落堕市安心阳光实验学校2014高考英语阅读理解训练题（5）附答案
I shall never forget the night，a few years ago，when Marion J．Douglas was a student in one of my adulteducation class. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home，not once，but twice. The first time he had lost his fiveyearold daughter. He and his wife thought they couldn’t bear that first loss；but，as he said，“Ten months later，God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”
This double bereavementclemence was almost too much to bear. “I couldn’t take it，” this father told us，“I couldn’t sleep，eat，rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone. ”At last he went to doctors；one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip，but neither helped. He said，“My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice (大钳子)，and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief (悲伤)—if you have ever been paralyzed (使瘫痪) by sorrow，you know what he meant.
will smith“But thank God，I had one child left—a fouryearold son. He gave me the solution to my p
roblem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for mylf，he asked，‘Daddy，will you build a boat for me？’ I was in no mood to build a boat；in fact，I was in no mood to do anything. But my son is a persistent little fellow！I had to give in. Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished，I realized that tho three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months！I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my ca，building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.”
“The following night，I made a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly，I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention. During the last two years I have completed most of them. I am busy so that I have no time for worry.”
No time for worry！That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities，he said，“I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”大学英语三级试题
17．The underlined word “bereavement” in the cond paragraph refers to________.
A．having lost a loved one
B．having lost a valuable article
C．having lost a profitmaking business
D．having lost a wellpaid job
18．Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice becau________.
A．he couldn’t earn enough money to support his family
B．he was suffering from sleeplessness dia
bryan
C．he couldn’t get out of mental pressure
D．he felt tired of adulteducation class
19．Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired becau________.
mary careyA．he hadn’t been able to spare time to mend them
B．he wanted to kill his free time by repairing them
C．the items had actually been broken and needed attention本拉登英文名
D．repairing the items helped crowd worry out of his mind
insulin20．At the end of the passage，the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to________.
A．prove that he followed Churchill’s example
B．support his student’s solution to his problem
sgp是哪个国家的缩写C．show that he was successful in his career
D．clarify how his conclusion was reached
(E篇) ACDB
******************************************************************结束
meghan allen高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（46）
speed upIf you are a male and you are reading this, congratulations: you are a survivor. According to statistics, you are more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer than a woman, and nine times more likely to die of AIDS. Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term, about 78 years for men in Australia, you will die on average five years before a woman.
There are many reasons for this, men take more risks than women and are more likely to drink and smoke, but perhaps more importantly, men don’t go to the doctor.
“Men aren’t eing doctors as often as they should,” says Dr. Gullotta, “This is particularly so for the over-40s, when dias tend to strike.” Gullotta says a healthy man should visit the doctor every year or two. For tho over 45,it should be at least once a year.
According to a recent survey, 95%of women aged between 15 and early 40s e a doctor
once a year, compared to 70% of men in the same age group.
“A lot of men think they are invincible （不可战胜的）”Gullotta says “They only come in when a friend drops dead on the golf cour and they think 'Dear me, if it could happen to him, …' ”
Then there is the ostrich (鸵鸟)approach, “Some men are scared of what might be there and would rather not know, ” says Dr. Ross Cartmill.“ Most men get their cars rviced more often than they rvice their bodies,” Cartmill says. He believes most dias that commonly affect men could be addresd by preventive check-ups. Regular check-ups for men would inevitably(不可避免地) place stress on the public pur. Cartmill says. “But prevention is cheaper in the long run than having to treat the dias. Besides, the final cost is far greater.”
