阅读理解综合训练（二）(111028)-高三英语阅读(590)-21英语网

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难度：★★★ 话题：Shopping 建议时间：6分钟文章词数：272 正确率： /3

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the studio’s services?

A. Frames come in three different colors and sizes.

B. There is no need to make an appointment to take photos.

C. Photographs will be delivered within three business days.

D. Someone on the staff can help customers look good.

2. How much can non-club members save when they use the Fantastic Package Plan instead of buying the same products individually?

A. $20. B. $30. C. $40. D. $50.

3. We can learn from the text that ______.

A. club members need to pay a $40 membership fee every year

B. as many as five pictures can be included in a Multi-image sheet

C. customers can receive a 20th anniversary discount until December 31

D. you must have a Fantastic Club membership to receive a free gift

B

难度：★★★★ 话题：Digital life 建议时间：7分钟文章词数：394 正确率： /5

Cellphone use and texting are increasingly common, especially among teenagers. And that could be a problem. Texting affects learning and performing on tests, a new study finds. On average, students who responded to texts while working got lower scores. This trend held even for teenagers who felt they could multitask (同时做多件事) effectively.

Many students think that multitasking has no effect on how they perform in school, says Colter Norick, 17. So the Montana teenager and his 16-year-old brother Colin decided to test that notion.

They invited 47 classmates at Columbia Falls High School to take part in a two-phase experiment. The goal was to measure how well these students understood written material. Each participant had to read a paragraph or two about a certain topic, then answer a question about it.

In the first phase, the teenager participants had 15 minutes to digest and then answer questions about six reading exercises. Throughout this testing, the volunteers encountered no distractions.

A little later, Colter and Colin had their participants tackle a new set of readings. This time, the brothers used a computer program to send texts to the volunteers’ cellphones every 90 seconds. In each text, a fictional character named “Bob” asked questions that required a reply. One example: What’s your favorite type of music?

Results were telling, the Norick brothers found. In theory, volunteers should have scored better, not worse, on the second test because it was slightly easier. In fact, the participants scored 9 percent worse overall when distracted by incoming texts asking for some response. Only a few students scored as well when replying to texts as they did when undistracted. But importantly, Colter and Colin say, nobody performed better during the texting phase.

Boys and girls scored equally poorly while texting, the brothers note. Older volunteers didn’t do any better than younger ones. And it didn’t matter if a student thought he or she was good at multitasking. On average, the brothers found that even students who were confident of their abilities did just as poorly while texting. Oddly, even though the students remembered less of what they read while texting, most of them answered questions in Bob’s texts perfectly.

“Our teachers were very happy to see these results,” says Colter. The teenagers’ new data strongly support their teachers’ claim that texting while studying is a serious distraction.

4. What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To teach the reader how to multitask effectively.

B. To advise people not to use cellphones when multitasking.

C. To report on a study about how cellphone use affects academic performance.

D. To analyze why cellphone use would cause problems for teenagers who multitask.

5. How did the Norick brothers conduct their experiments?

A. They invited their teachers to help design their experiments.

B. They invited students across the US to participate in their experiments.

C. They tested the participants’ writing skills before the experiments.

D. They compared the results of the two parts of an experiment to draw a conclusion.

6. In the second part of their experiment, the Norick brothers ______.

A. collected participants’ opinions on their favorite type of music

B. made participants finish six reading exercises and then tested their understanding

C. asked participants to send texts to Bob’s cellphone every 90 seconds

D. used a computer program to distract participants from their reading

7. The underlined word “telling” in paragraph 6 probably means ______.

A. predictable B. satisfying

C. enlightening D. confusing

8. We can infer from the last two paragraphs that ______.

A. male students are more easily distracted by texting than female ones

B. texting is a lesser distraction for senior students than younger ones

C. students with better academic performance are less affected by texting

D. texting distracts students regardless of their gender, age or academic performance

C

难度：★★★★ 话题：Inspiring stories 建议时间：7分钟文章词数：373 正确率： /4

When he was a small boy, he loved butterflies. Oh, not to catch them, but to wonder at their designs and habits.

Now a grown man with his first son to be born in a few weeks, he found himself once again fascinated with a cocoon (茧). He had found it at the side of the park path. Somehow the branch (枝条) had been knocked from the tree and the cocoon had survived undamaged and still attached to the branch.

As he had seen his mother do, he gently protected it by covering it with his handkerchief and carried it home. The cocoon found a home in a wide-top jar (坛子) with holes in the top. He put the jar high up for easy viewing and protection from their curious cat who would happily play with its silk.

The man watched and studied the silky cocoon. Almost unnoticeably at first, it moved. He watched more closely and soon the cocoon was trembling with activity. Nothing else happened. The cocoon remained attached to its part of the branch and there was no sign of wings.

Finally it started shaking so much, the man thought the butterfly would die from the struggle. He opened the jar, took a sharp pen knife from his desk, and carefully made a tiny cut in the side of the cocoon. Almost immediately, one wing appeared, followed by the other. The butterfly was free!

It seemed to enjoy its freedom and walked along the edge of the jar. But it didn’t fly. At first the man thought the wings needed time to dry, but time passed and still the butterfly did not take off.

The man was worried and called up his neighbor who taught high school science. He told the neighbor how he had found the cocoon, placed it in the jar, and the terrible trembling as the butterfly struggled to get out. When he described how he had carefully made a small cut in the cocoon, the teacher stopped him. “Oh, that is the reason. You see, the struggle is what gives the butterfly the strength to fly.”

And so it is with us. Sometimes it’s the struggles in life that strengthen us the most.

9. The man brought the cocoon home because ______.

A. his first son had always wanted a cocoon

B. he planned to repair the broken cocoon by himself

C. he was curious about how cocoons turned into butterflies

D. he wanted to protect the cocoon from its hard environment

10. As soon as the man took the cocoon home, he ______.

A. cut a hole in the cocoon to let the butterfly out

B. tried to keep his cat away from the cocoon

C. sought his mother’s advice on what to do with it

D. put it in a jar and covered the jar with his handkerchief

11. What lesson did the man learn from his neighbor’s explanation?

A. Freedom is a gift that everyone should cherish.

B. The young should be given enough time to learn.

C. Struggles in life are what make people stronger.

D. Good intentions might lead to terrible results.

12. How does the author sound when telling the story?

A. Curious. B. Anxious. C. Instructive. D. Humorous.

D

难度：★★★ 话题：Life style 建议时间：8分钟文章词数：445 正确率： /4

A high school student has a science test on Monday but spends most of the weekend playing video games and does not start studying until late Sunday night. This kind of avoiding or delaying of work that needs to be done is called procrastination (拖沓). It has been said that up to 95% of people procrastinate at least sometimes, and about 20% of them do it too much. Although researchers do not agree on all the reasons behind procrastination, there is general agreement about some factors that can explain it.

The first factor is how pleasant or unpleasant people find a task. Research shows that people put off tasks they find unpleasant. Many high school students delay cleaning their rooms or doing their homework. Someone who loves bicycles might not delay fixing a tire (轮胎), while someone who does not may put it off.

In addition to how people feel about the job at hand, the amount of confidence they have in their ability to do a task is also related to procrastination. For example, those who have low expectations of success are more likely to postpone starting a job. On the other hand, those who believe that they can perform well are more likely to take on challenging tasks rather than avoid them. However, it has been argued that too much confidence can also lead to procrastination: some people overestimate how easily they can do a particular task and start too late.

Another factor is whether or not people can use self-control. Those who have less self-control can easily be drawn away from their work. Interestingly, age is said to be associated with self-control. Research shows that the older people become, the less likely they are to delay doing their work until the last minute.

