1、阅读理解板块组合练二(限时 35 分钟).阅读理解AInteresting Exhibitions Held in Four Different Museums Name: the British MuseumPhone: 02073238000Website: britishmuseum.orgOpening hours: daily 10 am.5：30 p m.Price: FreeThis exhibition aims to show the mysteries of mummification. From a kings daughter to a temple doorkeepe
2、r, the displays explore the identities of eight people, using their bodies to discover clues about how they lived. By using new methods, such as CT scanning and 3D visualization, the British Museum has been able to build up a picture of life in the Nile valley over 4,000 years, from prehistoric Egyp
3、t to Christian Sudan. Name: the Fashion and Textile MuseumPhone：02074078664Website: www.ftmlondon.orgOpening hours: daily 11 am.5：30 p m.Price: 8.80 adults, 5.50 studentsThis Fashion and Textile Museum is housing the firstever exhibition of the classic Mexican shawl (披肩), which became famous in the
4、20th century. Artists, photographers and fashion and textile designers will be exhibiting their colorful works there. Name: the Victoria and Albert MuseumPhone：02079422000Website: vam. ac. ukOpening hours: daily 10 am.5：45 p m.; Fri. 10 am.10 pm.Price: FreeThe Victoria and Albert Museum has dug out
5、some of their most charming wedding dresses to record their history during the past two centuries. White wedding dresses were made popular by Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. See beautiful wedding dresses made by famous designers. Name: the Science MuseumPhone：02079424000Website: sciencemus
6、eum.org.ukOpening hours: daily 10 am.6 p m.Price: FreeThis fourday festival displays the latest exciting gadgets and introduces their inventors. Visitors can explore electronics, build robots, get handson experiences with new technologies and have a go at 3D printing. There will be displays taking p
7、lace throughout the festival, which is suitable for anyone aged ten and over.语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文。文章介 绍了四个英国博物 馆的展览，包括博物 馆的联系电话、网址、展出时间、票价，重点介绍了展览的内容和特色。1Which number would you call if youre interested in exploring history with modern technology?A02073238000. B02074078664.C02079422000. D02079424000.解析：选 A
8、细节理解题。根据第一部分最后一句 “By using new methods, such as CT scanning and 3D visualization . from prehistoric Egypt to Christian Sudan.”可知，大英博物馆的这一次展出使用 CT 扫描、可 视化三维等高科技手段探索四千年以来的尼 罗河河谷生活风貌；根据联系电话可知 A 项正确。2Which museum can you visit if you are free at 8 pm.on Friday?AThe British Museum.BThe Fashion and Textil
9、e Museum.CThe Victoria and Albert Museum.DThe Science Museum.解析：选 C 细节理解题。根据第三部分中的 “Opening hours: daily 10 am.5：45 pm.; Fri.10 am.10 pm.”可知，该博物馆在周五从上午十点到晚上十点都有展出；据此可知，在周五晚上八点可以去该博物馆，故 C 项正确。3What can we learn about the Science Museum?AThe exhibition will last a week.BIt displays CT scanning technol
10、ogy.CVisitors themselves can try new technologies.DMore information can be found at vam.ac.uk.解析：选 C 细节理解题。根据最后一部分第二句 “Visitors can explore electronics, build robots, get handson experiences with new technologies and have a go at 3D printing.”可知，游客可以自己尝试新技术，故 C 项正确。BHao Jingfang won the 2016 Hugo Aw
11、ard for best novelette (中短篇小说) “Ive had a wide variety of interests since childhood.Ive got used to doing different things， ”says the 33yearold.Although she became a famous science fiction writer after the award, shes never thought of quitting her job as an economic researcher at the China Developme
12、nt Research Foundation, which gives her the opportunity to meet many interesting people, she says.Hao says that the characters in her awardwinning Folding Beijing novel were developed from people she met.Folding Beijing which tells the story of a fathers struggle to send his daughter to school in a
13、futuristic (未来的) Beijing and is also an allusion (暗示) to the difficulties that some Chinese parents are undergoing today to ensure their children receive a highquality education brought a breakthrough in her writing career and the top global award in the genre (类型 )The Hugo Award came as a big surpr
