2021年高考英語(yǔ)二輪專題復(fù)習(xí)閱讀理解07含答案

1、2021年高考英語(yǔ)二輪專題復(fù)習(xí)閱讀理解07ait was a winter morning，just a couple of weeks before christmas 2005.while most people were warming up their cars，trevor，my husband，had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work.on arrival，he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does

2、.after putting in 10 hours of labor，he returned to find his bike gone.the bike，a black kona 18 speed，was our only transport.trevor used it to get to work，putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family.and the bike was also used to get groceries (食品雜貨)，saving us from having to walk along long d

3、istances from where we live.i was so sad that someone would steal our bike that i wrote to the newspaper and told them our story.shortly after that，several people in our area offered to help.one wonderful stranger even bought a bike，then called my husband to pick it up.once again my husband had a wa

4、y to get to and from his job.it really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.people say that a smile can be passed from one person to another， but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so.this experience has had a spreading

5、 effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity (人性) as a whole.and it has influenced us to be more mindful of ways we， too， can share with others.no matter how big or how small， an act of kindness shows that someone cares.and the results can be everlasting.（1）why w

6、as the bike so important to the couple? a.they used it for work and daily life. b.it was their only possession (財(cái)產(chǎn)). c.it was a nice kona 18 speed. d.the mans job was bike racing.（2）we can infer from the passage that _.a.the couple worked 60 hours a weekb.people were busy before christmasc.the stran

7、ger brought over the biked.life was hard for the young family（3）how did people get to know the couples problem?a.from a stranger.b.from a newspaper.c.from tv newsd.from radio broadcasts.（4）what do the couple learn from their experience?a.strangers are usually of little help.b.one should take care of

8、 their bike.c.news reports make people famous.d.an act of kindness can mean a lot.（5）from this story， we can see humanity is _.a.selfish    b.commercial       c.kind      d.cold-hearted  bin a recent announcement, h

9、arvard and the massachusetts institute of technology (mit) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.  beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online th

10、rough a new $60 million program, known as edx. “anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses,” harvard president drew faust said during a meeting to announce the plan.  mit has offered a program called open course ware for ten years that makes materials fr

11、om more than 2,000 classes free online. it has been used by more than 100 million people. in december, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as mitx, for people who complete certain online courses. harvard has long offered courses to a wider population throug

12、h a similar program.  the mitx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.  mit president susan hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first mitx course. she said harvard and mit hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-sourc

13、e edx platform.  “fasten your seatbelts,” hockfield said.  other universities, including stanford, yale and carnegie-mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.  the harvard-mit program will be monitored by a not-for-profit (非盈利的) organization based in

14、 cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. both mit and harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. they also plan to use the edx platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.（1）according to this text, edx is _.a.a part of

15、 the free mit opencoursewareb.a free computer program by mit and harvardc.a harvard-mit platform of free online coursesd.a free program online for universities worldwide（2）what is said about online education in the text?a.universities have been trying online courses.b.about 2,000 online courses have

16、 been offered.c.over 100 million people have finished courses online.d.stanford and yale together have courses similar to edx.（3）the underlined part in the text probably means _.a.get ready for the difficultiesb.get ready for this educational changec.get prepared to complete the online coursesd.get

17、prepared to make materials for the edx courses（4）what can be said about mitx according to the text?a.it is first offered as part of the edx learning program.b.it is another free mit-harvard online learning program.c.it is a standard to recognize online learners achievement.d.it is a new kind of free

18、 online course of harvard and mit.cwhen i told my father that i was moving to des moines,iowa,he told me about the only time he had been there.it was in the 1930s,when he was an editor of the literary magazine of southern methodist university(smu)in dallas,texas.he also worked as a professor at smu,

19、and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease.she couldnt afford the operation because her family was poor.her mother ran a boardinghouse in galveston,a seaside town near houston,texas.she was cleaning out the attic(閣樓)one day when she came across an old dusty ma

