高考英語閱讀理解沖刺訓(xùn)練Day44

1、 高考英語閱讀理解沖刺訓(xùn)練Day 44Passage 1The following safety risks may result in serious injury or death to the user of theMINI Cooper S：This product contains small parts that are for adult assembly only. Keep small children away when assembling. Remove all protective materials before assembly. Be sure to remov

2、e all packaging materials and parts from underneath the car body.Battery posts contain lead known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm. Never open the battery.Body parts such as hands, legs, hair and clothing can get caught in moving parts. Never place a body part near a

3、moving part or wear loose clothing while using the vehicle. Always wear shoes when using the vehicle.Using the vehicle near streets,motor vehicles, drop-offs such as steps, water ( swimming pools) or other bodies of water, hills, wet areas, in alleys, at night or in the dark could result in an unexp

4、ected accident. Instead, use the vehicle on the highway. Always use the vehicle in a safe, secure environment.Using the vehicle in unsafe conditions such as snow, rain, loose dirt, mud, or sand may result in unexpected action, for example tip over.Using the vehicle in an unsafe manner. Examples incl

5、ude but are not limite： d to Pulling the vehicle with another vehicle or similar device. Allowing more than two riders. Pushing the user from the back. Traveling at an unsafe speed.Always use common sense and safe practices when using the vehicle.Store the vehicle indoors or cover it to protect it f

6、rom weather. Water will damage the motor, electric system, and battery.When assembling, you should .open the battery on the spotignore the packaging materialsmake sure kids are not presentstart from underneath the carAccording to the text, it is safer to.use batteries containing leaddrive in small l

7、anes at midnightdrive on the highway instead of on hillswear loose clothes while drivingWhere can you probably find the tex？t A. In an official report.B. In a medical journal.C. In a physics textbook.D. In a product handbook.Passage 2Grant Woods American Gothic is a painting thats puzzled generation

8、s whove stopped to wonder at the real meaning behind it. We all know it:a serious-looking couple in front their gothic-arched wooden housein a style called CarpentersGothic, for which the painting is named.It was painted in 1930, when US artists were inspired to paint realist scenes of rural America

9、 during the Depression in a style that became known as Regionalism.The couple are identified either as a farmer and his wife, or as a daughter with her unsmiling and over-protective father. Woods sister, Nan, who posed for the picture, always insisted the two were father and daughter, perhaps findin

10、g the age gap too improper. The relationship has always remained interestingly conflicting.Unlike her elder companions fixed stare, the woman glances off to the side. Her expression is actually difficult to determine. She looks sorrowful, or perhaps uncomfortable, though her straitlaced primness狗謹(jǐn)保守

11、的古板）is weakened by an escaping coil of hair at the back of her neck. As if holding guard against those anticipated intruders（侵入者）probably protecting his daughter-wifes virtue,though she doesnt seem particularly happy about it the man holds a pitchfork in asoldier-like fashion. And that is what lends

12、 the work its uneasy（ 不協(xié)調(diào)的） comedy.Everything about it is an artful set-up.First of all, Nan never actually posed with the man in the picture, nor are they in any way related. Wood had spotted the house during a drive to the town of Eldon in lowa. It immediately gave him an idea. That idea was to fi

13、nd two people who, by their straitlaced characters,would be suitable for such a home, he later explained. The couple were actually painted separately, and neither sitter was painted in front of the house. The farmer, as you might have already guessed, isnt actually a farmer, but a certain Dr Bryon M

14、cKeeby, a wealthy dentist from Cedar Rapids, where Wood lived with his mother and sister. The couples clothing too has been carefully handpicked bythe artist.In addition, both their faces, Nans in particular, have been thinned and lengthened, as has the famous gothic window and roof. And, if you loo

15、k carefully, you might even detect something funereal about the scene, beyond the tombstone features of the couple. Its suggested by the womans primly buttoned black dress, and in the mans smart black overcoat.Some thought the work mercilessly laughed at the lifestyle in the Midwest. Meanwhile, some

16、 critics praised the painting as a cutting small-town satire（刺）.Still others saw the painting as honoring the Midwest and its strong values.Regarding the paintings comic tone, Wood himself gave contradictory accounts. There is a satire in it, he once said, but only as there is satire in ant realisti

17、c statement. Perhaps it is this ambiguity that has made the painting the most symbolic in US history. 1. What is uncertain aboutAmerican Gothic?The identity of the models.The characters relationship.How the painting got its name.Where the background house was.What indicates the womans straitlaced pr

18、imness?Her glancing off to the side.Her carefully buttoned black dress.The determination in her expression.The escaping coil of hair at the back of her neck.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?Ambiguity is an essential part of any good painting.It is beyond doubt that the painting has a com

19、ic tone.The statement that Wood himself gave clarifies nothing.American Gothic is the most controversial in US history.Passage 3Youve probably heard such reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities 人文科學(xué))is decreasing quickly. The news has caused a flood of high- minded essays