14、ise to her and has brought important changes to her life.“I thought it would just be an award, noticed only by people in the field. I didnt expect it to bring this huge attention， ” she says.After the award, Hao, who had an interest in poverty studies, was offered the chance to set up a program init
15、ially funded by a Chinese auto company, with the aim of educating rural children in poor areas.Hao says writing science fiction combines her love of science and her dream to become a writer. Writing has been an important part of her life since she was a teenager.Hao won the national New Concept Awar
16、d for writing when she was in high school and then she started writing science fiction in 2006 when she did her physics major at Tsinghua University where she continued her studies for her masters degree in physics and then economics for her PhD.Hao started reading science fiction in high school and
17、 devoted much of her time to writing novels in her university years.But to take advantage of her academic background, she turned to write science fiction then.“Science fiction opened a whole new world for me， ” says Hao.Speaking of the future, Hao says, “It will take time for science fiction to grow
18、 here.”语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章介 绍了 2016 年雨果奖 最佳中短篇小说奖得主郝景芳的写作经历和获奖作品并讲述了在得奖之后她从事的一些工作。4According to the passage, we can know that Hao Jingfang .Awas an economic researcher when she won the 2016 Hugo AwardBgained many chances to meet interesting people due to the 2016 Hugo AwardCactually wasn t satisfied wi
19、th her awardwinning novel Folding BeijingDdidnt become a professional writer until receiving the 2016 Hugo Award解析：选 A 细节理解题。根据第二段 “Although she became a famous science fiction writer after the award, shes never thought of quitting her job as an economic researcher at the China Development Research
20、Foundation.”可知， 虽 然在获奖之后郝景芳成为一名著名的科幻小说作家，但是她从未想 过要辞掉在中国发展研究基金会的 经济研究员的工作。由此可知，郝景芳在获奖时是一名 经济研究员。5How did winning the award change Hao s life?AShe funded a program to educate rural children.BShe started to focus on rural life in poor areas.CShe became famous and drew much attention.DShe was finally ac
21、cepted by writers in the field of science fiction.解析：选 C 细节理解题。根据第三段 “I thought it would just be an award, noticed only by people in the field.I didnt expect it to bring this huge attention”可知，郝景芳说她以为那只是个普通的奖项，只被科幻小 说领域的人注意到。她没想到会得到如此多的关注。由此可知，获得雨果奖使郝景芳 变得出名，吸引到很多的关注。6Hao Jingfang started writing sc
22、ience fiction .Awhen she was studying in high schoolBduring the time she studied in the universityCafter she won the national New Concept Award for writingDafter she worked at the China Development Research Foundation解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第四段“she started writing science fiction in 2006 when she did her phy
23、sics major at Tsinghua University”可知，郝景芳在 2006 年在清华大学学习物理学的时候开始写科幻小说。7Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?ABright and Warm Side of Serious Science FictionBThe Road Towards Great Fame of Hao JingfangCInfluences of Winning The 2016 Hugo Award on Hao JingfangDThe Science Fictio
24、n and Real Worlds of the Winner of 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette解析：选 D 标题归纳题。本文第一、三和四段介绍了郝景芳现实生活中的一些信息，第二段和最后一段介绍了郝景芳在科幻领域的信息。由此可知，选项 D“2016 年雨果奖最佳中短篇小说奖得主的科幻与现实世界”可以概括本文大意，适合作文章 标题。CLife can sometimes go haywire rather like the feeling you get when youve lost control of your moving car.Its a f
25、eeling of complete helplessness and panic that makes us feel overwhelmed (被压垮的) In most cases, there is a difference between our expectations and reality.The greater the difference, the greater the feeling is of being overwhelmed.This difference is often created when our expectations are too demandi
