1、河北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（66）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。AWalking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a small pool of water ahead on the pathI angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasnt covered by water or mudAs I reached the pool, I was suddenly attack
2、ed! Yet I did nothing for the attackIt was so unpredictable and from somewhere totally unexpectedI was surprised as well as unhurt though I had been struck four or five timesI backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking meHad I been hurt I wouldnt have found it amusingAnd I was laughingAfter
3、all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!Having stopped, laughing, I took a step forwardMy attacker rushed me againHe charged towards me at full speed, attempting to hurt me but in vainFor a second time, I took a step backwards while my attacker pausedI wasnt sure what to doAfter all, its just not e
4、veryday that one is attacked by a butterflyI stepped back to look the situation overMy attacker moved back to land on the groundThats when I discovered why my attacker was charging me only moments earlierHe had a mate and she was dyingSitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to
5、 fan herI could only admire the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mateHe had taken it up on himself to attack me for his mates sake （缘故）, even though she was clearly dying and I was so largeHe did so just to give her those extra few precious moments of life, should I have bee
6、n careless enough to step on herHis courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mates safety seemed admirableI couldnt do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult side of the poolHe had truly earned those moments to be with he
7、r, undisturbed Since then, Ive always tried to remember the courage of that butterfly whenever I see huge barriers facing me.1Why did the writer change his direction while walking down a path?ATo get close to a butterfly.BTo look over the bad situation.CTo escape a sudden attack.DTo avoid getting hi
8、s shoes dirty.2What made the man feel funny?AMaking the attacker pause.BBeing attacked by a butterfly.CBeing stepped on by his mate.DDiscovering the energetic butterfly.3From this experience the man learned .Awhat he should do when faced with troubleBpeople should show sympathy to the weak Chow he s
9、hould deal with attacksDpeople should protect butterflies4Which of the following words can best describe the butterfly?ACareless BAmusing CCourageousDAggressive.BHow Many Lies Do the Children Tell You?Mothers who feel their children don t appreciate them can add another grievance to the list: half t
10、he time, their children are lying to themA study designed to expose the truth about lying shows that undergraduates lie to their mothers in 46% of their conversationsStill, mums should feel better than total strangers, who are told lies an astonishing 77 % of the timeBella Depaulo and a team of psyc
11、hologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, asked 77 undergraduates to keep a record of all their conversations for a week, and write down whether they lied at any timeDePaulo named lying broadly, as when you intentionally try to mislead someone, so she would catch the smallest of li
12、esThe students told an average of two lies a dayThey said they had been studying when they had been out drinkingOne told his parents that a textbook cost $50 rather than $20 so that they would send him extra moneyFemale students constantly told their plain-looking roommates that they were prettyThey
13、 are everyday lies, says DePauloDePaulo and her colleagues conclude that people tend to tell fewer lies to those they feel closest toCollege students lied to their best friends 28% of the time but lied to acquaintances 48% of the timeIn close relationships, people were more likely to tell kind-heart
14、ed lies, designed to protect feelings, rather than self-serving liesRomantic （浪漫的） partners Ml somewhere between close friends and acquaintancesStudents lied to romantic partners about a third of the timeDePaulo thinks that unmarried lovers can expect less honesty than best friends because of the in
15、security that comes with romanceMothers can take heart from one other findingThey may have been lied to, but at least their children talked to themThe students were recorded telling few lies to their fathers because they had little interaction with them5What is the meaning of the underlined word gri
16、evance in Paragraph 1?AOpinionB.Complaint CBelief DDifficulty6According to the passage, college students felt closest to _ Amothers Bbest friends Cacquaintances Dromantic partners7Female students lied to their roommates to .Aget money from them Boffer them the servicesCgain more security Dmake them
17、happy8What is the purpose of this article?ATo present a fact BTo argue an ideaCTo tell a story DTo explain a theoryCWal-Mart is not just the worlds largest retailer （零售商）Its the worlds largest company, which sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a yearWal-Mart exercises
18、its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customersAt Wal-Mart, that goal is never reachedThe retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that dont change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after yearBut what almos
19、t no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and none of its 21,000 suppliers know is the high cost of those low pricesTo survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bikes to jeans have had to close US plants in favor of obtaining products from abroadIndeed, the real story of Wal
20、-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer constantly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us every day low pricesThe giant retailer s low prices often come with a high costWal-Mart s pressure can crush the companies it does business with and
21、 force them to send jobs overseasAre we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line? Of course, US companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades, long before Wal-Mart was a retailing powerBut there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low-wag
22、e countries such as ThailandPeople ask, How can it be bad for things to come into the US cheaply? Sure, its great to have bargainsBut you can t buy anything if you re not employedThere is no question that Wal-Marts drive to squeeze out cost has benefited consumersBy now, it is accepted wisdom that W
23、al-Mart makes the companies it does business with more efficient and focusedWal-Mart itself is known for continuous, improvement in its ability to handle, move, and track goodsIt is legendary （传奇） for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systemsIt is al
