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只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 1 2017 广东罗定县高考英语（一轮）阅读理解优练（二） 阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C 和 D) 中, 选出最佳选项。 English as a Foreign Language Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at school? Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language. There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures? Or should we worry about the dangers of“mono-culturalism”, a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music? Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same language? On the contrary, I would have thought-although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India(where many of them speak at least some English)and Pakistan(the same situation with India). . . If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonald’s burgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的), will it kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language but often one or more other related languages, as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well. When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we received a wonderfully poetic email from a listener in Ireland. “The English language is a beautiful language. Maybe it’s like a rose, ”he said. “But who would ever want 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 2 their garden just full of rose? ” Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden. But the way I see it, just by planting a few roses, you don’t necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that’s fine by me. 【文章大意】作者以独特的视角分析了英语的发展前景和人们的种种顾虑。越来越多的人会 讲英语是好事吗? 战乱会因此而减少吗? 将来人们会只讲一种语言, 吃同样的食物, 听同 样的音乐吗? 作者借用一位爱尔兰听众的邮件说: 英语好比玫瑰花, 它很漂亮, 但是我们 不能因为它漂亮就把花园全种上玫瑰花, 也不能把其他花草都拔掉。 1. How many people learn English as their second language? A. About 80%. B. About 376 million. C. About one million. D. We don’t know. 【解析】选 B。细节理解题。从第二段第一句话可知, 把英语当作第二语言的人的数量是 about 376 million。故选 B。 2. What does“garden”in the last two paragraphs stand for? A. Language. B. Family. C. The world. D. The Earth. 【解析】选 C。词义猜测题。因为这两段中 rose 用来指代 English, 所以 garden 自然是指 代 the world。故选 C。 3. The author would probably agree that . A. it’s very hard to plant many kinds of flowers in a garden B. it’s good for people from other countries to learn English C. more and more people like to plant roses in their gardens D. English is easier to learn than other languages 【解析】选 B。作者意图题。根据全文内容, 尤其最后一句 If more and more people want to plant English roses, that’s fine by me. 可以了解作者的态度倾向。故选 B。 4. This passage is mainly about . A. why English has become a global language B. how many people in the world speak English C. how people in the world learn English as a foreign language 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 3 D. whether we need to worry about English being a world language 【解析】选 D。主旨大意题。通过理解全文内容以及作者的观点, 我们可以知道人们大可不 必顾虑英语作为世界语言的前景问题。故选 D。 Although I started learning English during my college years, when I entered the States, I only understood two English words “Yes” and “No”. We learned many grammar rules but we could not make the language connections to the real English world. Language frustration worries almost all first generation immigrants. For example, I got a letter from a Chinese-American who has lived in the States for a long time and has a good IT job saying “My 11-year-old girl writes quite well, but as her parents, we could not even read her article.”In addition, my Chinese-American professor friend has difficulty reading a novel. Improving our English skills has become a long journey for all of us. Honestly, if I have a chance, I really want to reach out to everyone in the world who has had a similar experience: learning a second language in adulthood. I wish I could encourage them to speak out about the culture shock, frustration they felt about the differences between West and East. I have mainly focused on my English writing since 2008 after I found “Literacy Volunteers”, an organization that specially focuses on helping immigrants improve their English. I decided to challenge myself, writing a story like an American. I saw many wonderful Americans there. As soon as I met my teacher Alice, I asked her 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 4 to be my private language tutor and have taken Tims English class. Every week Alice and I have worked on my English essays sentence by sentence. To observe the culture differences between West and East, occasionally, I posted a few of my English essays online. I mentioned previously about American culture; when people read the same article or even face the same situation, American and Chinese act very differently. In my viewpoint, these differences make America the strongest country in the world. I know you have the right to express your own opinions, but accusing others without proof is not acceptable. 1. The purpose of the passage is . A. to show how hard a Chinese-American lives in America B. to share her experience of improving her English C. to imply grammar rules are not important D. to warn Chinese-Americans of English 2. The underlined word “frustration” in the first paragraph means . A. failure and setbacks B. words and problems C. understanding and progress D. slang and idioms 3. If the author had a good master of English, . A. she would open a school for Chinese-Americans B. she would like to hears the differences spoken out 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 5 C. she could lend a hand to the children for learning D. she might earn some money by giving advice 4. In the passage, “Literacy Volunteers” is . A. only intended to help the Chinese-Americans B. an organization which is set up to make a profit C. of great use to people like the author D. a school showing how to enjoy literature 5. From the last paragraph we can learn that . A. Americans and Chinese are of the same idea about something B. culture shock only exists between Chinese and Americans C. accusing others freely can be acceptable in America D. culture differences have great influence on the people 【参考答案】14.BABCD . 