⾼考英语阅读理解强化训练Day48
⾼考英语阅读理解强化训练Day 48
Passage 1
For some people, walking or running outdoors is a great way to work out. What may not be so pleasant is eing trash all over the ground. Well, some people are doing something about it. They are plogging!
“Plogging” began in Sweden. The name combines the Swedish word “plocka,” which means to pick up, and the word Jogging, which means to run slowly. A Swedish man named Erik, started the movement in 2016. On the World Environment Day website, Erik says that he moved to Stockholm from a small community in northern Sweden each day he would ride his bike to work. Concerned about the amount of trash and litter he saw each day on his way to work, he took matters into his own hands.
Plogging, by that term, may have officially begun in Sweden. But many people who exerci outdoors have been doing this for years. Take Jeff Horowitz for example. He is a personal trainer in Washington, D. C. He often picks up trash while running outside. He even has turned it into a game; he will try to pick up the trash without stopping. “I didn’t know it was a thing really. This is just my personal ethics (道
德标准), where I go for a run and if I happen to e a piece of garbage lying around and it’s within reach — it is a kind of a little test for me to e if I can grab it and throw it in a near trash can without stopping. And that way, I think, it gives me a little exerci and a little focus for my run. And it helps clean up the neighborhood,” he announced. Today, logging is an official activity, one that is becoming increasingly popular. Cities around the world now hold logging events, “I would just hope people would think twice before dropping a garbage on the ground. We have containers. . . ems on every block. So, it’s easy to put your garbage in the trash cans. I just think people should think about it a little bit more. I do hope one day there will not be a need for plogging. ” said an interviewee.
1. Which of the following can replace the underlined phra “took matters into his own hands”?
A. called on people to join him.
B. appealed to people to go green.
C. began to pick up the trash.
D. had the collected trash recycled.
2. Like Jeff Horowitz, logging to many people has become a(an) ________ act.
A. automatic
B. irresistible
C. arbitrary
D. temporary
3. What is the idea that Logging events are meant to promote?
A. Jogging is truly beneficial.
B. Trash cans should be within reach.
C. Littering is not acceptable.
D. Communities should be kept clean.
4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A. New Exerci Enjoys unbelievable popularity
B. New Exerci Trend Also Helps Environment
C. Plogging — a Fashionable Way to clear waste
D. Plogging — an Exerci Originating in Sweden
Passage 2
Five days a week, 28’year’old Ebony Smith arrives at Changing Gears Bike Shop at 10:, ten minutes before opening. Walking into the shop, she turns on the lights, opens the register, and reviews the repair orders. For the next veral hours she will repair bikes with professional skill and care, and guide customers through bike choices like an experienced rider, learning about their needs and preferences, and helping them to find the perfect fit.
Although Smith had almost no experience riding a bike and didn't even enjoy riding one when she first came to Changing Gears, she has stayed in the position for nearly a decade now, and her customers are thankful to her heartfelt assistance. What's more, many of the shop visitors are youth from families living in low’income housing named Alameda Point. Smith lived in this neighborhood throughout her childhood, and to the youngsters and families she is a positive role model—someone determined to succeed in spite of educational and financial struggles.
When she first began at Changing Gears at 19 years old, Smith was living with her parents, who struggled to make a living. She had failed to earn a high school diploma when she didn't pass California's high school exit exam. However, when a three’month
job training position opened at the bike shop in 2008, Smith took a chance to, as she says, "turn her life around". She signed up and was quickly hired.
Smith is just one of the thousands of Changing Gears' employees around the world, and her continued success at Changing Gears embodies the shop's duty to "operate a bicycle’bad social enterpri that meets the needs of the underprivileged of our local area".
In addition, the shop has a strong environmental focus, which includes bicycle reu and recycling. Throughout the years Changing Gears has also engaged youth and families in bicycle field trips and provided free bicycle parking and repair rvice at local farmers' markets in order to encourage bike riding as a practical and green form of transportation.
Through its blending(协调) of effective small business practices with a social and environmental duty, Changing Gears stays inspired to u bicycles as a vehicle for social change.
