北京高考英语阅读理解五篇及解析

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年北京高考英语阅读理解五篇及解析

第一节 ：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并

在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

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Goldie's Secret

She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No

way,

not

me

anyway.

Maybe

someone

had

kicked

her

out

of

their

car

the

night

before.

moving house.';

but what could we have done? She was a present.

an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

I

called

her

Goldie.

If

I

had

known

what

was

going

to

happen

I

would

have

given

her

a

more

creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had

such

an

air

of

sadness

about

her.

There

was

nothing

I

could

do

to

make

her

happy,

it

seemed.

Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the

first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or

sitting by the fire.

That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a

walk.

We

were

a

long

way

from

home,

when

she

started

barking

and

getting

very

restless.

Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in

the distance as fast as she could.

By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking

(

舔

) the four puppies (

幼犬

) I started to feel sympathy towards them.

happened

to

her,

said

the

woman

at

the

door.

took

her

for

a

walk

one

day,

soon

after

the

puppies were born, and she just disappeared.

lost,

I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And

I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.

56. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?

A. Shocked.

B. Sympathetic.

C. Annoyed.

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D. Upset.

57. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie

.

AI felt worried

B. was angry

C. ate a little

D. sat by the fire

58. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she

.

A. saw her puppies

B. heard familiar barking

C. wanted to leave the author

D. found her way to her old home

59. The passage is organized in order of

.

A. time

B. effectiveness

C. importance

D. complexity

B

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Open Letter to an Editor

I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently ---one who works for you. In fact, he's

one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.

Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume (

简历

) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for

you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how

he finds issues (

问题

), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your

best. I'm sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he

told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (

分工

), and said you run a great paper. It

would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates

the responsibility you've given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.

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So why is he looking for a way out?

He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be

pushed, challenged, and coached to new heights.

The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how

long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.

He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones.

He wants someone to get excited about what he's doing and to help him turn his story idea upside

down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your

paper. That's what you want for him, too, isn't it?

So your reporter has set me thinking.

Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists---everyone--is to

work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can't

do it, they'll find someone who can.

60. What does the writer think of the reporter? /gaokao/beijing

A. Optimistic.

B. Imaginative.

C. Ambitious.

D. Proud.

61. What does the reporter want most from his editors in their talks?

A. Finding the news value of his stories.

B. Giving him financial support.

C. Helping him to find issues.

D. Improving his good ideas.

62. Who probably wrote the letter?

A. An editor.

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B. An artist.

C. A reporter.

D. A reader.

63. The letter aims to remind editors that they should __

A. keep their best reporters at all costs

B. give more freedom to their reporters

C. be aware of their reporters' professional development

D. appreciate their reporters' working styles and attitudes

C

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Pacing and Pausing

Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to

say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve

that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing

and pausing.

Conversation is a turn- taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our

habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm

finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

It

may

not

be

coincidental

that

Betty,

who

expected

relatively

longer

pauses

between

turns,

is

British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted

by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when

she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin

America or Israel.

The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing,

lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities.

These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (

思维定式

). And these

social

phenomena

can

have

very

personal

consequences.

For

example,

a

woman

from

the

southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the

Personnel

Department

got

together

for

meetings,

she

kept

searching

for

the

right

time

to

break

in--and

never

found

it.

Although

back

home

she

was

considered

outgoing

and

confident,

in

Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year,

she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

That's

why

slight

differences

in

conversational

style--tiny

little

things

like

microseconds

of

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pause-can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological

problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her

and registered for assertiveness training.

64. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

A. Betty was talkative.

B. Betty was an interrupter.

C. Betty did not take her turn.

D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.

65. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

A. Americans.

B. Israelis.

C. The British.

D. The Finns.

66. We can learn from the passage that __

A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

C. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

D. one should receive training to build up one's confidence

67. The underlined word

A. being willing to speak one's mind

B. being able to increase one's power

C. being ready to make one's own judgment

D. being quick to express one's ideas confidently

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D

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The Cost of Higher Education

Individuals (

个人

) should pay for their higher education.

A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates earn more than

non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However,

only

some

people

have

it.

So

the

individual,

not

the

taxpayers,

should

pay

for

it.

There

are

pressing calls on the resources (

资源

) of the government. Using taxpayers' money to help a small

number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.

Full

government

funding

(

资助

)

is

not

very

good

for

universities.

Adam

Smith

worked

in

a

Scottish

university

whose

teachers

lived

off

student

fees.

He

knew

and

looked

down

upon

18th-century

Oxford,

where

the

academics

lived

comfortably

off

the

income

received

from

the

government.

Guaranteed

salaries,

Smith

argued,

were

the

enemy

of

hard

work;

and

when

the

academics were lazy and incompetent, the students were similarly lazy.

If students have to pay for their education, they not only work harder, but also demand more from

their

teachers.

And

their

teachers

have

to

keep

them

satisfied.

If

that

means

taking

teaching

seriously, and giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.

Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (

经

济

).

Many

graduates

clearly

do

contribute

to

national

wealth,

but

so

do

all

the

businesses

that

invest (

投资

) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education

because

graduates

are

economically

productive,

you

should

also

believe

that

the

government

should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital

from the government to invest. Therefore, it is the individual, not the government, who should pay

for their university education.

68. The underlined word

A. taxpayers

B. pressing calls

C. college graduates

D. government resources

69. The author thinks that with full government funding

A. teachers are less satisfied

B. students are more demanding

.