2012高考二轮复习英语专题训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解34

　　2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）

　　专题2 阅读理解 34

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　　A

　　There is, for many of us, a moment in life when we make a choice that changes us forever. This moment marks a turning point, when we realize that the life we're living is not a mirror of who we really are.

　　For some, the moment comes as a result of something dramatic: the sudden loss of a job, or the death of a loved one. For others, they have to deal with difficult situations, such as financial hardship. In these challenging times, it's more critical(关键时刻的) than ever for us to seize the possibility of positive change. As I travel and talk to people about their lives, I often see a distant, vacant look in their eyes -- a look that says “I’m so busy trying to survive my life that no soul left to live it”.

　　As a result, we end up feeling lonely. Yet we keep on going the way we've been going. We tolerate high levels of stress at work, take important relationships for granted, or put our health needs on hold. We get so caught up in the details of living that our busyness becomes an excuse from the inner voice that begs us to listen. When you finally pay attention to that little voice and begin to make even small changes, you will slowly improve yourself.

　　To start positive change, you need the power of your mind. I've come up with a five-step strategy that will help you. You will be able to identify what you want and then go after it. It's easier than you might think.

　　1. Reset your happiness set point. Don't limit yourself! When I decided that I wanted more control over my life, I set goals in physical, emotional, financial, professional, material, and play. I challenged myself to consider every possible choice. Imagine things you've never believed you could achieve. Don't let your past determine your future.

　　2. Trust your courage. Too often, when you're first learning to take control of your life, you doubt yourself. It's important to develop a strong connection with your inner guidance system. I've heard many stories about the persistent voice inside your head.

　　3. Take action. Once you have set goals, adjusted your beliefs, and got ready, you can start making things happen. Again, turn to those people you respect -- the ones achieving what you desire -- for support and guidance. They will both inspire you and give you practical advice on what steps you need to take.

　　4. Have faith. Believe that the positive energy of grace will support your efforts to improve your life. When you've done all you can, let go and trust that the right result will occur. When we have faith, we give up the need to be in control, and we set ourselves up to actually enjoy the process of change.

　　5. Be patient. This can be the toughest step. It's not easy to trust that your life will improve in a best way. Remind yourself of the benefits of patience. In my experience, those life changes are always worth the wait.

　　1. What does the author intend to say in the second paragraph?

　　A. The start of some turning points in one’s life is caused by crisis.

　　B. Loss of a job or the death of a loved one are all dramatic things.

　　C. No one can live a life without any turning points.

　　D. No one can predict his future of being good or not.

　　2. In the author’s opinion, we should ______________.

　　A. adjust our beliefs from time to time B. always control ourselves for anything

　　C. keep on going the way we are going D. seize the challenging times to live an active life

　　3. The author suggests that when setting your happiness set points, you should _______.

　　A. know the limitation of your set point

　　B. build self-confidence without doubt

　　C. limit your goals in different ways

　　D. consider every possible choice with care

　　4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

　　A. When you've done all you can, you may believe that the right result will occur.

　　B. When you set goals, and take action, it is possible to make things happen.

　　C. When you first learn to take charge of your life, you will always doubt yourself.

　　D. If things do not happen in a way that is best, patience is always worth the wait.

　　ADBC

　　B

　　“To be or not to be”．Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world．They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman．To be or not to be----to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely．A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally．He answered it by saying, “I think, therefore I am．”

　　But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said, “To be is to be in relations．” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive．To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity （强度） of our relations．Unfortunately, we are so constituted that we get to love our routine．But other than our regular occupation, how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent．So far as other things are concerned----poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs----you are dead．

　　On the contrary, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest----even more, a new accomplishment----you increase your power of life．No one who is deeply interested in different kinds of subjects can remain unhappy．The real pessimist is the person who has lost interest．

　　Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend．But we gain new life by contacts with new friends, and new ideas and thoughts, too．Where your thoughts are, there will be your life also．If your thoughts are limited only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to your narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow restricted life．But if you are interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interested people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are always away from immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination．

　　To be or not to be ---- to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, that depends on ourselves．Let us widen and intensify our relations．While we live, let us live．

　　1．What does the author mainly want to do by this passage?

　　A．Argue against an idea． B．Put forward an idea．

　　C．Introduce some famous sayings． D．Explain some famous sayings．

　　2．What does the underlined word “pessimist” most probably mean?

　　A．Somebody who always expects the worst to happen．

　　B．Somebody who is always interested in making new friends．

　　C．Somebody who always lives in a world of passion and imagination．

　　D．Somebody who likes to live a rich and abundant life．

　　3．Which of the following behaviors is most probably NOT encouraged by the author?

　　A．Thinking more than your own business．

　　B．Caring only about your physical welfare．

　　C．Reading good novels．

　　D．Listening to fine music．

　　4．What is the main idea of the passage?

　　A．To be or not to be, that is a question． B．I think, therefore I am．

　　C．To be is to be in relations． D．A man dies as often as he loses a friend．

　　BABC

　　C

　　The diversity of the original American Indian settlers was not quite as great as that of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries when waves of European, Asian and unwilling African immigrants arrived on American shores. However, the First Americans did have more far-going origins that were ever suspected. For example, Brace’s studies have revealed that the Blackfoot, Iroquois, and other tribes from Minnesota, Michigan, Ontario, and Massachusetts came down from the Jomon, a prehistoric people of Japan. The Inuit in the far north and tribal groups who once lived down the Eastern seaboard into Florida appear to be a later branch from the trunk of the Jomon family tree. The Athabaskan-speaking people from the Yukon and northern-western Canada, who spread as far south as Arizona and northern Mexico, appear to trace their origins to China. “Their facial shapes link them more closely to the living Chinese than to any other population in either part of the world,” says Brace.

　　Johanna Nichols, a Professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California at Berkeley, says that new evidence from native languages throughout the New World strongly suggests that humans have been in the Americas since as early as 40,000 BC. She says that it is only along the west coast that languages appear to have come from immigrants who arrived after the ice age, 14,000 years ago.

　　Nichols also has some different ideas about the direction in which the country was settled. Breaking with the traditional view of migrations, she says that the inside of North America was colonized not only from Siberia but also from the south.

　　To bolster her argument for an early settlement date, Nichols points to findings from the Monte Verde site in southern Chile. It has been dated at 12,500 years old, which means the area was occupied during the last ice age. And, the Monte Verde people would have needed at least 6,500 years to travel from Alaska to Chile. Yet, that only takes us back to about 19,000 years ago. Her research suggests a very high degree of language diversity is something that happens only with time. She insists that the approximately 150 distinct native American language families we know of today must have required at least 35,000 years to develop.

　　1. In the first paragraph the writer uses the word “unwilling” to show that _______.

　　A. the Africans came against the will of most Americans

　　B. the Africans came without the approval of their parents

　　C. the Africans were taken here against their own will

　　D. the Europeans who came at the time didn’t want the Africans to come together

　　2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the Athabaskan-speaking people?

　　A. They were related to people living in Japan in prehistoric times.

　　B. They were a branch from the trunk of the Jomon family tree.

　　C. They have no links to any other people.

　　D. They were thought to have certain links to the ancestors of the Chinese people.

　　3. The underlined word bolster in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.

　　A. use

　　B. have

　　C. support

　　D. build

　　4. From the passage we can know _______.

　　A. people in the Americas today are believed to have probably come down only from the north

　　B. Nichols strongly suggests that humans have lived in the Americas for about 6,500 years

　　C. Nichols supports the traditional ideas about the direction in which the country was settled

　　D. it surely takes a very long time for language diversity to come about

　　CDCD