1. What can we learn about Ebony Smith?________
A. She is a bike shop owner.
B. She is a professional rider.
C. She has a good knowledge of bikes.
D. She has a lot of shopping experience.
2. What helped Ebony Smith get into the career?________
A. Family support.
B. Personal interest.
C. Training opportunity.
D. High school education.
3. What does the underlined word "embodies" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?________
A. Be an example of.
B. Be the reason for.
C. Be similar to.
D. Be modeled after.
4. Which of the following is Changing Gears' duty?________
A. Making bike donations.
B. Offering help to the poor people.
C. Improving bike’riding techniques.
D. Drawing people's attention to bike enterpris.
Passage 3
"When I grow up, I want to be a runner." The words are spoken by thousands of Kenyan children. 50 percent of the Kenyan top runners are members of Kalenjin, one minority race of the country. They make up less than two percent of Kenya's population. This fact has puzzled sports scientists. T
hey have spent considerable time and effort trying to answer one question: What enables the Kalenjin people to run so fast?
Although the question ems simple, finding the answer has proven to be difficult and controversial. A team of Danish sports scientists spent 18 months and discovered the Kalenjins had remarkably slow heart rates even when running long distances. The Kalenjins live in high’elevation(⾼海拔) villages in the Rift Valley in western Kenya. People living at high elevations produce more red blood cells, which aid in the transport of oxygen throughout the body. Becau the air is thinner and contains less oxygen at high elevations, the body produces more red blood cells. Scientists believe there is a connection between incread red blood cells and low heart rates and that both may enable high’altitude athletes to outperform tho who train at low altitudes. The Danish scientists also studied the bodies of the Kalenjins and compared them to tho of the Danes. They found that the Kalenjins have longer "birdlike" legs. The Kalenjins also have lower body mass indexes (a measure of body fat bad on weight and height) and shorter bodies than Danish people.
As a result of the Danish study, some scientists made the conclusion that the Kalenjins posss what is called a "speed gene(基因)". However, Kenyan runners were offended by this conclusion. They credited their success to hard work and endless hours of training.
Although the controversy over the "speed gene" remains unsolved, British runner Mo Farah's experience offers an interesting perspective on the subject. In 2005, he realized he wasn't meeting his potential as a runner. A group of Kenyan runners were training in England then. After he accidentally obrved the Kenyans' strict training routines and dedication to their sport, Farah said it was like a switch had been turned on in his head. He began eating healthy foods, going to bed early, and training harder than he had ever trained in his life. As a result, Farah's running career exploded. He has won ven world and Olympic titles in the 5000m and regularly beats Kenya's top runners!
Farah's story proves what Kenyans have known all along. Regardless of genetics, their success would not be possible without hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and mental toughness. Their "cret" is simple. Train hard, run fast, and never give up.
1. What interested the sports scientists?________
A. Kenyan sports history.
B. Kanlenjins' running ability.
C. Kanlenjins' training methods.
D. Kenyans' enthusiasm for sport.
2. According to Danish scientists, what leads to the Kanlenjins' success?________
A. Physical condition.
B. Living style.
C. Hard training.
D. Strong will.
3. How did Kenyan runners think about Danish rearch result?________
A. Convincing.
B. Unacceptable.
C. Astonishing.
D. Important.
4. Why is Mo Farah's story menetioned in the passage?________
A. To show running methods count.
B. To encourage British athletes.
C. To prove effort pays off.
D. To support gene theory.
Passage 4
Every person plans to run off to some tropical isle, but few do. Real life, family, work, and monetary limitations get in the way. Ian Fleming let none of the
considerations stop him.
After the war, Fleming t down his schedule. The first week of January saw him leave England and travel to Jamaica. The first week of March saw his return. He accepted his job at Kemsley newspapers without compromi — this portion of the year would be t aside for Jamaica or he would look elwhere for employment.
For 6 years Fleming traveled each winter to Jamaica, lounging in paradi, romancing women, chasing the sunt, but it was not until he faced the pressure of a married woman who was pregnant with his child did Fleming start the writer’s journey which would change his life and popular culture forever. As Fleming waited in Jamaica for Anne’s divorce to become final, he wrote the first draft of a novel, Casino Royale.
Fleming’s career as a writer derves more examination than can be offered here, but suffice it to say, over the next 12 years, Ian Fleming transformed his elite existence, his arrogance, his style, and his acid wit into some of the greatest thrillers ever written. Fleming incurred the respect of authors as diver as Raymond Chandler, Kingsley Amis, and Edith Sitwell. His fans included John, Jackie, and Bobby Kennedy, and his social circle included Prime Minister Anthony Eden, Evelyn Waugh, and Somert Maugham.
