2020高考英语二轮复习40分阅读限时练(八)+Word版含解析

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40分阅读限时练(八)

阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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[2019·贵阳市期末监测]In Singapore, art is more than what meets

the eye. Galleries and museums here are not just places to be inspired, but

also homes to distinctive souvenirs. Take home well-designed pieces that

reflect your personality.

Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI)

41 Robertson Quay, Singapore 238236. ＋65 6336 3663.

Mon.－Fri. 10 a．m.－7 p．m.; Sat. 9 a．m.－6 p．m.

STPI is a space for experimentation of print and paper. Walk through

the gallery and join other art lovers in developing an appreciation of print

and paper art practice. STPI allows you to own a piece of the work

produced by artists at the gallery workshops.

Red Dot Design Museum (RDDM)

11 Marina Boulevard, Singapore 018940. ＋65 6514 0111.

Mon.－Thur. 10 a．m.－8 p．m.; Fri.－Sun. 10 a．m.－11 p．m.

From lighting to parasol (阳伞), the Red Dot Design Museum presents

award-winning products and design concepts from over 30 countries. Head

to the Design Museum Shop, there are many interesting design objects and

collections sourced from all over the world.

National Gallery Singapore (NGS)

1 St. Andrew's Rd, Singapore 178957. ＋65 6271 7000.

Mon.－Thur., Sat.－Sun. 10 a．m.－7 p．m.; Fri. 10 a．m.－9 p．m.

NGS occupies two major landmarks — the former Supreme Court and

City Hall — and features over 8,000 artworks, which is the largest public

display of modern Southeast Asian art and culture. It is also a home to a

host of international exhibitions that have inspired the world and will be

remembered for years to come.

Singapore Philatelic Museum (SPM)

23 -B Coleman Street, Singapore 179807. ＋65 6337 3888.

Daily 10 a．m.－7 p．m..

Fascinated by stamps? SPM features postage stamps dating all the

way back from the 1830s. Enjoy this vibrant museum's in-depth

presentation of local and international postal history. Send

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Singapore-inspired postcards or collect miniature postboxes from

Singapore and around the world. Charming souvenirs at the museum store

will make creative decorations for your home or office.

体裁：应用文 题材：广告 主题：新加坡的四个画廊和博物馆

【语篇解读】 本文是一篇应用文，主要介绍了新加坡的四个画廊和博物馆，具体介绍了其地址、电话、开放时间、服务特色等。

【难句分析】 It is also a home to a host of international exhibitions

that have inspired the world and will be remembered for years to come.

分析：该句为主从复合句。句中“that have inspired the world and

will be remembered for years to come”为that引导的定语从句，修饰先行词“international exhibitions”，that在从句中作主语。

译文：它也是许多国际展览的举办地，这些展览鼓舞了世界，并将在未来的岁月中为人们所铭记。

1．Which number is available if you have any question on Red Dot

Design Museum?

A．＋65 6336 3663. B．＋65 6514 0111.

C．＋65 6271 7000. D．＋65 6337 3888.

答案与解析：B 考查细节理解。根据题干中的关键词“Red Dot

Design Museum”定位至Red Dot Design Museum (RDDM)部分。根据该部分中的＋65 6514 0111可知选B项。

2．Which of the following is the address of National Gallery

Singapore?

A．41 Robertson Quay, Singapore 238236.

B．11 Marina Boulevard, Singapore 018940.

C．1 St. Andrew's Rd, Singapore 178957.

D．23-B Coleman Street, Singapore 179807.

答案与解析：C 考查细节理解。根据题干中的关键词“National

Gallery Singapore”定位至National Gallery Singapore (NGS)部分，根据该部分中的“1 St. Andrew's Rd, Singapore 178957”可知选C项。

3．Where can you go if you are fond of stamps?

A．Singapore Tyler Print Institute.

B．Red Dot Design Museum.

C．National Gallery Singapore.

D．Singapore Philatelic Museum.

