【高考第一輪復(fù)習(xí)英語(yǔ)】M1U1話題類(lèi)閱讀(2011高考真題)

1、2012-2013 學(xué)年高三英語(yǔ)一輪復(fù)習(xí)話題類(lèi)閱讀a small step makes a big difference. 1 （2011 廣東高考閱讀c 篇）a year after graduation, i was offered a position teaching a writing class. teaching was a profession i had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. i accepted the job without hesitati

2、on, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of mr. davis. my father went by the same name, and i liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. wait a minute, someone might say, are you talking about mr. davis the retired man, or mr. davis the respectable scholar? the position

3、 was offered at the last minute, and i was given two weeks to prepare, a period i spent searching for briefcase ( 公文包 ) and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, hello, class. im mr. davis. sometimes i would give myself an aggressive voice. sometimes i would sound experienced.

4、but when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true mr. davis was there. i sounded not like a thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy. i arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. i had cut them myself out of orange construction paper.

5、i saw nine students along a long table. i handed out the cards, and the students wrote down their names and fastened them to their breast pockets as i required. all right then, i said. okay, here we go. then i opened my briefcase and realized that i had never thought beyond this moment. i had been t

6、hinking that the students would be the first to talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the events of the day. i had imagined that i would sit at the edge of the desk, overlooking a forest of hands. every student would yell. calm down, youll all get your turn. one at a time, one at a time! a t

7、errible silence ruled the room, and seeing no other opinions, i instructed the students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of deep disappointment. 36. the author took the job to teach writing because _. a. he wanted to be respected b. he had written some storied

8、 c. he wanted to please his father d. he had dreamed of being a teacher 37. what can we learn about the author from paragraph 2? a. he would be aggressive in his first class. b. he was well-prepared for his first class. c. he got nervous upon the arrival of his first class. d. he waited long for the

9、 arrival of his first class. 38. before he started his class, the author asked the students to _. a. write down their suggestions on the paper cards b. cut maple leaves out of the construction paper c. cut some cards out of the construction paper d. write down their names on the paper cards 39. what

10、 did the students do when the author started his class? a. they began to talk. b. they stayed silent. c. they raised their hands. d. they shouted to be heard. 40. the author chose the composition topic probably because _. a. he got disappointed with his first class b. he had prepared the topic befor

11、e class c. he wanted to calm down the students d. he thought it was an easy topic 2012-2013 學(xué)年高三英語(yǔ)一輪復(fù)習(xí)話題類(lèi)閱讀a small step makes a big difference. 2 （2011 山東高考閱讀c 篇）diana jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, sc

12、holarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart. i have two kids in college, and i want to say come home, but at the same time i want to provide them with a good education, says jacobs. the jacobs family did work out a solution: they asked and rec

13、eived more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan ( 貸款 ) program. they will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school. with unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear mo

14、re families like the jacobs. more students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. college administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around. at the same time, tuition ( 學(xué)費(fèi) ) continues to rise. a report from the national center for publi

15、c policy and higher education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade. if we go on this way for another 25 years, we wont have an affordable system of higher education

16、, says patrick m. callan, president of the center. the middle class families have been financing it through debt. they will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt. financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that studen

17、t loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. the good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted. 66. according to paragraph 1, why did the plan of jacobs family fail? a. th

18、e twins wasted too much money. b. the father was out of work. c. their saving ran out. d. the family fell apart. 67. how did the jacobs manage to solve their problem? a. they asked their kids to come home. b. they borrowed $20,000 from the school. c. they encouraged their twin sons to do part-time j

19、obs. d. they got help from the school and the federal government. 68. financial aid administrators believe that _. a. more families will face the same problem as the jacobses b. the government will receive more letters of complaint c. college tuition fees will double soon d. americas unemployment wi

20、ll fall 69. what can we learn about the middle class families from the text? a. they blamed the government for the tuition increase. b. their income remained steady in the last decade. c. they will try their best to send kids to college. d. their debts will be paid off within 25 years. 70. according

21、 to the last paragraph, the government will _. a. provide most students will scholarships b. dismiss some financial aid administrators c. stop the companies from making student loans d. go on providing financial support for college students 2012-2013 學(xué)年高三英語(yǔ)一輪復(fù)習(xí)話題類(lèi)閱讀a small step makes a big differenc

22、e. 3 （2011 陜西高考閱讀c 篇）in early autumn i applied for admission to college. i wanted to go nowhere but to cornell university, but my mother fought strongly against it. when she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of cornell, she tore it up. you cant say its not a great univer

23、sity, just because papa went there. thats not it at all. and it is a top university. she was still holding the pieces in her hand. but we cant afford to send you to college. i wouldnt dream of asking you for money. do you want me to get a job to help support you and papa? things arent that bad, are

24、they? no, she said. i dont expect you to help support us. father borrowed money from his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop. his chief customers were his old college friends. to get new customers, my mother had to help. she picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women

25、, so that she could get to know more people. whether those people would turn into customers was another question. i knew that my parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投資 ) could show returns. whats more, they had not wanted enough to be rich and successful; otherwi

26、se they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly. i was torn between the desire to help them and change their lives, and the determination not to repeat their mistakes. i had a strong belief in my power to go what i wanted. after months of hard study i won a full college scholarship (獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金

27、 ). my father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother eventually gave in before my success. 53. the author was not allowed to go to cornell university mainly because _. a. his father graduated from the university b. his mother did not thinks it a great university c. his parents needed hi

28、m to help support the family d. his parents did not have enough money for him 54. the father started his small shop with the money from _. a. a local league b. his university c. his relatives d. his college friends 55. why did the mother renew her membership in the league? a. to help with her husban

29、ds business b. to raise money for her son c. to meet her long-forgotten friends d. to better manage her life 56. according to the text, what was the author determined to do in that autumn? a. to get a well-paid job for himself b. to improve relations with his mother c. to go to his dream university

30、d. to carry on with his fathers business 2012-2013 學(xué)年高三英語(yǔ)一輪復(fù)習(xí)話題類(lèi)閱讀a small step makes a big difference. 4 （2011 天津高考閱讀b 篇）in the fall of 1985, i was a bright-eyed girl heading off to howard university, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a supreme court bench somewhere. twenty-one yea

31、rs later, i am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell. my grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. she was the first in our family to reach that goal. but one year after i started college, she developed cancer. i made the choice to withdraw

32、 from college to care for her. it meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait. then i got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. in 1999, we adopted our first son. to lay eyes on him was fantastic - and very emotional. a yea

33、r later came our second adopted boy. then followed son no. 3. in 2003, i gave birth to another boy. you can imagine how fully occupied i became, raising four boys under the age of 8! our home was a complete zoo - a joyous zoo. not surprising, i never did make it back to college full-time. but i neve

34、r gave up on the dream either. i had only one choice: to find a way. that meant taking as few as one class each semester. the hardest part was feeling guilty about the time i spent away from the boys. they often wanted me to stay home with them. there certainly were times i wanted to quit, but i kne

35、w i should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives. in 2007, i graduated from the university of north carolina. it took me over 21 years to get my college degree! i am not special, just single-minded. it always struck me that when youre looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when youre in the midst of it, it just seems normal. everything you want wont arrive in your life on one day. its a process