课下天天练(三十六) 50分阅读提分练
姓名________ 班级________ 考号________ 时间：40分钟
阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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
[2022·大连高三测试]
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers are a vital part of our mission of providing highquality environmental educational programmes for the local youth, Hudson River rearch, and community events. We are currently eking volunteers for the following positions：
•Education Assistant—Assist education staff with everyday school work, afterschool environmental clubs and community group visits every Wednesday afternoon.
•Marsh (沼泽) Assistant—Help maintain riverfront marsh on Thursdays and Saturdays. Work on occasional marsh repairs including the removal of foreign species of plants and the cleanup of rubbish. (Seasonal)
•Rearch Assistant—Participate in water quality monitoring, the a life study, and other projects as they are developed. Eight hours each week on workdays.
•Aquaria (水族馆) Assistant—Provide care for the center's collection of aquatic wildlife including tank maintenance and animal feeding at the weekend.
Volunteer positions are available throughout the year! Previous experience is not required.
Training will be provided upon the start of volunteer rvice. For more information about our volunteer programs as well as singleday volunteer events, call (914) 3771900 or visit
www. centerfortheurbanriver. org.
1．What does the Education Assistant need to do?
A．Help with school routine.
B．Give lectures after school.
C．Coach students in sports clubs.
D．Visit poor students' communities.
2．If you are busy on weekdays, which volunteer position is probably suitable for you?
A．Education Assistant. B．Marsh Assistant.
C．Rearch Assistant. D．Aquaria Assistant.
3．What's required to be one of the volunteers?
A．Working experience.
B．Academic training.
C．Concern for the environment.
D．Aroundtheclock availability.
B
[2022·河北高三六校联考]Not long ago, Linda Khan was sitting by a hospital bed in Houston, feeling ill at ea. Beside her lay her father who needed heart surgery. The two of them had engaged in nothing but depressing small talk. Then, her eyes fell on a pile of books. She picked up one, and started to read it out loud. “Right away it changed the mood and atmosphere，” she says. Reading gave the daughter a way to connect with her father. Listening allowed the father to travel on the sound of his daughter's voice into a place where he felt himlf again. “From then on，” Khan says, “I always read to him.”
In a 2010 survey in the United Kingdom, elderly adults who joined weekly readaloud groups reported better concentration, less anxiety, and an improved ability to socialize. T
he survey authors owed the improvements in large part to the “rich, varied diet of rious literature” that group members consumed, with fiction encouraging feelings of relaxation and calm, poetry fostering focud concentration, and narratives giving ri to cognitive (认知的) thoughts, feelings, and memories. In truth, almost any kind of reading to another person can be beneficial.
Readers get rewards too. For Neil Bush, the latelife hospitalization of his famous parents, George H．W. and Barbara Bush, became opportunities to repay a debt of gratitude. “When I was a kid, they would read to me，” he said. With his parents in and out of care, “We've been reading books about Dad's foreign policy and, more recently, Mom's autobiography.” Bush went on, his voice thick with emotion, “And to read their amazing life to them has been a remarkable blessing to me, personally, as their son.”
To many people, reading to parents may em so far outside the normal range of regular activities, and it may even feel odd and improper. However, there are still many people who brave the momentary strangeness of reading to elderly adults and both readers and listeners are, to borrow a phra from Wordsworth, surprid by the joy of it.
4．What did reading offer to Linda and her father?
A．A way to establish a bond.
B．A way to travel together in reality.
C．A way to treat the dia.
D．A way to engage in learning.
5．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．Improvements in mental health.
B．Benefits of reading to others.
C．Changes in the cognitive process.
D．Development of social skills.
6．What does Neil Bush's experience prove?
A．Reading benefits more than the listener.
B．Parents should read more to their kids.
C．Children should show their gratitude.
D．Reading to parents is children's duty.
7．How does the author feel about reading to an elderly adult?
A．Improper and odd.
B．Abnormal but worthy.
C．Rewarding and joyful.
D．Interesting but unnecessary.
C
[2022·青岛高中质量检测]Nobody wants to snack on plastic bags or soda rings, but according to a recent study from the University of Newcastle, we could be consuming roughly a credit card's worth of plastic every week.
