高中英语高考总复习25分钟限时阅读天天练--第38天

2010届高考总复习25分钟限时阅读天天练--第38天

第一部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

Growing up is not always easy. When facing difficulties, courage and a spirit of independence can be more useful than crying for __1___! That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of_2__ boy to man with family hardships tells us.

Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County, Henan Province. When he was ___3___ 11, his father became mentally ill and one day came back with an abandoned baby girl. A year later, Hong’s mother and younger brother both __4__home because of poverty and pressure from his sick father.

Their burdens fell onto the 12-year-old’s shoulders: to treat his father’s illness, to ___5___ the adopted sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.

Hong didn’t _6___. Since a young age, he has worked in part-time jobs to feed his family. At the same time, he has studied at college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to__7__a room near his campus for her, and send her to school.

After Hong’s story went public, people were ___8___to tears by his unselfishness. Hard _9__ his life was, Hong didn’t abandon his father and the adopted __10__, because they needed his help. With his hard-won money, he even aided other students ___11__against misfortunes.

Today when many tend to worry more about thei r own happiness, Hong’s deeds ___12__ us of what we usually neglect: Love and care for others. Without these, ___13___ of us could survive.

Hong ___14__donations from others. He said that he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could ___15__ his own wor k. Short of money to buy food, the boy climbed tall trees to get birds’ eggs for his baby sister. He walked two hours at weekends to buy different things to ___16__ around his school to earn money. Through his hard life, the boy developed ___17___ against misfortune that made him a hero in people’s eyes.

Hong’s story shows that with love and willpower, no hardship can ___18__ a person but himself. So when facing difficulties, don’t __19__ about bad luck. Consider what more you could do for your family and society __20___ you’ll find the world smiling back.

1. A. money B. food C. clothes D. help

2. A caring B. growing C. moving D. turning

3. A. only B. already C. ever D. still

4. A. stayed B. went C. sold D. left

5. A. bring up B. turn to C. stick to D. devote to

6. A. give away B. give up C. run out D. turn down

7. A. build B. rent C. but D. paint

8. A. encouraged B. moved C. inspired D. made

9. A. as B. because C. unless D. while

10. A. brother B. daughter C. sister D. uncle

11. A. struggling B. learning C. standing D. turning

12. A. left B. remembered C. reminded D. told

13. A. any one B. every one C. none D. no one

14. A. threw away B. turned out C. gave off D.turned down

15. A. depend on B. stick to C. refer to D. turn to

16. A. show B. eat C. sell D. share

17. A. a chance B. an ability C. a spirit D. a belief

18. A. bury B. defeat C. win D. knock

19. A. worry B. care C. complain D. joke

20. A. and B. when C. while D. until

第二部分：阅读理解：（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

A

Beginning college is exciting: new ideas to explore, new challenges to be met and many decisions to be made; your future begins here.

However, you will find college life is different from your previous school environment. Many of us can be easily overwhelmed by the details of running a well-balanced life. While some of us may have the know-how, I guess there are more of us who can benefit from learning about the experiences of others who have walked the college halls before you.

The following you may find of use about life on campus:

● Plan well. There are so many new things to do at a new college or university. Give yourself time to make new friends and became familiar with the campus, but don’t forget why you are there. Give some time for social activities and manage your time wisely.

●If you don’t have a “system” for planning your time now (like a day timer a computer data book), get one. Most of all, don’t depend on your memory.

●Don’t miss the guidelines. The restrictions, rules and regulations of all kinds can usually be found in your student’s handbook. Consider them well-balanced food for thought. What dates are important? What pieces of paper need to be handed in? What can / can’t you do in your student residence（住处）? Who has the right for what? What do you need to complete to graduate?

●Write the word “STUDY” on the walls of our bedroom and bathroom, and maybe it will help to write it on a piece of paper and stick it on the telephone, TV and the kitchen table. Consider this — you are paying thousands of dollars for your course. You pay every time you have to repeat or replace a course.

●Build your identity. This is the time for you to decide what to do and what not to do. Take as much time as you need to explore new ideas. Do not be afraid of the beyond. This is learning to make good choices.

21. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To offer advice on college life.

B. To explain why college life is exciting.

C. To describe the importance of college life.

D. To persuade you to go to college.

22. According to the passage, why is it exciting to begin college life?

A. Because you will have more freedom at college.

B. Because you will no longer be afraid of the beyond

C. Because you prepare for your future career and life there.

D. Because professors there will provide you with many new ideas.

23. The underlined word “know-how” refers to _______________.

A. An understanding of how things are going at college

B. Practical knowledge about how to behave and what to do at college

C. College halls where rules and regulations are presented

D. An environment completely different from the one you’re used to

24. According to the passage, college students __________________.

A. needn’t learn from those who went to college before them

B. spend as much time as possible on social activities

C. should know what they have fought for on campus

D. are supposed to repeat or replace at least one course

25 According to the passage all the following statements are true EXCEPT____________.

A. at college you should take an active part in social activities

B. the author advise you to get a computer data book

C. you are reminded of study by making a sign everywhere

D. you are given a suggestion that you make a identity card first.

B

Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.

The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

Such char acteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.

In the world of monkeys，grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.

The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

26. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.

B. Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.

C. In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.

D. Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive.

27. The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________.

A. monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows

B. feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature

C. monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other

D. no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings

28. Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are ____.

A. more likely to weigh what they get

B. attentive to researchers’ inst ructions

C. nice in both appearance and behaviors

D. more ready to help others than their male companions

29 Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys.

B. In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.

C. Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.

D. Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating back to 35 million years ago.

30. What ca n we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?

A. The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.

B. They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.

C. The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.

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