山西省2024高考英語(yǔ)二輪復(fù)習(xí)專題訓(xùn)練：閱讀理解（46）

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　　Children always appreciate small gifts of money. Father, of course, provides a regular supply of pocket-money, but uncles and aunts are always a source of extra income. With some children, small sums go a long way. If sixpences are not exchanged for sweets, they rattle for months inside money-boxes. Only very thrifty (節(jié)儉的) children manage to fill up a money-box. For most of them, sixpence is a small price to pay for a satisfying bar of chocolate.

　　My nephew, George, has a money-box but it is always empty. Very few of the sixpences I had given him found their way there. I gave him sixpence yesterday and advised him to save it. Instead, he bought himself sixpence worth of trouble. On his way to the sweet shop, he dropped his sixpence and it rolled along the pavement and then disappeared down a drain (下水道). George took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and pushed his right arm through the drain cover. However, he could not find his sixpence anywhere, and what was more, he could not get his arm out. A crowd of people gathered round him and a lady rubbed his arm with soap and butter, but George was firmly stuck. The fire-brigade was called and two firemen freed George using a special type of grease. George was not too upset by his sixpence because the lady who owns the sweet shop heard about his trouble and rewarded him with a large box of chocolate.

　　1. According to the passage, children often get pocket-money from their ______.

　　A. fathers

　　B. mothers

　　C. uncles

　　D. aunts

　　2. The underlined word “go” in the first paragraph probably means ______.

　　A. move

　　B. last

　　C. use

　　D. work

　　3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　A. Fathers seldom give pocket-money to their children.

　　B. Most children are able to fill up their money-boxes.

　　C. George bought a large box of chocolate using the money given by the writer.

　　D. George didn’t feel sorry for his bad experience.

　　4. The best title of this passage should be _____.

　　A. Save your money

　　B. George’s bad experience

　　C. Sixpence worth of trouble

　　D. Pocket-money

　　High school dropouts earn an average of $ 9,000 less per year than graduates. Now a new study denies a common belief why they quit. It’s much more basic than failing in exams.

　　Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can’t make it. They are lazy, and perhaps not too bright. So researchers were surprised when they asked more than 450 kids who quit school about why they left.

　　“The vast majority actually had passing grades and they were confident that they could have graduated from high school.” John Bridgeland, the executive researcher said. About 1 million teens leave school each year. Only about half of African-American and Hispanic（美籍西班牙的）students will receive a diploma, and actually all dropouts come to regret their decision. So, if failing grades don’t explain why these kids quit, what does? Again, John Bridgeland: “The most dependable finding was that they were bored.” “They found classes uninteresting; they weren’t inspired or motivated. They didn’t see any direct connection between what they were learning in the classroom to their own lives, or to their career aspirations.”

　　The study found that most teens who do drop out wait until they turn sixteen, which happens to be the age at which most states allow students to quit. In the US, only one state, New Mexico, has a law requiring teenagers to stay in high school until they graduate. Only four states: California, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, plus the District of Columbia, require school attendance until age 18, no exceptions. Another researcher says raising the compulsory attendance age may be one way to keep more kids in school.

　　“As these dropouts look back, they realize they’ve made a mistake. And anything of that sort gives these people an extra push to stick it out and it through to the end, which is probably helpful.”

　　New Hampshire may be the next state to raise its school attendance age to 18. But critics say that forcing the students unwilling to continue their studies to stay in school misses the point — the need for reform. It’s been called for to reinvent high school education to make it more challenging and relevant, and to ensure that kids who do stick it out receive a diploma that actually means something.

　　5. Most high school students drop out of school because ______.

　　A. they have failing grades

　　B. they take no interest in classes

　　C. they are not allowed to attend school

　　D. they are lazy and not intelligent

　　6. According to the passage, which state has a law requiring school attendance until they graduate?

　　A. New Hampshire

　　B. Utah

　　C. New Mexico

　　D. The District of Columbia

　　7. In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to _____.

　　A. analyze the reason why students quit school

　　B. suggest raising the compulsory attendance age

　　C. raise awareness of reforming high school education

　　D. wish to make laws to guarantee no education

　　8. From the passage, we can infer the following EXCEPT that ______.

　　A. the grades of most dropouts at school were acceptable

　　B. about 500, 000 high school dropouts are blacks and Spanish

　　C. classes don’t appeal to dropouts

　　D. generally dropouts cannot get good jobs

　　Social programme: 22nd -26th August 2009

　　Monday Evening — Study Centre or Sportspark

　　Study center. The school will be open from 7:45 p.m. to 9:35 p.m.

　　Sportspark. Aerobics, Swimming or Fitness Training (with a Fitness Card).

　　Tuesday Evening — Cinema

　　Cinema. To get your free ticket, you must write down which film you would like to watch. See the leaflet on the board for this evening’s UCI Cinema programme. For more information about the films, visit the UCI website www. uci. co. uk or see the film section in this week’s Time Out magazine.

　　Wednesday Evening — Study Centre or Tennis Coaching

　　Study center. The school will be open from 7:35 p.m. to 9:35 p.m.

　　Tennis Coaching. With former Junior Wimbledon tennis player Stuart Silvester.

　　Thursday Evening — Chinese Party

　　Chinese Party. Come along and enjoy the hospitality of the Chinese students! You can try delicious Chinese food and learn about Chinese traditions. Please note that you should eat your evening meal at your homestay, as the food is a taster and not a full meal. Non alcoholic and alcoholic drinks will be served.

　　Friday afternoon — Historical Walking Tour or Sportsparks

　　Historical Walking Tour. This afternoon you will have the opportunity to visit parts of Norwich you may have otherwise missed, with a professional guide. In medieval times Norwich was the second most important city in England and this afternoon you can learn some of the interesting history of our fine city.

