2020年高考英语专题冲刺专题04阅读理解之议论文含解析

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Interracial

roommates

also

spent

less

time

together,

had

fewer

joint

activities

and

were less invo

lved with each other’s friends than white pairs.

As

for

Boakye,

this

is

not

the

case.

“A

lot

of

white

students

come

without

much

exposure

to

diversity,

so

when

t

heir

first

interaction

with

a

black

guy

isn’t

bad,

they will make more black friends. I think I made a good impression on my freshman

roommate. I saw him this year, and he said, ‘Hey dude, you’re not the only black

friend I have.’ That felt good.”

a

roommate

of

a

different

race

can

have

the

following

benefits

EXCEPT________ .

A. making more

friends

B. reducing prejudice

C. earning better grades

D. improving physical health

Boakye was determined to get good grades partly because________.

A. he wanted to prove he was a smart boy

B. he intended to please his parents

C. he wished to earn the sch

olarship

D. he wanted to show black people are as smart as white people

can conclude that Boakye________.

A. got along well with his white roommate

B. shared fewer joint activities with his white roommate

C. had a negative attitude towards his white roommate

D. is still living together with his freshman white roommate

4th paragraph is mainly about________.

A. the interracial friendship

B. some problems with having an interracial roommate

C. some comments on the interracial roommates

D. the interaction between the black student and the white student

【答案】

1.D

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2.D

3.A

4.B

2.D

推理判断题。根据第二 段

pushed

to

do

better,

to

challenge

the

stereotype

that black people are not that smart,

可知他是想证明

他跟 白人一样聪明，选

D

。

3.A

推理判断题。

根据最后一段

< br>I

think

I

made

a

good

impression

on

my

freshman

roommate.

I saw him this year, and he said, ‘Hey dude, you’re not the only black friend I

have.’ Th at felt good.” 可知，他跟室友相处很好。故选

A

。

4.B

主旨大意题。第四段主要是讲不同种族文化学生在一个寝 室产生的问题，故选

B

。

考点：考查议论文阅读

【题型】阅读理解

【难度】一般

3.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项

（

A

、

B

、

C

和

D

）中，选出最佳选项。

Why I’ve taken a break from holidays

It is now close to four years since I last took a holiday

．

This is because I

have come to the conclusion

，

over the course of my adult life

，

that I am not very

good

at

it

．You

might

think

this

sounds

like

saying

you’re

not

very

good

at

drinking

tea or listening to music

．

What could possibly be difficult about the natural act

of

putting

your

working

life

on

hold

for

a

couple

of

weeks

and

going

somewhere

warm

to do nothing

？

I was a model holidaymaker as a kid

．

However

，

the problems started during my

twenties

．

A

trip

to

the

south

of

France

was

ended

after

just

two

days

，

mainly

because

I had an urge to check my e-mails

．

Similarly

，

my honeymoon was cut short by 48

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hours

—

not because m

y wife and I weren’t enjoying ourselves，

but because we were

missing our cats

．

So what is my problem

？

On the surface

，I’m probably a bit of a homebody．

And

I

just

find

the

pressure

of

being

on

holiday

too

severe

：

it

always

feels

like

having

a gun held to my head and being forced to have fun

．

Somehow

，

packing a list of

possessions and meeting a scheduled flight has none of the excitement of suddenly

deciding to take a day off and driving somewhere for the fun of it

．

Thankfully

，I’m not alone．

This summer

，

most of my friends have decided

not

to

have

a

break

．

And

a

recent

survey

proved

the

downside

of

holidays

，

with

the

results

showing

that

nearly

two

thirds

of

people

found

that

the

calming

effects

of

a

holiday

wore off within 24 hours

，

as stress levels returned to normal

．

And this year The

Idler magazine published its Book of Awful Holidays

．

Here you will find a list of

the five most ecologically-

damaging vacations it’s possible to take，

along with

50 painful holiday experiences voted for on The Idler website

．

What

inte

rests

me

is

what

the

concept

of

a

“holiday”

says

about

our

lives．

For

me

，

the point of living is to have a life you enjoy for 52 weeks a year

．

The more

I

like

my

life

and

the

better

I

structure

it

，

the

less

I

want

to

go

away

．Maybe

I’m

an unusual person for not liking holidays

，

but I

just feel the time when I’m not

working is too valuable to waste on them

．

1

．

The events the author describes in the second paragraph show ______

．

A

．

how hard he has tried to enjoy holidays

B

．

how badly he behaves when he is on holiday

C

．

his lack of enthusiasm for being on holiday

D

．

his fear of something bad when he is on holiday

2

．

What does the author think of holidays

？

A

．

They are often well organized in order to please other people

．

B

．

He feels embarrassed when other people

are having fun but he isn’t．

C

．

He tends to be made r

esponsible for too

much of the organization of them

．

D

．

They are less enjoyable than breaks that have not been planned in advance

．

3

．The

underlined

word

“downside”

in

the

fourth

paragraph

probably

me

ans

______

．

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A

．

absence B

．

damage C

．

disadvantage D

．

conflict

4

．What is the author’s attitude towards “taking a holiday”？

A

．

Disapproving.

