甘肃兰州高考英语阅读理解和短文改错自练10

1、甘肃省兰州市2016高考英语阅读理解和短文改错自练（10）【由内蒙古包头市 201模拟改编】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。As I grew older, my dad and 1 grew further apart. Wealways had totallydifferentopinions. He thought that college was a waste of time, but for me it was important to finish college. He wanted me to work my way to the top

2、 as he had done in his field but I wanted a different life. There was a time when we did not talk with each other.A few months ago, I heard that my 84-year-old dad was in poor health. When he called and asked whether I could move from Colorado bank to Tennessee to help him,I knew he was seriously il

3、l. I am his only child and so itwas time to meet my fathersrequirement.Two weeks after moving back, we bought a boat and started fishing again. Fishing was one of the few things that we did while 1 was young and that we both enjoyed.It is strange but true that as we are fishing we are able to put th

4、ings that have kept us apart for so many years behind us. We are able to talk about things that we have never talked about before. Fishing has heen healing the old wounds that have kept us apart.It is not important how many fish we catch. It is about enjoying the relationship that we have not had fo

5、r years. I m 62 and he is 84. Whenwe are on the lake fishing, it is like enjoying life.It is far better to find a way to put the unhappy past behind.I am so lucky to spend the happy time with my father in his last years.Now my heart is filled with love. A smile always graces my lips.The author and h

6、is father became further apart because A. they lived very far from each other B. they seldom went see each otherC. they only communnicated by phone D. they had different views on thingsWhy did the author came back to Tennessee?Because his father invited him tg ga $shire.Because he decided to live in

7、 a different city.Because his father was ill and needed caring.Because he regretted being rude to his father.For the author, fishing with his old fatherhelp cure his father s diseasemakes him realize the importance of relaxationis a good way to get close to natureprovides a chance for them to commun

8、icateWhich of the following can be the title for the text?A.Fishing Brings Us Together B. Forgiving Is DifficultC.Memories of Old Days D. My Beloved Father【参考答案】1-4、DCDD阅读理解。People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions and a new repor

9、t published online in CurrentBiology explains why.Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly（ 均匀的）across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facia

10、l expressions, Jack said. Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect （忽略）the mouth.According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facia

11、l expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facialexpressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people

12、while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared howaccurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.It turned out that Easterners focused mu

13、ch greater attention on the eyes andmade significantly more errors than did Westerners. The cultural difference in eyemovements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facialexpressions, Jack said. Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole faceto convey emotion

14、, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals ofhuman emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified thesebasic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, whenit comes to com

15、municating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.()1. The discovery shows that Westerners . pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouthconsider facial expressions universally reliableobserve the eyes and the mouth in different wayshave more di

16、fficulty in recognizing facial expressions()2. What were the people asked to do in the study?A. To make a face at each other.B. To get their faces impressive.C. To classify some face pictures.D. To observe the researchers faces.()3. What does the underlined word they in Paragraph 6 refer to?A. The p

17、articipants in the study. B. The researchers of the study.C. The errors made during the study. D. The data collected from the study.()In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to . do translation more successfullystudy the mouth more frequentlyexamine the eyes more attentivelyread facial

18、expressions more correctly ()5. What can be the best title for the passage?The Eye as the Window to the SoulCultural Differences in Reading EmotionsEffective Methods to Develop Social SkillsHow to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding【语篇解读】本文为科普说明文。主要介绍了最新的科学研究发现：东方人比西方人更难于 读懂他人的面部表情。.答案：A考点：细节理解题解析

19、：根据第三段aWesterners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereasEasterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略)the mouth. 可以得出答案.答案：C考点：细节理解题解析： 根据第五段“by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them in

20、to categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, orneutral.”可以判断选C.答案：A考点：词义猜测解析：根据定 语从句 that they shoW 所修饰的 eye movements在研究中为the participants 所作(从 the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asianpeople”可知)可判断选A.答案：C考点：细节理解题解析： 根据第六段It turned out that Easterners focused m

21、uch greaterattention onthe eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners.” 可判断选 C.答案：B考点：主旨大意题解析：文章首先指出科学研究的最新发现：东方人比西方人更难于读懂人的面部表情。之后 更具体地介绍研究的结构及其研究过程，最后得出结论：文化差异丰富了理解情感的基本社会技巧，即：不同的文化背景使人理解他人情感的方式也不尽相同。由此判断最佳标题应为B。阅读下列短文,从给的四个选项（A、B C和D）中，选出最佳选项。体裁：记叙文 话题：学校生活时间：6分钟Would you want a

22、doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying hard? Apparently many college students would have no problem with that.They believe students are owed a good grade simply because they put a lot of effort into a class.The researchers asked over 800 undergraduates if they agreed or disagree

