阅读提速练(六)
(建议用时：30分钟)
阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)
第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
(2019·浙江金丽衢十二校高三联考)Created by Casey and Shelley Black, the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre focuses on not only rescuing young abandoned wolves but educating the public. Unlike other centres, you can actually walk with the wolves and have exciting, hands-on interaction with them here. And so, we gathered on late winter morning to learn, prepare and walk.
Scrappy and Flora, our wolves that day, were brought to the centre when only a few days old. “They lived in the house with us for the first several months. We treated them like human babies, fed them and slept with them，”said Shelley. So, they are totally used to people. However, these are wild animals. For that reason, Shelley and Casey explained, the walk is totally on the wolf’s terms. “We don’t approach them, but if they come up to us, we can touch them.”
With all this in mind, we headed for the woods. We were walking on a logging road when suddenly, Flora, all 60 pounds of her, hurried up to me and raised up on her legs. She was almost as tall as me. As she leaned in, put her huge muddy paws on my shoulders and sniffed my face, apparently she was saying hello in wolf talk.
We walked farther, maybe half a mile, while Scrappy and Flora dashed in and out of the woods stopping to occasionally roll in the snow, dig for this or that and just play. Then we all headed into the trees to a picturesque(美丽的) stream where the wolves splashed, drank and had a great time.
One could point out that this whole adventure was staged(筹划) and quite artificial. But the purpose, Casey and Shelley said, is to explain the wolves’place in the environment and, primarily, to let people know wolves d on’t have to be universally feared—they really don’t hide secretly in the woods just waiting to eat people, but they’d rather avoid people, for the most part.
1．How is the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre different from others?
A．It trains and educates wild wolves.
B．It aims to rescue young abandoned wolves.
C．It raises wolves for commercial purposes.
D．It allows visitors to take a walk with wolves.
2．Why did Flora behave like that when she saw the author on the logging road?
A．To express curiosity.
B．To show friendliness.
C．To attract attention.
D．To seek companionship.
3．Why do Casey and Shelley organize such an adventure?
A．To advertise the centre.
B．To publicize wolf hunting.
C．To promote environmental protection.
D．To clarify some conventional views of wolves.
B
Australian adults want to see “life skills”introduced into school
curriculums, including money management, job preparation and domestic
tasks. New research from Monash University showed Aussie adults also
widely supported the inclusion of technology, coding and artificial intelligence subjects in student curriculums to prepare them for future jobs.
Co-author Professor Neil Selwyn, from Monash’s new Education Futures think tank, said the survey results of more than 2，000 Australians had taken himself and Dr. Deana Leahy by surprise.“The life skills—I wasn’t expecting that at all，”he said. Those quizzed were asked to rate the value of a list of subjects already in the curriculum, but were also given an open space to write what they think should be included. Prof. Selwyn said people called for schools to teach financial skills, budgeting, cooking and doing taxes.“You could argue that these are things people should be learning themselves, or learning from their families，”he said.“But we’ve got to be thinking forward in terms of the skills people will need for jobs and their ways of living.”
One respondent said schools should introduce a “contemporary life s kills”subject：“A compulsory 1-hour a week class on skills needed that parents seem continually unable to teach their kids”. Suggestions for the class included resume writing, filing tax returns and health claims. Another respondent called for students to be taught “general life skills”as unfortunately not enough kids will have parents to actually be bothered to educate them or simply parents don’t know themselves.
Of the subjects, maths was the highest ranked(75.5 percent), followed closely by English(74.8 percent). And while science was the third highest ranked subject(46.2 percent), it was more strongly supported by those who earned higher wages and were university-educated compared to lower income earners.
Aspects of school life considered least important were students having fun, learning about things that interested them and being given the opportunity to be creative.
4．Why did the adults suggest adding “life skills”to school curriculums?
A．To vary school curriculums.
B．To enrich s tudents’ school life.
C．To prepare students for future work and life.
D．To save parents the trouble of educating kids.
5．What did Prof. Selwyn think of the adults’suggestions?
A．Reasonable.B．Ridiculous.
C．Interesting. D．Impractical.
6．What can we know from the text?
A．The present curriculums are to adults’taste.
B．Contemporary life skills involve resume writing.
C．Students’interests have been greatly promoted.
D．The parents quizzed think well of school life.
C
Rich as a King
William Ⅰ，who conquered England some 950 years ago, had wealth, power and an army. Yet although William was very rich by the standard of his time, he had nothing like a flush toilet(抽水马桶), paper towels, or a riding lawn mower(割草机). How did he get__by?
