2016届安徽淮南市高考英语二轮复习阅读理解摸底精练（2）

　　安徽淮南市2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解摸底精练（2）

　　阅读理解Increased use of the Internet and mobile phones is undermining pupils’ ability for independent study and promoting poor grammar, it was claimed.

　　Cranfield School of Managementfound almost six in ten schoolchildrenwere copying information directly

　　from websites for homework tasks without

　　properly reading it.

　　More than a quarter thought it was an acceptable practice,

　　even though they know it was considered plagiarism(剽窃).

　　The study, based on a sample of around 260 pupils aged from 11 to 18 at a secondary school in the Midlands, raised concerns that modern technology was having a destructive effect on young people.

　　Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at Cranfield, said, “Our research shows that technology obsession(痴迷)prevents spelling skills, encourages plagiarism, and disturbs classroom learning. ”

　　“Despite school policies restricting mobile phone usage, students use the phone frequently, with the majority making calls from the toilets. The mobile phone continues to be a main channel of social communication during the school day. ”

　　The report revealed that so-called“text-speak”was increasingly finding it was into pupils’ school work.

　　Three in ten students admit to using text message shortcuts, such as“r u ok”in essays and classroom tasks.

　　It followed a study earlier this year that found almost half of the teachers failed to understand some pupils’ writing because it was so full of confusing language.

　　Phrases such as“innit”and“Gr8”were regularly found in school work.

　　The Cranfield study found that mobile use was so common that many pupils chose to ignore school rules on phones.

　　More than a third said they would use their mobile in class, while nearly three quarters said they would not even make an excuse to leave class to answer a phone call.

　　【文章大意】使用互联网和手机的学生越来越多了。可是, 科技不仅给学生们带来了便捷, 也给他们的学习带来了很多不利影响。

　　1. The underlined word“undermining”in the first paragraph can best be replaced by“　”.

　　A. determining

　　B. keeping

　　C. weakening

　　D. increasing

　　【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据第二、三两段可知, 靠照搬网上资料完成家庭作业, 实际上是一种抄袭, 会影响学生的独立学习能力。undermining是“逐渐损害, 削弱”的意思, 故此处可以用weakening来代替。

　　2. It can be inferred from what Kakabadse said that　.

　　A. he is in favour of students’ mobile phone usage at school

　　B. he believes schools are responsible for technology obsession

　　C. the research finds a new way to improve school management

　　D. it is hard to limit students’ mobile phone usage at school

　　【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据第六段第一句中的with the majority making calls from the toilets和第二句The mobile phone . . . the school day. 可推断, 限制学生在学校使用手机是很困难的。

　　3. What can we learn from the passage?

　　A. Most students’ writing skills are becoming worse.

　　B. Text message language may affect pupils’ language skills.

　　C. Students like to invent new words in their writing.

　　D. 30% pupils often send text messages when studying.

　　【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第七至九段可知, 短信语言可能会给学生的语言技能带来不利影响。

