阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant ship,which was sunk in World War Ⅱ. The bookNight of the U-boats told the story.
Memories
In September,1940,my mother,sister and I went to Swansea,where my father’s ship was getting ready to sail. We brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep him safe.
Then I remember my mother lying face down,sobbing. She had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo (鱼雷).
I can remember the arrival of the telegram (电报),which in those days always brought bad news. My grandmother opened it. It read,“Safe. Love Ted. “
My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my father’s knee,his arm in a bandage.
He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war. For as long as I can remember,he had a weak heart. Mother said it was caused by the torpedoes. He saidit was because of the cigarettes. Whichever,he died suddenly in his early 50s.
Ten years later I readNight of the U-boats and was able to complete the story.
Torpedo
One torpedo struck the ship. Father was in the engine room,where the third engineer was killed. He shut down the engines to slow the ship making it easier for it to be abandoned.
By the time he got on deck (甲板)he was alone. Every lifeboat was gone except one which had stuck fast. When he tried to cut it free,it swung against the ship,injuring his hand and arm. He had no choice but to jump—still with the photograph in his pocket.
Three days later,he and other survivors were safe in Glasgow. All 23 with him signed the back of the photograph.
A Toast
In my room is the book and the photograph. Often,glass in hand,I have wondered how I would have dealt with an explosion,a sinking ship,a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue?Lest(以免)we forget,I have some more whisky and toast the heroes of the war.
1. We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea .
A. to meet a friend B. to see the father off
C. to take a family photo D. to enjoy the sailing of the ship
2. What did the author learn about the father from the telegram?
A. He was still alive. B. His knee was broken.
C. His ship had been sunk. D. He had arrived in Glasgow.
3. The underlined word“it” in Paragraph 6 refers to the father’s .
A. weak heart B. taking a shore job
C. failure to return to sea D. injury caused by a torpedo
4. What can we know about the author’s father after his ship was attacked?
A. He lost his arm.
B. He repaired the engines.
C. He managed to take a lifeboat.
D. He was the last to leave the ship.
5. What is the passage mainly about?
A. A group of forgotten heroes.
B. A book describing a terrifying battle.
C. A ship engineer’s wartime experience.
D. A merchant’s memories of a sea rescue.
【参考答案】1--5 、BAADC
【2017高考复习】阅读理解Areas of Tokyo which had usually been packed with office workers like sushi(寿司) restaurants and noodle shops were unusually quiet. Many schools were closed. Companies allowed workers to stay home. Long queues formed at airports.
As Japanese authorities struggled to avoid disaster at an earthquakebattered nuclear plant 240 km to the north, parts of Tokyo resembled a ghost town. Many people stocked up on food and stayed indoors or simply left, transforming one of the world's biggest and most
populated cities into a shell of its usual self.
“Look, it's like Sunday —no cars in town，” said Kazushi Arisawa, a 62yearold taxi driver, as he waited
for more than an hour outside an office tower where he usually finds customers within minutes. “I can't make
money today. ”
Radiation in Tokyo has been negligible,_ briefly touching three times the normal rate on Tuesday, smaller than a dental Xray. On Wednesday, winds over the Fukushima (福岛) nuclearpower plant blew out to sea,
keeping levels close to normal. But that does little to relieve public anxiety about a 40yearold nuclear plant with three reactors in partial meltdown (熔毁)and a
fourth with spent atomic fuel exposed to the atmosphere after last Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
“Radiation moves faster than we do，” said Steven Swanson, a 43yearold American who moved to Tokyo in December with his Japanese wife to help with her family business.He is staying indoor but is tempted to leave.“It's scary.It's a triple threat with the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear radiation leaks.It makes you wonder what's next. ”
【语篇解读】 本文主要介绍了日本的核辐射泄露对人们造成的影响。
1．The text is mainly about________.
A．the earthquake that happened in March
B．the government's effort to avoid disaster
C．the effects of the nuclear radiation leaks
D．the earthquakebattered nuclearpower plant
解析 主旨大意题。整篇文章介绍了日本的核辐射泄露对人们造成的影响。故选C项。
答案 C
2．What did Kazushi Arisawa mean?
A．There're usually more cars on Sundays.
B．He didn't care much about nuclear radiation.
C．He preferred to stay at home on Sundays.
D．He couldn't find many customers.
解析 细节理解题。从文章第三段的“as he waited for more than an hour outside an office tower where he usually finds customers within minutes.‘I can't make money today.’”看出答案。
答案 D
3．The underlined word “negligible”in Paragraph 4 most probably means________.
A．serious
B．slight
C．normal
D. average
解析 词义猜测题。从下文的“smaller than a dental Xray”看出答案。
答案 B
4．What can we learn about the Fukushima nuclearpower plant from the text?
A．It lies to the south of Tokyo.
B．It
started to operate about fifty years ago.
C．It was damaged in the earthquake and tsunami.
D．All its four reactors are now well under control.
解析 推理题。从文章第四段的“a 40yearold nuclear plant
with three reactors in partial meltdown (熔毁)and a
fourth with spent atomic fuel exposed to the atmosphere
after last Friday's earthquake and tsunami”看出答案。
答案 C
The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn’t new --- scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis, knee pain, sprained (扭伤) ankles and back problems. But in 1998, Kerdgan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage (软骨) surrounding the knee. The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing. “This study confirms what we all intuitively (直觉地) know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health,” said Dr. Glenn Pfeifer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.