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 6 If you have kids, you probably struggle over whether you should focus on working hard to make money and provide them with the best possible life, or if it’s more valuable to spend every moment that you can with them. But no matter which side of the fence you fall on, here’re some good news if you’re a parent: today’s parents are spending far more time with their children than generations past. A new study from economists at University of California, San Diego analyzes available data from the last 35 years to measure how much time parents are spending actively with their children, participating in activities such as taking them to school, helping with homework, bathing them, playing catch with them in the back yard. According to the study, today’s college-educated mothers spend an average of 21. 2 hours a week actively caring for their children, while women with less education spend an average of 15. 9 hours. It has risen since 1995, when the average was just 12 hours. Dads are spending more time tossing the ball around, too: pre-1995 fathers with college educations only spent about 4. 5 hours a week playing with their children. Today, the average has more than doubled. For fathers with a high school education, the total has still gone up, from 3. 7 hours to 6. 8. Today’s parents are doing a great job balancing life and work and even though you may want even more time at home with your children. A Families and Work Institute study shows that your kids don’t care so much about that. They just want you to enjoy the time you do spend with them. “Kids were more likely to wish that their parents were less tired and less stressed,” Galinsky said. So when you’re at your son’s soccer game, put the Blackberry away, and cheer him on instead. 1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. Spend More Time with Your Kids 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 7 B. Make More Money and Raise Kids C. Changes between Parents and Kids D. Cultural Shock from West to East 2. According to the new study, what can we learn? A. Parents would like to have more kids. B. College-educated mothers enjoy playing with kids. C. Women with less education don’t take their kids seriously. D. The less education a parent has, the less time he spends with kids. 3. What about the college-educated father with their kids nowadays? A. They usually play with kids about 4. 5 hours. B. They often devote 9 hours to playing with kids. C. They spend over 6. 8 hours a week with kids. D. They think it is best to share 3. 7 hours with kids. 4. When staying with kids, kids expect parents to . A. play football with them for a longer time B. earn more money for their future C. enjoy themselves on the playground D. be relaxed as much as possible 5. The word “Blackberry” underlined in the passage means . 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 8 A. a kind of fruit B. the name of a game C. the brand of cell phone D. the habit of kids 【参考答案】15.ADBDC 【2016 模拟题】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。 If you have a bad habit of losing things, a new device that can be connected to any item that you might lose may be the way to solve your problem. The Tile, a small square linked up to your iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth, lets you see how close you are to the missing item, within a 50-to 150-foot range . If the item goes out of your phone’s 150-foot range, it can still be detected (发现) on other smartphones with the same app. When you log into the app on your phone, it shows you, with green bars that increase or decrease, how far away you are from the Tile. You can also program it to make a sound when you get close to the Tile. And you can link up your phone with up to ten Tiles. And if your lost item — a dog, for example, or a stolen bike — goes out of your own phone’s 150-foot Bluetooth range, you can set it as a “lost item”. If any of the phones with the Tile app comes within the range of your lost item, a message will be sent to your own phone, reminding you of its position. The Tile app also has the function to remember where it last saw your Tile, so that you can easily find where you left it. Since the Tiles use Bluetooth rather than GPS, they never run out of battery or need to be charged, and they last for one year before needing to be replaced. The app, which will come into the market this winter, works with iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 9 iPad Mini, iPad 3rd and 4th generation, and iPod 5th generation. 1. The Tile app can help you . A. find your missing items B. use your phone more wisely C. save your phone’s battery power D. connect something to your phone 2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. The Tile needs to be charged after a year of use. B. One smartphone can only be linked up to one Tile. C. The Tile cannot work when linked up to a phone without Bluetooth. D. A missing item can’t be found if it goes out of the needed range. 3. What does the second paragraph mainly tell us? A. What the Tile app is. B. How the Tile app works. C. The advantages of the Tile app. D. Why the Tile app was invented. 4. Where does this passage probably come from? A. A science fiction novel. B. An advertisement. C. A personal diary. D. A news report. 【参考答案】1--4ACBD