2022高考英语二轮阅读理解三月特训（20）.doc

2014届高考英语二轮复习 三月精品练习阅读理解1EShould struggling students be banned from clubs and sports?Getting a bad grade in Rockingham, Vt. could get you kicked off the team! School officials there are considering new guidelines that would prevent students with bad grades from participating in extracurricular activities, such as sports and clubs. The proposal would affect students in eighth grade and below.School board member Mike says the policy would motivate students to work harder in school. He drafted a letter to coaches, parents, and after-school program leaders to encourage them to allow only kids who are meeting certain academic standards into their program.Not everyone gives such policy an A+. Some people argue that no student should be excluded from after-school activities. They say taking part in extracurricular activities can help kids do better in class by improving their participation and concentration skills. They say a 2009 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that time spent in extracurricular physical activities does not take away from students ability to do well in the classroom . In fact, it may even help boost girls academic performance.Students themselves have different opinions.SCHOOL COMES FIRSTWhy not require good grades to participate in those activities?Kids need to understand that grades are important. School comes first, period. Getting good grades help you with life, help you go to college, get a job, and so on. Banning underachieving students from extracurricular activities not only gives them motivation to get their grades up, but allows more time to study or get help from a tutor.DONT BAN STUDENTSEvery student should be able to participate in extracurricular activities, no matter what his or her grades are. Extracurricular activities can help kids concentrate more on doing homework. They can help kids develop mentally and physically.A school policy that tells kids with bad grades that they cant be in sports or the school play is like judging a book by its cover. Every student is unique. A kid may have a learning disability, an attention issue, or a difficult time studying in his or her home environment. His or her teachers should find why the student is struggling. Together they should find out a solution that will keep the student in the activity.72. Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “excluded”?A. protected   B. approved   C. blamed   D. banned73. Whats the authors attitude to the policy that prevents students with bad grades from participating in extracurricular activities?A. supportive   B. critical     C . neutral   D. indifferent74. In the second paragraph “a 2009 study”is used by the critics to_ .A. To indicate the author is against the policy.B. To emphasize there is no need to ban the students with bad grades to take part in extracurricular activities.C. To suggest girls can benefit from extracurricular activities.D. To prove grades have nothing to do with extracurricular activities.75. Some dont think the policy is reasonable for the following reasons EXCEPT_.A. Every kid is unique.B. Extracurricular activities will benefit students mentally and physically.C. Grades will help students get a job.D. One can learn more that cant be learned in class.About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college in New York, I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while I was working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in wheelchair.As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots.As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seenAll of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth. That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.2What was the writer a decade ago?A. A worker working in a university.B. A teacher teaching in a college.C. A clerk working in a museum.D. A university student who had not yet taken a degree.3What does the underlined world “handicap” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Life difficulty. B. Troublesome problem.C. Failure in work. D. Physical disability. 4How did the writer probably feel before meeting the disabled girl?A. She felt full of hope.B. She was filled with confidence.C. She felt unhappy because of poverty.D. She felt life was beautiful.5Which of the following title suits this passage best?A. A Disabled Girl.B. A Disabled Girls Smile.C. Full of Hope.D. Full of Confidence.6根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。1_Examinations are almost always stressful Students rarely know exactly what to expect on the test, and those who suffer from exam fear or exam anxiety can see their grades suffer as a result of this stress. For some students，exam fear causes them to “ seize up and forget what they have studied.2_Good study habits and learning how to relax can help students overcome exam fear.3_According to Penn State University and Kids Health，proper study habits and preparation are the keys to cutting out exam fear. Avoid last-minute “cramming” for exams and actively listen while in class.Focus on positive thoughts, relax the night before your test and reward yourself after the test is over. Often, people who suffer from exam anxiety cannot shut out negative thoughts or emotions about the test, and this can contribute to feeling more anxiety than normal 4_Keep your mind and body healthy by getting enough sleep, eating well and exercising. Healthier people who are well-rested often do better on exams.5_ Exam fear is normal When that anxiety severely interferes (干扰)with your ability to take the test, however, outside help might be needed. Ask your teachers and family for support and help.A.How To Succeed hi An ExamB.How To Overcome Exam FearC.Develop good study habits.D.Understand that you are not alone and ask for help if necessary.E.Remind yourself that its just one test and that you can get through itF.Battling this type of performance anxiety can be hard, but it is not impossible.G.Remind yourself to read the instructions carefully.It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping. Again she cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls! Lets take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute.”On the way we met Mrs. Patric, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls. There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. “Perhaps its like this in the kingdom of heaven,” I thought confusedly.It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the housed. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didnt mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are.”The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to “go park, see duck.” “I cant go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when Im through Ill be too tired to walk that far.”My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. “Its a wonderful day,” she offered, “really warm, yet theres a fine breeze. Do you remember that day we flew kites?”I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. “Come on,” I told my little girl. “Youre right, its too good a day to miss.”Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath(余波) of a great war. All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of - what dark and horrible things?“Say!” A smile sipped out from his lips. “Do you remember - no, of course you wouldnt. It probably didnt make the impression on you as it did on me.”I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp (战俘营), when things werent too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”7Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought_.A. she was too old to fly kites B. her husband would make fun of herC. she should have been doing her housework D. her girls werent supposed to the boys games8 By “we were all beside ourselves writer means that they all _.A. felt confused B. went wild with joy C. looked on D. forgot their fights9 What did the author think after the kite-flying?A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls. B. They should have finished their work before playing.C. Her parents should spend more time with them. D. All the others must have forgotten that day.10Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother. B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.C. She had finished her work in the kitchen. D. She thought it was a great day to play outside.11 The youngest Patrick boy is mentioned to show that _.A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his lifeC. childhood friendship means so much to the writer D. people like him really changed a lot after the warHow could we have thought so wrongly of as banana peel that it always hits the garbage? Utility of anything seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. The banana peel hasn't been an exception. What most of us looked at as waste was converted to a thing of utility by Prithwis Mukhopadlyay, a 14-year-old prodigy. This Bengali boy, nourished in the US, Lake Junior High in Woodbury, Minnesota, has come up with an idea to convert banana peels to biogas.(生物气).It's well known that almost any organic waste can be converted to biogas. But why biogas from banana peel has hit the news is because it produced five times as much biogas as manure(粪), a commonly used source for producing biogas, in the experiments Prithwis conducted. He filled two airtight containers, one with manure and the other with banana peels. Then he mixed each content with water and connected them to empty jars via pipes to collect the gas produced. He placed a heater next to each jar and measured the gas collected for 60 days. His studies proved that banana peels produced five times more biogas than manure. This project titled 'Comparison analysis: Eco-friendly source of energy for the future,' earned him a spot in Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge. This weekend, the young whiz is to showcase his research work along with 40 other finalists at Washington. "Initially, I thought of doing a project that would reduce global warming. Things changed after I visited a biogas plant in a village in India during my summer vacations. It was an amazing experience," Prithwis says.12Why could Prithwis's finding receive the attention of the media?A. Because he is a prodigy.B. Because he is of Bengali descent.C. Because he used an extremely rare organic waste to produce biogas.D.Because his research proved that banana peels can produce more biogas.13Where did Prithwis derive his inspiration from?A.Lake Junior High. B Discovery Channel.C. India. D.His laboratory at home.14This article probably appeared in a _ magazine.A. gourmet B. science C. computer D. fashion“Mum, what does it mean when someone tells you that they have a skeleton (骨骼) in the closet (衣橱)？”Jessica asked. “A skeleton in the closet?” her mother paused thoughtfully. “Well, its something that you would rather not have anyone else know about. For example, if in the past, someone in Dads family had been arrested for stealing a horse, it would be a skeleton in his familys closet. He really wouldnt want any neighbor to know about it.”“Why pick on my family?” Jessicas father said with anger. “Your family history isnt so good, you know. Wasnt your great-great grandfather a prisoner who was transported to Australia for his crimes?” “Yes, but people these days say that you are not a real Australian unless your ancestors arrived as prisoners.” “Gosh, sorry I asked. I think I understand now,” Jessica cut in before things grew worse.After dinner, the house was very quiet. Jessicas parents were still quite angry with each other. Her mother was ironing clothes and every now and then she gl