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高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析
Day
269
Passage 1
Have
you
ever
been
faced
with
trying
to
stay
positive
when
others
around you are
negative? A negative person can bring you down and
throw
your positive plans out of the
window. Whether you deal with a family
member, friend or co-worker who is
negative, there are things you can do
to remain positive in the face of
negativity?
Whatever you do,
don’t argue with a negative person. Arguing only
adds fuel to the fire. I have noticed
when my children are crabby, it is best
to avoid trying to convince them to
analyze and adjust their attitude. As
soon as I take the approach of being in
opposition to them, the situation
gets
worse before it gets better. Sometimes the best
thing to do is remain
silent and let
negativity pass.
You know
how difficult it can be to give love and positive
attention to
negative
people.
Unfortunately,
that
is
often
exactly
what
they
need. A
negative person is
usually afraid he is unlovable. How do you show
love
when someone is negative? You must
listen to what he is trying to tell you.
Acknowledge the feelings he has by
saying something like, “You sound
very
angry right now.” How might you help a negative
person? Offer a hug
even if you get
rejected. A negative person often has difficulty
accepting
love from others.
If you have negative people on your
life who are affecting your mental
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and
physical
health,
you
need
to
decide whether
or
not
you
want
these
people
in your life. Some people are so negative that you
have no other
choice but to remove them
from your life. However, some people, such as
your
children,
are
difficult
to
remove
from
your
life,
in
this
case,
professional
counseling(
咨询
) may be the
answer.
1. What does the
underlined word “crabby” in Para.2
mean?
A. Quite
excited.
C. Easily
annoyed.
2. What’s the main
idea of Para.3?
A. Negative
people need care.
B.
Negative people make us happy.
C. Negative people can be hurt
easily.
D. Negative people
are hard to get along with.
3. What does the author suggest
doing?
A. Focusing on
positive things.
B. Trying
to change negative thoughts.
C. Controlling our own negative
thoughts.
D. Staying away
from some negative people.
4. In which section of a magazine can
we most probably read the text?
A. Health
C.
Lifestyles
B. Very lonely.
D. Highly optimistic.
B. Relationships
D. Entertainment.
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Passage 2
Get a taste of the amazing world of
engineering
Do you want to
help shape the future of everything from
entertainment
and transport to sport
and the environment? Then you might want to think
about the fascinating world of
engineering. Tomorrow's Engineers Week is
running 4-8 February 2020, and is the
perfect time to get an idea of what
engineering is all about.
Engineers are the people
who use scientific knowledge, ranging from
long-established
scientific
laws
to
cutting-
edge
discoveries,
to
solve
problems and improve
life for all of us. Tomorrow's Engineers Week aims
to
get
young
people
interested
in
this
exciting
career.
It
also
wants
to
change
the way we think about engineers.
One
place
to
find
out
more
about
engineers
is
the
website
,
where
you
can
meet
16
young
engineers
with
amazing and different
jobs. There's Halvard, who builds farm robots; and
Olivia,
who
uses
her
chemical
engineering
skills
to
create
soaps
and
shampoos kind to the
skin and the environment. Alice digs train tunnels
deep
underground.
Michelle
builds
rides.
As
a
child,
she
loved
these
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thrilling rides. At the age of 14, she
attended a lecture on roller coaster
design, and then she realized that
engineering was a great way to turn her
passion into her career.
If you want to meet some inspirational
engineers, ask if your school
has
signed up to take part in the Big Assembly
(
大型集会
) on 6 February.
Don't worry if not, though, you can
check it out yourself afterwards on the
website.
1. The
goal of Tomorrow's Engineers Week is
to________.
A. introduce
young engineers
B. announce
the latest discoveries
C.
show the future work of engineers
D. attract the youth' s interest in
engineering
2. Which of the
engineers fancies building roller
coasters?
A.
Halvard.
C.
Alice.
B. Olivia.
D. Michelle.
3.
What is the main purpose of the
passage?
A. To explain what
engineering is all about.
B.
To advertise Tomorrow's Engineers Week.
C. To encourage schools to sign up for
an assembly.
D. To introduce
the website .
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Passage
3
To be clear, plastic bags
are rightly thought of as a threat that's harmful
to human health. According to the
National Resources Defense Council,
over a decade ago, the average American
family took home almost 1,500
plastic
shopping
bags
a
year,
filling
our
cabinets,
kitchen
drawers,
and
landfills
(
垃圾填埋场
). Today the numbers
are slightly better: According
to
National
Geographic,
as
of
2018,
shoppers
in
the
United
States
use
almost one plastic bag per resident per
day.
This is not a story on
the evil of plastics, but on whether the reusable
bag can justify its existence. Although
more environmentally friendly than
traditional single-use plastic bags,
reusable bags, depending on what they
are made of, are more energy-intensive
(
耗能
) to recycle.