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答案与解析：D 考查推理判断。根据题干中的关键词“stamps”定位至Singapore Philatelic Museum (SPM)部分，根据该部分中的“SPM features postage stamps dating all the way back from the 1830s”可推知，喜欢邮票的人可以去Singapore Philatelic Museum，故D项正确。

B

[2019·九江二模]I went to a New York Mets fantasy camp in 1995, an

incredible experience. I was fortunate to be on a team whose pitching coach

was Mel Stottlemyre, the former Yankees star pitcher (投手) and Mets and

Yankees coach. I was upset when Mel died of cancer on Jan. 13, 2018, at

the age of 77.

He was warm, friendly and treated us as if we were major leagues. He

asked me whether I would like to pitch and showed me how to throw a

“two-seamer，” a fastball that tends to sink, as well as a straight

four-seam fastball. I knew that pitching was not for me. At age 45, my

experience in organizing baseball was limited to a couple of years in Little

League in the Bronx, and softball games as an adult. Mel eventually left the

Mets and became the pitching coach for the Yankees. I followed his career

and knew about his diagnosis (诊断) of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer,

in April 2000, and a stem cell transplant.

In the summer of 2002, I was diagnosed as multiple myeloma and was

told that I needed a stem-cell transplant by the same group of doctors at

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that had treated Mel.

This shocked me, and frankly, I became quite depressed. I vowed that

somehow I would try to speak to Mel. One day, my phone rang. Mel was

calling from the Yankees' locker room. I asked him to tell me everything

about his treatment. He spent 30 minutes generously explaining all the

details. I hung on every word. He told me how well he was feeling and

ended the conversation by giving me his home phone number! “I feel

great, and I'm not retiring，” he told me.

This incredible experience lifted my spirits. Every time I saw Mel

during games on TV as I awaited my transplant, I repeated to myself,

“Look at Mel. If he can do it, so can I．”

体裁：记叙文 题材：个人经历 主题：教练的乐观精神鼓励“我”战胜病魔

【语篇解读】 文章叙述了作者在参加度假营时遇到了对他影响深远的投球教练，后来在教练的乐观精神的鼓励下战胜病魔，克服困难。

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4．Why did the author say he was lucky in Paragraph 1?

A．He joined a famous team.

B．He met an unusual coach.

C．He was successfully cured.

D．He was chosen as a pitcher.

答案与解析：B 考查细节理解。根据第一段第二句“I was

fortunate to be on a team whose pitching coach was Mel Stottlemyre, the

former Yankees star pitcher and Mets and Yankees coach”和第二段中的“He was warm，friendly”以及最后一段内容可知，作者认为自己遇到了一个难得的好教练，为此感到很幸运，故选B项。

5．What do we know about the author?

A．He was not skilled in pitching.

B．He was a good baseball player.

C．He called Mel for his treatment.

D．He forgot what Mel had told him.

答案与解析：A 考查细节理解。根据第二段中的“I knew that

pitching was not for me.”可知，作者不擅长投球，故选A项。根据倒数第二段中的“One day，my phone rang. Mel ”可知，是教练打电话给作者，排除C项；根据倒数第二段中的“I hung on every

word.”可知，作者一字不漏地聆听教练的话，每句话都记在心里，排除D项。

6．How old was Mel when he was diagnosed as multiple myeloma?

A．23. B．45.

C．59. D．61.

答案与解析：C 考查细节理解。根据第一段中的“I was upset

on Jan. 13, 2018, at the age of 77.”和第二段最后一句“I

followed his career and knew about his diagnosis of multiple myeloma, ...

in ”可知，教练2018年是77岁，被诊断出多发性骨髓瘤时是2000年，也就是59岁时被诊断出了疾病，故选C项。

7．What would be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Skills Taught by My Former Coach

B．The Transplant Given by the Same Doctors

C．My Baseball Team Helping Me Out

D．My Coach's Spirits Shining on Me

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答案与解析：D 考查主旨大意。根据最后一段可知，教练的经历振奋了作者的情绪，每一次他等待移植手术时，在电视比赛中看到教练，他都会跟自己说“如果他能做到，我也能做到”，所以是教练的精神鼓励着作者战胜病魔，故选D项。

C

[2019·湖南六校联考]Not only does the use of plastic water bottles

hurt your wallet, it also increases pollution and wastes energy and water.

