1、湖北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（17）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。AId been thinking of it so long; it seemed like the only thing to do-to show my baby, who had eyes as green as water and whose name means the sea, the oceanBabies are supposed to instinctually know who they daddy is, Gerald, Dooriyas dad
2、dy, said, holding Dooriya before himBut she dont recognize nothingEverybody had something to say about raising my baby, but none of them actually did any raisingTaking Dooriya to see the ocean had become the only thing that kept me from feeling like my life was an everlasting losing race, this visio
3、n of what could be for my little girlWhen I told Momma about my plans to visit the lighthouse（灯塔）at Cape Hatteras, she just spun her broken recordThat baby11 never understand a thing of what shes seeingMy baby book says I should treat her just like any other childIts good to show her beautiful thing
4、s even if she dont know what shes seeingIt helps her brain developHows her brain gonna develop if all she ever sees is the walls inside this crummy house?That childs brain aint never gonna developWe love her, but its not like shes ever gonna not be a Mongoloid（先天愚型患者）I had read a half-dozen books ab
5、out Down Syndrome that said stimulation（刺激）might improve a childs chances of developing to her fullest potentialAnd whats more stimulating than a trip to see the ocean?Guidebooks described the area as the land of beginnings, which I liked the sound ofBut before I could map out a plan, I woke up one
6、night when Dooriya hiccupped （打嗝）Then she just stopped breathingThe ER doctor gave me a pamphlet on SIDS （sudden infant death syndrome） and said, children with Down Syndrome are much more likely to be affected by this sort of thingI didnt remember much about driving to Cape Hatteras, especially taki
7、ng Dooriya from the hospital But up on that lighthouse, with its broad spiral running up and around it like a black and white barbers pole, I saw my life twist into the airAs I climbed the winding stairs, I counted the steps, 268 in all, stopping on 77, Dooriyas very number of days on this planetAt
8、the top, I held Dooriya up to the Atlantic, its cold air raising the thin soft hair on her headWith her eyes closed and her arms spread out, it looked like she was bathing in the warmth of the sun1From Geralds words But she dont recognize nothing we know _AThe baby was probably born with the eye pro
9、blemBThe father thought the baby was abnormalCThe baby could recognize nothing except her fatherDThe father made up an excuse not to care for the baby2Did anybody else besides her mother actually take the responsibility to raise the baby?AThe father BThe grandma CNobody DThe doctor3The reason why th
10、e mother wanted to take her baby to see the ocean is that _AShe believed seeing the ocean could help cure her babys diseaseBShe wanted her baby to enjoy her remaining timeCShe believed the ocean was the land of beginningsDShe wanted her baby to enjoy nature4Which of the following is true according t
11、o the text?AThe doctor eventually saved the life of the babyBThe baby was disabled by her careless motherCThe baby enjoyed the sunshine while seeing the oceanDThe disease SIDS took away the life of the babyBSteve Jobs made technology funThe co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty
12、-six He had fought for years against cancerMourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the worldTim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said If you actually look at a tech leader, theyre really happy if they have one hit in the
13、ir lifeSteve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and PixarSteve Jobs was a college dropoutHe was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountantThey supported his early interest in electronicsHe and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computernow just called Applein
14、nineteen seventy-sixThey stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-fiveThat year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executiveMrJobs then formed his own company, called NeXT ComputerHe rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXTHe
15、helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world todaySteve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a great visionary and leader and a marketing genius（天才）President Obama said in a statement: By building one of the
16、planets most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuityBy making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and funDavid Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Desig
17、n in New York CityHe says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American businessThe fact that he was able to redesign American commerce lop to bottom and across is really stunning （令人惊奇的）He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison
18、 and Henry Ford, so one of the greats of all time David Carroll saidSteve Jobs stepped down as Apples chief executive in August because of his healthHe died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitementApples new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with t
19、he new Kindle Fire tablet computer from AmazoncomIt costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less5Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?AHe was very courageous in the face of cancerBHe became very rich though dropping out collegeCHe released a new iPhone version before deat
20、hDHe revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable6Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a marketing genius?AAfter Apple, he founded NeXT ComputerBHe made Apple very valuable once again in the worldCHe developed a series of Apple productsDHe was considered the greatest industrial fi
21、gure of all time7What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?AJobs was a typical example of American spirit of creationBJobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedomCJobs eventually realized his American dreamDAmerican people are good at inventing things8Which of the following is tr
22、ue according to the text?AJobss parents discouraged him from working on electronicsBJobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 yearsCJobs started his career in his family garageDRun unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT ComputerCWe all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock
23、star, singing and dancing along to our favorite songMost of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homesMe? I love to do that when I drive! 1 turn on the radio, find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the a
24、ir and I am moving along to the rhythmMost of the time, I do this on my way to workYes, that is true, I will be in my nice work clothes, jamming while driving or stopped at a traffic light I get weird（古怪的）looks from some people and others laughPersonally, I love to get lost in the rhythm of a song w
25、hich leads me to share with you the importance of being silly!The definition for the word silly, according to the dictionary is: stupid, foolish and nonsensicalI know many people do not want to look foolishSo they walk around all serious, which in all honesty, is foolish!No one is perfect, I repeat:
26、 no one is perfectI dont care how educated, how thin, how beautiful, how simple, how frugal （节俭的）, how rich, and so onNo one is perfect! So why pretend to be something you are not?Life is so shortYou never know when this beautiful journey will be over, so why waste a single second on being so full o
27、f rigidity（呆板）? Here is a quote by Souza, that I think says it all and is a great recipe for life:Dance as though no one is watching you,Love as though you have never been hurt before,Sing as though no one can hear you,Live as though heaven is on earthWhen we were kids, we had no idea of what limita
28、tions were and we had no care in theworld so we could do things without worrying about how we appeared to othersHowever, as we grew up, we lost that childlike innocenceSo dont lose the child that still lives within youThe next time you feel down, go turn on your favorite song, and sing and dance alo
29、ng like there is no tomorrowOr watch something that makes you laughLaughter is the best medicine to whatever ails （使痛苦） you and nothing is better than laughing so hard that your stomach hurtsTrust me, you will feel a whole lot better, and who doesnt want to feel good? 9According to the text, what do
30、es the writer usually do?AHe repeats the words of songsBHe sings songs on his way to workCHe dances in his own home DHe shares music with other drivers10What does the writer think of the people who look very serious?AThey are honest BThey are educatedCThey are perfectDThey are silly11The writer quot
31、es Souza to show that_Alife is a beautiful journey Blife is full of rigidityClife is to be treasured Dlife is a great recipe12Which of the following would be the best title for the text?AThe Innocence of Being a Child BThe Importance of Being SillyCNo One Is Perfect DLife Is ShortDNearly 28% of coll
32、ege Students plan to seek employment using Linkedin, up from 5% last year, according to a survey out today from employee recognition provider i Love Rewards and career-services network ExperienceSlightly more than 7% plan to use Facebook, up from 5%No longer do students just wait for visiting campus
33、 recruiters to learn about job possibilitiesInstead theyre using digital tools to find their dream jobs, says I Love Rewards CEO Razor SulemanCompanies need to know their online image, then update anything that is outdated, inaccurate or not inleractive（互动的）The recruited have now become the recruite
34、rs, Suleman saysThey are now going out and finding the companies they want to apply forStudents learn about employers by viewing their websites, reading Facehook and Twitter updates and perusing（精读）Linkedln profilesAnother information source: Comments by past and current employees on job-oriented we
