（江苏专用）2020高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解组合练（三）

阅读理解组合练(三)(限时30分钟)A(2020南京、盐城二模)SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM EUROPE/RESTOF THE WORLD(ROW)(NOT INCLUDING SPAIN) Option 1：Hot English for Students.Includes：12 Hot English magazinesaudioMP3S1 English Unlocked Book.(100 pages, 4 levels:PreIntermediate; Intermediate; Upper Intermediate;Advanced) Europe92.70Row 108.90 Indicate the English Unlocked level you require(one book included in price) Option 2：Hot English for TeachersIncludes：12 Hot English magazinesaudioMP3S1 Teachers English Unlocked Book.(110 pages, 4 levels: PreIntermediate；Intermediate; UpperIntermediate; Advanced):Europe 92.70 /Row 108.90 Indicate the English Unlocked level you require(one book included in price) Option 3: StandardIncludes: 12 magazinesaudio MP3SEurope79.70 /Row95.40 Option 4: Web SchoolVideos, readings, listenings, online exercises 4 levels.Indicate the level you require：PreIntermediate；Intermediate; Upper Intermediate; Advanced.Code is valid for one level and one year24.99 Access to all levels: one year59.97 English UnlockedYour complete selfstudy solution to learning English at home.With audio MP3S and video MP4S! Choose from 4 levels: PreIntermediate; Intermediate; Upper Intermediate; Advanced.Student or Teacher Students/TeachersBook: Europe18.95 /Row19.95 Phrasal verbs/Idioms Booklets with 150 phrasal verbs or idioms images MP3S AUDIO FILES.Phrasal verbs I Phrasal verbs Idioms I Idioms Europe per book17.95 /Row per book 18.95 Academies, institutes, official language schools, etc.Photocopying Hot English magazine for use in their classes wherever they are located have to pay an extra charge of50 on top of their subscription in order to meet minimal copyright requirements.语篇解读：本文主要介绍了一种名叫“the Hot English”的英语学习软件在欧洲和其他国家订阅的有关情况。1Who will pay least if people subscribe to the same materials?APeople from Spain.BPeople from France.CPeople from the USA. DPeople from China.解析：选A细节理解题。在整篇文章的右上角，(一个女人的画像下面)此部分内大部分是西班牙语，但是英文和数字“Spain only” “78”可知西班牙单价78欧，而不论欧洲还是其他地区，单价都高于78欧元，可知西班牙订购是最便宜的。2How much will your school pay for one set of Hot English for students and one for teachers for class use totally?A.185.4.B.217.8.C.267.8.D.235.4.解析：选C细节理解题。首先题目问的是“your school”，而我们是中国学生，符合文章中的ROW (rest of the world)，因此单价为108.9欧元，此外题目中表明老师买后是要给全班用的“for class use”，由文章最后一部分可知，是需要额外支付50欧元。108.9250267.8欧元。因此选C。B(2020苏、锡、常、镇二模)In Florida, a group of parents known as “the break moms” has been fighting to pass a law guaranteeing the states elementaryschool students at least 20 minutes of daily free play.In a survey of schooldistrict administrators, roughly a third said their districts had reduced outdoor play in the early 2000s.Disadvantaged kids have been the most likely to be shortchanged (克扣)According to a 2020 study, just 56 percent of children living at or below the poverty line had break, compared with 83 percent of those above the poverty line; a similar disparity (差异) existed between black children and their white peers.The benefits of break might seem obvious time to run around helps kids stay fit.But a large body of research suggests that it also promotes cognition (认知)Many studies have found that regular exercise improves mental function and academic performance.And an analysis of studies that focused specifically on break found positive associations between physical activity and the ability to concentrate in class.In one series of experiments, researchers controlled break start times.Some days children were let out at 10 am., and other days at 10：30.The kids attentiveness decreased when they had to wait longer for break, and refreshed themselves after they played.And when fourthgraders in a breakfree school were given a weekly break, another group of researchers found that they had an easier time staying on task and were much less restless.These experimental findings are supported by an analysis of 10,000 questionnaires filled out by thirdgrade teachers: Even a single 15minute daily break was connected with morepositive ratings of classroom behavior.Perhaps most important, break allows children to design their own games, to test their abilities, to roleplay, and to settle their own conflicts activities that are key to developing social skills and managing complicated situations.Initial results from an ongoing study in Texas suggest that elementaryschool children who are given four 15minute breaks a day are significantly more sympathetic toward their peers than are kids who dont get break.语篇解读：本文主要介绍了一群被称为“休息妈妈”的家长一直在努力通过一项法律，保证该州的小学生每天至少有20分钟的自由玩耍时间的事情。研究表明有足够休息时间的孩子学习成绩更好，情商也更高。