1、2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解创优专练2Passage 1SHANGHAI, June 7（AP）-A 16-year-old girls suicide after she was barred from a key exam draw attention to increasing worries over academic pressures, as millions of Chinese students began annual college entrance tests on Wednesday.The three-day exam, viewed as important
2、to future career and financial success, has a record 9.5 million high school students across China competing for just 2.6 million university places. For kids and parents alike, its a difficulty that experts say causes extreme emotional distress. Pressure from study and exams is a top reason for psyc
3、hological problems among Chinese youth, said Jin Wuguan, director of the Youth Psychological Counseling Center at Shanghais Ruijin Hospital.In Chinas increasingly success oriented, pressure-cooker cities, academic stress is seen as a rising cause of youth suicides and even murders of parents by chil
4、dren who are driven crazy by intolerable pressure to perform.According to her family and newspaper accounts, 16-year-old Wu Wenwen drowned herself after she was stopped at the exam room door because her hair wasnt tied back as her school required. Returning in tied hair, she was then told the end-of
5、-term exam had already started and she was too late to take it. In tears, Wu called her mother, and then disappeared. Her body was found the same night in a nearby lake.China doesnt keep comprehensive statistics on student suicides, but Jin said health care professionals see the problem worsening, e
6、ven among elementary students. Most Chinese schools still lack advisers and teachers receive little training in spotting symptoms of emotional distress, Jin said. Parents are little help, often piling on pressure while ignoring their childrens emotional development, he said. Its a basic unwillingnes
7、s or inability to recognize and deal with with emotional problems, Jin said.Wang Yufeng, of Peking Universitys Institute of Mental, estimates the rate of emotional disorders such as depression among Chinese students under age 17 at up to 32 percent , a total of 30 million students.Others say that fi
8、gure may be as high as 50 percent. A survey last year by the governments China Youth and Children Research Center showed 57.6 percent of students felt highly distressed by academic pressures.65. What is the function of the first paragraph?A. To explain the meaning of academic pressures.B. To lead to
9、 the main topic.C. To describe the girls suicide. D. Tell how important the college entrance tests are.66. The 16-year-old girl committed suicide because _.A. she did not tied back her hair as requiredB. she couldnt get high mark in the examC. she had an unpleasant talk with her motherD. she wasnt a
10、llowed to attend the examination67. We can learn from the passage that _.A. the problem of student suicides is getting worse according to a research on the accurate statisticsB. teachers have enough ability to sense the emotional distress of studentsC. parents place neither pressure nor care on thei
11、r childrenD. both teachers and parents should learn more to deal with the problem of student suicides.68. Where will we most probably find the article?A. In a newspaper. B. In a magazine.C. In a text bookD. In a survey.答案 65.B 66.D 67.D 68.A Passage 2Youre in a department store and you see a couple
12、of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:I cant believe it-a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isnt it beautiful? And its a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome.They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. Its nice and
13、 the price is right. Youve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo BertoHa c
14、lothes.Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it.Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that dont pay atte
15、ntion to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation-consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but they dont trust ads.So advertising agencies hire young actors to perform in bars and other places where young adults
16、go. Some people might call this practice misleading, but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasing.However, one might ask what exactly is real about of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? Adverting
17、executives would say its no less real than an ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don t know when a conversation you overhear is just a performance.55. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could _.A. get the sweater at a lower
18、 price B. be heard by people aroundC. be admired by other shoppers D. decide on buying the sweater56. Lorenzo Bertolla is _.A. a very popular male singer B. an advertising agencyC. a clothing company in Rome D. the brand name of a sweater57. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?A.
19、 The two girls are in fact employed by the Lorenzo Bertolla Company.B. The MTV generation tends to be more easily influenced by ads.C. Traditional advertising is becoming less effective because its too direct.D. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government.58. Which of the follo
20、wing would be the best rifle for the text?A. Two Attractive Shoppers B. Lorenzo Bertolla SweatersC. Ways of Advertising D. Undercover Marketing参考答案 55.B 56.D 57.C 58.D Passage 3Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate them. For success in training chil
21、dren, the first condition is to become a child oneself. It means to treat the child as really ones equal, that is, to show him the same consideration, the same kind of confidence one shows to an adult. It means not to affect the child to be what we ourselves want him to become, but to be affected by
22、 the impression of what the child himself is; not to treat the child with cheating, or by force, but with the seriousness and true love suitable to his own character.Not leaving the child in peace is the greatest problem of present methods of training children. Parents do not see that during the who
23、le life, the need of peace is never greater than in the years of childhood, an inner peace under all outside liveliness.But what does a child experience? Corrections, orders, interference （干涉）， the whole livelong day. The child is always required to leave something alone, or to do something differen
24、t, to find something different, or want something different from what he does, or finds, or wants. He is always guided in another direction from the true inner will that is leading him. All of this is caused by our so-called enthusiasm in directing, advising, and helping the child to become the same
25、 model produced in one assembly line （流水线）。 Understanding, the deepest characteristic of love, is almost always absent.To bring up a child means carrying ones soul in ones hand; it means never placing ourselves in danger of meeting the cold look on the face of the child. It means the truth that the
26、ways of injuring the child are limitless while the ways of being useful to him are few. How seldom does the educator remember that the child, even at four or five years of age, has already had a sharp feeling! The smallest mistrust and unkindness, the least act of injustice, leave wounds that last f
27、or life in the heart of the child. While, on the other hand, unexpected friendliness and kindness make quite as deep an impression on those soft senses.67. The passage mainly talks about _.A. misleading zones and right ways in educating childrenB. current problems in training childrenC. what should
28、be taught to childrenD. the importance of educating children68. Children, according to the passage, are experiencing _.A. corrections, orders and peace B. orders, interference and peaceC. interference, orders and corrections D. peace, guide and praise69. If you were a parent, which of the following
29、methods is TRUE according to the text?A. You could treat your children not so seriously for they dont understand many things. B. You could train your children as you wish them to be since you are parents.C. You should sometimes leave your children in peace as they wish in their childhood.D. You shou
30、ld correct your children immediately if their behavior is not what you want.70. We may conclude that the author believes people should _.A. play with the children with enthusiasm all day long just to please themB. try to give an order, advice and suggestions to their children at any timeC. treat their children just as the way they treat an adult in their daily lifeD. regard their children as an equal to them and have understanding of the inner peace of them参考答案 67.A 68.C 69.C 70.D