History books are filled with wealthy people who were poor compared to me. I have storm windows, Croesus did not. Entire nations trembled before Alexander the Great, but he couldn’t buy cat food. Czar Nicholas lacked an electric saw.
Given how much better off I am than so many famous dead people, you’d think I’d be content. The trouble is that, like most people, I compare my wealth with that of living persons: neighbors, school classmates, famous TV people. The greed I feel toward my friend Howard’s new kitchen is not reduced by the fact that no kings ever had a refrigerator with glass doors.
There is really no rising or falling standard of living. Over the centuries people simply find different things to feel sad about. You’d think that simply not having disease would put us in a good mood, but no, we want a hot bath too.
Of course, one way to achieve happiness would be to realize that even by today’s standards the things I own are pretty nice. My house is smaller than the houses of many investment bankers, but even so it has a lot more rooms than my wife and I can keep clean.
Besides, to people looking back at our era from a century or two in the future, these bankers’fancy counter tops and my own worn Formica will seem equally shabby. I can’t keep up with my neighbors right now. But just wait.
7．What does the underlined phrase “get by”in the first paragraph mean?
A．Succeed as a king.
B．Deal with complaints.
C．Live in a satisfactory way.
D．Get some extra money.
8．How many historical figures are mentioned to compare lives in the past and present?
A．3. B．4.
C．5. D．6.
9．According to the passage, the author intends to ________．
A．tell us to be content with life
B．warn us to live in a simple way
C．teach us to learn lessons from life
D．encourage us to struggle for wealth
10．What’s the author’s attitude towards life?
A．Doubtful. B．Optimistic.
C．Uncaring. D．Cautious.
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Time for a Change
Assume that you already know what bad habits you want to change, such as being late, overeating, compulsive shopping, lack of exercise, etc. To break any habit, you need to make up your mind and commit yourself to making the change. How can you do this? First, it’s important to be honest with yourself about your bad habits. 11.________. Ask them to point out every time they notice your bad habits.
After you decide to make a change, look at yourself. You should try to figure out what is causing the bad habit repeatedly. Maybe you are late because you like the attention you receive when you arrive late. Or perhaps you want to control others by setting the time. 12.________，you can take the step toward breaking it.
Then set a realistic goal for change. 13.________，so don’t expect to break it overnight. For instance, if your goal is to get into great shape, and you currently do no exercise, don’t expect to suddenly start spending two hours at the gym each day. Set a goal of exercising a maximum of several days a week at first.
14．________. Keep a journal or diary, or just write things in a notebook. If your goal is to be punctual, exercise more, or eat healthier, many cellphone apps can record your progress. Seeing how you are gradually breaking your bad habit will then start to be its own reward. 15.________．A．If you focus on one goal at a time
B．You didn’t develop your bad habit overnight
C．It’s also helpful to talk to people around you
D．After you know the reasons behind a bad habit
E．Congratulate yourself on the small positive changes
F．This will motivate you to continue on the road you are taking
G．You will need to monitor yourself and meanwhile track your progress
阅读提速练(六)
阅读理解
第一节
【解题导语】本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了作者去北光野狼中心徒步旅行的经历。
1．D解析：细节理解题。根据第一段第二句中的“Unlike other centres, you can actually walk with the wolves”可知，在北光野狼中心游客能够和狼一起散步，故选D。
2．B解析：细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句中的“apparently she was saying hello in wolf talk”可知，Flora的举动显然是在用狼的说话方式表达问候，因此B项正确。
3．D解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段第二句“But the purpose...but they’d rather avoid people, for the most part.”可推知，Casey和Shelley组织这个冒险旅行的目的是澄清一些关于狼的守旧观点。
【长难句分析】But the purpose, Casey and Shelley said, is to explain the wolves’place in the environment and, primarily, to let people know wolves don’t have to be universally feared—they really don’t hide secretly in the woods just waiting to eat people, but they’d rather avoid people, for the most part.
