2020版高考英语大二轮复习 专题一 阅读理解提升练3
托普职业技术学院-曲水园
阅读理解提升练(三)
A
Research carried
out last year stressed the growing challenge
facing employers in
terms of managing and
supporting the UK’s ageing workforce.
Figures
from the Office for National Statistics have
suggested that the number of
people aged 65
and over still working has reached 1.19 million—up
25,000 from a year
were also now more people
aged 50-74 in work than ever r,the
overall
trend was hiding the fact that 12% people are
forced to stop working before
reaching state
pension age because of ill health or disability.
Nearly half a million (436,000) workers who
are within five years of state
pension age
have had to leave work for medical reasons,with an
apparent divide
between the North (worse) and
South (better).Those in the lowest-paid
jobs,including
cleaners,leisure industry
workers and people doing heavy laboring jobs,were
twice as
likely to stop working before
retirement age,because of sickness and disability
than
managers or professionals.
Within
this,the needs of the “sandwich generation”—those
juggling work with
caring for elderly
dependents as well as children—needed to be given
greater
priority (优先权) by employers,a white
paper by insurer and healthcare provider
concluded.
Its research argued that 66% of
managers think the average age of retirement in
their organization will increase in the next 5
to 10 ,36% reported being
unaware of anything
their organization did to attract,keep and engage
older
than a quarter (23%) of employees said
they felt supported by their
employer with
their responsibilities for caring for a loved one.
This was perhaps unsurprising,given that only
28% of managers said their
organization had
formal policies and practices in place to support
these
employees,argues healthcare distribution
director Chris Horlick.
ing to the passage,who
is more likely to leave work before retirement
age?
,a physician.
,a language teacher.
,a construction worker.
,a bank manager.
present support from the employers can be
best described as .
isfying
ing sing
is the main idea of the passage?
employees are well attended in the UK.
workforce should be well supported in the UK.
ers show responsibilities for supporting their
employees.
employers are facing challenges in
supporting aging workforce.
B
About
twenty of us had been fortunate enough to receive
invitations to a film-
studio(影棚) to take part
in a gh our “act” would last only for a
short
time,we could see quite a number of interesting
things.
We all stood at the far end of the
studio as workmen prepared the scene,setting
up trees at the edge of a winding soon,bright
lights were turned on and the
big movie-camera
was wheeled into director shouted something to
the
camera operator and then went to speak to
the two famous actors it was
hot in the
studio,it came as a surprise to us to see one of
the actors put on a heavy
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overcoat and start walking along the path.A
big fan began blowing tiny white feathers
down
on him,and soon the trees were covered in
“snow”.Two more fans were turned
on,and a
“strong wind” blew through the picture looked so
real that it
made us feel cold.
The next
scene was a complete contrast(对比).The way it was
filmed was quite
es taken on an island in the
Pacific were shown on a glass
actor and
actress stood in front of the scene so that they
looked as if they were at
the water’s edge on
an a simple trick like this,palm trees,sandy
beaches,and blue,clear skies had been brought
into the studio!
Since it was our turn next,we
were left wondering what scene would be prepared
for a full three minutes in our lives we
would be experiencing the excitement
of being
film “stars”!
is the author?
A.A
cameraman.
B.A film director.
C.A crowd-
scene actor.
D.A workman for scene setting.
made the author feel cold?
heavy
snowfall.
man-made scene.
low
temperature.
film being shown.
would
happen in the “three minutes” mentioned in the
last paragraph?
A.A new scene would be filmed.
stars would act in the film.
author
would leave the studio.
next scene would be
prepared.
C
(2018·浙江余姚中学高三押题卷一)
The bicycling craze came in when we were just
about at the right age to enjoy
first even
“safety” bicycles were too dangerous and improper
for ladies to
ride,and they had to have
mother had (I believe) the first female
tricycle in Cambridge,and I had a little used
to go out for family rides,all
together,my
father in front on a bicycle,and my poor brother
Charles standing
miserable on the bar behind
my mother.I found it very hard
work,pounding(轰隆隆行进)
away on my hard tyres;a
glorious,but not a pleasurable pastime.
Then,one day at lunch,my father said he had
just seen a new kind of tyre,filled
up with
air,and he thought it might be a soon after that
everyone had
bicycles,ladies and all;and
bicycling became the smart thing,and the lords and
ladies
had their pictures in the papers,riding
along in the park,in straw boater hats(硬草
帽).
