real woman who believed in a boy who probably tried the patience of many adults He reminded us that his grandmother was more than another dot on the chart of life and death All over again we felt those powerful losses crossing our own hearts and we knew that when you say good bye to something happy something young in yourself And that something never really returns and the pain never really goes away 5 In the first paragraph the writer gave some examples to A support his idea that young people are no good B introduce his point of view about young people C tell people every coin has its two sides D show young people often make mistakes 6 From the boy s speech we know A his grandmother had great influence on him B they had a dog which often attacked people C people had forgotten her until the boy appeared 用心 爱心 专心 3 D his grandmother was so weak that she is always living in the shadow of his grandpa 7 Which of the following statements is true A The boy s speech moved no one present at the funeral except the writer B The boy s being good at expressing himself enabled him to draw everyone s attention C The boy was too grieved to accept the fact that his grandmother had passed away D The writer didn t expect the event would affect him 8 What words can best describe grandmother s quality A Weak mild and modest B Easygoing cautious and considerate C Sensitive and hard on others D Patient optimistic strong and helpful 9 The passage tells the readers A facing certain bitter facts help young people to grow B young people have to control themselves C the adults should learn from the young D the adults should teach the young how to be brave C C ROME The legend of Leonardo da Vinci is covered in mystery How did he die Are the remains buried in a French castle really those of the master Was the Mona Lisa a self portrait in disguise 伪装 A group of Italian scientists believe the key to solving those puzzles lies with the remains and they say they are seeking permission to dig up the body to conduct carbon and DNA testing If the skull is undamaged the scientists can go to the heart of a question that has fascinated scholars and the public for centuries the identity of the Mona Lisa Recreating a virtual and then physical reconstruction of Leonardo s face they can compare it with the smiling face in the painting We don t know what we ll find if the tomb is opened We could even just find grains and dust says Giorgio Gruppioni an anthropologist who is participating in the project But if the remains are well kept they are a biological record of events in a person s life and sometimes in their death Silvano Vinceti the leader of the group said that he plans to press his case with the French officials in charge of the said burial site at Amboise Castle early next week Leonardo moved to France at the invitation of King Francis I who named him first painter to the king He spent the last three years of his life there and died in 1519 at age 67 The artist s original burial place the palace church of Saint Florentine was destroyed during the French Revolution and remains that are believed to be his were eventually reburied in the Saint Hubert Chapel near the castle The Amboise tomb is a symbolic tomb it s a big question mark said Alessandro Vezzosi the director of a museum dedicated to Leonardo in his 用心 爱心 专心 4 hometown of Vinci Vezzosi said that investigating the tomb could help identify the artist s bones with certainty and solve other questions such as the cause of his death He said he asked to open the tomb in 2004 to study the remains but the Amboise Castle turned him down The group of 100 experts involved in the project called the National Committee for Historical and Artistic Heritage was created in 2003 with the aim of solving the great mysteries of the past said Vinceti who has written books on art and literature Arguably the world s most famous painting the Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre in Paris where it drew some 8 5 million visitors last year Mystery has surrounded the identity of the painting s subject for centuries with opinions ranging from the wife of a Florentine merchant to Leonardo s own mother That Leonardo intended the Mona Lisa as a self portrait in disguise is a possibility that has interested and divided scholars Theories have existed Some think that Leonardo s taste for tricks and riddles might have led him to hide his own identity behind that puzzling smile others have guessed that the painting hid an androgynous lover If granted access to the grave site the Italian experts plan to use a tiny camera and radar to confirm the presence of bones The scientists would then exhume 挖掘 the remains and attempt to date the bones with carbon testing At the heart of the proposed study is the effort to discover whether the remains are actually Leonardo s including with DNA testing Ks 5uKs 5uKs 5u Vezzosi questions the DNA comparison saying he is unaware of any direct descendants 后代 of Leonardo or of tombs that could be attributed with certainty to the artist s close relatives Gruppioni said that DNA from the bones could also eventually be compared to DNA found elsewhere For example Leonardo is thought to have rubbed colors on the canvas with his thumb possibly using saliva 唾液 meaning DNA might be found on his paintings Even in the absence of DNA testing other tests could provide useful information including whether the bones belonged to a man or a woman and whether the person died young or old Even within the committee experts are divided over the identity of the Mona Lisa Vinceti believes that a tradition of considering the self portrait to be not just a faithful imitation of one s features but a representation of one s spiritual identity may have resonated 共鸣 with Leonardo Vezzosi the museum director dismissed as baseless and senseless the idea that the Mona Lisa could be a self portrait of Leonardo He said most researchers believe the woman may have been either a wife of the artist s sponsor the Florentine nobleman Giuliano de Medici or Lisa Gherardini the wife of a rich silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo The traditional view is that the name Mona Lisa comes from the silk merchant s wife as well as its Italian name La Gioconda 用心 爱心 专心 5 10 Why does the author ask a couple of questions in the beginning A To arouse the interest of readers B To puzzle Italian scientists C To answer the questions himself D To make fun of French officials 11 The best title of this story might be A What Is the Purpose of an Investigation B How Did Leonardo da Vinci Die in France C Are the Remains Really Those of the Master D Did Leonardo Paint Himself as Mona Lisa 12 The sentence he plans to press his case with the French officials underlined in Paragraph 4 suggests that Vinceti intends to A press the French officials to participate in their project B urge the French officials to open the tomb early next week C persuade the French officials to allow opening the tomb D record events in a person s life with the French officials 13 Which of the following statements is truetrue according to the passage A Scholars have the same opinion on DNA testing B Scientists doubt if the remains are those of da Vinci C The identity of Mona Lisa has already been proved D Alessandro Vezzosi got permission to open the tomb 14 We can infer from the last two paragraphs that A Mona Lisa is the name of the wife of a silk merchant B the Mona Lisa is a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci C experts divided the committee into several groups D opinions differ of the identity of the Mona Lisa D D Mom I have cancer These four words catapulted my son and me on a journey that lasted two years On that dat I felt a wave of paralyzing fear Scott was the oldest of my four children He was 33 years old and a successful assistant principal at SamRayburn Hifht School in Pasadena Texas He and his wife Carolyn were busy raising four active children Scott was 6 2 weighed 200 pounds and had never been sick a day in his life A few month earlier a mole 痣 on his neck had changed color Dr Warner called Scott said that spring morning It s melanoma 黑素瘤 I tried to comfort him naming all the people I knew who had survived skin cancer Yet I felt small tentacles of fear begin to wrap around my chest Our next stop was MDAnderson the famous cancer hospital in Houston Scott had surgery at the end of May and was scheduled for radiation treatments over the summmer recess There is an 80 percent chance it won t reoccur the doctors said At the end of summer all his tests came back negative and Scott was back at school in the fall However in December Scott discovered a lump on his neck It was examined and the result came back malignant 恶性的 We now relized that Scott fell into the 20 percent category I could feel the tentacles tightening around my chest He entered the hospital for an aggressive 用心 爱心 专心 6 treatment a combination of interferon and interleukin After five months of treatment he had radical surgery on his neck The test results were encourging only three of the 33 lymph nodes 淋巴结 removed were malignant We were very hopefull For the next six months Scott s follow up visits went well Then in October X ray revealed a spot on his lung The spot was removed during surgery and the doctors tried to be optimistic It was a daily battle to control the fear and panic each setback brought In January he was diagnosed as having had a disease explosion The cancer had spread to his lungs spine and liver and he was given three to six months to live There were times during this period when I felt like I was having a heart attack The bands constricting my chest made breathing difficult When you watch your child battle cancer you experience a roller coaster of emotions There are moments of hope and optimism but a bad test result or even an unusual pain can bring on dread and panic Scott was readmitted to the hospital for one last try with chemotherapy He died quite suddenly just six weeks after his last diagnosis I was completely destroyed I had counted on those last few months The next morning I was busy notifying people and making funeral arrangements I remember having this nagging feeling that something was physically wrong with me It took a moment to realize that the crushing sensation in my chest was gone The thing every parent fears the most had happened My son was gone Of course the fear had been replaced by unbearable sorrow After you lose a child it is so difficult to go on The most minimal tasks combing your hair or taking a shower becoming monumental For months I just sat and stared into space That spring the trees began to bloom flowers began to pop up in my garden Friendswood was coming back to life but I was dead inside During those last weeks Scott and I often spoke about life and death Fragments of those conversations kept playing over and over in my mind Don t let this ruin your life Mom Make sure Dad re models his workshop Please take care of my family I remember wishing I could have just one more conversation with him I knew what I would say but what would Scott say I know how much you love me Mom So just sit on the couch and cry No I knew him better than that Scott loved life and knew how precious it is I could almost hear his voice saying Get up Mom Get on with your life It s too valuable to waste That was the day I began to move forward I signed up for a cake decorating class Soon I was making cakes for holidays and birthdays My daughter in law told me about a writing class in Houston I hadn t written in years but since I was retired I decided it be time to start again The local college advertised a Life Story Writing class that I joined There I met women who had also lost their children The Poet Laureate of Texas was scheduled to speak at our local 用心 爱心 专心 7 Barnes and Noble I attended and joined our local poetry society I never dreamed that writing essays and poems about Scott could be so therapeutic S