1、揭阳市2016高考英语二轮：（寒假）阅读理解选练（7）及答案【题文】A Here are a few of our favorite entries so far in our Your Life: The Readers Digest Version contest* After reading these, head over to Face book and sublimit your own story a-bout a special moment or lesson that shaped your life Theres Always a John By Darla Boyd M
2、y first year of teaching, there was a kid named John in my class. John was difficult to control and he nearly drove me crazy. While talking about him one day, an old teacher put his hand on my shoulder and said, “There will always be a John. Your job is to learn to discover what makes him different
3、and help him succeed.” The next year, there was indeed another John. But that advice taught me that there is something to appreciate in everyone. “An Early Key Lesson” By Elaine WestBefore I began my first teaching job, my mother, a teacher of 30 years, gave me a very special gift, five simple words
4、 that have had an effect on my entire life. “Make friends with the janitor (门卫).” Her wisdom taught me the respect for all types of characters and continues to enrich my life to this day. Just five little words but what an impact they can have when you take them to heart. “Raising Mommy” By Jan Davi
5、sBeing a mother can always present challenges and rewards. Someone told me early that children will teach you everything you need to know. Being a mother is being raised. Our children become our advisers. Their dreams become our professors, as we are taking notes carefully. The sounds of their laugh
6、ter and smiles are a great reward to us. Their tears remind us that it is okey to fail, and that we should wipe the tears away and try again.21What dill the old teacher mean by saying There will lavas be a John 9 AThere are always difficult students like John BJohn will always be an ordinary student
7、 CIt is important to change John DJohn is a very common name22What did Elaine Wests mother advise her to dos ADont treat succulents chifervently BTake care of janitors CRespect people from different backgrounds DDont judge people by appearance23Which of the following would Jan Davis roust probably a
8、gree withal AA mother should be given more care BA mother improves herself greatly in parenting CBeing a mother has more challenges than rewards DChildren should realize the dreams of their parents.24The text is most probably a（n） Anotice inviting contributions Bintroduction to a contest Cad for thr
9、ee new booksDposter about a lecture参考答案21- 24 ACBA 【题文】B My first day of high school was like any other first day: registering? finding new classmates, meeting new teachers, and seeking new friends During lunch, I ran into my first snag （因难） of the day At the dining hall, as the checkout （付款处） lady
10、asked for my money, I realized that I had forgotten my lunch money When I told her about it, I heard a voice behind meI turned around and there stood a teacher telling her he would pay for my lunchHe told me his name, MrPete Walker, and said, If you get a chance, you should take my history class I r
11、ecognized his name, and told him I was in his class later that day MrWalker befriended me on thevery first clay of school at a very crucial time of the day-lunch ! He always told us we should do more than we ever thoughthe pushes us to clod all things betterHe coached many sports, and sponsored many
12、 after-class activitiesIf we were interested in something, he would find a way to expose us to it by inviting speakers, taking us on field trips, or obtaining information for us Two years later, my junior year in school was clicking along nicely when one day I was riding my motorcycle and I was hit
13、by a car I spent six days in hospital and was at home in bed for two weeks before returning to schoolMrWalker stopped by the hospital each day with my work from my teachers Once I was at home, he would bring my work too After high school, I attended the United States Army Airborne School in Fort I3e
14、nning, GeorgiaI knew my parents woolly be there the day I graduates, but they brought an unexpected guestThey came across MrWalker at lunch several days before and told him I was about to graduateHis visit, however, was not a surprise to me25At the dining hall,Athe lady didnt want to charge the auth
15、or for his lunch Bthe author knew MrWalker was right behind him CMrWalker didnt know the author was his student Dthe author decided to invite Mr Walker to lunch26The story in Paragraph 4 showed that Mr Walker was Acaring BstrictCskilled Dlearned27What happened on the authors graduation day? AHis par
16、ents met MrWalker by chance BHis family invited MrWalker to lunch CMrWalker brought an unexpected guest DHis parents came together with MrWalker28What can we infer from the last sentence? AThe author had invited MrWalker to his graduation ceremony BThe authors parents had informed him of MrWalkers v
17、isit CMrWalker had a very close relationship with his students DMrWalker went to visit the author frequently参考答案25-28CADC 【题文】C Four schoolchildren from Belgrade, England were out on their bikes on Wednesday evening Unexpectedly, they saw an elderly man grasping for breath （喘息） in the streetThey tri
