四川省仁寿县城北教学点2012届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（26）.doc

1、高三英语阅读理解限时训练（26）AMore than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in prison by the age of thirty-five.Joe Marshall co-found

2、ed the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California, twenty-three years ago. Mr. Marshall tries to give boys and girls a safe refuge and a chance at a better future. Every week, he has two basic messages for his young students: Stop the violence and Dont do drugs.Mr. Marshall taught math in middle s

3、chool and expected to see his best students go to college. He got a lot of horror stories a lot of his former students ended up dead or in prison for selling drugs, being involved in gangs, and girls ended up getting pregnant（怀孕）. The Omega Boys Club serves more than four hundred young people every

4、year. Two times a week, it offers after-school classes in math, reading, family and life skills, and college preparation.Joe Marshall sees gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem. Thats what these young people get. They develop a street mentalityanger,

5、fear and pain. Then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free.But his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio. In 1991, Joe Marshal

6、l started “Street Soldiers,” a weekly call-in show. Marlena, one of the graduates of the Omega Boys Club, is at Southern University right now, going into her third year. She talked about what she had learned by coming to Omega, by listening to “Street Soldiers,” and she said she had learned how to l

7、ove herself.The club provides guidance and financial assistance to help students stay in school. Over ninety percent of members who were accepted into college have graduated.41. The passage is mainly about_.A. what problems many young black men are faced withB. how Mr. Marshall helps his students to

8、 go to collegeC. why many young black men end up in prisonD. how an organization helps young black people42. The passage mentioned Marlena in order to _.A. showcase the success of the Clubs effort B. invite girls to attend the after-school classesC. highlight the failure of normal schoolsD. prove th

9、e importance of after-school classes 43. “Street Soldiers” is _ .A. an armed force B. a gang of blacksC. a TV program D. a radio program44. According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. The Omega Boys Club help the government to keep male students at school.B. Gangs and violence are pu

10、blic health problems that need to be dealt with.C. The Club offers after-school classes in basic knowledge and living skills.D. Over ninety percent of the members have graduated from college.BCar crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. Most of the crashes result from distracted driving not

11、 paying attention to the road.Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree. He was one of the nations more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in 2008. Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent involved drivers age fifteen to twenty.Ryans father, Thomas D

12、idone, is a police captain in Maryland. It was an inexperienced, immature driver driving at night with a carload of kids. He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some seriously injured. He shares the story of his sons death to help educate teens and their fami

13、lies about distracted driving.Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company says the number one cause of distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone. He says talking on the phone or reaching for it is like drinking four beers and driving. If youre texting while driving, you are twenty-three

14、times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isnt.Government and private groups are using public service announcements and events to bring more attention to the problem. For example, the insurance industry recently held a safety event for teen drivers. At first, nineteen-year-old Kevi

15、n Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children. He also avoided orange cones representing the edge of the road. Then, as part of the test, he started texting. He hit several cones and at least one doll. Thats what really opened up the experience fo

16、r me to prove how bad it is to really text and drive.Debbie Pickford of Allstate Insurance says teens are especially at risk from distracted driving and not just because they lack experience on the roads. According to the research, teens dont really have fully developed brains until theyre twenty-fi

17、ve years old. You put those two things together and you get a much, much higher risk.A new law proposes a graduated driver licensing system. Graduated means teenagers start with restrictions like on night driving and numbers of passengers. They could not get a full drivers license until age eighteen

18、.45. Of all the following, which is the best title for the passage?A. Car Crashesthe Top Killer B. Drunken DrivingC. Distracted Driving D. How to Avoid Car Crashes46. According to Jim Jennings, what might be the main cause of distracted driving accidents?A. Speed. B. Age. C. Experience. D. Cell-phon

19、es. 47. Which of the following statements is true?A. Thomas Didone is responsible for his son Ryans death.B. The insurance companies benefit a lot from teen driving.C. Kevin Schumann took the test to learn the risk of texting while driving. D. Debbie Pickford thinks that people cannot drive until br

20、ains are fully developed.48. According to the new law, _.A. it will be harder for young people to get a full drivers licenseB. people will not be allowed to touch the wheel until they are 18C. young people are forbidden to take any passengers in their carsD. people cant drive until they graduate fro

21、m colleges or universitiesCHospitals not only treat infections they can also cause them.In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year. About one hundred thousand patients die.A new government report notes that very little progress ha

22、s been made in reducing what are called health care-associated infections. The most common are infections of the urinary tract(尿路), surgical site and bloodstream.Many infections have been increasing even as hospitals have made efforts to improve. About forty percent of all health care-associated inf

23、ections are linked to the use of catheters. A tube is placed inside the body to collect urine（尿液）, so the patient does not have to get out of bed.But the latest report says urinary tract infections after surgery increased more than three and a half percent. It says catheters should be used only if n

