高一英语阅读理解强化训练Day 40

高一英语阅读理解强化训练

Day 40

Passage 1

Home to me means

a sense of familiarity and nostalgia(

怀旧

).

It's fun to

come

home. It looks the same. It smells the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. Home

is where we ran remember pain, live, and some other experiences; We parted here; My

parents met here; I won three championships here.

If I close my eyes, I can still have a clear picture in mind of my first home. I walk

in the door and see a brown sofa surrounding a low glass --top wooden table. To the

right

of

the

living

room

is

my

first

bedroom.

It's

empty,

but

it's

where

my

earliest

memories are.

There is the dining room table where I celebrated birthdays, and where I cried on

Halloween--when I didn't want to wear the skirt my mother made for me. I always liked

standing on that table because it made me feel tall and strong. If I sit at this table, I can

see my favorite room in the house, my parents' room. It is simple: a brown wooden

dresser lines the right side of the wall next to a television and a couple of photos of my

grandparents on each side. Their bed is my safe zone. I can jump on it anytime -- waking

up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot wait

until the morning.

I'm lucky because I know my first home still exists. It exists in my mind and heart,

on a physical property(

住宅

) on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles.

It is proof I lived, I grew and I learned.

Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go home. I know

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it's

where

I'll

find

my

family,

my

dogs,

and

my

belongings.

I

purposely

leave

the

window open at night because I know I'll be blamed by Mom. But I don't mind, because

I want to hear her say my name, which reminds me I'm home.

1. Why does the author call her parents' bed her

A. It is her favorite place to play.

B. Her needs can be satisfied there.

C. Her grandparents' photos are lined on each side.

D. Her parents always play together with her there.

2. What can be learned from the passage?

A. The old furniture is still in the author's fist bedroom.

B. The author can still visit her first physical home in Los Angeles.

C. The author's favorite room in her first home is the dining room.

D. Many people of the author's age can still find their first physical homes.

3. Sometimes when she feels lost, the author will _______.

A. Open the window at night

B. lie down in bed to have a dream

C. try to bring back a sense of home

D. go to Los Angeles to visit her mom

3. What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?

A. To express how much she is attached to her home.

B. To declare how much she loves her first house.

C. To describe the state of her family.

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D. To look back on her childhood.

Passage 2

Smartphones, tablets and smart watches are banned at school for all children under

15 in France. Under the ban students are not able to use their phones at all during school

hours, including meal breaks.

“I think it’s a good thing. School is not about being on your phone, ” Paris mum

Marie--Caroline Madeleine told AFP. “It’s hard with kids. You can’t control what they

see and that’s one of the things that worries me as a parent. ”

There is no law like this in Australia, but some Australian schools have banned

phones. McKinnon Secondary School in Victoria introduced a total ban in February and

Principal Pitsa Binnion said this has been a success. McKinnon students still have a

Chromebook to use in every class for day--to--day learning but they're not allowed to

use social media. Ms. Binnion said at first “teachers cheered and students moaned (

抱

怨

), ” but now they’re seeing the positives (

优势

). “They come to school and they’re

not allowed to use phones at all during the school day, including lunch breaks, ” she

said.

“It’s been wonderful as for students communicating with each other at lunchtime

and not looking at their screen,

” Ms. Binnion said. She also leads by example and

doesn’t use her mobile phone in school. “I think anyone can do it if we’ve done it. ”

Not

everyone

agrees

with

the

bans.

Western

Sydney

University

technology

researcher Dr. Joanne Orlando wrote in online magazine The Conversation earlier this

year that Australia should not ban phones in schools because it’s important to educate

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kids

to

live

in

the

age

they

are

raised

in.

“A

good

education

for

students

today

is

knowing how to use technology to learn, communicate and work with ideas, ” she wrote.

“Banning students from using smartphones is a 1950s response to a 2020 state--of--

play. ”

1. Why did Madeleine welcome the ban?

A. Teachers find it hard to control kids.

B. Kids behave badly nowadays.

C. School is for studying.

D. Her kids depend too much on phones.

2. What can we learn about the ban in McKinnon Secondary School?

A. Students can now see the good of the ban.

B. Some teachers were against it at first.

C. Students can use their phones at lunch breaks.

D. Teachers have stopped using phones at school as well.

3. What does Dr. Joanne Orlando think of banning phones in schools?

A. It will disconnect parents and kids.

B. It will cause kids to communicate less.

C. It will make education go back 60 years.

D. It will prevent kids being tech-- minded.

Passage 3

People are less likely to yawn(

打哈欠

) when others do as they get older, a study has

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found.