Only 23% of all plastic in America ends up in a recycling bin, meaning

over $1 billion worth of plastic is treated as rubbish a year. Recently,

Skipping Rocks Lab has invented a kind of water bottle called Ooho.

It is a convenient, clear water bottle that can either be drunk or eaten.

To drink it, you can either peel off the membrane (薄膜) or tear a hole in

the membrane with your teeth to pour the water into your mouth. To eat it,

you simply put the whole bottle in your mouth. One problem the scientists

have run into is how to ship lots of Ooho bubbles without arriving with a

very wet truck. However, they have attempted to package units of

individual bubbles together inside a larger and thicker membrane. It is

targeting large outdoor events such as marathons, music festivals, and

sporting events, where tons of plastic bottles are used, and frequently left

behind as litter. And too much plastic is sure to do harm to the environment,

which could account for their purpose of such a new invention.

The team has been working for the past two years to develop the

technology and materials needed to produce Ooho; they have recently

applied for a patent for their new advancement. The price for an individual

bubble or a unit of bubbles has not been set yet, but they cost about two

cents to create a unit, which is cheaper than plastic bottles. It has appeared

at events in London, San Francisco, Boston, at conferences, festivals, and

so on.

Ooho is catching many people's attention and has raised over$1

million and gained 1,000 investors in only three days. It is mostly being

sold at events at the moment to keep the consumer's interest when the

production machine is running. It is quickly making a rise, so keep an eye

out this year for these bottles of the future.

体裁：说明文 题材：环境保护 主题：可以食用的包装材料Ooho。

【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文。由于塑料瓶的使用不但浪费金钱，还造成环境污染，Skipping Rocks Lab发明了一种可以食用的包装材料Ooho。本文介绍了Ooho的食用方法，运输方法以及制作成本，并展望了其市场前景。

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【难句分析】 It is targeting large outdoor events such as marathons,

music festivals, and sporting events, where tons of plastic bottles are used,

and frequently left behind as litter.

分析：该句为主从复合句，句中“where tons of plastic bottles are

used, and frequently left behind as litter”为where 引导的非限制性定语从句，修饰先行词“outdoor events”，where在从句中作地点状语。

译文：该产品是针对诸如马拉松、音乐节和体育赛事等大型户外活动而发明的，在这些活动中，会用数吨塑料瓶，且这些塑料瓶经常被当作垃圾扔下。

【背景知识】 Ooho是一种由海藻基膜制成的可生物降解的水包，主要用于马拉松参赛者补充水分。参赛者既可以咬破Ooho的边缘喝水，也可以将之整个吃掉。它同时具备可食用性和生物可降解性，不会对环境造成太大的负担。

8．How is most plastic dealt with in America?

A．It's sold. B．It's recycled.

C．It's buried. D．It's wasted.

答案与解析：D 考查细节理解。根据第一段第二句“Only 23% of

all plastic in America ends up in a recycling bin, meaning over $1 billion

worth of plastic is treated as rubbish a year”可知，在美国只有23%的塑料最终回到回收站，这意味着价值超过10亿美元的塑料被视为垃圾。据此可知，在美国，大部分塑料被当成垃圾处理了，故D项正确。

9．Why did the team invent Ooho?

A．To make a profit for a company.

B．To protect the environment.

C．To make people eat as they drink.

D．To reduce the cost of the plastic bottle.

答案与解析：B 考查细节理解。根据第二段尾句“And too much

plastic is sure to do harm to the environment, which could account for their

purpose of such a new invention”可知，由于塑料瓶的使用污染了环境，故Skipping Rocks Lab发明了一种可以食用的包装材料Ooho，故B项正确。

10．What can we infer about Ooho from the text?

