高考英语高难度阅读理解15篇（4）
1.An increa in the number of suicides in South Korea, has led policeman Yoo Byoung-jong to a new job. He patrols(巡逻) Seoul’s bridges to stop desperate people from throwing themlves into the river.
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According to South Korea’s health ministry, suicide rates have doubled in a decade and are now the leading cau of death for people in their 20s and 30s.
The country has the fourth-highest suicide rate among the 30 industrialized countries in the Organization for Co-operation and Development (OECD). It recorded 22.8 suicide deaths for every 100,000 people in 2003. That’s lower than Hungry, Finland and clo neighbour Japan. But the number is growing by about 1 percent each year, faster than for all other OECD nations.
万圣节是什么In a move to cut suicides by a fifth by 2010, the health ministry is running a television ad campaign. It opens with a lonely man walking on a bridge. A voice over says: “Think five minutes more before you give it all away. Don’t forget you have a loving family.”
Other ministry plans include tting up more hotlines and training more suicide couponcounlors. Authorities are also limiting websites that provide suicide methods and sometimes even ll toxic(有毒的) chemicals.
Distresd individuals range from students worried about poor grades to people in debt as well as disgraced politicians.
E爱无处不在xperts say the rising toll(死亡人数) in some way can be blamed on media coverage of recent high-profile suicides. bidyThe include top business leaders and celebrities(名人) who apparently lead a number of people to copy their actions.
“We saved 50 lives this year when people turned to bridges as a place to die after news reports of such deaths by ‘big shots’,” said the 38-year-oldYoo, in December.
Last July, the government and civil associations urged media to avoid reporting specific methods and locations of suicides. But it is difficult to clearly give reasons for the suicide increa.
67. The passage is mainly about .
A. suicide problems in Korea B. how to reduce suicides in Korea
C. desperation D. the relations between life and suicide
the cup of life68. Suicide rates in South Korea .
A. have done great harm to the economical development
B. are going from bad to wor
C. didn’t draw special attention of the government
D. arou international concerns
69. It doesn’t say but implies that .
A. prent hotlines are not enough for suicide counllors
B. people choo suicide as the way to end their lives becau they are short of love
C. cutting suicides by a fifth by 2010 is easy to carry out
D. authorities manage websites efficiently
70. Lowering the number of reported suicide by celebrities in the media in Korea .
A. will be limited
B. didn’t affect people’s daily life
C. might cau fewer people to commit suicide
D. damage the fame of media
71. Yoo Byoung-jong’s new job to patrol Seoul’s bridge has .
A. made him suffer a lot
B. prevented people from jumping into water
C. burdened himlf
D. proved a good way to save lives
2. The city of Venice，in Italy，is one of a kind．It is built on more than 120 islands，just off arrival．After explaining where my new hou was，I told him that I had left the key under the doormat．Since I knew it would be quite late before I could get back，I suggested that be make himlf at home and help himlf to anything that was kept in the refrigerator（冰箱）．
Two hours later my friend phoned me from the hou．At the moment，he said，he was listening to some of my records after having had a nice meal．He had found the pan and meat in the refrigerator．Now，he was drinking a cup of tea and hoped that I would join him soon．When I asked him if he bad any difficulty finding the hou，he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat，but luckily，the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the window．I listened to all this in great surpri．There is no apple tree outside my window，but there is one by the living room window of my next-door neighbor’s hou！
46．When my friend arrived，I could not go to meet him becau________warranty．
A．we were not good friends B．I was busy at work
指责英文 C．he had not told me that he would come D．I did not want to e him
47．A doormat is a mat______．
A．ud as a door B．for cleaning the bottom of shoes
C. put up on a door as an ornament（装饰物）
D．near a door under which people put their keys
围棋 英文48复仇第三季．I listened to my friend’s phone call in great surpri becau____．
A．he had not waited for me to eat together
B．he had eaten too much of the food
C．he mistook my neighbor’s hou for mine
D．he had left the hou with the window open
49．At last my friend______．
A．did not enter my hou
B．entered my hou after he opened the door
C．entered my hou by climbing through the window
D．entered my hou with the help of my neighbor