　　Sportspark. Badminton, Basketball, Fitness Training (with a Fitness Card), Football, Squash, Swimming or Volleyball.

　　Please sign early if you wish to play any of the sports listed above. 9. You can do all the following things during the weekday except ______.

　　A. going to the cinema

　　B. going to the Chinese party

　　C. taking a historical walking tour

　　D. taking a mountain climbing tour 10.The passage may probably be found ______.

　　A. in a school’s website

　　B. in a school’s text book

　　C. in a latest newspaper

　　D. in a modern magazine 11. From the passage we know that ______.

　　A. all the students in the school are Chinese

　　B. some of the students in the school are Chinese

　　C. Norwich is the second largest city in Britain

　　D. the school is closed during the daytime 12. From the passage we can infer that ______.

　　A. students in the school can have access to computers

　　B. students in the school only have morning classes

　　C. the school often serves Chinese food to students

　　D. every Friday afternoon the students will have a tour

　　CHICAGO (Reuters) — Swine flu has killed nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults, and infected one in six people in the United States since arriving last April, health officials said on Thursday.

　　Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said more than 200,000 Americans had been hospitalized — about the same number who are affected by seasonal flu in an entire year.

　　“About 15 percent of the entire country has been infected with H1N1 influenza, or about one in six people,” Frieden told a media briefing.

　　“That still leaves most people not having been infected and still remaining susceptible to H1N1 influenza,” he said.

　　He said supplies of H1N1 vaccine (疫苗 had continued to improve, and some 85 million doses of the vaccine had been made available for distribution so far, with 12 million more doses added this week.

　　That is up from 73 million doses a week ago — but still far fewer than had been hoped for by this week.

　　Even so, Frieden said vaccine supplies had opened up enough that states were beginning to distribute the vaccine to the general population.

　　He urged people not to be complacent about (沾沾自喜getting the vaccine because of reports that the current wave of H1N1 influenza is decreasing.

　　“This is still a good window of opportunity to be vaccinated,” he said. “Vaccination remains the most important thing you can do to protect yourself and your family from H1N1 influenza.”

　　He said the seasonal flu season was beginning and it was not clear what would happen with H1N1 or whether there would be a third wave of the virus in the spring.

　　“We know that the more people who get vaccinated, the lower the likelihood will be of additional cases or a third wave,” Frieden said.

　　In a typical year, seasonal influenza kills 36,000 Americans and puts 200,000 into the hospital.

　　13. Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage?

　　A. Nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults died.

　　B. One sixth people in the United States were infected by Swine flu.

　　C. More than 200,000 Americans had been in hospital.

　　D. The American government had distribute most of the vaccine to the general population.

　　14. In the sentence “This is still a good window of opportunity to be vaccinated,” the “ window of opportunity” means ______.

　　A. favourable time

　　B. bad luck

　　C. unfortunate occasion

　　D. favourable window

　　15. Seasonal influenza ______.

　　A. usually cause more deaths and a lot of people in hospital

　　B. will be a third wave in the next spring

　　C. will continue to spread

　　D. will make more people affected

　　16. According to the passage, people in America should _______.

　　A. forget H1N1 influenza because it is decreasing gradually

　　B. continue to protect themselves and their family from H1N1 influenza though it is

　　decreasing

　　C. be complacent about getting the vaccine because of reports

　　D. often go outdoors

　　There is a range of activities which require movements of about one to four or five miles. These might be leisure activities, such as moving from home to swimming pool, tennis club, the theater or other cultural centers, or to a secondary or more advanced school; or they might be movements related with work and shopping in the central areas of cities. The use of cars which are able to carry five people at 80 mph for satisfying these needs is wasteful of space and most productive of disturbance to other road users.

　　The use of the bicycle, or some more modern derivative of it, is probably worth more consideration than has recently been given to it. The bicycle itself is a remarkably efficient and simple device for using human muscular energy for transportation. In pure energy terms, it is four to five times as efficient as walking, even though human walking itself is twice as efficient as the movement of effective animals such as dogs. It is still widely used, not only in some developing countries where bicycles are major means of people and goods, but in a few richer towns such as Amsterdam in Holland and Cambridge in England.

　　The bicycle neither gives enough protection from the weather nor is very suitable for carrying goods, and demands considerable muscular work to make progress against wind or uphill. It also offers its rider no protection against collisions (碰撞) with other vehicles. All these difficulties could, however, be greatly got rid of with relatively small changes in design. The whole machine could be enclosed in a plastic bubble (氣泡) which would provide some protection in case of accidents.It would be easy to add a small petrol or electric motor. A wide variety of designs would be possible. As in rowing, we might employ the power of the arms or the general body musculature, as well as those of the legs; more muscular exercise would be good for the health of many people in cities, and a wide use of bicycle like muscle-powered vehicles would be a useful way to ensure this. It could also provide opportunities for showing-off by the young and vigorous.

　　17. The main idea of the first paragraph is that the car _______.

　　A. can satisfy the demand for speed B. causes waste of space C. produces disturbance to other road users D. is far from perfect for short range movements

　　18. More attention should be given to the bicycle as a means of transport because it is _______.

　　A. a very efficient and simple device

　　B. much cheaper than a car C. widely used in Amsterdam and Cambridge

　　D. still used by rich people

　　19. Enclosing the bicycle in a plastic bubble would ______. A. make it easier to use

　　B. save muscular energy C. provide protection from the weather

　　D. prevent it from colliding with other vehicles

　　20. Which of these is UNTRUE for the present bicycle? A. It is far more efficient than the movement of animals.

　　B. It offers its rider no protection.

　　C. It is not very suitable for carrying goods.

　　D. It can hardly be improved on.

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