1、英语知识复习 拓展精练 （34）高考资源网高考资源网 高考资源网高考资源网：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AGoldies SecretShe turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before
2、. Were moving house.; No space for her any more with the baby coming. We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present. People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.I called her Goldie. If I had known
3、what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous o
4、wners. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.Thats why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started ba
5、rking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldnt hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to
6、feel sympathy towards them. We didnt know what had happened to her, said the woman at the door. I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared. She must have tried to come back to them and got lost, added a boy from behind her.I must admit I do miss Goldie,
7、 but Ive got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And Ive learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?A. Shocked. B. Sympathetic. C. Annoyed. D. Upset.2. In her first few days at the authors house, Goldie _.A. felt worrie
8、d B. was angry C. ate a little D. sat by the fire3 Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she _.A. saw her puppies B. heard familiar barkingC. wanted to leave the author D. found her way to her old home4. The passage is organized in order of _.A. time B. effectiveness C. importance D. comp
9、lexityBOpen Letter to an EditorI had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently - one who works for you. In fact, hes one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume(简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you
10、played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues(问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. Im sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a gr
11、eat assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility youve given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.So why is he looking for a way out?He talked to me beca
12、use he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.
13、He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what hes doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. Tha
14、ts what you want for him, too, isnt it?So your reporter has set me thinking.Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists - everyone - is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we cant do it, theyll find someo
15、ne who can.5. What does the writer think of the reporter?A. Optimistic. B. Imaginative. C. Ambitious. D. Proud.6. What does the reporter want most from his editors in their talks?A. Finding the news value of his stories. B. Giving him financial support.C. Helping him to find issues. D. Improving his
16、 good ideas.7 Who probably wrote the letter?A. An editor. B. An artist. C. A reporter. D. A reader.8. The letter aims to remind editors that they should _.A. keep their best reporters at all costs B. give more freedom to their reportersC. be aware of their reporters professional development D. appre
17、ciate their reporters working styles and attitudesCPacing and PausingSara tried to befriend her old friend Steves new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didnt hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to
18、talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, theres no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before Im finished or fail to take your turn when Im finished. Thats what was happening wi
19、th Betty and Sara.It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the t
20、alking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about per
21、sonality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定式). And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the
22、Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in - and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take
23、a training course because of her inability to speak up.Thats why slight differences in conversational style - tiny little things like microseconds of pause - can have a great effect on ones life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems - even in the mind of the woman herself
24、, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.9. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?A. Betty was talkative.B. Betty was an interrupter.C. Betty did not take her turn. D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.10. According to the passage, who are li
25、kely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?A. Americans. B. Israelis. C. The British. D. The Finns.11. We can learn from the passage that _.A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacingB. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the USC. ones inability to s
26、peak up is culturally determined sometimesD. one should receive training to build up ones confidence12. The underlined word assertiveness in the last paragraph probably means _.A. being willing to speak ones mindB. being able to increase ones powerC. being ready to make ones own judgmentD. being qui
27、ck to express ones ideas confidentlyDThe Cost of Higher EducationIndividuals (个人) should pay for their higher education.A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates earn more than non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree
28、. However, only some people have it. So the individual, not the taxpayers, should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources (资源) of the government. Using taxpayers money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.Full government funding (资助) is
29、 not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford, where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of
30、 hard work; and when the academics were lazy and incompetent, the students were similarly lazy.If students have to pay for their education, they not only work harder, but also demand more from their teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teaching seriously, an
31、d giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济). Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth, but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and creat
32、e jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive, you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the government to invest. The
33、refore, it is the individual, not the government, who should pay for their university education.13. The underlined word them in Paragraph 2 refers to _.A. taxpayers B. pressing callsC. college graduatesD. government resources14. The author thinks that with full government funding _.A. teachers are l
34、ess satisfiedB. students are more demandingC. students will become more competentD. teachers will spend less time on teaching15. The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to _.A. argue against free university educationB. call on them to finance students studiesC. encourage graduates to
35、go into business D. show their contribution to higher education任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入1个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are co
36、ntent to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence
37、 and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boys hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show
38、 us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats for exa
39、mple. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats, and more American men followed his example.There is also a cyclical(周期性的) patter
40、n in fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War II, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.Today, society is much freer and easier than i
41、t used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the “untidy” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expens
42、ive fashion of the top fashion houses.At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater, and it would be discourteous(失礼的) to visit some
43、 distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you dont look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and youll see that no one else does either!Fashion ChangePeoples (16) towards fashionOrdinary people just (17) the t
44、rends of fashion passively.Influences of fashionPeople are able to feel more confident or less (18) if they dress themselves fashionably. Fashion or dressing (19) may have to rush constantly to keep up with the fashion.201) of fashion changingSometimes a fashion comes into existence (21) to convenie
45、nce or practical necessity, or just because people (22) an influential person.Cyclical pattern in fashionSome old fashion may come back to (23) after a certain period of time.Fashion todayPeople tend to dress freely to show their personal (24) instead of going after popularity.Writers attitudeWe do need to dress ourselves properly on some (25) but we dont have to be in fashion all the way.第五部分 书面表达（满分25分） 高考资源网参考答案高考资源网高考资源网高考资源网BADAC DACCB CDBDA16. attitude 17. follow 18. embarrassed 19 industries/businesses20 Causes 21. due 22. admire23. life 24 characteristics 2 5. occasions高考资源网高考资源网高考资源网
