2024屆四川省蓬溪縣高考英語閱讀理解及書面表達練習（3）
四川省蓬溪縣2024高考英語閱讀理解及書面表達練習（3）
閱讀下列四篇短文，從每小題后所給的A,B,C或D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
Book reviews can be a great foot in the door if you’re looking to get your writing published somewhere. Most magazines, whether online or print, will include book reviews about books that tackle the topics the magazine discusses. Also, most editors and staff writers are usually too busy to read books and review them themselves (unless they are specifically assigned to a book review column). Therefore, writing book reviews can be a great way to get started with a writing career.
Many people that are reading your review may not know anything about the book you’re reviewing. Instead of making them go find information on their own by searching for the book title, start out with a little description of the book. Make sure you avoid too long of a summary, though, because if too much of your article is a summary of the book, it won’t be interesting. Start with a short paragraph or so that hits all the major points but doesn't give too much away. You don’t want to tell your reader everything about the book, because then they won’t have to read it at all. Just give enough information so your reader is interested in reading the book.
Some magazines like to publish book reviews that are completely objective（客觀的）. This means that they want a review of the book that doesn't share your opinion and that in which your opinion isn't obvious from reading what you wrote. If you hated a book, it might not be a great book to review. You probably want to review books that you enjoyed. This will give your review a positive spin. Avoid gushing about how much you loved the book, however. You should not include your personal reaction to the book until the very end, where you include a sentence or two about whether or not you would recommend a book and to whom you would recommend it.
A great way to get your review noticed is to look at a book through a specific lens. Read the book as a feminist（女權主義者） would, for example, and talk about what a feminist might say to applaud or criticize the book. You can choose any number of lenses, and feminism is just one option. An economic lens, a family lens, the lens of a different nationality, or the lens of a child could all be interesting ways to look at a book. If you look at a book in this way, instead of just reading it and forming your own opinion, it will be much more interesting and marketable. This is especially the case if you look at a lens that relates to the subject of the magazine to which you are submitting. Feminist magazines love book reviews about books read through a feminist lens, for example, because it pertains to their readership.
Another great way to write a book review is to talk about the writer’s style. Anyone can pick up a book and read for the plot, but it takes an experienced writer to note interesting things about another writer’s style and write about them intelligently.
1. What’s the first paragraph mainly about?
A. Standards of good book reviews.
B. Benefits of writing book reviews.
C. Ways to get your writing published.
D. Topics usually discussed in magazines.
2. Which of the following is a characteristic of a good book review?
A. Including much information on a major point of the book.
B. Stating clearly the writer’s opinion of the book.
C. Giving a brief summary of the book.
D. Avoiding describing the book.
3. The fourth paragraph is developed mainly by.
A. giving examplesB. telling personal experiences
C. making comparisonsD. analyzing causes
4. According to the text, only a skilled writer can .
A. look at a book through a specific angle
B. give an objective description of a book
C. find a book and understand its plot easily
D. pay close attention to another writer’s style
【參考答案】1—4、BCAD
閱讀理解。
You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need；let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma (文憑) represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to an utter deception (欺騙)like this to land their first job or to move ahead in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degress from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars(學籍管理員)at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. It turns out that when an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school refers to them as “special cases”. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by “no such people”．
To avoid complete lies，some job seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with”a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with” a college means that the job seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that's when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
因為人事部門的官員們更看重名校學歷，因此人們常常為謀求一份好工作和職位而造假。
13．The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.
A. college degrees can now be purchased easily
B. nowadays it is very hard for people to find jobs
C. lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem
D. employers are no longer interested in applicants' actual performances
答案：C。主旨大意題。總覽文章可知C項為本文主旨。
14．As used in the first line of the second paragraph，the word “utter” means ________.
A. thorough
B. careful
C. imcomplete
D. spoken
答案：A。詞義猜測題。由第二段第一句中的關鍵詞deception(欺騙)及其后的解釋“學歷造假”，再結合文章主旨可推出A項正確。thorough徹底的。
15．Once finding applicants with false diplomas, most colleges would ________.
A. keep the records of them B. drive them out of college
C. avoid direct conflicts with them D. accuse them of such behaviors
答案：C。推理判斷題。由第三段中的“...most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly”．和下面給出的例子可推斷出C項正確。
16．We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities
B. University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same school
C. people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in US easily
D. people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities
答案：A。事實細節題。由第二段第二句“For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools.”可知A項正確。由尾段可知B、D錯誤；C項在文中沒有信息支持。
Early on Saturday morning, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit central Chile. The powerful quake killed more than 800 people, destroyed or badly damaged 1.5 million homes and affected almost 2 million people.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck around 3:34 a.m., jolting(震搖) people awake all over the country. The earthquake came from underwater, off the coast of Chile.
