（3年高考2年模擬）2024屆高三英語二輪突破 閱讀理解特訓50（含解析）
《閱讀理解特訓：3真2模含解析》2024屆高三英語二輪突破50
閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）
閱讀下列四篇短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B/C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
A
We live in central Phoenix, near the canal. Every day I used to see a homeless old man and his scruffy little dog hanging out down there.
I would tell my husband we should give him food for the little dog. It wouldn't have been a problem; we have our own "mini farm" of animals! But he would say "OK!" and then blow the idea off because of our business.
Being in Phoenix, Arizona, you can just imagine how hot it gets here, but his winter was really chilly! I had just come from KFC with take-out food for dinner. As I was turning by the canal, the man and his dog were sitting right there all bundled up. Even the doggy had a coat on! Not even thinking about it, I pulled into the parking lot along the canal and piled up a plate of chicken with al the fixings for the man and his little buddy. I gave it to him with a soda and a bottle of water for the little dog. He said, "Thank you, sweetie. You are an angel." And there were tears welling up in his eyes! I told him he ws so welcome, and then went home.
When my husband dug into the KFC gag he asked, "Were you hungry, or what?" I told him what I did and he said, "Only you!" Then he told me I had done a good thing.
A few weeks later, we were walking along the canal and found the man walking to me, with his little dog. He asked whether I would mind adopting the dog. With tears in eyes, he said it had gotten too hard for him to care for the dog. He added that he was planning on heading to Washington State but his dog wouldn't have been up to it, so he hoped to give it to me. "Only you! In this city, you are the only person I can believe in!"
Now, every time I watch and pat the puppy lying near the fireplace, I will recall the old man's words and wish him good luck.
The author and her husband didn't kelp the old man at the beginning because _______
A.they had a farm of animals to feed
B.they didn't have food even for themselves.
C.they worked busily and often forget it.
D.they were unwilling to help a man with a dog.
【答案】C
【解析】細節理解題。由“But he would say "OK!" and then blow the idea off because of our business.”可知我們一開始沒有幫助老人是因為生意太忙，而忘記了。故選C。
What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 3?
A. She gave the old man some food on a cold day.
B. She met the old man after finishing her dinner.
C. She offered the old man nothing but chicken.
D. She burst into tears after helping the old man.
【答案】A
【解析】細節理解題。由“I pulled into the parking lot along the canal and piled up a plate of chicken with al the fixings for the man and his little buddy. I gave it to him with a soda and a bottle of water for the little dog.”可知在那個寒冷的日子，作者給了老人一些食物。
What did the author's husband feel when she told him what she had done?
A. Grateful.
B. Delighted
C. Indifferent
D. Disappointed
【答案】B
【解析】細節理解題。由“Then he told me I had done a good thing.”可知作者的丈夫為她所做的事情感到高興。故選B。
Why did the old man hope to give the dog to the author?
A. Because he knew thee author was also a dog lover.
B. Because the author was the person he could trust.
C. Because the author was the only person he knew.
D. Because he believed that his dog liked the author.
【答案】B
【解析】細節理解題。由"Only you! In this city, you are the only person I can believe in!"可知老人把狗給她，是因為她是老人信任的人。故選B。
What can we infer from the ending of the passage?
A. The author refused the old man's request.
B. The author misses the old man and his dog.
C. The author feels the old man was very lucky.
D. The author adopted the old man's dog.
【答案】D
【解析】推理判斷題。由最后一段“……every time I watch and pat the puppy lying near the fireplace,……”可知作者收養了老人的狗。故選D.
B
Parents need to be good role models to help their children make sensible financial decisions, according to Adam Hancock and his team, from East Caronlina University in the US. Their work highlights that parents who argue about finances contribute to increasing credit card debt among their children during their students years. Their work is published online in Springer's Journal of Family and Economic Issues.
Credit card debt among college students has been a growing concern for researchers and policymakers over the last decade. In addition, there is growing concern among educators that more students are dropping out of school, not because of academic failure, but because of financial reasons, and credit card especially. Hancock and colleagues' study is the first to examine how parental interactions, and financial knowledge and attitudes may have a cumulative effect（累積效應）on the number of credit cards students own and their level of credit card debt.
The researchers analyzed data for 420 undergraduate students from seven different American universities, who took part in the College Student Financial Literacy Survey. According to the online survey, nearly two-thirds of students had a credit card, and nearly a third had more than one. Those students who reported that their parents argued about finances were more likely to have more than two cards than the students whose parents who did not argue about finances.
In terms of debt, those students who had two or more credit cards were nearly three times more likely to report having credit card debt over ＄500.
The researchers conclude, "It is clear that the influence of parents cannot be neglected. Researchers, educators and policymakers should work in finding effective ways to increase the positive financial behaviors fo college students. We need to help students learn financial skills and establish healthy financial attitudes at earlier ages to prevent poor financial habits from taking root."
In Adam Hancock's research, student's credit card debt is related to their _________.
A.knowledge
B.concerns
C.school
D.parents
【答案】D
【解析】細節理解題。由“Their work highlights that parents who argue about finances contribute to increasing credit card debt among their children during their students years.”可知學生的信用卡債務和他們的父母有關。故選D。
When college students have credit card debt, they may ________.
