高一英语阅读理解强化训练Day 40Word下载.docx

1、There is the dining room table where I celebrated birthdays, and where I cried on Halloween-when I didnt want to wear the skirt my mother made for me. I always liked standing on that table because it made me feel tall and strong. If I sit at this table, I can see my favorite room in the house, my pa

2、rents room. It is simple: a brown wooden dresser lines the right side of the wall next to a television and a couple of photos of my grandparents on each side. Their bed is my safe zone. I can jump on it anytime - waking up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot

3、wait until the morning. Im lucky because I know my first home still exists. It exists in my mind and heart, on a physical property（住宅） on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles. It is proof I lived, I grew and I learned. Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go

4、home. I know its where Ill find my family, my dogs, and my belongings. I purposely leave the window open at night because I know Ill be blamed by Mom. But I dont mind, because I want to hear her say my name, which reminds me Im home. 1. Why does the author call her parents bed her safe zone（Paragrap

5、h 3）?A. It is her favorite place to play. B. Her needs can be satisfied there. C. Her grandparents photos are lined on each side. D. Her parents always play together with her there. 2. What can be learned from the passage?A. The old furniture is still in the authors fist bedroom. B. The author can s

6、till visit her first physical home in Los Angeles. C. The authors favorite room in her first home is the dining room. D. Many people of the authors age can still find their first physical homes. 3. Sometimes when she feels lost, the author will _. A. Open the window at nightB. lie down in bed to hav

7、e a dreamC. try to bring back a sense of homeD. go to Los Angeles to visit her mom3. What is the authors purpose of writing this passage?A. To express how much she is attached to her home. B. To declare how much she loves her first house. C. To describe the state of her family. D. To look back on he

8、r childhood. Passage 2Smartphones, tablets and smart watches are banned at school for all children under 15 in France. Under the ban students are not able to use their phones at all during school hours, including meal breaks. “I think its a good thing. School is not about being on your phone, ” Pari

9、s mum Marie-Caroline Madeleine told AFP. “Its hard with kids. You cant control what they see and thats one of the things that worries me as a parent. ”There is no law like this in Australia, but some Australian schools have banned phones. McKinnon Secondary School in Victoria introduced a total ban

10、in February and Principal Pitsa Binnion said this has been a success. McKinnon students still have a Chromebook to use in every class for day-to-day learning but theyre not allowed to use social media. Ms. Binnion said at first “teachers cheered and students moaned （抱怨）, ” but now theyre seeing the

11、positives （优势）. “They come to school and theyre not allowed to use phones at all during the school day, including lunch breaks, ” she said. “Its been wonderful as for students communicating with each other at lunchtime and not looking at their screen, ” Ms. Binnion said. She also leads by example an

12、d doesnt use her mobile phone in school. “I think anyone can do it if weve done it. ”Not everyone agrees with the bans. Western Sydney University technology researcher Dr. Joanne Orlando wrote in online magazine The Conversation earlier this year that Australia should not ban phones in schools becau

13、se its important to educate kids to live in the age they are raised in. “A good education for students today is knowing how to use technology to learn, communicate and work with ideas, ” she wrote. “Banning students from using smartphones is a 1950s response to a 2020 state-of-play. ”1. Why did Made

14、leine welcome the ban?A. Teachers find it hard to control kids. B. Kids behave badly nowadays. C. School is for studying. D. Her kids depend too much on phones. 2. What can we learn about the ban in McKinnon Secondary School?A. Students can now see the good of the ban. B. Some teachers were against

15、it at first. C. Students can use their phones at lunch breaks. D. Teachers have stopped using phones at school as well. 3. What does Dr. Joanne Orlando think of banning phones in schools?A. It will disconnect parents and kids. B. It will cause kids to communicate less. C. It will make education go b

16、ack 60 years. D. It will prevent kids being tech-minded. Passage 3People are less likely to yawn（打哈欠） when others do as they get older, a study has found. Contagious（传染的） yawning is related more closely to a persons age than tiredness and energy levels, US-based scientists said. Researchers are now

17、looking at whether to catch yawn from other people is a born ability, with the hope of helping treat some mental health disorders. People with some mental illnesses are reportedly less able to catch yawns, researchers said, so understanding the genes（基因） that are connected with contagious yawning co

18、uld open new paths for treatment. In the study, published in the journal Plos One, 328 participants were shown a three-minute video showing other people yawning. Each participant had to click a button every time they yawned. Overall, 68 percent of the participants yawned. Of those, 82 percent of peo

19、ple aged under 25 yawned, compared with 60 percent of people aged between 25 and 49, and 41 percent of people aged over 50. Dr Elizabeth Cirulli, assistant professor of medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, led the study. She said, This is the first study to look at a large number o

20、f factors. It is the largest study, when it comes to the number of people participating, till now. She said she did not know why contagious yawning reduced with age. Dr Cirulli added that although age was the most important predictor（预测器） of contagious yawning, only 8% of the change in whether or no

21、t a participant yawned was explained by their age. Most of change in the contagious yawning reaction was just not explained, said Dr Cirulli. Robert R Province, professor of psychology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, said the study was special as it was the first time a link betwe

22、en ageing and contagious yawning had been shown. Prof Province said the findings could help to understand why laughing and coughing were so contagious. He added, Contagious acts such as yawning and laughing remind us that we are often mindless to control our behavior. 1. Why do the researchers carry

23、 out studies on yawning? _A. To stop yawning from spreading. B. To deal with some mental illnesses. C. To find out yawning is a born activity. D. To help prevent people from yawning. 2. What can we learn from the study on yawning?A. The study lasted for 3 minutes. B. A 15-year-old boy is more likely

24、 to yawn than a 50-year-old man. C. People with mental disease are more likely to yawn when others do. D. Age has the most important influence on contagious yawning. 3. Which of the following is Professor Provines opinion?A. The study is so far the largest one as for the number of people participati

25、ng. B. Aging and contagious yawning are closely related. C. People are often influenced by contagious acts without knowing it. D. Factors besides age also have an effect on contagious yawning. 4. What is the best title of the passage?A. New paths for treatment of mental disorders. B. Opinions of pro

26、fessors on contagious yawning. C. Influences of contagious yawning on people. D. Ageing and contagious yawning. Passage 4Why do we have to learn all this dumb stuff? Of all the complaints and questions I have heard from my students during my years in the classroom, this was the one most frequently a

27、sked. I would answer it by telling the following legend. One night a group of nomads （游牧民） were preparing to retire for the evening when suddenly they were surrounded by a great light. They knew they were in the presence of a godly being. With great expectation, they awaited a heavenly message of gr

28、eat importance that they knew must be especially for them. Finally, the voice spoke, Gather as many pebbles （鹅卵石） as you can. Put them in your bags. Travel a days journey and tomorrow night will find you glad and it will find you sad. The nomads shared their disappointment and anger with each other.

29、 They had expected the inspiration of a great universal truth that would enable them to create wealth, health and purpose for the world. But instead they were given a silly task that made no sense to them at all. However, the memory of the brilliance of their visitor caused each one to pick up a few

30、 pebbles and store them in their bags while voicing their displeasure. They traveled a days journey and that night while making camp, they reached into their bags and discovered every pebble they had gathered had become a diamond. They were glad they had diamonds. They were sad they had not gathered more pebbles. It was an experience I had with a student, whom I shall call Alan, early in my teaching career that