高考英语刷题高分提能组合练 (16)

高分提能组合练(十六) 阅读理解＋七选五

Ⅰ. 阅读理解

A

(2019·甘肃兰州月考)

The National Gallery

Description：

The National Gallery is the British national art muum built on the north side of Trafalgar

Square in London. It hous a different collection of more than 2,300 examples of European art

ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The

older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern

works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance.

Layout：

The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building hous 13th- to 15th-century

paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and

Memling.

The main West Wing hous 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci,

Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan and Verone.

The North Wing hous 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens,

Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.

The East Wing hous 18th- to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto,

Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh.

Opening Hours：

The Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10am to 9pm) and is free, but

charges apply to some special exhibitions.

Getting There：

Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute

walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk)．

[语篇解读] 这是一篇广告布告类阅读。文章介绍了英国伦敦国家美术馆的藏品、布局、

开馆时间和到达路线。

1．In which century’s collection can you e religious paintings?

A．The 17th. B．The 13th.

C．The 18th. D．The 20th.

B [细节理解题。答案定位在Description 部分It hous a different collection of more

than 2,300 examples of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to

more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. 可知在十三世纪的藏品中，你可以看到宗教

绘画。]

2．Where are Leonardo da Vinci’s works shown?

A．In the East Wing. B．In the Sainsbury Wing.

C．In the main West Wing. D．In the North Wing.

C [细节理解题。答案定位在Layout 部分The main West Wing hous 16th-century

paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel,

Bronzino, Titan and Verone. 可知列奥纳多·达·芬奇的作品在the main West Wing里展

出。]

3．Which underground station is clost to the National Gallery?

A．Piccadilly Circus. B．Leicester Square.

C．Embankment. D．Charing Cross.

D [细节理解题。答案定位在Getting There部分Nearest underground stations:

Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute

walk), and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk)．通过比较，可知Charing Cross到the National

Gallery需要两分钟，是所用时间最短的。]

B

(2019·河南洛阳统考)Just a few years out of law school, I decided that I wanted to write

fictions. The only thing I had ever published before was a law-review article. I had made great

efforts to write when I came home at night after work, but I was too tired. I decided to quit my job.

I began my new life on a February morning. I sat down at my kitchen table at 7：30 am and

made a resolution. Every day I would write until lunchtime. Then I would lie down on the floor

for 20 minutes to rest my mind. After that, I would return to work for a few more hours.

In my first year, I sold two stories. Then I wrote a novel, but I thought it wasn’t good enough,

so I ended up putting it in a drawer. My cond novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, was

published to glowing reviews and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

My success sounds like a familiar story, but actually it was far from sudden. I quit my job,

and for every story I published in tho years, I had at least 30 rejections. The novel that I put

away in the drawer took my four years. My breakthrough came in 2006, 18 years after I first sat

down to write at my kitchen table.

Sometimes genius (天才) is just the thing that comes out after 20 years of working at your

kitchen. Also, doing something truly creative requires the energy of youth. Orson Welles made his

masterpiece, Citizen Kan, at 25. T. S. Eliot wrote The Love Song of J．Afred Prufrock at 23.

[语篇解读] 本文是一篇记叙文。通过作者的成功经历告诉我们“失败是成功之母”的

道理。

4．When did the author decide to devote himlf to writing fictions?

A．When he was tired from his work.

B．Straight after graduation from law school.

C．On being informed his law-review article came out.

D．When his hobby was disturbed by his work.

D [细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句I had made great efforts to write when I came

home at night after work, but I was too tired. I decided to quit my job. 可知，当他的爱好

被他的工作打扰时，作者决定投身于写作小说。]

5．We can infer from the cond paragraph that the author ______.

A．led a wealthy life

B．arranged his life reasonably

C．was too diligent to relax himlf

D．remained single

B [推理判断题。根据第二段I began my new life on a February morning. I sat down at

my kitchen table at 7：30 am and made a resolution. Every day I would write until

lunchtime. Then I would lie down on the floor for 20 minutes to rest my mind. After that, I

would return to work for a few more hours. 可知，我们可以从第二段推断出作者合理安排

了他的生活。]

6．What does the author mainly intend to tell us in this passage?

A．Failure is the mother of success.

B．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

C．It is never too old to learn.

D．It is the first step that costs troublesome.

A [目的意图题。根据第四段My success sounds like a familiar story, but actually it

was far from sudden. I quit my job, and for every story I published in tho years, I had at

least 30 rejections. The novel that I put away in the drawer took my four years. My

breakthrough came in 2006, 18 years after I first sat down to write at my kitchen table. 由

此推知，失败是成功之母。 ]

7．Why did the author give the example of Orson Welles and T．S. Eliot?

A．To make a comparison between them and himlf.

B．To show creativity needs energy and efforts.

C．To persuade the readers of their great talents.

D．To recommend their two masterpieces.

B [推理判断题。根据最后一段Sometimes genius (天才) is just the thing that comes

out after 20 years of working at your kitchen. Also, doing something truly creative requires

the energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, Citizen Kan, at 25. T. S. Eliot

wrote The Love Song of J．Afred Prufrock at 23. 可知，作者引用Orson Welles and T．S. Eliot

的例子是为了要表现出创造力需要能量和努力。 ]

C

(2019·河北保定模拟)When it’s five o’clock, people leave their office. The length of the

workday, for many workers, is defined by time. They leave when the clocks tells them they’re

done.

