2017届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读能力培养精品系列（五十四）
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The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international __1__， American officials believed they should __2__ the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in __3__. “The __4__ may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA __5__ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After the World War Ⅱended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA's __6__ had to be changed，__7__ the Soviet Union became enemy of America. They wanted to __8__ Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was __9__“ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know __10__ English to completely understand its __11__ English broadcast. So VOA __12__ a simpler kind of English, __13__ uses about 1,500 words and is spoken __14__ of course, it is special English.
In the __15__ of most VOA listeners, the most __16__ program is the news report. News from around the world __17__ into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in __18__ cities and also from other __19__ like BBC. VOA writers and editors use these materials to __20__ news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.
1. A. business
B. culture
C. support
D. information
2. A. reply
B. answer
C. join
D. interrupt
3. A. same
B. short
C. English
D. German
4. A. news
B. problems
C. effects
D. opinions
5. A. stations
B. news
C. announcers
D. officials
6. A. home
B. position
C. purpose
D. results
7. A. if
B. supposing
C. considering
D. in order that
8. A. reach
B. satisfy
C. attack
D. support
9. A. known
B. reported
C. called
D. printed
10. A. American
B. British
C. standard
D. enough
11. A. normal
B. fast
C. good
D. exact
12. A. invented
B. discovered
C. taught
D. stopped
13. A. it
B. who
C. which
D. that
14. A. slowly
B. rapidly
C. normally
D. loudly
15. A. pleasure
B. course
C. opinion
D. advice
16. A. difficult
B. important
C. various
D. common
17. A. flies
B. sends
C. delivers
D. pasts
18. A. all
B. major
C. American
D. news
19. A. broadcasts
B. forms
C. newspapers
D. countries
20. A. broadcast
B. announce
C. translate
D. prepare
阅读理解
A
Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don't show your secret personality when you're awake because you can control your behaviour，but when you're asleep，your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night，of course，people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back，you're a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don't like to upset people，so you never express your real feelings. You're quite shy and you aren't very confident.
If you sleep on your stomach，you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you're always easily upset. You're very stubborn，but you aren't very ambitious. You usually live for today not for tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up(卷曲), you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you're often defensive. You're shy and you don't normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You're easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side，you have usually got a wellbalanced personality. You know your strengths and weaknesses. You're usually careful. You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious，but you don't often get depressed. You always say what you think even if it annoys people.
1. According to the writer，you naturally show your secret and real personality ________.
A. only in a normal night
B. only when you go to sleep
C. only when you refuse to show yourself to the world
D. only when you change sleeping position
2. Which is NOT mentioned in the second paragraph about a person's personality?
A. He or she is always open with others.
B. He or she always likes new ideas earlier than others.
C. He or she is always easily upset.
D. He or she tends to believe in others.
3. Which of the following shows the personality of a person sleeping on his stomach?
A. He or she is careful not to offend others.
B. He or she doesn't want to stick to his or her opinion.
C. He or she can't be successful in any business.
D. He or she likes to bring others happiness.
4. Why don't you possibly want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up?
A. He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you.
B. He or she is rarely ready to help you.
C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out.
D. He or she wouldn't like to get help from you.
5. It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because ________.
A. he or she always shows sympathy for people
B. he or she is confident，but not stubborn
C. he or she has more strengths than weaknesses
D. he or she often considers annoying people
B
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which customs, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenience foods.
This important change in women's life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage: with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
6. Which of the following is the topic of this passage?
A. The marriage of women: past and present.
B. Women and their jobs.
C. The social changes in the lives of women.
D. Women's role in family life.
7. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the amount of time the women spent taking care of children ________.
A. was shorter than in previous centuries
B. was longer than in previous centuries
C. was considered to be surprisingly long
D. accounted for a great part of their lives
8. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________.
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. need not worry about food for her children
D. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty
9. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.
A. stay at home after leaving school
B. marry men younger than themselves
C. start working again later in life
D. marry while still at school
10. What can be inferred from the last sentence?
A. The husband tends to share greater share of duties of family life.
B. In the past, the husband used to provide money for the family while the wife ran the home.
C. The wife does not have her own abilities and interests.
D. Both the husband and the wife should be satisfied with their family life.
参考答案
1. 解析：选C。由文意可知，二战期间，德国做广播节目的初衷应是呼吁国际“支持(support)”，而不可能是商业，文化及消息。
2. 解析：选B。由文中的with words可推断出answer。reply后接宾语时要加to。
3. 解析：选D。由常识可知，要回复德国电台，得用“德文”来播，这样德国人才能听懂。
4. 解析：选A。前文已说了播出的是news report，故选A。
5. 解析：选C。由常识可知，播音的主体是announcers(播音员)了。
6. 解析：选C。由文意可知，VOA电台成立之初的目标主要是对二战中的一些敌对国家进行宣传，随着二战结束，敌对国家有所改变，那么广播的目的与对象也应随之而改变。
7. 解析：选C。considering考虑到，表示改变广播目的背景。
8. 解析：选A。reach是中性词，其他三个词要么是褒义，要么是贬义，在此不符合语境。
9. 解析：选C。be called 被称做……，符合语境。
10. 解析：选D。由常识可知，对英语不是很精通才导致不能完全听懂英文广播。
11. 解析：选A。此处的normal区别于后文提到的special English。
12. 解析：选A。原来没有的东西，现在发明出来，故用invent。
13. 解析：选C。分析语境及句子结构可知，此处应是引导非限制性定语从句，指物。
14. 解析：选A。由常识可知，正常英语听不懂，除了词汇问题，更重要的还有语速问题，即速度要“慢”。
15. 解析：选C。opinion观点，看法。后面叙述的就是看法、观点。
16. 解析：选B。由文意可知，后面的内容体现了资讯报道的重要性。
17. 解析：选A。此处的flies表达了资讯的及时、快速的特点。
18. 解析：选B。major cities大城市。根据常识可排除A、D两项；根据around the world，可排除C项。
19. 解析：选A。由like可知，所选词须与BBC同类。
20. 解析：选D。由后面的定语从句可推知，这里指资讯报道的前期“准备”工作。