1、【2015高考复习】阅读理解A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world.Weboholism，a twentieth century disease，affects people from different ages.They surf the Net，use emails and speak in chat rooms.They spend many hours on the computer，and it becomes a compulsive habit.They cannot stop，and
2、 it affects their lives.Ten years ago，no one thought that using computers could become compulsive behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users.This obsessional behavior has affected teenagers and college students.They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours a
3、t different websites.They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation.They spend all free time surfing and dont concentrate on homework，so this addiction influences their grades and success at school.Because they can find everything on the webs
4、ites，they hang out there.Moreover，this addiction to websites influences their social life.They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends.The relation with their friends changes.The virtual life becomes more important than their real life.They have a new language that they speak i
5、n the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society.Because of the change in their behavior，they begin to keep themselves apart from society and live with their virtual friends.They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life.Although they feel confide
6、nt on the computer，they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life.It is a problem for the future.This addictive behavior is beginning to affect all the world.【语篇解读】网瘾在全球迅速蔓延，成为世纪通病，影响着不同年龄的人群。1The authors attitude towards weboholism is that of being_.AoptimisticBdisappr
7、ovingCpositive Dacceptable解析作者态度题。结合第一段后半部分提到的网瘾的不良影响可知，作者对网瘾持不赞成的态度。另外，第三、四、五段的内容都是线索提示。答案B2What is the main idea of the passage?AThe influence of weboholism. BThe advantage of weboholism.CThe popularity of weboholism.DThe cause of weboholism.解析主旨大意题。文章第一段开门见山地阐述了网瘾的危害，然后从不同方面详细阐述了它造成的不良影响，所以A项最能概括
8、文章大义。答案A3What does the underlined word “obsessional” in the second paragraph most probably mean?AAttractive.BProfessional.CAddictive.DPotential.解析词义猜测题。第二段最后一句提到青少年和大学生可能会登录电脑，在不同的网站上花费很长的时间，由此可推知“obsessional”的意思是“痴迷的，上瘾的”，与“addictive”同义。答案C4We can infer from the passage that_.Aweboholism has the gr
9、eatest effect on teenagersBstudents can hardly balance real and virtual lifeCpeople are addicted to games on the InternetDvirtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway解析推理判断题。根据倒数第二段第三句“The virtual life becomes more important than their real life.”以及最后一段第一句中的“they begin to keep themselves apart f
10、rom society and live with their virtual friends”可推知，学生们几乎不能平衡真实生活和虚拟生活。答案B阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。The multi-million pound new Library of Birmingham (LoB) will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization (数字化) of everyday life. Set to open in 2013, the 18
11、8m LoB is already beginning to take shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment. As digital media (媒介) is important toits idea, the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies. Brian G
12、ambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning:“The aim is to mix the physical with the digital, providing 24-hour services which can be used through many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.”The digital l
13、ibrary will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public. Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual (虚拟的) LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual wor
14、lds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about the LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens. Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are also working on the LoB projects. Sub
15、strat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls an example of an “enlarged reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of development. And The Peoples Archive is an online library of historical figures of th
16、e city being built up by a digital content company in Cahoots, in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material. Gambles says:“Technology will enable us to make the librarys content and services open to citizens as never before.”1. The underlined part “its idea” in Paragraph 3
17、 refers to the idea of.A. the equipmentB. the projectC. the digital mediaD. the physical library2. While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can.A. get a general idea of the LoBB. meet many world-famous expertsC. learn how to put up a library buildingD. understand how the specialists work on the pr
18、oject3. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens? a. It offers better learning tools. b. It reaches users in different ways.c. It provides users with smart phones. d. It allows users to enrich its material.e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services.A. a, b, dB. a, c, eC. b, c,