26、ng or when reality changes in a way we did not expect.Think of the weather ruining your carefully made travel plans to get across the state.Think of that illness that made you stay in bed.While we may be feeling overwhelmed with everything going on in our lives right now, there are some steps we can
27、 take to regain a sense of control of our lives.We all know we should control our emotion properly and we can be affected greatly when we are overwhelmed, but feeling overwhelmed is part of life.When were feeling overwhelmed, it only means we are living, breathing human beings.For life is like a rol
28、ler coaster ride with its ups, downs and turns.Its also like the season with its alternating periods of relative calm and periods of varying degrees of stress and anxiety.Sometimes we forget this.No matter how much we try, we may not be able to control reality.But we can adjust our expectations to m
29、atch reality.This may mean revising our goals and tasks or quitting projects.It may feel like failure in the moment, like giving up, but this ability is an opportunity to create success in the long term.Working with reality rather than against it can give us hope.When were feeling overwhelmed, we ca
30、n easily fall into an allornothing (孤注一掷)We may overlook the things we manage to accomplish when we feel overwhelmed.But celebrating our small wins creates space for gratitude (感激) to take hold in our hearts.Trade our expectations for appreciation and our whole world changes in an instant.Celebratin
31、g wins (whatever size！) allows us to clearly see the progress we are making.Acknowledging our small bites and celebrating our wins however small makes us have a more accepting attitude toward the opportunities, the gifts and the joys in our lives.语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。面 对生活中的不如意，我 们 有时会感到绝望，感觉被压垮了。但我们可以采取一些
32、有效的方法来 摆脱这种困扰。 8The underlined phrase “go haywire” can be replaced by .Abe in a mess Bbecome dullCbring surprises Dchange quickly解析：选 A 词义猜测题。根据第一段内容可知，生活有时候会陷入混乱，就像你对行驶中的汽车失去控制时的感觉。 这是一种彻底无助和恐慌的感 觉，使你感 觉被压垮了。go haywire 意为“ 陷入混乱” 。9What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?AWe fail to control our emotion
33、 sometimes.BWe must learn to control our emotion well.CIt is natural for everyone to feel overwhelmed.DFeeling overwhelmed is a big barrier to our life.解析：选 C 段落大意题。根据第三段可知，我们都知道应该控制好自己的情绪，当我们感觉被压垮时，我们会受到 这种情绪很大的影响。但感到被压垮是生活的一部分，表明我们是有生命的人类，只是我们总 是会忘记这一点。由此可知，第三段主要是 说感到被压垮对每个人来说是自然的。10What should we
34、 do when we cant control reality?AAccept our failure and quit.BChange our goal based on reality.CTry our best to change reality.DFind a better way to realize our goal.解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第四段“No matter how much we try . or quitting projects.”可知，无论我们怎么努力，可能都无法改 变现实 。但是我们可以调整我们的预期以匹配现实。这或许意味着修改我 们的目标和任务，或者放
35、弃我们的计划。由此可知，当我 们无法掌控现实时，我们可以根据 现实来改变我们的目标。11What can we infer from the last paragraph?ASmall bites are better than big wins.BWe should show gratitude to others.CCelebrating small wins helps us make progress.DWe should appreciate even small achievements of ours.解析：选 D 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，庆祝小的成功有利于在我们心中创造感
36、激的空间。庆祝胜利(无论大小) 可以让我们清楚地看到我们 正在取得的进步。认可我们的小成就并庆祝胜利，无论它有多小，这会使我们能够更乐于接受生活中的机会、礼物和乐趣。由此可推知，我们应该欣赏我 们哪怕很小的成就。 A、B 两项最后一段未提及，C 项与原文意思相近但不是推断出来的，故选 D 项。DGoing back to school after working for a long time has not been easy.What makes it extra difficult is the Western liberal arts (文科) style of teaching.It
37、 gives special attention to discussions, which doesnt agree with my personality and is different from the Chinese style of teaching that I am accustomed to.Most of my classes are small, about a dozen people.Most students who frequently speak up are from Englishspeaking countries.Being shy and especi
