高二阅读专项训练
本文作者： 21ST
A You are at the check-out of a grocery store. You are ready to pay for your food. Then you find out that you have left your wallet at home! What can you do? Don’t worry. You just have to put your finger near a special scanner. The grocery bill will be taken out of your bank account. We are not joking. A new system that scans customers’ fingerprints and subtracts (除去) the grocery bill from their bank accounts has taken supermarkets in Germany by storm. Stores, school canteens and even bars are picking it up. The Edeka supermarket chain is the first retail (零售) business in Germany to use the new system. “Almost a quarter of our customers pay with their fingers,” said an employee at the headquarters. Edeka has tried the system at 70 of its supermarkets. It says it will introduce it at 200 others because customers like it. “At first we thought that only the young who really keep up with the latest technology would be interested, but we were wrong,” said Stefan Sewoester from IT Werke. “Almost two-thirds of the people who use the system are 40 and older,” he said. IT Werke, a computer company, is one of the pioneers of fingerprint payment software in Germany. It has helped about 150 shops, canteens and bars to put in the fingerprint scanning machines. Each cost about 2,000 euros (20, 000 yuan). To sign up for the service, customers must have their fingerprints taken and leave their addresses and banking details with the shop. The shop then takes the cost of goods directly out of the customer’s bank account. “It is especially a good thing for elderly people. Now they do not have to remember their pin (密码) to pay with their bank cards, or to look around for their glasses or cash.” Sewoester said. The stores benefits from the system too. It saves more than time in the check-out line. It also cuts out the hidden costs of accepting electronic card payments. 1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? A. Pay with finger. B. Fingerprint scanning. C. Money is not needed! D. A new system. 2. How is the bill paid when people are paying their bill with their fingerprint? A. The money will be taken directly from the customer’s bank account. B. The customer must pay the money and confirm it with their fingerprint. C. The money is to be paid through electronic card payment. D. The bill will be posted to the customer’s home. 3. Which of the following places has most likely had the scanner fitted? A. The restaurant. B. The hotel. C. The school dining-hall. D. The hospital. 4. Which is NOT an advantage of the new invention so far? A. Customers don’t have to pay their bill with money wherever they go. B. Customers don’t have to remember their pin number. C. Stores can save a certain amount of money. D. Time will be saved. 5. The writer of the text seems to . A. think that the new scanning machine does good only to customers B. hold a neutral attitude toward this scanner C. expect that it will soon spread around D. believe that middle-aged people are more likely to accept new things B During the recent milk crisis in China, different related parts of the society have been put under the microscope, including stars. An online survey asked if celebrity (名人) spokespersons should bear responsibility for endorsing (代言) tainted milk products. Thirty-four percent answered “yes”. They said that the celebrities had betrayed (背叛) the trust of the people and should be more morally responsible. They are right. But what’s more important is that we should train ourselves to be wise enough not to blindly accept what is being sold, even by our favorite stars. No doubt television advertisements — together with other media products — inform and entertain us. But, too often, there are hidden messages in the information we receive. The songs we hear, the images we see, and the articles we read, are carefully selected to convey political, cultural, economic and moral messages. The mass media delivers us these messages in an attempt to persuade us into believing or buying whatever is being pushed. The question is: should we always believe what the advertisement or mass media says? The answer is that we should use our minds to dig out the hidden meaning and rely on our own judgment to make a choice. In some countries, students take a course called “media literacy (素养)”. They learn to analyze the mass media. They are encouraged to challenge everything they see or hear and to do research into missing views. They learn to ask questions and to be critical thinkers. The training of independent thinking is important for Chinese teenagers, too. Always ask yourself: Who sent this message? Why? What points of view may have been ignored here? How might other people understand this message differently? After answering these questions, we will be better prepared to make a decision on whether to buy the products, or its ad. 6. At the beginning, the writer mentioned celebrity spokespersons to _____. A. stress that they are to blame for misleading people to buy those problem products B. call on us to think more about the product rather than the celebrity spokespersons C. point out the ignored holes in current advertisement laws D. warn us that we shouldn’t believe in our idols if they show up in the advertisements 7. From Paragraph 4, we can conclude that _______. A. we should take media products only as entertainment B. messages are hidden in media products and meant for us to find out C. the media products are created with a purpose D. when we receive information, we too often take it for granted 8. In order to train ourselves to think critically, we need to do the following EXCEPT ______. A. analyze the intention of messages presented B. make judgment about what we see and hear C. make a decision after asking for others’ opinion D. dig out the missing views behind the information 9. The passage is mainly about ______. A. advertisement making B. hidden messages C. mass media D. media literacy C An old English saying goes: Cold hands, warm heart. It is generally used to describe how a cool outlook often disguises (伪装) a kind heart. However, Yale University researchers seem to disapprove of the old saying. They found how physically warm you are has a direct relation to how nice you are to people. To test the theory the scientists carried out two studies involving a total of 94 undergraduates. For the first they gave half the unwitting (不知情的) participants a glass of hot or cold coffee and then asked what they thought of a stranger after a brief meeting. They found that holding a hot cup of coffee led people to judge the stranger to be a “warmer” person, in terms of generosity and kindness, compared to a group of people who held a cup of iced coffee. In the second study the researchers had people, who thought they were evaluating a product, hold either hot pads (护垫) or cold pads. Then they give the participants a choice of reward for participating in the study: either a gift for a friend, or a reward for themselves. The study found that people who held the hot pad were more likely to choose the gift for a friend, and people who held the cold pack were more likely to choose the reward for themselves. “It appears that the effect of physical temperature is not just on how we see others, it affects our own behavior as well,” said Professor John Bargh, a psychologist who carried out the study. “Physical warmth can make us see others as warmer people, but also causes us to be warmer – more generous and trusting – as well.” The researchers believe the effect relates to childhood when emotional warmth given by a parent was often accompanied by the physical warmth of being held or hugged. 10. The article was written mainly to tell us that _____. A. scientists must use data to back up their findings B. if people are physically warm, they will probably be nice to others. C. what kind of person you are determines your attitude towards others D. people’s appearances will disguise what they think in their minds 11. How will the physical warmth cause the participants to be towards others? A. Generous, curious and merciful. B. Generous, trusting and loyal. C. Trusting, friendly and generous. D. Kind, thoughtful and selfless. 12. The Yale researchers tested the theory by _____. A. asking participants to evaluate certain products B. conducting a survey among 94 undergraduates C. asking participants what they thought of a stranger after a brief meeting D. finding out participants’ reactions to others when holding either hot or cold things 13. What can we conclude from the passage? A. Physical temperature plays a role in both how we see others and how we behave. B. The participants holding the hot pads preferred to choose the reward for themselves. C. We shouldn’t judge people just by their cool outlook. D. How emotionally warm you are directly relates to your childhood experiences. D When it comes to reading, Luz Ramos enjoys mysteries. Cynthia Hass likes the Gossip Girl books. And Carla Fajardo is a fan of the Twilight (《暮色》) series. What do the three girls from America’s Modesto High School have in common? They’re reading something surveys say teens are doing less and less these days. Still, there are teenagers who find time to curl up (蜷缩) with a good book. But what have they been reading over the years? Teen girls were likely to be interested in romance novels, according to a study by the University of Minnesota conducted in 1992. After surveying five different high schools in Illinois, the study found that “the romance novel is, without question, the most popular kind of leisure book for female adolescents.” While preferred genres (类型) for males were more varied, ranging from science fiction to sports. But now, girls, too, are enjoying a broader range of teen literature. On the New York Times young adults’ best-seller list are, The Book Thief, a Holocaust (二战中纳粹大屠杀) tale told by Death and written by a young Australian author, Markus Zusak; The Hunger Games, about a girl’s fight for survival on live TV. Also on the list are the Twilight and Gossip Girl books. The Twilight series, a story of romance between protagonist (主角) Bella Swan and vampire (吸血鬼) Edward Cullen, and the racy Gossip Girl series, detailing the decadent (颓废的) lives of upper-class teenagers, have sold more than 7.7 million and 5.6 million copies in the United States, respectively. Both have been adapted into other forms of media because of their success: Gossip Girl into a TV series and Twilight into a movie to be released on November 21. However, they also have received criticism from those who worry the books are part of a trend misrepresenting teenage life and relationships. Teenagers have split opinions. To 16-year-old Hass, a student in Modesto High, Gossip Girl is a pleasurable read that relates to teenage life. But Cecily Sauders, a 16-year-old junior also from Modesto High, disagrees. “I don’t really care for them,” she said. “They have a lot of drama. I kind of think teenagers want the drama because they don’t have anything like that going on in their lives.” 