专题07 阅读理解（ 夹叙夹议类）
【母题来源】2021年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（天津卷）英语笔试（第一次）
【母题题文】
About five weeks ago, I noticed the skin of our pet lizard was growing dusty. It worried me. I reported the strange surface on the skin of the lizard to my husband and children the next morning. Seconds later, our lizard emerged from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.
I didn't think about it much until a morning last week when I knocked my favorite teapot off the table. It burst into hundreds of pieces. As I swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.
The destruction started three months ago. It was my husband's birthday. He had just lost his job. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special.
“Let's make a cake for Dad!” I cried.
My kids screamed with joy. We baked, iced and sprinkled for most of the day. Candles on the cake! Balloons on the walls! Flowers on the table!
Two hours before my husband came back home from another job interview, my daughter climbed up to grab a glass va from a high shelf. It fell and crashed beside the cake. Tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. She sobbed loudly as I threw the cake away. My husband had banana pudding for his birthday.
Three days ago, the light in our living room suddenly went out. After veral frustrating hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary ries The Last Dance.
The poignancy of Jordan retiring from his beloved basketball to play baball and what had pushed him to make such a tough decision took me by surpri. As I watched him take off his basketball uniform and replace it with a baball uniform, I saw him leaving b
ehind the layer that no longer rved him, just as our lizard had. Neither of them cho the moment that had transformed them. But they had to live with who they were after everything was different. Just like us. I realized that we have to learn to leave the past behind.
Humans do not shed skin as easily as other animals. The beginning of change is uptting. The process is tiring. Damage changes us before we are ready. I e our lizard, raw and nearly new.
Jordan said that no matter how it ends, it starts with hope. With our tender, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.
40. What can we learn about the pet lizard from Paragraph 1?
A. Its tank grew dirty. B. Its old skin came off.
C. It got a skin dia. D. It went missing.
41. Why did the author's husband have banana pudding for his birthday?
A. The birthday cake was ruined. B. The author made good puddings.
C. Pudding was his favorite desrt. D. They couldn't afford a birthday cake.
42. Why does the author mention The Last Dance in the passage?
A. To prove a theory. B. To define a concept.
C. To develop the theme. D. To provide the background.
43. The underlined part "leaving behind the layer" in Paragraph 8 can be understood as .
A. letting go of the past B. looking for a new job
C. getting rid of a bad habit D. giving up an opportunity
44. What does the author most likely want to tell us?
A. Love of family helps us survive great hardships. B. It's not the end of the world if we
break things.
C. We should move on no matter what happens. D. Past experiences should be treasured.
1.衡水中学2020—2021学年度上学期高三年级七调考试
I'd been asked to go to an editor's office with the old program “We have a story we think you'd be perfect for”. Here was the topic: We want you to write about how middle-aged men have no friends. Seeing that,I couldn't help thinking, “Excu me? I have plenty of friends.” Then the editor told me there were all sorts of evidence out there to show how men, as they age, let their clo friendships go, and that the fact can cau all sorts of problems and have a terrible impact on their health.
As I walked back to my desk in the newsroom-a distance of maybe 100 yards-I quickly to
ok stock of my friend list. First of all, there was my friend Mark. Wait, how often do we actually hang out? Maybe four or five times a year? And then there was another best friend from high school, Rory, and…I actually could not remember the last time I'd en him.
There were all tho other good friends who emed as if they're still in my life becau we follow one another via social media, but as I ran down the list of tho I considered real, true, lifelong friends, I realized that it had been years since I saw many of them, even decades for a few.
By the time I got back to my desk, I realized that I was indeed perfect for this story, not becau I was unusual in any way, but becau my story was very, very typical. And as I looked into what that means, I realized that in the long term, I was heading down a path that was very, very dangerous. And I knew I needed a change.
