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（四十四）

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 四十四 四十四 阅读理解阅读理解 A A Goldie sGoldie s SecretSecret She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall No way could I have sent her away No way not me anyway Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before We re moving house No space for her any more with the baby coming We never really wanted her but what could we have done She was a present People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen I called her Goldie If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name She was so unsettled during those first few days She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her There was nothing I could do to make her happy it seemed Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner s But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down Always by my side whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire That s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk We were a long way from home when she started barking and getting very restless Eventually I couldn t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie But when I saw her licking 舔 the four puppies 幼犬 I started to feel sympathy towards them We didn t know what had happened to her said the woman at the door I took her for a walk one day soon after the puppies were born and she just disappeared She must have tried to come back to them and got lost added a boy from behind her I must admit I do miss Goldie but I ve got Nugget now and she looks just like her mother And I ve learnt a good lesson not to judge people 1 How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house A Shocked B Sympathetic C Annoyed D Upset 2 In her first few days at the author s house Goldie A felt worried B was angry C ate a little D sat by the fire 3 Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she A saw her puppies B heard familiar barkings 用心 爱心 专心 2 C wanted to leave the author D found her way to her old home B B You can never be too sure these days in the United States of your neighbours or even your customers Try to keep a low profile 姿态 in your neighborhood don t announce to just about everyone that you are running a home business with thousands of dollars worth of equipment As much as possible don t invite clients 客户 or visitors to your home In fact I know of some home based entrepreneurs 企业家 who would rather meet their clients in a neutral 中间的 ground e g the client s office or even Starbucks There are other ways to keep burglars away from your house Keep lights on around your house in the evenings Light is a natural fright for burglars Invest in a security alarm particularly if your house is located in a remote spot Security systems can often bring down the cost of your homeowner s insurance premiums 费用 Make sure that all windows and doors are locked and the security alarm turned on before you sleep at night or go out of the house Avoid keeping house keys in obvious places such as under the lamp or top of the doorframe Adding an additional lock will provide extra security when you are home The dead lock sometimes called an exit only deadbolt is an deadbolt that doesn t have an external 外部的 key It s clearly visible on the door from the outside but can t be broken into without destroying the door frame or lock itself While the security won t help directly when you aren t home the visibility may discourage an intruder from trying the door Your door itself should be made of strong materials such as one inch thick solid hardwood or heavy metal 4 The advice given by the writer in the passage focuses on A how to make your house safer from burglars B what to do when your house is broken into C how to improve social security in the United States D how to run a home business 5 Some home based entrepreneurs don t invite clients to their home A to enjoy convenience outside their home B for reasons of their property safety C not to let others know their business D in order to avoid being seen by burglars 用心 爱心 专心 3 6 All of the following are part of the writer s advice except that the homeowner A buy a security alarm and turn it on in the evening B fix an extra lock on the door from inside C have the doors made of solid hardwood or heavy metal D keep lights on in all rooms to threaten burglars 7 What does the underlined word intruder most probably mean in this passage A Someone who is invited to visit B Someone who illegally enters the home C Someone who pays regular visits to the home D Someone who tries to destroy the lock C C After successfully serving their term for 4 years military service men and women are given the choice to stay in the military or return to civilian life For some having to readjust to civilian life is one of the mist challenging assignments our returning soldiers and marines 水兵 will ever to undertake While people may think readjusting should be simple they must take into consideration of all physical and mental stress our servicemen went through Post traumatic Stress Disorder 创伤后应急障碍 or PTSD is a mental disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of life threatening events such as military combat 打仗 Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a little time In the military the marines are given a two week course on how to return to civilian life Unfortunately some will have stress reactions that do not go away on their own or may even get worse over time These individual may develop PTSD People who suffer from PTSD have difficulty sleeping because they are often reliving the experience through nightmares 梦魇 and flashbacks and feel deserted or often stand off and these symptoms can be severe enough an dlast long enough to significantly damage the person s daily life Fullerton College like most colleges has its own Veteran s 老兵 Office Ray Bustos has been running the office for 3 years Bustos acts as a liaison 联 络 for the school and the veteran students He makes sure the veterans returning to school get the right benefits There are various types of financial aid for soldiers and marines He strongly encourages the use of the Veteran Affairs website The website is very informative and extremely helpful for veterans as well as for friends and relatives of veterans who want to learn more 用心 爱心 专心 4 8 One purpose of the writer in writing the passage is A to introduce some methods to cure PTSD B to instruct PTSD patients to return to civilian life C to recommend a website to veterans and people concerned D to give military service men and women advice on civilian life 9 What problems will some returning soldiers and marines meet with A How to readjust to civilian life B how to get rid of mental diseases C How to get along with PTSD patients D How to return to school for benefits 10 Which of the following is true about Ray Bustos A He s a veteran who has just come back from a military combat B He runs Fullerton College with a veteran office C He s in charge of an office dealing with veteran affairs D He provides a lot of financial aid for soldiers and marines 11 The best title for the passage is A PTSD Killer of A Civilian Life B The Last Assignment For All Military Persons C How to Overcome PTSD D Ready for a Civilian Life D D PacingPacing andand PausingPausing Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve s new wife but Betty never seemed to have anything to say While Sara felt Betty didn t hold up her end of the conversation Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing Conversation is a turn taking game When our habits are similar there s no problem But if our habits are different you may start to talk before I m finished or fail to take your turn when I m finished That s what was happening with Betty and Sara It may not be coincidental that Betty who expected relatively longer pauses between turns is British and Sara who expected relatively shorter pauses is American Betty often felt interrupted by Sara But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel The general phenomenon then is that the small conversation techniques like pacing and pausing lead people to draw conclusions not about 用心 爱心 专心 5 conversational style but about personality and abilities These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping 思维定式 And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences For example a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel When the Personnel Department got together for meetings she kept searching for the right time to break in and never found it Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring When she was evaluated at the end of the year she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up That s why slight differences in conversational style tiny little things like microseconds of pause can have a great effect on one s life The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems even in the mind of the woman herself who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertivenessassertiveness training 12 What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her A Betty was talkative B Betty was an interrupter C Betty did not take her turn D Betty paid no attention to Sara 13 According to the passage who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns A Americans B Israelis C The British D The Finns 14 We can learn from the passage that A communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing B women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US C one s inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes D one should receive training to build up one s confidence 15 The underlined word assertiveness in the last paragraph probably means A being willing to speak one s mind B being able to increase one s power C being ready to make one s own judgment D being quick to express one s ideas confidently E E The British aren t having as many children as they used to One reason is that people are having children much older than before meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them After years at university they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want They might then get married but it s incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK 用心 爱心 专心 6 The above explains why young British people now don t move out of their parents home until they are around 30 years old on average It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home Increasingly it is not until that age that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home It s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child So a British person manages to get a job get a home and get married Why isn t he or she then having at least two children on average The main reason is that it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK Why is it expensive Well these days both parents need to work just to pay for their home and living expenses Because both parents are at work that means they then need to pay someone to look after their child during the day Paying for this childcare is nearly always expensive The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children With so much pressure on families is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high So what is Britain doing to try and save the British family The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children For example there have been increases in money families can claim from the state each month Also there are increasing government subsidiessubsidies for nursery schools so that parents do not need to pay so much for child care The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills If parents didn t have to work so many hours they d have more time to spend with their children and wouldn t need to spend so much on childcare On average a Briton works 49 hours a week which is the most in Europe The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees work life balance Let s hope they re not too late to save the British famil