高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解(97)高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（97）阅读理解AGoldie's SecretShe 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. "We're moving house.'; "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning 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) Istarted to feel sympathy towards them. "Wedidn't know what had happened to her," saidthe woman at the door. "I took her for a walkone day, soon after the puppies were born,and she just disappeared." "She must havetried to come back to them and got lost,"added a boy from behind her. 'I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I'vegot Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: notto judge people.1. How did the author feel about Goldie whenGoldie came to the house?A. Shocked.B. Sympathetic.C. Annoyed.D. Upset.2. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie .A. felt worriedB. was angryC. ate a littleD. sat by the fire3. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she .A. saw her puppiesB. heard familiar barkingsC. wanted to leave the authorD. found her way to her old homeBYou can never be too sure these days in theUnited States of your neighbours or evenyour customers! Try to keep a low profile（姿态）in your neighborhood: don’t announce to just about everyone that you arerunning a home business with thousands ofdollars worth of equipment. As much as possible, don’t invite clients（客户）orvisitors to your home. In fact I know of somehome-based entrepreneurs（企业家）who wouldrather meet their clients in a neutral（中间的）ground, e.g. the client’s office or even Starbucks.There are other ways to keep burglars away from your house.●Keep lights on around your house in the evenings. Light is a natural fright for burglars.●Invest in a security alarm,particularly if your house is locatedin a remote spot. Security systems canoften bring down the cost of yourhomeowner’s insurance premiums（费用）.●Make sure that all windows and doorsare locked and the security alarmturned on before you sleep at night orgo out of the house. Avoid keepinghouse keys in obvious places, such asunder the lamp or top of the doorframe.●Adding an additional lock willprovide extra security when you arehome. The dead-lock, sometimes calledan “exit-only deadbolt”is andeadbolt that doesn’t have anexternal（外部的）key. It’s clearlyvisible on the door from the outside,but can’t be broken into withoutdestroying the door, frame, or lockitself. While the security won’t helpdirectly when you aren’t home, thevisibility may discourage an intruderfrom trying the door.●Your door itself should be made of strong materials, such as one-inch thick solid hardwood or heavy metal.4. The advice given by the writer in the passage focuses on __________.A. how to make your house safer from burglarsB. what to do when your house is broken intoC. how to improve social security in the United StatesD. how to run a home business5. Some home-based entrepreneurs don’t invite clients to their home ___________.A. to enjoy convenience outside their homeB. for reasons of their property safetyC. not to let others know their businessD. in order to avoid being seen by burglars6. All of the following are part of the writer’s advice except that the homeowner ________.A. buy a security alarm and turn it on in the eveningB. fix an extra lock on the door from insideC. have the doors made of solid hardwood or heavy metalD. keep lights on in all rooms to threaten burglars7. What does the underlined word “intruder”most probably mean in this passage?A. Someone who is invited to visit.B. Someone who illegally enters the home.C. Someone who pays regular visits to the home.D. Someone who tries to destroy the lock.CAfter successfully serving their term for 4 years, military service men and women are given the choice to stay in the military or return to civilian life.For some, having to readjust to civilian life is one of the mist challenging assignments our returning soldiers and marines（水兵）will ever to undertake. While people may think readjusting should be simple, they must take into consideration of all physical and mental stress our servicemen went through.Post-traumatic Stress Disorder（创伤后应急障碍）,or PTSD, is a mental disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events such as military combat（打仗）.Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a little time. In the military, the marines are given a two-week course on how to return to civilian life.Unfortunately, some will have stress reactions that do not go away on their own, or may even get worse over time. These individual may develop PTSD.People who suffer from PTSD have difficulty sleeping because they are often reliving the experience through nightmares （梦魇）and flashbacks, and feel deserted or often stand off, and these symptoms can be severe enough an dlast long enough to significantly damage the person’s daily life.Fullerton College, like most colleges, has its own Veteran’s（老兵）Office. Ray Bustos has been running the office for 3 years. Bustos acts as a liaison（联络） forthe school and the veteran students. He makes sure the veterans returning to school get the right benefits. There are various types of financial aid for soldiers and marines. He strongly encourages the use of the Veteran Affairs website.The website is very informative and extremely helpful for veterans as well as for friends and relatives of veterans who want to learn more.8. One purpose of the writer in writing the passage is ________________.A. to introduce some methods to cure PTSDB. to instruct PTSD patients to return to civilian lifeC. to recommend a website to veterans and people concernedD. to give military service men and women advice on civilian life9. What problems will some returning soldiers and marines meet with?A. How to readjust to civilian life.B. how to get rid of mental diseasesC. How to get along with PTSD patientsD. How to return to school for benefits.10. Which of the