3What causes “the break moms” to start a fight?APupils lack of outdoor play.BPoor school management.CAbsence of education laws.DInequality among students.解析：选A细节理解题。根据第一段的内容可知，想要通过的法律是为了保障孩子们每天课外活动的时间，所以start a fight的原因是孩子们现在缺少户外活动的时间。4In one series of experiments, researchers find that _.Achildren behave better when let out earlierBkids waiting longer are unable to stay focused againCthirdgraders have difficulty in focusing on taskDfourthgraders are more concentrated without a break解析：选A细节理解题。根据第四段的第三句“The kids attentiveness decreased when they had to wait longer for break, and refreshed themselves after they played.”可知，当孩子们不得不等待更长的时间才能休息时，他们的注意力下降了，所以被更早放出去活动的学生表现更好。5What can we infer if we can ensure children a certain amount of daily break?AThey escape from life conflicts.BThey may strengthen dependence.CThey are more considerate towards others.DThey are eager to manage complicated situations.解析：选C推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句“ . elementaryschool children who are given four 15minute breaks a day are significantly more sympathetic toward their peers than are kids who dont get break”可知研究表明，每天休息4个15分钟的小学生比没有休息的孩子对同龄人更有同情心。所以他们对他人也更加体贴。C(2020南通七市二模)Australian magpies can understand what other birds are saying to each other, a new study has found.The research, published in the journal Animal Behaviour, says the magpie has learned the meanings of different noisy minercalls and essentially eavesdrops (偷听) to find out which predators (食肉动物) are near.Noisy miners a small, native honeyeater have different warning calls for ground based and aerial (飞行的) predators.By playing both kinds of recording to a series of wild magpies, researchers observed the magpies raising their beaks (喙) to the sky, or dropping their heads to the ground.Researchers attracted the magpies with cheese, then played the noisy miner calls, videotaping the results.As a control, they also rolled a large orange ball towards the magpies to see how they ordinarily tilted (倾斜) their beaks to ground threats, and threw the ball to see how they reacted to aerial threats.The researchers recorded an average maximum beak angle of 29 degrees for the thrown ball, and an average maximum of nine degrees when it was rolled.The miners aerial warning caused an average maximum beak angle of 31 degrees, and the ground warning caused an average maximum of 24.One of the studys authors, Dominique Potvin, said the magpies showed an astonishing level of insight.Magpies and miners broadly face the same types of predators and the two frequently live in the same ecosystem.Potvin said this had encouraged the magpies learned behaviour.“Magpies are generally found on the ground and noisy miners are generally found up in trees.It pays for the magpie to pay attention to somebody who has a better view of predators than they do.”She said it was unclear whether other birds could do the same, but it was highly likely other magpies around Australia already did.“Magpies are a pretty smart group.Were not sure if theyre learning this from other magpies or if theyre figuring it out on their own, but the ability is there.”As part of the experiment, researchers also played a third call: a common, nonwarning call from a crimson rosella.They found the magpies did not respond.Potvin said that we had been actively exploring animal cognition (认知) research.“Its a good piece of the puzzle，” Potvin said.“Looking at the social relationships between species that live in communities.”语篇解读：研究发现澳大利亚喜鹊能理解其他鸟类对彼此说的话。关于动物的认知能力还有待于人类进一步的探索。6What have the researchers found about Australian magpies?AThey can understand other bird calls.BThey can communicate with noisy miners.CThey have a special preference for cheeses.DThey have the ability to warn the predators.解析：选A细节理解题。根据第二段第一句“ .the magpie has learned the meanings of different noisy minercalls and. ”可知，喜鹊已经理解了其他鸟类的叫声。7How did the researchers get their findings?ABy calculating the beak angles of aerial and ground predators.BBy comparing the magpie and the miner responses to threats.CBy monitoring the magpie responses to the miner warning calls.DBy recording the magpie louder scream for other birds attention.解析：选C细节理解题。根据第四、五、六、七段内容可知，研究人员通过定量研究，先研究喜鹊平时的喙是怎么倾斜的，再与掘穴鸟有叫声时候的反应进行监控、对比，获得了发现结果。8The magpies cognition can help them _.Ahave a better view of the predators than the minersBbetter protect themselves from the potential threatsCcooperate with other birds to drive away the predatorsDlive in harmony with other birds in the same ecosystem解析：选B细节理解题。根据文章倒数第五段的第二句“It pays for the magpie to pay attention to somebody who has a better view of predators than they do.” 可知喜鹊关注能够更好地观察捕食者的掘穴鸟有利于保护自身的安全。所以喜鹊的高智商能更好地保护自己免受潜在威胁。