阅读提速练(一) (建议用时：30分钟)
阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)
第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
(2024·绍兴诊断性考试)The world can be a scary place when you’re young. It can be even scarier when you’re a young little blue penguin(企鹅)—the tiniest of the penguin species. Luckily, there are some humans
willing to help. They stepped in to protect Billy, a blue penguin that appeared on a beach in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Spotted on November 29 at the slipway at Moncks Bay, near Sumner, in Christchurch, the little penguin immediately attracted a small crowd. Jeff Mein Smith saw the crowd while he was bicycling that afternoon, and he biked home to get his camera. When he returned to the scene, he found that the penguin had received a little sign, one that read “Hi, I’m waiting for my mum to come back. DOC(Department of Conservation) knows I’m here. Please leave me alone. Keep your dog away. Thanks. Billy—the baby blue penguin.”
Billy didn’t move away from the sign. The DOC arrived later that afternoon to pick up Billy, though they were surprised to see it on the beach. “It’s unusual for a blue penguin to be out in the open on the beach during the day，” Anita Spencer, a DOC senior ranger, told Stuff.
Billy was taken to the Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation Center after being retrieved from the beach. Volunteers believe the bird may actually be a female penguin, and is around 2 months old. The chick weighs a mere 550 grams, less than a standard basketball. A blue penguin should weigh around 900 grams at this age. Most little penguins grow up to weigh 1 kilogram.
The center will help the little penguin gain some weight by feeding it fish juice, before it’s set free into the ocean.
1．Why can the world be frightening to a young penguin? A．It is a rare species. B．It faces potential danger. C．It is surrounded by the crowd. D．It is threatened by dogs.
2．Which of the following can replace the underlined word “retrieved” in paragraph 4? A．Ignored. C．Given away.
3．What will happen to Billy in the center?
B．Cured. D．Brought back.
A．It will be reported to Stuff. B．It will be visited by the locals. C．It will be taken good care of. D．It will be fed with fruit juice.
B
You can’t see your sleeping pet’s brain waves, but its behavior can tell you when your cat might be dreaming. If you watch closely, you’ll see that as she falls asleep, her breathing becomes slow and regular with her body still. She has entered the first stage of sleep, called slow-wave sleep. After about 15 minutes you’ll notice a change in her breathing. Her eyes move under her closed lids, her paws twitch(抽动) and she flicks(轻拂) an ear. She has entered dreaming. Although she twitches and makes little grunting noises, messages from her brain to the large muscles in her legs are blocked, so she can’t run about. She is in a state of “sleep paralysis(麻痹)”．
Michel Jouvet, a French scientist, interrupted their sleep paralysis. Even though they were completely asleep, the dreaming cats began to run for balls that Jouvet couldn’t see and arched their backs at unseen enemies. He figured he was watching them act out their dreams! Obviously, the dreaming cats seemed to be practising important cat skills: following, pouncing, and fighting.
In another study, Matt Wilson recorded rats’ brain waves while they learned mazes. One day, her left the brain-wave-recording machine on while the rats fell asleep. The pattern of brain waves in the sleeping rats matched the pattern from the maze so closely that Wilson could figure out exactly which part of the maze each rat was dreaming about!
Many researchers now think that in both people and animals, one purpose of dreams is to practise important skills and figure out recent learning. This may explain why so many people dream about fighting and escaping, skills that were probably important to our ancestors, and why dreaming affects our ability to learn.
Do all animals dream? From looking at the brain waves of sleeping animals, how often animals dream seems to be tied to body size. Cats dream about every 15 minutes, mice every 9 minutes, and elephants every 2 hours. And though cows and horses usually sleep standing up, they only dream when lying down.
4．What does Michel Jouvet find in his study? A．The dreaming cats are in a state of body paralysis. B．The dreaming cats often practise their important skills. C．The eyes of dreaming cats move while bodies are still. D．The legs of the dreaming cats can’t move.
5．What can you know about dreaming from the passage? A．Dreaming a lot can help humans learn more.
B．Learning mazes is the basic skill for cats to learn. C．Rats often dream to work out their recent learning. D．Fighting and escaping are not important skills for ancestors. 6．How does the author develop his passage? A．By making comparisons. C．By telling stories.
C
Skyscrapers are the symbol of urban life. City people are used to seeing tall buildings and apartments. Farms, on the other hand, are associated with rural(农村的) life. However, there are experts who think skyscrapers should become farms to meet the increasing food needs.
By the middle of this century, some scientists suggest, almost 80% of the Earth’s population could live in cities. In addition, the population could increase to 9.1 billion during that time yet the amount of land available for farming will be the same. If current farming practices don’t change, we will need an area of new land to produce enough food for the planet.
Vertical farms, where urban farmers could grow crops in environmentally friendly skyscrapers, could be the solution. In spite of concerns over high costs, experts want to make it a reality and use these skyscrapers to grow crops.
Vertical farms would have many advantages, supporters say. Unlike traditional farming, vertical farming could be free of chemicals and diseases. Besides, crops would not suffer from problems like flooding. Finally, vertical farms would reduce the cost and negative effects of transporting food over long distances.
