最新-高考英语九月题型整合练6含解析-word版

最新-高考英语九月题型整合练6含解析-word版



李仕才

一、阅读理解。

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Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there
is a natural desire of us to capture(捕捉) and preserve it
—which means, in this day and age, that we are likely to
reach for our phones to take a picture.

Though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there
are two big problems associated with taking pictures.
Firstly, we are likely to be so busy taking pictures that
we forget to look at the world whose beauty and interest
encourage us to take a photograph in the first place. And
secondly, because we feel the pictures are safely stored on
our phones, we never get around to looking at them, so sure
are we that we’ll get around to them one day.

The first person to notice the problems was the English
art critic(评论家), John Ruskin. He was a keen traveler who
realized that most tourists make a poor job of noticing or
remembering the beautiful things they see. He argued that


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the men talked about in the speech?
—No problem. They talked about air pollution.

humans have a natural tendency to respond to beauty and
desire to have it, but there are better and worse
expressions of this desire. At worst, we get into buying
souvenirs or taking photographs. But, in Ruskin’s eyes,
there’s just one thing we should do—attempting to draw
the interesting things we see, regardless of whether we
happen to have any talent for doing so.

Ruskin said, “Drawing can teach us to see: to notice
properly rather than gaze absent? the process of
recreating with our own hands what lies before our eyes, we
naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a
loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of
its parts.”

Ruskin deplored the blindness and hurry of modern
tourists, especially those who prided themselves on
traveling around the whole Europe in a week by train, “No
changing of places at a hundred miles an hour will make us
stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the
world than men could see, if they ever walked slowly. The
really precious things are thoughts and sights, not pace.”

【解题导语】 本文主要讨论了旅游中如何享受美景以及游客普
遍存在的问题。



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the men talked about in the speech?
—No problem. They talked about air pollution.