24、ecessary.Another way to prevent infections is to give patients antibiotics before surgery. Doctors are advised to give them within the hour before the operation. Patients who get antibiotics earlier than one hour are more likely to get an infected surgical wound. Also, doctors are advised to discont

25、inue the antibiotics within twenty-four hours after the surgery. The report says longer than that is usually not necessary. It can increase the risk of antibiotic resistance.Kathleen Sebelius is secretary of health and human services. She noted that racial and ethnic minorities were less likely to h

26、ave insurance and less likely to get the treatments they needed. She called the report numbers troubling.But she also said the health care reforms passed by Congress will improve the quality of care for all Americans. She said the new law will reward quality over quantity of care, creating a system

27、that prevents diseases before more costly treatment is required.49.What do we learn about healthcare-associated infections from this passage?A. It is a new disease that is discovered by American doctors.B. It is not reported in other countries but the United States.C. It is connected with what docto

28、rs do to treat their patients.D. It is so deadly that it kills two million people every year. 50. In this passage antibiotics are used to _.A. reduce pain B. prevent infectionsC. shorten operation time D. make patients sleep51. From the last paragraph but one we know Kathleen Sebelius is_.A. very op

29、timistic about the situationB. quite worried about the minoritiesC. suffering from the infection herselfD. blaming doctors for their slow response 52. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Antibiotics may be the most effective way to resist infection after surgery.B. Some ethnic minorities withou

30、t insurance are in need of basic treatments.C. Hospitals are where infections are least likely to take place.D. Hospitals have made great progress in reducing healthcare-associated infections.DI left baseball, not for physical reasons but because it was my season for change. So I decided to walk awa

31、y and once I did, like the vast majority of players, I was lost. It would be the first time since I learned to swing a bat that I would spend an entire summer without ever putting on a uniform. Once you leaves the pitch its no longer you against that fastball, it is you against yourself.So you swim

32、around trying to figure out what young, retired baseball players do with their lives. For me, the moment was completely without the guiding wisdom of my father, who could communicate with me with just a nod of his head, but he passed away two years ago.Since my retirement, I have searched for the ne

33、xt passion. It is a discouraging journey, and many players never find that next love, even though they kept looking. Of course my father could never be replaced. His passion was writing. He left behind a body of poetry that guides me now. I didnt stay lost forever. I found something that I wasnt loo

34、king for: a voice through writing. Writing introduced me to people who were otherwise strangers and made them guests at my table. Only later did I understand that this would be a bridge to understanding my father in another way. A way that led me to connect to a passion I didnt realize we both share

35、d.After my first book was published, I realized that writing was passion and even therapy(疗法), but now I also thought that maybe Id found my next profession.Thankfully, I always knew my father was proud of me. But despite living the dream of so many Americans and reaching its highest level, I have n

36、o doubt that he would be even prouder of what I am doing with my words. Words that I can leave for my son to read one day.53. Why couldnt his father offer him any help at the moment?A. Because his father had been dead for two years. B. Because his father was busy writing poems.C. Because his father

37、was away on business.D. Because his father had a head injury two years ago.54. How did the author get over the most difficult time in life?A. By swimming the entire summer. B. By communicating with his father face to face.C. By turning to his friend for help. D. By reading his fathers works and writ

38、ing his own.55. According to the passage, the author was most likely to become a_.A. reporter B. writer C. coach D. player56. The author picked up writing as a career mainly because_.A. he couldnt find any other job after he left baseballB. his father asked him to continue his lifelong hobbyC. writi

39、ng was another way to understand his fatherD. it could help him to make a more comfortable lifeELoneliness 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

40、. 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 Framingh

41、am, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 to investigate the causes of heart disease. Since then, more tests have been added, including measures of loneliness and depression. The new findings involved more than five thousand people in the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study. The researc

42、hers examined friendship histories and reports of loneliness. The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends. For example, loneliness can affect relationships between next-door neighbors. The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less

43、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 seventeen days. But every additional friend can decrea

44、se 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

45、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

46、.58. What can we infer from the passage about lonely people?A. They can overcome loneliness themselves.B. They will decrease loneliness day by day.C. They are in great need of help from people around.D. They can help others to repair their social networks.59. Whats the best way to help lonely people

47、 according to this passage?A. Put them together. B. Make friends with them. C. Help them stop smoking. D. Ask them to loose weight.60. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. LonelinessThe Cause of DepressionB. How Loneliness Can Affect Social NetworksC. LonelinessA Serious Social ProblemD. How People Can Help A Lonely Person4145 DADCC 4650 DCACB 5155 ABADB 5660 CDCBB高考资源网独家精品资源，欢迎下载！高考资源网Ks5uK&S%5#UKs5uKs%U高考资源网高考资源网高考资源网