24、so legendary for quite straightforwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods9How do suppliers meet the requirements of Wal-Mart?ATo sell even more goods in three monthsBTo cut down the employment rate sharplyCTo charge shoppers at a much higher priceDTo run the business in a well-organized
25、 way10Wal-Marts low price policy results in _.Amore high-paying jobsBbetter designed packagesCbigger profit of its partnersDmore jobless American workers11What can we infer from the passage? AStill more quality goods will be provided BThe food you get at Wal-Mart costs leastCThe value of Mal-Mart is
26、 over assessed DWal-Mart is a very demanding company 12Whats the best title for the passage?AThe Fortune Wal-Mart MakesBThe Wal-Mart you dont Know CThe Biggest RetailerWal-MartDThe Money Saving Tip in Wal-Mart DAn idea came to me, and I turned off the lights in the studioIn the darkness, I took off
27、my shirt and took up the cello （大提琴）; it was the first time in my life Id felt the instrument against my bare chestId never thought about that; music scholars always talk about the resonating properties （共振） of various instruments, but surely the performers own body must have some effect on the soun
28、dAs I dug into the notes I imagined that my own chest and lungs were extensions of the sound box; I seemed to be able to change the sound by the way I sat, and by varying the muscular tightness in my upper bodyAfter improvising for a while, I started playing, still in the darknessI heard the music t
29、hrough my skinFor the first time I didnt think about how it would sound to anyone else, and slowly, joyfully, gratefully, I started to hear againThe notes sang out, first like a trickle:, then like a fountain of cool water bubbling up from a hole in the middle of a desertAfter an hour or so I looked
30、 up, and in the darkness saw the outline of the cat sitting on the floor in front of me, cleaning her paws and purring loudly, I had an audience again, humble as it wasSo thats what I do now with my celloAt least once a clay I find time to tune it, close my eyes and listenIts probably not going to l
31、ead to the kind of comeback Id be thirsty foryears of playing badly have left scars on my techniquebut I might eventually try giving a concert if I feel up to itOccasionally I feel a stab of longing, and I wish I could give just one more concert on a great stage before my lights blink off, but that
32、longing passes more quickly nowI take comfort in the fact that, unlike the way I felt before, I can enjoy playing for myself nowI feel relaxed and expansive when I play, as if I could stretch out my arms and reach from one end of the apartment to the otherA feeling of completeness and dignity surrou
33、nds me and lifts me up13The writer put the cello against his bare chest to _Atest music scholars ideas about the resonating propertiesBexperience the effect of his body on the musical soundCreduce his muscular tightness in his upper bodyDcheck the function of the sound box14In Paragraph 2 , the writ
34、er intends to _Aexplain his feelings of playing before a catBidentify specific pieces of music he playedCexpress his feelings of playing against his bodyDdescribe the sound when he played against his body15From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer was _Aoptimistic Bdiscouraged Cnervous De
35、nthusiastic16The passage is mainly about _Aa musician playing the cello for an audienceBa musicians feelings when playing the celloCa musician finding joy in playing music in a new wayDa musicians desire to return to his former professionEOnly two countries in the advanced world provide no guarantee
36、 for paid leave from work to care for a newborn childLast spring one at the two, Australia, gave up the bad distinction by setting up paid family leave starting in 20llI wasnt surprised when this didnt make the news here in the United Stateswere now the only wealthy country without such a policyThe
37、United States does have one explicit family policy, the Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993It entitles workers to as much as 12 weeks unpaid leave for care of a newborn or dealing with a family medical problemDespite the modesty of the benefit, the Chamber of Commerce and other business gro
38、ups fought it bitterly, describing it as government-run personnel management and a dangerous precedent （先例） In fact, every step of the way, as （usually）Democratic leaders have tried to introduce work-family balance measures into the law, business groups have been strongly opposedAs Yale law professo
39、r Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining （定义）the family as a social good that in some sense, society must pay forParents are burdened in many ways in their lives: there is no exit when it comes to childrenSociety expectsand needsparents to provide their children with co
40、ntinuity of careAnd society expectsand needsparents to persist in their roles for 18 years, or longer if neededWhile most parents do this out of love, there are public punishments for not providing careWhat parents do, in other words, is of deep concern to the state, for the obvious reason, that car
41、ing for children is not only morally urgent but important to the future of societyTo classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting: really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue （累积） t
42、o the whole of society as todays children become tomorrows citizensIn fact, by some estimates, the value of parental investments in children, investments of time and money, is equal to 2030% of GDPIf these investments bring huge social benefitsas they clearly dothe benefits of providing more social
43、support for the family should be that much clearer17What do we learn about paid family leave from Paragraph 1?AIt came as a surprise when Australia adopted the policyBSetting up this policy made Australia less influentialCIt has now become a hot topic in she United StatesDNo such policy is applied i
44、n the United Slates18What makes it hard to lake workfamily balance measures in the States?AThe incompetence of the DemocratsBThe opposition from business circlesCThe lack of a precedent in American historyDThe existing Family and Medical Leave Act19What is Professor Anne Alstons argument for parenta
45、l support?AChildren need continuous careBGood parenting benefits societyCThe cost of raising children has been growingDThe USshould keep up with other developed countries20Why is the author against classifying parenting as a personal choice?AParenting is regarded as a moral duty. BParenting relies largely on social supportCParenting produces huge moral benefitsDParenting is basically a social undertaking14 DBAC 58 BBDA 912 DDDB 1316 BCAC 1720 DBBD高考资源网独家精品资源，欢迎下载！高考资源网Ks5uK&S%5#UKs5uKs%U高考资源网高考资源网高考资源网
