湖北省 荆州市 2014届高考英语二轮阅读理解专题训练最后六十天冲刺 (5) WORD版含答案.doc

1、AFinished school for the summer? Its great to kick back and relax after the school year-and you deserve it!-but it might also be the time to start building that resume（简历）to help you impress the college of your choice. Having a great resume doesnt just mean getting a summer job; lost of activities c

2、an help you stay active and gain valuable experience over the summer months.l WorkGetting a job is one of the most practical ways to build your resume and impress colleges, even if working during the school year is not an option(选择), look out for specific holiday jobs, like residential（寄宿的）summer ca

3、mps that look for help during the summer months. Any job is good, but working in a leadership position or in an academic area looks particularly good on your resume. The more a job challenges you, the more it builds the skills that colleges and future employers are interested in seeing in applicants

4、.l VolunteerGive back to gain resume points. Community service is another great way to gain valuable work and leadership experience. Nonprofit organizations such as soup kitchens and animal shelters are always looking for volunteers, and it shouldnt be difficult to find a volunteer organization near

5、 your home that could use an extra pair of hands for a few hours a week during the summer.l TravelThis may not be a viable（可行的）option for everyone, but if you can afford it, summer travel can be an exciting way to enrich your mind and enhance（提高的质量）your resume. Visiting and exploring foreign places

6、will broaden your horizons, allowing you to expand your awareness of other people and cultures. Its also a great chance to develop your language skills.l Take Classes“School” might be the last thing you want after a hard year of studying, but summer school isnt always a bad thing. Colleges may look

7、kindly upon applicants who take the initiative（主动）to further their education over the summer. There are a variety of options available for high school students wishing to take summer courses, both at their own schools and at local colleges. If your high school offers summer classes, they could be a

8、great way to advance your math or language skills, two areas that are often lacking on students college applications. Local community colleges also offer summer courses for high school juniors and seniors that cover a variety of introductory-level topics. They not only look great on your transcript（

9、成绩单）,but also provide an opportunity to boost（促进）your preparedness for college and allow you to explore possible career options.51What is the main benefit of summer activities according to the text?ATo enjoy yourself to the full.BTo enrich your resume.CTo develop certain skills.DTo improve your acad

10、emic performance.52What is the most practical activity to do during summer vacation?AGetting a job.BTraveling overseas.CDoing volunteer work.DAttending classes.53According to the text, “soup kitchens and animal shelters”_.Aare places that you can travel to来源:Zxxk.ComBmight be included in summer cour

11、sesCare recommended as part-time jobs for the summerDcan be good volunteer jobs54Why is taking classes recommended in the article?AIt only takes a few hours a week.BIt can prepare you for further study.CIt can enrich your career experience.DIt can raise your cultural awareness.B“Hi! How are you?” Th

12、e woman smiled as she took the seat beside me. She had to lower herself slowly, squeezing her ample bottom into the space. Positioning herself comfortably, she put her enormous arm on the armrest.I didnt reply and leaned towards the window.She repeated her greeting in a friendly voice.“Hi,” I replie

13、d.“My name is Laura. Im from Britain. How about you?” A palm waved in front of my face.“Malaysia,” I shook the hand reluctantly.Laura started a conversation with me, taking no notice of my unfriendly reactions. Her voice was worm and caring. She was thoughtful. When we were served drinks and meals s

14、he made sure that I had room to move in my seat. “I dont want to make you uncomfortable with my elephant size!” she said with great sincerity.55Why was the author unfriendly toward Laura in the beginning?AThe author was not in a good mood that day.BThe author had hoped to enjoy the trip alone.CThe a

15、uthor was not good at making friends with strangers.DThe author wasnt comfortable will Lauras size.56The fact that _ made the author change her attitude.ALaura talked so muchBLaura was such a wonderful personCLaura taught her a lot during the tripDLaura helped her a lot during the trip57Why didnt La

