2023届高考英语一轮复习语法总动员之阅读理解（4）

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2023届高考英语一轮复习语法总动员之阅读理解（4）1.    Do you have a sore throat, a running nose and a headache? Do you keep coughing and sneezing? If you do, the chances are that you have a cold or perhaps flu---but which one? Although both colds and flu are caused by viruses, they are very different illnesses.    Colds, which usually last about a week, affect the nose most. They commonly cause a running nose and sneezing. Sometimes, they cause a headache, a cough and slightly aching muscles.    Flu is a much more serious illness and is caused by different groups of viruses. People with flu usually get all the symptoms(症状) described above. However, they also get a high fever, a dry cough and much worse aching. Fever is one of the characteristic symptoms of the flu for all ages. The symptoms also last much longer. Sometimes they don’t disappear for at least two weeks.    Flu can be a deadly disease. The elderly, who are weaker and less healthy than most younger people, can die from flu. This is one reason why old people are advised to have a flu injection(预防针) before the start of winter when flu is most common. This injection is inexpensive and definitely(明显地) worth it.    If you have a cold or flu, you must always deal with used tissues(手巾纸) carefully. Don’t leave dirty tissues on your desk or on the floor. Someone else has to pick these up and viruses could be passed on. And finally, remember to cover your nose and mouth when you sneeze! You don’t want to see the small drops of liquids blown(喷) out of your nose and mouth when you sneeze, do you? Disgusting(令人作呕), eh? Now you can understand why it’s a good idea to cover your nose and mouth when you sneeze!1.According to the passage, people with colds rarely get _________. A. a headache B. a high fever C. a running nose D. aching muscles2.We can learn from paragraph 4 that ________.A. flu injection can cause death B. old people are more easily attacked by fluC. flu is most common in summer  D. flu can kill old people easily.3.Dealing with used tissues is important because _______.A. it helps to keep your classroom tidy B. people hate picking up dirty issuesC. it prevents the spread of colds and flu D. picking up a lot of tissues is hard work4.Which of the following is probably the best title for the passage?A. Cold or Flu? B. The Diffident Symptoms of a Cold and FluC. Prevention is Better Than Cure. D. Cover Your Nose and Mouth When Sneezing2.    Summer job offers    Red Lemon Shop Assistants (售货员) We are looking for shop assistants for the summer. If you are a social person and good at salesmanship, we want you to join our team. Good conditions. Perfect for students.    Cinerama Cinemas We need people to work evenings and at the weekend. Responsibilities (职责) include checking tickets and selling popcorn and soft drinks. Watch the latest films...free! Join our young and friendly team! Phone 0161－754－6022 for more information about wages (工资) and conditions.    US Au Pairs Ever wanted to visit California? Are you patient, caring and good with kids? Work as an au pair in Los Angeles this summer. Free food and accommodation. Phone 0121－077－2001 for information about how to get application forms.    Are You Mad About Sport? Would you like to spend all summer teaching sport to people from around the world? Then come and work at our international sports camp—Sports Star Camp! Phone 0191－121－5533 for information about how to get and where to send application forms，etc.5.Which number can you call if you want to get a job that provides free films?A.0151－897－6643.  B.0161－754－6022.C.0121－077－2001.  D.0191－121－5533.6.What can we learn about a job as a US au pair?A.It is a high－paid job. B.It is perfect for kids.C.It offers job－related training. D.It requires somebody with patience.7.Who would be most interested in working for Sports Star Camp?A.Jill, who dreams of being a sports star.B.Jack, who wants to become a sports coach.C.Joe, who expects to travel around the world.D.Jim, who loves to take part in sports competitions.3.    An advance in electronic publishing could make the e-book you are reading seem as dated as silent film. Publishers hope to explore the growing success of e-books by releasing versions with added soundtracks(电影配音) and musical accompaniments.    The noises in the first multimedia books-released in Britain on Friday-include rain hitting a window in a Sherlock Holmes tale. When the plot of a book reaches the most exciting part, background scores will create tension.     Supporters argue that sound effects are the next logical development for e-books and will add excitement for younger readers. Critics, however, will argue that the noise will ruin the simple pleasure of having the imagination stimulated by reading.    Caroline Michel, chief executive of the literary agency, said the new generation of computer literate readers was used to multiple sensory input. She said, “Young people have split computer screens where they may be watching television and replying to an email at the same time. If that’s what the market wants then we should respond to the market.”    