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练习 19 阅读理解＋读后续写
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Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
2024·深圳高三调研 应用文 295词 ★★☆☆☆
King's Volunteering of King's College London is looking for paid members to sit on the
Student Advisory Board for Volunteering. The Board plays an important role in influencing the
development and delivery of the volunteering service. Its aim is to find volunteering opportunities
for students, teachers and other staff at school.
Volunteering, which has the potential to create positive social impact, is a key priority for
King's. The Board will ensure that students' needs are at the core of the service so that all King's
students can make a difference.
This year, the Student Advisory Board for Volunteering will cocreate the agenda, and
potential topics include：
•Volunteering opportunities for the disabled.
•Promotion of the Board's service.
•How to recognize and reward volunteers.
•Evaluation of the Board's work.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity open to all studying at King's, regardless of how
much or how little you have volunteered. The Board will be run both online and in person, and
board members will be paid the London Living Wage (￡11.95 per hour) via King's Talent Bank.
The application deadline is 23：59 on Friday, 31st March 2023.
Apply via the form below, using your King's email address.
1．What does the Board aim to do for those at King's?
A.Perform voluntary work.
B．Meet their academic needs.
C．Provide learning opportunities.
D．Discover volunteering chances.
答案与解析：D 理解具体信息。根据第一段中的“Its aim is to find volunteering
opportunities for students, teachers and other staff at school”可知，志愿服务学生咨询委员会想
要为学生、老师和学校的其他职工提供做志愿者的机会，故D项正确。
2．Which of the following is a possible topic for this year's agenda?
A．Running the Board online.
B．Training voluntary workers.
C．Assessing the Board's performance.
D．Taking care of people with disabilities.
答案与解析：C 理解具体信息。根据第三段中的“cocreate the agenda, and potential
topics include：...Evaluation of the Board's work”可知，今年的议题包括评估志愿服务学生咨询委员会的工作表现，故C项正确。
3．Who can apply to be a member of the Board at King's?
A．The students. B．The teachers.
C．The graduates. D．The working staff.
答案与解析：A 理解具体信息。根据第四段中的“This is a unique and exciting
opportunity open to all studying at King's”可知，伦敦国王学院的在校生可以申请成为志愿服
务学生咨询委员会成员，故A项正确。
B
2024·四省适应性测试 说明文 282词 ★★☆☆☆
We all know that unpleasant feeling when we're talking about something interesting and
halfway through our sentence we're interrupted. But was that really an interruption? The answer
depends on whom you ask, according to new research led by Katherine Hilton from Stanford
University.
Using a set of controlled audio clips (录音片段), Hilton surveyed 5，000 American English
speakers to better understand what affects people's perceptions of interruptions. She had
participants listen to audio clips and then answer questions about whether the speakers seemed to
be friendly and engaged, listening to one another, or trying to interrupt.
Hilton found that American English speakers have different conversational styles. She
identified two distinct groups: high and low intensity speakers. High intensity speakers are
generally uncomfortable with moments of silence in conversation and consider talking at the same
time a sign of engagement. Low intensity speakers find it rude to talk at the same time and prefer
people to speak one after another in conversation.
The differences in conversational styles became evident when participants listened to audio
clips in which two people spoke at the same time but were agreeing with each other and stayed on
topic, Hilton said. The high intensity group reported that conversations where people spoke at the
same time when expressing agreement were not interruptive but engaged and friendlier than the
conversations with moments of silence in between speaking turns. In contrast, the low intensity
group perceived any amount of simultaneous (同时的) chat as a rude interruption, regardless of
what the speakers were saying.
“People care about being interrupted, and those small interruptions can have a massive
effect on the overall communication，” Hilton said. “Breaking apart what an interruption means
is essential if we want to understand how humans interact with each other.”
【语篇解读】 为了更好了解是什么影响了人们对被打断的看法，研究人员进行了实
验，最后得出结论：谈话被打断是否是一种干扰取决于提问的对象。
4．What does Hilton's research focus on?
A．What interruptions mean to people.
B．Whether interruptions are good or not.
C．How to avoid getting interrupted.
D．Why speakers interrupt each other.
