2022高考英语二轮强化练习—阅读理解40
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that he planned to give away almost all of his vast fortune , largely to the cau of global health , during the cour of his lifetime . With an estimated（估量）worth of more than $ 40 billion , according to Forbes , the project will be no small feat （功绩）for Gates . Having already provided the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $ 24 billion to address global health issues , Gates said that eventually his entire fortune will be put towards the cau except “a few percent left for the kids.”
So what has made the richest man in the world to channel his resources so heavily into one interest ? Gates believes that “the equality of opportunity” in which Americans take such pride needs to extend to other nations around the world . Improving the health of the populations , he says , has proven to be an esntial method in helping poor countries to be financially successful . “National borders allow inequalities ,” said Gates : “We all need to take a more global view , rather than just saying my country is doing well . We have to st
ep up the health issues , knowing how few resources are going into them .”
Gates said that both his parents t an example for him as a child . His father , William H. Gates , was the head of the local Planned Parenthood , and his mother , Mary , volunteered for the United Way . As he gathered his fortune , Gates knew he would eventually want to give back as well , but he didn’t expect to devote himlf whole-heartedly to one project until he was about 60.
However , Gates , 47 , began to question his ability to wait that long . “It emed there was a real time urgency,” Gates said . “I started to think , How many lives could I save before then ?”
56．Bill Gates will give away his vast fortune to 狗钻洞 .
A．improve the health of population in America alone
B．improve the health of population all over the world
C．avoid leaving his children too much money
D．spare the American government the burden of health care
57．Bill Gates believes that one important way of developing poor countries is .
A．to t up more foundations for them B．to aid them with natural resources
C．to put more effort into the health issues in them
D．to help them take a more global view
58．It can be learned from the text that Bill Gates thinks .
A．羡慕的Americans should care about people in other countries
B．纸上得来终觉浅全诗Americans should treat fellow citizens well
C．Americans should devote themlves to certain projects
D．Americans can be world-famous by giving away vast fortune
59．Bill Gates gave away his vast fortune earlier than he had expected becau of 生日快乐英语怎么说 .
A．his weakening health condition B．his parents’ suggestions
吴吟 C．his great success in business D．his concerns for suffering people
B
An unlucky Singaporean thief picked up six years of hard labor after the unique（专门的）ring of the mobile phone he stole led police straight to him . Pretending to be a police detective , Rahman Magundario robbed two teenagers in a park , told them to turn their backs and stole the $140 phone , court documents show . If he had chon another target （目标）in the mobile mad city state , he might have got off the hook . His number was up a short while later when the victim（受害人）heard the characteristic tune he had programmed into the phone . An unsuspecting buyer , who paid $70 in a coffee shop for what he thought was Magundario’s mobile , pointed police to the thief . The 39-year-old was ntenced for threatening the teenagers and pretending a police officer . “He got six years of corrective training ,” a court official said. “It’s wor than a prison ntence.”
60．The police caught the thief without any difficulty mainly becau .
A．the buyer pointed police to the thief B．the thief pretended a police officer
C．the ring of the stolen mobile phone was different from that of others
D．the thief robbed two teenagers in a park
61．It can be learned from the text that Magundario .
A．stole the phone for money B．sold the mobile phone for its unique ring
C．pretended a police officer becau he looked like解暑饮料 a policeman
D．was ntenced six years in prison
62．What can be inferred from the story ?
A．Many people in the city have mobile phones .
B．The thief would rather pick up six years of hard labor .
C．The thief would have escaped being caught if he hadn’t sold the stolen phone .
D．The police recognized the thief when they heard the ring .
63．By saying “His number was up a short while later” , the writer means .
A．the thief knew the mobile phone number soon afterwards
凉拌蕨菜B．the thief lost his luck before long
C．the thief forgot the mobile phone number a moment later
昆虫怎么画D．someone dialed the mobile phone number at that time
C
How might you drag a good writer’s work down to the level of a scribe （抄写员）? Try the spell-check button . A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check soft-ware may level the playing field between people with differing levels of language skills , hampering （阻碍）the work of writers and editors who place too much trust in the software . In the study , 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread（校对）a on
e-page business letter—half of them using Microsoft Word with red and green lines underlining potential errors（潜在错误）. The other half did it the old-fashioned way , using only their heads . Without grammar or spelling software , students with higher SAT scores made , on average , 5 errors , compared with 12.3 errors for students with lower scores . Using the software , students with higher scores reading the same page made , on average , 16 errors , compared with 17 errors for students with lower scores . Dennis Galletta , a professor of information systems at the Katz Business School , said spell-check software is so sophisticated that some have come to trust it too thoroughly . “It’s not a software problem , it’s a behavior problem,” he said . Microsoft technical specialist Tim Pash said grammar and spelling technology is meant to help writers and editors , not solve all their problems . The study found the software helped students find and correct errors in the letter , but in some cas they also changed phras or ntences marked by the software as grammatically suspicious （可疑的）, even though they were correct .
