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练习 33 阅读理解＋读后续写
授课提示：对应学生用书81页
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
2024·南京市模拟 记叙文 298词 ★★★☆☆
Does your life ever feel as if you're pushing a heavy car—one on which you've spent much
money and that has now broken down? You've done everything right: you haven't invested heavily
in a new business or quit your job to pursue your childhood dream of becoming a professional
athlete. You have been a sensible adult living your sensible life. So why does it feel like such hard
work?
This has been me for the past few months. Earlier this year, I took a long hard look at my
sources of income and decided to focus on the ones that provided the most money. I'm lucky
enough to have had a good financial year. But despite doing the right thing, it has used up my
energy and I've worked out why.
Years ago, I realized that I disliked hard work. Don't get me wrong. I don't mind working
hard, but hard work isn't for me. What's the difference? For a start, hard work feels as if it never
really gets going. You can push hard work and it might move a little but there's no celebratory
moment when it gets done. Most importantly, hard work lacks joy. Working hard on a project you
feel excited and moved by can be tiring and difficult, but it's ultimately joyful and that is what I've
been missing.
So I asked myself what would feel scary but joyful and this is the answer. I'm going to write a
romance. Of course, being a middleaged journalist who suddenly decides to write a book is
nothing novel. However, for me, it hits the sweet spot between being joyful enough to make me
want to do it and scary enough to make me feel it's worthwhile.
As with all good middleaged changes, this one hasn't really been thought through. I know
little about writing fiction and even less about what makes a good book. I have the thinnest ideas
for a plot but, for the first time in a while, I'm excited, I will be another Jane Austen with my
fantasies which give me life. So now, I have to go and sharpen my pencil.
【语篇解读】 作者发现在一个让自己感到兴奋和感动的项目上努力工作可能会很累、
很困难，但最终是快乐的，这是作者一直错过的工作和生活，后来，作者决定尝试写一本
书，虽然这不是什么新鲜事，却让作者第一次感受到了兴奋。
1．What can best describe the author's current feeling about life?
A．A new business makes her feel fresh.
B．She has got everything under her control.
C．She is conflicted about living a sensible life.
D．A childhood dream inspires her to make more efforts.
答案与解析：C 推断。根据第一段的“You have been a sensible adult living your
sensible life. So why does it feel like such hard work？”可知，作者对理智的生活感到矛盾，故C项正确。
2．What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A．Living a rather sensible life.
B．Identifying income sources.
C．Discovering new life goals.
D．Sorting out the author's jobs.
答案与解析：A 理解词汇。根据第一段的“You have been a sensible adult...such hard
work？”以及第二段的“This has been me...decided to focus on the ones that provided the most
money...despite doing the right thing”可知，第二段画线词it指的是过着理智的生活，故A项
正确。
3．What's the author's understanding of hard work and working hard?
A．Journalism is a career worth working hard.
B．Hard work is something either sweet or tiring.
C.Writing a romance is difficult but rewarding.
D．Working hard rarely brings about satisfaction.
答案与解析：C 理解具体信息。根据倒数第二段的“However, for me, it hits the sweet
spot between being joyful enough to make me want to do it and scary enough to make me feel it's
worthwhile”可知，作者认为写浪漫小说很难，但是非常值得，故C项正确。
4．What is probably the best title for the text?
A．Dare to attempt
B．Middleaged job crisis
C．The celebratory moment
D．A future Jane Austen
答案与解析：A 理解文章主旨要义。作者感到生活不如意，在勇敢尝试写小说后，
找到了人生的乐趣，与A项“Dare to attempt”意义一致，故A项正确。
B
2024·沈阳市质检 说明文 304词 ★★★☆☆
A few days before New Year 1944, Patricia Krueger received a telegram from the U．S.
Army. She hoped it would contain a belated birthday greeting from her husband, an army flight
engineer, Charles Krueger, whom she had not heard from for 2 weeks. Instead, the message said
he wasn't coming home: His B29 had been lost and he was later declared MIA (missing in action).
Their son, John Krueger from Middleton, Wisconsin, is still in tears when he recounts this story.
Decades later, the military continues to work to bring back the remains of soldiers like
Charles Krueger. The job of finding them falls to DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency), created in 2015 after critics charged that the previous MIA search process was slow, and
behind on innovations in science and technology. Between 1973 and 2014, the remains of only
1，849 missing service members were returned to their families; in 2021, the agency accounted
for the remains of 141 MIAs, according to DPAA figures.
To accelerate the work, Congress gave DPAA the authority to develop publicprivate
partnerships with scientists and groups outside the government. “Teaming up with academic
scientists introduces new ways of thinking，” says military historian Michael Dolski. “Working
with partners allows us to tap into their technologies and capabilities in ways that we just can't
maintain.”For scientists, the work is more than technically satisfying. “It's the most rewarding aspect
of my career，” says Mires, a scientist working with the agency. “In other archaeology sites
I've worked on, the history is remote，” he says. “Here, you're doing something not for a thing,
but for a person, and all the people they touched.”
【语篇解读】 本文主要介绍了人们利用新技术寻找战斗中失踪人员的情况。
5．What was the telegram about in Paragraph 1?
A．A New Year dinner.
B．Charles Krueger's disappearance.
