1、江苏省南京市2016高考英语二轮阅读理解基础习题（3）及答案阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, “operates under the theory of whats mine and whats yours
2、 is mine,” says his mother. “The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers(剑). Later, I saw Stephen with the two new ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones.”“Examine the extended family, and youll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. Its an
3、 inheritable trait,” says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain dominance(支配地位) when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.Whether its inborn nature or de
4、veloped character at work, too much control in the hands of the young isnt healthy for children or the family. Fear is at the root of a lot bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, “have secret feelings of weakness” and “a desi
5、re to feel safe.” Its the parents role to provide that protection.When a “boss child” doesnt learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coachers, for example, or trouble keeping friends
6、. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.“I see more and more parents giving up their power,” says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years. They bend too far because they dont want to be as strict as their own parents were. But they also feel le
7、ss confident about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious.1. Bossy children like Stephen Jackson _.A. make good decisionsB. show self-centerednessC. lack care from othersD. have little sense of fear2. The underlined phrase “inheritable trait” in paragraph 2 means _.A. inborn
8、natureB. developed characterC. accepted theoryD. particular environment3. The study on bossy behavior implies that parents _.A. should give more power to their children B. should be strict with their childrenC. should not be so anxious about their childrenD. should not set limits for their children4
9、. What is the passage mainly about?A. How bossy behavior can be controlled.B. How we can get along with bossy children.C. What leads to childrens bossy behavior.D. What effect bossy behavior brings about.阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。Healthy knees arent the main consideration in choosing h
10、igh heels, but new research says chunky heels are just as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos (细高跟鞋). “It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis (骨关节炎) - and once you do, it is too late,” said Dr. Casey Kerrigan, leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Har
11、vard Medical Schools department of physical medicine. “I compare it to smoking - one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is. Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable, so women wear them all day long, “Kerrigan said. “They are better for your feet than stiletto heels, but just as bad for your
12、knees.”In the study, researchers had twenty women wear two pairs of shoes with three-inch heels, one with a narrow heel and the other with a thick one. The scientists compared how much pressure was put on the womens knees by both types of shoes. The women also walked barefoot to test normal pressure
13、. The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees. Compared with walking barefoot, the heels increased pressure on the inside of the knee by 26 percent. Increased pressure on the knee eventually leads to arthritis(关节炎), experts say.The idea that high heel
14、s are bad for your health isnt new - scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis, knee pain, sprained (扭伤) ankles and back problems. But in 1998, Kerdgan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and
15、knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage (软骨) surrounding the knee. The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing. “This study confirms what we all intuitively (直觉地) know th
16、at high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health,” said Dr. Glenn Pfeifer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.5. We learn from the passage that women choose chunky heels because _.A. they want to walk comfor
17、tablyB. chunky heeled shoes are cheaper than stiletto heeled pairsC. chunky heels do less harm to kneesD. chunky heels are not painful at all6. It can be inferred from the passage that _.A. people got to know the high heels are bad for health recentlyB. people have known the high heels are bad for h
18、ealth for yearsC. people havent known the high heels are bad for health yetD. people will be warned that the high heels are bad for health soon7. The best title for the passage may be _.A. Taking Healthy Knees into Consideration B. High-heels Do Harm to KneesC. Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels D. Whe
19、n Wearing High-heels社会生活类。The internet will open up new vistas (前景),create the global villageyou can make new friends all around the world. That,at least,is what it promised us. The difficulty is that it did not take the human mind into account. The reality is that we cannot keep relationships with
20、more than a limited number of people. No matter how hard the internet tries to put you in communication,its best efforts will be defeated by your mind.The problem is twofold (双重的). First,there is a limit on the number of people we can hold in mind and have a meaningful relationship with. That number
21、 is about 150 and is set by the size of our brain. Second,the quality of your relationships depends on the amount of time you invest (投入) in them. We invest a lot in a small number of people and then distribute whats left among as many others as we can. The problem is that if we invest little time i
22、n a person,our engagement with that person will decline (减弱)until eventually it dies into “someone I once knew”.This is not,of course,to say that the internet doesnt serve a socially valuable function. Of course it does. But the question is not that it allows you to increase the size of your social
23、circle to include the rest of the world,but that you can keep your relationships with your existing friends going even though you have to move to the other side of the world.In one sense,thats a good thing. But it also has a disadvantage. If you continue to invest in your old friends even though you
24、 can no longer see them,then certainly you arent using your time to make new friends where you now live. And I suspect that probably isnt the best use of your time. Meaningful relationships are about being able to communicate with each other,face to face. The internet will slow down the rate with wh
25、ich relationships end,but it wont stop that happening eventually.1. What is stressed in the first paragraph?A. The present situation of the internet.B. The difficulty in communication on the internet.C. The socially valuable function of the internet.D. The role of the human mind in the internet comm
26、unication.2. The underlined word “engagement” in the second paragraph probably means“”.A. appointmentB. connectionC. interviewD. agreement3. According to the passage,the author holds the view that.A. the internet fails to play so valuable a role in communication as it promisedB. the internet determi
27、nes the quality of social relationshipsC. the internet greatly increases the size of social circlesD. the internet communication is no less effective than the face-to-face talk4. What is the authors attitude towards the use of the internet to strengthen relationships?A. He is uncertain about it. B.
28、He is hopeful of it.C. He approves of it. D. He doubts it.【参考答案】76.1-4 DBAD 社会生活类。George Prochnik would like the worldto put a sock in it. He makes his case in a new book,Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. Here he explains himself(using his indoor voice):“Weve become so accustomed to noise,t
29、heres almost a deep prejudice against the idea that silence might be beneficial. If you tell someone to be quiet,you sound like an old man. But its never been more important to find continuing quiet. Silence focuses us,improves our health,and is a key to lasting peace and satisfaction.We need to exc
30、ite people about the sounds you start to hear if you merely quiet things down a little. During a Japanese tea ceremony,the smallest sounds become a kind of artthe spoons making a light ringing sound on a bowl,the edges of a kimono(和服)brushing against the floor.Deaf people are very attentive(专注的) in
31、almost every aspect of life. If two deaf people are walking together,using sign language,they constantly watch out for each other and protect each other by paying steady attention to the other. They are connected yet also fully aware of their surroundings. Even deaf teenagers!We in the hearing world
32、 can learn from them. If we remove the powerful blasts(一阵阵) of noise,we become aware of an extraordinarily rich world around usof little soft sounds and the sound of footsteps,of bird songs and ice cracking(开裂声). Its astonishing how beautiful things sound when you can really listen.”1. What does the
33、 phrase “to put a sock in it” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. to be quietB. to be colorfulC. to be full of loveD. to be attentive to someone2. What does Prochnik say about us?A. We are used to quietness.B. We have to put up with noise.C. We do not think silence to be beneficial.D. We do not believe
34、lasting peace to be available.3. Which of the following is true according to Prochnik?A. We need more sounds in our lives.B. There is nothing to be learned from the deaf.C. We are not aware how rich the world around us is.D. There is too much noise at a Japanese tea ceremony.4. It can be inferred from the text that.A. we can benefit a lot from old peopleB. it is a good idea to use sign languageC. there is no escape from the world of soundD. it is possible to find how beautiful things sound【参考答案】77.1-4 ACCD
