2023年高考英语复习——高三英语阅读理解专项练习（八）.pdf

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1、2 0 2 3年高考英语复习一一高三英语阅读理解专项练习（八）AThe proverb“Work is worship（热爱，崇拜）emphasizes the importance of work in our life.Itstates that doing work must be the real worship of the life of every human being.Human beings are considered the most important entity（独立存在体）in this universe because weare blessed with b

2、rains and intelligence.The brain provides the power to think and understandabout different things in the world.We all have some purpose in our lives and doing work helps inachieving the purpose of our lives.It is very important for all the students to understand the importance of work.This stage is

3、veryimportant in every persons life.The habit that is developed at this age is continued till death.Ifthe students learn to work in this stage they continue the same in future too.For the students,realworship is not the worshiping of god but doing their studies in a sincere way.They need to doregula

4、r studies with proper concentration every day.The students who are attentive and do their work sincerely are rewarded with good marks whilethe lazy students who avoid doing their work suffer later in their lives.This is because there is nosubstitute（代替）for hard work.Hard working students grow up to

5、became good citizens of societyand the nation in future.Work teaches the students to be disciplined in their life.Every day we hear of new inventions and achievements made by the people in the world.It couldnot be possible if the people would not have done their work sincerely.Our history is shining

6、 brightbecause of the great deeds of some great personalities.This is also because of the people whoconsidered their work as worship and performed it honestly.Such people never ran away fromdoing work.They would not be able to make their names shine in history without hard work.Thus,it can be stated

7、 that every success has a big struggle and dedication behind it.People who worshiptheir work can achieve great heights in their life.“Work is worship/is a popular quote to make people understand the importance of work ineveryones life.The one who understands the importance of the work does it proper

8、ly withoutthinking of the fruit.The fruit will surely be sweet if the effort is honest.1.What makes us human beings outstanding in the universe?A.The importance of work.B.The blessing of God.C.The purpose of life.D.The power of brain.2.Why does the author emphasize the importance of work to students

9、?A.Work prepares them for the future.B.Work makes them more intelligent.C.Work offers them more substitutes.D.Work qualifies them for teaching jobs.3.Why does the author talk about inventions in Paragraph 5?A.To make them known to the world.B.To honor those great personalities.C.To use them as suppo

10、rting evidence.D.To call on students to invent things.4.What is the authors real purpose of writing the text?A.To explain the quote“Work is worship.B.To encourage people to be hardworking.C.To teach students to be disciplined it their life.D.To analyse the reasons for those great successes.BA remark

11、able new study on how whales behaved when attacked by humans in the 19th centuryhas implications for the way they react to changes caused by humans in the 21st century.The paper is authored by Whitehead and Rendellt at Dalhousie University and their researchaddresses an age-old question:if whales ar

12、e so smart,why did they hang around to be killed?Theanswer?They didnt.Using newly digitised（数字化的）logbooks detailing the hunting of whalesin the north Pacific,the authors discovered that within just a few years,the strike rate of thewhalers harpoons（捕鲸者的鱼叉）fell by 58%.This simple fact leads to an ast

13、onishing conclusion:that information about what was happening to them was being collectively shared among thewhales,who made vital changes to their behaviour.They learned quickly from their mistakes.“Sperm whales have a traditional way of reacting to attacks from orca（杀人鲸）：notes Whitehead.Before hum

14、ans,orca were their only predators（捕食者），against whom sperm whales formdefensive circles,their powerful tills held outwards to keep predators at bay,“But such techniquesjust made it easier for the whalers to kill them/says Whitehead.Sperm whales are highly socialised animals,able to communicate over

15、great distances.Informationabout the new dangers may have been passed on in the same way they share knowledge aboutfeeding grounds.They also possess the largest brain on the planet.It is not hard to imagine thatthey understood what was happening to them.The hunters themselves realised the whaleseffo

16、rts to escape.They saw that the animals appearedto communicate the threat within their attacked groups.Abandoning their usual defensiveformations,the whales swam upwind to escape the hunters,ships,themselves wind-powered.Now,just as whales are beginning to recover from the industrial destruction by

17、20th-centurywhaling fleets,whose steamships and grenade harpoons no whale could escape from,they facenew threats created by our technology.Z/They7e having to learn not to get hit by ships,cope withthe depredations（劫掠）of long line fishing,the changing source of their food due to climatechange/Whitehe

18、ad says.The same sort of urgent social learning the animals experienced in thewhale wars of two centuries ago is reflected in the way they negotiate todays uncertain world.”5.What is the new study mainly about?A.Whales social lives.B.Whalesemotional intelligence.C.Whalereaction to climate changes.D.