35、bsitesA strong digital presence is one way for employers to stand out as the search for the best and brightest gets competitiveSlightly more than four in 10 employers say they will use different recruiting tactics（策略）to reach Generation Y, according to a survey by job-search site Monstercom to be re
36、leased todayOf those respondents, almost 60% say social-networking sites are popular tools to reach Gen Y candidatesOur reason for using social media is because thats where we think the candidates are, he saysThe company posts updates and videos on topics such as job opportunities and the benefits o
37、f being an employeeIt also created a mobile-friendly site for those who want to apply via smart phoneYounger people want to attach to you in a different way than the past, Lavery saysThey want to interact with youThey want to learn about youThe updated recruitment techniques take effort, but they wo
38、rk, he saysIn 2010, UPS used those tactics to recruit 955 employeesThe year before, it hired 29 employees through those meansIts a time investment（投资）that you have to be willing to do, he saysYou cant just have a page up there and not have contentIn social media, you have to have a give and a take,
39、or people wont be a part of your community13In order to find their dream jobs, more American graduates like to use _Anewspapers Bmagazines Cthe Internet Dradios14Why do many companies use social-networking sites to recruit graduates?ABecause they have no other way to get in touch with graduatesBBeca
40、use graduates tend to learn about employers through social mediaCBecause companies want to post advertisements for their productsDBecause companies like to post videos and updates about their products15The underlined word recruit in Paragraph 11 probably means _Afire Battract Ccontact Demploy16From
41、what Lavery says, we can conclude that _Ait is very easy for a company to hire graduates through social mediaBa company has to make great efforts to find the best graduatesCa company doesnt have to update the information about itDgraduates are afraid to communicate with the boss of the companyESquir
42、rels often communicate with whistles, chirps and chucks, which sound like the word “chuck” Whistles and chirps are like the sounds that many birds makeNow scientists have translated some of their squirrel-speakHare, a professor of zoology at the University of Maniloha in Winnipeg, and his team manag
43、ed to record squirrels alarm callsThe researchers studied the sounds and then played them back to 60 wild squirrels, which the scientists approached individually with a video recorder to capture（抓拍）their reponsesSome squirrels lifted their heads up and becameAlert（警惕的）Creatures that were more fright
44、ened simply ran for their lives and dived into cavesIn effect then, whistles that mix with chucks say theres an enemy of average threat thats here, and whistles without chucks say theres an enemy of seemingly average threat around here somewhere, while pure chirps say, Im hiding here because theres
45、an immediate danger Hare toldDiscovery NewsHare and some other researchers believe such sounds arc part of an advanced language that develops just as all other communication systemsAlthough squirrels risk their lives when they call out to warn others of threats, other squirrels might admire this beh
46、aviour, thus increasingly the callers social status, like humans who look up to heroes. Hare added that other animals, such as birds, probably understand at least some squirrel language, since they also may benefit from the alarm calls.In fact, another Canadian study found that deep-voiced, black-ca
47、pped chickadees have their own language tooAccording to certain research, there are a lot of tidings in chickadees calls, such as directing fellows activities, keeping in contact between mates, and raising alarmsWhile chickadees and other birds are often welcomed into gardens by homeowners, squirrel
48、s are frequently viewed as pests（害兽）. Hare wishes a greater understanding of the complex social lives and communication systems of squirrels will provide “hope that humans will gain a greater appreciation and stop doing harm to these animals”.17The text mainly talks about Athe study on the language
49、of squirrelsBthe comparison between squirrels and chickadeesCthe calling for the protection of squirrelsDthe ways for squirrels to escape from their enemies18If a squirrel is in a very dangerous situation, it would probably make _Awhistles with chucks Bpure chirpsCwhistles without chucks Drepeated c
50、hucks19The underlined word “tidings” in pardgmph 6 probably means _Adifficulties Bpoises Cmessages Dlanguages20What can be learned from this text?ASquirrels communicate with cach other as humans do.BSome squirrels understand the recorded alarm calls.COther animals also well understand the language of squirrelsDBirds such as chickadees dont have their own language1-5: BCADD 6-10: BACBD 11-15: CBCBD 16-20: BABCB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
