高考英语二轮专题复习提升精选：阅读理解17

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1.Tree Huse
The Tree Huse prgram is fr students with an English r bilingual preschl backgrund. Freign teachers further develp students’ natural English speaking skills frm 1st thrugh 6th grades in a ttal immersin envirnment. The prgram is theme-based with different units r themes per semester. Each unit includes a theme-related strybk, sng, dialgue, writing and phnic exercises, grammar cmpnent, pem, and integrated activities.
68. A child wh hasn’t learned English befre can chse _____ t develp cnfidence and fluency in English cmmunicatin.
A. Tree Huse B. Theme-based and Hnrs Curses
C. Step Ahead D. Jump Int English, Kids Wrld, Kids Club
69. One f the advantages f Jump Int English is _____.
A. saving mney cmpared t English preschl
B. helping learners t get prepared fr English tests
C. helping yung children t learn English easily
D. that it cvers different language skills
70. The purpse f the passage is _____.
A. t intrduce an English language schl fr children
B. t persuade mre children t learn English in a fun way
C. t emphasize the imprtance f after-class activities
D. t intrduce English classes f varying degrees fr kids
2.In the United States and several ther cuntries, 2.5 millin children play baseball in an rganizatin called Little League. They play n teams in their hmetwns. Their parents and ther adults in the cmmunity cach r instruct them and serve as umpires t make sure that everyne fllws the rules. Lcal businesses give mney fr the ball fields and the unifrms. Lcal teams cmpete against each ther and the winners get t play teams that are mre distant. Eventually, the tp teams g t the Little League Wrld Series.
One hundred years after Abner Dubleday invented baseball in Cperstwn, New Yrk, in 1839, Little League gt started in Pennsylvania. Three men started the game fr neighbrhd bys with a smaller playing field and fewer innings than adult baseball. Little League became ppular after Wrld War II when the game spread acrss the United States. By 1955 it was played thrughut Nrth America and within five years it had spread t Eurpe. Children’s baseball really caught n in Japan and Taiwan f China and teams frm thse areas wn the Wrld Series seven ut f eight years. After this, the rganizatin tried banning freign teams frm the Wrld Series, but the ban came t an end after ne year.
At first, Little League was nly fr bys aged nine t twelve. Hwever, in 1974, the parents f girl baseball players brught a law suit. The curts ruled that Little League had t include bth bys and girls. Later Little League added n sftball and ther games fr teenagers up t age eighteen. Occasinally a Little Leaguer becmes a prfessinal player. Fr example, Gary Carter went frm Little League t play nineteen seasns in the Majr Leagues, ten f them as an All-Star player. But, by and large, yungsters play baseball fr fun and because their parents are prud f them.
64. The mthers and fathers f Little League players ______.
A. help run the games B. travel in caches
C. give the teams mney D. play in the Wrld Series
65. In what year was Little League established?
A. 1839 B. 1939 C. 1955 D. 1960
66. Why d mst players take part in Little League?
A. T play in the Majr League.
B. T have fun and please their parents.
C. They expect a prfit frm All-Star games
D. They want t learn hw t serve as umpires.
67. What is true abut players tday?
A. Little League is nly fr neighburhd bys.
B. Girl players have t buy their suits.
C. Girls and bys can participate t age eighteen.
D. Children can nly play until age twelve.
3.Dan Bebber is a senir research fellw at the University f Exeter in Britain. He says research has shwn that wild plants and animals are mving tward Earth's Nrth and Suth ples as the planet warms.
Mr Bebber wanted t knw if the same thing was happening with rganisms that attack agricultural crps. He examined reprts f first sightings f new insects and diseases arund the wrld. The recrds came frm CABI - the Centre fr Agricultural Biscience Internatinal. He says the grup began cllecting infrmatin frm develping and industrialized cuntries years ag.
