湖北省2020高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（70）

湖北省2020高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（70）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。AMr Ace sat on the coach before his doctor, telling him his sad story of his disgusting language habitIn fact, he said, only yesterday when he saw a very pretty young woman on TV say How Weight Watchers saved my marriage is a secret between my husband and I , he jumped up and shouted at the set, My husband and ME! You silly woman Oh, I seeYou have 45 minutes to tell me all about itI can do it in oneIve had this habit since I was a little kidAt the age of four, I was the only kid in the neighborhood who said, Mother, may I go out to play? instead of Can I? I had learned that lesson the hard way when I had raised my hand and asked my teacher, Can I leave the room? She replied, You can if you are ableIf you are asking for my permission to leave the room, I will reply, Yes, you mayThus the difference between Can I? and May I? was permanently carvedThe doctor looked at his watch and reminded him kindly, You now have 38 minutes left, MrAceAll rightWhen I came home from school, I always announced my entrance by calling out, It s I, MotherEven at that age I began passing this invaluable grammatical knowledge to all the kids, a-long with my explanations of the correct usageThey began passing it onto their mothers, who in turn began eying me suspiciously, calling me that strange boy , and telling them not to play with meButYou have 16 minutes left The doctor saidOn second thought you can tell me about that on your next visitIs Thursday OK?SureBut in meantime, Doctor”The doctor interrupted him In the meantime, I have a simple little exercise I would like you to tryWhen you hear someone commit a grammatical fault, you softly and slowly count to ten; the urge to make a correction will disappear gradually by itselfAnd that s it? Are you sure that 11 do the trick?Better than your way of making people angry at youPatient is the best medicineThat s what I always sayDoctor, just a minuteWhat do you always say? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, tenOh, Doctor, is it patient or patience, are you sure? Well, Ill see you next ThursdayGoodbye, Doctor Goodbye strange man ”1MrAce went to the doctor for help to _Aput his bad temper in controlBimprove his poor relationship with friendsCchange his improper way of expressing himselfDdrop his disgusting curiosity in language errors2By referring to his former teacher MrAce intended to say _Ahis teacher was strict with pupilsBhow he developed his language habitChe was once a good-mannered pupilDwhy he was thankful to his teacher3MrAce was _ among his friends because of his habitAunwelcome Battractive C.cautious Dpopular4From the passage we can infer that the doctor was _ in curing MrAce s habit in the end.Aconfident HI himselfBunsure of himselfCenthusiastic DcreativeBLOS ANGELES, Aug28-Only now is the full story comingout of the surface about the great Sunny Bear Farce （闹剧） at Crocker National Bank, but it carries a message for those whowould mix bears, money, children, depositors （储户）,tellers （出纳员） and bank vice presidentsThe heroes of the story were those little stuffed （毛织品）animals with bright button eyes that have long been the companionsof countless girls and boysJust before the Christmas season last year, the promotion department at Crockerthe nation s 15th largest bank, with 358 California branchescame up with Sunny the BearThe bank claimed that anyone who-opened a new checking account of $ 100 or more would be given a bearAngela Bohning, then handling new accounts at the Palos Verdes branch, remembers that it started out great but then problems began to ariseShe added, There were the bears sitting on the counters, pretty and attractive as could be, and everyone wanted oneCustomers who already had accounts insisted they should get a bearOne man who had a $ 50,000 savings account threatened to take out all his money unless he got a bearWe tried to tell them just to take $ 100 out of their previous bank account and open another account and some of them did, she continued Mothers would come with two or more kids and each child wanted a bear, of courseBut it was one account/one bear, no more and no less, so they had to open two or three checking accountsOn top of everything else, a shortage of bears began to developIt got so at our branch that we had a bear count at the end of business every day, MrsBohning recalledAnd we finally had to appoint one of the assistant managers as the bear man to be in charge of bearsAs the shortage worsened, various branches tried to obtain more Sunnies from banks that still had a reserve （储备） and the Palos Verde branch, for one, sent a truck to an office in Orange countyFinally, Crocker ran out of bears some time early this year, but it took weeks before the outcry went downIn all 100,000 Sunnies went to bank customersDavid Sanson, a spokesman for the bank, said that although it may try other promotions, we will never come up with anything like the bears5The purpose of the bank s activity is to _Apromote the sales of toysBimprove the bank s imageCpromote the banks businessDexpress appreciation to the customers6According to the rules during the activity you can have _Aa bear if you have had accounts of $ 100 beforeBfive bears if you open a checking account of $ 500Ctwo bears if you open two checking accounts of $ 200Dno bear if you open a checking account of more than $ 1007In order to satisfy the demanding customers, one of the bank branches even .Asent all the workers to collect bearsBarranged a special information deskCstopped opening new accounts of $ 100Dsent a truck for one bear in a faraway branch8What is the best possible tide for the passage?AA Creative Bank PromotionBAn Unexpected Shortage of Sunny BearCToy Giveaway Nearly Unbearable for BankDBank Saving for Your Children s Christmas GiftsCGroasis Waterboxx, winner of Popular Science Magazine s Best of What s New 2020 swept all 11 categories for the best invention, leaving behind other fantastic inventions, such as the Apple iPad, Porsche 918 Spyder Green Supercar, Panasonic Viera TV, Intel Wireless display and 117 others for the Grand PrizeThe Dutch inventor says much of the freshwatersupply is used for irrigation in the desert, yet mostof the water may be lost in the airSo he inventedthe device which he called Groasis Waterboxx tohelp people grow trees and plants in the desert.He says he got the idea from nature.