Fernando Abarzua was in one of the many buildings that collapsed(倒塌) there. “I was on the eighth floor and all of a sudden I was down here,” he said, adding that he was surprised to have escaped with no major injuries.
The earthquake triggered(引發) a tsunami that swept across the Pacific Ocean, setting off warnings in 53 countries. In the end, the tsunami's waves caused major damage and several deaths in Chile but nowhere else.
Dozens of aftershocks, or smaller earthquakes, rattled(使顫動) the area in the days following Saturday's massive quake.
Chile has a history of earthquakes. The largest recorded earthquake in the world—a 9.5-magnitude quake—struck the country in May 1960. Since 1973, there have been 13 quakes there with a magnitude of at least 7.0. As a result, Chile's newer buildings were built to withstand(經受住) the shocks.
That is one reason that Chile's quake—though 500 times stronger—has caused much less damage than the earthquake that struck Haiti in January.
On Sunday, Bachelet ordered troops in Chile to help hand out food, water and blankets and to clear rubble(瓦礫堆)from the roads. Temporary hospitals were planned for the hardest-hit areas.
She later requested help from the international community. On Monday, the United Nations prepared earthquake relief efforts as well as 30 tons of food and other help.
Even before Bachelet's request, President Obama announced that the U.S. was prepared to help. “The United States stands ready to assist in the rescue and recovery efforts,” he said.
60. The passage mainly tells us
.
A. how the world helped Chile after its earthquake
B. a massive（巨大的） earthquake rocked Chile and the response to it
C. hundreds of people died after the Chile’s earthquake
D. the poorest country-Chile was destroyed completely
61. According to the passage, we know Fernando Abarzua is
.
A. brave
B. devoted
C. lucky
D. kind
62. Which of the following could be the main and direct reason that caused less
damage in Chile than that in Haiti?
A. Help came in time.
B. Chile's people had got the news before the earthquake.
C. Chile is richer than Haiti.
D. Most of the buildings in Chile can bear the shocks.
63. The passage most probably appears
.
A. in a newspaper
B. in a magazine
C. in a history book
D. in an advertisement
【陜西省2024五校聯考】書面表達 (滿分30分)
注意：可適當，以使行文連貫。書面表達 (滿分30分)
solved, some people suggest that PE be included as a subject in the College Entrance Examination.
I’m against the idea because it is by no means practical. Setting up standards for the exam alone may well be a hard task. It is far beyond our ability to manage such a nationwide exam in the sports field.
However, good health is an essential foundation of learning. Only when one is in good health can he guarantee efficient learning.
Therefore, it is school’s responsibility to help develop their students’ awareness of the importance of keeping fit. Moreover, schools should provide sufficient sports facilities for their students to have regular exercise.
【山東省2024高考仿真沖刺卷（）假如你叫李軍，是一位成績優秀的學生，你班班主任在安排座位時，讓成績好的學生和成績差的學生做同桌，這在你們班成績優秀的學生中引起了反響，班會課上大家就此進行了討論。現在請你根據下表把討論結果向班主任寫一封信反映一下，并說出自己的觀點。
注意：1．詞數：120左右，短文的開頭和結尾已為你寫好，不計入總詞數。
2．短文需包括表中所有要點，內容可適當發揮，使行文連貫。
3．參考詞匯：成績差的學生：a slower student長處：strength 缺點：weakness
Dear Mr．Zhang,
We have held a discussion about whether it is good or not for a top student to share a desk with a slower studen
【參考范文】寫作Dear Mr．Zhang,
We have held a discussion about whether it is good or not for a top student to share a desk with a slower student.
Some are for the idea．In their opinion, everyone has strengths as well as weaknesses．Although they are not good at lessons, they might do well in other fields like sports or arts．Therefore, they can learn from each other, and they may develop friendship．In addition, top students can help slower ones gain self-confidence by helping them with their lessons, which benefits them all.
However, others don’t hold the same view．They think some slower students are always making trouble, such as keeping talking in class and breaking school rules, which may lead to their forming bad habits．Besides, slower students often ask top students questions, which has a bad effect on their studies.
