1、高考攻略高考攻略 黄冈第二轮复习新思维(三)英语第二轮 阅读理解 命题人;董德松 易赏 Ex. 1A Ill be the first to admit that I am a technophobe(对技术有恐惧感的人).Who would have guessed thata website would help repay a 20-year-old loan? I1l always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a party in the SixthForm Common Ro
2、om; Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to buy all the snacks. Im really looking forward to this party, Stingy, she said. Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didnt like to spend money. Actually, it was true. Theres lots of money in the kitty(零星凑起的一笔钱). Let
3、s go crazy! Going crazy meant buying ehough snacks to feed an army. It came to 19.90,which was a lot of money in 1982. Jenny gave me a guilty( 内疚的) look. Ive left-the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and Ill give you back the money? Sure, I replied, trying to look relaxed. Neither a lende
4、r or a borrower be was my motto but I didnt want to look stingy(小气). I gave 20 to the impatient shop assistant. Well, the Party was a great success. So great that I completely forgot about my loan until I was flying to America the next day. I was going to live with my uncles family until I started u
5、niversity. I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My 20 was lost. Until. Id heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old school friends. My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was,Jenny Frost. Im now married with a beautiful d
6、aughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Debbie Stingy Jones? I still owe her 20! We met two months later and the 20 was returned, plus interest(利息)of course. After all, Im a bank manager now, so loans are my business. 1. Why did Jenny spend a lot of mon-ey on the snacks? ( )
7、 A. Debbie had money. B. There was money.she could use. C. She wanted Debbie to stop being stingy. D. She wanted to be crazy. 2. How did Debbie get her money at last? ( ) A. Her husband found Jenny. B. Jenny had a website on the Internet. C. Debbie met Jenny. D. Debbie put a message on the Friends R
8、eunited website. 3. Which sentence best describes Debbie Jones? ( )A. She didnt like to spend money at school and often uses computers. B. She sometimes lends money and doesnt like using computers. C. She sometimes lends money and uses,the computer whenever she can. D. She only lends money to friend
9、s and doesnt like using computers.4. We know from the passage that Jenny _ . ( ) A. liked parties at school and felt guilty about borrowing money B. had fun at school but soon forgot about her school friends C. forgot her best friend at school until she saw the Friends Reunited website D. was forget
10、ful about the moneyB Solomon Shereshevski was a man with an amazing memory. He was one of the worlds most famous me-monists (记忆能手). Born in Russia in about 1900, he spent much of his life performing memory skills that people found difficult to believe. He could memorize long lists of numbers after r
11、eading them through once, and he could then recite(背诵) them forwards or back-wards. He could also remember the same numbers months later. He could easily remember lists of names, dozens of playing cards or hundreds of cities. Although he had a wonderful memory, he found some normal skills very diffi
12、cult. For example, he found it difficult to learn to read. He also found it diffi-cult to recognize patterns in words or numbers. When presented with a long list of numbers like this : 1234 4231 5678 8765 6789 9876 he could not see that there was a pattern. If he could see or hear a collection of nu
13、mbers, he could remember it. However, this did not mean that he could understand what he was looking at. He could remember long complex mathematical formulas, but could not understand what the numbers meant. Solomon suffered from a condition known as Syn-aesthesia. This meant that all of his senses
14、were con-nected in a special way. In other words, when he heard a particular word he also experienced a unique taste, or saw a unique color. Each word that he heard brought a particular description into his mind. Each word for him was unique, because he remembered it as a taste, a smell, a color or
15、a sound, or all of them together. He was not a clever man except this ability and people found him rather stupid. He found it difficult to,become friends with other people because his mind was so different. In a way, his memory was a curse(祸根). He remembered everything, and that made it difficult fo
16、r him to understand anything.5. We know from the first paragraph that ( ) A. all of his life, Solomon was kept busy doing mem-ory tricks B. if Solomon read a list of numbers he could immedi-ately remember them C. Solomon could memorize long list of numbers andfound their patterns D. people thought S
17、olomon could remember the most things in the world6. Solomon had very powerful memory, but he . ( ) A. could not read or write B. never knew what people meant when they said to him C. could not work out some simple math problems D. found everything he did was meaningless7. When a person suffers from
18、 synaesthesia, he (or she) . ( ) A. senses things usually in a wrong way B. confuses feelings with c61ors or tastes C. often connects words he (or she) hears with things he(or she) experienced D.each word he (or she) hears changes its meaning completely8. The author wants to express an idea that . (
19、 ) A. one cannot be good at both memorizing and understanding things B. some people are actually quite stupid though they seem clever C. having a good memory does not mean having good intelligence D. the more you can memorize, the more stupid you will certainly beCLast year, my boyfriend suggested t
20、hat I should run the London marathon(马拉松), and I laughed. He laughed too, but he laughed too long and too loud. That made me think. I realized that he didnt believe that I could do it. That made me angry, and determined, Now he knows that I can! Training wasnt easy, but I kept going. I didnt need sp
21、ecial training but I did need to buy very goodshoes. Each day, I went a little further. By the end of three months, I was running five days a week. Some- times in the evenings I ran 10 km; on Sunday mornings, I sometimes ran about 30 kin. I used to comehome, have a shower and eat my breakfast. I fel
22、t wonderful ! On the day of the race in London, I lined up with about 30,000 other runners. The faster runners were at the front, while slower runners like me were placed further back. In that way, the professional runners and club runners were not slowed down by the amateurs(业余爱好者). At first, there
23、 were so many runners close together that we were almost falling over each other. We could only run very slowly but that was a good thing because it meant that we didnt rush off too quickly. Gradually the runners spread out and there was more space. There were thousands of people watching us along t
24、he route and they cheered and clapped everyone, even the slowest runner. It was wonderful! For the first 10 km I felt very happy and my legs felt very comfortable. However, at 15 km I got a pain in my side and running became difficult, but I kept going and the pain disappeared. At the 30 km mark, I
25、felt extremely tired, and wanted to stop, but I kept on going. I covered another 3 km and then I began to feel better again. By the time I reached the 35 km mark, I knew I was going to get to the end of the course. Somehow that confidence made me feel lighter and faster and it seemed as if my legs f
26、lew over the last few kilometers. I passed hundreds of slower runners, some of whom had passed me earlier, and I felt wonderful! AS I came round the last bend(弯道)and saw the finishing line, I could see three runners ahead of me. I raced past all of them to finish the race in just under four hours. T
27、he winner had completed the race in 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I didnt care! I had run 42 km and com-pleted my first marathon!9. The writers boyfriend laughed at her because . ( )A. he thought she could run the marathon B. he .didnt think she could run the marathon C. he wanted her to run the marat
28、hon D. she wanted to run the marathon 10. When the race began . ( ) A. all,the faster runners were asked to stand before those slower ones B. many runners fell over each other C. all the runners were asked to run slowly D. the professional runners and club runners ran very fast 11. The hardest time
29、for the writer was when she . ( )A. had run for 15 kilometers B. got a pain in her side C. reached the 30 kilometer mark D. was about to reach the finish line 12. The passage suggests that it is better to start a long race slowly . ( ) A. than to run at the same speed all the time B. than to run too
30、 fast at the beginning C. than to run slowly at the end D. than to run very fast all the timeDWhats on TV? 6 : 00 Lets Talk! Guest : Animal expert Jim Porter Cartoons News News 7 : 00 Cooking with Cathy Tonight: Chicken with mushrooms. Movie A Laugh a Minute (1955) James Rayburn. Spin for Dollars! F
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