1、高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题172014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（17）及答案C2 2013浙江卷 -DIn 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, I took what I could geta teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only w
2、hen I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteenteaching English. School started, but I felt more and more as if I were in a foreign country. Was this rural area really New Jersey? My students took a week off when hunting season began. I was told they were als
3、o frequently absent in late October to help their fathers make hay on the farms. I was a young woman from New York City, who thought that “Make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time. But, still, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking time off only to eat and sleep. And then
4、 there was my sixthgrade classseventeen boys and five girls who were only six years younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and to promote a love of the written word. The students wanted
5、 to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room. In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So I did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave my students positive attention. It sounds reasonable
6、, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seem reasonable. By the time my boss, who was also my taskmaster, known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited
7、very little good behavior to praise. My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasnt happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions.
8、 My boss, sitting in the back of the room, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes. I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period I had to face him. I won
9、dered if he would let me finish out the day. I walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door. He was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. I said nothing. All I could think of was that I was not an English teacher; I had been lying to myself, pretending that everyt
10、hing was fine. When he spoke, he said simply, without accusation, “You had nothing to say to them.”“You had nothing to say to them，” he repeated. “No wonder theyre bored. Why not get to the meat of the literature and stop talking about symbolism. Talk with them, not at them. And more important, why
11、do you ignore their bad behavior？” We talked. He named my problems and offered solutions. We roleplayed. He was the bad student, and I was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher. As the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. He helped
12、 me identify my weaknesses and my strengths. In short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of Emersons words: “The secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”Fifteen years later I still drive that same winding road to the same school. Thanks to the help I received that difficul
13、t first year, the school is my home now. 55It can be inferred from the story that in 1974 _. A. the writer became an optimistic personB. the writer was very happy about her new jobC. it was rather difficult to get a job in the USAD. it was easy to get a teaching job in New Jersey56According to the p
14、assage, which of the following is most probably the writers problem as a new teacher? A. She had blind trust in what she learnt at college. B. She didnt ask experienced teachers for advice. C. She took too much time off to eat and sleep. D. She didnt like teaching English literature. 57What is the w
15、riters biggest worry after her taskmasters observation of her class? A. She might lose her teaching job. B. She might lose her students respect. C. She couldnt teach the same class any more. D. She couldnt ignore her students bad behavior any more. 58Which of the following gives the writer a sense o
16、f mild victory?A. Her talk about symbolism sounded convincing. B. Her students behaved a little better than usual. C. She managed to finish the class without crying. D. She was invited for a talk by her boss after class. 59The students behaved badly in the writers classes because _. A. they were eag
17、er to embarrass herB. she didnt really understand themC. they didnt regard her as a good teacherD. she didnt have a good command of English60The taskmasters attitude towards the writer after his observation of her class can be best described as _A. cruel but encouraging B. fierce but forgivingC. sin
18、cere and supportive D. angry and aggressive【要点综述】 这是一篇感人的文章，作者历经千辛万苦获得了一份教师的工作，但由于初为人师，教条主义和理想化成了她教学的最大问题。有一天老板来听课，却看到作者对学生恶劣的行为置之不理，所以只听了二十分钟便离开了，作者感觉自己可能要失去教学的工作。她虽然没有在课堂上哭泣而坚持讲完了剩下的课，但毫无疑问，这仍然是一堂失败的课。终于，老板告诉她问题的症结所在没有真正了解学生。55C考查推理判断。从全文第一段提到的“In 1974, after filling out fifty applications，”推知，在19
19、74年要想在美国得到一份工作是非常艰难的事情，所以答案选C项。56A考查推理判断。从文章第三段的“I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher.”和第四段中的“In college I had been taughtbut the text evidently ignored the fact”推知，作为一位新老师，作者过于理想化和教条主义，所学知识和现实之间有很大的差异，这是作者的问题所在，由此可知A项为最佳答案。57A考查推理判断。从文章第五段“Visions of unemployment marched before
20、 my eyes.”可以推断出，当老板坐在课堂上听课，而我却对学生束手无策时，一种要丢掉工作饭碗的预感深深困扰着我，由此答案选A项。58C考查细节理解。从第六段“I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying”可知，令作者还有些成就感的是她终于顺利地上完了课，而且也没有哭，答案选C项。59B考查推理判断。从文章倒数第三段“You had nothing to say to them”推断知，老板认为作者没有真正地对学生发问，也就是说作者没有真正地了解学生，走近学生，所以学生们在她的课堂中表
21、现很差，答案选B项。60C 考查观点态度。从倒数第三段中“He named my problems and offered solutions.”知，作者的老板对作者非常友善，他指出了作者的不足并积极提供解决方法，由此可知他是一个很真诚并且给予帮助的人，故答案C项最佳。阅读理解-D Nearly 28% of college Students plan to seek employment using Linkedin, up from 5% last year, according to a survey out today from employee recognition provide
22、r i Love Rewards and career-services network ExperienceSlightly more than 7% plan to use Facebook, up from 5% No longer do students just wait for visiting campus recruiters to learn about job possibilitiesInstead theyre using digital tools to find their dream jobs, says I Love Rewards CEO Razor Sule
23、manCompanies need to know their online image, then update anything that is outdated, inaccurate or not inleractive（互动的） The recruited have now become the recruiters, Suleman saysThey are now going out and finding the companies they want to apply for Students learn about employers by viewing their we
24、bsites, reading Facehook and Twitter updates and perusing（精读）Linkedln profilesAnother information source: Comments by past and current employees on job-oriented websites A strong digital presence is one way for employers to stand out as the search for the best and brightest gets competitive Slightly
25、 more than four in 10 employers say they will use different recruiting tactics（策略）to reach Generation Y, according to a survey by job-search site Monstercom to be released todayOf those respondents, almost 60% say social-networking sites are popular tools to reach Gen Y candidates Our reason for usi
26、ng social media is because thats where we think the candidates are, he says The company posts updates and videos on topics such as job opportunities and the benefits of being an employeeIt also created a mobile-friendly site for those who want to apply via smart phone Younger people want to attach t
27、o you in a different way than the past, Lavery saysThey want to interact with youThey want to learn about you The updated recruitment techniques take effort, but they work, he says In 2010, UPS used those tactics to recruit 955 employeesThe year before, it hired 29 employees through those means Its
28、a time investment（投资）that you have to be willing to do, he saysYou cant just have a page up there and not have contentIn social media, you have to have a give and a take, or people wont be a part of your community63In order to find their dream jobs, more American graduates like to use _ Anewspapers
29、Bmagazines Cthe Internet Dradios64Why do many companies use social-networking sites to recruit graduates? ABecause they have no other way to get in touch with graduates BBecause graduates tend to learn about employers through social media CBecause companies want to post advertisements for their prod
30、ucts DBecause companies like to post videos and updates about their products65The underlined word recruit in Paragraph 11 probably means _ Afire Battract Ccontact Demploy66From what Lavery says, we can conclude that _ Ait is very easy for a company to hire graduates through social media Ba company h
31、as to make great efforts to find the best graduates Ca company doesnt have to update the information about it Dgraduates are afraid to communicate with the boss of the company【参考答案】63-66、BCBD阅读理解-E Squirrels often communicate with whistles, chirps and chucks, which sound like the word “chuck” Whistl
32、es and chirps are like the sounds that many birds makeNow scientists have translated some of their squirrel-speak Hare, a professor of zoology at the University of Maniloha in Winnipeg, and his team managed to record squirrels alarm callsThe researchers studied the sounds and then played them back to 60 wild squirrels, which the scientists appr