23、d with some statements.For example ： ”If I have completed most of the reading for a class , I deserve a B in that course. ” A professor should not be annoyed with me ifIreceive an important call during class. ”Just 16% thought it was OK to take that phone call.But 66% agreed that a professor should

24、consider effort and not just the quality of a students work when deciding grades.And 40% thought they should get a B, the second highest mark ,just because they did most of the reading for class.Some experts arent surprised that students often see no difference between effortand results.Social criti

25、cs like to say that in childrens activitiesthesedays ， everyone gets an award just for trying， so no one will feel rejected.Yet competition to get into the best colleges is fiercer than ever.Students may worry that low grades will keep them out of graduate school or a good job.And there may be anoth

26、er explanation: pressure from parents to get a goodreturn on the familys investment.These days, college can cost more than a house.A former teaching assistant recently wrote toThe NewYork Times about hisexperience with grade expectations.He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a

27、top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class.What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others ， but still could not play well? Would the team accept him anyway，just because he tried so hard?The students would say no.But most of them would still ask for a

28、n A.【语篇导读】许多大学生认为只要他们努力学习，就应当得到高的分数，但是专家认为，努力和结果不能等同。What does the passage mainly discuss?Whether students deserve high marks just for trying hard.Whether students are allowed to answer calls in class.How students can get a good grade in the course.Why students put a lot of efforts in their studies.

29、解析 主旨大意题。根据全文内容尤其是第一段中的They belie ve students are owed a good grade simply because they put a lot of effort into a class.“可知，文章主要讨论的是“付出努力是否应该得到高分”。答案 AAccording to the research , most of the students.A thought it was all right to answer the call during classobjected to deciding grades only by the q

30、uality of a students workthought they did most of the work for class and should get a Bagreed that they should be given top grades because of their hard work解析 细节理解题。根据第三段的第二句But 66% agreed that a professor should consider effort and not just the quality of a students work whendeciding grades. 可知，大多

31、数的学生不同意教授只根据功课的质量来决定分数。答案 BFrom the sixth paragraph we can learn that.A it costs much more to build a college than to buy a housethe costs of studying at college are much more than staying at homethe costs of sending a child to college are much more than buying a houseit is difficult for parents to

32、send a child to college解析 细节理解题。根据第六段中的These days, college can cost more than a house.” 可知，如今供孩子上大学的费用比买房的费用还高。答案 CWhat does the former assistant want to tell students with the example of the baseball player?A Effort can lead to good results.B Effort is very necessary.C Effort and results are quite

33、different.D. No good results , effort is unnecessary.? ”的反问来看，他想让学生知道“努力不等于好结果”。解析 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的 Would the team accept him anyway , justbecause he tried so hard答案 C1,短文改错假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A）,并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（划掉。修改：在错的词下划

34、一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1,每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2,只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。Once a man got on a bus for New York. He hid herself in the toilet, because hedid not want to pay. But the passenger saw him. She tapped the person in front ofher on the shoulder and say , a Theres a bum（流浪汉）in the toilet. Tell the busdri

35、ver. The message was pass from person to person. But anywhere along the way ,it told that there was a bomb in the toilet. He immediate stopped bus and telephonedthe police. Whenthe police came, they told the passengers to get off the bus or stay far away. Then they closed the highway , which resulte

36、d from a traffic jam. The police searched for several hour. Of course they found no bomb at all!【参考答案】1.第二句 herself 改为 himself第三句the改为a第四句say改为said第五句 pass 改为 passed第六句 anywhere 改为 somewhere第七句told前加was第八句 immediate 改为 immediately第九句or改为and第十句 from 改为in第H句 hour 改为 hours2.短文改错以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下

37、列情况改正：此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（入），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。Li Hua is a senior three student who devote himself to his 1.lessons every day. Last Saturday, as usual, he went to severalcourses.In the evening, he studies at home until deep into 2

38、. the night.He was too sleepy and tired that he couldn t work 3. effectively. In Sunday morning, Li Hua was about to study 4. when his father came up and advised him to have a break.Soon they had good idea. They bought a kite which they 5. liked it very much and then the family went to the suburbs 6

39、. where Li Hua enjoyed himself fly the kite. The family had a 7. picnic together but felt very relaxed in the open air. On 8. Monday, Li Hua was energetic and actively in class. He 9. said it was only why he had a better weekend.10. 【参考答案】2.1. devote-devotes 2. studies-studied3. too sleepy-so sleepy 4. In Sunday- On Sunday5. had good- had a good 6. liked it-去掉 it7. fly-flying8. but-and9. actively-active 10. why-because3.短文改错短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多