2016届高考英语二轮专题总复习精选综合能力专练：阅读理解3

　　2016届高考英语二轮专题总复习精选综合能力专练：阅读理解3

　　请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

　　注意：每空格1个单词。

　　Do you raise salmon (鲑鱼) in your classroom at school? Do you ever have class while floating down a river in a canoe? Do you ever throw your school lunch leftovers into a compost (混合肥料) bin when you are finished? They are all part of a regular school day at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School in New Haven, Connecticut. Known as a “green” school, Barnard attracts students from all over the region who are interested in environmental studies.

　　“We do Earth Day all the year round,” said Marjorie Drucker, Barnard’s Magnet Resource teacher. With the school’s special classes, its 325 students study the environment all day long. “Being green means that everything in the building is designed with the environment in mind,” Drucker told Scholastic News. For example, the lights go off when people leave the room, and special windows provide “passive light”, cutting down on the need for electric lighting. When a window is open, the air-conditioning automatically turns off.

　　Conserving energy is not all that students do to help the environment. While learning about the dying salmon population in the Connecticut rivers, students also do something to help out---- they raise more salmon. In the classrooms there are fish tanks containing salmon eggs. The eggs are kept in water at two degrees Celsius. After the eggs hatch, students observe the baby salmon through all the stages of development, and then release the adult salmon into Connecticut rivers.

　　Composting is another part of taking care of the environment at Barnard Students deal with their lunches by throwing the remaining food into a compost bin in a greenhouse. The compost is used to help grow plants.

　　At Barnard, almost everything has to do with the environment. Students sing songs about the environment; their artworks have something to do with the environment; even their math classes are focused on protecting the environment.

　　Barnard offers chances that students can’t get in a regular school. The school’s goal is to teach children to be good environmental role models. They also learn to live in a different way. To attend the school, students have to apply and express their interest in protecting the environment. “Students come here because they care about the environment,” said Drucker.

　　答案：1. that

　　2.

　　off

　　3. avoided

　　4. Keeping

　　5. raised / kept

　　6. smaller

　　7. making

　　8. on / about

　　9. Different

　　10. certain

　　Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting.But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day — which really for handwriting is pretty much.

　　Many adults remember learning that way — by copying letters over and over again. Today’ s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself.Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.

　　Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility,_which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency — writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.

　　But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about onefourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.

　　But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.

　　[语篇解读]　文章介绍了在键盘普及的年代美国的书法教学情况。

　　1．We can learn ________ from Paragraph 1.

　　A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching job

　　B. most teachers prefer to teach handwriting

　　C. teachers spend little time in teaching handwriting

　　D. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting entirely

　　[解析]　推理判断题。根据第一段中“90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting”可知书法教学是基本的教学要求，A项为正确推论。根据“One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting”可知，很多老师不愿意教书法课，B项错误；根据第一段末句可知C项错误；根据全段判断，只是说键盘普及使一些人认为书法渐渐过时了，D项错误。

　　[答案]　A

　　2．Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA?

　　A. The students are taught by practicing a long period.

　　B. The letters are repeated many times.

　　C. Handwriting includes two skills.

　　D. To write in cursive is taught first.

　　[解析]　细节认定题。根据第二段可知，传统的书法教学重复很多遍并且持续时间长，因此A、B两项内容正确。根据第三段第一句可知C项内容正确；根据最后一段第二句可知D项内容错误。

　　[答案]　D

　　3．The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means ________.

　　A. easy to read

　　B. complex

　　C. unexpected

　　D. unreadable

　　[解析]　推测词义题。根据下文“which means forming the letters so they can be read”可推测画线词的意思是“清楚，易读”。

　　[答案]　A

　　4．The best title for the passage is ________.

　　A. How to improve handwriting in school

　　B. Right or wrong: the death of handwriting

　　C. Handwriting involves two skills

　　D. Handwriting lessons are on the way out

　　[解析]　标题归纳题。作者对美国书法教学的现状作了叙述，没有自己的主观评论，故选择B。A项没有涉及，C项只是其中一部分内容，D项只是一部分人的观点。

　　[答案]　B

　　5．The author’ s attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is________.

