四川省南充市2020高考英语二轮复习 说理议论阅读理解基础练习（3）

说理议论阅读理解基础练习（3）说理议论（阅读理解）由 (2020北京,D)改编The Cost of Higher EducationIndividuals (个人) should pay for their higher education.A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual.Graduates earn more than non-graduates.Meanwhile,social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree.However,only some people have it.So the individual,not the taxpayers,should pay for it.There are pressing calls on the resources (资源) of the government.Using taxpayers money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.Full government funding (资助) is not very good for universities.Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees.He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford,where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the government.Guaranteed salaries,Smith argued,were the enemy of hard work,and when the academics were lazy and incompetent,the students were similarly lazy.If students have to pay for their education,they not only work harder,but also demand more from their teachers.And their teachers have to keep them satisfied.If that means taking teaching seriously,and giving less time to their own research interests,that is surely something to celebrate.Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济).Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth,but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs.If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive,you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs.Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the government to invest.Therefore,it is the individual,not the government,who should pay for their university education.1.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to .A.taxpayersB.pressing callsC.college graduatesD.government resources2.The author thinks that with full government funding .A.teachers are less satisfiedB.students are more demandingC.students will become more competentD.teachers will spend less time on teaching3.The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to .A.argue against free university educationB.call on them to finance students studiesC.encourage graduates to go into businessD.show their contribution to higher education语篇解读:本文为议论文。作者围绕着个人应该为取得高学历付学费这一个观点展开辩论。答案及剖析:1.B猜测词义题。根据第二段的最后两句话,有关政府资源方面有很多紧迫的呼声,而使用纳税人的钱来帮助一小部分人在将来获得高收入并不在这些呼声中,可以判断them指的是pressing calls。2.D事实细节题。根据文章的第三段的最后一句话可以判断出本题选择D项。3.A推理判断题。根据第五段所议论的内容,可以判断出作者提到business是为了反对大学教育免费。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesnt generally experience the sound and lightning that can go with those rains, its still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when its actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think and we see, wed still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, theres enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval (间隔) between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark (闪光).1. According to the author, in the area of the Central Valley_.A. rains usually come without thunder and lightning.B. it is usually dry in AprilC. children pay no attention to the two natural wonders.D. parents are not interested in thunder an lightning.2. We believe that lightning is a downward motion because_.A. we were taught so by our parents from our childhood.B. we are taken in by our sense of vision.C. it is a common natural sight.D. it is a truth proved by science.3. What is TRUE about lightning according to the passage?A. Only a small number of lightning flashes occur on earth.B. Lightning flashes usually jump from one cloud to another.C. Lightning travels 5 times faster than thunder.D. There are far more lightning strikes occurring on earth than we can imagine.4. The underlined word “activity” is most closely related to the word (s) _.A. cloudB. lightning strikes C. lightning flashesD. thunderstorms5. It can be concluded from the passage that _.A. we should not believe what we see or hear.B. things moving downward are more noticeable.C. people sometimes may have wrong ideas about ordinary phenomena.D. adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomena.【参考答案】15、ABDDC阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。It is over 40 years since first atomic bomb was dropped on a major city in Japan. Yet even now its effects are showing themselves and may continue to do so for years to come. Much effort and human energy have been used to try to prevent such a terrifying thing from happening again. So far there is no guarantee that it will not. Countries which already possess nuclear knowledge and resources have bombs stored away which are powerful enough to wipe out all life on earth. But this is not all. Other countries, which previously were not so advanced in technology, are gradually buying materials that can be used for making atomic devices. This nuclear energy will naturally be of great value in helping the economy of poorer nations.The generation of electricity through nuclear power came directly from the original work on the atom bomb. Because of the increase in demand for energy and the possibility of decreasing supplies of oil and natural gas, the interest in electricity has increased. One of the by-products of nuclear power stations is plutonium (钸) produced from unclear fuel: plutonium is ingredient (成分) in bomb-making. It means that there are far more opportunities for the manufacture of bombs.This brings the problem to a full circle again. How can something so valuable and useful be controlled so that it works for the benefit and not the destruction of man? (from )1. The effects of dropping the first atomic bomb _.A. are not over B. may go on foreverC. could last much longer D. will not be over in the near future2. The writer says that enough atomic bombs have already been manufactured to _.A. wipe out Japan B. last foreverC. act as a peace-keeping device D. destroy all living things3. The advantage of less developed countries being able to make atomic devices is that it _.A. gives them more opportunities for work B. will help poor countries to become richerC. will enable them to make better explosives D. will be of great value to them4. The second paragraph tells us that the increased demand for electricity today _.A. has led to the decrease in supplies of oilB. means that more countries are interested in nuclear powerC. has increased the risk of accidental explosionsD. has increased the very means of producing more atomic bombs【答案与解析】1. A 细节理解题。根据第一段第二句Yet even now its effects are showing themselves and may continue to do so for years to come可知。2. D 细节理解题。根据第一段“have bombs stored away which are powerful enough to wipe out all life on earth”一句可知。3. B 细节理解题。根据第一段“This nuclear energy will naturally be of great value in helping the economy of poorer nations”一句可知。4. D 段落主旨题。根据第二段最后一句“It means that there are far more opportunities for the manufacture of bombs.”可知。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid.“Whoever drinks it will die.”The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink it.There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litresless than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that daytwo or three buckets worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; its cheaper. Like the