2012届高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解部分之限时训练（十五）

用心 爱心 专心 1 20122012 届高考英语二轮专题复习精品阅读理解部分之限时训练 十五 届高考英语二轮专题复习精品阅读理解部分之限时训练 十五 阅读理解阅读理解 When an emergency situation occurs observers are more likely to take action if there are few or no other witnesses This phenomenon is referred to as the bystander effect The bystander effect is also called the Genovese effect which is named after Catherine Kitty Genovese a young woman who was cruelly murdered on March 13 1964 Early in the morning 28 year old Genovese was returning home from work As she approached her apartment entrance she was attacked and stabbed 刺 by a man later identified as Winston Moseley Despite Genovese s repeated cries for help none of the dozen or so people in the nearby apartment building who heard her cries called police for help The attack first began at 3 20 but it was not until 3 50 that someone first contacted police Many psychologists were set thinking by the incident as well as most Americans As the conclusion the bystander effect came out and later proved by a series of studies and experiments There are two major factors that contribute to the bystander effect First the presence of other people creates a division of responsibility Because there are other observers individuals do not feel as much pressure to take action since the responsibility to take action is thought to be shared among all of those present The second reason is the need to behave in correct and socially acceptable ways When other observers fail to react individuals often take this as a signal that a response is not needed or not appropriate Other researchers have found that onlookers are less likely to take action if the situation is ambiguous In the case of Kitty Genovese many of the 38 witnesses reported that they believed that they were witnessing a lovers quarrel and did not realize that the young woman was actually being murdered 61 The bystander effect is also called the Genovese effect because a woman surnamed Genovese A it somehow caused the murder of B its discovery resulted from the murder of C it was actually discovered by D it always makes people think of 62 Genovese was murdered A while she was going outB in her apartment C halfway homeD near her apartment 63 Which can NOT have been a possible reason for the neighbors NOT offering Genovese help A They believed in the bystander effect B They thought someone else might help her C They didn t think they should help D They didn t think she needed help 64 Before deciding to offer help observers may according to the 用心 爱心 专心 2 psychologists A wait for sort of a signal B hesitate and estimate the risk of getting hurt C want to be sure it s appropriate to react D wonder if the victim is worth helping 65 The article seems to suggest that if there had been observers Genovese might not have been murdered A noB fewerC more D braver 完形填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 20 分 I was a single parent of four small children working at a low paid job Money was always tight but we had a 36 over our heads food on the table clothes on our backs and if not a lot always 37 Not knowing we were poor my kids 孩子们 just thought I was 38 I ve always been glad about that It was Christmas time and although there wasn t 39 for a lot of gifts we planned to celebrate with a family party But the big 40 for the kids was the fun of Christmas 41 They planned weeks ahead of time asking 42 what they wanted for Christmas Fortunately I had saved 120 for 43 to share by all five of us The big 44 arrived I gave each kid a twenty dollar bill and 45 them to look for gifts of about four dollars each Then everyone scattered 散开 We had two hours to shop then we would 46 back at the Santa s Workshop Driving home everyone was in high Christmas spirits 47 my younger daughter Ginger who was unusually 48 She had only one small flat bag with a few candies fifty cent candies I was so angry but I didn t say anything 49 we got home I called her into my bedroom and closed the door 50 to be angry again This is what she told me I was looking 51 thinking of what to buy and I 52 to read the little cards on the Giving Trees One was for a little girl four years old and all she 53 for Christmas was a doll 玩具娃娃 So I took the card off the tree and 54 the doll for her We have so much and she doesn t have anything I never felt so 55 as I did that day 36 A roofB hatC skyD star 37 A littleB lessC enoughD more 38 A busyB seriousC strictD kind 39 A effortB roomC timeD money 40 A improvementB problemC surpriseD excitement 41 A shoppingB travellingC partiesD greetings 42 A the otherB each otherC one by oneD every other one 43 A toys B clothesC presentsD bills 44 A dayB chanceC chequeD tree 45 A forced B remindedC invitedD begged 46 A drawB stayC moveD meet 用心 爱心 专心 3 47 A includingB besidesC exceptD regarding 48 A quietB excitedC happy D ashamed 49 A sinceB afterC whileD until 50 A waitingB readyC hopingD afraid 51 A outB overC forwardD around 52 A forgotB stoppedC failedD hated 53 A wantedB didC gotD played 54 A madeB searchedC boughtD fetched 55 A angryB richC patientD bitter 任务型阅读 共 10 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 10 分 请认真阅读下面短文 并根据所读内容 在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词 每空一词 Robot revolution The day that a robot wakes you up cleans your room and walks your dog might still be a few decades off But increasingly engineers are saying that robots are going to make the leap from the factory floor to your family room Companies like Sony and General Electric are working on designs for small robots Products like the Roomba a robot that can clean floors are flying off the shelves On the cover of a recent issue of Scientific American magazine Bill Gates predicted the Dawn of the Age of Robots What s behind this new era 时代 It s partly a matter of technology Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed There are now a few different ways for robots to move around They can walk crawl or ride on wheels They are being made smaller and smaller They are also becoming more and more energy efficient A bigger part of the story is on the demand side From the day Robert Adler invented the television remote control in the 1950s people around the world have tirelessly searched for ways to get lazier Also take into consideration the increasing wealth of rich people the time appears ripe to introduce robots to ease our daily lives To be sure robots that walk on two legs and talk like people are still too complex for our present engineering abilities Today s robot revolution is to make them for everyday use Robots will do basic housework such as cleaning or gardening or just help you have more fun on the basketball court What makes a robot different from an ordinary cleaning machine is not the presence of computer chips 芯片 Nowadays even your microwave has a computer chip It is the ability to sense and make changes to the environment in real time For example