【优化方案】(浙江、江苏)2016高考英语二轮复习 题型重组第二十九组

第二十九组

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阅读理解

A

He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minn.All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million.Very neat in appearance, he had that happytobealive attitude that made even his occasional misconduct delightful.

Mark often talked constantly. I had to remind him again and again that talking without permission was not acceptable.What impressed me so much, though, was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving.“Thank you for correcting me, Sister！” I didn’t know what to make of it at first, but before long I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day.

One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked once too often, and then I made a new teacher’s mistake.I looked at him and said，“If you say one more word, I am going to tape(用胶带封上) your mouth shut！”

It wasn’t ten seconds later when Chuck, another student, blurted out, “Mark is talking again.” I hadn’t asked any of the students to help me watch Mark, but since I had stated the punishment in front of the class, I had to act on it.

I remember the scene as if it had occurred this morning. I walked to my desk, very deliberately opened my drawer and took out a roll of masking tape.Without saying a word, I proceeded to Mark’s desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X with them over his mouth.I then returned to the front of the room.As I glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me.When I walked back to Mark’s desk and removed the tape, his first words were, “Thank you for correcting me, Sister.”

One Friday, I asked the students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and

write it down.It took the remainder of the class period to finish the assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed me the paper.

That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual.On Monday I gave each student his or her list.Before long, the entire class was smiling.“Really？” I heard the whispers.“I never knew that meant anything to anyone！”“I didn’t know others liked me so much！”Then Mark said, “Thank you for teaching me, Sister.”

No one ever mentioned those pieces of paper in class again.I never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents.

Several years later, after I returned from vacation, my parents met me at the airport.Mother gave Dad a sideways glance and simply said，“Dad？” My father cleared his throat as he usually did before saying something important.“The Eklunds called last night，” he began.“Really？”I said.“I haven’t heard from them in years.I wonder how Mark is.”Dad responded quietly.“Mark was killed in the Vietnam War，” he said.“The funeral(葬礼) is tomorrow, and his parents would like it if you could attend.”

I had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. Mark looked so handsome, so mature.

After the funeral, Mark’s mother and father found me.“We want to show you something，”his father said.“They found this on Mark when he was killed.We thought you might recognize it.” Opening a billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times.I knew without looking that the pieces of paper were the ones on which I had listed all the good things that Mark’s classmates had said about him.“Thank you so much for doing that，” Mark’s mother said.“As you can see, Mark behaved better and better at school.It’s all because of you and your list.”

Mark’s classmates started to gather around us.Charlie

smiled rather sheepishly and said，“I still have my list.It’s in the top drawer of my desk at home.” Chuck’s wife said, “Chuck asked me to put this in our wedding album.” “I have mine too，” Marilyn said.“It’s in my diary.” Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn list to the group.“I carry this with me at all times，” Vicki said without batting an eyelash.“I think we all saved our lists.”

That’s when I finally sat down and cried.

1．The purpose of Paragraph 1 is to ________．

A．introduce the topic of the story

B．inform readers of the writer’s job

C．introduce the main character of the story

D．make a comparison between the writer’s students

2．Which of the following aspects of Mark impressed the writer most?

A．His bravery shown in the Vietnam War.

B．His constant talking without permission.

C．His neat appearance and easy going manner.

D．His sincere response after his bad behavior was corrected.

3．Mother’s giving Dad a sideways glance and father’s clearing his throat show that ________．

A．they felt it hard to tell the writer about Mark’s death

B．they were not sure whether the writer would attend Mark’s funeral

C．they were afraid that the writer wouldn’t believe the news of Mark’s death

D．they felt it necessary to persuade the writer into comforting Mark’s parents

4．Which can be seen as the climax (the most important point) of the story?

A．Students’ being asked to list each other’s strongest point on the paper.

B．The writer’s making a big X with two pieces of tape

over Mark’s mouth.

C．The writer’s being shown the worn pieces of paper kept in Mark’s wallet.

D．Students’ smiling and whispering when they received the lists on Monday.

5．At the end of the story, the writer sat down and cried, realizing that ________．

A．Mark behaved so well that he gained the respect of his classmates

B．the lists made as a task in class should have meant so much to her students

C．Mark’s death in the Vietnam War was a heavy blow to his family

D．Mark’s classmates kept their lists as a sweet memory of their happy school life

6．What is the message conveyed in the story?

A．Attitude means everything.

B．Praise works wonders in a way.

C．Patience is necessary for a teacher.

D．Friendship between classmates is unforgettable.

B

Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention.A professor who conducted research in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate on one task, causes us to miss just about everything else.Because we can’t see what we can’t see, our lecturer was determined to catch us in the act.He had us watch a video of six people tossing (投掷) basketballs back and forth, three in white shirts and three in black, and our task was to keep track only of the tosses among the people in white.The tape rolled, and everyone began counting.

