2024屆高考一輪復習浙江省高三上學期英語分類匯編四：閱讀理解（二）

　　一.（ 金華一中2024學年第一學期期中考試）

　　C

　　Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it’s other people—society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”

　　So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一劑毒品). We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.

　　But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they're more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.

　　So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way—make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values---not values imposed（強加）from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.

　　48. What Oscar Wilde says implies that _____________.

　　A. we have thoughts similar to those of others

　　B. most people have a variety of thoughts

　　C. most people’s thoughts are controlled by others

　　D. other people’s thoughts are more important

　　49. What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph ?

　　A. We may lose ourselves to please others.

　　B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.

　　C. We need to pay for what we want to get.

　　D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.

　　50. In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should _________.

　　A. care about others’ opinions and change opinions all the time

　　B. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside

　　C. persuade others to accept our opinions

　　D. stick to our own values

　　51. It can be concluded from the passage that __________.

　　A. we shouldn’t care what others think

　　B. it’s better to do what we like

　　C. we shouldn't change our own opinions

　　D. it’s important to accept others’ opinions

　　D

　　An old problem is getting new attention in the United States—bullying．Recent cases included the tragic case of a fifteen-year-old girl whose family moved from Ireland．She hanged herself in Massachusetts in January following months of bullying．Her parents criticized her school for failing to protect her．Officials have brought criminal charges against several teenagers．

　　Judy Kuczynski is president of an anti-bullying group called Bully Police USA．Her daughter Tina was the victim of severe bullying starting in middle school in the state of Minnesota．Her said, “Our daughter was a very outgoing child．She was a bubbly personality, very involved in all kinds of things, had lots of friends．And over a period of time her grades fell completely．She started having health issues．She couldn't sleep．She wasn't eating．She had terrible stomach pains．She started clenching(咬緊) her jaw and grinding(磨,咬牙) her teeth at night．She didn't want to go to school.”

　　Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person． It can involve physical violence．Or it can be verbal — for example, insults or threats．Spreading lies about someone or excluding a person from a group is known as social or relational bullying．

　　And now there is cyber bullying, which uses the Internet, e-mail or text messages．It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time．

　　The first serious research studies into bullying were done in Norway in the late 1970s．The latest government study in the United States was released last year．It found that about one-third of students aged twelve to eighteen were bullied at school．

　　Susan Sweater is a psychologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-director of the Bullying Research Network．She says schools should treat bullying as a mental health problem to get bullies and victims the help they need．She says bullying is connected to depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior, and bullies are often victims themselves．

　　52. Which of the following is NOT bullying?

　　A．To beat someone repeatedly． B．To call someone names．

　　C．To isolate someone from friends． D．To refuse to help someone in need．

　　53. Why is cyber bullying appealing to the bully?

　　A．Because it can involve more people． B．Because it can create worse effects．

　　C．Because it is more convenient． D．Because it can avoid cheating．

　　54. According to Susan Sweater,

　　．

　　A．bullies are anti-social B．bullies should give victims help

　　C．students are not equally treated D．bullies themselves also need help

　　55. Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

　　A．How to wipe out bullying in schools.

　　B．Bullying has a negative influence on students in US.

　　C．Cyber bullying-Taking Off in Schools.

　　D．Girl's suicide in US brings fresh attention to bullying.

　　E

　　I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His social worker assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee. He was short, a little fat, with the smooth facial features and thick-tongued speech of Down’s Syndrome(唐氏綜合癥). I thought most of my customers would be uncomfortable around Stevie, so I closely watched him for the first few weeks.

　　I shouldn’t have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my staff wrapped around his stubby little finger, and within a month my trucker regulars had adopted him as their official truck stop mascot. After that, I really didn’t care what the rest of the customers thought of him. He was like a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes, eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to his duties. Every salt and pepper shaker was exactly in its place, not a coffee spill was visible, when Stevie got done with the table. Our only problem was convincing him to wait to clean a table until after the customers were finished.

　　Over time, we learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled. Money was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between them being able to live together and Stevie being sent to a group home.

　　That’s why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning last August, the first morning in three years that Stevie missed work. He was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a heart surgery. His social worker said that people with Down’s syndrome often had heart problems at an early age, and there was a good chance he would come through the surgery in good shape and be back at work in a few months.

　　A ripple of excitement ran through the staff later that morning when word came that he was out of surgery, in recovery and doing fine. Frannie, my head waitress, let out a war whoop and did a little dance in the aisle when she heard the good news. Belle Ringer, one of our regular trucker customers, stared at the sight of the 50-year-old grandmother of four doing a victory shimmy beside his table. He ginned. “OK, Frannie, what was that all about?” he asked.

　　“We just got word that Stevie is out of surgery and going to be okay.”

　　“I was wondering where he was. I had a new joke to tell him. What was the surgery about?”

　　Frannie quickly told Belle Ringer and the other two drivers sitting at his booth about Stevie’s surgery, the sighed. “but I don’t know how he and his mom are going to handle all the bills. From what I hear, they’re barely getting by as it is.”

　　Belle Ringer nodded thoughtfully, and Frannie hurried off to wait on the rest of her tables.

　　After the morning rush, Frannie walked into my office. She had a couple of paper napkins in her hand.

　　“What’s up?” I asked.

　　“I cleared off the table where Belle Ringer and his friends were sitting after they left, and I found this. This was folded and put under a coffee cup.”

