江苏省2020届⾼三下学期4-5⽉英语试卷精选汇编：阅读理解专题
阅读理解专题
根据（盐城市三模、南通市5⽉阶段性练习、淮安市5⽉调研、扬州5⽉调研、南京市六校联合体5⽉联考、南京市⼗校5⽉调研、苏锡常镇四市4⽉教学情况调查⼀、南京师⼤附中4⽉检测、南通市基地学校第⼆次⼤联考、常熟市2020届⾼三阶段性抽测三、如皋市模拟⼆）英语试卷汇编⽽成
盐城市三模
重庆到昆明机票第三部分阅读理解(共15⼩题；每⼩题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短⽂，从短⽂后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂⿊。
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C. Chances to interview professionals in person.
D. Sessions of eking inspirations for a better life.
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A. How to live your truth and thrive.
B. Is money ruining your relationship?
C. Why being brave matters.
D. Make your dreams a reality.
B
Since the end of its own space shuttle program in 2011, the US has ud Russian Soyuz spacecraft every time it wants to transport humans to and from space. While NASA is busy working on its own solution, the agency has increasingly turned to US private companies, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX,
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to meet its off-planet transportation needs. Although SpaceX has successfully flown cargo （货物）flights for NASA since 2012 via the reusable Dragon spacecraft, the company has yet to launch humans in its so-called Crew Dragon capsule. Originally scheduled to launch in 2017, the program has en multiple delays. After all, it is rocket science and the path has not been easy.
But 2019 emed different. NASA's pre-purchad Soyuz flights had run out by the end of 2019, and SpaceX, along with Boeing, had scheduled all its final tests to achieve certification in time to pick up where Soyuz left off. On March 2, the Crew Dragon capsule was launched on a run without crew toward the International Space Station （ISS）. The flight, known as Demo-1, went successfully.
The next major milestone scheduled was the in-flight abort test （飞⾏中⽌测试），another dry mission meant to test the reliability of the abort system that would save the crew in ca of any accident during launch. The plan was to u the same capsule from the Demo-1 flight. But SpaceX never got the chance.
In April 2019, the company ran what was suppod to be a routine test, firing certain rockets with the capsule anchored firmly to the ground. Some 100 milliconds before the engines fired, a leak of oxidizer caud an explosion that completely destroyed the capsule.
SpaceX spent the rest of spring and early summer figuring out what had gone wrong and pushing preparations for a replacement capsule. While the problem is now solved and the Crew Dragon spacecraft for Demo-2 has arrived at the launch site, NASA and SpaceX haven't t an exact date for the first test flight with astronauts to the ISS.
58. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. US tends to continue reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecrafts.
B. SpaceX can cover all NASA's off-planet transportation needs.
C. NASA has not cead developing its space travel technology.
D. Russia and SpaceX are competing for US space transportation.
59. The underlined word “dry" in Paragraph 3 is clost in meaning to _______ .
A. without crew
B. without cargo
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C. without a capsule.
D. without fuels
60. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. A Ray of Hope for Space Exploration
B. The Rough Road to Launching A Dragon
C. Opportunities for Elon Musk's SpaceX
D. Doubts about Off-planet Transportation
C
There are times when I t off for my running-group ssions with little enthusiasm. It might be becau I'm tired, or stresd, or have had to unwillingly tear mylf away from something el. I'm the coach, so I can't choo to give it a miss.
It was yet another cold, dark, wet evening and I wasn't feeling the love as I gathered all the necessar
y outfits—head torch, reflective waterproof jacket, hat and gloves. No one in their right mind will come out in this weather, I thought. But when I turned into the car park, my headlights picked out runners making a dash through the rain to our meeting point, where others were already working out to stay warm, with chat, laughter and hugs. They, too, I realized, might be tired, stresd or busy. But, unlike me, they had a choice about whether to come running or stay at home. And that makes their decision to come——and to keep on coming—all the more uplifting. As on so many other occasions, I went home from the run feeling better than when I'd arrived.
I believe one of the strongest motivations behind the runners' decisions to come along is being part of a group. Belonging to a running community makes running greater than the sum of its parts. It's no longer just a workout; it's a catch-up with friends, a laugh and a shared experience. It provides a space to share your running triumphs and disappointments, to be congratulated and comforted, and, just as important, to congratulate and comfort others.
Rearch has long shown the likelihood of staying motivated is higher when exerci takes place in a group. The reasons are many. A study at the University of Southern California found people enjoy physical activity more when they are with others and are more likely to keep it up over the long term. There's also an element of social facilitation—an "I'm not going to let XX beat me" attitude that drives
you to push harder and produces a greater n of achievement. And rearch by Strava in 2017 found running in a group made runners go faster and further. Using data from 90 million runs taking place all over the world, Strava found that the average pace of runs taking place in a group was ven conds per mile quicker than solo runs, and the distance covered was an
average of 1.3 miles further.
I joke about people being more motivated to come to my running ssions by the tea and biscuits afterwards than by the running itlf. There's probably some truth in that, but it doesn't matter. Tho laughter- and chatter-filled minutes are every bit as important as the running in between.
61. The author sometimes feels _______ t o go coaching the running group.
A. reluctant
B. content
C. excited
D. frustrated
62. Why is being part of a group most motivational?
B. It creates space to socialize with others.
C. It inspires members to beat their records.
D. It frees runners from boring daily routines.
63. That being in a group promotes performance is proven by _______ .
A. citing a typical example
B. listing accurate statistics
C. performing an experiment
D. sharing his own experiences
64. Tea and biscuits in running ssions are meant to _______ .
A. attract more runners from other groups
B. build up some strength before running
C. make his running group stand out of all
D. add more life to their running experience
D
At the end of the 19th century, one in ven people around the world had died of tuberculosis or TB for short （肺结
核），and the dia ranked as the third leading cau of death in the United States. While physicians had begun to accept that TB was caud by bacteria, this understanding was slow to catch on among the general public, and most people gave little attention to the behaviors that contributed to dia transmission. They didn't understand that things they did could make them sick. It was common for family members, or even strangers, to share a drinking cup.
In the 1890s the New York City Health Department launched a massive campaign to educate the public and reduce transmission. The "War on Tuberculosis" public health campaign discouraged cup-sharing and urged states to ban spitting inside public buildings and on sidewalks and in other ou
公司资本制度tdoor spaces. Changes in public behavior helped successfully reduce the spread of TB.
Dia can permanently change society, and often for the best by creating better practices and habits. Crisis ts off action and respon. Many infrastructure improvements and healthy behaviors we consider normal today are the result of past health campaigns that responded to rious outbreaks.
In the 19th century, city streets in the U.S. overflowed with dirt. People threw their unwanted newspapers, food scraps, and other trash out of their windows onto the streets below. The plentiful hors pulling streetcars and delivery carts dropped urine and waste every day. Human waste was a problem, too. Tho in tenement （租户）housing did not have their own facilities, but had 25 to 30 people sharin g a single outhou. The toilets frequently overflowed until workers known as “night soil men" arrived to deal with waste, only to dump it into the nearby harbor.
As city and health leaders began to understand that the frequent outbreaks of TB that swept across their cities were connected to the garbage, cities began tting up organized systems for handling human waste. Indoor toilets were slow to catch on, due to the cost and need of a plumbing system. Improvements in technology helped the process along. Following Thomas Clapper's improved model
in 1891, water clots became popular, first among the wealthy, and then among the middle-class. Plumbing systems, paired with tenement hou reform, helped remove waste from the public streets. Dia greatly improved aspects of American culture, too. As physicians came to believe that
good ventilation(通风）)and fresh air could help fight illness, builders started adding porches and windows to hous. Real estate investors ud the trend to market migration to the West, encouraging Eastern physicians to convince TB patients and their families to move thousands of miles from crowded, dirty Eastern cities to the dry air and sunshine in places like Los Angeles and Colorado Springs.
Some of this influence continues today. While we know that sunshine doesn't kill bacteria, good ventilation and time spent outside does benefit children and adults by promoting physical activity and improving spirits. This fresh-air "cure" also eventually transformed the study of climate into a formal science, as people began to chart temperature, barometric pressure and other weather patterns in hopes of identifying the "ideal" conditions for treating dia.
Public health emergencies have inspired innovations in education. Starting in 1910, Thomas Edison'
s lab, which had invented one of the first motion picture devices in the 1890s, cooperated with anti-tuberculosis activists to produce short films on TB prevention and transmission—some of the first educational movies. Screened in public places in rural areas, the TB movies were also the first films that viewers had ever en.
As we are eing with the coronavirus today, dia can impact a community——changing routines and shaking nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics extend beyond the moments in which they occur.
65. According to Paragraph 1, what might have led to the outbreak of TB in the US?
A. Limited access to treatment
B. Incompetence of the physicians.
C. Unhealthy living habits.
D. Poor governmental administration.
66. What result did the “War on Tuberculosis” achieve?
北京的特色美食A. The gap between the rich and the poor widened.
B. It contributed to changes in public behavior.
C. Tuberculosis totally disappeared in New York.
D. Citizens finally found a cure for tuberculosis.
67. If you had been in a US city street then, you would have probably en _______ .
A. more hors traveling on roads than pedestrians
B. lifeless patients infected with TB on every street
C. dirty surroundings where bacteria were easy to spread
D. unfair discrimination from the rich against the poor
68. Why was it slow for water clots to become popular?
A. They were too expensive for the poor to obtain.
B. There were many drawbacks of the early models.
C. They often overflowed and caud inconvenience.
D. People in tenement hous resisted such a device.
69. What was the change in American population migration then?
A. The vast majority of urban citizens moved to the West.
B. More people lived in the West than tho in the East.
C. Many fled to rural areas with good ventilation and fresh air.
D. Patients and their family were encouraged to move westwards.
70. Which of the following effects TB brought remains nowadays?
A. The benefits of outdoor activities are widely acknowledged.
B. People adopt the habit of regular temperature-taking.
雪山泪C. Films have become the primary way to educate people.
D. Ideal conditions for treating dia have been defined.
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答案：
56-57 DC
58-60 CAB
61-64 ABBD
65-70 CBCBDA
解析：
A 篇介绍了⼀个启发频道，分别有四个主要版块，针对不同的⼈在⽣活上会遇到的问题来给
出建议提升⽣活。56 题较难，学⽣可能会抓错重点，误选D。
第56 题D 此_r_n_ _l_题为易错题，关键在于对ssion ⼀词的理解，ssion 表⽰会议期间，开会期间，或者培训期间，这⾥应该表⽰⼀段视频的播出时间，D 选项的ek inspirations for a better life 与原⽂第⼆段的we’ve got practical advice to help you live a life you love.