A.quit school
B.fail in their exams
C.study financial knowledge
D.have more credit cards
【答案】A
【解析】細節理解題。由“there is growing concern among educators that more students are dropping out of school, not because of academic failure, but because of financial reasons, and credit card especially.”可知大學生有信用卡債務時，他們就可能退學。故選A。
What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A. More than 400 students i a university took the survey.
B. The survey was conducted with the paper questionnaire.
C. Nearly all the students in this survey have credit cards.
D. Students have fewer cards if their parents argue more.
【答案】C
【解析】細節理解題。由“According to the online survey, nearly two-thirds of students had a credit card, and nearly a third had more than one.”可知在調查中，幾乎所有學生都有信用卡。故選C。
If you have two or more credit cards, you are more likely to ________.
A.get wealthy
B.have argument
C.buy more things
D.become in debt
【答案】D
【解析】細節理解題。由“In terms of debt, those students who had two or more credit cards were nearly three times more likely to report having credit card debt over ＄500.”說明如果你有兩個或兩個以上的信用卡，你更有可能負債。故選D。
As a student, what can yo learn from the passage?
A. We need to turn to our parents when we have credit card debt.
B. We should build correct financial attitudes when we are young.
C. We shouldn't have credit cards so that we can avoid argument.
D. We can have more credit cards to make life more comfortable.
【答案】B
【解析】細節理解題。由“We need to help students learn financial skills and establish healthy financial attitudes at earlier ages to prevent poor financial habits from taking root.”可知我們在小的時候就應該樹立正確的財政態度。故選B。
C
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise—and as a result, we are ageing unnecessarily soon. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could be slowed down. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual or emotional faculties.) Contraction of front and side parts—as cells die off—was observed I some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty- and seventy-year-olds. Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age—using the head. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant. Matsuzawa’s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain,” he says, “Think hard and engage in conversation. Don’t rely on pocket calculators.” 36. The team of doctors wanted to find out ________. A. why certain people age sooner than others
B. how to make people live longer C. the size of certain people’s brains
D. which people are most intelligent
【答案】A
【解析】細節理解題。由第二段“Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could be slowed down.”可知醫生們想要研究出為什么一些人比其他人老得更快。 37. On what are their research findings based? A. A survey of farmers in northern Japan.
B. Tests performed on a thousand old people. C. The study of brain volumes of different people
D. The latest development of computer technology.
【答案】C
【解析】細節理解題。由“he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.”可知選C。 38. The doctor’s test show that ________. A. our brains shrink as we grow older
B. the front section of the brain does not shrink C. sixty-year-olds have the better brains than thirty-year-olds D. some people’s brains have contracted more than other people’s.
【答案】D
【解析】細節理解題。由“The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.”可知醫生們的測試發現，一般而言，鄉下人比城鎮里的人的大腦收縮的更早。故選D。 39. The word “subjects” in Paragraph 5 means ________. A. something to be considered
B. branches of knowledge studied C. persons chosen to be studied in an experiment D. any member of a state except the supreme ruler.
【答案】C
【解析】詞義猜測題。由“……but it was still not evident in some sixty- and seventy-year-olds.”可知“subjects”指的是被選入實驗中做研究的人。故選C。 40. According to the passage, which people seem to age slower than the others? A. Lawyers.
B. Farmers.
C. Clerks.
D. Shop assistants.
【答案】A
【解析】細節理解題。由“Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers,……”可知律師變老的風險最小。故選A。
D
The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High school English teachers are not doing their jobs." He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established. My topic is not standards nor its decline（降低）. What the speaker was really saying is that eh is no longer young; he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult. My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies（缺陷）. But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack. The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate. Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today's young people, it naturally follows that today's English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise, young people would not have a poor command of English. 41. The speaker the author mentioned in the passage believed that ________. A. the language of the younger generation is usually inferior to that t of the older generation B. the students had a poor command of English because they didn't work hard enough C. he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years D. English teachers should be held responsible for the students' poor command of English
【答案】D
【解析】細節理解題。由“High school English teachers are not doing their jobs.”可知作者提到的說話人認為，英語老師應該為學生的英語不好負責。故選D。 42. In the author's opinion, the speaker _______. A. gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students B. had exaggerated （夸張）the language problems of the students C. was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their jobs D. could think and speak intelligently
【答案】B
【解析】細節理解題。由“As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect.”可知作者認為發言者夸張了學生的語言問題。故選B。 43. The author's attitude towards the speaker's remarks is _______. A. neutral
B. positive
C. critical
D. compromising
【答案】C
【解析】細節理解題。A.中立的；B.肯定的；C.批評的；D.妥協的。由“Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect.”可知作者不同意發言者的評論。故選C。 44. It can be concluded from the passage that ______. A. it is justifiable to include English as a school subject B. the author disagrees with the speaker over the standard of English at Grade 9 level C. English language teaching is by no means an easy job D. Language improvement needs time and effort
【答案】C
【解析】細節理解題。“Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years,……”說明成年人的語言能力是經過了多年的發展的，所以語言教學絕不是一項簡單的工作。故選C。 45. In the passage the author argues that ______. A. it is unfair to blame the English teachers for the language deficiencies of the students B) young people would not have a poor command of English if the teachers did their jobs properly C) to get rid of language deficiencies one must have sensitive eyes and ears D) to improve the standard of English requires the effort of several generations
【答案】A
【解析】細節理解題。由“Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today's young people, it naturally follows that today's English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.”可知作者認為，因學生語言上的不足而責備英語老師是不公平的。