B

．

Supportive.

C

．

Neutral.

D

．

Unconcerned.

【答案】

1. D

2. D

3. C

4. A

【解析】

作者对休假有种异样的感受 。每次休假，作者总会遇到闹心

的事情。

1. D

细节理解题。第二段举例说明，作者在休假中遇到烦人 的事情，以至于作者对休假有

种恐惧感。

2. D

细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句

packing a list of possessions and meeting a

scheduled flight has none of the excitement of suddenly deciding to take a day off

and driving somewhere for the fun of it

．可知：作者认为，度假远不如事先没有安排

的临时的休息更有 趣。

考点：考查

议论文阅读

【题型】阅读理解

【难度】一般

4.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项

（

A

、

B

、

C

和

D

）中，选出最佳选项。

Women

who

own

cats

are

more

likely

to

have

mental

health

problems

and

kill

themselves

because they can be infected by a common parasite(

寄生虫

) that can be caught from

cat litter(

猫砂

), a study has found.

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Researchers

found

women

infected

with

the

Toxoplasma

gondii

(T.

gondii)

parasite(

刚地弓形虫

), which is spread through contact with cat waste or eating

undercooked

meat

or

unwashed

vegetables,

are

at

increased

risk

of

attempting

suicide.

The

study

involved

more

than

45,000

women

in

Denmark.

About

a

third

of

the

world's

population is infected with the parasite, which hides in cells in the brain and

muscles, often without producing symptoms.

The infection, which is called toxoplasmosis(

弓形虫病

), has been linked to

mental illness, such as schizophrenia(

精神分裂症

), and changes in behavior.

The study's senior author Doctor Teodor Postolache, an associate professor of

psychiatry(

精神病学

)

at

the

University

of

Maryland

School

of

Medicine

in

the

United

States, said,

to

kill

themselves,

but

we

did

find

a

predictive

association

between

the

infection

and suicide attempts later in life that deserves additional studies.

Doctor Albert Reece, vice president of medical affairs at the University of

Maryland, said,

world, and many people don't realize they're infected.

神经免疫学

).

Suicide is a critically important mental health issue. About one million people

commit

suicide

and

another

10

million

attempt

suicide

worldwide

each

year.

We

hope

that this type of research will one day help us find ways to save many lives that

now end too early in suicide.

Dr. Postolache's research team at the University of Maryland was the first to

report

a

connection

between

T.

gondii

and

suicidal

behavior

in

2009.

He

is

cooperating

with

researchers

in

Denmark,

Germany

and

Sweden

to

confirm

and

investigate the way leading to this association.

The T. gondii parasite thrives in the

intestines(

肠

) of

cats, and

it is spread

through their waste. All warm-blooded animals can become infected through contact

with

it.

Humans

can

become

infected

by

changing

their

infected

cats'

litter

boxes,

eating unwashed vegetables, drinking water from a polluted source, or by eating

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undercooked or raw meat.

Not

washing

kitchen

knives

after

preparing

raw

meat

before

handling

another

food

item also can lead to infection. Pregnant women can pass the parasite directly to

their

unborn

babies

and

are

advised

not

to

change

cat

litter

boxes

to

avoid

possible

infection.

Babies don't produce antibodies to T. gondii for three months after they are

born,

so

the

antibodies

present

in

their

blood

represented

infection

in

the

mothers.

The scientists studied Danish health patients to determine if any of these women

later

attempted

suicide,

including

cases

of

violent

suicide

attempts

which

may

have

involved guns, sharp instruments and jumping from high places.

The study found that women infected with T. gondii were one and a half times

more likely to attempt suicide compared to those who wer

e not infected, and the

risk seemed to rise with increasing levels of the T. gondii antibodies.

Dr

Postolache

noted

limitations

to

the

study,

such

as

the

inability

to

determine

the cause of the suicidal behavior.

The findings were published online in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

common way which is more likely to be infected with the disease is _____.

A. to eat unwashed meat or undercooked vegetables

B. to clean a place where a cat once lived for a time

C. to pass the infection to her unborn baby during a woman's pregnancy

D. to reuse kitchen tools which have been used to cut raw meat

is the consequence if a woman is infected with the parasite in the passage?

A. Having a high fever.

B. Doing deliberate self-harm.

C. Keeping a depressed mood.

D. Becoming bad tempered.

can be inferred from the passage?

A. Women have a higher risk to be infected by the parasite than men.

B. The result of the research may help the scientists to find ways to stop suicide

in advance.

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C. The scientists will continue their research into the possible connection.

D. The risk of being infected seems to rise with the decreasing levels of the

antibodies.

of

the

follo

wing

statements

would

probably

be

the

best

title

of

the

passage?

A. Why are women more likely to commit suicide?

B. Women should keep away from cats.

C. Ways found to deal with women's mental problems.

D. Are women who own cats at a suicide r

isk?

【答案】

1.B

2.B

3.C

4.D