In my opinion, I’d like to choose to share a desk with a slower student so that we can learn from each other and make progress together．
Yours,
Li Jun
四川省蓬溪縣2024高考英語閱讀理解及書面表達練習（3）
閱讀下列四篇短文，從每小題后所給的A,B,C或D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
Book reviews can be a great foot in the door if you’re looking to get your writing published somewhere. Most magazines, whether online or print, will include book reviews about books that tackle the topics the magazine discusses. Also, most editors and staff writers are usually too busy to read books and review them themselves (unless they are specifically assigned to a book review column). Therefore, writing book reviews can be a great way to get started with a writing career.
Many people that are reading your review may not know anything about the book you’re reviewing. Instead of making them go find information on their own by searching for the book title, start out with a little description of the book. Make sure you avoid too long of a summary, though, because if too much of your article is a summary of the book, it won’t be interesting. Start with a short paragraph or so that hits all the major points but doesn't give too much away. You don’t want to tell your reader everything about the book, because then they won’t have to read it at all. Just give enough information so your reader is interested in reading the book.
Some magazines like to publish book reviews that are completely objective（客觀的）. This means that they want a review of the book that doesn't share your opinion and that in which your opinion isn't obvious from reading what you wrote. If you hated a book, it might not be a great book to review. You probably want to review books that you enjoyed. This will give your review a positive spin. Avoid gushing about how much you loved the book, however. You should not include your personal reaction to the book until the very end, where you include a sentence or two about whether or not you would recommend a book and to whom you would recommend it.
A great way to get your review noticed is to look at a book through a specific lens. Read the book as a feminist（女權主義者） would, for example, and talk about what a feminist might say to applaud or criticize the book. You can choose any number of lenses, and feminism is just one option. An economic lens, a family lens, the lens of a different nationality, or the lens of a child could all be interesting ways to look at a book. If you look at a book in this way, instead of just reading it and forming your own opinion, it will be much more interesting and marketable. This is especially the case if you look at a lens that relates to the subject of the magazine to which you are submitting. Feminist magazines love book reviews about books read through a feminist lens, for example, because it pertains to their readership.
Another great way to write a book review is to talk about the writer’s style. Anyone can pick up a book and read for the plot, but it takes an experienced writer to note interesting things about another writer’s style and write about them intelligently.
1. What’s the first paragraph mainly about?
A. Standards of good book reviews.
B. Benefits of writing book reviews.
C. Ways to get your writing published.
D. Topics usually discussed in magazines.
2. Which of the following is a characteristic of a good book review?
A. Including much information on a major point of the book.
B. Stating clearly the writer’s opinion of the book.
C. Giving a brief summary of the book.
D. Avoiding describing the book.
3. The fourth paragraph is developed mainly by.
A. giving examplesB. telling personal experiences
C. making comparisonsD. analyzing causes
4. According to the text, only a skilled writer can .
A. look at a book through a specific angle
B. give an objective description of a book
C. find a book and understand its plot easily
D. pay close attention to another writer’s style
【參考答案】1—4、BCAD
閱讀理解。
You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need；let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma (文憑) represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to an utter deception (欺騙)like this to land their first job or to move ahead in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degress from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars(學籍管理員)at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. It turns out that when an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school refers to them as “special cases”. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by “no such people”．
To avoid complete lies，some job seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with”a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with” a college means that the job seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that's when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
因為人事部門的官員們更看重名校學歷，因此人們常常為謀求一份好工作和職位而造假。
13．The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.
A. college degrees can now be purchased easily
B. nowadays it is very hard for people to find jobs
C. lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem
D. employers are no longer interested in applicants' actual performances
答案：C。主旨大意題。總覽文章可知C項為本文主旨。
14．As used in the first line of the second paragraph，the word “utter” means ________.
A. thorough
B. careful
C. imcomplete
D. spoken
答案：A。詞義猜測題。由第二段第一句中的關鍵詞deception(欺騙)及其后的解釋“學歷造假”，再結合文章主旨可推出A項正確。thorough徹底的。
15．Once finding applicants with false diplomas, most colleges would ________.
A. keep the records of them B. drive them out of college
C. avoid direct conflicts with them D. accuse them of such behaviors
答案：C。推理判斷題。由第三段中的“...most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly”．和下面給出的例子可推斷出C項正確。
16．We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities
B. University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same school
C. people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in US easily
D. people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities
答案：A。事實細節題。由第二段第二句“For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools.”可知A項正確。由尾段可知B、D錯誤；C項在文中沒有信息支持。
Early on Saturday morning, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded hit central Chile. The powerful quake killed more than 800 people, destroyed or badly damaged 1.5 million homes and affected almost 2 million people.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck around 3:34 a.m., jolting(震搖) people awake all over the country. The earthquake came from underwater, off the coast of Chile.
