2014高考英语阅读理解基础练习题（35）及答案
阅读理解
Loneliness has been linked to depression（抑郁）and other health problems. Now, a study says it can also spread. A friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. And a friend of that friend was twenty-five percent more likely to do the same.
Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity(肥胖) and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups. The findings all come from a major health study in the American town of Framingham, Massachutts. union j
The study began in 1948 to investigate the caus of heart dia. Since then, more tests have been added, including measures of loneliness and depression.
The new findings involved more than five thousand people in the cond generation of the Framingham Heart Study. The rearchers examined friendship histories and reports of lon
eliness. The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer clo friends.
For example, loneliness can affect relationships between next-door neighbors. The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were clo friends now spend less time together. The study also found that loneliness spreads more easily among women than men.
The average person is said to experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year. The study found that having a lonely friend can add about venteen days. But every additional friend can decrea loneliness by two and a half days.
Lonely people become less and less trusting of others. This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friends — and more likely that society will reject（排斥）them.
John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago led the study. He says it is important to recognize and deal with loneliness. He says people who have been pushed to the edges of society should receive help to repair their social networks.
57. As an average person, if you have 2 more common friends, how many days a year might you suffer from loneliness?
A. 48 days. B. 17 days. C. 65 days. D. 43 days.
58. What can we infer from the passage about lonely people?
A. They can overcome loneliness themlves.
B. They will decrea loneliness day by day.
move like a jaggerC. They are in great need of help from people around.
D. They can help others to repair their social networks.
59. What’s the best way to help lonely people according to this passage?
A. Put them together. B. Make friends with them.
C. Help them stop smoking. D. Ask them to loo weight.
60. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Loneliness—The Cau of Depression
B. How Loneliness Can Affect Social Networks
C. Loneliness—A Serious Social Problem
D. How People Can Help A Lonely Person
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时尚的英文阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40大学英语四六级官网分）
学习催眠阅读下列短文，从每题所给的polybutylene terephthalatejenovaA、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将 该项涂黑。
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A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor hou on a hill and as she grew she would pl
ay in the small garden. There, she was able to e over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful hou high on the hill. This hou had golden windows, so golden and shining that the little girl would dream of how magic it would be to grow up and live in a hou with golden windows instead of an ordinary hou like hers. Although she loved her parents and her family, she yearned to live in such a golden hou and dreamed all day about how wonderful and exciting it must feel to live there.
When she got to an age when she gained enough skill and nsibility to go outside her garden fence, she asked her mother if she could go for a bike ride outside the gate and down the lane. After pleading with her, her mother finally allowed her to go, insisting that she should keep clo to the hou and not wander too far. The day was beautiful and the little girl knew exactly where she was heading! Down the lane and across the valley, she rode her bike until she got to the gate of the golden hou across on the other hill.
As she dismounted her bike and leaned it against the gate post, she focud on the path that led to the hou and then on the hou itlf. She was so disappointed as she realiz
ed all the windows were plain and rather dirty, reflecting nothing other than the sad neglect of the hou that was derelict.
So sad she didn't go any further and turned, and heart broken as she remounted her bike. As she glanced up she saw a sight to amaze her. There across the way on her side of the valley was a little hou and its windows glistened golden as the sun shone on her little home.
She realized that she had been living in her golden hou and all the love and care she found there was what made her home the 'golden hou'. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her no!boat的音标
26. Why did the girl long for the hou on the hill?
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