A．It is easy and safe to ship it in large amounts.

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B．It has become popular since it began to be sold.

C．It might be sold at a lower price than plastic bottles.

D．It cost the team a lot of money to develop the technology.

答案与解析：C 考查推理判断。根据第三段第二句“The price for

an individual bubble or a unit of bubbles has not been set yet, but they cost

about two cents to create a unit, which is cheaper than plastic bottles”可知，该产品的制造成本比塑料瓶低；据此可推知，该产品的售价也可能比塑料瓶低，故C项正确。

11．What does the author really want to say in the last paragraph?

A．Ooho is to be a success in the future.

B．Ooho is being supported by smart people.

C．Ooho is taking the place of plastic bottles now.

D．Ooho is being produced to attract more investors.

答案与解析：A 考查推理判断。根据尾段第一句“Ooho is

catching many people's attention and has raised over$1 million and gained

1,000 investors in only three days.”可知，Ooho吸引了很多人的注意，在三天时间内就得到了1 000位投资者的关注，筹集到100多万美元；再结合最后一句“It is quickly making a rise, so keep an eye out this year

for these bottles of the future.”可推知，作者最后一段想要表达的是，在未来Ooho一定能获得成功，故A项正确。

D

[2019·绵阳市诊断]We've all had the experience of wanting to get a

project done but putting it off to a later date. So why do we delay things?

Are we built to operate this way at some times?

These questions are central to my research on goal pursuit (追求). It

all starts with a simple choice between working now on a given project and

doing anything else. The decision to work on something is driven by how

much we value accomplishing the project in that moment — what

psychologists call its subjective value. And delay, in psychological terms, is

what happens when the value of doing something else outweighs the value

of working now.

This way of thinking suggests a simple trick to defeat delay. For

example, instead of cleaning my house, I might try to focus on why grading

papers is personally important to me. It's simple advice, but sticking to this

strategy (策略) can be quite difficult.

People are not entirely wise in the way they value things. For example,

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a dollar bill is worth exactly the same today as it is a week from now, but

its subjective value — roughly how good it would feel to own a dollar —

depends on other factors besides its face value, such as when we receive it.

The tendency for people to devalue money and other goods based on time

is called delay discounting. For example, receiving $100 three months from

now is worth the same to people as receiving $83 right now. People would

rather lose $17 than wait a few months to get a larger reward.

Getting something done is a delayed reward, so its value in the present

is reduced: the further away the deadline is, the less attractive it seems to

work on the project right now. The tendency to delay things closely follows

economic models of delay discounting. One way to manage it is to make

the finish line seem closer. For example, vividly imagining a future reward

reduces delay discounting.

体裁：议论文 题材：社会生活 主题：拖延

【语篇解读】 本文是一篇议论文，作者在文中主要分析了拖延的原因以及应对办法。

12．Which of the following best explains “outweighs” underlined in

paragraph 2?

A．Is equal to. B．Is greater than.

C．Is involved in. D．Is central to.

答案与解析：B 考查词义猜测。根据本段内容可知，要去做某件事的决定是被我们在那一刻完成计划的评估驱动的——心理学家称其为某件事的“主观价值”。而拖延从心理学的角度讲，就是当做别的事情的价值大于即刻就工作的价值时发生的情况，故选B。

13．What should we do to overcome delay in the author's opinion?

A．Avoid setting a deadline too strictly.

B．Consider doing nothing temporarily.

C．Increase the subjective value of working now.

D．Realize great fun of working immediately.

答案与解析：C 考查推理判断。根据第二段中的“The decision to

work on something is driven by how much we value accomplishing the

project in that moment — what psychologists call its subjective value. And

delay, in psychological terms, is what happens when the value of doing

something else outweighs the value of working now”可知，作者认为人们之所以会拖延是因为他们对完成当前工作任务的主观价值评估较低；再结合第三段的内容可推知，人们可以通过提高对自己完成当前工作好好努力 梦想终会实现

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任务的主观价值评估来克服拖延，故选C。

14．Which proverb can best summarize the theory of delay

discounting?

