2019-2020年高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解训练（4）(III).doc

2019-2020年高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解训练（4）(III)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。A different sort of generation gap is developing in the workplace. Someone - specifically the father-daughter team of Larry and Meagan Johnson - has figured out that on some American job sites, five generations are working side by side.In their new book about generations in the workplace the pair argue that while such an age difference adds a lot of texture and a variety of life experiences, it can also bring tensions and conflicts.The Johnsons are human-resource trainers and public speakers. Dad Larry is a former health-care executive; daughter Meagan is a onetime high-level sales manager.Here are the oldest and youngest of the five generations they identify:They call the oldest group Traditionals, born before 1945. They were heavily influenced by the lessons of the Great Depression and World War Two. They respect authority, set a high standard of workmanship, and municate easily and confidently. But theyre also stubbornly independent. They want their opinions heard.At the other extreme are what the Johnsons call Linksters, born after 1995 into todays more plicated, multi-media world. They live and breathe technology and are often social activists.You wont find many 15-year olds in the offices of large panies, except as volunteers, of course, but quite old and quite young workers do e together in sales environments like bike shops and ice-cream stores.The Johnsons, Larry and Meagan, represent a generation gap themselves in their work with jobsite issues. The Johnsons point is that as the average lifespan continues to rise and retirement dates get delayed because of the tight economy, people of different generations are working side by side, more often bringing with them very different ideas about pany loyalty and work values.The five generations are heavily influenced by quite different events, social trends, and the cultural phenomena of their times. Their experiences shape their behavior and make it difficult, sometimes, for managers to achieve a strong and efficient workplace.Larry and Meagan Johnson discuss all this in greater detail in a new book, “Generations, Inc.: From Boomers to Linksters - Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work,” published by Ama Press, which is available in all good bookstore from this Friday.1. The type of generation gap in paragraph 1 refers to the difference in beliefs _.A. between managers and workers B. among family membersC. among employees D. between older and newer panies2. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Traditionals?A. Theyve learned much from war and economic disaster.B. Theyre difficult to work with as they are stubborn.C. They respect their boss and hope to be respected.D. Theyre independent workers with great confidence.3. According to the passage, the Linksters are usually _.A. found working in the offices of large paniesB. influenced by media and technologyC. enthusiastic multi-media activistsD. ice-cream sellers4. According to the passage, modern workforces are more diverse because _.A. people want to increase their average lifespanB. many young people are entering the workforceC. employees with different values can benefit their paniesD. retirement dates are being delayed for economic reasons5. Whats the main purpose of the passage?A. To promote a new book by Larry and Meagan Johnson.B. To describe the five different workplace generations.C. To introduce the Johnsons research about diverse workforces.D. To identify a major problem in modern workforces.【参考答案】15、C B B D A 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 The 400 phone messages said it all. Veterans(老兵) wanted to talk, and Jeff Beers, a military history buff and the son of a retired Navy man, was ready to listen. Beers had volunteered for the Veterans History Project, a program at the Library of Congress dedicated to preserving the oral histories of Americans 19 million veterans. Local newspapers listed Beers number, and the response was tremendous. Hes videotaped 52 vets ever since. “Most of them are shocked that anyone would be interested in their small story,” says Beers, 33, an assistant engineer for the city of Poway, Calif. “They ask, Why now? But it has to be now, before its too late.” The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 1,847 veterans die each day. Beers and the other volunteers are collecting the I-was-there detail. One of the most moving came from a World War II POW (prisoner of war): “He had to march 500 miles through the Black Forest in winter. They ate bark soup and slept at local farm.” The WW II generation prises(包含) most of the 700 histories gathered since the program began in 2001. But, says director Ellen Lovell, they want to hear from vets of every war. “I interviewed my brother-in-law, an army surgeon in Vietnam,” she says. “He said he shared things with me that hes never told anyone.”1. What do we know from the text about the veterans?A. They live a very happy life after the war.B. They often told their stories to others.C. They were highly respected by people.D. They are being fewer and fewer in numbers.答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节推理题。由第二段最后一句话 “The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 1,847 veterans die each day.”可知，每天有1847位老兵死去，也就意味着老兵的数目越来越少，故D选项正确。2. How did the veterans feel when they were interviewed?A. Happy. B. Sad. C. Surprised.D. Disappointed.答案解析：答案为C。本题为细节题。由第二段首句 “Most of them are shocked that anyone would be interested in their small story,” 可知，老兵对于有人对他们的故事感兴趣感到非常吃惊，故答案为C。 3. What does the underlined word “it” (Paragraph 1) refer to?A. Veterans wanted to talk.B. Jeff Beers was ready to listen.C. The veterans had many stories.D. There were many phone messages.