Some argue that although crops growing in a tall glass building would get natural sunlight during the day, it wouldn’t be enough. For this reason, vertical farms would need additional light sources(来源), such as artificial light.
Another way of growing fresh food is to build urban farms on rooftops. This more practical approach may be more achievable than the idea of farms in skyscrapers, researchers suggest. Experts agree that innovative(革新的) farming practices are needed to support the need for more food at affordable costs, both to the farmer and to the consumer, but the best ideas have yet to come.
7．What primary problem could vertical farming settle? A．Poor state of rural life. B．Shortage of food supply. C．High cost of transporting crops.
D．Environmental pollution by traditional farming. 8．What is the advantage of vertical farming?
B．By using figures. D．By showing facts.
A．It can produce organic food. B．It requires little care.
C．It can benefit transport industry. D．It needs very low cost.
9．What is a big challenge of making vertical farming a reality? A．Farmable land. C．Light sources.
10．What can be the best title of the text? A．Future Food Needs C．Farming on Rooftops
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Can creativity be taught? That’s a question without a simple yes or no answer. Creativity may not be able to be taught directly, but what you can get better at is frequently targeting at the circumstances of life which bring up the greatest chances for true creative expression. 11.________， but more like something which manifests(显现) itself inside those who learn to develop it and create the right conditions for it.
Limit your selection of tools to only the most vital. 12.________. You’ll be sharper than someone who merely fights with a larger set of tools.
Learn how to be resourceful. 13.________. Creativity is not just about creating something new but making old things work better as well. Think of crazy possibilities as well as practical ones. You might find inspiration for a workable solution in one of your ideas.
Don’t listen to feedback(反馈) and keep following your own path. The problem of asking for feedback is that the feedback will be given according to the person’s past experience. Others will unconsciously push you in a direction that they see as the best. 14.________. Just don’t let criticism destroy your creativity during the creative process.
15．________. Routines are positive if they strengthen a healthy creative consciousness and negative if they destroy that. The key is to discover a creative routine that puts you in a more creative mindset.
A．Creativity is not like a lightning strike B．Having a routine is actually not a bad idea C．You can literally do anything you like with them
D．Resourcefulness is about making the most of what you have to work with E．The more limited your set of tools is, the more creative the output will be
B．Symbol of Urban Life D．Farms of the Future B．Crop diseases. D．Climate conditions.
F．This is done with good intentions, but it actually hurts your natural creativity G．While breaking your routine once in a while to force new ways of thinking is good
阅读提速练(一)
阅读理解 第一节
【解题导语】 本文主要讲述了一只小蓝企鹅在人们的帮助下最终得救的故事。 1．B 解析：推理判断题。根据第二段的内容，尤其是“Please leave me alone. Keep your dog away.”可知，当时有人在那只小蓝企鹅旁边竖了一个牌子警示人们不要打扰它，不要让狗靠近它。由此可推知，对于那只小蓝企鹅来讲，这个世界是可怕的，因为它面临着一些潜在的危险。故B项正确。
2．D 解析：词义猜测题。根据第四段第一句“Billy was taken to the Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation Center after being retrieved from the beach.”可知，这只小蓝企鹅是从沙滩上被带到克赖斯特彻奇的一个企鹅康复中心的。由此可推知，画线词与brought back“带回”意思相近。故D项正确。
3．C 解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，在这只小蓝企鹅被放回海洋之前，康复中心会帮助它增加一些体重。由此可推知，在企鹅康复中心里，这只小蓝企鹅会得到很好的照顾。故C项正确。
【长难句分析】 They stepped in to protect Billy, a blue penguin that appeared on a beach in Christchurch, New Zealand.
分析：这是一个主从复合句。“a blue penguin”作“Billy”的同位语；“that appeared on a beach in Christchurch, New Zealand”为that引导的定语从句，that在从句中作主语，修饰先行词“a blue penguin”。
译文：他们对Billy援之以手，将它保护起来，它是一只出现在新西兰克赖斯特彻奇沙滩上的小蓝企鹅。
【解题导语】 本文是一篇说明文。研究发现，动物和人类一样，也会经常做梦，梦的内容常常跟学习重要的技能和弄清最近学习的东西相关；体型越小的动物，做梦的频率越高。
4．B 解析：细节理解题。根据第二段尾句“Obviously, the dreaming cats seemed to be practising important cat skills: following, pouncing, and fighting.”可知，这些做梦的猫似乎在练习重要的猫科动物技能：跟随、猛扑和打斗。故B项正确。
5．C 解析：推理判断题。根据第四段第一句“Many researchers now think that in both people and animals, one purpose of dreams is to practise important skills and figure out recent learning.”可知，许多研究人员现在认为，无论是人还是动物，做梦的一个目的都是为了练习重要的技能，并弄清最近学习的东西。据此可推知，老鼠经常通过做梦来弄清楚最近学习
2024届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解之阅读提速练1学案(浙江专用)