20、nuscript(手稿).on its top page were the words,“by o.henry.”it was a nice story,and she sent it to her daughter at smu,who showed it to my father.my father had never read the story before,but it sounded like o.henry,and he knew that o.henry had once lived in houston.so it was possible that the famous a

21、uthor had gone to the beach and stayed in the galveston boardinghouse,and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident.my father visited an o.henry expert at columbia university in new york,who authenticated the story as o.henrys.my father then set out to sell it.eventually

22、,he found himself in des moines,meeting with gardner cowles,a top editor at the des moinesregister.cowles loved the story and bought it on the spot.my father took the money to the girl.it was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.my father never told me what the o.henry

23、 story was about.but i doubt that it could have been better than his own story.（1）who found the o.henrys manuscript?a.the girls mother.b.the authors father.c.the girl. d.the author.（2）which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?a.o.henry once worked in ho

24、uston.b.o.henry once stayed in galveston.c.o.henry once moved to des moines.d.o.henry once taught at smu.（3）the underlined word“authenticated”in paragraph 2 probably means.a.named b.treated c.proved d.described（4）according to the text,why did the authors father go to des moines?a.to sell the o.henry

25、 story.b.to meet the author himself.c.to talk with the o.henry expert.d.to give money to the girl.d閱讀下面的短文，完成下列各題：bacteria are an annoying problem for astronauts. the microorganisms (微生物) from our bodies grow uncontrollably on surfaces of the international space station, so astronauts spend hours cl

26、eaning them up each week. how is nasa overcoming this very tiny big problem? it's turning to a bunch of high school kids. but not just any kids. it is depending on nasa hunch high school classrooms, like the one science teachers gene gordon and donna himmelberg lead at fairport high school in fa

27、irport, new york.hunch is designed to connect high school classrooms with nasa engineers. for the past two years, gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution (解決方案). “we don't give the students any breaks. they ha

28、ve to do it just like nasa engineers，” says florence gold, a project manager.“there are no tests，” gordon says. “there is no graded homework. there almost are no grades, other thanare you working towards your goal？ basically, it's i've got to produce this product and then, at the end of the

29、year, present it to nasa.engineers come and really do an inperson review, and . it's not a very nice thing at times. it's a hard business review of your product.”gordon says the hunch program has an impact  (影響) on college admissions and practical life skills. “these kids are so absorbe

30、d in their studies that i just sit back.  i don't teach.” and that annoying bacteria? gordon says his students are emailing daily with nasa engineers about the problem, readying a workable solution to test in space.（1）what do we know about the bacteria in the international space station?ath

31、ey are hard to get rid of.bthey lead to air pollution.cthey appear in different forms.dthey damage the instruments.（2）what is the purpose of the hunch program?ato strengthen teacherstudent relationships.bto sharpen students' communication skills.cto allow students to experience zero gravity.dto

32、link space technology with school education.（3）what do the nasa engineers do for the students in the program?acheck their product.bguide project designs.cadjust work schedules.dgrade their homework.（4）what is the best title for the text?anasa: the home of astronautsbspace: the final homework frontie

33、rcnature: an outdoor classroomdhunch: a college admission reformedecision-making under stressa new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages,causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative(負(fù)面的) consequence

34、s of a decision.the research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.“stress affects how people learn,” says professor mara mather.“people learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”for example,two recent studies looked at how people lear

35、ned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments.in one experiment,some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience;in the other,some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water.in both cases,the s

36、tressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadnt gone through the stress.this phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stressat those mom

37、ents,only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind.but the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect.not only are rewarding experiences remembered better,but negative consequences are also easily recalled.the research also found that stress appears to aff

38、ect decision-making differently in men and women.while both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress,their responses to risk turn out to be different.men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded

39、 in the opposite way.in stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big,men may tend to do better,when caution weighs more,however,women will win.this tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicte

40、d than men:they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.（1）we can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to .a.keep rewards better in their memoryb.recall consequences more effortlesslyc.make risky decisions more frequentlyd.learn a subject

