新题型阅读理解模拟训练（二）(51987)-高三英语阅读(360)-21英语网

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（湖南题型）阅读填空:阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第1至第10小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。注意：每空不超过3个单词。

A British student writing for the Guardian's website recently attracted the criticism of thousands of readers with his very first post.

Max Gogarty, 19, had started a blog about his trip to India and Thailand. The idea was not particularly original and, in many people's view, the writing wasn't either. Within minutes, people began to post negative comments: "I've been more entertained cleaning mould from my fridge than I was reading your first post."

So how did Max land his job? The Guardian's online community soon reached their own conclusion: "Great to see nepotism (任人唯亲) is alive and well," said one poster.

Max's father is a travel writer who had previously published work in the Guardian. Within minutes, one poster had provided a link to an article from 2002, in which Max's dad writes about a trip to Thailand with his family. Many were quick to suppose Max had used his father's connections to get his job. By the end of the next day, the criticism was so heavy that the blog was closed, but the damage had been done.

From Facebook to Wikipedia, social networking and gossip websites all over the Internet were discussing Max's case.

Max's experience highlights the difference between traditional media and the Internet. As online community specialist Dan Wilson writes in his blog: "In the blogosphere respect comes from below. Readers have power and opinions that count. You've got to be real and attractive to the people who read you."

Part of the reason for this is that falsehoods and half-truths can be exposed (曝光) immediately online. For example, the Guardian's travel editor attempted to defend publishing the story. He said he'd called Max because of his track record and talent. But then one reader pointed out: "Didn't you post yesterday saying ‘Max got in touch with us because he writes occasionally for the TV program Skins'? Are you a liar?"

What we can learn here is to be careful when we read and write online. Always be sure to think about why a person might be writing something, and don't necessarily believe what we read.

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（山东题型）阅读表达:阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

Impatient drivers, pushy people on the subway, kids shouting into their mobile phones… we see these unpleasant incidents almost every day. This is why Canadian filmmaker John Curtin's new documentary, To Hell With Manners! The Decline of Civility, couldn't be more timely.

He puts these impolite behaviors under a microscope in an attempt to explain why we seem to have become so much ruder in recent years.

Curtin travels to New York and London to record rude and sometimes not-so-rude behaviors. "I'm not actually saying that everyone is impolite. I would say we are becoming less kind to each other simply because we're not paying attention to one another," he said.

Curtin attributes people's indifference (冷漠) largely to the modern technology we have: iPods, cellphones and stuff like that.

Montreal Gazette columnist Josh Freed, who talks in the film, agrees with Curtin. "We've become less human as a result of these technological advances and by the fact that, so often, we're now surrounded by strangers," Freed said.

Curtin wanted at all costs to make sure his film was not full of older people talking about how impolite young people have become. Instead, ________. "We just live in a very rushed, stressed-out society and it's very easy to feel you're under pressure and you've got to take care of yourself. So we imagine ourselves in some kind of Darwinian struggle where you have got to take care of number one." Curtin said.

1. Why does the author think Curtin's new documentary couldn't be more timely? (Please answer within 20 words)

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2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

Curtin examines these unpleasant incidents carefully, trying to make clear what leads to our worsening manners.

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3. According to Curtin, what results in people's indifference? (Please answer within 15 words)

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4. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 into Chinese.

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5. Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. (Please answer within 5 words)

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（天津题型）阅读表达:阅读下面短文，按照要求完成阅读任务。

If you've gained a lot of weight recently, tell your best friend to go on a diet. It's very likely that he (or she) has also added a few pounds, according to a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Hopefully it won't ruin your friendship, but researchers have found that when an overweight person puts on 17 pounds, his buddy has a 57 percent chance of gaining five pounds too. If your best friend becomes fat, the risk of you joining him is almost three times as high.

It seems that if we're surrounded by friends and family who are plump, we tend to change our idea about what is an acceptable body weight.

But is our sense of identity really that fragile? If we're so easily influenced by others, what will the results of this study mean to those who are desperate to be fashionably thin? Will their friendships be able to withstand this, or will they begin hiding from their overweight friends? Would there be enough thin people to go around if weight watchers all began to look for new pals?

The researchers did point out that many other studies have shown the benefits of having lots of friends, so they are hoping no friendships will be ruined because of their findings.

In a world already full of too many people whose lives are influenced by the numbers of a scale, this study just opened up a new can of worms. I can hear the questions now: If I have two fat friends who both gain weight, will I gain 10 pounds? Does this work the same way for thin people? If I lose 17 pounds, will my friends each lose five? I say that as long as we're not harming our bodies, let's just eat whatever we want to eat, whenever we want to eat it, in whatever amounts we want to eat. Or we can all just become incredibly shallow and go out and find new friends — thin ones.

1. What does the study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine find? (No more than 10 words)

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2. According to the passage, why are we likely to gain weight when we're surrounded by overweight people? (no more than 15 words)

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3. Please explain the underlined word "fragile" in English. (no more than 5 words)

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4. What advice does the author give to the readers? (No more than 30 words)

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5. If you have some overweight friends, what will you do with them? (no more than 20 words)

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（广东题型）语法填空:阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

A new study shows that sleep protects memory. People who have a good night's sleep have a 1 memory than people who sleep poorly.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School chose 48 people 2 (age) between 18 and 30. They all had normal, healthy sleep routines and were not taking any medications (药物治疗). They were asked 3 (learn) a list of 20 pairs of words and then were tested 12 hours later.

These people were divided 4 a wake group and a sleep group. The wake group 5 (teach) the words at 9 am and then tested at 9 pm, after being awake all day. The sleep group learned the words at 9 pm, went to sleep, and were tested at 9 am.

Researchers found that the sleep group 6 correctly identify (识别) three-quarters of the word pairs, 7 the wake group could only correctly identify one-third of the word pairs.

" 8 results provide important insights into 9 the sleeping brain interacts with memories. It appears to 10 (strong) them," said Jeffrey Ellenbogen, one of the scientists who did the research.