答案与解析：A 推断。根据第二段中“Using a set of...perceptions of interruptions”和第
四段中的“The high intensity group...the speakers were saying”可知，为了更好了解是什么影
响人们对打断的看法，Hilton调查了5 000名说美式英语的人，由此可知Hilton的研究焦点
在于打断对人们来讲意味着什么。同时，高强度组和低强度组对打断的看法也说明了这一点。故A项正确。
5．What do participants of the study need to do?
A．Record an audio clip.
B．Answer some questions.
C．Listen to one another.
D．Have a chat with a friend.
答案与解析：B 理解具体信息。根据第二段中“She had participants listen to audio
clips and then answer questions...trying to interrupt”可知，她让参与者听录音片段，然后回答
一些问题，故B项正确。
6．What do low intensity speakers think of simultaneous chat?
A．It's important. B．It's interesting.
C．It's inefficient. D．It's impolite.
答案与解析：D 理解具体信息。根据第三段中“Low intensity speakers find it
rude...another in conVersation”可知，低强度说话者觉得同时说话很粗鲁，更喜欢人们在谈话
中一个接一个地说话，故D项正确。
7．What can we learn from Hilton's research?
A．Human interaction is complex.
B．Communication is the basis of life.
C．Interruptions promote thinking.
D．Language barriers will always exist.
答案与解析：A 推断。根据文章最后一段的内容可知，人们很在意被打断，而那些
小小的打断会对整个交流产生巨大的影响，如果想要了解人们如何与其他人交流，分解打
断的含义是必不可少的。由此可见，人类的交流是复杂的。故A项正确。
Ⅱ.读后续写
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
[2024·石家庄高三质检]I still remember the day when we decorated the house. I was ten and
it was two weeks before New Year. I was looking forward to my presents. Since I'm the youngest
in the family, all of the family members would give me a gift one way or another. Sometimes it
was a cookie or a hug but it was always there. I was the only center of attention and it was feeling
good.
My uncles usually would ask me what I wanted before New Year and that year I knew
what I wanted. It was the spaceship I saw in the ads. I was dreaming of opening a big gift box,
and it was there. But that year it came in a way that I wasn't expecting.
It was two weeks before New Year. Just two weeks. She couldn't wait. My dear mother
told my father that it was time, and then we went to the hospital. After an hour, they told me that I
had a sister. But I didn't want a sister. I wanted a spaceship. The next few days went so fast. No
one was caring about me. Everyone was talking about her and I knew that my life was never going
to be the same ever again. I wasn't ready to grow up, to be a big brother. But it just happened in an
instant.
On the day before New Year, everyone was in our home, talking only about my newborn
sister. My family was becoming hers. Even my uncles didn't ask me anything about the gift. She
stole everything I'd ever had, my life and my presents. Thinking about this, I cried myself to sleep.
I had a nightmare (噩梦) and woke up in the middle of the night. Shadows were all around me,
and I was defenseless and so weak. I ran into my parents' bedroom but couldn't wake up my poorparents who were just too worn out. I was standing near their bed, trying not to cry when I saw
her. She was awake and looking at me with her big eyes in her small bed.
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Suddenly a long shadow came into the bedroom and she started crying.
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After having comforted her, something slowly changed inside me.
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One possible version：
Suddenly a long shadow came into the bedroom and she started crying. Panicky at
first, I then realized that it was just a car passing by. But she felt uneasy, her mouth wide opening,
arms waving, and legs kicking (独立主格结构). I thought she might be scared, so I held out my
hand to hold hers, patting her on the back with the other (现在分词短语作伴随状语). I even
moved a bit closer to her little bed, whispering my favorite song in her ears, just as my mum did
when I got scared. Surprisingly, she seemed to understand me and stopped crying. Looking into
her big eyes, I breathed a sigh of relief.
After having comforted her, something slowly changed inside me. The sense of loneliness
was replaced by the responsibility of being an elder brother (巧妙使用被动语态彰显句式变化).
Even though her arrival took over the center of the whole family initially (Even though引导的让
步状语从句), she started to become the center of my attention too. With her cute round face and
sparkling eyes, she also won my love and care for her. I looked around and found my parents,
awake, smiling at me. With a shadow of a happy family cast on the window (with 复合结构), I
felt my little sister was the best gift I'd ever got.