following is true about Ray Bustos?A. He’s a veteran who has just come back from a military combat.B. He runs Fullerton College with a veteran office.C. He’s in charge of an office dealing with veteran affairs.D. He provides a lot of financial aid for soldiers and marines.11. The best title for the passage is __________.A. PTSD: Killer of A Civilian Life.B. The Last Assignment For All Military PersonsC. How to Overcome PTSD.D. Ready for a Civilian Life?DPacing and PausingSara 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 drawconclusions not about conversational stylebut about personality and abilities. Thesehabitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定式). Andthese social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a womanfrom the southwestern part of the US went tolive in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Departmentgot together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to breakin--and never found it. Although back homeshe was considered outgoing and confident,in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the endof the year, she was told to take a trainingcourse because of her inability to speak up.That's why slight differences in conversational style--tiny little thingslike microseconds of pause-can have a greateffect on one's life. The result in this casewas a judgment of psychological problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrongwith her and registered for assertiveness training.12. What did Sara think of Betty when talkingwith her?A. Betty was talkative.B. Betty was an interrupter.C. Betty did not take her turn.D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.13. According to the passage, who are likelyto expect the shortest pauses between turns?A. Americans.B. Israelis.C.The British. D. The Finns.14. We can learn from the passage that______.A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacingB. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the USC. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimesD. one should receive training to build up one's confidence15. The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means _______.A. being willing to speak one's mindB. being able to increase one's powerC. being ready to make one's own judgmentD. being quick to express one's ideas confidentlyEThe British aren’t having as many children as they used to. One reason is that people are having children much older than before, meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them. After years at university, they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want. They might then get married, but it’s incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK.The above explains why young British people now don’t move out of their parents’ home until they are around 30 years old on average. It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home. Increasingly, it is not until that age that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home. It’s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child.So a British person manages to get a job,get a home and get married. Why isn’t he or she then having at least two children on average? The main reason is that it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK. Why is it expensive? Well, these days, both parents need to work just to pay for their home and living expenses. Because both parents are at work, that means they then need to pay someone to look after their child during the day. Paying for this childcare is nearly always expensive.The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families, since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children. With so much pressure on families, is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high?So what is Britain doing to try and save the British family? The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children. For example, there have been increases in money families can claim from the state each month. Also, there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools, so that parents do not need to pay so much for child care.The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills. If parents didn’t have to work so many hours, they’d have more time to spend with their children and wouldn’t need to spend so much on childcare. On average, a Briton works 49 hours a week, which is the most in Europe. The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees’ work-life balance. Let’s hope they’re not too late to save the Britishfamily. Otherwise, the British will always be too tired, and won’t have enough time and money, to have children.16. Young British people live in theirparents’ home until around 30because .A. They are allowed to get married at 30B. they can’t find jobs to supportthemselvesC. they can’t afford a house of theirown until thenD. they enjoy family life with theirparents17. The British are now having fewerchildren than before for all thefollowing reasons EXCEPT that .A. they have fewer years to havechildrenB. they live much shorter lives thanbeforeC. it is more expensive to bring up achildD. people are losing their jobs becauseof the recent financial crisis18. To make it cheaper to have children, theBritish government is .A. bringing down pricesB. raising the salaries of parentsC. reducing family income taxD. increasing subsidies for familiesand nursery schools19. It can be inferred from the textthat .A. with long work hours, it is hard forBritish parents to balance life and workB. more and more families in Britain arebreaking up because they are havingfewer childrenC. among Europeans, British people workhardest and earn the leastD. childcare takes up too much energy andtime for the British20. The under lined word “subsidies”in Paragraph 5 means _________.A. food paid by the governmentB. school buildings for poor studentsC. free transportationD. money from the government to benefit the publicBAD ABDB CACD CBCD CBDAD。