The days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cellphones and

computers. That may be a bad thing, particularly at work. New rearch shows that clock bad

work schedules hinder creativity.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours. For example: a meeting

from 9 am to 10 am, rearch from 10 am to noon, etc. On the other hand, task-timers have a list

of things they want to accomplish. They work down the list, each task starts when the previous

task is completed. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both the types of planning.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in the different ways? Does one make us

more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet

and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities from project planning,

holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under “ clock

time” vs “ task time”．They found clock timers to be more efficient(有效率的) but less happy

becau they felt little control over their lives. Task timers are happier and more creative, but less

productive. They tend to enjoy the moment when something good is happening, and ize

opportunities that come up.

The rearchers argue that task-bad organizing tends to be undervalued and

under-supported in the business culture. This might be a small change to the way we view work

and the office, but the rearchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the

economy; work organized by clock time. While most people will still probably need, and be, to

some extent, clock-timers, task-bad timing should be ud when performing a job that requires

more creativity. It’ll make tho tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

[语篇解读] 本文为议论文。本文讲述了时间提醒和任务提醒对人们工作的影响，并通

过研究描述它们的优缺点。建议工作人员的规划更多地基于任务而不是时间。

8．What does the author say a clock-bad work?

A．It makes workers very tired.

B．It reminds workers to leave on time.

C．It makes workers aware of the precious time.

D．It may have a bad effect on the creativity.

D [细节理解题。由第二段That may be a bad thing，particularly at work。可知这对

会工作产生负面影响。]

9．What does the underlined word “hinder” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Block. B．Consider.

C．Increa. D．Value.

A [猜测词义题。根据上一句“That may be a bad thing, particularly at work. New rearch

shows that clock bad work schedules hinder creativity. ”可知，这有负面的影响，尤其是对工

作没有好处。由此可知这种工作方式对于创造性不好。分析四个选项A．Block阻碍；

B．Consider考虑；C．Increa增加；D．Value重视。可知，A项是不好的影响。]

10．What did Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier find in their experiments about

clock-timers?

A．They ize opportunities as they come up.

B．They always get their work done in time.

C．They tend to be more productive.

D．They can control their lives.

C [细节理解题。由第四段They found clock timers to be more efficient but less

happy becau they felt little control over their lives. Task timers are happier and more

creative, but less productive. 可知，以钟表计时的人们会变得更高效，但不快乐。其中的C

项中的be more productive就是对be more efficient的替换。]

11．What do the rearchers suggest?

A．Task-bad timing is preferred for doing creative work.

B．It is important to keep a balance between work and life.

C．Performing creative jobs tends to make workers happier.

D．A scientific standard should be adopted in job evaluation.

A [细节理解题。最后一段 While most people will still probably need, and be, to

some extent, clock-timers, task-bad timing should be ud when performing a job that

requires more creativity. It’ll make tho tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier. 可

知作者建议在做需要更多创造性的工作时，应该使用基于任务的时间安排表。]

Ⅱ. 七选五

Helping others is a lfless act. Although most people help others without themlves in

mind, there are many benefits to the helpers. __1__ Although true lflessness does not ask for

anything in return, it is reasonable to enjoy the rewards.

Helping others creates the idea of “passing love on”．__2__ Ideally, this idea could spread to

everyone alive and make the entire world a better place. Even if this does not happen, helping

others increas the amount of giving, and helping people in society.

__3__ This makes it easier to network, using people to connect you with more resources and

more possibilities. A benefit of networking is creating connections with other like-minded people.

As you help others and they realize you do not have any ulterior (不可告人的) motives, their

appreciation will grow into trust. Your reputation will grow and people will consider you a

trustworthy person. __4__

Helping people creates a n of well-being and can lower depression. __5__ In some cas,

people feel happier due to the social effects of volunteering and feel less lonely.

A．It can make people happier, with higher pride and life satisfaction.

B．You can receive amazing rewards when you assist and support others.

C．That is to say, you will get a lot of help in return if you often help others.

D．Helping others allows you to meet people you wouldn’t have otherwi met.

E．Helping others makes you a noble person and greatly improves your social skills.

F．Due to this trust, more people will believe in you and relationships will grow.

G．It means that if you help someone, that person is more likely to help others in need.

[语篇解读] 本文是一篇说明文，文章主要介绍了助人为乐可获得的回报。

1．B [由关键信息“it is reasonable to enjoy the rewards”可知，此空应填B项，B项中的

amazing rewards与关键信息中的the rewards相吻合。]

2．G [关键信息“Helping others creates the idea of’passing love on’”和“Ideally，

this idea could spread to everyone alive and make the entire world a better place”与G项

相吻合。]

3．D [空格所在段主要在讲帮助他人会让你结识志同道合的人，建立更广的人脉，故

D项“帮助他人会让你结识原本你不会遇到的人”符合语境。]

4．F [由关键信息“their appreciation will grow into trust”和“Your reputation will grow and

people will consider you a trustworthy person”可知，F项符合语境。解本题的关键在于trust，

believe in和trustworthy。]

5．A [A项中的happier，higher pride，life satisfaction与空格所在段中的a n of

well-being，lower depression，happier，feel less lonely相对应。]