对口升学英语高考复习模拟试题(含答案):阅读理解
阅读理解 (共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列4篇短文,然后从51-65各小题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
“Yeah, right, but it’s not that easy,” I protested. “Yes, it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: it’s your choice how to live life.” Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers: While trying to open the safe, the robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found immediately and sent to the local hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him about the incident, he replied, “Wanna see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that came into my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or choose to die. I choose to live.”
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
51. Which of the following can best describe Jerry? A. Optimistic. B. Responsible. D. Careless.
C. Kind-hearted.
52. What does the underlined phrase “cut away all the junk” mean? A. Pick up the junk on the ground regularly. B. Ignore the unnecessary parts of something. C. Choose to be in a good mood. D. Never be affected by others.
53. Which of the following could be the best title? A. The choice of life. everything.
C. How to live fully.
B
New mothers who read and write blogs may feel less alone than mothers who do not participate in a blogging community, according to family studies researchers. “It looks like blogging might be helping these women because they may begin to feel more connected to their extended family and friends, which leads them to feel more supported,” said Brandon T. McDaniel, graduate student in human development and family studies at Penn State.
McDaniel and colleagues from Brigham Young University surveyed 157 new mothers about their media use and their happiness. The moms were all first-time parents with only one child under the age of 18 months — most much younger than this. The researchers report in the online version of Maternal and Child Health Journal that blogging had a positive impact(影响)on new mothers, but social networking — mainly Facebook and MySpace did not seem to impact them.
“We’re not saying that those who end up feeling more supported all of a sudden no longer have stresses, they’re still going to have those stressful moments you have as a parent,” said McDaniel. “But because
B. Attitude is
D. An unexpected robbery.
they’re feeling more supported, their thoughts and their feelings about that stress might change, and they begin to feel less stressed about those things.”
McDaniel pointed out several potential benefits for new mothers who blog, including giving moms both a way to connect with family and friends who do not live nearby and an outlet to use and show their hobbies and accomplishments, particularly for stay-at-home moms.
Because this is one of the first studies to look at the effects of participation in online communities on new mothers, McDaniel noted that there is not enough information collected yet to determine how or why blogging and social networking have markedly different impacts on new moms. However, this study demonstrated that mothers who blogged frequently show stronger connections to their family and friends. That possibility is going to have some other profound influences on them, including their relationship with their husband, the ways that they’re feeling about their parenting stress, and eventually into their levels of depression. 54. What does the underlined part “these women” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Mothers who read and write blogs. B. New mothers who like using Facebook. C. New mothers who read and write blogs.
D. Mothers who do not participate in a bogging community. 55. Which of the following people might have been surveyed? A. Kate, who is a mother of a 6-year-old boy. B. Betty, who is going to be a mother.
C. Joe, who is a mother of a 5-month-old boy and a 2-year-old girl. D. Susan, who is a mother of a 6-month-old boy.
56. Which of the following is true about blogging according to the passage? A. Stay-at-home moms benefit more from Blogging.
B. Blogging and social networking share the same effect on new mothers.
C. New mothers who blog are completely free of stresses.
D. Blogging provides new mothers with a good place to show their baby photos.
57. What can be concluded from this study?
A. Men play an important role in bringing up their children. B. Modern technology does more harm than good to mothers. C. It’s important for mothers to feel connected and supported in life.
D. Mothers of more children feel less stressed than those with only one child.
C
Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain a job offer. Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don’t want! Unskilled job-seekers, however, become so used to accommodating employers’
expectations that they often easily qualify for jobs they don’t want. So before you hand in your resignation, be sure you want the new one. Myth 2: Try to control the interview.
Nobody controls an interview, neither you nor the interviewer, although one or both parties often try. When somebody tries to control us, we hate it. When we try to control somebody, he makes us feel
uncomfortable. Remember, you can’t control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can’t control what you think of him. So hang loose when interviewing, or you may give people the impression that you are not believable.
Myth 3: .
Another silly myth. If you don’t disagree at times, you become, in effect, a “yes” woman. Don’t be afraid to disagree with your
interviewer in an agreeable way. And don’t hesitate to change your mind. The worst that could happen would be that the interviewer says to himself, “There is a person with an open mind!” The conventional wisdom says “be yourself” true enough. But how many people can be themselves if they don’t feel free to disagree?
Click here to get more silly myths and useful suggestions. 58. What is this passage trying to tell us?
A. Some accepted advice about interviewing is actually not true. B. Interviews don’t help people to get the jobs they really want. C. “Yes” women are more likely to get good jobs. D. It’s silly to take an interview too seriously. 59. Which of the following might be Myth 3? A. Always please the interviewer. B. Show gratitude to your interviewer. C. Never interrupt the interviewer. D. Don’t disagree with the interviewer.
60. In the writer’s opinion, a job-seeker should . A. be what he himself is B. be flexible to choose a job
C. be polite and agree with the interviewer D. be what the interviewer wants him to be 61. Where can the passage most likely be found?