9We can learn from the passage that _.Athe magpies are smart learners of other birds behaviourBits likely that other birds have developed the same abilityCthe findings have clarified the relationships between speciesDa lot more remains to be explored about animal cognition解析：选D推理判断题。 根据最后一段的内容尤其是第一句“ . we had been actively exploring animal cognition(认知) research.Its a good piece of the puzzle，”可知，关于动物的认知能力至今还是一个谜，仍然需要进一步探索。D(2020扬州一模)An introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight.But a convention of publishing seems to require that the candle should be there, and I am proud to be the one to hold it.About ten years ago I picked up from the pile of new books on my desk a copy of Sons and Lovers by a man of whom I had never heard, and I started to race through it with the immoral speed of the professional reviewer.But after a page or two I found myself reading, really reading.Here was here is a masterpiece in which every sentence counts, a book packed with significant thought and beautiful, arresting phrases, the work of a remarkable genius whose gifts are more richly various than those of any other young English novelist.To appreciate the rich variety of Mr.Lawrence we must read his later novels and his volumes of poetry.But Sons and Lovers reveals the range of his typical power.Here are combined and blended (混合的) sort of “realism” and almost lyric (抒情的) imagery and rhythm.The speech of the people is that of daily life and the things that happen to them are normal adventures and accidents; they fall in love, marry, work, fail, succeed, and die.But of their deeper emotions and of the relations of these little human beings to the earth and to the stars, Mr Lawrence makes something near to poetry and prose (散文) without violating its proper “other harmony”Take the marvellous paragraph on next to the last page of Sons and Lovers (Mr Lawrence depends so little on plot in the ordinary sense of the word that it is perfectly fair to read the end of his book first)：Where was he? One tiny upright speck of flesh, less than an ear of wheat lost in the field.He could not bear it.On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a spark, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct.Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun, stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in the darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted (气馁)So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.Such glorious writing lifts the book far above a novel which is merely a story.I beg the reader to attend to every line of it and not to miss a single one of the many sentences that await and surprise you.Some are enthusiastic and impressive, like the paragraph above; others are keen, “realistic” observations of things and people.In one of his books Mr.Lawrence makes a character say, or think, that life is “mixed”That indicates his philosophy and his method.He blends the accurately literal and trivial (琐碎的) with the extremely poetic.To find a similar blending of tiny daily detail and wide imaginative vision, we must go back to two older novelists, Hardy and Meredith.I do not mean that Mr.Lawrence derives (源于) directly from them or, indeed, that he is clearly the disciple (弟子) of any master.I do feel simply that he is of the elder stature (名望) of Hardy and Meredith, and I know of no other young novelist who is quite worthy of their company.When I first tried to express this comparison, this connection, I was contradicted by a fellowcritic, who pointed out that Meredith and Hardy are entirely unlike each other and that therefore Mr.Lawrence cannot resemble both.To be sure, nothing is more hateful than forced comparisons, nothing more boring than to discover parallels between one work of art and another.An artists mastery consists in his difference from other masters.But to refer a young man of genius to an older one, at the same time pronouncing his independence and originality, is a fair, if not very superior, method of praising him.语篇解读：作者通过讲述自己读儿子与情人这部小说的经历的感受，介绍了劳伦斯的写作风格。10The underlined word “superfluous” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _.Ameaningful BunnecessaryCfundamental Dfashionable解析：选B词义猜测题。根据第一段第一句“An introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight.”可知，这本书的引言如同在强光探照灯前的蜡烛一样多余。所以superfluous的意思是“过多的，不必要的”。11What is typical of Lawrences works?AThey equally reveal his genius power.BThey contain lots of great lyric poetry.CThey present some real living situations.DThey focus on relations between humans.解析：选C推理判断题。根据第二段第四句“The speech of the people is that of daily life and the things that happen t