1、 2013高考英语二轮总复习阅读理解精选（15）（教师版）AWUHAN, Hubei province - China coach Bob Donewald answered a summer of criticisms with a fantastic victory in the title game of the FIBA Asia ChampionshipIt was a long summer Donewald said after the game Sunday nightOne month ago, many of you didnt think we would be here
2、A lot of people doubted usBut my team will go to London,We knew it was gonna be a hard game to play - we prepared well mentally, said Chinas Yi Jianlian, who packed in 25 points, 16 rebounds and six blocksBut the toughness was still beyond our imaginationSo hard tonightI am very excitedAfter the nar
3、row final victory over Jordan70-69, Donewald was finally able to shake off the pressureBig thanks to my players, the 41-year-old American saidI am lucky to coach all 12 of themThey are a fun bunch of guys to work withI hope we make the fans proudIt was a tough summer, but with a great endingUnder Do
4、newalds guidance last year, China advanced into the World Championships top 16 with only one group victory and claimed the Guangzhou Asian Game titleChina got some help in Wuhan when its toughest potential challenger, Iran, was beaten by Jordan in the quarterfinalsHu Jiashi, vice president of the Ch
5、inese Basketball Association （CBA）, admitted this championship was most difficult to win due to Yao Mings retirement and a large number of injuriesThe CBA maintained faith in the coaching staff, and all the work paid off, said Hu Even with the victory, Yao Ming, who was hired by CCTV to be a comment
6、ator for the event, urged the CBA to train more young players to keep the nations place in Asia56Which of the following can be the title?ASummertime blues , autumn gold BA hard game to playCA great American coach DYao Mings advice57Which of the following is Not True according to the passage?AChina b
7、eat Iran in the quarterfinalsBChina team prepared for the game for longCBob Donewald gets on well with his playersDThe CBA is satisfied with the coaching staff58What can be concluded from the passage? AChina team had a clear idea of the toughness before the gameBChina team has no match in AsiaCYao M
8、ing will retire after the gameDMany people doubted whether China team could win59Where can the passage come from?Abook Bnewspaper Cfashion magazine DdocumentBI was born and raised in Hong KongFor the past six years, Ive been living in the United StatesI work as a salesgirl in a large department stor
9、eRight now Im going through a difficult period of my life which is hard for me to talk aboutA few months ago, I went to Hong Kong for a visitIt was the first time Id gone back there since coming to the United StatesI was eager to see my parents, my brothers, my sisters and my friendsI really got a s
10、hock when I arrivedHong Kong was not the same city as I left six years ago Things had changed so much that I didnt recognize parts of itMy primary school was goneThe houses on the street where 1 used to live had been torn down and replaced by office buildingsThe shock from the physical changes in th
11、e city, however, was nothing compares to the confusion and hurt I soon began to feel in my parents homeMy family greeted warmly when I arrivedWhile, my mother was busy preparing a special dinner in my honor, the rest of the family eagerly asked me questions about my life in the United StatesI felt h
12、appy that day and for a couple of days after, but then I began to feel that something was wrongI noticed that my family, especially my mother, would sometimes glance at me in a strange way when I was speakingThey gradually became less warm and friendly towards me, I became uncomfortable and confused
13、 as to why they were behaving that dayI decided to talk to my motherShe asked me, Have you forgotten your Chinese way? I asked her what she meantShe asked, Youve forgotten the place of women in a Chinese home You talk when you should remain silentYou speak on matters that of concern only to menYou s
14、peak openly of your inner feelings and desiresThats not the way of a Chinese womanWe keep our thoughts and feelings to ourselves60I was born and raised in Hong Kong Here raise means_Abring up Bstay Cbecome higher Dlive61What shocked the author most during her visit in Hong Kong?AThe physical changes
15、 in Hong KongBHer primary school didnt exist any longerCShe couldnt recognize parts of Hong KongDThe confusion and hurt she experienced in her parents home62Why did the authors family become less warm and friendly towards her?AShe had forgotten her role as a womanBShe didnt follow the Chinese custom
16、 about how a woman should behave at homeCShe spoke of her inner feelings and desires directlyDShe talked about matters that were not concerned with women63The best title for this passage is _AMy Trip in Hong Kong BThe Changes in Hong KongCCaught Between Two CulturesDThe Chinese WayCMy students often
17、 tell me that they do not have enough time to do all their schoolwork My reply is often a brief You have as much time as the presidentI usually carry on a bit about there being twenty four hours in the day for everyone, and suggest that not enough time is not an acceptable explanation of not getting
18、 something doneOnce in graduate school, 1 tried to justify （证明有理） myself to one of my professors by saying that I was working hardHis answer to me was, Thats irrelevantWhats important is the quality of your work Since then I have had time to reflect on the hard worker dodge （妙计）,and I have come to s
19、ome conclusions, all relevant to the issue of how much time we haveIf you look at the matter analytically, you can identify two parts of the problem: There is, of course, the matter of time, which we can think of as fixedThen there is the issue of work during that time, which can vary in intensityBu
20、t, as my professor suggested, its not the diligence of the work but the quality of the product thats importantThat led me to a new idea: the quality of the workThat concept is perhaps best explained by a sign I once saw on the wall in someones office: Dont work harderWork smarter Theres a lot of sen
21、se in that ideaIf you cant get more time, and few of us can, the only solution is to improve the quality of the workThat means devising（想出） ways of getting more out of the same time than we might otherwise getThat should lead us to an analysis of our work habitsSince work for students usually means
