浙江省2024高考英語二輪復習專題訓練：閱讀理解（3）

　　閱讀下列短文，從所給的四個選項A、B、CD）中，選出最佳選項s’ desire is to give and receive love in relationships that make us feel that even if others disagree with what we do or say, they still love us, accept us, and appreciate what we give to the world. While it would be wonderful to have these types of relationships with all people, we know that’s hard to do. However, we can have such relationships with some others, but only when we first have them with ourselves—and, strangely, this is often the hardest relationship of all.

　　Do you love yourself? You may think you do, but do you really? There’s only one way to find out---by taking a close look at what you think, say, and do. You may not like some of what you find, but if you are serious about really loving yourself, you can use this insight to do some positive inner work. Here’re three ways for gaining greater personal insight for deeper love:

　　Listen Closely to Your Thoughts

　　Your thoughts will determine your actions. One thing helping you to listen to your thoughts is keeping a journal. It is not necessary for you to write in it every day, but it helps to record various insights you gain as you go about your life. Instead of using a big notebook, you might use a small notepad that you can keep in your pocket for easy access to record your thoughts as they occur to you. Whichever method you choose, what’s most important is that you write your thoughts down. It will help you know what’s in your heart.

　　Be Honest with Yourself

　　To do this, you should pay attention to your actions. Actions speak louder than words, and they always tell the truth. If you say you love your job, but your actions say otherwise, which do you think is more reliable? On the other hand, if you say you’re not good at a certain job, but your actions say otherwise, that’s also important. What do you do with this insight? You can use it to make more positive choices in your life. By being honest with yourself, you will act according to truth instead of just what you tell yourself.

　　Take Quiet Time to Listen to Your Inner Voice

　　This is similar to the first point, but it takes a step further---beyond the natural mind to the heart that cannot be seen. You may want to use your quiet time to think deeply. However you use this time, the key is to shut out all of the noise around you by focusing deep within yourself. Breathing deeply during quiet time will also help you focus. I know it’s hard to find quiet time during a particularly busy day, but it’s so important---even if it’s just 10 minutes a day and you have to hide somewhere to get it. Quiet time can really make a difference in your life.

　　Despite what your mind may be telling you, you can have love with no limits. The key is to unconditionally love yourself first.

　　（原創）1. By looking deep into what we think, say, and do, we can _____.

　　A. know whether we really love ourselves

　　B. appreciate what we give to the world

　　C. realize what type of relationship we long for

　　D. know whether we are loved and accepted by others

　　（原創）2. An important way for gaining personal insight is to _____.

　　A. do some positive inner work

　　B. keep a journal wherever you go

　　C. look closely at what others say about us

　　D. pay attention to our thoughts

　　（原創）3. The insight we gain from our actions can help us _____.

　　A. focus our attention on our jobs

　　B. make more positive choices in our life

　　C. act according to the truth

　　D. tell the differences between our words and our actions

　　（原創）4. It can be learned from the passage that if we want to have love without limits, we must first of all _____.

　　A. be honest with ourselves anytime

　　B. give our love to others generously

　　C. love ourselves unconditionally

　　D. take quiet time and think deeply

　　B

　　The trip to the United Stated opened my eyes to the fact that there are a lot of similarities as well as differences between American youth and French youth.

　　The first difference is in appearance. Going around in the U.S., I found that American youth do not really care about their appearance. In the morning, they choose something in their closet and wear it with another thing, often of different colors and styles, without wondering whether their choices make them look strange. The reason behind this is that they don’t care what people look like, but are just interested in their ideas. I think it’s great, but it also causes problems. Since they don’t care about their appearance, they don’t really care about their weight. Often they get fat without realizing it.

　　There are differences in relationships too. When the American youth fall in love, they don’t really think of the future. Also, there are differences in the rules concerning behavior that is allowed. In some respects, the French are more accepting. For example, in America it is generally unacceptable to make physical display of love. Lovers, in theory, can’t kiss or hold each other everywhere they want. People think that not showing love in public places is a way to respect others. On the contrary, the French youth can do almost everything they want.

　　With regard to other types of relationships, there are also big differences. Americans act differently from French people in front of unknown people. When an American girl, for example, arrives in front of people she has never met before, she will talk with them, trying to create a kind of bond between her and this new circle of people. The French girls will just think about rather than really do this kind of thing because they are too shy and lacking in self-confidence.

　　To finish, I noticed that in American classes, when pupils want to say or ask something, they just do it. In general, they don’t really care how the others will judge them. In France, it’s not the same case. If somebody wants to ask something, he/she will think about it before speaking up. I appreciate the freedom in Americans’ behavior, ideas, and ways of expressing themselves.

　　（改編）5. American young people _______.

　　A. are just interested in people’s clothes

　　B. show more interest in people’s ideas

　　C. care more about their weight

　　D. are more concerned about appearance

　　（改編）6. When American youth fall in love with each other, they _________.

　　A. will not hold each other

　　B. will always think about their future

　　C. will rarely display their love in public

　　D. will kiss wherever they like

　　（原創）7. When meeting with strangers, American girls will not _______.

　　A. try to establish a type of relationship with them

　　B. have faith in themselves

　　C. start to create a conversation

　　D. behave in a way similar to French girls

　　（原創）8. It can be inferred from the passage that French youth may think more about ______.

　　A. their relationship’s future

　　B. their public images

　　C. their physical displays

　　D. their lover’s ideas

　　（改編）9. The passage is mainly about the______ between American youth and French youth.

