2012届高考英语二轮专题总复习 阅读理解汇总（四）

用心 爱心 专心 1 20122012 届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读理解汇总 四 届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读理解汇总 四 1 Most people want to know how things are made They honestly admit however that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made Where a composer 作曲家 begins how he manages to keep going in fact how and when he learns his trade all are covered in complete darkness The composer in short is a man of mystery 神秘 One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration 灵感 plays in a composer s work He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for The composer therefore does not say to himself Do I feel inspired He says to himself Do I feel like working today And if he feels like working he does It is more or less like saying to himself Do I feel sleepy if you feel sleepy you go to sleep If you don t feel sleepy you stay up If the composer doesn t feel like working he doesn t work It s as simple as that 57 What would be the best title for the text A Composer a man of mysteryB Practice makes good music C Relation between sleeping and musicD Music product of nature 58 The words covered in complete darkness underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably mean A difficult to be made B without any light C black in colorD not known 59 Most people seem to think that a composer A finds it difficult to write musicB considers it important to have a good rest C should like to talk about inspirationD never asks himself very simple questions 60 The author will most probably agree that composers A are born with a gift for musicB are people full of mystery C work late at night for their musicD know a lot about eating and sleeping 2 Professor Barry Wellman of the University of Toronto in Canada has invented a term to describe the way many North Americans interact 互动 these days The term is networked individualism This concept is not easy to understand because the words seem to have opposite meanings How can we be individuals 个 体 and be networked at the same time You need other people for networks Here is what Professor Wellman means Before the invention of the Internet and e mail our social networks included live interactions with relatives neighbors and friends Some of the interaction was by phone but it was still voice to voice person to person in real time A recent research study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that for a lot of people electronic interaction through the computer has 用心 爱心 专心 2 replaced this person to person interaction However a lot of people interviewed for the Pew study say that s a good thing Why In the past many people were worried that the Internet isolated 孤立 us and caused us to spend too much time in the imaginary world of the computer But the Pew study discovered that the opposite is true The Internet connects us with more real people than expected helpful people who can give advice on careers medical problems raising children and choosing a school or college About 60 million Americans told Pew that the Internet plays an important role in helping them make major life decisions Thanks to the computer we are able to be alone and together with other people at the same time 60 The underlined phrase networked individualism probably means that by using computers people A stick to their own ways no matter what other people say B have the rights and freedom to do things of their own interest C do things in their own ways and express opinions different from other people D are able to keep to themselves but at the same time reach out to other people 61 According to the Pew study what do many people rely on to make major life decisions A Networks B Friends C Phones D Parents 62 It can be inferred from the Pew study that A people have been separated from each other by using computers B the Internet makes people waste a lot of time and feel very lonely C the Internet has become a tool for a new kind of social communication D a lot of people regard the person to person communication as a good thing 63 Which would be the best title for this passage A We re Alone on the Internet B We re Communicating on the Internet C We re Alone Together on the Internet D We re in the Imaginary World of the Internet 3 Throughout the history of the arts the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists No matter what objects they select artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before Landscape 风景 is another unchanging element of art It can be found from ancient times through the 17th century Dutch painters to the 19th century romanticists and impressionists In the 1970s Alfred Leslie one of the new American realists continued this practice Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole a romanticist had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature Leslie paints what he actually sees In 用心 爱心 专心 3 his paintings there is no particular change in emotion and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography 摄影术 to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom Besides all art begs the age old question What is real Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes and the Cro Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests To sum up understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant Past or present Eastern or Western the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience Many and different are the faces of art and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings 72 Leslie s paintings are extraordinary because A they are close in style to works in ancient times B they look like works by 19th century painters C they draw attention to common things in life D they depend heavily on color photography 73 What is the author s opinion of artistic reality A It will not be found in future works of art B It does not have a long lasting standard C It is expressed in a fixed artistic form D It is lacking in modern works of art 74 What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph A They express people s curiosity about the past B They make people interested in everyday experience C They are considered important for variety in form D They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation 75 Which of the following is the main topic of the passage A History of the arts B Basic questions of the arts C New developments in the arts D Use of modern technology in the arts 4 It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech At some point in every speech every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned Fortunately the moments are usually not obvious 明显 的 to the listeners Why Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say They hear only what the speaker does say If you Lose your place for a moment wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences or forget to pause at a certain point no one will be any the wiser When such moments occur don t worry about them Just continue as if nothing happened Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech that don t really matter If you have ever listen to Martin Luther King s famous speech I 用心 爱心 专心 4 Have a dream you may notice that he stumbles 结巴 his words twice during the speech Most likely however you don t remember Why Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech making People care a lot about makings mistake in a speech because they regard speechmaking as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication 交 流 They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice skating competition But infect the listeners are not looking for a period performance They are looking for a well thought out speech that expresses the speaker s ideas clearly and directly Sometimes a mistake or he can actually increase a speaker s attractiveness by making him more human As you work on your speech don t worry about being perfect Once you free your mind of this you will find it much easier to give your speech freely 72 The underlined part and the first paragraph means that no one will A be smarter than you B notice your mistakes C do better than you D know what you are talking about 73 You don t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because A your attention is on the content B you don t fully understand the speech C you don t know what the speaker plans to say D you find the way of speech making more important 74 It can be inferred from the passage that A giving a speech is like giving a performance B one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad C the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made D the more mistakes a speaker makes the more attractive he will be 75 What would be the best title for the passage A How to Be a Perfect Speaker B How to Make a Perfect Speech C Don I Expect a Perfect Speech D Don t Expect Mistakes in a Speech 5 Tell a story and tell it well and you may open wide the eyes of a child open up lines of communication in a business or even open people s mind to another culture or race People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them For example most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources cultures and times They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own Most local stories are based on a larger theme American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says Cinderella 灰姑娘 or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world Working with students in schools Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories She works with prisoner too helping 用心 爱心 专心 5 them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write direct and act in their own lives If they don t like the story they are living they can rewrite the story Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers For every advance in business she says there is a greater need for communication Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager worker relationship she says Pugh spent several years in Nigeria where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday