贵阳市2014高考英语（新人教版）一轮阅读训练（28）附答案
课时作业(二十八) [选修6 Unit 3 A healthy life]
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阅读理解
Holidays are really important.Many of us will have childhood memories of summer holidays where we were taken away from home to experience new environments and learn in different ways.
But holidays are expensive and，for those on low wages or living on benefits, they are often unobtainable. Even the cheapest holidays require travel and other additional costs that are difficult for many families to meet.
For working parents，the long summer break can be a very difficult problem for childcare. When an annual leave allowance amounts to only five weeks，there is a need to spread this across the year.Couples can find themselves taking leave in turn in order to care for children who are on holiday. For some，this makes even an affordable family holiday difficult.
The schools that I visit in Nottingham are full of experienced staff committed to giving our children a caring and inspiring learning environment.The number of children receiving free school meals is quite large in Nottingham and many schools have breakfast clubs to make sure that children get a healthy start to the day. Most schools undertake programs of group or individual educational support. Schools also have an important role in safeguarding children's welfare through the ongoing touch and support with their pupils. During the long summer holidays，much of this is missed.
While teachers are holidaying in the UK，many of their pupils spend the whole six weeks on the street where they live. The lack of free school meals for six weeks can result in pressure on a family budget and an inability to afford the inspiring experiences that help children to continue their learning.
In setting out its plans for a five-term year，Nottingham City Council(委员会)is seeking to reduce the summer holiday down to four and a half weeks, with a more balanced five terms of roughly eight weeks, each followed by a two-week break.We
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believe this will give real “down time” for school staff and pupils alike but will be short enough not to cause a real break in learning.
We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff，particularly whose own children are educated in other authorities. However, this must be weighed against the benefits for city children for whom we all have the greatest duty of care.
36．The passage is probably written by ________． A．an experienced teacher B．a working parent C．an inspired student D．a city council member
37．The underlined word “they” in the second paragraph refers to “________”． A．environments B．holidays C．wages D．benefits
38．It is suggested in the passage that the summer break be reduced to ________． A．2 weeks B．4.5 weeks C．5 weeks D．6 weeks
39．The plans for a shorter summer holiday will help students ________． A．obtain the cheapest holidays without additional costs
B．get a chance to spend six weeks a term with teachers in school C．benefit more from the caring and inspiring learning environment D．have more school days to receive free school meals 40．It can be inferred from the passage that ________．
A．working parents can enjoy a five-week break to care for their children B．the suggested plans for a five-term school year can hardly be carried out C．the long summer holiday gives teachers and students real “down time” D．some school staff will say “No” to the plans for a shorter summer holiday Ⅳ.短文填词
My uncle will never forget what happened to him yesterday. Towards the evening, he was 41.________ (邀请) to an inn. He enjoyed his dinner with his friends, 42.________ (喝) a lot of wine. As a 43.r________， he got drunk. He insisted on driving home after the meal, although his friends tried to 44.________ (说服)him not to. A
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few minutes later, he was winding his 45.w________ on the street. And then his car ran 46.________ a tall tree. Fortunately, he was still alive, though 47.s________ injured. The police came to the scene, and he was taken to hospital. Naturally, he had to 48.________ in hospital for several days. 49.W________ still, his driving license was cancelled. How he regretted 50.________ he had done. 参考答案
课时作业(二十八)
Ⅲ.本文是一篇说明文。介绍了英国诺丁汉城市委员会把学生假期缩短至4.5周的计划。 36．D 推理判断题。从文章倒数第二段“…Nottingham City Council(委员会) is seeking to reduce the summer holiday down to four and a half weeks…”和最后一段“We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff…”可知答案。
37．B 代词指代题。根据第二段可知，度假是昂贵的，并且对于那些低工资和靠救济为生的人，度假是不可能的。
38．B 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段第一句可知答案。
39．C 推理判断题。根据第四段第一句话“The schools that I visit in Nottingham are full of experienced staff committed to giving our children a caring and inspiring learning environment.”可知如果假期缩短，学生就可以更多地享受学校提供的照顾和鼓舞人心的学习环境。
40．D 推理判断题。根据最后一段第一句话“We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff…”可推知一些学校员工会反对这个计划。
Ⅳ.41.invited 42.drinking 43.result 44.persuade 45．wheels 46.into 47.seriously 48.be/stay 49．Worse 50.what
课后阅读--------A noble gangster 贵族歹徒
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There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.' If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way. In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a pictured painted which was dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.'
曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取\保护\。如果交款不及时,歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,让他破产.榨取\保护金\并不是一种现代的罪恶行径.早在14世纪,英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现:\人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.
600年前,约翰.霍克伍德爵士带着一队士兵来到意大利,在佛罗伦萨附近驻扎下来,很快就出了名.意大利人叫他乔凡尼.阿库托.每次意大利各城邦之间发生战争,霍克伍德把他的士兵雇佣给愿给他出高价的君主。和平时期,当生意萧条时,霍克伍德便带领士兵进入某个城邦,纵火烧毁一两个农场,然后提出,如向他们缴纳保护金,他们便主动撤离。霍克伍德用这种方法挣了大笔钱.尽管如此,意大利人还是把他视作某种英雄。他80岁那年死去时,佛罗伦萨人为他举行了国葬,并为他画像以纪念这位\骁勇无比的战士、杰出的领袖乔凡尼.阿库托先生.\*********************************************************结束
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阅读理解
One-quarter of the US workforce could be doing their jobs at home if all those able to telecommute chose to do so，according to a study on Wednesday which said many still elect to work at the office.
All those people working from home could translate
into annual gasoline savings of $3.9 billion，according to the National Technology Readiness Survey.
But the study also found that about 14 percent of the workforce has the option to telecommute but chooses not to.As the study’s principal researcher，Professor P．K. Kannan，put it：
That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow that everybody had the option of telecommuting and that it would save a lot of gas，that’s not going to happen.
What’s going on？Some of it is obvious：people like to go to the office for social reasons，even if their work tasks don’t require it.And that’s not just to be around other people.Our social needs also include being seen，and making “right” impressions on bosses and colleagues.Our own research at Work Design Collaborative is completely consistent with that interpretation.
So how are we actually going to realize the energy-saving opportunities that we’re missing？It seems to me there are two very basic actions called for.
First，organizations must make distributed work not only available but expected by more employees.Company policies and financial incentives can easily “push” workers into changing their patterns.Note that I am not advocating making everyone a full-time telecommuter.But just getting half of the workforce to work from home or in a nearby facility two days a week would save 20% of the gasoline now being consumed by moving people from homes to offices.
Second，we also need some national public policy initiatives to encourage people to work from home.It’s time to realize just how critical telecommuting and distributed work are to our national security—on several levels.It’s about reducing our dependence on foreign sources of energy.It’s about business continuity in the
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贵州省贵阳市高考英语一轮 课时作业(二十八) Unit 3 A