“If you look at nature, and I give an example inyour own country, if you look to the Rocky Mountains of the Sierra Nevada, you find trees all over the mountainsSo trees are actually able to grow on rocksThey have very strong roots Pieter Hoff saidMrHoff says the trick is that nature does not dig a hole like we humans do to plant seedsNature plants the seeds through birds or animals on top of the soilTheir waste then acts as a coverIt keeps the humidity （潮湿） in the soilThe Dutch inventor says he is simply copying that systemThe Waterboxx is a round device about the size of a motorcycle tireIt sits flat on the, ground with the bottom open to the earthSeeds or a young planting grow out of a hole in the centerSome people call the Waterboxx a water battery because of its ability to collect and store waterThe cover has deep ridges （脊）These collect rainwaterBut the device is designed to collect water even when there is no rainThe coyer gets cold during the night and creates drops of water on itThe water is collected through two holes and in the holes there is a siphon （吸管） tp carry it to the soilPieter Hoff says the nice thing about the siphons is that, once collected, the water is not able to evaporate any moreResearchers at Mohammed the First University in Oujda, Morocco, tested the Waterboxx for three years in the SaharaThey said close to ninety percent of the trees planted with the device survivedWithout it, they said, only about ten percent survived9What does Pieter Hoffs invention have in common with natural planting?ANo need of soil to plant seedsBNo need of water to plant seedsCHaving an effective wayto obtain nutritionDHaving an effective way to keep humidity10The underlined word evaporate most probably means _Adisappear Bcirculate Ccontract Dfloat11The Waterboxx has_ _Aa water battery under itBa solid bottom to hold waterCmany siphons to draw waterDmany raised lines on the cover12How does the device collect water when it doesnt rain?AThe siphon draws water from the earthBThe cold cover changes the air into liquidCThe cover keeps the humidity in the soilDThe ridges save enough water in raining daysDIn Greek mythology （神话） , fire is a gift from the God, stolen from Zeus（宙斯） by Prometheus and handed over to human suffering from coldWhat could be more natural than sitting around a beautiful fire on a winter night, at a campsite in the Berkshires?Hard as it may be to believe, the fireplacelong considered a trophy （奖杯） , particularly in a city like New York is acquiring a social shameAmong those who desire to be environmentally responsible , it is joining the ranks of bottled water and big housesSally Treadwell, a 51-year-old public relationsexecutive in Boone, N.C., said nothing makes herhappier than building a fire on a cold winter night.But most of the time she doesnt, because she feelstoo guilty about the damage it may do to theenvironment. Every time she builds a fire, itcauses “inner conflict,” she said. “Its a guilty pleasure.”“The smoke from a fire smells very nice,” saidDiane Bailey,m a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. “But it can cause a lot of harm.”The tiny particles （颗粒） can cause illness, and can cross into the bloodstream, causing heart attacks as well as worsening other conditionsGrowing concerns about the air pollution and health problems caused by smoke from wood fires are urging a number of areas across the country to pass laws regulating themIdaho offers a tax cut to people who replace uncertified （不合格） wood stoves with greener ones; San Joaquin County in California for-bids selling a home unless its wood stove is replaced with an EPA-certified one; and Palo Alto and other governments in California forbid wood-burning fireplaces in new constructionCertainly, many think otherwiseIn any case, most fireplaces are used far too infrequently to cause any real damage to the environment, said Stephen Sears, the vice president of the Brick Industry Association , voicing an opinion shared by somePerhaps not coincidentally, sales of wood-burning equipment dropped to 235,000 in 2020 from 800,000 in 1999, according to the Brick Industry AssociationIt also reports that approximately 35,000 fireplaces were installed in the United States in 2020, compared to 80,000 in 2020Certainly those numbers reflect the economic slowdown, but they may also be affected by growing mixed feelings to wood fires.13We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that _Aa fireplace is viewed as a sign of successBbottled water is a good companion for a fireplaceCbig houses are not considered environment-friendlyDpeople in New York are laughed at for their tradition14Sally s inner conflict in 3rd paragraph resulted from _Aher mixed emotion for the fireplace Bthe damage to the environmentCthe concern about her health Dher love for the fireplace15In terms of the regulations about wood fire we can learn from the passage that .Auncertified fireplaces are forbidden in EdahoBonly energy-efficient wood stove can be used in USACsome people are against the wood-fire controlling regulationsDall the people support measures taken to control the use of fireplaces16What is the author s purpose in writing the passage?ATo urge people to burn less woodBTo discuss wood-burning s impactCTo indicate the cooling love for the fireplaceDTo throw light on the causes of the fireplace s declineEIt s an endless cultural lesson that s been craved into our heads since we were children, watching cartoons such as The Flintstones（摩登原始人） and playing with Barbie dolls: If you are a woman, you should be extremely thin; if you are a man, you should be big and strongAnd while weve grown accustomed to research finding that such stereotypes （固有观点） play a part in the workplace obese （肥胖的） women, for example, have a harder time climbing up the career stairway a recent study has found that a worker s body size can have a big effect on the size of his or her pay envelopeThe study found that obese people were identified as undisciplined, dishonest and less likely to do creative workOn the contrary, the researchers point out that employers and fellow employees associate values of self-discipline, hard work and confidence with thin peopleExperts say it s just another sign that as a society, weve fixed into our heads the unrealistic, media-driven physical ideals that show up in the workplace and therefore the walletThe researchers say that employers don t purposely think of these things when they re evaluating a personMuch of the problem is the result of unconscious decisions based on deep-rooted social stereotypesIt s no secret that the mass media have much to do with what decides the image our society finds pleasing and acceptableTV shows such as Mad Men and NCIS present powerful men with a very cool lookCougar Town on the other hand, celebrates skinny career woman Jules Cobb, a successful businessman who claims she s never eaten real ice cream because she s so concerned about her weightThe researchers suggest that employers look at their assumptions about employees weight, because they may be rooted in discriminationA