答案解析：答案为A。本题为词义推断题。由第一段前面的内容 “The 400 phone messages said it all. Veterans wanted to talk, and Jeff Beers, a military history buff and the son of a retired Navy man, was ready to listen.”可知，“it”指代的是紧跟着它后面的内容“Veterans wanted to talk”，故答案为A。4. What kind of stories is Jeff Beers most interested in?A. Historical records of World War II.B. Stories written by newspaper reporters.C. Stories most talked about by public.D. Personal experiences of people during different wars.答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节推理题。由倒数第二段 “One of the most moving came from a World War II POW (prisoner of war): He had to march 500 miles through the Black Forest in winter. They ate bark soup and slept at local farm.”可知，Jeff Beers最感兴趣的是战争期间人们的个人经历，故答案为D。 阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the xx Nobel Prize in Literature.The selection of Doris Lessing for a Nobel was popular among the hundreds of journalists gathered for the announcement in Stockholm.Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl said with skepticism, fire and visionary power Lessing has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia - modern-day Iran - to British parents, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmers wife and her black servant.A member of the British munist Party during the 1950s and a campaigner against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was for years banned from that country and from Rhodesia.Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism. A disjointed study of the mind of the main character, Anna Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and munism, relationships with men and sex, and Jungian analysis and dream interpretation.Lessings themes shifted to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was fascinated with the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism. Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the panion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessings selection.She is one of the truly great writers - of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction, Engdahl said. She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature.At 87, Doris lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature laureate since the first prizes were awarded in 1901. Each Nobel Prize is this year acpanied by a check for approximately $1.4 million.6. How old was Doris Lessing when she published her first novel?A. 14 B. 26 C. 31 D. 507. Which of the following about The Grass is Singing is true? A. It is mainly about racial conflict between the whites and the blacks in the US. B. The main characters are a white farmers wife and her black servant. C. It was published in Africa. D. It was Doris Lessings most famous novel.8. We can infer from the passage that _. A. Journalists are very interested in the election of Doris Lessings for Nobel Prize.B. Doris Lessing regard The Golden Notes as a pioneering work of feminism.C. Doris Lessing has written about many different subjects.D. Many writers have the courage to stick to the equality between the male and female experience.9 The underlined word school in the last paragraph but one means_.A. institution for educating children B. college or university C. department of a university D. group of writers, thinkers10. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?A. Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for literatureB. The greatest British female writerC. The oldest Nobel Prize winnerD. xx Nobel Prize announced in Stockholm 全解全析本文主要讲述了英国的Doris Lessing获得了xx诺贝尔文学奖。C 细节理解题。根据第四段第1句和第五段第1句可知。B 细节理解题。第五段第2句可知。C 推理判断题。从文章第七、八段内容可知。D 词义猜测题。根据倒数第二段，可以推测出school的意思。A 主旨大意题。这是新闻报道，从第一段的第一句可知。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory for making boot polish. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time as junior clerk in a lawyers office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament, for London newspapers. His career as a writer of fiction began in 1833 with short stories and essays in periodicals, and in 1837 his ic novel The Pickwick Papers made him the most popular author at his time in England.He was a great observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity of the bourgeoisie.Many of his novels like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and so on drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago.Dickens criticized capitalist society from the point of view of bourgeois humanism. He wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any effective means to achieve that end.11. Dickens only received a little formal education because_.A. he wanted to teach himselfB. he wanted to work and made a lot of money C. he was too poor to afford any more formal educationD. he wanted some working experiences to be a novelist12. According to Dickens, the society at his time in England was_. A. just B. poor C. fortable D. unsatisfying13. Which of the following novel made Dickens the most popular writer at his time in England?A. Oliver TwistB. The Pickwick PapersC. A Tale of Two CitiesD. Great Expectations14. According to the passage, which of the following about Dickens is true?A. He didnt go to school at all. B. He only wrote about poor people and showed deep sympathy for them.C. He began to write fictions when he was 21 years old.D. He found some effective ways to improve the living conditions of the poor.15. It can be inferred from the passage that_.A. Dickens had a miserable childhood B. Dickens tried many different jobs before he became a professional writerC. Dickens wrote many novels but only some of them are popularD. Dickens criticized capitalist society and helped to improve the living conditions of the poor 全解全析 本文介绍了狄更斯的生平和主要著作。C 推理判断题。由文章第一段的第二句得知。D 推理判断题。由文章倒数第二段的最后一句(the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago)得知。B事实细节题。由第一段的最后一句可知。C事实细节题。由第一段的第一句和最后一句可知。A推理判断题。由文章第一段可知。