Dan Bebber and his research team studied 612 different rganisms - frm viruses and bacteria t insects like beetles and butterflies. They fund that since 1960, crp pests and diseases have been mving tward the ples at an average rate f abut 3 kilmeters each year. Mr Bebber says this puts the mst prductive farmland in the wrld in danger.
"As new species f pests and diseases evlve and ptentially the envirnment fr them becmes mre amenable at higher latitudes, the pressure n the breadbaskets f the wrld is ging t increase."
Farmers face ther threats. Invasive species passed thrugh trade are als causing prblems. Gene Kritsky is an Entmlgist at the Cllege f Munt St. Jseph in Ohi. He specialises in the study f insects. He says climate change may imprve cnditins fr sme invasive species.
“It means that species in ther parts f the wrld that might d well in warmer temperatures can nw d well in the breadbasket f America.”
Anther Entmlgist Christian Krupke f Purdue University says the effects f these changes will depend very much n the crp, the insect and the disease. But he says the research is a warning sign that peple shuld care abut climate change and d smething abut it.
60. The purpse f Dan Bebber’s research was t find ______.
A. if farmland culd be mved t clder places thanks t glbal warming
B. if diseases and insects harmful t crps were ging twards clder areas
C. if rganisms were mving t the nrth and suth ples
D. if the number f crp pests was increasing
61. Accrding t Dan Bebber, if crp pests keep mving twards the ples, ______.
A. it will be hard fr farmers t kill them
B. the mst prductive farmland will prduce mre crps
C. the earth will nt prduce enugh fd t supprt the wrld
D. the cnditins fr sme crps may be imprved
62. Which f the fllwing is nt a threat that farmers have t face?
A. Climate change helps crp pests t adapt t new envirnment.
B. Freign species are brught in by trade.
C. Invasive species ding well in warmer places might d well in America.
D. The impacts f the climate and species changes n crps are nt easy t determine.
63. The underlined wrd “amenable” in the furth paragraph mst prbably means ______.
agreeable B. terrible C. unfriendly D. changeable
4.D
5.A Day’s Wait
Ernest Hemingway's stry is abut an incident that happens between a father and his sn. The small by's misunderstanding f the difference in measuring temperature n a Fahrenheit and a Celsius Scale causes him t believe that he is dying f a high fever. Hwever, the father desn't realize it until very late that day……
Ernest Hemingway
He came int the rm t shut the windws while we were still in bed and I saw he lked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slwly as thugh it ached t mve.
“What's the matter, Schatz?”
“I've gt a headache.”
“Yu better g back t bed.”
“N. I'm all right. ”
“Yu g t bed. I'll see yu when I'm dressed. ”
But when I came dwnstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, lking a very sick and miserable by f nine years. When I put my hand n his frehead I knew he had a fever.
“Yu g up t bed,” I said, “Yu’re sick.”
“I'm all right,” he said.
When the dctr came be tk the by's temperature.
“What's is it?” I asked him.
“One hundred and tw.”
Dwnstairs, the dctr left three different medicines in different clred capsules with instructins fr giving them. One was t bring dwn the fever, anther purgative(泻药), and the third t vercme an acid cnditin. The germs f influenza can nly exist in an acid cnditin, he explained. He seemed t knw all abut influenza and said there was nthing t wrry abut if the fever did nt g abve ne hundred and fur degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病;传染性的) f flu and there was n danger if yu avided pneumnia（肺炎）.
Back in the rm I wrte the by’s temperature dwn and made a nte f the time t give the varius capsules.
“D yu want me t read t yu?”
“All right. If yu want t,” said the by. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very indifferent frm what was ging n.
I read alud frm Hward Pyle's Bk f pirates; but I culd see he was nt fllwing what I was reading.
“Hw d yu feel, Schatz?” I asked him.
“Just the same, s far,”he said.
I sat at the ft f the bed and read t myself while I waited fr it t be time t give anther capsule. It wuld have been natural fr him t g t sleep, but when I lked up he was lking at the ft f the bed, lking very strangely.