　　She handed the napkin to me, and three $20 bills fell onto my desk when I opened it. On the outside, in big, bold letters, was printed “Something For Stevie”.

　　That was three months ago. Today is Thanksgiving Day, the first day Stevie is supposed to be back to work. His social worker said he’s been counting the days until the doctor said he could work. I arranged to have his mother bring him to work, met them in the parking lot and invited them both to celebrate his day back. I took him and his mother by their arms. “To celebrate you coming back, breakfast for you and your mother is on me.”

　　I led them toward a large corner booth at the rear of the room. I could feel and hear the rest of the staff following behind as we marched through the dining room. We stopped in front of the big table. Its surface was covered with coffee cups, saucers and dinner plates, all sitting slightly crooked on dozens of folded paper napkins.

　　“First thing you have to do, Stevie, is clean up this mess,” I said.

　　Stevie looked at me, then pulled out one of the napkins. It had “Something for Stevie” printed on the outside. As he picked it up, two $10 bills fell onto the table. Stevie stared at the money, then at all the napkins peeking from beneath the tableware, each with his name printed on it.

　　I turned to his mother. “There’s more $10,000 in cash and checks on that table, all from truckers and trucking companies that heard about your problems. Happy Thanksgiving.”

　　Well, it got real noisy about that time, with everybody hollering and shouting, and there were a few tears, as well… but you know what’s funny?

　　While everybody else was busy shaking hands and hugging each other, Stevie, with a big, big smile on his face, was busy clearing all the cups and dishes from the table….

　　Why did the author have doubts about hiring Stevie?

　　A. Stevie was not that reliable.

　　B. Stevie was mentally disabled.

　　C. Stevie was too short and fat.

　　D. Stevie was bad-tempered.

　　57. What made the author not fully satisfied with Stevie’s work?

　　A. He made customers uncomfortable.

　　B. He couldn’t pay attention to his duties.

　　C. He often spilled cups of coffee.

　　D. He usually cleaned the table too early.

　　58. By saying the underlined words in Para.3, the author meant that the money she paid Stevie___.

　　A. could help Stevie out of the trouble.

　　B. couldn’t thoroughly solve Stevie’s problem.

　　C. could make a great difference to Stevie’s life.

　　D. could send Stevie a group home

　　59. According to this text, Frannie sighed for Stevie’s ____________.

　　A. health problem

　　B. work problem

　　C. finance problem

　　D. mental problem

　　60. Why did the author ask Stevie to clean up the mess on the table?

　　A. It was Stevie’s duty to clean the table.

　　B. The table was so dirty that it needed cleaning.

　　C. Stevie could pick up the money that was given to him.

　　D. She wanted to congratulate Stevie on his coming back.

　　48-51 CADA

　　52-55 DCDD

　　56-60 BDBCC

　　二、（浙江省北侖中學2024屆高三上學期期中考試）

　　C

　　FRIDAY, Dec. 5, 2008—College students who think all-night study sessions will help them remember facts might want to get some sleep instead. That's the message from a new study that finds that as you sleep, the mind consolidates the things you learn during the day.

　　Study participants who learned how to play a video game in the morning or evening did a better job the next day after a night's rest, apparently because their brains were actively absorbing what they'd learned as they slept.

　　The finding shows "that sleep is not just a passive state when no information is coming in," said Howard Nusbaum, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.

　　For the study, the researchers recruited 200 college students. Most of them weren't very familiar with playing video games. Some of the participants learned how to play the games in the morning, while others learned in the evening. The researchers then tested the subjects on the video games 12 hours later and 24 hours later.

　　Those who took part in the morning training sessions showed an average eight-percentage-point improvement in their performance immediately after training. They performed more poorly—scoring four percentage points better—12 hours later. But they scored 10 percentage points better the next morning.

　　"If we train you in the morning and come back at the end of the day, you forget some of what you learned," Nusbaum said. "But if you sleep after that, it restores some of what you learned."

　　The students who took part in the evening training sessions performed better the next morning after sleeping, than they did after being trained.

　　The role that dreams play in the learning process—if any—isn't clear. But some dreams could serve as a kind of practice for the brain, Nusbaum said. "If you play a video game a lot, and you're playing in your dreams, maybe that could help you learn."

　　Jerry Siegel, professor at the Center for Sleep Research at the University of Calfornia, Los Angeles, said going without sleep hurts performance, but he's not convinced that sleep itself actively contributes to learning.

　　"If you take a break for a few hours, it can easily be shown that learning did occur, because performance is better at the start of a new learning session than it was at the end of the initial session," he said. "No sleep needs to occur for this to happen."

　　Still, Siegel suggested that sleep before learning a skill is crucial. "For long-term retention, it is more important to be well rested and therefore attentive when you are doing the learning than afterwards," he said. "It is even better if you don't have to choose and get your natural amounts of sleep every day."

　　49 What does the underlined word ‘want’ (in Paragraph 1) mean?

　　A. lack

　　B. wish

　　C. desire

　　D. need

　　50 What is mainly talked about in this text?

　　A. The effect of video games on learning.

　　B. The relation between sleep and learning.

　　C. The role of dreams in the learning process

　　D. The difference between morning and evening trainings.

　　51 What would be the best title for the text?

　　A. Sleep strengthens learning.

　　B. Dreams clearly help learning.