　　4. What’s the attitude of the author to the problem?

　　A. Optimistic.

　　B. Approving.

　　C. Anxious.

　　D. Tolerant.

　　【解析】选C。观点态度题。从文章的字里行间可以看出作者对学生使用诸如手机之类的高科技产品持忧虑态度。故答案为C。

　　A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　(Crime in Computer)    New and bizarre crimes have come into being with the advent of computer technology. Organized crime to has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimited opportunities, such as data crimes, theft of services, property-related crimes, industrial sabotage, politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the individual and financially related crimes…    Theft of data, or data crime, has attracted the interest of organized criminal syndicates. This is usually the theft or copying of valuable computer grogram. An international market already exists for computerized data, and specialized fences are said to be playing a key role in this rapidly expanding criminal market. Buyers for stolen programs may range from a firm’s competitors to foreign nations.    A competitor sabotages a company’s computer system to destroy or cripple the firm’s operational ability, thus neutralizing its competitive capability either in the private or the government sector. This computer sabotage may also be tied to an attempt by affluent investors to acquire the victim firm. With the growing reliance by firms on computers for their recordkeeping and daily operations, sabotage of their computers can result in internal havoc, after which the group interested in acquiring the firm can easily buy it at a substantially lower price. Criminal groups could also resort to sabotage if the company is a competitor of a business owned or controlled by organized crime.    Politically motivated sabotage is on the increase; political extremist groups have sprouted on every continent. Sophisticated computer technology arms these groups with awesome powers and opens technologically advanced nations to their attack. Several attempts have already been made to destroy computer facility at an air force base. A university computer facility involved in national defence work suffered more than $2 million in damages as a result of a bombing.    Computer vulnerability has been amply documented. One congressional study concluded that neither government nor private computer systems are adequately protected against sabotage. Organized criminal syndicates have shown their willingness to work with politically motivated groups. Investigators have uncovered evidence of cooperation between criminal groups and foreign governments in narcotics. Criminal groups have taken attempts in assassinating political leaders…. Computers are used in hospital life-support system, in laboratories, and in major surgery. Criminals could easily turn these computers into tools of devastation. By sabotaging the computer of a life-support system, criminals could kill an individual as easily as they had used a gun. By manipulating a computer, they could guide awesome tools of terror against large urban centers. Cities and nations could become hostages. Homicide could take a now form. The computer may become the hit man of the twentieth century.    The computer opens vast areas of crime to organized criminal groups, both national and international. It calls on them to pool their resources and increase their cooperative efforts, because many of these crimes are too complex for one group to handle, especially those requiting a vast network of fences. Although criminals have adapted to computer technology, law enforcement has not. Many still think in terms of traditional criminology. 1. How many kinds of crimes are mentioned in the passage?

　　[A].7.        B.8.       [C].9.        [D].10 2.What is the purpose of a competitor to sabotage a company’s computer? [A]. His purpose is to destroy or weaken the firm’s operational ability. . His purpose is to weaken firm’s competitive capability and get it. [C]. His purpose is to buy the rival’s company at a relatively low price. [D]. His purpose is to steal important data. 3.Which of the following can be labeled as a politically motivated sabotage of a computer system? [A]. Sabotage of a university computer. B.Sabotage of a hospital computer. [C]. Sabotage of computer at a secret training base. [D]. Sabotage of a factory computer. 4. What does the author mean by “Homicide could take a new form”? [A]. There is no need to use a gun in killing a person. B.Criminals can kill whoever they want by a computer. [C]. The computer can replace any weapons. [D]. The function of a computer is just like a gun. Vocabulary 1.   bizarre                  奇怪的 2.   vandalism               破坏，故意破坏文化，艺术的行为 3.   cripple                  使瘫痪，削弱 4.   fence                   贼市，脏品买卖处 5.   neutralize               使成为无效 6.   affluent                 富裕的 7.   recordkeeping            记录存贮 8.   havoc                  浩劫，大破坏 9.   resort to                求助于，借助于 10.  motivate                作为……的动机，激发 11.  extremist                过激分子，极端主义分子 12.  sprout                  萌发迅速发展 13.  awesome               令人惊惧的，引起敬畏的 14.  vulnerability             易受攻击，脆弱 15.  devastation              劫持，破坏 16.  hospital life-support system 医院的生命维持系统 17.  hit man                 职业凶手（杀手） 18.  pool                   集中（资金）合办，入股 19.  criminology             犯罪学，刑事学 难句译注 1. Organized crime to has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimited opportunities, such as data crimes, theft of services, property-related crimes, industrial sabotage, politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the individual and financially related crimes… [结构简析] 句子很长，都是简单句，中间有分号隔开，后面是举例。 [参考译文] 有组织犯罪团伙也直接参与：计算机新技术较为犯罪提供了无限的机会，如数据信息犯罪，偷窃服务项目，跟财产有关的犯罪，工业破坏，跟政治有关的破坏，破坏文化艺术，对个人和财经方面的罪行等等。 2. An international market already exists for computerized data, and specialized fences are said to be playing a key role in this rapidly expanding criminal market. [结构简析] 并列句，and 作对比连接词用。 [参考译文] 一个计算机信息的国际市场已经存在，而专门从事脏品交易的市场据说在迅速扩展的犯罪市场中起着关键的作用。 3.A competitor sabotages a company’s computer system to destroy or cripple the firm’s operational ability, thus neutralizing its competitive capability either in the private or the government sector. [结构简析] 主谓宾补结构，后跟thus+从句表示结果。 [参考译文] 竞争对手破坏一个公司的计算机系统为的是摧毁或削弱公司的操作运行能力，从而使其丧失在私人或政府部门中的竞争力。 4. The computer opens vast areas of crime to organized criminal groups, both national and international. It calls on them to pool their resources and increase their cooperative efforts, because many of these crimes are too complex for one group to handle, especially those requiting a vast network of fences. [结构简析] 两句话。前一句为主谓宾，后一句为主从句，从句内采用too…to 句型，后跟分词独立结构进一步说明。 [参考译文] 计算机为国内和国际有组织犯罪集团开辟了犯罪的广泛领域。它要求它们集中资源，提高通力协作力量，因为许多犯罪太复杂，一个集团难以驾驭，特别是那些需要巨大的脏品交易时常网络的罪行。 写作方法与文章大意 文章介绍“计算机犯罪”，采用分类写作手法，先列出种种计算机犯罪项，下面逐一说明。文本只选四种犯罪——信息数据偷窃或信息（数据）犯罪，产业破坏，政治破坏，对个人生命破坏。分四段叙述，每段为一种罪行，最后是对比罪犯势力越来越有组织，势力请大，而司法部门却没有准备好。 答案祥解 1. B. ８种，具体罪行。见难句译注１。 2. B. 他的目的是削弱公司竞争力进而得到它。答案见难句译注２及第二段第二句起：“计算机破坏也可以和富裕的投资者欲得到对手的公司的企图相连。随着公司对计算机记录存储的信赖性加强，破坏他们的计算机可以造成内部大破坏。之后，对取得这个公司感性趣的集团很容易在级低价格上买进。” A. 削弱公司运转能力。　C. 在相当低的价格上买进对手的公司。这两个选项都只是破坏目的的一个方面。D. 偷窃重要资料，文内没有讲。 3. C 破坏秘密训练基础。这可以标以政治目的的破坏计算机。 A. 大学　B. 医院D. 工厂。　这三个地方都难以和政治直接相连，第三段讲的大学是“参与国防保卫工作的大学计算机措施”，和一般大学不一样。只有秘密训练的基地和真正相连的可能性最大，所以选C. 4.B. 犯罪可以通过计算机任意杀人。答案在第五段：“犯罪集团曾采取步骤暗杀政治领袖。医院的生命维护系统，实验室，大型外科手术中都用计算机。罪犯们很容易把这些计算机转变成破坏的工具。通过破坏生命维护系统计算机，罪犯们就像用枪一样很容易杀死人。通过控制计算机，他们可以指导这可怖的工具攻击大城市中心。城市和国家都可以成为人质。谋杀具有新的形式，计算机可能成为２１世纪的事业杀手。” A. 杀人不需要用枪。这话太笼统，不用枪，用什么。用毒药，用刀？C. 计算机可以取代任何武器。D. 计算机的功能就像枪，错误的。