16、ura want to lose weight?AShe didnt think she needed to.BShe didnt trust advertisements.CShe like being big because it got her attention.DShe thought happiness was more important than health.58What kind of person is Laura?ATalkative and loud.BWarm and considerate.CKnowledgeable and proud.DWild and ad

17、venturous.CI bought a Paul Smith shirt three months ago. For those who dont know, Paul Smith is an English designer brand.His shirts cost about 1,000 yuan upwards. I paid 50 yuan for my colorful shirt from a street trader in Beijing.Of course my shirt was a knockoff, a cheap copy of the brand. After

18、 a few washes little balls formed on the surface of the thin material.Do I care? Not at all. You get what you pay for.I have to admit I hate shopping. I dont care enough about spending money on clothes. I have other priorities（优先考虑的事）.In You Are What You Wear, US writer Jennifer Baumgartner says peo

19、ples clothes tell a story about their personality.She goes on: “The clothes you choose to wear provide important information about you as a person, your approximate education level, your income, social status and even your level of self-esteem（自信）.”When I started work as an undercover（秘密工作的）crime re

20、porter I had to shop for jeans and a hoodie（连帽衫）in order to fit in with a rough and ready（世故的）social group.I bought the hoodie in a charity shop. My daughters were shocked. They thought looked bad, but I knew my disguise was perfect.Elizabeth L. Cline thinks she knows best when it comes to cheap clo

21、thes in her book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. She expresses sadness that clothing has been turned into goods that could be thrown away after being used once or twice.She looks down her nose at cheap fashion and longs for the good old days when department stores sold qualit

22、y clothes at expensive prices.I dont agree. At least people now can choose what to wear without breaking the bank.59The underlined sentence in the article meant that _.来源:Z&xx&k.ComAI never spend money on clothesBI dont mind spending money on clothesCit is too much trouble to spend money on clothesD

23、theres not much point spending money on clothes60From the text we can infer that the authors disguise _.Ahad something to do with his incomeBturned out unsuited to his planCimmediately won the admiration of his daughtersDproved that clothes cant show a persons true personality61The author mentions E

24、lizabeth L. Clines book to _.Ashow his disagreement with her ideaBexpress his anger at the poor quality of clothesCshow his dislike for how people treat their clothesDsupport her attitude toward spending money on clothes62Which of the following might be the best title for the story?AYou get what you

25、 pay forBYou are what you wearCHigh cost of cheap fashionDThe variety of clothesDAt 10 years old, Flynn McGarry became sick of the meals his mother cooked for him. So the Los Angeles native took matters into his own hands and started making his own dinners. One of his specialties? Trout with braised

26、 leeks（韭葱炖鲑鱼）.Now 13, the young chef is being praised as a “food prodigy”. He will spend his summer apprenticing with some of the best chefs at LAs famous restaurants, MSNBC Nightly News reports.McGarry began making a name for himself in the culinary world when John Sedlar, owner of the trendy Playa

27、 Restaurant, let McGarry take over the kitchen for a special nine-course meal. The meal sold out almost instantly.“Flynn is a very unusual young man, and hes very, very passionate,” owner John Sedlar told MSNBC.By usual teenage boy standards, its true. So strong is his passion for cooking that the y

28、oung man has turned his bedroom into an experimental kitchen laboratory.Instead of video game consoles, baseball trophies and movie posters, McGarrys room is lined with mixers, pots and pans, cutting boards and a stainless steel worktable. Its where McGarry cooks his monthly pop-up dinners, which ar

29、e served from his familys dining room, a monthly supper club he calls Eureka.McGarry is deft（灵巧的）and confident in the kitchen, with skills hes been practicing since he was a child. What started out as a means of self-preservation from his moms unsatisfactory cooking has turned into a passion that th

