季度英语-钟鼓
完形填空阅读理解七选五套餐练（
10
）
完形填空
（湖北省十堰市
2020
年高三上学期元月调研考试）
Entrepreneur
（企业家）
Brian Hamilton used to
occupy himself with a six-figure job. But his life
41
in a prison. He wasn't 42
prison
；
he was accompanying his friend, Robert
J. Harris, who went to local
prisons to
do ministry work frequently. During the
43 , Hamilton
started talking to a prisoner and 44
what he was
going to do when getting out. “He said he was
going to get a job,
45
myself, wow,
that's going to be
46
with a criminal background.”
The
47
made
Hamilton
consider
how
the
prisoners
could
48
from
entrepreneurship.
So
in
2008
，
Hamilton
49
a
nonprofit
organization
called
Inmates
to
Entrepreneurs
that
50
people
with
criminal backgrounds to start their
small business. He and Harris taught their
51
.
course at a
minimum-
security prison called “How to
Start Your Own Business when You
Get
Out
At the time, Hamilton was 52
his
own company, Sageworks. As Sageworks grew, so did
Hamilton's
time 53 on entrepreneurship
courses. 54
,
Hamilton decided it was time to transfer his 55
to the
courses. In 2018, he
sold his stake
（股份）
in
Sageworks to ensure his 56 to Inmates to
Entrepreneurs.
He planned to 57
the nonprofit as well as
change the model to include online curriculum
options.
In
addition? he
visited schools and 58
the curriculum to at-risk
students as a preventative measure against
imprisonment and provided loans
（贷款）
to small businesses.
Though
he
has
received
much
praise,
Hamilton
insists
he's
not
a
（
n
）
59
person
as
a
once
profit-
seeking businessman.
“I just did what I knew to do. As an entrepreneur,
there was a
60
,
and
I
wanted to
find a solution. he said.
41.A. began
42. A. dropping by
43. A.
visit
44. A. knew
45. A.
reminded
46. A. absurd
47.
A. prison
48. A. expect
49.
A. created
50. A. permits
51. A. first
52. A.
preparing
53. A. valued
54.
A. Fortunately
B. ended
B.
put in
B. recovery
B. asked
B. come to
B. difficult
B. question
B. start
B. joined
B. invites
B. successful
B. planning
B. saved
B. Ridiculously
C. extended
C. taken to
C. check
C. found
C. thought to
C. unnecessary
C. line
C. benefit
C. contacted
C. helps
C. last
C. considering
C. spent
C. Especially
D. changed
D.
researching
D. trade
D. guessed
D. blamed
D. great
D. conversation
D. rise
D. managed
D. employs
D. popular
D. running
D. wasted
D. Eventually
55. A. interest
56. A.
devotion
57. A. donate
58.
A. sold
59. A. good
60. A.
chance
B. focus
B. role
B. assign
B. presented
B. selfish
B. community
C. view
C. love
C. expand
C. lent
C. important
C. job
阅读理解
D. experience
D. career
D. dismiss
D. owed
D. attractive
D. problem
（安徽省皖江名校联盟
2020
届高三第一次
联考）
A
If you’re a design enthusiast, you’ re
sure to feel dizzy over these
jaw
-
dropping
pools.
SkyPark Infinity
Pool, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Located
on
the
SkyPark
above
Singapore's
most
famous
hotel,
Marina
Bay
Sands,
this
is
the
world's
lar
-
gest rooftop
pool. Offering amazing views of the city's
skyline, the pool is at least three times the
length of
an Olympic swimming pool. As
visitors swim toward the
edge
，
they face an illusion
that they’ll float into the
sky
-
line. It’s
quite a heart
-
beaten
rush!
The Red
Pool
，
The Library Koh Samui,
Thailand
This
blood
-
red pool is perhaps
one of the most special hotel pools on the list.
Set against the backdrop of
Koh Samui’s
Chaweng Beach
，
the
fascinating color isn’t the result of using
artificial dye. Rather, the mosaic
tiles(
马赛克瓷砖
)of
orange
，
yellow and red make
the brilliant sight that’s set among trees and an
open
-
air
library.
San
Alfonso del Mar Resort
Pool
，
Region de Valparaiso,
Chile
The
world’s
largest
outdoor
swimming
pool
gets
its
water
directly
from
the
sea.
The
pool
uses
a
computer
-
controlled pump
and filtration system.
Located at
Chile’s San
Alfonso del
Mar Resort, this
huge
man
-
made pool is
larger than 20 Olympic
-
size
pools and holds approximately 250 million liters
of water. It
also holds the Guinness
World Record for being the world’s deepest(115
feet) pool.
