2020版高考英语新探究大一轮(课件 检测)(含2019届新题) (2)

课时练1 阅读理解提速练

[学生用书P293(单独成册)]

Ⅰ 阅读理解

A

(2019·赣州十四县/市联考)Some people are so rude!

Who sends an e­mail or a text message that just says “Thank you” ? Who leaves a voice mail

message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on Google? Don’t these people

realize that they’re wasting your time?

Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little politeness. But many social agreed

standards just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.

In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello.E­mail, too, is slower than

a text. Voice mail is a now impolite way of trying to connect.

My father learned this lesson after leaving me a dozen voice mail messages, none of which I

listened to. Exasperated，he called my sister to express his dissatisfaction that I never returned his

phone calls. “Why are you leaving him voice mail？” my sister asked. “Just text him.”

In the age of the smartphone, there is no reason to ask once­acceptable questions about: the

weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, which can be

easily found on Google Maps. But people still ask these things. And when you answer, they

respond with a thank­you e­mail.

How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people,

especially older ones, appreciate a thank­you message. Others, like me, want no reply.

The anthropologist(人类学家) Margaret Mead once said that in traditional societies, the

young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here’s

hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.

【解题导语】 本文是一篇议论文，主要讨论了如今在智能手机时代，人们应该选择何种方式进行沟通。

1．What does the underlined word “Exasperated” mean in the fifth paragraph?

A．Worried. B．Surprised.

C．Annoyed. D．Tired.

C 解析：词义猜测题。根据第五段第二句中的“he called my sister to express his

dissatisfaction that I never returned his phone calls.”可知，作者的父亲对作者不给自己回电话很不满，由此可推知Exasperated意思是 “恼怒的，生气的”，故选C。

2．Why didn’t the writer reply to his father?

A．He liked text messages better.

B．He enjoyed checking his voice mail.

C．He didn’t receive any voice mail messages.

D．He didn’t want to talk with his father.

A 解析：推理判断题。根据第五段中的“‘Why are you leaving him voice mail？’my

sister asked.‘Just text him.’”可推知，作者不喜欢用语音信箱，更偏爱发短信，故选A。

3．Which of the following does the writer agree to?

A．People needn’t learn from one another in traditional societies.

B．Dealing with voice mail should vary with each individual.

C．People needn’t turn to Google for help when in trouble.

D．Declaring who you are or saying hello in texts is necessary.

B 解析：推理判断题。根据第七段的内容可推知，标准是变化的，处理方式应该因人而异，而不是一刀切，语音信箱的使用亦是如此，故选B。

4．What’s the best title of this passage?

A．Nowadays：What Should We Do with Text Messages?

B．Nowadays：Do You Like Leaving Others a Voice Message?

C．Nowadays：What Means Should We Use in Communication?

D．Nowadays：Do You Need a Thank-you Message?

C 解析：标题归纳题。根据对文章内容的整体理解可知，第三段引入本文话题，最后两段点题总结，本文主要讨论的是如今(在智能手机时代)我们应该用何种方式沟通，故选C项。

B

(2019·石家庄高三模拟)Too Good To Go is a smartphone app which allows restaurants to

sell food that would otherwise be thrown away at discount prices from as little as ￡ 2 to a

maximum of ￡ 3.80, even if the meals are sold from the very finest restaurants in the country.

Originally created in Denmark and launched in Brighton and Leeds in June, the service has

recently been introduced into the United Kingdom by a couple of young entrepreneurs(企业家)．

Millions of tons of foods are thrown in the trash every year, with restaurants accounting for a

large part, so eco­entrepreneurs Chris Wilson and Jamie Crummie came up with the good idea to

stop food waste. Using Too Good To Go not only helps restaurants save expense, but gives people in need the chance to order fancy dishes at low prices.

Too Good To Go is very convenient for users. Restaurants make food available on the Too

Good To Go app and website. People can look through the available dishes on the smartphones,

pay for them using a credit card and pick them up at a set time, an hour before closing time.

Although Too Good To Go does take a fee from restaurants for each sale, its creators say the

end goal is to use it for restaurants to solve their waste management problem, rather than making a

profit. Wilson claims, “The idea is that restaurants stop producing the extra food so they don’t

need to throw it away in the trash, and we really want to put ourselves out of business by stopping

food waste.”

Birmingham has become the latest city where restaurants can reduce food waste to the lowest

limit by working with the Too Good To Go social enterprise app.