Booktrack’s sound effects work by estimating the users reading speed. Each time you “turn” a page, the software reassesses where you have reached in the text and times the sounds to switch on accordingly. If the soundtrack becomes out of synch(同步), a click on any word will reset it. Some authors fear that a soundtrack could destroy the peace and quiet of libraries and ruin the pleasure of reading. David Nicholls, author of One Day, the bestseller now released as a film, said, “This sounds like the opposite of reading. I have enough trouble reading an e-book because I’m constantly distracted by emails.”    Stuart MacBride, the crime writer whose novel Shatter the Bones was an e-book bestseller, sells 18% of his books as electronic downloads. He said, “If I’m reading, I will do the noise in my head. I don’t need someone to tell me what tea cups clinking sounds like. That would irritate(激怒) me.”8.What do publishers expect an e-book soundtrack to do?A. Help to release an e-book as a film. B. Help readers improve reading speed.C. Add tension at a book’s exciting point. D. Get readers familiar with the background.9.Who is in favour of added soundtracks for e-books?A. Mr. Darcy B. Caroline Michel C. David Nicholls D. Stuart Mac Bride10.What do we know about Stuart Mac Bride?A. He was a person who was easy to get angryB. He knew a great deal about tea and tea cultureC. Eighty-two percent of his books described crimeD. He imagined sounds related to the story when reading11.What’s the main idea of the passage?A. Opinions about e-books with soundtracksB. Response to the need of the book marketC. Reasons for traditional e-books becoming outdatedD. Suggestions on encouraging readers’ imagination4.    In order to be recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), you have to be doing something right. Since Sheryl Page, president and CEO of Page One Consultants in Orlando, was named Woman-owned Small Business Person of the Year by the State of Florida SBA in 2017, a lot of people have started to look at what she’s doing and how her company has become so successful.    Page, who runs an engineering and construction consulting firm, started the business back in 1993, but sort of dragged along for many years with no big success. There were plenty of times when Page could have thrown in the towel, but she kept pushing through.    Starting out in an industry mainly made up of male-owned businesses wasn’t easy, nor was the potential of finding enough money to support the quality services she had to provide client(客户) with. Page used as many as 15 credit cards to help the company stay in business in the early-to-mid 1990s. Then, she received a ﹩250,000 SBA guaranteed loan in 2001 to keep the company afloat after nearly a decade in business.    Since then, the company has doubled profits, hired more than two dozen new team members, acquired more than a dozen new company vehicles, and almost doubled its square footage. It’s a huge growth increase for a company that’s been around for nearly 25 years and speaks of the hard work and commitment of Page and her team.    When asked what her biggest piece of advice to small business owners would be, Page says, “Keep your faith and be patient. Don’t give up…don’t quit!” Those words have been heard in many cases and do sound cliché(陈词滥调), but when they come from someone like Sheryl Page, who is living proof of the good that can come from being patient, they ring truer than ever. If you learn anything from her company’s success, it should be that growth is rarely immediate, but that doesn't mean it isn’t coming.12.What does the underlined part “thrown in the towel” in paragraph 2 probably mean?A. Given up.  B. Sought help.C. Come to a new level.  D. Taken up something else.13.In what situation did Page start her consulting business?A. When there were few wise clients.B. When the whole business was slow.C. When it didn’t have much development potential.D. When businesswomen were not generally accepted.14.What did Page do after she got the loan?A. She started working for the SBA.B. She put it into expanding her business.C. She used most of it to start another company.D. She first increased the team members’ income.15.What does the author think of the advice mentioned in the last paragraph?A. It isn’t detailed.  B. It isn’t in line with the truth.C. It can have an immediate effect. D. It mirrors Page’s personal experiences.5.    Welcome to the official Louvre online sales site    The Musée du Louvre is reopening and we are glad to be able to welcome you back again. In line with the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visitors will be required to wear a mask. According to government recommendations, all visitors to the Louvre aged 12 years and two months or older must show a Health Pass. All visitors, including those entitled to free admission, must book a time period. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.    Individual tickets for the Museum    Admission and reservation of a time period to access the permanent collections.    Tickets valid for the selected date only. Full list of visitors entitled to free admission at Louvre.fr.    General admission: €18    The Musée du Louvre is open every day—except Tuesdays, January 1, May 1 and December 25—from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Visitors will be asked to leave the exhibition rooms 30 minutes before closure.    All tickets purchased online are time-stamped and nominative (记名的); you may therefore be asked to provide proof of identity.    