41、 more effectively（2）according to the research,stress affects people most probably in their .a.ways of making choicesb.preference for pleasurec.tolerance of punishmentsd.responses to suggestions（3）the research has proved that in a stressful situation,.a.women find it easier to fall into certain habit

42、sb.men have a greater tendency to slow downc.women focus more on outcomesd.men are more likely to take risksfmetro pocket guidemetrorail(地鐵)each passenger needs a farecard to enter and go out.up to two children under age five may travel free with a paying customer.farecard machines are in every stat

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47、9:30 a.m.and between 4 and 6 p.m.if you lose something on a bus or train or in a station,please call lost & found at 202-962-1195.（1）what should you know about farecard machines?a.they start selling tickets at 9:30 a.m.b.they are connected to change machines.c.they offer special service to the e

48、lderly.d.they make change for no more than $5.（2）at what time does metrorail stop service on saturday?a.at midnight. b.at 3 a.m. c.at 5 a.m. d.at 7 p.m.（3）what is good about a smartrip􀆿card?a.it is convenient for old people.b.it saves money for its users.c.it can be bought at any time.d.it

49、is sold on the internet.（4）which number should you call if you lose something on the metro?a.202-962-1195 b.202-962-1100 c.202-637-7000 d.202-637-8000g閱讀下面的短文，完成下列各題：marian bechtel sits at west palm beachs bar louie counter by herself, quietly reading her e-book as she waits for her salad. what is s

50、he reading? none of your business! lunch is bechtels “me” time. and like more americans, shes not alone.a new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in america. more than half（53 percent）have breakfast alone and nearly half（46 percent）have lunch by themselves. only at dinnertime are we eat

51、ing together anymore，74 percent，according to statistics from the report.“i prefer to go out and be out. alone，but together，you know？”bechtel said，looking up from her book. bechtel，who works in downtown west palm beach，has lunch with coworkers sometimes，but like many of us，too often works through lun

52、ch at her desk. a lunchtime escape allows her to keep a boss from tapping her on the shoulder. she returns to work feeling energized. “today，i just wanted some time to myself，”she said.just two seats over，andrew mazoleny，a local videographer，is finishing his lunch at the bar. he likes that he can si

53、t and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper with whom he's on a first-name basis if he wants to have a little interaction（交流）. “i reflect on how my day's gone and think about the rest of the week,” he said. “it's a chance for self-reflection, you return to work recharged and

54、with a plan.”that freedom to choose is one reason more people like to eat alone. there was a time when people may have felt awkward about asking for a table for one，but those days are over. now，we have our smartphones to keep us company at the table. “it doesn't feel as alone as it may have befo

55、re al the advances in technology,” said laurie demerit， whose company provided the statistics for the report.（1）what are the statistics in paragraph 2 about?a. food variety.b. eating habits.c. table manners.d. restaurant service.（2）why does bechtel prefer to go out for lunch?a. to meet with her cowo

56、rkers.b. to catch up with her work.c. to have some time on her own.d. to collect data for her report.（3）what do we know about mazoleny?a. he makes videos for the bar.b. hes fond of the food at the bar.c. he interviews customers at the bar.d. hes familiar with the barkeeper.（4）what is the text mainly

57、 about?a. the trend of having meals alone.b. the importance of self-reflection.c. the stress from working overtime.d. the advantage of wireless technology.hi am peter hodes,a volunteer stem cell courier.since march 2012,ive done 89 tripsof those,51 have been abroad.i have 42 hours to carry stem cell

58、s(干細(xì)胞)in my little box because ive got two ice packs and thats how long they last.in all,from the time the stem cells are harvested from a donor(捐獻(xiàn)者)to the time they can be implanted in the patient,weve got 72 hours at most.so i am always conscious of time.i had one trip last year where i was caught by a hurricane in america.i picked up the stem cells in providence,rhode island,and was meant to fly to washington then back to london.but when i arrived at the check-in desk at providence,the lady on the desk said: