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高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析
Day 8
Passage 1
One
spring morning many years ago, I had been
searching for gold on
southeastern
Alaska’s Kupreanof Island, and as I came out of a
forest, I
froze in my tracks. No more
than 20 paces away was a huge Alaskan timber
wolf—caught in one of Trapper George’s
traps.
Old George had died
of a heart attack, so the wolf was lucky I had
happened along. Confused and frightened
at my approach, the wolf backed
away,
straining at the trap chain. Then I noticed
something else: It was a
female, and
her teats (
乳头
) were full of
milk. Somewhere there were some
hungry
pups (
狼崽子
) waiting for their
mother.
From her appearance,
I guessed that she had been trapped only a few
days. That meant her pups were probably
still alive, surely no more than a
few
miles away. But I suspected that if I tried to
release the wolf, she would
turn
aggressive and try to tear me to
pieces.
So I decided to
search for her pups instead. After several
moments, I
spotted paw marks on a
trail. I finally spotted the den
(
狼窝
). Wolf pups
are shy and cautious, and I didn’t have
much hope of luring them outside.
But I
had to try. So I began imitating the high??pitched
squeak of a mother
wolf calling her
young. No response. A few moments later, after I
tried
another call, four tiny pups
appeared.
They couldn’t have
been more than a few weeks old. I extended my
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hands,
and
they
tentatively
suckled
at
my
fingers.
Perhaps
hunger
had
helped
overcome
their
natural
fear.
Then,
I
took
them
to
their
mother.
Possibly picking up
the smell of her young, the mother wolf let out a
high??
pitched, sad call. The pups raced
to her. Within seconds, they were drinking
milk at her belly.
The mother wolf was clearly suffering,
very weak. I had to find her
something
to eat. Yet each time I moved in her direction, a
growl (
怒吼
)
rumbled in her throat. With her young
to protect, she was becoming very
cautious. If I could only win her
confidence, I thought, it was her only
hope.
Over the next few
days, I divided my time between prospecting and
trying to win the wolf's trust. I
talked gently with her, throwing her some
meat. Gradually, I kept edging closer —
though I was careful to remain
beyond
the length of her trap chain.
At dusk on the fifth day, I delivered
her dinner. Suddenly, I saw a slight
wagging of her tail. I moved within the
length of her chain. She remained
sill.
As a towering man, my heart was in my mouth,
though. Within her
reach, I wrapped my
blanket around myself and slowly settled onto the
cold ground. It was long before I fell
asleep.
The next morning, I
slowly placed my hand on the wolf's injured leg.
Unexpectedly; she made no threatening
move. Then I applied pressure, the
trap
sprang open, and the wolf pulled free.
My experience told me the wolf would
vanish into the woods quickly.
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But cautiously, she crept
toward me and sniffed my hands and arms. This
went against everything I'd ever heard
about timber wolves. Yet, strangely,
it
all seemed so natural.
1.
How did the author feel when he saw a huge
wolf?
A. Scared
C. Surprised
B.
Cold.
D.
Confused.
2. What happened
to the mother wolf?
A. Its
heart was attacked.
C. It
was giving birth to pups.
3.
What did the author do?
A.
Tried to release the mother wolf.
B. Fought against the mother
wolf.
C. Managed to find the
wolf babies.
D. Tried to
comfort the mother wolf.
4.
What can be inferred from the last
paragraph?
A. The mother
wolf finally died of injuries.
B. The mother wolf starved to
death.
C. The author had to
leave behind the wolves.
D.
The author won the mother wolf’s
confidence.
Passage 2
A city
in South Korea, which has the world’s largest
number of people
using smartphones, has
placed flashing lights and laser beams at a road
crossing
to
warn
“smartphone
zombies”
to
look
up
and
drivers
to
slow
B. It was
trapped by the chain.
D. It
was giving milk to its pups.
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down, in the hope of
preventing accidents.
The
designers of
the
system
were
motivated by
growing
worry
that
more
pedestrians glued to their phones will become
victims in a country
that already has
some of the highest road death and injury rates
among
developed
countries.
State?run
Korea
Institute
of
Civil
Engineering
and
Building Technology
(KICT) believes its system of flashing lights at
zebra
crossings can warn both
pedestrians and drivers.
In
addition
to
red,
yellow
and
blue
LED
lights
on
the
pavement,
“smombies”
?
smartphone
zombies
?
will
be
warned
by
laser
beam
projected from power
poles and a warning sent to the phones by an app
that they are about to step into
traffic.
“Increasing number
of smombie accidents have occurred in pedestrian
crossings, so these zombie lights are
essential to prevent these pedestrian
accidents,”
said
KICT
senior
researcher
Kim
Jong?hoon.
Drivers
are
warned
by
the
flashing
lights,
which
have
shown
to
be
effective
83.4
percent of the time in the institute’s
tests involving about 1,000 vehicles.
In
2017,
more
than
1,600
pedestrians
were
killed
in
auto
related
accidents, which is
about 40 percent of total traffic deaths,
according to
data
from
the Traffic Accident Analysis
System.
For
now,
the smombie
warning
system
is
placed
only
in
Ilsan,
a
suburban
city
about
30
km
northwest of the capital, Seoul, but is
expected to go nationwide, according
to
the institute.
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Kim Dan?hee, a 23?year?old resident of
Ilsan, welcomed the system,
saying she
was often too absorbed in her phone to remember to
look at
traffic. “This flashing light
makes me feel safe as it makes me look around
again, and I hope that we can have more
of these in town,” she said.
1. What do the underlined words
“smartphone zombies” in paragraph 1
refer to?
A.
Drivers driving after drunk.
B. Pedestrians buried in their
phones.
C. Passengers crazy
about phones.
D. Policemen
in charge of traffic.
2.
What do we know about the warning
system?
A. It has reduced
death rate by 83.4%.
B. It has been spread
nationwide.
C. It gives a
warning to the smartphones.
D. It is being tried out in many
places.
3. What was the
residents’ attitude to the traffic
system?
A.
Negative.
C.
Disapproving.
4. What is the
best title for the text?
A.
South Korea Warns Smartphone Zombies of
Traffic
B. Flashing Lights
Are Used to Prevent Accidents
C. Smartphone Zombies Are Causing
Traffic Accidents
D. South
Korea Uses a New Traffic System
B.
Unconcerned.
D.
Favorable.
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Passage 3
It was
eleven o'clock that night when Mr. Pontellier
returned from his night
out. He was in
an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very
talkative. His
entrance awoke his wife,
who was in bed andfast asleep when he came in.
He talked to her while he undressed,
telling her anecdotes and bits of news
and gossip that he had gathered during
the day. She was overcome with
sleep,
and answered him with little half
utterances.
He thought it very discouraging that
his wife, who was the sole object
of
his existence, showed so little interest in things
which concerned him
and valued so
little his conversation.
Mr.
Pontellier
had
forgotten
the
candies
and
peanuts
that
he
had
promised the boys.
Still, he loved them very much and went into the
room
where they slept to take a look at
them and make sure that they were resting
comfortably. The result of his
investigation was far from satisfactory. He
turned and shifted the youngsters about
in bed. One of them began to kick
and
talk about abasket full of crabs.
Mr. Pontellier
returned to his wife with the information that
Raoul had
a high fever and needed
looking after. Then he lit his cigar and went and
sat near the open door to smoke
it.
Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul
had no fever. He had gone to bed
perfectly well, she said, and nothing
had made him sick. Mr. Pontellier was
too well familiar with fever symptoms
to be mistaken. He assured her the
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child was burning with
fever at that moment in the next room.
He reproached
his wife with her inattention, her habitual
neglect of
the children. If it was not
a mother's place to look after children, whose on
earth was it? He himself had his hands
full with his business. He could not
be
in two places at once; making a living for his
family on the street, and
staying home
to see that no harm done to them. He talked in a
dull, repeated
and insistent
way.
Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and
went into the next room. She
soon came
back and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning her
head down on
the pillow. She said
nothing, and refused to answer her husband when he
questioned her. When his cigar was
smoked out, he went to bed, and in half
a minute was fast asleep.
Mrs. Pontellier
was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to
cry
a little, and wiped her eyes on the
sleeve of her nightdress. She went out
on the porch, where she sat down and
began to rock herself in the chair.
It was then
past midnight. The cottages were all dark. There
was no
sound except the hooting of an
old owl and the everlasting voice of the sea,
which broke like a mournful
lullaby(
催眠曲
) upon the
night.
The tears came so fast to Mrs.
Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve
of her nightdress no longer served to
dry them. She went on crying there,
not
caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her
arms.
She could not have told why she was
crying. Such experiences as had
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just happened were not
uncommon in her married life. They seemed never
before
to
have
weighed
much
against
the
abund
ance(
充
足
)
of
her
husband's
kindness and a uniform devotion which had come
to be
self?
understood.
An
indescribable
oppression,
which
seemed
to
generate
in
some
unfamiliar part of her consciousness,
filled her whole being with vague
pain.
It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across
her soul's summer day.
It was strange
and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit
there inwardly
scolding her husband,
expressing sadness about Fate, which had directed
her footsteps to the path which they
had taken. She was just having a good
cry all to herself.
The mosquitoes
succeeded in driving away a mood which might have
held her there in the darkness half a
night longer.
The following morning Mr. Pontellier
was up in good time to take the
carriage which was to convey him to the
ship. He was returning to the city
to
his
business,
and
they
would
not
see
him
again
at
the
Island
till
the
coming
Saturday. He had regained his calmness, which
seemed to have
been somewhat weakened
the night before. He was eager to be gone, as he
looked forward to a lively week in the
financial center.
1. Mr.
Pontellier criticizes his wife
because________
A. she is
not wholly devoted to her children.
B. she does little housework but
sleep.
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C. she knows nothing about fever
symptoms.
D. she fails to
take her son to hospital.
2.
The writer would most likely describe Mr.
Pontellier's conduct during
the evening
as________ .
A. impatient
and generous
B. enthusiastic
and responsible
C. concerned
and gentle
D. inconsiderate
and self?centered
3. The
underlined sentence suggests that Mr. Pontellier's
complaints to his
wife are________
.
A. hesitant and
confused
B. not as urgent as
he claims
C. angry and
uncertain
D. too complex to
make sense
4.
In
paragraphs
8
to
13,
Mrs.
Pontellier's
reactions
to
her
husband's
behavior suggest that________
.
A. she accepts
unquestioningly her role of taking care of the
children
B. this is one of
the first times she has acknowledged her
unhappiness with
her husband
C. her relationship with her husband is
not what has made her depressed
D. she is angry about something that
happened before her husband left
5. The passage shows Mr. Pontellier is
happiest when he________ .
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