　　阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　(2016·四川，E)

　　Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

　　Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting (收缩) and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed.

　　Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event,

　　depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

　　Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: “Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.”

　　The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reaction to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfikel said, “The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed.

　　Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don't see—and guide whether we see fear.”

　　To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner (扫描仪 ) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person's feeling of fear.

　　“We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’ to each other to change our feeling and reduce fear，” Dr Garfinkel said.

　　“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced,

　　we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders,

　　and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.”

　　文章大意：一项研究表明，人的心脏能够对人感知恐惧的反应产生影响。

　　13．What is the finding of the study?

　　A．One's heart affects how he feels fear.

　　B．Fear is a result of one's relaxed heartbeat.

　　C．Fear has something to do with one's health.

　　D．One's fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

　　答案：A　细节理解题，由第一段可知，研究发现心脏跳动的周期与人感觉害怕的可能性之间存在联系。

　　14．The study was carried out by analyzing ________.

　　A．volunteers' heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

　　B．the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

　　C．volunteers' reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans

　　D．different pictures shown to volunteers and their heartbrain communication

　　答案：C　细节理解题，由第四段第一句话可知，本次研究是通过向20名志愿者展示令人恐惧的图片来测验他们的反应来进行的。

　　15．Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mechanism” in Paragraph 6?

　　A．Order.

　　B．System.

　　C．Machine.

　　D．Treatment.

　　答案：B　词义猜测题，由第六段可以得知，心脏和大脑能够“对话”来改变情感、减少恐惧，所依赖的当然应该是身体中的某个系统。

　　16．This study may contribute to ________.

　　A．treating anxiety and stress better

　　B．explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety

　　C．finding the key to the heartbrain communication

　　D．understanding different fears in our hearts and heads

　　答案：A　细节理解题，由文章最后一段可知，本项研究对研发解决焦虑症和由于压力大而产生的紊乱治疗方法会有帮助。