高考英语阅读理解巩固精品题练习15.docx

1、高考英语阅读理解巩固精品题练习152014高考英语阅读理解巩固精品题练习（15）及答案阅读理解 Remember how great exercise was when you were a little kid? Back then, racing around the playground or skipping rope for hours, you werent thinking fitness, you were thinking entertainment. But in this age of high-tech home equipment and underused gym

2、memberships, the simple joy of jumping rope has been forgotten. Rediscovering it will give you a total-body exercise you can find. Although considered an excellent form of exercise, jumping rope has never gained widespread acceptance because of two fundamental reasons. First, most people recognize j

3、umping rope as an excellent form of cardiovascular (心血管的) exercise, but they also believe that it is simply too difficult. In other words, they dont think theyll be able to continue jumping for the near 20 minutes that it takes to achieve a beneficial physical outcome. Second, many view it as somewh

4、at boring and overly repetitivenot as something fun or enjoyable. As a matter of fact, jumping rope can be great fun if you find a proper way to practice it. Instead of doing the usual two-foot bounce over and over again, people good at rope-jumping often change their pattern every 10 or 20 jumps. A

5、 single bounce, a doublebounce, a skip, a knee-up, side swings, as well as a variety of other easy-to-learn free-style rope-jumping. Now researchers are learning that jumping rope also prepares the brain for learning. It is an exercise allowing both brain hemispheres to perform in parallel to each o

6、ther. In short , jumping rope can be a life-long activity requiring little equipment, time and space, yet leading to a much healthier life.44. From the first paragraph we learn that .Ajumping rope has faded from peoples memories Bpeople now have more advanced equipment Cracing around the playground

7、was preferred Dpeople now like to have exercise in a gym 45. Rope jumping has not spread widely because .Ait benefits the cardiovascular system Bit is neither easy nor enjoyable Cit is considered boring and repetitive Dit requires little equipment, time and space 46. The first sentence in the 3rd pa

8、ragraph implies .Athere is only one proper way to follow Bthe usual way should not be used Cthe easiest way is always the best Dthere are many ways to follow 47.What is the authors attitude towards rope jumping?AHe is arguing against it. BHe is in favor of it.CHe is sitting on the fence of it. DHe i

9、s not clear about it.参考答案 44-47ABDB C8 2013湖北卷 EA German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists who expected their future to be worse.The paper, published this March in Psychology

10、and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40，000 Germans between ages 18 and 96.The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.Survey respondents (受访者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.The resear

11、chers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middleaged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future.Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfactio

12、n.Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk o

13、f disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade，” wrote Frieder RLang, a professor at the University of ErlangenNuremberg.Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their actions than people who expected a rosy

14、future.“Seeing a dark future may encourage positive evaluations of the actual self and may contribute to taking improved precautions (预防措施)，” the authors wrote.Surprisingly, compared with those in poor health or who had low incomes, respondents who enjoyed good health or income were associated with

15、expecting a greater decline.Also, the researchers said that higher income was related to a greater risk of disability.The authors of the study noted that there were limitations to their conclusions.Illness, medical treatment and personal loss could also have driven health outcomes.However, the resea

16、rchers said a pattern was clear.“We found that from early to late adulthood, individuals adapt their expectations of future life satisfaction from optimistic, to accurate, to pessimistic，” the authors concluded.67According to the study, who made the most accurate prediction of their future life satisfacti