18、ed to call the police and ambulance service, but their phones were not working, due to network problems Before the Polish man became unconscious, the children kept him calm while they flagged down （招停）a passing driver The children used words they had picked up from their Polish classmates to transla
19、te the injured mans answers to the drivers questionsGary, 10, and his six - year - old sister, Lily, stayed with the man while Thymus and Owen, both 11, led the ambulance to the spot where he lay Soon the man was taken to hospital The fantastic four children who came to the aid of the elderly man de
20、serve the highest respect for their quick - thinking and courage in an emergency situation They are a credit not only to themselves, but to their families and their schoolAnd it is great to be able to hear such a positive story about young people What is not so positive about this story is the fact
21、that several adults apparently walked by without stopping to helpThis seeming indifference to an emergency situation is a well noted phenomenon which psychologists sometimes refer to as the bystander effectResearch suggests that when a group of people witness an emergency, people are likely to assum
22、e that somebody else will intervene and they feel that the burden of responsibility is lifted from their shoulders Perhaps the answer to this sort of things is to introduce a Good Samaritan law This already exists in France and places a legal responsibility on people who witness an emergency situati
23、on to help out as long as they can do soThis certainly seems to remove any doubt about who bears the burden of responsibility for offering assistance-everyone 29What can we learn about the elderly man? AHe spoke Polish with the children BHe fell from his bike and got injured CHe was taken to hospita
24、l by the driver DHe recovered consciousness in the street30In Paragraph 3, the author mainly Ashows his great sympathy for the man Bgives high praise to the four children Coffers his special thanks to the driver Dexpresses his anger at several adults31The underlined word intervene in Paragraph 4 is
25、closest in meaning to Abe curious Bgo on Cgive up Dget involved32In France, if an emergency happens to someone, Aoffering help to him is required by law Bpeople have the right to leave the scene Cothers must get permission before helping himDthe witnesses will be punished if the rescue fails参考答案2932
26、、ABDA 【题文】D A three-mile-long fishhook-shaped piece of land in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, Tangier Island has always been a community set apart from the mainland These days, the islands 500-plus residents, who mostly use golf cars as transportation on the villages narrow roads and who dont allow t
27、he public consumption of alcohol, have managed to preserve their traditional culture Probably the most striking example of their heritage is the islanders unique way of speaking David LShores, a linguist （话言学家） who was born on Tangier Island, has found out the reason why the speech of Tangier Island
28、 strikes outsiders as strange According to Shores, the islanders pronounce their vowels louder and longer, which causes common words to sound different when spoken by Tangier natives Some, scholars have said the natives of Tangier speak an old form of English that goes back to the time of Queen FEli
29、zabeth IShores doesnt buy into that theory Its not Eliza- bethan English by any means, he says I doubt if anyone could trace it to that, because the variety of English at that time were great Bruce Gordy, a Tangier native and a former teacher at the islands only school, has made a list of 350 strang
30、e expressions and words that he says are used and undertook only by the islandersBut Gordy clones think its the strange vocabulary that puzzles outsiders most when hearing Tangier residents speak I think what confuses them is the fact that we are talking backwards a lot, he saysHe offers an exampleI
31、f somebodys stupid, you know what I say? Gordy says Im saying hes smart, but the way I say it makes everyone know Im emphasizing hes stupidBoth Gordy and Shores believe Tangiers isolation （孤立）has led to the islanders unusual way of speaking Now, the economy of Tangier Island is moving away from its
32、tradition of crabbing and fishing as the number of crabs and oysters in the bay declinesMore residents are finding work on tugboats（掩船）or looking for jobs on the mainland Of course the sons and daughters went with their dad out crabbing You dont go with your dad on the tugboatThats not going to pres
33、erve Tangier culture, Gordy says33According to the text, Tangier Island Ahas been discovered recently Bis a fast developing x-pillage Cis a land of golf lovers Dhas a small population34In Shores opinion, the language the islanders speak Acant be called English in fact Bis unique in its pronunciation system Ccan never be understood by outsiders Dshares some similarities with Elizabethan English35Whats Gordys attitude towards the preservation of Tangier culture? AConfident BSatisfiedCConcerned DAngry参考答案3335、DBC