20、criticizing the development as a symbol of American decline.The bright side is this: The destruction of the humanities by the humanities is, finally, coming to an end. No more will literature, as part of an academic curriculum, put out the light of literature. No longer will the reading of, say, Kin

21、g Lear or D. H. Lawrences Women in Love result in the annoying stuff of multiple-choice quizzes, exam essays and homework assignments.The discouraging fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few, there were countless others who made the read

22、ing of literary masterpieces seem likewo hours in the dentists chair.The remarkably insignificant fact that, a half-century ago, 14% of the undergraduate population majored in the humanities (most in literature, but also in art, philosophy, history, classics and religion) as opposed to 7% today has

23、given rise to serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the literal arts.Such reflections always come to the same conclusion: We are told that the lack of a formal education, mostly in the literature, leads to numerous harmful personal conditions, such as the inability to thin

24、k critically, to write clearly to be curious about other people and places, to engage with great literature after graduation, to recognize truth, beauty and goodness.These serious anxieties are grand, admirably virtuous and virtuously admirable. They are also a mere fantasy.The college teaching of l

25、iterature is a relatively recent phenomenon. Literature did not even become part of the university curriculum until the end of the 19th century. Before that, what came to be called the humanities consisted of learning Greek and Latin, while the Bible was studied in church as the necessary other half

26、 of a full education. No one ever thought of teaching novels, stories, poems or plays in a formal course of study. They were part of the leisure of everyday life.It was only after World War H that the study of literature as a type of wisdom, relevant to actual contemporary life, put down widespread

27、institutional roots. Soldiers returning home in 1945 longed to make sense of their lives after what they had witnessed and survived. The abundant economy afforded them the opportunity and the time to do so. Majoring in English hit its peak, yet it was this very popularity of literature in the univer

28、sity that spelled its doom, as the academicization of literary art was accelerated.Literature changed my life long before I began to study it in the college. Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my life, yet spoketo my life. But once in the college classroom, th

29、is precious, alternate life inside me got thrown back into that dimension of my existence that bored me. Homer, Chekhov and Yeats were reduced to right and wrong answers, clear-cut themes and clever interpretations. If there is anything to worry about, it should be the disappearance of what used to

30、be an important part of every high-school education: the literature survey course, where books were not academically taught but thoroughly introduced anexperience unaffected by stupid commentary and useless testing.The literary classics are places of quiet, useless stillness in a world that despjHfe

31、s（ 視 ） any activity that is not profitable productive. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.Soon, if all goes well and literature at last disappearsfrom the undergraduate curriculum my fingers are crossed increasing numbers of people will be able to say that reading the li

32、terary masterworks of the past outside the college classroom, simply in the course of living, was, in fact, their college classroom.The author mentions two hours in the dentists chair in Paragraph 3 to indicate that.the average literature class in college is two hours longreading literary works is m

33、ade unbearable by professorsit actually does not take long to read the classics of literaturecollege students dont spend much time on literary masterworksThe sharp drop in the number of majors in the humanities.has given rise to quite a shock in the intellectual worldpromises the remarkable destruct

34、ion of the humanitiesshows more people read literature outside the classroomhas caused the author to reflect on the nature of literary creationWhich of the following opinions may the author hold?The disappearance of literature should be strongly applauded.Literature teaching can improve our critical

35、 thinking ability.Reading literature doesnt require specialized knowledge and skills.Literature should be taught through analyzing different writing styles.According to the author, the problem of literature teaching lies in the fact that.it is a relatively recent phenomenon in educationliterature te

36、aching is not profitable and productivepeople are interested in something more practicalit is turned into a soulless competition for gradesWhat is the authors purpose in writing the passage?To urge college students to read more literary classics.To introduce the present situation of literature teach

37、ing.To voice his opinion on the shrinkage of literature teaching.To show his serious concern for college literature teaching.The overall tone of the passage is.A. skepticalB. sympatheticC. aggressiveD. straightforwardC. aggressivePassage 4Nine years ago, a few days before Christmas, I was a director

38、 at a company in SanFrancisco, and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress. That meetingturned out to be my exit interview. I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn t counexpected. I signed a pile of papers and left the company.So, 40 plus years of employment was over. I had a good r

39、eputation and background.Retirement was not a choice for me. I wanted to do something. And then an idea cameinto my mind, born from my concern for our environment. I wanted to build my own business, designing and producing biodegradable何生物 P$ 解的 ）packaging from waste. This is called clean technology

40、, and it was really meaningful to me. It could help reduce billions of pounds of single-use plastic packaging wasted each year.Five years later, I m delighted and proud to share with you that our income has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we ve won

41、more than 20 awards for the work that we ve done.And I am doing the most rewarding and meaningful work of my life right now. But what I really long for is to find other first-time entrepreneurs（企業(yè)家）who are my age. I want to connect with them.So I want to do something about that in a few years. I wan

42、t us to start talking more about people who don tbecome entrepreneurs until they are seniors. And then connecting all of them across industries, regions and countries building a communWhat happened to the author nine years ago?A. He retired from his former company. B. He failed an interview.C. He ha