22、homework, the expression work habits should be read as study habitsThen, as a smart student, you will seek to improve those skills that you use in study, chiefly reading and writingIf you learn to read better and write better, there are big benefits that pay off across the board in all your studies6
23、4From the passage, we know that the author is most probably_Aa poet Ban educator Ca novelist Dan engineer65We can infer from the second paragraph that students still_Ahave enough time Bcan meet the presidentCcan get something done well Dshould accept the teachers suggestion66Which of the following i
24、s TRUE according to the passage?AMy students often make full use of their time to do all their homeworkBI once tried to show myself to my professor by saying that I was wrongCMany of us can get more time to improve the quality of the workDImproving reading and writing skills will benefit students a
25、lot67Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?ANot an Acceptable Explanation BDot Work HarderWork SmarterCAn Analysis of Our Work Habits DRead Better And Write BetterDWhen people lose legs after accidents or illnesses, emergency care and artificial limbs（假肢）often allow them to
26、walk againNewts （蝾螈）in the same situation, on the other hand, can grow limbs back on their own! Scientists have known for a long time that certain animals can re-grow limbs, but they havent quite figured out how these creatures do itResearchers have now come up with some new ideasTheir work may give
27、 people the ability to regrow lost limbsThe researchers started with two simple experiments: when you cut a newts leg at the ankle, only the foot grows back; when you cut off a leg at the very end, the whole leg grows backIn both cases, the regrowth begins with stem cellsStem cells can develop into
28、nearly any type of cell in the bodyHow do a newts stem cells know when to grow only a foot and when to regrow a whole leg? This question relates to another mysteryIn newts, a cut-off leg will grow back only if the nerve bundle（神经束） in it also grows back, but if something prevents the nerve bundle fr
29、om growing the stem cells at the wound wont re-grow a new legIn its study, a British team focused on a protein called n-AGWhen the team prevented nerves in a limb from growing, but added the n-AG protein to stem cells in the limb, the limb still regrewThat protein seems to guide limb regrowthPeople
30、have proteins that are similar to n-AG Further research into these materials may someday some day help human limbs recover by themselves68A newt will regrow its leg if_Aits ankle was cut off but the nerve bundle was goodBits leg was cut off and the nerve bundle stopped growingCits leg was cut off an
31、d the nerve bundle could grow backDits ankle and the nerve bundle could grow back69What do the underlined words these materials refer to?ANerve bundles and proteins BProteins similar to n-AGCStem cells and proteins DStem cells and nerve bundles70The first sentence of the passage_Aacts as a lead-in B
32、shows where researchers got their new ideasCstates the authors opinion Ddescribes the result of researchers studies71Whats the purpose of studying the newts?ATo find out whether newts would regrow after being cutting offBTo find out the similarity between human and newtsCTo find out what is n-AGDTo
33、find a way of helping human limbs recover by themselvesEThe poor are very wonderful peopleOne evening we went out and we picked up four people from the streetAnd one of them was in a most terrible conditionand I told the sisters: You take care of the other threeI take care of this one who looked wor
34、seSo I did for her all that my love can doI put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her faceShe took hold of my hand as she said just the words Thank you and she diedI could not help but examine my conscience before her and I asked what I would say if I was in her placeAnd my answer
35、was very simpleI would have tried to draw a little attention to myselfI would have said I am hungry, I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much moreshe gave me her grateful loveAnd she died with a smile on her faceSo did that man whom we picked up from the drain, half ea
36、ten with worms, and we brought him to the homeI have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for, he said at the endAnd it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, wi
37、thout cursing anybody, without comparing anythingLike an angelthis is the greatness of our peopleAnd that is why we believe what Jesus has said: I was hungry, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it to meAnd with this prize that I received as a Prize of Peace, 1 am going
38、 to try to make the home for many people who have no homeBecause I believe that love begins at home and if we can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spreadAnd we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, the good news to the poor, the poor in our own f
39、amily first, in our country and in the worldWhen I pick up a person from the street, hungry and I give him a plate of rice or a piece of bread, I am satisfiedI have removed that hungerBut to a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, who has been thrown out from society, that
40、poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearableAnd so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of loveand once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something72What can be learned from the second paragraph?AThe woman should have paid more attention to her
41、selfBThe man couldnt blame anyoneCThe author is religiousDThe man died in the street73The purpose of this passage is _Ato appeal for more donation for the poorBto call on the public to love each otherCto tell the readers the poor are wonderfulDto express how moved the author is to receive the prize7
42、4Which of the following can NOT be inferred from the passage?AThe author has few supportersBThe author was somewhat surprised at what the man saidCThe author is delighted to help others in troubleDThe author may agree to solve social problems in soft ways75Whats the best title of this passage?AHave Sympathy for the Poor BThe Poor Are WonderfulCSmile and Love DRelieve Poverty参考答案