14. According to the study in 1992, ______. A. romance novels were the preferred genre for female adolescents B. science fiction had been gaining popularity among teen girls C. the books of sports were favored by both teen girls and boys D. teens were doing less and less reading nowadays 15. Which of the following shows the correct match between the book names and their descriptions? 1) The Book Thief a. love story between a normal person and a vampire 2) Twilight b. about something that happened in World War II 3) Gossip Girl c. a girl becoming a TV star 4) The Hunger Games d. about lives of upper-class teenagers e. science fiction A. eadc B. bade C. cbad D. badc 16. From the last two paragraphs, we can see that ______. A. teens prefer to have different ways of life B. teens prefer to read something about their daily life C. teens are not satisfied with their present life—lacking drama D. teens’ opinions are divided on popular teen reads like Gossip Girl 17. We can conclude that the writer _____ the Twilight and Gossip Girl books. A. thinks highly of B. tries to be objective about C. shows a negative opinion of D. is disappointed with E Everyone dreams of the day that they’ll enter high school: The busy hallways, the teachers, the SAT (美国高考) exam, but most important, the football games. Now that I am a junior (高中第三年学生，四年制), I have decided not to take any classes on-campus. I can concentrate better by myself and so now I study at home. My mom was a nurse and she has a lot of science knowledge. She also makes me read a lot for English, helps with my creative writing and encourages me on my manuscripts (文稿). History is my dad’s realm (领域). There’s always a big lecture to go along with what my book has to say. Because dad is also an artist, he teaches my art and photography classes. The most important thing that influenced my decision to be home-schooled is the flexibility. My dad is an aviation (航空) artist, and we make our living by selling his beautiful art. When air show season starts, we travel to different shows. At times, we had shows on back-to-back weekends. That meant leaving Thursday or Friday and coming home Monday. All that homework in seven subjects would just pile up! This kind of life was hard. Now being home-schooled, I can adjust my school schedule around my dad’s work schedule. I also enjoy the fact that I can work at my own pace. I have time to do things more efficiently, and I have more free time in the afternoon to walk to the park or write my manuscripts, rather than staying up until 10 pm doing homework. Home schooling is not for everyone. Some teens definitely need social interaction. The down side of this whole type of education is that one parent must be at home during the school day. Whenever I run into one of my old teachers, they are proud of me for taking my education into my own hands. I couldn’t agree more. 18. What does the passage mainly focus on? A. A brief introduction to Rhani Bigay’s school life. B. Rhani Bigay’s parents’ influence on his growth. C. The family life of Rhani Bigay and his parents. D. Rhani Biagy’s experience of studying at home. 19. According to the author, the following are advantages of home schooling except that _______. A. he can study according to his own plan B. he doesn’t have to socialize with other students C. he has time to do things more efficiently D. he can travel to air shows with his father 20. Which of the following made the author decide to choose home schooling? A. His father could teach him history, art as well as photography classes. B. His mother could help him with science knowledge, English and writing. C. Compared with other students, he can concentrate better by himself. D. Compared with on-campus schooling, home schooling is more flexible. 21. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. School life is much more colorful than home schooling. B. It is common that a lot of students receive their education at home now. C. Though home schooling has some benefits, it doesn’t suit every student. D. Rhani Bigay and his classmates have to study eight subjects every week. 22. What can we infer from the passage? A. Compared with other students, the author has a stronger ability in controlling and planning. B. The author is much cleverer than other students because the author can study on his own. C. One advantage of the whole type of education is that students can get some social interaction. D. The author couldn’t agree to what his teacher said about his learning style — home schooling. 高二阅读专项训练参考答案: 1 AACAC 6?0 BCCDB 11?5 CDAAD 16?0 DBDBD 21?2 CA |  |
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