高一英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 162

1 高一英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 162

Passage 1

One day last summer, watching the boys and girls trying to catch butterflies I

remembered something happened when I was young. When I was a boy of 12 in South

Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild

creature in a cage.

We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening the mockingbirds would come

and rest in the trees and sing. No musician can sing more beautiful than the birds. I

decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would

have my own private musician.

I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird flew about

the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself

and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.

I had left the cage out, and on the second day my new pet’s mother flew to the cage

with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased

to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I about how to feed her baby.

The following morning when I went to see how my bird was doing, I discovered it

on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken good

care of my little bird.

Arthur Wayne, the famousornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the

time. Hearing me crying over the death of my bird, he explained what had occurred. “A

mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poisonous 2 (有毒的) berries(干果). She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in cage.”

Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living

creatures have a right to live free.

1. Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?

A. He had just got a new cage.

B. He liked its beautiful feather.

C. He wanted a pet for a companion.

D. He wanted it to sing for him.

2. The mockingbird died because it ______.

A. drank the poisonous water by mistake

B. was frightened to death

C. ate the poisonous food its mother gave it

D. refused to eat anything

3. What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?

A. Freedom is very valuable to all living things.

B. All birds put in a cage won’t live long.

C. You should keep the birds from their mother.

D. Be careful about food you give to baby birds.

Passage 2

If it really is what’s on the inside that counts, then a lot of thin people might be in

trouble. 3 Some doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding important organs like the

heart liver could be as dangerous as the external fat which can be noticed more easily.

“Being thin doesn’t surely mean you are not fat”, said Dr Jimmy Bell at Imperial

College.

Since 1994, Bell and his team have scanned nearly 800 people with MRI machines

to create “fat maps” showing where people store fat.

According to the result, people who keep their weight through diet rather than

exercise are likely to have major deposits of internal fat, even if they are slim.

Even people with normal Body Mass Index scores can have surprising levels of

fat deposits inside. Of the women, as many as 45 percent of those with normal BMI

scores (20 to 25) actually had too high levels of internal fat. Among men, the

percentage was nearly 60 percent.

According to Bell, people who are fat on the inside are actually on the edge of

being fat. They eat too many fatty and sugary foods, but they are not eating enough to

be fat. Scientists believe we naturally store fat around the belly first, but at some point,

the body may start storing it elsewhere.

Doctors are unsure about the exact dangers of internal fat, but some think it has

something to do with heart disease and diabetes (糖尿病). They want to prove that

internal fat damages the body's communication systems.

The good news is that internal fat can be easily burned off through exercise or even

by improving your diet. “If you want to be healthy, there is no shortcut. Exercise has

to be an important part of your lifestyle,” Bell said. 4 1. What is this passage mainly about?

A. Thin people may be fat inside. B. Internal fat is of no importance.

C. Internal fat leads to many diseases. D. Thin people don't have diabetes.

2. Doctors have found _____.

A. the exact dangers of internal fat

B. being slim is not dangerous at all

C. internal fat is the cause of heart disease

D. being slim doesn’t mean you are not fat inside

3. From the last paragraph, we can find that _____.

A. internal fat leading to disease has been proved

B. thin people usually have internal fat even if they are slim