30、e teen hopes to develop into a career.“My goal? Michelin three stars, a restaurant in the top 50 list,” he told MSNBC. “Hopefully the top five.” Meanwhile, McGarrys 13-year-old rsum is already richer and more impressive than most cooks many times his age.McGarry isnt the only telented young prodigy

31、to surprise experts in his field in recent years. At just 17 years old, physicist Taylor Wilson is already teaching graduate-level courses in physics and has built a functioning nuclear reactor.来源:Zxxk.Com63McGarry first started cooking _.Afor himselfBas an experimentCin his own bedroomDwith a teach

32、ers guidance64The underlined word “passionate” in Paragraph 4 probably means _.AenthusiasticBfocusedCgiftedDunique65Compared with many adult chefs, McGarry _.Ahas the best cooking equipment in his kitchenBis inventive and has many new specialties to his nameChas much and impressive cooking experienc

33、e for his young ageDwants to open his own Michelin three-star restaurant66Where does this text probably come from?AA recipe book.BA restaurant introduction.CA career guide.DA news report.EIT was just after sunrise on Feb 15. Anna Kolesnikova, 31, was getting ready for work when she looked out her wi

34、ndow and saw a big burst of light in the sky. Suddenly she heard a loud explosion and the door to her balcony flew open. All of the car alarms on the street were going off. Kolesnikova crouched（蹲下）down in fear, bewildered as to what was going on.Just like kolesnikova, residents（居民）of Chelyabinsk, th

35、e Russian city 1,500 kilometers east of Moscow, were all thrown into a panic. “My first thought was that it was a plane crash,” a resident told The (London) Guardian. But what had actually happened was beyond their wildest guessesit was a meteor（陨石）falling to Earth.The meteor entered the atmosphere

36、at a speed of 52,000 kilometers per hour, about 15 times the speed of a bullet（子弹）, according to Xinhua News Agency. It then exploded into tiny pieces before reaching the ground. The force from the explosion was so strong that it blew out windows and damaged buildings. Nearly 1,200 people were injur

37、ed by flying glass, but fortunately no one was struck directly by a falling piece of meteor.Scientists from Russias Academy of Sciences said that the meteor weighed about 10 tons and was probably made of iron. One of the meteor pieces was found to have crashed into a frozen lake, leaving a 6-meter-w

38、ide hole in the ice, The Guardian reported.However, this meteor is not the only alien object that has put Earth in danger. Less than a day after the meteor hit, an asteroid（小行星），known as 2012DA14, passed by the Earth at a proximity（距离）of 27,520 kilometers, even closer than some television and weathe

39、r satellites.These two incidents aroused concerns about objects falling from space. Dmitry Rogozin, Russias deputy prime minister, called for an international push to create a warning system, because for now, “neither the US nor Russia has the capability to bring down such objects.”But Simon Goodwin

40、, an astrophysics expert from Britains University of Sheffield, said that there is no need to worry since such incidents are so rare. About 1,000 to 10,000 tons of meteors fall toward Earth every day, but most burn up in the atmosphere.67The underlined word “bewildered” in the first paragraph probab

41、ly means _.AannoyedBconfusedCdisappointedDcurious68When the meteor fell to Earth in Russia, _.Amost of it was forced to land in remote areas to reduce destructionBit caused explosions and resulted in great loss of life and destruction of buildingsCthe shockwave from its explosion caused most of the

42、damage and injuriesDit remained in one piece and traveled much faster than a bullet69By mentioning 2012 DA14 in Paragraph 5, the author intends to _.Ashow that objects fall from space frequentlyBshow that there are concerns about objects falling from spaceCinform readers about constant threats to Ea

43、rthDcompare the asteroid and the meteor that hit Russia70What can we infer from the text?AThe number of meteors falling toward Earth may be on the rise in the future.BMost of the meteors falling toward Earth are destructive and uncontrollable.CThere are warning systems for objects falling from space in certain countries.DThere are no existing technologies that can bring down meteors falling toward Earth.