Contagious(

传染的

)

yawning

is

related

more

closely

to

a

person's

age

than

tiredness and energy levels, US-based scientists said. Researchers are now looking at

whether to catch yawn from other people is a born ability, with the hope of helping treat

some mental health disorders.

People

with

some

mental

illnesses

are

reportedly

less

able

to

catch

yawns,

researchers said, so understanding the genes(

基因

) that are connected with contagious

yawning could open new paths for treatment.

In the study, published in the journal Plos One, 328 participants were shown a

three-minute

video

showing

other

people

yawning.

Each

participant

had

to

click

a

button every time they yawned. Overall, 68 percent of the participants yawned. Of those,

82 percent of people aged under 25 yawned, compared with 60 percent of people aged

between 25 and 49, and 41 percent of people aged over 50.

Dr Elizabeth Cirulli, assistant professor of medicine at Duke University in Durham,

North Carolina, led the study. She said,

of factors. It is the largest study, when it comes to the number of people participating,

till now. She said she did not know why contagious yawning reduced with age.

Dr Cirulli added that although age was the most important predictor(

预测器

) of

contagious yawning, only 8% of the change in whether or not a participant yawned was

explained by their age.

Dr Cirulli.

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Robert

R

Province,

professor

of

psychology

at

the

University

of

Maryland

in

Baltimore County, said the study was

ageing and contagious yawning had been shown. Prof Province said the findings could

help

to

understand

why

laughing

and

coughing

were

so

contagious.

He

added,

to control our behavior.

1. Why do the researchers carry out studies on yawning? ________

A. To stop yawning from spreading.

B. To deal with some mental illnesses.

C. To find out yawning is a born activity.

D. To help prevent people from yawning.

2. What can we learn from the study on yawning? ________

A. The study lasted for 3 minutes.

B. A 15-year-old boy is more likely to yawn than a 50-year-old man.

C. People with mental disease are more likely to yawn when others do.

D. Age has the most important influence on contagious yawning.

3. Which of the following is Professor Provine's opinion? ________

A. The study is so far the largest one as for the number of people participating.

B. Aging and contagious yawning are closely related.

C. People are often influenced by contagious acts without knowing it.

D. Factors besides age also have an effect on contagious yawning.

4. What is the best title of the passage? ________

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A. New paths for treatment of mental disorders.

B. Opinions of professors on contagious yawning.

C. Influences of contagious yawning on people.

D. Ageing and contagious yawning.

Passage 4

Of all the complaints and questions I have heard from my students during my years

in the classroom, this was the one most frequently asked. I would answer it by telling

the following legend.

One night a group of nomads (

游牧民

) were preparing to retire for the evening

when

suddenly

they

were

surrounded

by

a

great

light. They

knew

they

were

in

the

presence of a godly being. With great expectation, they awaited a heavenly message of

great importance that they knew must be especially for them.

Finally, the voice spoke,

鹅卵石

) as you can. Put them

in your bags. Travel a day's journey and tomorrow night will find you glad and it will

find you sad.

The

nomads

shared

their

disappointment

and

anger

with

each

other. They

had

expected

the

inspiration

of

a

great

universal

truth

that

would

enable

them

to

create

wealth, health and purpose for the world. But instead they were given a silly task that

made no sense to them at all. However, the memory of the brilliance of their visitor

caused each one to pick up a few pebbles and store them in their bags while voicing

their displeasure.

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They traveled a day's journey and that night while making camp, they reached into

their bags and discovered every pebble they had gathered had become a diamond. They

were glad they had diamonds. They were sad they had not gathered more pebbles.

It was an experience I had with a student, whom I shall call Alan, early in my

teaching career that illustrated (

说明

) the truth of that legend to me.

When Alan was in the eighth grade, he majored (

主修

) in

in

停学

)

degree in

Every day I had my students memorize a quotation from a great thinker. As I called

the roll, I would begin a quotation. To be counted present, the student would be expected

to finish the thought.

So, by the end of the year, my

young pupils would have memorized 150

great

thoughts.

No one complained about this daily routine other than Alan — right up to the day

he was expelled (

开除

) and I lost touch with him for five years. Then one day, he called.

He was in a special program at one of the neighboring colleges and had just finished

parole (

假释

).

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