“Why dn't yu try t sleep? I'll make yu up fr the medicine. ”
“I'd rather stay awake.”
After a while he said t me, "Yu dn't have t stay in here with me, Papa, if it bthers yu.”
“It desn't bther me."
“N, I mean yu dn't have t stay if it's ging t bther yu.”
I thught perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven 'clck I went ut with my gun and the yung hunting dg….I killed tw quail(鹌鹑), and missed five, and started back, pleased t have fund a cvey f quail clse t the huse and happy there were s many left t find n anther day.
At the huse they said the by had refused t let anyne cme int the rm.
“Yu can't cme in,” he said. “Yu mustn't get what I have.”
I went up t him and fund him in exactly the psitin I had left him, white-faced, but with the tps f his cheeks flushed(发红) by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the ft f the bed.
I tk his temperature.
“What is it?”
“Smething like a hundred,” I said. It was ne hundred and tw and fur tenths.
“It was a hundred and tw,” he said.
“Wh said s?”
“The dctr.”
“Yur temperature is all right,” I said. “It's nthing t wrry abut.”
“I dn't wrry,” he said, “but I can't keep frm thinking.”
“Dn't think,” I said. "Just take it easy."
“I'm taking it easy," he said and lked straight ahead, He was evidently hlding tight nt himself abut smething.
“Take this with water.”
“D yu think it will d any gd?”
“Of curse it will.”
I sat dwn and pened the Pirate bk and cmmenced t read, but I culd see he was nt fllwing, s I stpped.
“Abut what time d yu think I'm ging t die?” he asked.
“What?”
“Abut hw lng will it be befre I die?”
“Yu aren't ging die. What's the matter with yu? ”
“Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and tw.”
“Peple dn't die with a fever f ne hundred and tw. That's a silly way t talk. ”
“I knw they d. At schl in France the bys tld me yu can't live with frty-fur degrees. I've gt a hundred and tw. ”
He had been waiting t die all day, ever since nine 'clck in the mrning.
“Yu pr Schatz,” I said. “It's like miles and kilmeters. Yu aren't ging t die. That's different thermmeter. On that thermmeter thirty-seven is nrmal. On this kind it's ninety-eight. ”
“Are yu sure?”
“Abslutely,” I said, “It's like miles and kilmeters. Yu knw, like hw many kilmeters we make when we d seventy miles in the car? ”
“Oh,” he said.
But his gaze at the ft f the bed relaxed slwly. The hld ver himself relaxed t, finally, and the next day it was very slack (松驰的) and he cried very easily at little things that were f n imprtance.
The authr writes abut the dctr’s visit in rder t _____.
A. shw the dctr’s knwledge abut influenza and its treatment
B. shw the by’s illness was quite serius
C. create a situatin f misunderstanding arund which t build a stry
D. shw the father was very much cncerned abut the by’s illness
Accrding t the by, the prnun “it” in the underlined sentence “Papa, if it bthers yu” refers t ________.
A. the by’s high temperature B. the father giving the medicine t the by
C. the father staying with the by D. the by’s death
It can be inferred frm the stry that it is _____ by the time the father gets hme frm hunting.
A. early in the afternn B. clse t evening
C. at nn D. late in the mrning
Frm the stry we knw that the by kept tight cntrl ver himself because _____.
A. he did nt want t be a bther t thers
B. he wanted t recver quickly s that he culd g hunting with his father
C. he was afraid that he wuld die if he lst cntrl ver himself
D. he thught he was ging t die and he must shw curage in the face f death
That the by cried very easily at little things f n imprtance the next day suggests that _____.
A. he culdn’t cntrl his emtins when he finally relaxed
B. his father wuld g ut hunting withut him if he didn’t cry
C. smething went wrng with his brain after the fever
D. he ften cmplained abut unimprtant things as a spiled by
The theme f the stry is _____.