38、ally bored with confrontation (对抗), I am usually quiet.However, Im not the only one.In my corner of silence are students from Asia or other nonEnglish speaking areas.People are unwilling to speak up for different reasons.Not being able to speak fluent English, or at least being worried about embarra
39、ssing oneself for grammatical mistakes, might be an important one, especially in an Englishtaught program.For me, not being sure of whether I am making a convincing and fresh point is the biggest factor (因素); I feel insecure not knowing the correct answer.Moreover, this insecurity turns into frustra
40、tion.I feel uneasy in my seat while listening to my classmates speak.On the one hand, Im angry at myself for not being brave; at the same time I ignore what the others are saying.But in truth, its just an excuse for masking my feeling of inferiority (自卑 ) over feeling like others know so much about
41、so many things.Of course, over time I learned the merits of this style of teaching and learning.The biggest advantage of being in a program with people from all over the world is that everybody brings in something new.Whats obvious to me, a Chinese, might not be so obvious to them.Sometimes its impo
42、rtant to state the obvious.Still it is hard for me to participate in class discussions.However, just because someone does not like speaking up in public, doesnt mean they cannot think.Just because someone cannot think on their feet, doesnt mean they cant do good research.Just because someone is alwa
43、ys speaking, doesnt mean they always make good points.语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。西方教学方式 强调讨论，作者以自己亲身经历说明为什么人们不愿意在课上发言。12The author doesnt want to speak up in class because he .Ais unable to speak fluent EnglishBshows no interest in the English taught programCis afraid of making grammatical mistakesDdoesn t feel
44、secure not knowing the correct answer解析：选 D 细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句可知，对于作者来说，(不愿意发言的) 最大因素在于作者不确定他的观点是否有说服力、是否 够新 颖。如果不知道正确答案作者会感到很没安全感。故选 D 项。13Whats the authors real reason to feel frustrated while listening to others speaking up?AHe has a sense of inferiority.BHe is extremely shy.CHe has no interest in t
45、heir discussions.DHe cant understand others words.解析：选 A 细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句可知，但事实上，这只是一个借口去掩盖作者因为别人如此博闻强识而产生的自卑感。由此可知，当作者听他人发言时感到沮丧的真正原因是他想隐藏他有一种自卑感。14Whats the meaning of the underlined word “merits” in Para.5? ADifferences. BChanges.CAdvantages. DMethods.解析：选 C 词义猜测题。根据第五段内容可知，和来自世界各地的人们同处于一个项目的最大好处是
46、每个人都会带来一些新的东西。 对于作者 这个中国人来说显而易见的东西可能对他们不是那么显而易见。有 时候将这种显而易见表达出来是重要的。由此可猜测，随着时间的推移，作者了解到这 种教学风格的优点。 merits 意为“优点，优势” 。15Which is the best title for the passage? AHow to Take an Active Part in Class Discussions?BWhy Dont People Like to Speak Up in Class?CThe Importance of Speaking Up in Class.DThe Dif
47、ferences of Western and Chinese Teaching Style.解析：选 B 标题归纳题。文章主要介绍西方教学方式强调讨论，作者以自己亲身经历说明为什么人们不愿意在课上发言。.阅读七选五(2018洛阳第一次统考)One of my earliest memories was watching my mom talk on our old phone. I was fascinated that she could talk to someone who wasnt actually in the room with her. 16 I was wondering
48、how she managed to talk with someone she couldnt see.17 Later, we had mobile phones that could be carried around the room. Then came computers and smartphones. These days I can send an email around the world in a second. My daughters smartphone has a hundred apps and a dozen social media accounts. S
49、he stores all of her information in a mysterious place known as “the cloud”， where she can take it out at any time. It seems that we are more connected in this world than ever before.18 Few take the time to talk face to face. Instead of looking into the eyes of our loved ones, we stare at our screens. It seems as if the most connected generations are also the loneliest.Dont let technology tak