19、 dD. b, d, e4. The text is most probably taken from.A. a computer bookB. a library guideC. a project handbookD. a newspaper report【参考答案】1-4 BAAD【2015高考复习】任务型读写If you can find a tree which has been cut down，you will see many rings，or circles，on the base of the trunk.By learning to read these rings，yo
20、u can find out about the trees life.The number of rings tells you how old the tree is.Each year，new wood is formed on the outside of the tree.This new wood is light in color when the tree is growing in spring and summer，and dark in winter when the tree is not growing much.So，if you count the rings o
21、f darkorlight colored wood，you can often find out how old the tree is.You can also tell which years have been good years and which years have been bad years.When the lightcolored rings are very wide，it means that the tree has been growing quickly that year.If the rings are narrow，it has been growing
22、 slowly.If the rings on a tree trunk were greatly magnified，you would be able to see why the rings are lightcolored when the tree is growing quickly and darkcolored when the tree is growing slowly.The tree trunk is made up of microscopic tubes，like some pipes，carrying water from the soil，through the
23、 trunk，and up to the leaves.They are wide and thinwalled when the tree is growing quickly and they are carrying a lot of water.They are narrow and stuck together when the tree is not growing so quickly.When a tree is old，the tubes in the centre of the tree dont carry water.The walls of the tubes hav
24、e become thick with materials which have stuck along them over the years，forming a kind of wood called“heartwood”This kind of wood is darker in color than the young，growing wood on the outside of the tree.You dont very often see whole tree trunks which have been cut across.But once you learn to read
25、 a cross section of the wood，you can see much more in wood which has been used to make boxes，houses and other things.In most wood，instead of seeing the trunk cut across，you are seeing it cut along its length.Because you dont see the whole tree，you cant tell how old it is.Title：_20_of a TreeGeneral i
26、nformationOld treesItemsFactsItemsFactsWhere can rings be seenOn the _21_of a trunkThe tubes in the centre of the treeDont carry waterThe_22_of ringsHelps us know about its ageThe walls of the tubesBecome _23_；Form _24_25_lightcolored ringsShow the tree grows quicklyNarrow_26_ringsMean the tree grow
27、s slowlyMicroscopic tubesFunctionCarry_27_FeaturesWide and _28_when growing quicklyNarrow and stuck together when growing _29_【语篇解读】 本文介绍了怎样从树的年轮来看树的生长情况和年龄。20Rings/Circles从第一段可直接得出答案。21base从第一段第一句可直接得出答案。22number从第二段第一句可直接得出答案。23thick从第四段第二句可直接得出答案。24heartwood第四段第二句可直接得出答案。25Wide第三段第二句可直接得出答案。26dar
28、kcolored第三段第四句可直接得知。27water第三段倒数第二句可直接得知。28thinwalled第三段倒数第二句可得知。29slowly从第三段最后一句not growing so quickly转换而来。【上海市虹口区2014模拟】任务型阅读Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. adapt B. natives
29、 C. identities D. cost-saving E. alert F. insteadG. established H. practically I. route J. enrolled K. significantOfficials at Boston College have made what may be a critical decision: theyve stopped giving out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students had alr
30、eady established digital 41 by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being used, but, 42 , the college will offer forwarding (转发) services.Starting next year, freshman 43 at Boston College wont be given an actual email account complete with login and inbox, just an
31、email address. This address, in the format of johnsmithbc. edu will simply forward mail to the students already 44 inbox, be it Gmail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, or whatever else they may be using.The college reached a smart decision after first looking into outsourcing （外包） their email to
32、the cloud. While the Boston College decision may have been made for 45 reasons more than anything, we can easily imagine this as being the start of a new trend.Can you even imagine a U.S. college student who didnt have an email address of their own by the time they were a freshman? Its 46 unheard of
33、. Todays students are digital 47 immersed (浸润) in technology from the day they were born. It simply doesnt make sense to give them yet another account to manage when they enter college.By going this 48 , there are still some challenges to overcome, though. For example, a student who changes their em
34、ail carrier will probably forget to 49 the institution to the change and could then miss out on 50 messages from the university with regard to their courses, scholarship, safety information, etc.In the end, we think the decision Boston College made could easily be the start of a new trend. Were sure the students like it, too. 【参考答案】41. C 42. F 43. J 44. G 45. D 46. H 47. B 48. I 49. E 50. K