My mother must have fallen off her bicycle
pretty often,for I remember seeing the
most
appalling cuts and bruises(青肿) on her she never
complained,and always
kept these mishaps(灾祸)
to r,the great ps,our cook,always
knew all
about them,as indeed she knew practically
everything that ever
used to draw us into the
servants’ hall to tell us privately,“Her Ladyship
had a
nasty fall yesterday;she cut both her
knees and sprained her don’t let her
know I
told you.” So we never dared say r little
accidents used to
occur when,at the age of
nearly seventy,she insisted on learning to drive a
never mastered the art of reversing(倒车),and
was in every way an unconventional and
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terrifying ps used then to tell
us,“Her Ladyship ran into the back
of a milk-
cart yesterday;but it wasn’t much hurt”;or “A
policeman stopped her
Ladyship because she was
on the wrong side of the road;but she said she
didn’t know
what the white line on the road
meant,so he explained and let her go on.”
ps
must have had an excellent Intelligence Service at
her command,for the
stories were always true
enough.
ing to the passage,which of the
following statements is true?
ing demanded too
much hard work for women.
ing was considered
unsafe and unladylike then.
preferred to ride
tricycles.
les could carry young children as
well.
made it possible for bicycling to
become popular among women?
writer’s father
popularised it.
-filled tyres began to be
used.
people started enjoying it.
pers
had pictures of cyclists.
does the underlined
sentence in the last paragraph imply?
ps
served as a spy as well as a cook.
ps was in
command of all the servants as an Intelligence
Service.
ps was the most knowledgeable cook
they had ever met.
ps had an outstanding
ability to gather information.
writer’s
mother was stopped by a policeman one day because
.
failed to follow the road system
was
too old as a driver then
could not control
the car
behaved too proudly
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阅读理解提升练(三)
A
【语篇导读】
本文是一篇说明文,介绍了英国雇主们所面临的员工老龄化问题以及解决措
施。
1.C
细节理解题。根据第三段“Those in the lowest-paid
jobs,including
cleaners,leisure industry
workers and people doing heavy laboring jobs,were
twice as
likely to stop working before
retirement age,because of sickness and disability
than
managers or
professionals.”可知,construction
worker属于早于退休年龄离职的人。故选C
项。
2.B 推理判断题。根据文章最后两
段可知,目前员工们得到了老板的帮助和支持,但这种现状
还不是非常令人满意。故选B项。
3.D 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段可知,文章主要讲述了在英国,老板们所面临的劳动力老龄
化问题,以及如何向他们提供帮助来解决这一严峻问题。故选D项。
B
【语篇导读】 作
为群众演员,作者去影棚参与电影拍摄。在影棚内,作者由衷地感受到了专业
演员为了拍摄一部好电影,
在各种各样的人造场景下所付出的艰辛。
4.C
细节理解题。根据文章第一段开头提到的“About twenty of us had been
fortunate
enough to receive invitations to a
film-studio(影棚)to take part in a crowd-
scene.”
并结合下文可知,作者其实是一名群众演员。故选C项。
5.B
细节理解题。根据文章第二段提到的“Two more fans were turned on,and
a
‘strong wind’ blew through the picture
looked so real that it made us
feel
cold.”可知,是影棚中逼真的人造场景使作者感觉冷。故选B项。
6.A
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段提到“Since it was our turn next,we
were left
wondering what scene would be
prepared for
us.”并结合上文可知,接下来会拍摄一个针对群
演的新的场景。故选A项。
C
【语篇导读】
是什么让我们对自行车情有独钟?是什么让我们对此恋恋不舍?让我们读文章了
解一下吧。
7.B 细节理解题。由第一段第二句“At first even ‘safety’
bicycles were too
dangerous and improper for
ladies to ride”可知,起初,即使是“安全型”的两轮自行车也是
太危险或不适宜妇女
骑行的,因此选择B项。
8.B 细节理解题。由第二段中的“my father said he
had just seen a new kind of
tyre,filled up
with air,and he thought it might be a soon after
that
everyone had bicycles,ladies and
all”可知,充气轮胎的使用使骑自行车变得普及。
9.D 句意理解题。菲利普斯太太之所以了不
起是因为她“几乎知道发生的每一件事”,就好
像“有一个出色的情报部在为她工作”一样。因此D项是
正确答案。
10.A 细节理解题。由最后一段倒数第二句“A policeman
stopped her Ladyship because
she was on the
wrong side of the road;but she said she didn’t
know what the white
line on the road meant,so
he explained and let her go on.”可知,答案为A项。
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