Fernando Abarzua was in one of the many buildings that collapsed(倒塌) there. “I was on the eighth floor and all of a sudden I was down here,” he said, adding that he was surprised to have escaped with no major injuries.
The earthquake triggered(引發) a tsunami that swept across the Pacific Ocean, setting off warnings in 53 countries. In the end, the tsunami's waves caused major damage and several deaths in Chile but nowhere else.
Dozens of aftershocks, or smaller earthquakes, rattled(使顫動) the area in the days following Saturday's massive quake.
Chile has a history of earthquakes. The largest recorded earthquake in the world—a 9.5-magnitude quake—struck the country in May 1960. Since 1973, there have been 13 quakes there with a magnitude of at least 7.0. As a result, Chile's newer buildings were built to withstand(經受住) the shocks.
That is one reason that Chile's quake—though 500 times stronger—has caused much less damage than the earthquake that struck Haiti in January.
On Sunday, Bachelet ordered troops in Chile to help hand out food, water and blankets and to clear rubble(瓦礫堆)from the roads. Temporary hospitals were planned for the hardest-hit areas.
She later requested help from the international community. On Monday, the United Nations prepared earthquake relief efforts as well as 30 tons of food and other help.
Even before Bachelet's request, President Obama announced that the U.S. was prepared to help. “The United States stands ready to assist in the rescue and recovery efforts,” he said.
60. The passage mainly tells us
.
A. how the world helped Chile after its earthquake
B. a massive（巨大的） earthquake rocked Chile and the response to it
C. hundreds of people died after the Chile’s earthquake
D. the poorest country-Chile was destroyed completely
61. According to the passage, we know Fernando Abarzua is
.
A. brave
B. devoted
C. lucky
D. kind
62. Which of the following could be the main and direct reason that caused less
damage in Chile than that in Haiti?
A. Help came in time.
B. Chile's people had got the news before the earthquake.
C. Chile is richer than Haiti.
D. Most of the buildings in Chile can bear the shocks.
63. The passage most probably appears
.
A. in a newspaper
B. in a magazine
C. in a history book
D. in an advertisement
【陜西省2024五校聯考】書面表達 (滿分30分)
注意：可適當，以使行文連貫。書面表達 (滿分30分)
solved, some people suggest that PE be included as a subject in the College Entrance Examination.
I’m against the idea because it is by no means practical. Setting up standards for the exam alone may well be a hard task. It is far beyond our ability to manage such a nationwide exam in the sports field.
However, good health is an essential foundation of learning. Only when one is in good health can he guarantee efficient learning.
Therefore, it is school’s responsibility to help develop their students’ awareness of the importance of keeping fit. Moreover, schools should provide sufficient sports facilities for their students to have regular exercise.
【山東省2024高考仿真沖刺卷（）假如你叫李軍，是一位成績優秀的學生，你班班主任在安排座位時，讓成績好的學生和成績差的學生做同桌，這在你們班成績優秀的學生中引起了反響，班會課上大家就此進行了討論。現在請你根據下表把討論結果向班主任寫一封信反映一下，并說出自己的觀點。
注意：1．詞數：120左右，短文的開頭和結尾已為你寫好，不計入總詞數。
2．短文需包括表中所有要點，內容可適當發揮，使行文連貫。
3．參考詞匯：成績差的學生：a slower student長處：strength 缺點：weakness
Dear Mr．Zhang,
We have held a discussion about whether it is good or not for a top student to share a desk with a slower studen
【參考范文】寫作Dear Mr．Zhang,
We have held a discussion about whether it is good or not for a top student to share a desk with a slower student.
Some are for the idea．In their opinion, everyone has strengths as well as weaknesses．Although they are not good at lessons, they might do well in other fields like sports or arts．Therefore, they can learn from each other, and they may develop friendship．In addition, top students can help slower ones gain self-confidence by helping them with their lessons, which benefits them all.
However, others don’t hold the same view．They think some slower students are always making trouble, such as keeping talking in class and breaking school rules, which may lead to their forming bad habits．Besides, slower students often ask top students questions, which has a bad effect on their studies.
In my opinion, I’d like to choose to share a desk with a slower student so that we can learn from each other and make progress together．
Yours,
Li Jun