Fleming filled out the 12 years of Bond with great adventure journalism. Even in stories which had little action or pay off, such as his short non-fiction book, The Diamond Smugglers, the “Fleming-flair” ensured exciting reading. He wrote the “Atticus”column for the Sunday Times, proving a wonderful conduit for inside intelligence information, and clever rebukes(指责). Regardless of book sales or family obligations, Fleming managed to live the life he wanted. As the years pasd, his passion for
golfing incread so he took more time with it. Fleming’s long-term fascination with America grew, so he traveled there more often.
Ian Fleming’s full life caught up with him through his heart. It may be that years of drinking and smoking took their toll, or that the butter-rich cooking Fleming loved
was the culprit. Or maybe it was just genetics. Whatever the cau, Fleming’s health declined in the late 1950s. This plus anxieties in the marriage incread Fleming’s depression. With the success of Bond, the world came knocking at Fleming’s door, and he had a harder time shutting tho out that he did not want in his life.
Nonetheless, Fleming fought the loosing battle of his weakening heart by throwing more fuel on the fire. He continued to drink and smoke, making some excus but not many. He wrote books he wanted to read, and traveled the world with style and authority. By this time, Fleming had already earned his own fortune, created his own identity, and ruled his own literary empire.
1. According to the cond paragraph, Fleming accepted the job offered by Kemsley newspaper __________.
A. and had to give up his yearly holiday plan to Jamaica
B. becau he was offered to work in Jamaica every winter
C. so that he wouldn’t have to look for employment elwhere
D. on condition that he took two months off to Jamaica every year
2. What led Fleming follow the path of writing?
A. His dream to be a writer.
B. The pressure from a woman.
C. His potential for literature.
D. His state of health.
3. When he began writing, Fleming never expected that __________.
A. he would change popular culture
B. he could get over the pressure
C. Anne would have a divorce
D. Anne would keep his child
4. Fleming’s thrillers reflected his __________.
A. n for popular culture
B. relationship with Anne
C. own personalities
D. life at Jamaica
5. The fact that “Fleming filled out the 12 years of Bond with great adventure journalism” shows that __________.
A. Fleming took up journalism when he finished Bond’s adventures
B. Fleming put Bond through many thrilling adventures
C. Fleming described Bond as an adventurous journalist
D. Fleming experienced Bond’s adventures when he was a journalist
6. According to the passage, Fleming died of __________.
A. an unidentified reason
B. a dia of the heart
C. an unknown family dia
D. over drinking and smoking
Passage 5
There’s a world of difference between a horror movie and a comedy—the former scares you half to death while the latter leaves you rolling on the floor with laughter. But try watching them without the background music and you just might decide they’re not so different after all. Music and movies have been cloly connected since the beginning of the film industry—even before the voices of actors were recorded. In movies, music helps to provide a n of time and place, convey ideas about the characters and, most importantly, draw emotions out of the audience.
Studies have long shown that our heart rates and anxiety levels ri and fall depending on the speed of the music we hear. Using this knowledge, compors u sudden changes in film music speed to create fear among audiences. Slowing the speed of the music will have the opposite effect, bringing about a n of peace or a dreamlike quality. The u of dissonant(不和谐的) tones and nois is another technique that heightens tension. Humans naturally become unnerved when we hear dissonant sounds becau such nois are usually associated with danger, like tho that animals make to warn against predators(捕⾷者).
As crucial as it is, the best film music is subtle. All that audiences are suppod to feel is a heightened n of emotion—they shouldn’t realize what’s causing it. Only when the music is taken out of the film should audiences understand its effects. In keeping with this principle, some filmmakers are even using what’s called
“infrasound”(次声波) to arou fear. While we may not be able to hear it becau its frequency is below the range of the human ear, infrasound has been proven to cau anxiety, tremble and even sorrow. For example, infrasound was ud in the soundtrack of the 2007 horror movie Paranormal Activity, and audiences repod extremely high fear levels despite the 1ack of action throughout the movie. “It doesn’t affect everyone equally,” said British science writer Philip Ball, author of The Music
Instinct, but he predicted that “we will e more of it ud in movies in the future”.
1. What is the difference between a horror movie and a comedy?
