2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解训练七十集之连载（54）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解训练七十集之连载（54）

　　【阅读理解】人物故事类

　　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。

　　Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York—he in computers, she in special education. “Teaching means everything to us, " Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life’s purpose.

　　Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton’s foundation(基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer’s home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire, “ Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, “as a reminder. "

　　Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imaginationlibrary. com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.

　　The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didn’t want to give the children rubbish, " says Linda. The books—reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists, and Dollywood board members—included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series.

　　Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12, 200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative:　“This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of."

　　The Richters spend about $400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die, “ says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left."

　　1. What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?

　　A. His health problem.　 B. His love for teaching.

　　C. The influence of his wife.D. The news from the Web.

　　2. What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library?

　　A. Give out brochures.

　　B. Do something similar.

　　C. Write books for children.　D. Retire from being a teacher.

　　3. According to the text, Dolly Parton is　.　

　　A. a well-known surgeonB. a mother of a four-year-old

　　C. a singer born in Tennessee D. a computer programmer

　　4. Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?

　　A. To avoid signing up online.

　　B. To meet Dollywood board members.

　　C. To make sure the books were the newest.

　　D. To see if the books were of good quality.

　　5. What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph?

　　A. He needs more money to help the children.

　　B. He wonders why some people are so busy.

　　C. He tries to save those waiting to die.

　　D. He considers his efforts worthwhile.

　　【参考答案】1—5、 ABCDD

　　2016高考模拟题。阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there’s a whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will get you a long-term hurt regardless of your skills or the job’s pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas:

　　1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?

　　There are isolating（孤立的）jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.

　　2) How do you handle change?

　　Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don’t happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.

　　3) Do you enjoy working with computers？

　　I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you’ll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.

　　4) What type of work environment do you enjoy？

　　This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won’t know immediately to a smaller setting where you’ll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.

　　5) How do you like to get paid?

　　Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.

　　Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I’ve seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.

　　1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?

　　A. You may ignore your skills when you select job.

　　B. Job skills are the most important things when you select job.

　　C. There are more important things than job skills when you select job.

　　D. Selecting job, you should assess your skills and match them with the position.

　　2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A. Isolating jobs usually drive people mad.

　　B. Interactive jobs make people shy easily.

　　C. Extreme people tend to work with others.

　　D. Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs.

　　3. What is the missing word about a job search in the following chart?

　　A. Design B. Changes C. Cooperation D. Hobbies

　　4. What is the best title for this passage?

　　A. Lifestyles and Job Pay

　　B. Jobs and Environment

　　C. Job Skills and Abilities

　　D. Personalities and Jobs

　　参考答案1—4、CDCD

　　【阅读理解】人物故事类

　　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。

　　　Finally, Ientered the university. Because of my careful savings, I did not have to work during the school year. Then,summer came and it was time to work harder than ever. I continued working as a waitress at night, instructed tennis camps several mornings a week and worked as a secretary for a few hours in the afternoons. I even decided to take a class at acommunity（社区）college. This class at the community college saved me $650. It was an extremely tiring summer and made me anxious to return to my relatively easy life at the university.

　　　During my　second and third years of undergraduate schooling, I decided to work about five hours per week in the campus（校园）admissions office answering phones. This provided a little spending money and kept me from drawing my savings out. The overall situation looked hopeful as I approached my senior year as long as I could make as much money as I had the previous summer. I wanted to go to Israel to study for 3 weeks, but I hesitated in making this decision because it would cost me $1,600 more to get the credits in Israel. About two weeks later my Mom called to tell me that I had $1,600 in the bank that I had forgotten about! One of my concerns about this trip was not only the cost, but the loss of time to make money; however, I made as much that summer in the ten weeks when I was at home as I had made during the fourteen weeks when I was at home the summer before. The way everything worked together to make this trip possible was one of the most exciting things that have ever happened to me.

　　　This experience has shaped me in many important ways. The first thing that Ilearned was the importance of a strong work ethic (伦理). Working long hours did a lot to develop my character and helped me learn the value of adollar. It also made me learn how to search for creative ways to settle difficult situations.