They are only valid for the service, date and time selected. They cannot be used to skip the queue but do guarantee access to the museum within half an hour of the time shown on the ticket. Any holder of an online ticket who does not arrive within the assigned time period for admission to the museum shall be subject to the same admission and waiting conditions as visitors without tickets.Visitors entitled to free admission (other than Louvre members)—Under 18s, proof of ID required—16-25 year-old residents of the European Economic Area (European Union, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein), proof of ID and residency requiredProfessionals—Teachers working in France, valid “Pass Education” required—Teachers of art, art history or the applied arts, valid proof of employment stating subject taught required—Artists with the Maison des Artistes or International Association of Art, valid proof requiredOther—Jobseekers, valid proof and ID required (dated within the last year or indicating a period of validity)—Disabled visitors and the person accompanying them16.This passage mainly aims at ________ .A. introducing the exhibits at the LouvreB. providing ticketing information of the LouvreC. listing restrictions on admission to the LouvreD. illustrating the services provided at the Louvre17.If a family in Norway, including the wife, an art teacher, the husband, an IT engineer, and a 10-year-old son, want to visit the Louvre this weekend, they should pay at least ________ in all.A. €18 B. €3 C. €45 D. €5418.What can be learned about the Louvre from the passage?A. It is open every day except on Tuesdays.B. Its online tickets ensure access to it at any time.C. Proof of ID is required for anyone buying its tickets online.D. Ticket holders may be refused to enter it if arriving an hour late.6.Experts believe that the best time to teach kids language skills is when they are babies. Most times the task is easily accomplished with parents reading or talking to their babies. However，in some cases that is not possible due to parents' busy work schedules or when kids are born deaf. Now，a blue-eyed robot，a human image，and some high-tech neuroscience may be able to assist parents with this important developmental task.The Robot AVatar thermal-Enhanced system，or RAVE，is the brainchild of a team of researchers led by Laura-Ann Petitto，an educational neuroscientist. The learning process begins when the robot's camera，which is focused on the baby's face，notices tiny changes in his/her body temperature. This，combined with the baby's facial expression，causes the robot to turn its head and guide the baby's attention to a computer screen，on which a human image starts to communicate with the baby. For example，if the baby points towards the screen，the image might respond，“Are you pointing to me？”and follow that up with a nursery rhyme or fairy tale，all in American Sign Language（ASL）. The “conversation” continues until the kid loses interest.The researchers found that babies as young as 6 to 8 months old began to move their hands in a rhythm similar to ASL after communicating with RAVE for just a few minutes. Petitto says natural language，whether communicated through speech or sign，activates（激活）the same parts of the brain and believes the rhythmic motion proves the babies are learning the essential elements of communication.What sets this technique apart from other methods，such as showing educational videos or television shows, is its interactive（互动的）nature and real-time response to the baby's actions. The researchers say that while it is too early to determine the system's long-term influence on baby communication, the initial response has been very encouraging. Next, they plan to introduce a robot that can both sign and speak to babies.19.What can the RAVE system help parents do?A. Improve babies' health condition. B. Take good care of babies.C. Develop babies' language skills. D. Keep company with babies.20.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?A. How babies learn ASL effectively. B. How parents educate their babies.C. How robots talk and read to babies. D. How the RAVE system works.21.What indicates babies are learning with the help of the RAVE system?A. Interest in videos and TV shows. B. Changes in their body temperature.C. Improvement in their natural language D. Hand movements in a rhythm like ASL.22.What do the researchers think of the RAVE system?A. Promising. B. Impractical. C. Satisfactory. D. Disappointing.7.The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U.S. Poet Laureate（桂冠诗人）Louise Gluck. The prize committee cited “her unique poetic voice that with plain beauty makes individual existence universal”. Gluck is the first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck, 77, joins a list of literary giants and previous Nobelists who include, in this century, Canadian short-story master Alice Munro, Chinese magical-realist Mo Yan, etc.Gluck’s work includes 12 collections of poetry and a few volumes of essays on literary writing. “All are characterized by a striving for clarity（清晰）. Childhood and family life, the close relationship with parents and siblings, is a theme that has remained central to her,” Anders Olsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said. “She seeks the universal, and in this she takes inspiration from myths and classical motifs,” Olsson added, citing her 2006 collection Averno, which the committee described as “masterly” for its “visionary interpretation of the myth of Persephone’s (珀尔塞福涅) fall into hell in the captivity (囚禁) of Hades(哈得斯), the god of death”.Being a professor at Yale and a resident of Cambridge, Gluck also served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004 and is no stranger to awards. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection of poems titled The Wild Iris, in which “she describes the incredible return of life after winter in the poem Snowdrops,” the Nobel literature committee said Thursday. She also won the 2014 National Book Award for the poem Faithful and Virtuous Night. In 2016, President Obama awarded the National Humanities Medal to Gluck in a White House ceremony.The publicity-shy Gluck did not immediately issue any comment about the latest honor for her body of work, which spans more than half a century. In a 2012 interview, she acknowledged that prizes can make “existence in the world easier” but did not amount to the immortality(不朽) of a true artist.23.What can we know about Gluck from Paragraph 1?A. She is as popular as the Chinese novelist Mo Yan.B. She won the Nobel Prize for her special literary style.C. She is the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature.D. She is the only Poet Laureate in modern American history.24.What do Gluck’s poems mainly focus on?A. Daily life. B. Nature. C. Careers. D. Classical myths.25.What is the purpose of Paragraph 3?A. To show Gluck’s contributions to literature.B. To prove Gluck’s great passion for writing.C. To present Gluck’s outstanding achievements.D. To stress Gluck’s influence on other poets.26.What does Gluck think about the honor she has received?A. She is content with it. B. She takes it very seriously.C. She deserves a higher honor. D. She doesn’t attach great importance to it.8.My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade. The teacher said to me, “She may not be up to what we’re trying to accomplish.” He was really saying she didn’t have the intelligence. I got mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known I was smart when I was failing in school. We had her tested and found that the troubles my daughter was having were the same as those I had had. I decided to get tested as well. She was dyslexic, and so was I. By then I was a successful television writer and producer. I’d won an Emmy for “The Rockford Files.”Had I known earlier, though, that there was a reason beyond my control to explain why I was a low achiever, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me.I needed that praise because I was carrying around the failure in studies. I did badly in all my courses.I once asked a friend who had always gotten an A, “How long did you study for this?” He said, “I didn’t. I just glanced at it.” So what do I take from that? He must be smarter than I am. I began to ask, “What will happen to me when I’m not good at anything?” Despite my doubts, I did become successful, and people now say to me, “So you’ve overcome dyslexia.”No. You don’t overcome it, you learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are very hard for me. Most people who go through college read at least twice as fast as I do. I avoid dialing a phone if I can, because I sometimes have to try three times to get the number right. I get that recording “The number you have reached is not in service” more than any man on earth.Despite my weaknesses I view dyslexia as a gift, not a curse (诅咒). Many dyslexics are good at right- brain, abstract thought, and that’s what my kind of creative writing is. And I can write quickly—I go like wind—and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is not the problem. That’s my strength.The real fear I have for dyslexic is not that they have to struggle with regular school studies, but that they will quit on themselves before they get out of school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can, whether it’s music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, “Yeah, reading’s hard. But I have these other things I can do.”27.The writer decided to get himself tested probably because ________.A. he wanted to know if they had the same problemB. he accepted that his daughter was not smartC. he didn’t realize the problem with his daughterD. his father had the same troubles as they did28.What can you infer from the second paragraph?A. The writer struggled hard and finally ended with good grades.B. The writer was thankful not knowing of his dyslexia before.C. Dyslexia made the writer a low achiever all through his life.D. People praised the writer because they knew he had dyslexia.29.The word “dyslexia” can be interpreted as ________.A. hearing disability  B. low in intelligenceC. mental illness  D. disorder of reading30.Which of the following proverbs can best summarize the main idea?A. Never judge a person by his appearance.B. God never shuts one door but he opens another.C. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.D. No one can make a good coat with bad cloth.答案以及解析1.答案：B2.答案：B3.答案：C4.答案：A5.答案：B6.答案：D7.答案：D8.答案：C9.答案：B10.答案：D11.答案：A 12.答案：A13.答案：D14.答案：B15.答案：D 16.答案：B17.答案：A18.答案：C 19.答案：C20.答案：D21.答案：D22.答案：A23.答案：B24.答案：A25.答案：C26.答案：D27.答案：A28.答案：B29.答案：D30.答案：B