江西省2012届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解（52）

用心 爱心 专心1 江西省江西省 20122012 届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解 届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解 5252 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的四个选项 A B C 和 D 中 选出最佳选项 并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑 A Lisa was running late She had a lot to do at work plus visitors on the way her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown But as she hurried down the subway stairs she started to feel uncomfortably warm By the time she got to the platform Lisa felt weak and tired maybe it hadn t been a good idea to give blood the night before she thought She rested herself against a post close to the tracks Several yards away Frank 43 and his girlfriend Jennifer found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying But when he heard the scream followed by someone yelling Oh my God she fell in Frank didn t hesitate He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails No Not you his girlfriend screamed after him She was right to be alarmed By the time Frank reached Lisa he could feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming The train was about 20 seconds from the station It was hard to lift her She was just out But he managed to raise her four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the arms and drag her away from the edge That was where Lisa briefly re gained consciousness felt herself being pulled along the ground and saw someone else holding her purse Lisa thought she d been robbed A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head And she tried to talk but she couldn t and that was when she realized how much pain she was in Police and fire officials soon arrived and Frank told the story to an officer Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40 minute train ride downtown just as he had been seconds after the rescue which made her think about her reaction at the time I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was going to die she explained 1 What was the most probable cause for Lisa s weakness A She had run a long way B She felt hot in the subway C She had done a lot of work D She had donated blood the night before 2 Why did Jennifer try to stop her boyfriend A Because they would miss their train B Because he didn t see the train coming C Because she was sure Lisa was hard to lift D Because she was afraid the train would kill him 3 How did Frank save Lisa A By lifting her to the platform B By helping her 用心 爱心 专心2 rise to her feet C By pulling her along the ground D By dragging her away from the edge 4 When did Lisa become conscious again A When the train was leaving B After she was back on the platform C After the police and fire officials came D When a man was cleaning the blood from her head 5 The passage is intended to A warn us of the danger in the subway B show us how to save people in the subway C tell us about a subway rescue D report a traffic accident B Don t you just love ice skating every winter I am sure that since winter is approaching your skates are set to come out just waiting to be used Impress your friends with your new trick on how to ice skate backwards with the help of these tips Skating backwards on ice is a bit difficult but once you master the basic there s nothing like it Follow the steps given below and you will be able to skate backwards in no time StandStand StraightStraight The first thing that you need to do is stand straight If you feel that you are falling backwards then just put your chin up and slightly bend your knees Don t worry this happens to all ConfidenceConfidence isis WhatWhat YouYou NeedNeed The most important step while learning how to skate backwards is having enough confidence in yourself and in what you are doing How can you achieve this By practice Just practice rolling backwards down a gentle slop every single day or just by pushing off from a wall or something of that sort But before you do that make sure that the place where you are practicing is free from any kind of debris 碎片 because otherwise you could land up in the hospital due to some accident While going backwards just get used to the feeling of moving backwards One of the important ice skating tips and techniques is that if you feel that you are losing your balance then scissor 做剪式运动 your skates Keep practicing this till you are confident about it MaintainMaintain SpeedSpeed Confident now Great Now the next step is to maintain your speed While rolling in a straight line with one skate with the other try sculling 滑浆 that is keep pushing yourself backwards with an outwards stroke 滑动 Now bring the skate which you were using to scull and then again repeat the same process Make sure that you put most of your weight on the skate which is moving straight and not the one with which you are sculling Now try the same thing using the other foot Again keep doing this till you are confident 用心 爱心 专心3 enough IncreaseIncrease YourYour SpeedSpeed NowNow Once you are confident that you can scull with either foot the next thing that you have to A is increase your speed Try some of your own tricks now Scull with either foot or with both at the same time ScullScull andand BeBe AwareAware While you keep one foot straight keep sculling with the other You can do that simultaneously 同时 一起 with both feet Concentrate on what you are doing but don t get so involved that you don t see where you are going If you are not watching your back you might just bang against something or someone 6 According to the text confidence comes from A high speed B strict coachesC constant exercise D good techniques 7 Which is the right order of ice skating backwards a Increasing your speed b Being able to scull with one foot c Being about to stand straight d Trying some different tricks A c a d b B c b d a C a c b d D c b a d 8 In order to keep balance when skating backwards you should A skate in a scissor gesture B use both your feet to scull C skate forward first and then backward D put most of your weight on the skate with which you are sculling 9 In the last paragraph the author mainly wants to express A skating and keeping cautious are both important B one must be brave to learn to ice skate backwards C it s difficult to concentrate when ice skating backwards D it s a common thing to hit someone when ice skating backwards 10 The purpose of the text is A to compare different ways of ice skating backwards B to introduce the culture of ice skating backwards C to explain advantages of ice skating backwards D to offer some advice on ice skating backwards C Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of 50 In fact they say by the age of 85 people are happier with their life than they were when they were 18 years old The findings came from a survey of more than 340 000 adults in the United States The Gallup 民意调查 Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008 At that time the people were between the ages of 18 and 85 The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness sadness and worry They also asked about mental or emotional stress Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at 用心 爱心 专心4 Stony Brook University in New York led the study His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of 22 and 25 The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their 50 s appiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early 70 s The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their 70 s and 80 s The findings Happeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older One theory is that as people grow older they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world or maybe even changes in brain chemistry The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children being unemployed or being single But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well being related to age The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older However women at all ages reported more sadness stress and worry than men 11 What is the best title of the passage A The older a person is the happier he grows B The more lighthearted a person is the happier he is C The older a person is the more clever he grows D The older a person is the more stressed he feels 12 We can learn from the research that A only when people get older will they feel happier B older people usually have no worries in their life C older people are more likely to be thankful in life D stress levels among the youngest are the highest of all 13 According to the researchers what is probably the reason hy people grow happier when they pet older A When people get older they can t remember bad experiences B When people get older they have no young children to care about C When people get older they don t care about their feelings D When people get older they learn to adjust their feelings 14 What would the writer probably deal with in next paragraph A Advice to the young people on how to keep happy B Why women at all ages are more sad stressed and worried C Advice to the old people on how to live longer D Why people will grow happier with their ages 15 What do you think the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is A A Gallup organization B A University in New York 用心 爱心 专心5 C A popular science magazine D A research institution D Studies have shown that the fewer medicines a person has to take the more likely he or she will take them Last week a study was released about a new treatment that combines 5 medicines for heart disease in one pill Salim Yusuf of McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario Canada was the lead investigator He presented the findings at the American College of Cardiology Conference in Orlando Florida The experimental drug is known as Polycap It contains aspirin a drug to lower cholesterol 胆固醇 and three medicines to lower blood pressure The study was carried out at 50 health centers across India More than two thousand people between the ages of 45 and 80 took part in the study All had at least one risk factor for heart disease These include high blood pressure high cholesterol diabetes or being severely overweight The people were divided into 9 groups of about 200 people each One group took Polycap The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill The study showed that Polycap lowered blood pressure and cholesterol without many side effects Doctor Yusuf said the single pill taken once a day could reduce the average person s risk of heart disease and stroke by about half The maker of Polycap Cadila Pharmaceuticals of India paid for the study Cardiovascular diseases 心血管疾病 of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world These diseases kill more than seventeen million people every year 80 percent of them are in low and middle income countries Doctor Yusuf said the single pill treatment could revolutionize heart disease prevention People would be more likely to take one pill a day than many pills And one pill would cost less than several pills Other heart doctors say heart disease prevention is important but not necessarily with pills They say patients might be able to get the same results with changes in diet and exercise Doctors say that more research on Polycap is needed They say the drug should be tested on thousands more people including those in different ris