高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练7 4页

‎2019届高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练7‎ A ‎ ‎ A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City and Chicago.‎ ‎“I studied English before I left home,” she said. “But I still was not sure that people were speaking English.”‎ ‎ Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry. ‎ One such saying is “get your act together”.‎ When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, “Stop making mistakes. Get your act together.‎ Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, “Let us get our act together.” Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.‎ It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said, “Calm down, now. Get your act together.”‎ Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.‎ Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its yearly report, “Getting Our Act Together.”‎ The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by American business people. It is “cut to the chase”.‎ She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long report. It was not very interesting. In fact, some people at the meeting were falling asleep.‎ Finally, the president of the company said, “Cut to the chase.”‎ Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material. Hurry and get to the good part. ‎ Naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Hollywood movie producers believe that most Americans want to see action movies. Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot。‎ Cut is the director’s word for stop. The director means to stop filming, leave out some material, and get to the chase scene now. ‎ So, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.‎ ‎41. After the woman visited the United States she might feel that __________.‎ ‎ A. it’s difficult to make money B. It’s easy to master English ‎ C. her English was poor D. people there weren’t very friendly ‎42. In which situation could the words “get your act together” be used?‎ ‎ A. Visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip to someplace.‎ ‎ B. Players perform badly in a match.‎ ‎ C. Audience is satisfied with the actor’s performance in a movie.‎ ‎ D. A task is completed successfully ‎ ‎43. According to the text, the expression “get one’s act together” __________.‎ ‎ A. was first used by a Japanese business woman ‎ B. was commonly read by readers in a newspaper in 1978.‎ ‎ C. originally came from a yearly report of a company ‎ D. was forbidden to be used in the government policy ‎ ‎44. What do the sayings “get your act together” and “cut to the chase” have in common?‎ ‎ A. their origins B. Their meanings C. Their uses D. their popularities ‎45. The text is most likely to be found in a book about _________.‎ ‎ A. life attitude B. travel journals ‎ C. successful business D. language culture ‎ ‎ B No woman can be too rich or too thin. This saying often attributed to the late Duchess of ‎ Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times. Being thin is deemed as such a virtue. The ‎ problem with such a view is that some people actually attempt to live by it. I myself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes. Consequently, I have been on a diet for the better—or worse—part of my life. Being rich wouldn’t be bad either, but that won’t happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly in some distant land, leaving me millions of dollars. Where did we go off the track? When did eating butter become a sin, and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing, if not repellent? All religions have certain days when people refrain from eating and excessive eating is one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins. However, until quite recently, most people had a problem getting enough to eat. In some religious groups, wealth was a symbol of probable salvation and high morals, and fatness a sign of wealth and well—being. Today the opposite is true. We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue. The result is that being fat –or even only somewhat overweight—is bad because it implies a lack of moral strength.‎ Our obsession(迷恋) with thinness is also fueled by health concerns. It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before, and that, in many cases, being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease. These diseases. , however, may as much to do with our way of life and our high—fat diets as with excess weight. And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more of a dietary problem—too much fat and a lack of fiber—than a weight problem. The real concern, then, is not what we weight too much, but that we neither exercise enough nor eat well. Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and lung health. A balanced diet without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid many diseases. We should surely stop paying so much attention to weight. Simply being thin is not enough. It is actually hazardous if those who (or already are) thin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to their overall life—style. Thinness can be pure vainglory(虚荣).‎ ‎46. In the eyes of the author, an odd phenomenon nowadays is that _______________.‎ A. the Duchess of Windsor is regarded as a woman of virtue B. looking slim is a symbol of having a large fortune C being thin is viewed as a much desired quality D religious people are not necessarily virtuous ‎47. Swept by the prevailing trend, the author ______.‎ A. had to go on a diet for the greater part of her life B. could still prevent herself from going off the track C. had to seek help from rich distant relatives D. had to wear highly fashionable clothes ‎48. In human history, people’s views on body weight _______‎ A.. were closely related to their religious beliefs B. changed from time to time C. varied between the poor and the rich D. led to different moral standard ‎49. The author criticizes women’s obsession with thinness _______-.‎ A． from an economic and educational perspective ‎ B. from sociological and medical points of view C from a historical and religious standpoint D. in the light of moral principles ‎50. What’s the author’s advice to women who are absorbed in the idea of thinness?‎ A They should be more concerned with their overall life style.‎ B They should be more watchful for fatal diseases.‎ C They should gain weight to look healthy D They should rid themselves of fantasies about designer clothes ‎ CDBAD CABBA