A．Time and tide wait for no man.

B．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

C．One of these days is none of these days.

D．Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

答案与解析：B 考查推理判断。根据第四段的内容，尤其是“The

receiving $100 three months from now is worth the same to

people as receiving $83 right now. People would rather lose $17 than wait a

few months to get a larger reward”可知，人们给事物评估的方式并非完全是理性的，人们基于时间(流逝)评估钱和其他货品贬值的趋势称为“延迟折扣”，比如人们宁愿要马上就能拿到手的83美元，也不要3个月后才给的100美元。这都强调了在延迟折扣的理论中，人们更看重眼前利益，故B项A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush“一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林”符合题干要求。

15．What is suggested to deal with delay discounting?

A．Asking for nothing in return.

B．Lowering our high expectations.

C．Searching for instant satisfaction.

D．Making future rewards more inviting.

答案与解析：D 考查细节理解。根据最后一段的内容，尤其是最后两句“One way to manage it is to make the finish line seem closer. For

example, vividly imagining a future reward reduces delay discounting”可知，作者认为应对拖延的一种方式就是让终点线看上去更近。比如说，生动地想象未来的奖赏会减少延迟折扣，故选D。

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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

[2019·成都诊断]From sports teams to movie characters, we love

supporting the weak. While that's inspiring for a film or a story, it can be

hard to remain positive when you're experiencing a struggle. It's said that

what is most personal is most universal. __1__ Here are some important

reasons why you should share your story of struggles.

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You can shine a light for others. __2__ Sometimes, that's all someone

needs to get through a difficult time. You can help even more by applying

ideas and solutions creatively to their own problems.

__3__ It's uncomfortable to admit to others your failures, struggles or

other moments of weakness. That's true for everyone, yet opening yourself

up to moments of weakness is surprisingly satisfying. It requires courage

and being courageous requires practice.

People will support you. __4__ We all do. So why not share the ways

you've faced great difficulty and bounced back? If no one knows your

struggles then they'll never know to cheer for you or what you've overcome

to reach where you are today.

Another great aspect of sharing your story is that it helps you

remember the lesson you learned. __5__ Understanding what happened and

how you handled situations can provide you with the ways clearly on how

to do things better and move forward. You can also share key experience

alongside your story so others can learn, too.

A．It helps you find your voice.

B．You love a good comeback story.

C．It allows you to practice courage.

D．You can objectively analyze your own past.

E．That's why your story can bring much value.

F．Be open with the world about the good and the bad.

G．Sharing your story will help them realize they aren't alone.

体裁：说明文 题材：社会生活 主题：分享奋斗故事

【语篇解读】 本文主要介绍了与他人分享你的奋斗故事的原因。

1．答案与解析：E 承接上文“It's said that what is most personal is

most universal”，并与下文“Here are some important reasons why you

should share your story of struggles”相呼应可推知，E项“这就是你的故事能带来很多价值的原因”符合语境，所以选E项。

2．答案与解析：G 根据下文“Sometimes, that's all someone needs

to get through a difficult time”，并结合上文“You can shine a light for

others”可推知，分享你的故事有助于他人产生共鸣，所以选G项。

3．答案与解析：C 根据下文中的“It requires courage and being

courageous requires practice”可推知，本段主要讲述的是分享你的故事有助于加强自己的勇气，所以选C项。

4．答案与解析：B 根据下文“We all do. So why not share the ways

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you've faced great difficulty and bounced back？”可推知，人们都喜欢东山再起的故事，所以不如将你身处重重困难却能重整旗鼓的方法分享给别人，所以选B项。

5．答案与解析：D 根据下文“Understanding what happened and

how you handled situations can provide you with the ways clearly on how

to do things better and move forward”可推知，分享你的故事有助于客观地分析自己的过去，从而总结经验、吸取教训，所以选好好努力 梦想终会实现

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