2024高考英語二輪（閱讀理解）精品訓練（02）及答案

　　In ancient Egypt ，the pharaoh(法老) treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.

　　Shades of that spirit spread over today’ s conversations.Once a friend and I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked lightheartedly out the door，picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, “Oh boy, bad day for a picnic. The weatherman says it’ s going to rain.” I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, for his smile.

　　Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus.As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile, “Oh that bus left five minutes ago.” Dreams of headcutting!

　　It’ s not the news that makes someone angry. It’ s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’ s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn’ t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone.Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiver.

　　Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you are tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn’ t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.

　　Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning.Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, “Oh, that ’ s all right. I’ll catch the next one. ”Big winners, when they bear bad news, deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded (被轟炸的) person is sure to have.

　　[語篇解讀]　當我們告訴別人不好的消息時，我們應該以同情的表情和語氣來表達。

　　1．In Paragraph 1 ，the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to________.

　　A. make a comparison

　　B. introduce a topic

　　C. describe a scene

　　D. offer an argument

　　[解析]　邏輯推理題。從第一段可知，作者用“法老的故事”來引出文章的話題，所以答案選B。

　　[答案]　B

　　2．In the writer’ s opinion, his neighbor was________.

　　A. friendly

　　B. warmhearted

　　C. not considerate

　　D. not helpful

　　[解析]　事實細節題。文章中第二段，作者的鄰居高興地向作者傳達一個壞消息，他沒有考慮作者的感受，由此可知作者的鄰居很不會體貼人，考慮事情不周全。

　　[答案]　C

　　3．From “Dreams of headcutting！” ( Paragraph 3 ), we learn that the writer________.

　　A. was mad at the sales agent

　　B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh

　　C. wished that the sales agent would have bad dreams

　　D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent’ s head that night

　　[解析]　邏輯推理題。從文章第三段推斷可知，作者對售票員的這種行為非常憤怒，所以答案選A。

　　[答案]　A

　　4．What is the main idea of the text?

　　A. Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.

　　B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.

　　C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.

　　D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful.

　　[解析]　主旨大意題。本文告訴我們“在日常交流中，當向別人傳達壞消息時應該委婉地表達出來，以照顧到對方的感受，這在日常交流中是非常重要的”。由此可知答案為A項。

　　[答案]　A

　　A

　　At Yale University, enrollment in basic Chinese in 2005 grew rapidly, and for the first time professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of the Chinese language to start in second- or third-year Chinese language class, rather than basic Chinese.

　　The American interest in China is not just at the university level. In the 2006 school year, high-school students will be offered an Advanced Placement test, which is one of the national exams American students take for university admission, in Chinese. This is the first time Chinese is offered in the Advanced Placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subjects that high school students take.

　　What is surprising is that earlier last year, an organization that tracks university students surveyed high schools throughout America, asking if they planned to offer the language courses that prepare students for the language Advanced Placement test. They expected that only a hundred high schools, mostly in California, New York, and a few other places with large immigrant populations, would show interest in each of the new language programs. Although that was true for the courses in Italian, Russian and Japanese, it was not true for the Chinese language course. There were thousands of American high schools that indicated that they planned to build their Chinese programs to levels where students could take the Advanced Placement exam for Chinese language. The demand for courses in Chinese is rising so rapidly that it is rapidly overtaking all other foreign languages except Spanish.

　　41. According to the passage many freshmen at Yale University today

　　.

　　A. know enough basic Chinese

　　B. needn’t learn Chinese any more

　　C. take courses in the Chinese language

　　D. go to university to study Chinese

　　42. For university entrance, the American high-school students

　　.

　　A. have to learn Chinese B. learn more than one foreign language.

　　C. take the Advanced Placement Test D. used to have a test in Chinese

　　43. We can learn from the passage that

　　.

　　A. Chinese will overtake all foreign languages in American high schools

　　B. Americans will know more about China and its people

　　C. the U.S. government pays much attention to language studies

　　D. Chinese may take the place of English in American universities

　　B

　　Why not an island get-away?

　　Newfoundland

　　Price

　　From ￡1080 per person in June 2005

　　We went with:

　　Frontier Canada frontier-travel. Co. uk/Canada

　　About this trip

　　John Cabot had set sail looking for a new trade route for Asia, when he landed in Cape Bonavista. Clearly he felt this barren desolate landscape could provide this, so he claimed it for its potential and so began the rise of the British Empire.

　　Newfoundland is the most easterly point in North America and was Britain’s first overseas colony until 1949, when it became part of Canada. It’s roughly the size of England and Craig’s journey by camper van or RV (recreational vehicle) took in just a small part of the island called the Bonavista Peninsula.

　　First stop was the tiny fishing port of Keels to stock up for the journey ahead. There’s a long standing love affair between Newfoundlanders and cod. The seas off the Newfoundland coast were once the richest cod fishing grounds in the world, attracting fishermen from all over Europe. Many settled, establishing these coastal villages known locally as outports.