According to a report by the United
Nations Environment Program,
“depending
on
what
they
are
made
of,
reusable
bags
might
have
to
be
deconstructed
in
a
costly
recycling
process
to
separate
the
different
materials. As a
result, in many cases, reusable bags are not
recycled.
means despite the best
intentions, millions of reusable bags designed to
replace the need for traditional
plastic shopping bags, will also end up in
landfills.
Another point to consider, not all
reusable bags are equal in terms of
their recyclability. There are a wide
range of reusable bag options on the
market, and reusable bags tend to be
made of more than one material to
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give the bag added
reinforcement (
耐用
) and added
street fashion. On a
life cycle basis,
stronger, heavier bags-no matter what material
they are
made
of-will
have
a
more
severe
environmental
effect.
That's
because
heavier bags use
more resources to produce as well as
distribute.
Just
like
plastic
bags
did,
reusable
bags
multiply
rapidly.
Used
for
promotional
(
促销的
)purposes and marketing
of all kinds, reusable bags'
growing
popularity means bags that have been used very
little (or not at all)
can be found
piled in streets, in garbage cans in city parks,
and basically
everywhere. Therefore,
consumers have come to see them as disposable,
defeating their very
purpose.
In
the
end,
the
best
practice
for
reusable
bags
is
to
have
no
half
measures: Either use
them all the time or don't use them at all. Using
a
reusable
bag
once
or
twice,
and
then
throwing
it
away,
doesn't
do
the
environment any favors.
1. What can we learn from the
passage?
A. Plastic bags are
refused by environmentalists.
B. Shops in America have limited the
use of plastic bags.
C. The
need of strong and fashionable reusable bags is
more than the supply.
D.
Reusable
bags
demand
more
resources
to
produce
and
recycle
than
expected.
2.
The
words
“very
purpose
in
Paragraph
6
refer
to
the
intention
of
__________.
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A. being left
in landfills
B. being used
as much as possible
C.
replacing plastic bags
D.
promoting goods on the market
3. Which of the following would be the
best title for the passage?
A. How to Recycle Reusable
Bags
B. Disadvantages of
Plastic Bags
C. Reusable
Bags? Think Twice!
D.
Plastic Bags, Less Popular?
4. Which of the following shows the
development of ideas in the passage?
I: Introduction
CP: Central Point
P: Point
Sp: Sub-point
(
次要点
)
C: Conclusion
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Passage
4
During
his
school's
“College
Colours
Day”,
a
fourth-grade
boy
in
Florida, who dreams to
become a student of the University of Tennessee,
wanted to wear a shirt of the
university, but he didn't have one. His teacher,
Laura Snyder, suggested that he should
wear an orange shirt to show his
spirit.
When the
day finally arrived, the boy was so excited to
show his shirt-
an
orange
one
with
a
piece
of
paper
attached
to
it,
on
which
was
his
homemade design of the
UT logo.
But by lunch time,
the spirited fan was in tears. Some girls bullied
(
霸
凌
) him and made
fun of his design that he had pinned to his shirt.
Back to
Snyder 's room, he put his head
on desk and was crying, devastated.
In hopes of raising the boy's spirits,
Snyder planned on buying him an
official University of Tennessee
T-shirt, and asked friends online if they
had contacts with the university who
could “make it a little extra special
for him.”
The
post
immediately
went
viral
and
Snyder
was
contacted
by
the
University of Tennessee informing her
that they wanted to send the boy a
care
package of swag and
apparel(
服装
) in support of
him.
The story, however,
didn't end here. The University of Tennessee said
it was turning his “U.T.” design into
an official T-shirt and had pre-sold
more than 50,000 shirts online. The
university won't profit from the shirts:
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It is donating
the money to a charity dedicated to
(
致力于
) getting rid of
bullying of all forms.
“When I told him that his
design was being made into a real shirt and
people wanted to wear it, his jaw
dropped,
smile on his face, walked
taller, and I could tell his confidence
grew!”
In
recognition
of
the
fourth-grader's
spirit,
the
university
has
also
extended an offer of
honorary admission for him to join the Class of
2032.
In addition, he has been awarded
a four-year scholarship if he decides to
attend UT in 2028 and meets admission
requirements.
1. How did the
boy react to his school's “College Colours
Day”?
A. He prepared for it
with a creative design.
B.
He dreamed of winning a prize on the
day.
C. He was afraid of
being laughed at on the day.
D. He was shy of joining it without a
university shirt.
2. How did
the boy probably feel after lunch on the “College
Colour Day”?
A. Excited and
thankful.
C. Shocked and
sad.
B. Confident and
happy.
D. Nervous and
worried.
3. What Snyder did
for the boy shows that _________.
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