Y
－
40 Deep Joy,
Hotel Millepini Terme in Montegrotto
Terme
，
Italy
The deepest hotel swimming pool in the
world will make you feel like you’re jumping into
the sea! The Y
－
40 Deep Joy
is a round
-
shaped pool that
reaches a depth of an impressive 130 feet. The
pool
，
which has
special caves
，
led
ges(
壁架
)and underwater
viewing glass, was designed by
well
-
known architect
Emanuele
Boaretto. It’s meant for
leisure dives, dive training and photo
shoots.
21 .What is special
about the Red Pool in Thailand?
A. The water is
artificially dyed red.
B. The swimming pool is specially
dyed.
C. The swimming pool
is painted red.
D.
The mosaic tiles make its brilliant
color.
22. If you want to
experience a swimming of real sea water, which one
can you visit?
A. SkyPark
Infinity Pool.
B. The Red Pool
C. San Alfonso del Mar Resort Pool
D. Y
－
40 Deep
Joy
23. What do San Alfonso
del Mar Resort Pool and Y
－
40
Deep Joy have in common?
A.
They both use sea water.
B.
They are both very huge.
C. They are both
round
-
shaped.
D. They are both very deep.
B
I’ve come back
to check on a baby. Just after dusk I’m in a car
down a muddy road in the rain, past rows
of shackled(
戴镣铐的
)
elephants
，
their trunks
swinging. I was here five hours before, when the
sun was high
and hot and tourists were
on elephants backs.
Walking
now, I can barely see the path in the glow of my
phone’s flashlight. When the wooden fence post
stops
me
short
，
I
point
my
light
down
and
follow
a
current
of
rainwater
across
the
concrete
floor
until
it
washes up against three
large
，
gray feet. A fourth
foot twisted above the surface, tied tightly by a
short chain
and choked by a ring of
metal spikes(
尖刺
).When the
elephant tires and puts her foot down, the spikes
press
deeper into her ankle.
Meena is four years and two months
old
，
still a child as
elephants go. Khammon
Kongkhaw
，
her caretaker,
told me earlier that Meena wears the
spiked chain because she tends to kick. Kongkhaw
has been responsible
for Meena here at
Maetaman Elephant Adventure, near Chiang
Mai
，
in northern Thailand
.since she was 11
months old. He said
he keeps her on the spiked chain only during the
day and takes it off at night. But it’ s
night now.
I ask
Jin Laoshen
，
the Maetaman
worker accompanying me on this nighttime visit,
why her chain is still
on. He says he
doesn’t know.
Maetaman is
one of many animal attractions in and around
tourist
-
crowded Chiang Mai.
Meena' s life is set to
follow the same
track as many of the roughly 3,800
captive(
被捕获的
) elephants in
Thailand. When Meena is
too old or sick
to give rides——maybe at
55
，
maybe at 75——she'll die.
If she's lucky, she’ll get a few years
of retirement. She'll spend most of her
life on a chain.
24. Why
does the author decide to come back?
A. She wants to check a baby elephant,
Meena.
B.
She wants to feed those shackled
elephants.
C. She wants to
release those shackled elephants.
D. She knows a baby is in
need of help urgently.
25.
What can we conclude from the second
paragraph?
A. The author is
scared walking in the path.
B.
Meena is treated badly and very
painful.
C. Meena only has
three healthy legs.
D. One of Meena' s leg is badly
broken.
26. What's the
author's attitude towards those
elephants?
A. Indifferent.
B. Critical.
C. Sympathetic.
D. Negative.
27. We can infer that the purpose of
the author's writing is
.
A. to describe those elephants to
attract tourists around the world
B. to appeal to people to care about
the fate of those elephants
tell readers the story of a baby elephant in
Chiang
Mai
，
Thailand
tell the reason why the number of
elephants is decreasing
C
While many
Chinese watched movies at cinemas during the
weeklong Spring Festival
holiday
，
Zheng
Wei
explained the film The Spring Festival to an
audience of visually
impaired(
受损伤的
)people at a
cinema
in Northern China’s
Tianjin.
“Fireworks light
up the
dark on
New Year's
Eve
，
and children are playing
in an open place covered
with
Snow,”said Zheng to the
audience
，
describing the
visual elements of the movie while holding a
micro
-
phone
and a
scant.
As the founder of
，
the 55
-
year
-
old has insisted on
brightening the dark
world of the
visually impaired in his own way for 11
years.
Shao
Yuxiang
and
her
husband,
who
are
both
blind,
are
regular
visitors
of
the
cinema.
She
wore
an
elegant yellow sweater to attend the
couple’s significant “movie day”.
Since October
2007
，
the free movies, which
are described through audio, start at
9
：
30 am on the third
Saturday of each month. More than 150
movies have been screened to more than 20,000
visually impaired
people so
far.
“The
theater
is
equipped
with
lights
，
a
sound
system
，
projector,
and
a
big
screen
to
give
the
blind
a