高二英语阅读理解强化训练附解析Day 81
Passage 1
A woman from the United Arab Emirates has regained consciousness after spending 27 years in a vegetative state (植物人状态). Munira Abdulla was aged 32 when she suffered a brain injury after the car she was riding in was hit by a bus in 1991. Her son Omar revealed her fantastic recovery in an interview with The National.shift是什么意思
He described how the accident occurred when he was four years old and needed to be brought home from kindergarten. Ms Abdulla's brother-in-law drove her to school to collect Omar and the family were driving home, with mother and child in the back at, when they were hit by the bus. As the bus hit, Ms Abdulla threw herlf around her son to protect him from the impact. While she suffered a vere head injury, he escaped with just a brui. Omar described how his mother was left untreated for hours becau the family were unable to call for help and there was little traffic, before she was transferred to a clinic in London.
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There, doctors diagnod a vegetative state, meaning she was completely unresponsive but able to feel pain. She was transferred back to the UAE and put on a breathing machine and a feeding tube to keep her alive, spending the next few decades hooked up to machines. But in April 2017, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, heard of her ca and gave her family a fund for treatment. Ms Abdula was flown to Germany where she underwent surgeries to repair her muscles while being given medication to improve her sleep patterns.
Around a year later she began making strange sounds, and within three days she called out to Omar using his name, "It was her! She was calling my name, I was flying with joy；for years I have dreamed of this moment, and my name was the first word she said," he said.
1. How old was Ms Abdulla when she came to life?
A. 27. B. 28
C. 32. D. 59.
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2. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?
2018年四级试卷完整版A. People there lacked skills of first aid.
B. Omar’s uncle suffered a slight injury.
C. The traffic accident happened at a quiet place.
D. Ms Abdulla forgot the emergency phone number.
3. Why was Ms Abdulla nt to Germany?
A. To receive free treatment.
endomondo>permittivityB. To recognize her son's voice.
C. To meet Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed.
D. To have operations and improve her condition.
4. What's the text mainly about？
A. Every mother's child is an angel.
理智与情感简介B. Children are what the mothers are.
C. A mother wakes up from unconsciousness.
D. An accident makes a mother in a vegetative state speak.
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Passage 2
In a time when too much emphasis has been attached to utilitarianism (功力主义), it doesn’t come as a surpri to me that we people no longer believe in poetry. Utility is now often the standard of what one should devote his or her time and energy to and what he or she shouldn’t, but don’t get me wrong. I am not saying or stating that one should not consider utility at all when making crucial decisions. On the contrary, everyone should take it into account. Medicine, law, business and engineering, the are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance and love, the are what we stay alive for.
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My dad once told me that “life is suffering,”, which now I think is probably a unanimous (无异议的) opinion among most people. With a tough life inevitably comes a tough language---and that is what poetry is and why poetry is needed. It offers people a way to talk about the difficult-to-describe things in life, like death, suffering, profound joy and transformation. So whenever I hear someone say that poetry is not a must, or it’s an option, or it’s only for the educated middle clasd, I suspect that he or she must have had things pretty easy.
But how can people live without poetry when poetry is nothing but a cealess flow of genuine human emotions? Unlike what the academics may tell you, my suggestion about bring poetry into your lives is that don’t analyze it and don’t ask others to analyze it. Don’t deconstruct it or try to make meaning of it. Just find the poems that wake you up, that make you feel as if you’ve submerged (沉浸) yourlf in a mineral hot spring or an ice bath. Find the poems that make you feel almost irrational joy or sadness. Find the poems that make you want to roll around in them or paint their colors all over your bedroom ceiling. Tho are the poems you want to play with. Find the poems that communicate wit
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h the deepest parts your being and welcome them in.
