1、重庆市合川二中2016高考英语二轮阅读理解统练（13）及答案阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Education isnt all about classrooms. Homework plays a huge role in student learning. Given how much time we spend studying in a lifetime, and how hard it is to find time to study, techniques that make studying more efficient that is
2、, techniques that allow you to learn more in the same amount of time can be incredibly valuable. One of the most important study techniques that you dont know about is this: Space your studying. What does that mean? If you are going to study something twice (or more), try to let as much time pass as
3、 possible between the first and second time you study. For example, dont read your textbook chapter and then review it on the same day. Study it and then review it on a different day, and allow as much time to pass between the two study sessions as possible. Better yet, spread your studying across n
4、umerous days. You dont necessarily have to study more, you just have to distribute your study time differently. When you sit down to study, mix up your topics instead of studying one topic per day, study every topic a little bit every day. My research team had a combined 50 years experience studying
5、 the spacing effect. We should have known better, because our prediction couldnt have been more wrong. Spacing helped enormously. Spacing gives you time to forget. This forgetting is a good thing; forgetting is the friend of learning. But forgetting can make you feel like you are not learning. On th
6、e other hand, re-studying something right away makes it seem easy to remember. Unfortunately, this makes people feel that spacing hinders learning. Your intuition (直觉) will tell you that spacing is a terrible idea. And your intuition will be wrong. Dont trust it. Trust the scientific evidence. 1. Th
7、e first paragraph mainly wants to tell us. A. education isnt all about classroomsB. homework plays a huge role in student learningC. its hard to find time to studyD. learning techniques can be of great value2. The technique “Space your studying” means. A. trying to studying something as many times a
8、s possible B. allowing as much time to pass between the twice (or more) as you canC. not doing the same thing on the same dayD. studying more and distributing your study time differently3. The underlined word “enormously” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by. A. greatlyB. differentlyC. hopefully D. unf
9、orgettably4. Why will your intuition tell you that spacing is a terrible idea? A. Because spacing gives you time to forget. B. Because forgetting is the friend of learning. C. Because spacing can make you feel like you are not learning. D. Because your intuition will be wrong. 【参考答案】14、DBABA LaMar B
10、aylor, an American performer in the Broadway musical, spends most of his time in New York CityBut since 2011, he has also spent weeks in Kigali, the capital of RwandaThere, he teaches dance to boys who live on the streetHis teaching is part of an effort by the Rebecca Davis Dance CompanyThe project
11、helps young people learn more about dance and learn how to behave in a classroom environment Rebecca Davis and LaMar Baylor teach ballet to street children in Kigali, RwandaThe children have lost all of their familiesSome have been in prison; others have sold their bodies for sexDance classes provid
12、e the children with structured learning and self-expression that theyve never had before Rebecca Davis is the founder and director of the dance companyShe got the idea for the project after visiting Rwanda in 2008There she met a large number of street children who were dancing, and she thought that
13、dance could be used to get them off the street and into a safe placeShe believes that learning to dance is a step toward educationShe says children can take classes in information and technology after they have learned to attend classes and follow directions Boys who have done best in the classes wi
14、n scholarships and are sent to the Sunrise Boarding SchoolAbout 30 boys have won this kind of financial aid As for LaMar Baylor, he knows from his own experience how dance can lead to a better lifeHe is from Camden, New JerseyCamden has sometimes been called Americas poorest and most dangerous cityH
15、e now thanks dancing for saving his life The Rwanda program is the largest one set up by the Rebecca Davis Dance Company, and MsDavis has also set up dance programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina and GuineaAbout 2,000 children in the three countries have taken part in the project since it was begun in 201021
16、The dance project aims to_ Agive the street children parental care Bprovide scholarship for the street children Chelp the street children receive some education Dkeep the street children in good health22What do we learn about the street children from the passage?AAll of them can be sent to the Sunri
17、se Boarding SchoolBIt may be hard for them to adapt to classroom rules at firstCThey only take classes in dancingDMany of them have been in prison 23What LaMar Baylor and the street children in the project have in common is that _Athey all benefit from dancingBthey borrowed money from the projectCth
18、ey learn to express themselves in dance classDthey were homeless at one time 24We can infer from the last paragraph that -Athe dance project was started in GuineaBthe wanda program is the first program by Rebecca DavisCthe Rwanda program has attracted about 2,000 childrenDthe dance project gains pop