Lastly, there is a link between procrastination and how long people must wait before they see the reward for an effort. For example, studying hard in school might not give high school students any immediate rewards; what they learn might not seem useful to the present. Sometimes, it is hard to see the benefit of making an effort when the reward is too far away. This can explain why many people do not start saving money for their old age when they are young.

What are the roots of your procrastination? Because the behaviors described here are common to most people, you probably do not need to completely change your habits. If procrastination is a problem, the first step to reducing it is identifying the reasons behind it. It is only by understanding the roots of your problem that you can choose the appropriate method for yourself.

13. The high school student’s case in the opening paragraph is used to ______.

A. show how common procrastination is among students

B. provide a typical example of what procrastination is

C. suggest how to avoid procrastination before a test

D. explain why students tend to procrastinate before tests

14. Compared to others, procrastinators are more likely to ______.

A. find most of their daily tasks unpleasant

B. have high expectations for their career

C. have great confidence in themselves

D. expect immediate reward from their efforts

15. According to the text, people lacking self-control ______.

A. are more likely to pick up challenging tasks

B. tend to make wrong judgments about the difficulty of their tasks

C. could find it easier to focus on their tasks as they grow older

D. often develop the habit of procrastination at an early age

16. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To explain the general causes of procrastination.

B. To suggest some solutions to the problem of procrastination.

C. To report on recent findings about procrastination.

D. To analyze the bad effects of procrastination.

E

难度：★★★ 话题：Technology 建议时间：7分钟文章词数：353 正确率： /4

Diseases spread in many ways. An infected person can cough or sneeze on someone nearby, or they can spread germs through a handshake. But sometimes we pick up germs indirectly. A sick person might leave behind bacteria or viruses when they touch a door handle, for example. But what if those surfaces could clean themselves?

Two teenagers from Hong Kong asked themselves the same question. Now they’ve developed a door handle that can kill germs on contact.

The idea is simple: Every time the door is opened, the movement creates power that starts a germ-killing reaction on the handle. In lab tests, their system killed about 99.8 percent of the germs that they spread onto lab dishes covered with their material.

Research by others has shown that door handles in public areas are often home to lots of bacteria and viruses, notes 17-year-old Sum Ming (“Simon”) Wong. He and schoolmate Kin Pong (“Michael”) Li, 18, wanted to design a covering for door handles that would kill germs.

After doing some research, they learned that a mineral called titanium dioxide is known to kill bacteria. It’s already used in many products, from paints to desserts. To make their covering, the teenagers made the mineral into a very fine powder.

Titanium dioxide kills bacteria best when lit by ultraviolet (UV) light, says Simon. UV light is found in sunlight. But UV light does not naturally shine on indoor handles or any used at night, so the teenagers light their door handle from within.

To make sure the light reaches the coated (加涂层的) surface, the teenagers made their door handle out of clear glass. Each end fits into a bracket (托架). Inside one of the brackets is a strong light-emitting diode (LED). From it comes UV light.

And here’s the interesting part: The power that makes the UV light shine comes from opening and closing the door. The power from the door is then carried by wire to the LED inside the door handle.

The door handle system, Michael and Simon say, might cost no more than about $13 (about 81 yuan) to build.

17. The ways diseases spread are mentioned at the beginning of the text to ______.

A. demonstrate how most diseases are spread indirectly

B. remind readers of the importance of cleaning their hands

C. explain how to kill bacteria or viruses effectively

D. help to describe a new invention that prevents diseases from spreading

18. Michael and Simon’s door handle ______.

A. is too expensive for ordinary families

B. is powered by the movement of its users

C. works better at night than in the daytime

D. is made of a metal that can take in UV light

19. The LED is placed inside the brackets to ______.

A. supply enough power to the handle system

B. produce titanium dioxide to kill bacteria

C. provide UV light to help titanium dioxide work better

D. direct the UV light in sunlight to the coated surface

20. What is the author’s attitude toward Michael and Simon’s door handle system?

A. Cautious. B. Critical.

C. Enthusiastic. D. Disappointed.