1、郑州市2014高考英语一轮（暑假） 阅读理解训练（8）及答案（201*浙江卷）D It was Saturday . As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and do all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside,Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were enga
2、ged in spring cleaning. Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets , they had sent him to the kitchen for string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today. My mother looked at
3、 the sitting room ,its furniture disorderd for a thorough sweeping, Agun she cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls ! Lets take string to the boys and watch them. On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls. There never was
4、such a day for flying kited! We played all our fresh string into the boys kites and they went up higher and higher .We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down it the wind, and finally bringing it dow
5、n to earth , just for the joy of sending it up again. Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealou
6、sies. “Perhaps its like this in the kingdom of heaven,” I thought confusedly. It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to house. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been a surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The stran
7、ge thing was , we didnt mention that day afterward. I flt a little embarrassed .Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep“the things that cannot be and yet they are.” The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kit
8、chen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to “go park ,see duck.” “I cant go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when Im through Ill be too tired to walk that for.” My mother , who was visiting us , looked up from the
9、 peas she was shelling ,“Its a wonderful day,”she offered，“Really warm , yet theres a fine breczc . Do you remember that day we flew kites?” I stopped in my dash between stove and sink . The looked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. “Come on.”I told my little girl. “Youre right , its too
10、 good a day to miss.” Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath (余波)of a great war. All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely , but now for a long time he had been silent . What was he thinkin
11、g of what dark and horrible things? “Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips . “Do you remember - no, of course you wouldnt . It probably didnt make the impression on you as it did on me.” I hardly dared speak.“Remember what ?” “I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp(战俘营), when things werent
12、too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”56.Mrs. Patrick was laughing guilnly because she thought .A. she was too old to fly kites B. her husband would make fun of herC. she should have been doing her housework thenD. her girls werent supposed to play the boys game57. By“we were all besi
13、de ourselves”, the writer means that they all . A. felt confused B. went wild with joy C. looked on D. forgot their fights 58. What did the writer think after the kite-flying?A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.B. They should have finished their work before playing.C. Her parents shoul
14、d spend more time with them.D. All the others must have forgotten that day.59. Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.D. She thou
15、ght it was a great day to play outside.60.The youngest Patrick Boy is mentioned to show that _ . A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer D. people like him really change
16、d a lot after the war【答案】CBDBA*结束 阅读理解猜测词义Passage * Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learn lng to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if cor rected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and th
17、e language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other peoples. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare (比较) their own performances w
18、ith those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it
19、 unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathemat ics or science, give him the answer
20、 book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time to such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he cant find the way to get the right answer. Let the chil dren learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own under
21、standing, how to know what they know or do not know. 1. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by_ A. listening to skilled peoples advice B. asking older people many questions C. making mistakes and having them corrected D. doing what other people do 答案：D 指导：儿童学习技能的最佳
22、方法是模仿他人所做的事情，篇首以语言习得为例，说明儿童观察、模仿、运用的系列过程。 2. Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do? A. Give children correct answers. B. Allow children to make mistakes. C. Point out childrens mistakes to them. D. Let children mark their own work. 答案：C 指导：文章论述教学中教师应引导儿童自我发现问题、解决问题，而不应该
23、包办代替。A、B、D与文章观点不符。 3. According to the writer, teachers in school should_. A. allow children to learn from each other B. point out childrens mistakes whenever found C. correct childrens mistakes as soon as possible D. give children more book knowledge 答案：A 指导：儿童应相互学习。根据文章中相关信息(见第一自然段末)即可判断正确答案。4. Th
24、e passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are_. A. different from learning other skills B. the same as learning skills C. more important than other skills D. not really important skills答案：B 指导：根据文章陈述的观点，学习语言与学习骑车规律上是一致的。5. The title of this passage could probably be_.
25、A. Let Our Teachers Stop Work B. Let Us Make Children Leam C. Let Children Correct their Exercises D. Let Children Learn by Themselves答案：D指导：主张儿童自学符合文章主题。*结束【阅读理解猜测词义】Passage * Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, ex- po
26、rt, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same root port, which comes from the Latin (拉丁文) word, meaning to carryor to movenfrom one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning which we call the prefix (前缀),the meaning changes: importmeans to carry in, or to br
27、ing into a country; export exn,means out of so this word means to carry out of a country;remeans hack, so the word reportmeans to tell somebody, to bring1 back information to somebody; transport, trans means acrossand it means to carry across one place to another !Lets look at the following words; s
28、upporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs. Adding a suffix erto a verb means a person who does this thing. So supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. Importer is somebody who import
29、s and exporter is somebody who exports, and so on. 1. Some English words are made up of the same part. , in the sentence partmeans _. A. different beginnings and different endings B. the same part which has several meanings C. the root of a word D. the same root which has different meaning 答案：C 指导：这
30、个相同的部分为“词根”。2. Which of the following is not true?_. A. Besides port, most English words have the same root which comes form the Latin word. B. portis the root forming some English words. C. The root portmeans to carry. D. portis the root meaning to movefrom one place to another. 答案：A 指导：并非大多数英语词汇都有
31、来自拉丁文的同一词根。3. By adding a prefix of a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has_. A. the meaning of a Latin word B. a different meaning C. the meanings of inor out of D. a lot of meanings 答案：B指导：通过前后缀使词义改变。一般说来英语中前缀改变意思，后缀改变词性。4. We can get a noun A. just by adding erto a verb B. by changing a p
32、refix C. only by adding erto a root D. by adding a suffix to a verb 答案：D 指导：通过在动词上加后缀构成名词。其余选项均为错项。5. According to the passage, if we talk about a repairman, you may guess that he must be _. A. somebody who has regained (恢复) health B. a person who can repair something C. somebody who was good health D. a person who can do only simple things 答案：B 指导：repairman是合成名词，可解释为“A man who can repair something。*结束