　　An hour’s drive down the coast is the town of Bonavista, where Craig met up with retired fisherman, Wilson Hayward. He told Craig how the landscape used to lie, and described the peculiarities of the language and accents in the area. There’s a different language in every bay.

　　44．The title “Why not an island get-away?” _________.

　　A. invites people to take a holiday trip to Newfoundland

　　B. informs people that the island is moving away from where it used to be

　　C. tells people that they can buy the island at the price of ￡1080.

　　D. asks people to visit the website frontier-travel. co.uk/Canada

　　45．From the context we can conclude that “Frontier Canada” is the name of _________.

　　A. a tourist guide

　　B. a kind of fish found around the island

　　C. a tourist agency

　　D. someone who has already booked the trip

　　46．When John Cabot first discovered Cape Bonavista he was actually on a voyage to find ____.

　　A. North America

　　B. Asia

　　C. South America

　　D. the British Empire

　　47．According to the passage Newfoundland is now part of _________.

　　A. UK B. Canada C. Europe D. Bonavista

　　48．In the past the Newfoundlanders mainly lived by _________.

　　A. teaching languages

　　B. making camper vans

　　C. looking after retired fishermen D. fishing cod

　　C

　　As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.

　　These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵雜狂亂的喧鬧)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.

　　“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散開) a fleet of these.”

　　Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(￡55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.

　　Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心輻射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.

　　49. The best title for this text would be

　　.

　　A. Developing Skycars B. The Traffic Jams in the Sky

　　C. How to Guide Flying Cars in the Sky D. What Flying Cars Will Look Like

　　50. The underlined word “envision” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “

　　”.

　　A. see B. expect C. think D. announce

　　51. When engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except

　　.

　　A. how to fly out of regional airports

　　B. how to prevent the disorder of the airways

　　C. how to reduce expenses and the vehicle’s weight

　　D. how to fly the skycars to enter skies

　　52. Now Nasa researchers’ aim is to

　　.

　　A. make big flying cars

　　B. work out the plan——how to transform small plane travel

　　C. develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one

　　D. build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities

　　D

　　The teaching hospital is one associated with a medical school. Teaching hospitals are large, with a range of from 300 to 200 beds. These hospitals always have interns(實習醫師) and residents(住院醫師) and additionally have medical students on the hospital wards. They have superb technical resources, and it is here that the most extraordinary events of medicine take place. Open-heart surgery, transplantation of kidneys, elaborate(精致的) nurseries for the newborn, support for management of rare blood diseases, and other wonderful achievements are all available here. Dozens of people may be concerned with the well-being of a particular patient. Important medical decisions are thoroughly discussed, presented at conferences, and reviewed by many personnel.

　　On the other hand, the quality of personal relationships at teaching hospitals is variable. Many patients feel that they are treated in an impersonal way, and that their laboratory tests receive more attention that their human and social problems. Since these institutions are on the frontier of medicine, there is a tendency to emphasize the new and elaborate procedures, when older and more modest ones might have served as well. With the inexperience of some members of the care team, there is a tendency to order more laboratory tests than what would have been ordered for the same condition in a private hospital. The sick patients are sometimes confused by having to relate to a large number of doctors and students. Medical educators are concerned with such criticisms and have to correct some of the problems. However, some excesses(超額) of technological medicine still occur in these institutions.

　　53. One of the advantages of a teaching hospital is that

　　.

　　A. its first-class personnel are a guarantee of excellent medical care

　　B. its first-class medical facilities and skills make medical breakthroughs possible

　　C. the interns, residents and medical students all offer satisfactory services

　　D. its laboratory staff provide high-class professional aids for the doctors

　　54. The passage implies that

　　.

　　A. private hospitals usually give personalized care of high quality

　　B. private hospitals have more experienced laboratory staff

　　C. teaching hospitals use patients as subjects for their experiments

　　D. teaching hospitals usually give patients improper treatment

　　55. Treatments of some difficult and complicated cases in teaching hospital are decided

　　.

　　A. by specialists in charge of the case

　　B. by doctors and students together

　　C. on some special and important occasions

　　D. through collective efforts and serious review

　　56. The problem that still bothers teaching hospitals frequently is

　　.

　　A. the inadequate patient care caused by irresponsible nurses.

　　B. the wrong decisions made by inexperienced doctors

　　C. improper dependence on technological medicine

　　D. the inconvenience caused by the presence of medical students

　　What’s On Stage

　　An acrobatic show: To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the China Acrobatic Troupe(劇團) will present “The Soul of China”, where the seemingly impossible is made real. Chills will run down your spine(脊柱) as you watch breathlessly as performers take their art and their bodies to the edge.

　　Time: 7:30 p.m., September 13-19

　　Place: Capital Theatre, 22 Wangfujing Dajie, Dongcheng District