高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 274.docx

1、高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 274高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 274Passage 1Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Songtang Hospital, a care clinic for the aged and dying patients, during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21.Thirty student volunteers from the universitys School of International Studie

2、s sat at the beds of the patients in their specially-decorated care huts. They talked with them and gave massages(按摩)to patients kept in their beds.I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up. said Deng Yetao, 20, a third-year student.

3、But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies. They are afraid of the coming death. Their loneliness is worse than physical pains.Even though they are suffering a lot, the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us. Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosop

4、hies(哲学) to share. Instead of doing them a favor, I felt I was benefited a lot,” said Mao Xiaohua,another third-year student.Mao talked with two elderly patients for a whole afternoon. The fact that most of the patients in the 80-room clinic are aged people with diseases that will lead to death soon

5、 made the volunteers hearts heavy.Ninety-one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic, according to a survey by the hospital. For people at this stage of their lives, loneliness is even more dreadful(可怕的) than death itself, said Li Wei, president of the hospital.

6、Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their program. A total of 330,000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital. Many continue to offer services in their spare time. They showered them with kindnesses. Some

7、 of them even volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives.Yin Hang, a student from Beijing Medical College, said he felt the glory(光荣) of life as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness while he was holding hi

8、s hands.1. What does the underlined sentence They showered them with kindnesses mean?A. They talked to them with patience. B. They gave them massages with care.C. They helped them with showers. D. They offered them whatever help with love.2. What did the volunteers gain from this activity?A. A great

9、 encouragement. B. A welcome favor.C. A valuable lesson. D. A good reward.3. We can learn from the report that.A. young people are fond of popular social activitiesB. the first Global Youth Service Day was started inC. ninety-one percent of the aged in China are living in clinicsD. the volunteers sh

10、ow a willing heart to this kind of activityPassage 2That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theater. With opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines. I was having troubl

11、e dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me. As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running,

12、 both to keep warm and to keep away any possible robbers(抢劫犯). Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empt

13、y. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.Suddenly I wasnt cold or tired anymore. I ran

14、 out of the door and back to where Id heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck(垃圾车) pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside,

15、“Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eyes. “Is this what youre looking for?” he asked, holding up a small square shape.It was nearly 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I wouldnt g

16、et much sleep that night, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldnt be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other.1. How did the writer feel when she was walking home after work?A. Cold and sick. B. Lucky and ho

17、peful.C. Satisfied and cheerful. D. Disappointed and helpless.2. From the first paragraph, we learn that the writer was busy_.A. solving her problem at the bankB. taking part in various city activitiesC. learning acting in an evening schoolD. preparing for the first night show3. On her way home the

18、writer_.A. lost her wallet unknowinglyB. was stopped by a garbage truck driverC. was robbed of her wallet by a man with a knifeD. found some homeless people following her4. In the fifth paragraph, why did the writer say she was dreaming?A. Someone offered to take her back home.B. A red-haired man ca

19、me to see her.C. She heard someone call her name.D. Her wallet was found in a garbage truck.5. From the text, we can infer that the writer_.A. would stop working at nightB. would stay on in San FranciscoC. would make friends with cleanersD. would give up her job at the bankPassage 3Whats small, buzz

20、es here and there and visits flowers? If you said bees or hummingbirds, you got it. You wouldnt be the first if you mixed the two up. Now a group of researchers even say we should embrace our history of considering the two together in the same group. The way scientists study bees could help them stu

21、dy hummingbird behavior, too.Scientists first compared the two back in the 1970s when studying how animals search for food. The idea is that animals use a kind of math to make choices in order to minimize the work it takes to earn maximum rewards. Researchers at the time focused on movement rules, l

22、ike the order in which they visited flowers, and where flowers were located relative to others. It was “almost like an algorithm(算法)” for efficient searching, said David Pritchard, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Hummingbirds and bees had similar solutions.As the field of a

23、nimal cognition(认知) appeared, hummingbird and bee research parted. Neuroscientists and behavioral ecologists developed ways to study bee behavior in naturalistic settings. Hummingbird researchers compared hummingbirds to other birds and borrowed methods from psychology to study their ability to lear

24、n in the lab. To be fair, hummingbirds and bees differ. For example, hummingbirds have more advanced eyes and brains than bees. Honeybees and bumblebees are social; hummingbirds typically arent.But however they perceive(感知) or process information, they both experience similar information, Dr. Pritch

25、ard said. In day-to-day searching for food, for example, hummingbirds may rely on more of a bees-eye view than a birds-eye view. Like other birds, they rely on landmarks, distances and directions to make maps when travelling long distances, but they dont use these cues to find flowers. Move a flower

26、 just an inch or so away from where a hummingbird thought it was and it will hover over the flowers original location. Dr. Pritchard is investigating if, like bees, hummingbirds engage in view matching hovering, scanning snapshots of a place to its memory and using those as references later.1. What

27、is the center of research on hummingbirds and bees in the 1970s?A. Memory.B. Movement rules.C. Reward calculating.D. Information processing.2. Which subjects research methods were adopted to study the learning ability of Hummingbirds?A. Math.B. Biology.C. Ecology.D. Psychology.3. How do researchers

28、find out that hummingbirds are not like birds?A. By setting them free.B. By moving flowers.C. By matching view.D. By making maps.4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. Hummingbirds and BeesB. Hummingbirds in the LabC. New Trends in Studying BeesD. Thinking of Hummingbirds as

29、 BeesPassage 4The belief that new technologies are causing the death of work is the idea that never goes away. Despite evidence to the contrary, we still view technological change today as being more rapid and dramatic in its consequences for work than ever before. But this is nothing new. People ha

30、ve always viewed the technological changes that take place during their lives as the most dramatic and dangerous that ever happened in history.In the 1930s, the British economist(经济学家) John Maynard Keynes predicted the widespread use of electricity would produce a world where people spend most of th

31、eir time doing nothing. In the United States during the 1960s, the government repeatedly investigates fears that automatic machines would permanently reduce the amount of work available. In 1988, one Australian historian claimed that at least a quarter of the workforce would be without jobs within 1

32、0 years because of computers.Of course, none of these disasters came to pass in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, or anywhere else.Yet today, we are seeing the return of these predictions, with some experts claiming the world of work is once more undergoing radical and unprecedented change. They argue that robots and other workplace technologies are causing a reduction in the total amount of work available, or are bringing a more rapid pace of substitution of machines f