5. We learn from the passage that women choose chunky heels because _______.
A. they want to walk comfortably
B. chunky heeled shoes are cheaper than stiletto heeled pairs
C. chunky heels do less harm to knees
D. chunky heels are not painful at all
6. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. people got to know the high heels are bad for health recently
B. people have known the high heels are bad for health for years
C. people haven’t known the high heels are bad for health yet
D. people will be warned that the high heels are bad for health soon
7. The best title for the passage may be ________.
A. Taking Healthy Knees into Consideration
B. High-heels Do Harm to Knees
C. Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels
D. When Wearing High-heels
5—7、
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Education isn’t all about classrooms. Homework plays a huge role in student learning. Given how much time we spend studying in a lifetime, and how hard it is to find time to study, techniques that make studying more efficient ─ that is, techniques that allow you to learn more in the same amount of time ─ can be incredibly valuable.
One of the most important study techniques that you don’t know about is this: Space your studying.
What does that mean? If you are going to study something twice (or more), try to let as much time pass as possible between the first and second time you study. For example, don’t read your textbook chapter and then review it on the same day. Study it and then review it on a different day, and allow as much time to pass between the two study sessions as possible. Better yet, spread your studying across numerous days. You don’t necessarily have to study more, you just have to distribute your study time differently. When you sit down to study, mix up your topics ─ instead of studying one topic per day, study every topic a little bit every day.
My research team had a combined 50 years experience studying the spacing effect. We should have known better, because our prediction couldn’t have been more wrong. Spacing helped enormously.
Spacing gives you time to forget. This forgetting is a good thing; forgetting is the friend of learning. But forgetting can make you feel like you are not learning. On the other hand, re-studying something right away makes it seem easy to remember. Unfortunately, this makes people feel that spacing hinders learning.
Your intuition (直觉) will tell you that spacing is a terrible idea. And your intuition will be wrong. Don’t trust it. Trust the scientific evidence.
1. The first paragraph mainly wants to tell us .
A. education isn’t all about classrooms
B. homework plays a huge role in student learning
C. it’s hard to find time to study
D. learning techniques can be of great value
2. The technique “Space your studying” means .
A. trying to studying something as many times as possible
B. allowing as much time to pass between the twice (or more) as you can
C. not doing the same thing on the same day
D. studying more and distributing your study time differently
3. The underlined word “enormously” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by .
A. greatlyB. differentlyC. hopefully D. unforgettably
4. Why will your intuition tell you that spacing is a terrible idea?
A. Because spacing gives you time to forget.
B. Because forgetting is the friend of learning.
C. Because spacing can make you feel like you are not learning.
D. Because your intuition will be wrong.
【参考答案】1—4、DBAB
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A research by the National Center for Health Statistics is seen as an important confirmation of the “Hispanic mortality paradox(西班牙裔死亡率悖论).”
On average, Hispanics outlive whites by 2.5 years and blacks by 7.7 years. Their life expectancy at birth in 2006 was 80.6 years, compared with 78.1 for whites, 72.9 for blacks and 77.7 years for the total population.
The report shows that the Hispanic population has higher life expectancy at birth and at almost every age despite a socioeconomic status lower than that of whites. “Mortality is very correlated with income, education and health care access,” says Elizabeth Arias, author of the report. “You would expect the Hispanic population would have higher mortality, in line with the black population.”
The Hispanic paradox has been documented for more than two decades, but this is the first time the government has had enough data to issue national numbers. Researchers are struggling to explain why Hispanics live longer.
“We don’t know,” says David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “We thought it was a problem in the data, but we can pretty much say this is real.”
Potential factors:
·Culture and lifestyle. Support from extended family and lower rates of smoking and drinking. Latino groups in particular have very strong family and social ties.
·Migration. The “healthy migrant effect” argues that healthy people are more likely to emigrate. And when immigrants become ill, they might return home and die there.
“Solving the puzzle may help the nation deal with health care issues because Hispanics use health services less—they make fewer doctors visits and spend less time in hospitals,” Hayes Bautista says. “It’s clearly something in the Latino culture,” he says.
1. In 2006, Hispanics’ life expectancy is years longer than the average of the total population.
A. 2. 5 B. 7. 7 C. 2. 9 D. 80. 6
2. What does the underlined word “outlive” in the second paragraph probably mean?
A. To live longer than. . .
B. To live shorter than. . .
C. To die out.
D. To expect to live.
3. What is the main idea of paragraph three?
A. Hispanics were born better than whites.
B. Morality is closely related with health care access.
C. Whites should have longer life expectancy.
D. Even experts can’t explain the phenomenon.
4. What is Mr. Hayes-Bautista’s opinion about the paradox?
A. He supports there is a problem with the data.
B. He intends to trust the cultural factor.
C. He believes in the “healthy migrant effect”.
D. He thinks health care the most important factor.
5. Which of the following inferences is true according to the passage?
A. Black people suffer the lowest social status in America.
B. Hispanics might have healthier ways of life.
C. Only healthy people can immigrate into America.
D. White people don’t have strong family ties.
【参考答案】1—5、CADBB