19、Whales behavior under human attack.6.What caused whales to make changes to escape the huntersship?A.The wind in their favor.B.Their powerful physical strength.C.The shared ship attack information.D.Their usual defensive formations.7.What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 5?A.State possible r

20、easons.B.Add background information.C.Summarize the previous paragraphs.D.Introduce a new topic for discussion.8.Whats Whiteheads attitude towards whales future survival?A.Pessimistic.B.Unclear.C.Cautious.D.Optimistic.CThe Undergoing Welfare ReformWhile still in its early stages,welfare reform has a

21、lready been judged a great success in many states-at least in getting people off welfare.It*s estimated that more than 2 million people have left therolls since 1994.In the past four years,welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half.But 70 percent of thepeople who left in the past two years

22、 took jobs that paid less than$6 an hour.The result:TheAthens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent-twice the national average.Foradvocates for the poor,thats an indication that much more needs to be done.More people are getting jobs,but it*s not making their lives any better,say

23、s Kathy Lairn,a policyanalyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that last year;a greater percentage of single,female-headed households were earning money on their own,but that average income for thesehouseholds actually w

24、ent down.But for many,the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well withoutgovernment aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.Welfare was a poison.It was a toxin that was poisoning the family,says Robert Rector;a welfarereform policy analyst.The reform is changi

25、ng the moral climate in low-income communities.Itsbeginning to rebuild the work ethic,which is much more important.Mr.Rector and others argued that once the habit of dependency is cracked,then the country canmake other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.9.Why don*t people enjoy their

26、 lives better when they get jobs?A Because they are used to relying on welfare to make livings.B.Because the cost of living is higher than before.C.Because many families are not satisfied with their income.D.Because their wages are very low.10.From the passage we know that the reconstruction of is t

27、he core of the reform.A.government aids B.work ethicC.welfare funds D.moral awareness11.From the example of the Athens Country,we know great efforts should be made for the poorto.A.improve their living standards B.help them be employedC.get them off welfare.D.increase their wage12.From the passage,i

28、t can be inferred that the authorA.is completely certain about the success of welfare reformB.thinks that welfare reform has done little good for the poorC.considers welfare reform successful on the wholeD.insists welfare reform has increased the governments burdenD（2022.江苏如皋高三上期末）Social distancing

29、is nothing new to honey bees.When a colony isinfected with the deadly Israeli acute paralysis virus（IAPV）,bees are less likely to touch or feedtheir sick nest mates,according to a new study.Not much is known about how bees act when infected with viruses.Adam Dolezal,an insectphysiologist at the Univ

30、ersity of Illinois,who studies IAPV,teamed up with a computer scientist TimGernat,who had developed an automated system to monitor bee behavior.They identified abehavior called trophallaxis,in which honey bees feed their fellow workers by regurgitating（反刍）food from their bodies.They put infected bee

31、s into their colony.After 5 days of recording,the team found that heathybees were avoiding contact with the infected bees.The findings show how bee behavior in a realcolony can prevent an infection.But the virus appears to have an alarming counterattack（反攻）:When sick bees try to enter a newcolony,th

32、ey do a better job of getting past the guards than uninfected bees.That has led thescientists to predict that the virus has developed a way to spread to new colonies.Bee colonies are usually guarded by bees to keep foreigners out.Guards use their special organs inthe head to detect a collection of c

33、hemical signals on the outside of their bees,which is used toidentify them as members of the colony or foreigners.As for why IAPV is so successful at tricking the guards,it might be that it changes the number ofvarious chemical signals,which differed between the sick and healthy groups.This makes th

34、eguards more likely to misjudge and accept the infected bees.The sick bees were also gentler whenchallenged by guards and more likely to offer them food,and those behaviors may also help themspread the disease.IAPV isnt the only pathogen（病原体）bees can bring.If IAPV helps other pathogens spread,thatco

35、uld be a big problem for commercial beekeepers who pack colonies together for efficiency.“Theres very little you can do if you suspect a virus infection/Dolezal says.Instead,they have gotto increase the space between colonies.13.Whats true about the colony with infected bees?A.Sick bees dont feed he

36、althy bees.B.Infected bees were less likely to be fed.C.IAPV made sick bees unable to share food.D.Infected bees practiced distancing willingly.14.What has puzzled scientists according to the fourth paragraph?A.The impacts of IAPV on colonies.B.The connections between colonies.C.The safe social dist

37、ancing between bees.D.lAPVs ability to spread among colonies.15.What is the last but one paragraph mainly about?A.How sick bees infect other bees.B.How the virus confuses guard bees.C.How sick bees get accepted by others.D.How guard bees defend their colonies.16.What can we infer from the text?A.IAPV controls bee behavior within a colony.B.Bees first learned social distancing due to IAPV.C.Distancing of colonies is needed to protect bees.D.Beekeepers should learn to recognize infected bees.答案：A 篇：【答案】.D A C BB 篇：【答案】D C A DC 篇：【答案】D B A CD 篇：【答案】B D BC