分析：谓语动词is后面是由and连接的两个不定式短语作表语，第二个不定式短语中的“wolves don’t have to be universally feared”为省略了that的宾语从句，作及物动词know 的宾语；破折号后面的内容对前面进行补充说明。
译文：Casey和Shelley说，但是(这样做的)目的是解释狼在自然环境中的角色，主要是让人们知道不必普遍地害怕狼——它们实际上不会秘密地藏在树林里等着吃人，相反，它们通常宁愿避开人。
【解题导语】本文是一篇说明文。来自莫纳什大学的新的研究表明，澳大利亚成年人广泛支持将科技、人工智能等科目引入学校课程，使学生为他们未来的工作做好准备。
4．C解析：细节理解题。根据第一段第二句中的“Aussie adults also widely supported the inclusion of...to prepare th em for future jobs”，并结合该段内容可知，澳大利亚成年人支持将
“生活技能”引入学校课程旨在让学生为他们未来的工作和生活做好准备，故C项正确。
5．A解析：推理判断题。根据第二段中的“You could argue that...But we’ve got to be thinking forward in terms of the skills people will need for jobs and their ways of living.”可推知，Selwyn教授认为成年人将“生活技能”引入学校课程的建议是合乎情理的，故A项正确。
6．B解析：细节理解题。根据第三段第一、二句“One respondent said schools should introduce a ‘contemporary life skills’ subject...included resume writing, filing tax returns and health claims.”可知，当代生活技能包括写简历、提交纳税申报单和健康索赔，故B项正确。
【长难句分析】Those quizzed were asked to rate the value of a list of subjects already in the curriculum, but were also given an open space to write what they think should be included.
分析：该句含有but连接的两个并列的结构，其中“what they think should be included”为what引导的宾语从句，作及物动词“write”的宾语。
译文：那些被询问者被要求评估已经在课程中的科目清单的价值，但也被给予了一个空白处来写下他们认为应该包括的内容。
【解题导语】本文主要通过同富有的古人对比启迪读者：生活没有必要攀比，要知足常乐。
7．C解析：词义猜测题。根据第三段第一句“Given how much better off I am than so many famous dead people, you’d think I’d be content.”，并结合对第一段第二句的理解可推知，没有现代这些便利的生活设备，富有的威廉一世如何才能生活得称心如意呢？由此可推知，画线短语表示“以一种令人满意的方式生活”，故选C。
8．B解析：细节理解题。根据对第一段和第二段的理解可知，古今生活对比中作者列举了四个历史人物，他们分别是：William Ⅰ，Croesus, Alexander the Great和Czar Nicholas。
9．A解析：写作意图题。根据文章的标题Rich as a King，并结合对全文的整体理解可推知，作者通过古今生活对比，告诉我们要知足常乐。
10．B解析：观点态度题。根据最后两段，尤其是最后一段最后两句“I can’t keep up with my neighbors right now. But just wait.”可推知，作者对生活持乐观的态度。
【长难句分析】The greed I feel toward my friend Howard’s new kitchen is not reduced by the fact that no kings ever had a refrigerator with glass doors.
分析：本句是一个主从复合句。句中“I feel toward my friend Howard’s new kitchen”是一个定语从句，关系代词that/which在从句中作宾语而被省略，修饰先行词“The greed”；
that引导同位语从句，在从句中不作句子成分，对“the fact”的内容进行解释说明。
译文：我对我的朋友Howard的新厨房的垂涎并没有因为之前所有的国王都没有一个带玻璃门的冰箱这样一个事实而有所减弱。
第二节
【解题导语】文章对打破坏习惯提出了几点建议：先承认自己的坏习惯，然后弄清楚导致坏习惯的原因，再确立一个现实的目标，并对改正过程进行监测记录，最后在改正中激励自己继续前行。
11．C解析：空后的“Ask them to point out every time they notice your bad habits.”中出现了代词them，此处应指代设空处表示人的名词，只有C项中提到了“people around you”，故选C项。
12．D解析：根据第二段第二句“You should try to figure out what is causing the bad habit repeatedly.”(你应该尝试弄清楚是什么一再导致了坏习惯)可知，在你知道坏习惯背后的原因后，你就可以采取步骤去打破它，D项符合语境，故选D项。
13．B解析：根据第三段第一句“Then set a realistic goal for change.”(然后为作出改变确定一个现实的目标)及设空处后的“so don’t expect to break it overnight”可知，B项中的overnight与空后的overnight相呼应，符合语境，故选B项。
14．G解析：设空处在段首，应为总起句，由后面的“Keep a journal or diary, or just write things in a notebook...record your progress.”可知，要通过写日记或做笔记，或用手机应用程序来记录自己的目标或进程，故选G项。
15．F解析：根据前面的“Seeing how you are gradually breaking your bad habit will then start to be its own reward.”(看到你如何逐渐地改掉自己的坏习惯将成为这件事本身的一个奖赏。)可知，F项(这将会激励你在自己选择的这条路上继续走下去)承接上文，符合语境。故选F项。