1、12012 高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练专题 3 任务型阅读 7（25 分钟）（A ）请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最适当的单词。注意：每空 1 个单词。Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed
2、by greater needs; the need to protect patients from brutal news, to uphold a promise of secrecy or to advance the public interest.What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in
3、perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months? Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should doctors reject that he is ill, or minimize the gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?Doctors face
4、 such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patients own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that in
5、forming them of risks destroys their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide.But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians, a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel
6、cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanely conveyed, helps patients cope with illness; help them tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.There is an urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not o
7、nly in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception. Yet the public has every reason to know the professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deepl
8、y rooted, to 2spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you dont know cant hurt you.”Title: 1 Or NotMost doctors are in 3 of lying for the patients own sake.Different 2 A great majority of patients 4 on bei
9、ng told the truth.Reasons for 5 lying to patientsInforming patients of the truth about their condition destroys their hope, 6 to recovering more slowly, or deteriorating faster, perhaps even 7 themselves.Reasons 8 lying to patientsThe truthful information helps patients to 9 their illness, help them
10、 tolerate pain better with less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.Most patients feel 10 when they learn that they have been misled.1. Lie 2. attitudes/ opinions/ viewpoints 3. favour 4. insist 5. supporting 6. leading 7. killing 8. against 9. handle/ approach 10. cheated（B）请认真阅读下列短文，并根
11、据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填 1 个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。3Parents can help their seventh and eighth grade students stand out in and out of their English classroom by introducing them to newspapers. Newspapers not only offer information on current events, but they can also be used to test your c
12、hilds knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and more. Who, What, Where, When, Why, and HowHave your child read the first couple of paragraphs of a news story. Ask them to write down all of the important facts, such as who, what, where, when, why and how. This helps parents to see if their children compr
13、ehend the basic facts and information they read. GrammarParents can monitor a childs understanding of grammatical parts of speech (词性) without a grammar textbook. Ask your child to read a paragraph in an article and then list a specific number of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, preposit
14、ions and the like, which serves more of a test of their grammatical knowledge. Encourage them to list each of these parts of speech in a paragraph. Then, reread the paragraph to see if they missed anything. PersuasionAsk your child to select an advertisement from the newspaper. Have them investigate
15、 how specific words or phrases influence their feelings about a particular product. Then, encourage them to create an advertisement of their own for an item they do not like. Tell them not to show their true feelings and try to make people want to buy this unwanted item. After that, ask them to list
16、 the persuasive techniques used in their ad. Facts vs OpinionsSelect an editorial for your middle schooler to read. Have your child divide a piece of paper into two columns, one marked fact, and the other marked opinion. Have your student decide which column it fits under. This will help your child
17、better understand facts versus opinions. Another related exercise is responding to an editorial. Encourage your child to write letters to the editor or responses to editorials or other articles. Before your child sends his or her letter, check the opinion section to see what requirements there are.
18、Headlines and Synonyms (同义词)Ask your middle schooler to rewrite a couple of headlines using the synonyms of the original words. Compare the headlines. Do the original versions or the rewrites sound better? This is a 4great exercise to help students learn synonyms and expand their vocabulary. If you
19、find your seventh or eighth grade child is struggling with these newspaper activities, it may be an indicator that they have fallen behind in their reading skills. These activities were designed with a seventh or eighth grader in mind; therefore, while they are educational, they should be more of re
20、inforcement (增强) instead of a major reading challenge. Outline Supporting detailsAn approach to learning1 students in seventh and eighth grades to newspapers can be helpful in learning English.Newspaper 2 Ask students to read the first paragraphs of a news story and write down the important and 3 fa
21、cts to see if they can understand them. Have students read an article and list different parts of speech to improve their understanding of 4 . Select an ad and ask students to find the persuasive expressions 5 in it, and then create their own ad for a product they dislike. Select an editorial and ha
22、ve students 6 between facts and opinions. After that encourage them to write a 7 to an editorial. Ask students to write a few synonyms and compare them with the 8 headlines to help them with their vocabulary expansion.Possible results It may 9 that a child is poor at reading if he or she has 10 with these activities. These activities, designed for special graders, can not be used as a major reading challenge.1. Introducing 2. activities 3. basic 4. grammar 5. used6. distinguish 7. response / reply8. original 9. indicate / show 10. difficulty / trouble