19、ularity and grows quicklyBOn countless mornings over the past year, I stood with my son, James, in our driveway, watching our neighbor hurry off to kindergartenMy wife and I wanted to give James the best education, but that meant wed have to change our jobs and spend less time with our kidI asked my
20、self, Would this trade-off be worth it? When I look at the research on child development, I think it might notWhere our kids go to school might matter less than most American parents thinkSocial scientists have long tried to determine why some children grow up to be successfulIn a 2001 study, Greg D
21、uncan, a professor of education at the University of California, measured the influence that the people in a childs life have on how well the child does in schoolDuncan and his team found almost no relationship between how students did on the test and whom they sat beside in class, whom they hung ou
22、t with after school and who lived in their blockThe only meaningful link they found was between siblings （兄弟姐妹） and twins in particular For a long time, scholars thought that a familys income heavily affected how well kids did in lifeBut that might not be the caseWhen Susan Mayer at the University o
23、f Chicago looked at the relationship between family income and lifetime achievement, she ran a series of experiments to measure it, finding such outcomes werent caused by incomeShe argued that the things that make a difference are relatively inexpensive: the number of books a kid has or how often hi
24、s family goes to museums Lareau, another scholar began one of the most in-depth observations of American parentingHe concluded that success is much more related to the amount of time parents spend with their childrenHe said Many parents I interviewed are anxious about their childrens futuresBut they
25、 have exaggerated（夸大） the sense of the risks involved if they dont give their children the best of everything So at last, we decided to leave things as it wereMore time with our kid is the best we can provide25The first paragraph is intended to _Aintroduce the topic of the passageBconfirm the result
26、 of a research Cstress the importance of good educationDsupport a research on child development26From the passage we know that most American parents _ Aspend a lot of time with their childrenBlike to buy a variety of books for their children Cthink childrens achievement largely depends on schoolsDbe
27、lieve their income cannot afford childrens education27Who believes childrens brothers and sisters may influence their academic performance?ALareau BGreg Duncan CSusan Mayer DJames28Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?AParents time matters to childrens futureBSchool education
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34、ence fiction BA hotel brochureCA recipe book DA geography textbookDThey already guide blind and disabled people; now dogs are to be trained to help people with dementia（痴呆） or AlzheimersAlzheimers can make people confuse night and day or forget basic things such as washing or drinking enough waterTh
35、e dogs will be trained to respond to sound triggers（触发器） in the home that cause them to perform tasksThe duties will include reminding their owners to take medicine, as well as encouraging them to eat, drink and sleep regularlyThe idea was developed by design students at the Glasgow School of Art an
36、d will now be put into practice by Alzheimers Scotland and Dogs for the DisabledThe first dogs will be distributed to four Scottish couples, where one of the partners is in the early stages of dementiaSome 670,000 people in Britain have dementia and one in three over 65s will develop the conditionBy
37、 2021 this is expected to rise to one millionJoyce Gray of Alzheimers Scotland said, People in the early stages of dementia are still able to live a relatively normal life, and dogs help to maintain routine Another advantage of using the pets as companions is that dogs can give them a sense of silen
38、t support and companionshipMs Gray said, The evidence is that people may forget familiar faces but not petsIts such a strong bond that people often remember them longestPeople dont need to communicate verbally （言语地） but they can still interactYou can have a speechless bondHelen McCain, director of D
39、ogs for the Disabled, said, People with dementia often forget to take the medicineIf a dog presents them with a bag with pills in it theres a greater chance of them taking itThe dog would also encourage the owner to take them out for walks, ensuring they keep exercising and interacting with other pe
40、ople32In Britain people with dementia _ _Aare likely to increase in number Bare mostly over 65 years oldCwill be trained to respond to sound triggers Dwill be able to live a relatively normal life33The dogs are taught to perform tasks by -Amaking some sound signals Bcommunicating with the patientsCr
41、eminding the patients by barking Dreacting to some sound triggers34What does the underlined word them in Paragraph 4 refer to? AFaces BTriggers CPets DCompanions35What is mainly talked about in the passage?AThe idea of dementia dogs was developed by studentsBDogs are trained to assist Alzheimers pat
42、ientsCBritish people with Alzheimers are in poor conditionDThe dementia dogs perform most duties of a doctorTest 3：卷A 21. A 22. A 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. A 29. A 30. C 31. D 32. B 33. C 34. B 35. D 卷B 21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. C 30. A 31. B 32. A 33. D 34. C 35. B