A. death is smething beynd a child’s cmprehensin
B. t be calm and cntrlled in the face f death is a mark f curage
C. misunderstanding can ccur even between father and sn
D. misunderstanding can smetimes lead t an unexpected effect
6. The lead, r pening paragraph, is the mst imprtant part f a news stry. With s many surces f infrmatin like newspapers, magazines, TV, radi and the Internet, readers simply are nt willing t read beynd the first paragraph (and even sentence) f a stry unless it catches their interest. A gd lead des just that. It gives readers the mst imprtant infrmatin in a clear and interesting manner. It als sets up the vice and directin f an article.
Here is sme advice n hw t write a gd lead.
First, use five Ws and an H. Befre writing a lead, decide which aspects f the stry—wh, what, when, where, why, hw---is mst imprtant. Yu shuld include these aspects in yur lead. Wait t explain less imprtant aspects until the secnd r third sentence. Secndly, readers want t knw why the stry matters t them and they wn’t wait lng fr the answer. Leads are ften ne sentence, smetimes tw. Generally, they are 25 t 30 wrds and shuld seldm be mre than 40. Als, strng verbs will make yur lead lively and interesting. Finally, a lead is a prmise t yur readers. Yu must be able t tell what yu prmise in yur lead.
Hwever, there are many things yu shuld avid.
Many beginning writers make the mistake f using flwery language. That is, veruse wrds like “great, wnderfully” in their leads. Instead we shuld use strng verbs and nuns.
Avid unnecessary wrds r phrases, such as 2 pm, Wednesday afternn, r very unique. Yu can’t affrd t waste space in a news stry, especially in the lead.
Here we intrduce different types f leads and ffer examples f gd leads. Accrding t what yu reprt, different kinds f leads may be chsen.
Frmulaic（公式化的）leads. Because a lt f news writing is dne n deadline, it is pssible t write tiring leads. Resist it. Readers want infrmatin, but they als want t be entertained.
Summary leads. This is perhaps the mst traditinal lead in news writing. It is ften used fr breaking news. A stry abut a city cuncil vte might use this “just the facts” apprach. Straight news leads usually prvide answers t the mst imprtant three r fur f the five Ws and an H. Histrically this type f lead has been used t say wh, what, when and where. Sme newspapers pst breaking news nline as it happens. And they will fill the print editin with mre detailed stries abut why and hw. Leads shuld reflect this.
Anecdtal(轶事的) leads. Smetimes, beginning a stry with a quick anecdte can draw in readers. The anecdte must be interesting. If yu use this way, the imprtance f the anecdte shuld be explained within the first few sentences fllwing the lead.
Other types f leads. A large number f ther ways exist, and writers shuld nt feel bxed in by frmulas. Anyway beginning writers can use certain kinds f leads. These include leads that begin with a questin and thse that make a direct appeal. While such leads might be apprpriate in sme circumstances, use them carefully.
Accrding t the passage, a gd lead shuld _________.
A. use verbs and nuns nlyB. never include less imprtant aspects
C. answer five Ws all tgetherD. be as shrt as pssible
Flwery language means _________.
A. t many nuns and verbs are usedB. t many describing wrds are used
C. having unnecessary infrmatinD. the leads are written in an uninteresting way
The underlined part “feel bxed in” in the last paragraph prbably means _________.
A. be prtectedB. be attractedC. be limitedD. be rewarded
What will be discussed in the fllwing paragraphs f the passage?
A. Examples f gd leadsB. Examples hw t write gd leads.
C. Reasns why ther types f leads are usedD. Types f gd leads
The authr writes this text mainly t ________.
A. describe hw t write gd leadsB. intrduce different types f leads
C. tell hw t write a gd reprtD. tell the writer’s wn experience f writing leads
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1.68-70CAD
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2.64-67 ABBC
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3.60-63BCDA
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4.56-59DBAD
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