　　1. Where did the writer probably work part-time before attending the university?

　　A. In a restaurant.　 B. In the tennis camps.

　　C. In a company. D. In the admissions office.

　　2. The writer took a class at a community college mainly because_____.

　　A. she wanted to save money　 B. life there was relatively easy

　　C. summer time was tiring D. it was required by the university

　　3. The writer’s major concern about the trip to Israel was that_____.

　　A. her mother would not give her approval　B. she would fail to get credits in Israel　

　　C. a well-paid summer job would be lost

　　D. $1,600 couldn’t be drawn out in time

　　4. The passage is mainly about how the writer _____.

　　A. made money on the college campus

　　B. managed to make full use of her vacation

　　C. was forced to support herself by her mother

　　D. was shaped by working part-time through college

　　【参考答案】1—4、AACD

　　2016高考模拟题。阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。Inspectors questioned 105 young people for a report on apprenticeships published on Wednesday. They found several examples of young people who felt they had been laughed at by their teachers for wanting to progress to work-based learning, particularly in care or hairdressing, rather than stay on at school.

　　　 Right or wrong, is it any surprise that this is happening? From 2016，the government will measure schools according to the rate of their pupils who go to university. Brian Lightman , general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, says the government has already put teachers under “very great pressure to focus on academic subjects”.

　　　On the other hand, the Education Act 2011，which came into force in November, places schools under a duty to give fair career advice to pupils. This advice must include information on all post-16 education and training choices, including apprenticeships. This doesn’t appear to be happening in several schools, according to Ofsted9S report. Many of the young people the inspectors talked to said the advice they had received on apprenticeships was “unsatisfactory”.

　　Schools were also blamed for lack of work experience courses, which are particularly important for teenagers considering an apprenticeship. They help students decide whether they enjoy a line of work and enable employers to see whether those on work experience have the potential to be hired as apprentices in future years.

　　But there is a good reason why they can’t do this: they’d be unable to adapt to GCSE (英国普通中等教育证书）exams if they did. Sometimes, it seems, schools just can’t win.

　　1. Why do teachers oppose the students’ leaving school and working as apprentices?

　　A. The government urges teachers to concentrate on academic subjects.

　　B. The students are only wasting time working as apprentices.

　　C. Employers are under great pressure of taking GCSE exams.

　　D. Employers don’t give students chances to work as apprentices

　　2. Pressure for schools to provide pupils with career advice comes from ______.

　　A. Association of School and College Leaders

　　B. Education Act 2011

　　C. GCSE exams

　　D. OFSTED

　　3. What does the author think of teachers’ discouraging students working as apprentices?

　　A. Surprising

　　B. Understandable

　　C. Wrong

　　D. Right

　　参考答案1—3、A B B

　　【阅读理解】科普知识类

　　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。

　　FILTON, just outside Bristol, is where Britain’s fleet of Concorde supersonic（超音速的）airliners was built. There, something remarkable is being created. Little by little a machine is “printing” a complex titanium bracket (钛合金支架), about the size of a shoe, which normally would have to be cut from a solid block of metal. Brackets are only the beginning. The researchers at Filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner.

　　Unrealistic as this may seem, many other people are using 3D printing technology to create similarly remarkable things. These include medical implants, jewellery, football boots designed for individual feet, lampshades, racing-car parts, solid-state batteries and customized mobile phones. Some are even making mechanical devices (仪器). At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Peter Schmitt, a PhD student, has been printing something that is like the workings of a grandfather clock. It took him a few attempts to get right, but eventually he removed the plastic clock from a 3D printer, hung it on the wall and pulled down the counterweight. It started ticking.

　　Engineers and designers have been using 3D printers for more than a decade, but mostly to make original types quickly and cheaply before they embark on the expensive business of tooling up a factory to produce the real thing. As 3D printers have become more able to work with a broader range of materials, including production-grade plastics and metals, the machines are increasingly being used to make final products too. More than 20% of the output of 3D printers is now final products rather than original types, according to Terry Wohlers, who runs a research firm specializing in the field. He predicts that this will rise to 50% by 2020.

　　1. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A. Filton is in the centre of Bristol.

　　B. Peter tried to print a clock, but in vain.

　　C. a remarkable metal bracket is being created.

　　D. 3D printing technology is available to all of us.

　　2. The underlined word “embark” probably means “_________”.

　　A. workB. landC. dependD. fix

　　3. We can conclude from the last paragraph that __________.

　　A. Terry Wohlers’ s firm will make great profits

　　B. the technology of 3D printers will be widely adopted

　　C. 3D printers have been in use for at least 100 years

　　D. engineers and designers prefer printing original products

　　4. The passage is developed mainly in the form of _______.

　　A. time and events

　　B. definition and description

　　C. contrast and conclusion

　　D. examples and statements

　　【参考答案】1—4、 CABD

　　Stability

　　Motivation

　　Environment

　　Jobs

　　Skills