　　A. negative

　　B. objective

　　C. critical

　　D. optimistic

　　[解析]　态度判断题。根据全文的叙述，作者只是将美国书法教学的现状和不同人的观点呈现出来，并没有发表自己的见解，因此作者持客观的态度。[答案]　B

　　[长难句解读]　One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting.今年公布的一项研究发现，大约每四个教师中就有三个说他们不准备教书法了。published this year为过去分词短语作后置定语，found后面为宾语从句，其中又含有一个宾语从句they are not prepared to teach handwriting。

　　Charlie came from a poor village. His parents had __1__ money to send him to school when he was young. The boy was very sad. Mr. King lived next to him. He found the boy __2__ and had pity on him and lent some money to him. So the boy could go to school. He studied hard and __3__ all his lessons. When he finished middle school, the man introduced him to his friend in the town. And he began to work.

　　Once Mr. King was seriously hurt in an accident. Dying, he asked Charlie to take care of his daughter, Sharon. The young man __4__ and several years later he married the girl. He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy. He often bought beautiful clothes and delicious food for her. He was good at cooking and he cooked __5__ for her. So she became very fat and she felt it difficult to walk. And one day she found there was something wrong with her heart. Her husband wasn’t at home and she had to go to __6__ at once. The doctors looked her over and told her __7__ eat meat, sugar, chocolate and things like these. She was afraid __8__ the doctor’s words and wrote all the names of the food on the paper. When she got home, she put the list on the table and __9__. When she returned home that afternoon, she found many kinds of food: meat, sugar and chocolate in the kitchen. Charlie was busy __10__ there. As soon as he saw her, he said happily, “I’ve bought all the food you like, dear!”

　　1. A. no

　　B. some

　　C. much

　　D. enough

　　2. A. lazy

　　B. clever

　　C. careful

　　D. hard

　　3. A. did well in B. was poor at C. was working D. was good for

　　4. A. was angry B. thought hard C. agreed

　　D. said “No.”

　　5. A. a little

　　B. a few

　　C. many

　　D. a lot

　　6. A. rest

　　B. sleep

　　C. hospital

　　D. work

　　7. A. should

　　B. would

　　C. to

　　D. not to

　　8. A. to remember B. to forget C. to catch

　　D. to teach

　　9. A. slept

　　B. went out C. cooked

　　D. ate

　　10. A. reading

　　B. seeing

　　C. cooking

　　D. writing

　　名师点评

　　本文讲述了查理为报答金先生生前对自己的大恩大德，在娶了金先生女儿为妻之后精心照料她，却导致妻子营养过剩而患病去医院检查。医生列出她不能吃的食物，深爱妻子的查理不明情况，反而照单为妻子买了上面的各种食物。

　　答案简析

　　1. A。查理家境贫困，父母没有钱资助他上学，故选no。

　　2. B。根据下文，查理不负众望，说明他聪明好学，故选clever。

　　3. A。查理学习刻苦，并顺利完成了学业，说明他各门功课成绩较好，故选did well in。D选项介词用错，正确词组为was good at。

　　4. C。根据下文查理娶了金先生女儿为妻并精心呵护她，说明查理同意了金先生的请求，故选agreed。

　　5. D。根据下文妻子胖得不能走路，说明她食物吃得多。此外食物为不可数名词，因此只能用a lot of来修饰。

　　6. C。心脏不好，应去医院检查，下文指出为她检查的正是医生，故选hospital。

　　7. D。由于她的病是因营养过剩引起的，医生应让她不要吃肉，糖果之类的食物，故选not to。

　　8. B。她害怕忘了医生的指示，因此将其写在纸上，故选to forget。

　　9. B。与下文相对应，这里应填went out。

　　10. C。擅长烹饪的查理将菜买回之后，肯定要忙着为爱妻做饭，故cooking为正确答案。

　　(9) ____ from the students in a regular school, they have more chances.

　　(4) ____ the balance of nature: Small creatures like salmon are (5)____ carefully so that when their number becomes (6) ____, they are put into

　　nature.

　　Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School

　　All (1) _____ the students do in everyday life are related to protecting environment.

　　Conserving energy: The power is cut (2)____ when they don’t use electrical equipment in the building, unnecessary waste (3) ____.

　　Behaving: They deal with leftover food for the use of (7) ____ plants grow better. They sing, dance, as

　　well as have lessons (8) ____ protecting the environment.

　　It is (10) ____that they become good environmental role models.

　　They learn to live in a different way.