　　A. similarities

　　B. friendship

　　C. differences

　　D. differences and the similarities

　　C

　　There were red faces at one of Britain’s biggest banks recently. They had accepted a telephone order to buy ￡100,000 worth of ￡￡’s house, a suitcase full of foreign banknotes. But they were now not used in their country of origin or anywhere else. This young boy headed straight to the nearest bank with his pockets filled with notes. The cashiers did not realize the country in question had reduced the value of its currency by 90%. They exchanged the notes at their face value at the current exchange rate. In three days, before he was found out, he took ￡Another recent story which should give us food for thought is the case of the man who paid his six-year-old daughter￡“She will soon learn the value of money, ” he said. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Everything has to be paid for and the sooner she learns that the better.” At the other extreme there are fond parents who provide free bed and board for their grown-up children, While even the most hard-hearted parents might hesitate to throw their children out on the streets, we all know of people in their twenties who still shamelessly live off their parents. Surely there comes a time when everyone has to leave the parental nest, look after themselves and pay their own way in life. But when is it?

　　（改編）10. Recently one of Britain’s biggest banks _____.

　　A. bought a lot of shares for a customer and brought him a great loss

　　B. lost money as its young customer had no money to pay his debts

　　C. lost much money because the shares they bought fell in value

　　D. received a telephone order to buy shares for a 21-year-old boy

　　（改編）11. The young customer _____.

　　A. would have paid his debts, had he had the money to do so

　　B. would be sent to prison if he didn’t pay his debts

　　C. would have made ￡’s attitude to the example of the two boys who cheated the banks is _____.

　　A. objective

　　B. subjective

　　C. questioning

　　D. negative

　　（改編）13. The man paid his daughter ￡He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

　　"What's the matter, Schatz?"

　　"I've got a headache."

　　"You better go back to bed."

　　"No. I'm all right."

　　"You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed."

　　But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

　　"You go up to bed," I said, "You're sick."

　　"I'm all right," he said.

　　When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

　　"What's is it?" I asked him.

　　"One hundred and two."

　　Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative(瀉藥), the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza（流感）can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(傳染病；傳染性的) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia（肺炎）.

　　Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

　　"Do you want me to read to you?"

　　"All right. If you want to, " said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached（超然的；冷漠的）from what was going on.

　　I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates（海盜）;but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

　　"How do you feel, Schatz?" I asked him.

　　"Just the same, so far," he said.

　　I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.

　　"Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine."

　　"I'd rather stay awake."

　　After a while he said to me, "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."

　　"It doesn't bother me."

　　"No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you."

　　I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out with my gun and the young hunting dog….I killed two quail(鵪鶉), and missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey of quail close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.

　　At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

　　"You can't come in," he said. "You mustn't get what I have."

　　I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed（發紅）by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.

　　I took his temperature.

　　"What is it?"

　　"Something like a hundred," I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.

　　"It was a hundred and two," he said.

　　"Who said so?"

　　"The doctor."

　　"Your temperature is all right," I said. "It's nothing to worry about."

　　"I don't worry," he said, "but I can't keep from thinking."

　　"Don't think," I said. "Just take it easy."

　　"I'm taking it easy," he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

　　"Take this with water."

　　"Do you think it will do any good?"

　　"Of course it will."

　　I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.

　　"About what time do you think I'm going to die?" he asked.

　　"What?"

　　"About how long will it be before I die?"

　　"You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? "

　　"Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two."

　　"People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk."

　　"I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two."

　　He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

　　"You poor Schatz," I said. "Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight."

　　"Are you sure?"

　　"Absolutely," I said, "It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?"

　　"Oh," he said.

　　But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松馳的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

　　（改編）15. The author writes about the doctor’s visit in order to _____.

　　A. show the doctor’s knowledge about influenza and its treatment

　　B. show the boy’s illness was quite serious

　　C. create a situation of misunderstanding around which to build a story

　　D. show the father was very much concerned about the boy’s illness

　　（原創）16. The pronoun “it” in “Papa, if it bothers you” (line 41) refers to _____.

　　A. the boy’s high temperature

　　B. the father giving the medicine to the boy

　　C. the father staying with the boy

　　D. the boy’s death

　　（原創）17. It can be inferred from the story that it is _____ by the time the father gets home from hunting.

　　A. early in the afternoon

　　B. close to evening

　　C. at noon

　　D. late in the morning

　　（改編）18. From the story we know that the boy kept tight control over himself because _____.

　　A. he did not want to be a bother to others

　　B. he wanted to recover quickly so that he could go hunting with his father

　　C. he was afraid that he would die if he lost control over himself

　　D. he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death

　　（改編）19. That the boy cried very easily at little things of no importance the next day suggests that _____.

　　A. he couldn’t control his emotions when he finally relaxed

　　B. his father would go out hunting without him if he didn’t cry

　　C. something went wrong with his brain after the fever

　　D. he often complained about unimportant things as a spoiled boy

　　（改編）20. The theme of the story is _____.

　　A. death is something beyond a child’s comprehension

　　B. to be calm and controlled in the face of death is a mark of courage

　　C. misunderstanding can occur even between father and son

　　D. misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unexpected effect

　　1. A. 第二段前三句

　　2. D. 第三段的概括

　　3. B. 第四段的You can use it to make more positive choices in your life.

　　4. C. 結尾段