山东省枣庄市台儿庄2014高考英语 短语总结、阅读理解训练（35）

1 台儿庄台儿庄 20142014 高考英语短语总结 阅读理解训练 高考英语短语总结 阅读理解训练 3535 及答案 及答案 whether or 不管 Why don t you do 为什么不 Why not do 为什么不 win a majority 赢得大多数的 承认 同意 支持等 wind one s way 蜿蜒前行 迂回前进 wind sth around sth 把 缠绕在 上 wind the clock watch 上 钟表的 发条 wipe out 杀光 wish for sth 希望得到 wish sb n adj 希望某人 wish sb to do 希望某人做 wish that 希望 虚拟语气 wish to do 希望做 with great care 小心翼翼 with this method 用这种方法 within reach 够得着 wonder at about 对 感到惊讶 疑虑 wonder to do 惊奇地 对 感到惊奇 wonder 疑问词 to do 想知道 Word came that 消息传来了 work at sp 在 工作 work on sth 进行 工作 worry about 担心 worse still 更糟糕的是 would like sb to do 想让某人去做 would prefer to do than do 与其做某事不如做某事 would rather sb did 更愿意让某人做 would rather to do than do 与其做某事不如做某事 2 write articles for sth 给 写文章 write articles on many subjects 写有关 许多学科 的文章 write down 写下 记下 write sth for a newspaper 给报纸写文章 year after year 年复一年 不变 year by year 逐年 有变化 You d better do sth 你最好做 You ve got to 你非做不可 A In 1835 a British astronomer called Sir John Herschel built a giant telescope in a remote area of Sauth Africa He wanted to take advantage of the clear air in that region to observe parts of the southern sky not visible in the northern hemisphere 半球 In August of that year an article appeared in the New York Sun with the following headline GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES MADE BY SIR JOHN HER SCHEL FROM THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE The Sbn reported that Herschel had discovered life on the moon his telescope being sopowerful that he could observe the Moon s surface as if he Were standing on it More articles followed with news that Herschel had been able to see the Moon s craters rivers vegetation and animals creatures that bore a strong resemblance to antelopes goats and pelicans on the Earth In the final installment it was revealed that Herschel had actually seen a race of furry winged men and women human like creatures who could fly The Sun s illustrators provided graphic images based on Herschel s descriptions The story caused a sensation in America and were soon syndicated 供许多报 纸同时发表 to newspapers all over the world Scientists were skeptical about 3 the information but it seems that no one pointed out that the Edinburgh Journal of Science didn t actually exist There had been a magazine with that name but it had closed down more than ten years before The Sun articles were of course an elaborate hoax 骗局 Herschel had not really observed life on the Moon nor had he made any of the other astronomical discoveries that the article reported In fact Herschel did not even know about the articles until he returned to England some time later He had nothing to do with the stories at all The Sun never admitted that the stories were fake However a few weeks after the publication the editor wrote We can only concede 承认 that the story is a hoax if the Scottish paper that published it admits it As the Scottish paper didn t exist this was not likely to happen 56 What is the text about A An article about the Moon in an early 20th century astrological magazine B A series of articles about the Moon in a Science Journal in the early 19th century C A series of articles about the Moon in a newspaper in the early 19th century D An article about South African skies in a geographical 57 Sir John Herschel was A a British astronomer who used a giant telescope to observe the skies in Africa B a British journalist who observed the skies in South Africa and wrote about the Moon C a South Africa astronomer who built a giant telescope D a British astronomer who discovered life on the Moon 58 What does the underlined sentence in the fourth paragragh mean A They believed it without question B They didn t believe the stories because they knew the Science Journal 4 didn t exist C They believed it because it was In the newspaper D They didn t believe it butaccepted it because they thought the stories had been published 59 Since the article was indeed an elaborate hoax A Herschel had something to do with the stories B Herschel had not discovered anything reported about the Moon C scientists knew that the Edinburgh Journal of Science didn t actually exist D the newspaper admitted it was a lie 结束 My family and I lived across the street from Rose Park since I was four years old Then just last year the city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing 用推土机推平 the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex When I saw the fence and bulldozers I asked myself Why don t they just leave it alone Looking back I think what sentenced the park to oblivion was the drought 旱灾 we had about four years ago Up until then Rose Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks climbed the trees and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up The park was almost like my own yard In the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed There had been almost no rain all that year The city stopped watering the park grass Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a 5 huge brown desert Leaves tell off the park trees and pretty soon the trees started dying too The park swimming pool was closed Then the city cut down on the work force that kept the park and it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore As the drought lasted into the fall the park got worse and worse The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass There were few people in the park It was said that drugs were being sold or traded there The park had gotten scary and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal that is everything but the park It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to redevelop certain worn out areas of the city It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it The chain link fence and the bulldozers did their work Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction The neighborhood has changed without the park The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now Things will never be the same again Sometimes I wonder what would happen if another drought came 60 How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers A Scared B Excited C Curious D Upset 61 Why was the writer told not to go to the park by his mother A It was being rebuilt B It became crowded C It was dangerous D It had turned into a desert 62 According to the writer what evehtuaily brought about the disappearance of the park A The drought B The crime C The decisions of the city D Piles of rubbish 63 The last sentence of the passage implies that if another drought came 6 A people would have to desert their homes B the situation would be much worse C the city would be fully prepared in advance D the city would have to redevelop the neighborhood 结束 There are only four kinds of people in this world former first lady Rosalynn Carter once wrote Those who have been caregivers those who currently are caregivers those who will be caregivers those who will need caregivers Her comment is true now more than ever before This is a nation of caregivers You can see it in the numbers Approximately 50 million Americans provide the majority of the help needed by relatives or friends who are elderly ill or disabled And those figures are only going to grow the number of people 65 and over is expected to double in the next 40 years and the number of those over 85 will more than three times But the reality of caregiving is best understood not with figures but through the following stories of spouses 配偶 children siblings 兄弟姐妹 and friends who have stepped forward when a loved one needed them Their experiences explain what s new about caregiving these days and what never changes What s new an economic climate that makes the cost of caregiving harder than ever to bear an increasingly mobile society in which families may be separated by a continent when a crisis unfolds and the effects of divorce 离婚 and the increasing numbers of people who are choosing to stay single which 7 mean that many people are reaching their middle years and beyond without a spouse or child at hand What never changes the fact that neither fame nor fortune nor physical gifts protects against sickness and old age And the fact that no difficulty will keep family and friends from doing what they can to help We will meet some of the caregivers who have risen to the challenge here For all of them the experience has been stressful But it has also brought their lives new meaning and strengthened their power to love 63 The main idea of the first paragraph is that A Former first lady Rosalynn was a wise woman B People in the world can be divided into four types C A large number of Americans are caregivers in a way D America is a fast aging nation with 50 million in need of caregiving 64 We can see from the third paragraph that A more and more American people use mobile phones B more and more American people work harder due to the climate change C more and more middle aged American people do not want to get married D more and more American families tend to live in different places in the world 65 The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means A everyone can be rich or famous B everyone needs to be taken care of C everyone should protect the sick and the old D everyone will fight against sickness and old age 66 What is the writer most likely to write about after the last paragraph A The stories of some caregivers B The changes of American society C The reason why something has changed about caregiving D The reason why something has not changed about caregiving 8 参考答案 63 66 CDDA In our deep mind we all talk to ourselves an inner monologue 独白 that might seem rather pointless But as a study shows the act of giving ourselves mental messages can help us learn and perform at our best Researchers have identified the most effective forms of self talk collected here so that the next time you talk to yourself you know exactly what you should say Self talk isn t just motivational messages like You can do it or Almost there although this inside cheering section can give us confidence A review of more than two dozen studies published last year in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science found that there s another kind of mental message that is even more useful called instructional self talk This is the kind of running description we engage in when we re carrying out a difficult task especially one that s unfamiliar to us Think about when you were first learning to drive Your self talk might have gone something like this Foot on the gas pedal 踏板 hands on the wheel slow down for the bend here now put your blinker on Over time of course giving yourself instructions becomes unnecessary but while you re learning it does three important things First it promotes our attention focusing us on the important part of the task and keeping out distractions Second it helps us manage our effort and make decisions about what to do how to do it and when And third self talk allows us to control our cognitive 认知 and reactions making us stay on tasks In a recent study of students learning to throw darts 飞镖 in a gym class Athanasios Kolovelonis and his colleagues at the University of Thessaly in Greece found that self talk is most effective when involved in a cycle of thought and action First comes forethought when you set a goal for yourself and make a plan for how to get there That s followed by performance when you enact the plan to the best of your ability Last comes self reflection when you 9 carefully evaluate what you ve done and adjust your plan for the next time Self talk can play a key part in this cycle During the forethought stage consider careful