高考英语阅读理解强化训练Day 29

高考英语阅读理解强化训练

Day 29

Passage 1

Do you want to do some volunteer work while exploring Africa? Then join in our

21-Day

Flagship

Program.

Step

onto

the

flat,

sandy

land

of

Ghana,

and

you’ll

immediately

hear

the

laughter

of

children

everywhere.

This

laughter

will

be

the

constant of your trip and a steady source of energy while you volunteer among one of

Africa s kind communities.

Community Service

V

olunteer

in

primary

schools,

working

with

children

of

different

ages

to

help

improve their English skills, tutor those who might be falling behind and contribute to

each school’s needs, including making improvements to the facilities. Split your time

between teaching and campus refurbishment (

翻修

) projects to serve every aspect of

the school, and learn all about education in Ghana.

Hands-on Learning

Participate in workshops such as batik cloth dyeing (

蜡染

), drumming, dancing

and crash courses in the native language, Ewe or Krobo. You'll be given a Ghanaian

name by the local chief of your village, and visit a seamstress (

女裁缝

) to have custom

clothing made out of colorful fabrics you purchase. On the 21-Day Flagship Program,

you’ll

hear

about

the

nation’s

history

as

a

center

of

the

slave

trade,

and

visit

Fort

Prinzenstein to truly understand the weight of this topic.

Adventure

You’ll also experience the natural surroundings of Ghana with a beautiful waterfall

hike: On your 21-Day Flagship Program, go on a two-night trip where you’ll get to visit

a monkey shelter.

Lodging

Global Leadership Adventures (GLA) operates two Home Bases for the 21-day

program. Both are located outside of the capital city of Accra in rural village settings.

Accommodations are basic, but clean and safe. Students sleep in rooms with roommates,

and have access to shared bathrooms with cold-water showers.

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Dates

June 26-July 16, 2019

July 9-July 29, 2019

July 20-August9, 2019

Duration: 21 days

Tuition: $$5,399

Community Service Hours: 60

For

more

information,

please

call

1-858-771-0645

or

send

an

email

to

info@.

1. Which of the following is a requirement for participants?

A. Being able to speak English well.

B. Being strong and over 18 years old.

C. Knowing a lot about education in Ghana.

D. Having done similar volunteer work before.

2. What can be done at Fort Prinzenstein?

A. Learning to play drums.

B. Visiting a custom clothing factory.

C. Learning about the nation’s past history.

D. Choosing a Ghanaian name for yourself.

3. What would participants have to do when joining in the program?

A. Stay in Ghana for three weeks.

B. Accompany monkeys for two nights.

C. Pay 5,399 dollars for the waterfall hike.

D. Do volunteer work for at most 40 hours.

Passage 2

Babies made from three people approved in UK

Babies made from two

women and one man have been approved by the UK’s

fertility regulator. The historic and controversial move is to prevent children from being

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born with deadly genetic diseases.

Doctors

in

Newcastle

—

who

developed

the

advanced

form

of

In

Vitro

Fertilization or IVF (

人工授精

) — are expected to be the first to offer the procedure

and have already appealed for donor eggs. The first such child could be born, at the

earliest, by the end of 2017.

Some families have lost multiple children to incurable mitochondrial (

线粒体的

)

diseases, which can leave people with insufficient energy to keep their heart beating.

The diseases are passed down from only the mother, so a technique using a donor

egg as well as the mother’s egg and father’s sperm has been developed.

The

resulting

child

has

a

tiny

amount

of

their

DNA

from

the

donor,

but

the

procedure is legal and reviews say it is ethical (

伦理的

) and scientifically ready.

“It is a decision of historic importance,” said Sally Cheshire, chairwoman of the

Human

Fertilisation

and

Embryology Authority

(HFEA).

“I’m

sure

patients

will

be

really pleased by what we’ve decided today.”

But some scientists have questioned the ethics of the technique, saying it could

open the door to genetically-modified(

转基因

) ‘designer’ babies.

The HFEA must approve every clinic and every patient before the procedure can

take place. Three- person babies have been allowed only in cases where the risk of a

child developing mitochondrial disease is very high.

Prof Mary Herbert, from the Newcastle Fertility Centre, said, “It is enormously

pleasing

that

our

many

years

of

research

in

this

area

can

finally

be

applied

to

help

families affected by these devastating diseases”.

“Now that we are moving forward towards clinical treatments, we will also need

donors

to

donate

eggs

for

use

in

treatment

to

prevent

affected

women

transmitting

disease to their children.”

Prof Sir Doug Turnbull,

the director of the Welcome Centre for Mitochondrial

Research at Newcastle University, said, “We are delighted by today’s decision. We will

also provide long-term follow up of any children born.”

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NHS England has

agreed to

fund the treatment

costs of the first

trial

of three-

person IVF for those women who meet the HFEA criteria, as long as they agree to long-

term follow up of their children after they are born.

1. Why is it historically important to approve babies made from three people?

A. It helps couples who lose the ability to give birth to a baby.

B. It marks a foundation stone to change babies’ appearances before birth.

C. It stops deadly genetic diseases passing down to newly-born babies.

D. It turns out to be an advanced form of In Vitro Fertilization.

2. Which of the following is TRUE about mitochondrial diseases?

A. They pass down on to babies from their parents.

B. They prevent people’s heart from functioning normally.

C. Some children infected can be cured with proper treatment.

D. Babies can be infected with them through a donor’s egg.

3.

How

can

a

clinic

or

a

patient

be

approved

of

applying

the

three-person

baby

technique?

A. Only when the baby to be born needs it to survive.

B. Only when the patient gets financially prepared.

C. Only when the clinic gets scientifically ready.

D. Only when the technique is ethnically accepted.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards the approval of babies made from three people?

A. Supportive

Passage 3

Your

alarm

goes

off

on

your

phone,

and

instead

of

turning

it

off

and

going

on

sleeping, you pick it up and stupidly say,

You are, to use the technical term, suffering sleep drunkenness(

迷糊

), those

first few confused minutes people sometimes experience after waking, according to a

just-published

paper

in

Neurology(

神经学

).

For

the

first

time,

the

phenomenon

has

been studied in a general adult population.

B. Indifferent

C. Worried

D. Objective

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In

telephone

interviews

the

researchers

conducted

with

more

than

19,

000

healthy individuals, about 25 percent reported experiencing some sort of sleep-drunk

episode(

插曲

) in the last year, and 12 percent said this happens to them at least once a

week.

Most

of

their

stories

were

actually

pretty

funny,

said

Stanford

University

School of Medicine psychiatrist(

精神病学家

) Maurice Ohayon. One man picked up

his alarm clock and mistook it for his phone, holding a two-minute conversation on it.

Another participant woke in the middle of the night and couldn't find the bathroom in

her own home. Other common examples are that foggy feeling you get when you first

wake up with a start on a Saturday before realizing it's the weekend, or when you wake

up in a hotel room and can't immediately figure out where you are.

Ohayon explains that an abrupt awakening, to our poor, half-asleep brains,

signals an emergency — a time for action, not reason.

while, it's nothing to worry about. But for people who experience sleep drunkenness

once a week or more, you might as well refer to professional help to have a sound sleep.

1. The intended readers of the passage are probably .

A. adults who don't sleep well

B. teenagers who don't have enough sleep

C. people who suffer sleep drunkenness

D. researchers who are fond of sleep disorder

2. We can know from the first 3 paragraphs that .

A. it's stupid to leave the alarm on when sleep

B. after waking all people struggled for awareness

C. there are many studies on adults' sleep patterns

D. it's common for adults to suffer sleep drunkenness

3. The fourth paragraph tells us that sleep drunkenness .

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A. occurs in different occasions

B. comes without any reason

C. hits when people are sleeping

D. attacks those who are clouded

4. What will be talked about after the last paragraph?

A. Something to expand your sleep time.

B. Ways to improve your sleep pattern.

C. Methods of curing sleep drunkenness.

D. Tips on how to help you to sleep better.

Passage 4

Hello,

The

International

Student

Center

has

heard

of

several

frauds

(

诈骗

)

that

are

targeting international students. Someone may call and say that they are from:

· Immigration Canada

· Home country's Embassy

· Canada Revenue Agency

· Police Department

In most situations, the caller will request that you make a payment or you will face

serious consequences when returning to your home country. They may talk or threaten

until you make a payment.

While

there

is

no

way

that

these

fraudsters

can

know

you

are

an

international

student (they call Canadians too), here are some things that you should know in order

to better protect yourself:

· USTC provides you with FREE Immigration advising and application help (for

Study & Work Permits, Visas, Permanent Residence, and Citizenship).

· Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

(IRCC), and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) will not call you, and will not

ask for money or personal information by phone. If you call them, you will have to

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