43、d a good family background. D. He changed his job to a better one.Why was the new business meaningful to the author?It was beneficial to the environment.It developed a clean technology.It provided jobs for lots of people.It brought in quite a lot of money.What is the author s attitude to the develop

44、ment of his own company?A. Cautious. B. Disappointed. C. Ambiguous. D. Positive.What does the author plan to do in the future?To do something else about environment.To help people who want to become successful.To meet more people from different backgrounds.To build a community for senior entrepreneu

45、rs.Passage 5I went up to Peet s Coffee the other morning and there was a young man, Mike, probably my age. With him he had all his physical belongings on a small roll cart. I first thought, how nice to have so few possessions. That was followed with the thought of how ironic （諷刺的）it is that we live

46、in one of the financially wealthiest areas of theU.S., if not the world, yet we can t, or don t, take care of the basic needs of humanbeings. Yes, we are financially wealthy, but we lack in wealth of compassion （同情）， kindness, and understanding. I tear up as I ponder the inequality and injustice tha

47、t exists.Anyway, I invited Mike in for a bite to eat and he eagerly accepted. He talked aboutlooking up a friend for a place to stay that night. On Christmas Eve as many eagerly and greedily stuff their bellies with food in nice, warm homes and then open presents, Mike just wanted a place to spend t

48、he evening.Then I was really blown away. As he waited for his sandwich, Mike began cleaningup the condiment （佐料 ） area. He took some paper and wiped up the spills of others and rearranged the milks and other condiments, making everything neat and orderly.Here is a person with very little and he s se

49、rving others in a way that s just nhim.I spoke with Mike about this afterward, thanking him. He said he always did thatsort of thing straightening up. To him, it was just common politeness. I just asked himfor a hug and we parted to go our separate ways. There is a lot for us.me. to learn in the mos

50、t unlikely place.Which of the following can best replace the underlined word“ ponder ” in Parag1?A. ignoreB.reduceC. fightD.considerWhat did Mike hope to do on Christmas Eve?A. Pay a visitto hisparents.B.Find a place to sleep.C. Fill his stomach withfood.D.Have dinner withthe author.What impressed t

51、he author most?A. Mike s poor situation.B. Mike s friendship.D. Mike s honesty.C. Mike D. Mike s honesty.What did Mike think of his own behavior?A. Normal.B.Proud.Unique.Proud.Unique.參考答案Passage 1C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段Keep small children away when assembling. 可知 TOC o 1-5 h z 當(dāng)組裝時要讓小孩子遠(yuǎn)離，故選C。A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第五段Inste

52、ad， use the vehicle on the highway. Alwaysuse the vehicle in a sa，fesecure environment. 可知在公路上開車更安全，故選A。D 推理判斷題題。由第一段The following safety risks may result in seriousinjury or death to the user of the MINI Cooper S, 可知本文出自產(chǎn)品介紹手冊，故選D。Passage 2B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。B. 由第三段首末句可知畫中的兩個人可能是夫婦，或者父親和女兒，最后說一直是沖突的，B 項符合。B 細(xì)

53、節(jié)理解題。B. 由第六段的Its suggested by the womans primlybuttoned black dress可知這個女士拘謹(jǐn)?shù)目凵峡圩拥暮谌棺诱f明了前半句的莊嚴(yán)的特點(diǎn)，故B 正確；C 推理判斷題。末段首句說畫家對畫作戲劇性的風(fēng)格給出了自相矛盾的解釋： 此畫有諷刺，但現(xiàn)實(shí)中的陳述都有諷刺。C. 說的是畫家的話不能解釋清，符合段意；故答案是CPassage 3B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。劃線處的前半句come alive for the lucky few和后面是對比， 對于少數(shù)幸運(yùn)兒文學(xué)課很生動，但是對大多數(shù)人如同在牙科診所坐兩個小時（在西方去看牙醫(yī)是很痛苦的事情）。這是一種比喻的說

54、法.只有 B 項符合A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。A. 根據(jù)首段的The news has caused a flood of high-minded essayscriticizing the development as a symbol of American decline 和 第 四 段 的 serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal arts”可知這個現(xiàn)狀引起來了高端文章的批評，以及大家的嚴(yán)肅的反省，這 和 A 項所說一致，故答案是A 選項C 主旨大意題。C. 由第 9 段的 books

55、 were not academically taught butthoroughly introduced 和 第 10 段 的 Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read可知文學(xué)課不需要專門的教授，只需要讀，這和C項（文 學(xué)閱讀不需要專門的技能）是符合的；A. 說 文 學(xué) 課 消 失 應(yīng) 該 竭 力 支 持 ， 這 和 第 9 段 的 it should be the disappearanceof what used to be an important part of every high-school education相違背，而且也和末段的if all goes well and literature at last disappearsfrom the undergraduate curriculum myfingers are crossed 相 違 背， 因?yàn)樽髡哒f的有兩個條件：all goes well, disappearsfrom the underg