C．A birthday greeting.
D．John Krueger's memory.
答案与解析：B 理解具体信息。根据第一段中的“Instead, the message...MIA (missing
in action)”可知，这条消息说他不会回家了：他的B29失踪了，后来他被宣布为战时失踪人
员；据此可知，第一段的电报是关于Charles Krueger失踪的事。
6．Why did people criticize the previous MIA search process?
A．Because DPAA wants to continue the search.
B．Because it took long and lacked creativeness.
C．Because the work was stopped by the military.
D.Because 141 MIAs' remains were found in 2021.
答案与解析：B 理解具体信息。根据第二段中的“The job of...science and technology”
可知，寻找战时失踪人员的工作落在了DPAA身上，该机构成立于2015年，此前批评人士
指责之前的失踪人员搜寻过程缓慢，缺乏科学技术创新。据此可知，人们批评之前的失踪
人员搜寻过程是因为其需要的时间长，而且缺乏创造性。
7．What is Michael Dolski's attitude to the cooperation with scientists and groups?
A．Patient. B．Critical.
C．Doubtful. D．Approving.
答案与解析：D 理解观点、态度。根据第三段中的“Teaming up with...of
thinking”“Working with...we just can't maintain”可知，Michael Dolski认为，与学术科学家
合作引入了新的思维方式；与合作伙伴一起工作使我们能够利用他们的技术和能力。据此
可以推知，Michael Dolski对与科学家和团体的合作持支持态度。故选D项。
8．What is a suitable title for the text?
A．A long search for MIAs
B．Achievements of DPAA
C．Assistance from science
D．Consequences of wars
答案与解析：A 理解文章主旨要义。根据第二段中的“Decades later, the military...in
science and technology”可知，几十年后，军方仍在努力找回像Charles Krueger这样的士兵
的遗骸，批评人士指责之前的失踪人员搜寻过程缓慢，缺乏科学技术创新。根据第三段中
“To accelerate the...groups outside the government”可知，为了加速这项工作，国会授权
DPAA与政府以外的科学家和团体建立公私合作伙伴关系。据此可知，文章主要介绍了搜
寻战斗中失踪人员的情况及为此所做的努力。故本文的最佳标题为A项“对战斗中失踪人
员的长期搜寻”。
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·安徽六校入学测试]At the table sat my fouryearold son Matthew, legs swinging in theair and chin in hand. I stared aimlessly out of the window, trying to ignore the ache in my belly.
“Mama, can you play with me？”“Not today, honey，” I shook my head. Still recovering
from an operation, I could barely get out of bed these days. I hoped for strength and happiness.
But the future seemed so hopeless.
All of a sudden, Matthew jumped up from his spot on the kitchen floor. “Bird！” he
shouted, rushing to our courtyard. Sure enough, there was a white dove seated in a rubber tree. It
sat there for a few moments, and then flew away. Strange, I'd never seen one in our neighborhood
before.
When I dragged myself to the kitchen the next morning, the dove was back, this time with a
mate carrying twigs. “Look, Matthew，” I said, pointing to the tree. “They're going to make a
nest.” The doves flew in and out of the courtyard all week, building on top of the rubber tree.
Matthew could hardly contain his excitement. Every morning, he'd run into the kitchen and
take his spot by the sliding glass door, talking to the birds while they worked. His enthusiasm was
influential. As much as I was grieving, I couldn't help but look forward to the doves' visits as well.
Then it all went wrong. The courtyard was a spot safe enough for a nest, but the rubber tree's
broad, thin leaves were far from stable. One night, a strong wind blew, throwing the doves' nest to
the ground. I heard the twigs break apart.
I surveyed the damage. Nothing good ever lasts. I wouldn't blame the doves if they never
came back. But they returned. And they paid no attention to the pile of sticks that had once been
their nest. They started again from scratch. Again, though, the wind destroyed all their hard work.
The next day, and the next, they renewed their efforts, as if nothing had happened.
注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式作答。
I knew I had to do something.
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“It works! The birds are back！” Matthew announced.
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One possible version：
I knew I had to do something.The white dove and its mate had given me something to
look forward to, even in my darkest days. Now it was time that I came to their assistance in return.
I woke up the following morning with a plan. There was only an hour before the doves usually
made their visits. I hammered a shelf into the wall next to the rubber tree and covered it withleaves to make it look like a tree. Then Matthew and I stood by the sliding glass door, waiting and
hoping.
“It works! The birds are back！” Matthew announced. There they were sitting on the
top of the shelf, adding some twigs to the new nest despite damage from the strong wind. Three
weeks later, we watched three chicks break free from their shells. “Chirp, chirp！” Matthew
sang. I held him close and kissed him, feeling more positive and hopeful than I had been in
months.It was then that I realized all around me, life went on. And it was filled with wonders and
surprises that I couldn't even imagine.
黄金考点
语法填空——比较级
考点50 形容词比较级
考例 This car is too small. I want a ________ (large) one.
点拨 这辆轿车太小，我想要更大的轿车。有比较意味，故应填larger。
考点51 最高级与比较级
考例 They were also the best and ________ (bad) years in my life.
并列连词and连接并列结构。有比较范围in my life，所以要用最高
点拨
级，故应填最高级worst，与best并列。