Everyone except me.I’m dyslexic (患阅读困难症的), and the moment I saw that tape with the confusing basketball tossers, I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep track of their movements, so I let my mind wander.I became curious, though, when about 30 seconds into the tape, a gorilla (大猩猩) walked in among

the players.She (we later learned a female student was in the gorilla suit) stared at the camera, beat her chest with her fist, and then went away while they continued passing the balls.

When the tape stopped, the professor asked how many people had counted at least a dozen basketball tosses in all.Hands went up all over.He then asked who had counted 13, 14, and congratulated those who had scored the perfect 15.Then he asked, “And who saw the gorilla？”

I raised my hand and was surprised to discover I was the only person at my table and one of only three or four in the large room to do so.He had set us up, trapping us in our own attention blindness.Yes, there had been a trick, but he wasn’t the one who had played it on us. By concentrating so hard on counting, we had managed to miss the gorilla in the midst.

Attention blindness is the fundamental organizing principle of the brain, and I believe that it presents us with a great opportunity.My take is different from that of many neuroscientists: where they see the shortcomings of the individual, I sense an opportunity for cooperation.Fortunately, given the interactive nature of most of our lives in the digital age, we have the tools to control our different forms of attention and take advantage of them.

It’s not easy to admit that everything we’ve learned about how to pay attention means that we’ve been missing everything else.It’s not easy for us logical, intelligent, confident types to admit that the very key to our success —our ability to discover a problem and solve it, an achievement obtained in all those years in school and beyond — may be exactly what limits us.No one ever told us that our way of seeing left out everything else.

7．Which of the following is TRUE about the writer when the tape was played?

A．Like everyone else, the writer was counting carefully.

B．The writer had difficulty keeping track of the tossers’ movements.

C．The writer showed great curiosity about what the players were doing.

D．The writer tried hard to stop her mind from wandering.

8．What’s the total number of basketball tosses by the player in white shirts in the video?

A．13. B．14.

C．15. D．30.

9．Most of the people failed to notice the gorilla in the video because ________．

A．they focused on the basketball tossing only

B．they were trapped by the basketball players

C．they did not know what they were supposed to do

D．they did not listen to the lecture carefully

10．The underlined word “take” in Paragraph 5 most probably means “ ________ ”．

A．understanding B．impression

C．scene D．preference

11．In the writer’s opinion, attention blindness ________．

A．should be viewed as a shortcoming of the individual

B．might be overcome if we can discover problems and solve them

C．makes it possible for us to work together for a shared purpose

D．helps us to become logical, intelligent and confident types of people

阅读理解

A

1．解析：选C。写作意图题。根据第一段第一句“He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris，Minn.”以及下文内容可知，本段旨在引出故事的主要人物。故C项正确。

2．解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第二段第三句“What impressed me so much，though，was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving.”可知，给“我”留下最深印象的是Mark对自己错误行为的负责态度。故D项正确。

3．解析：选A。推理判断题。根据倒数第四段第三句中的“as he usually did before saying something important”以及该段语境可知，Mark是“我”的学生，故“我”的父母觉得很难开口告

诉“我”Mark去世的消息。故A项正确。

4．解析：选C。推理判断题。通读全文可知，Mark是“我”的一个上课爱讲话的学生，“我”曾因此处罚过他。“我”让同学们写各位同学的优点，Mark受到了很多同学的赞扬。后来Mark在越南战争中去世后，他的父亲将他的遗物给“我”——那是保存在Mark钱包里的一张旧纸，上面写满了同学们对他的赞扬。所以故事的高潮是“我”看到了Mark保存的那张纸。故C项正确。

5．解析：选B。细节理解题。根据倒数第二段可知，“我”的许多学生Charlie，Chuck，Marilyn等都珍藏着写满同学们评价的那张纸，作者为一次小小的教学任务对学生产生的终身意义而感动落泪。故B项正确。

6．解析：选B。主旨大意题。通读全文可知，Mark因为讲话而受

过“我”的处罚，“我”也曾让同学们列出他人的优点。Mark战死沙场，遗物里有写着同学们对他的表扬的旧纸，“我”的许多学生都珍藏着同学们评价的那张纸，这种表扬对他们有着不同凡响的意义。故本文旨在说明表扬的伟大作用。故B项正确。

B

7．解析：选B。正误判断题。根据文章第一段中的“and our task

was to keep track only of the tosses among the people in white.The tape rolled，and everyone began counting.”和第二段中的 “Everyone except me.I’m dyslexic(患阅读困难症的)，and the moment I saw that tape with the confusing basketball tossers”可知，作者因为患有阅读困难症，所以很难跟得上节奏，故选项B正确。

8．解析：选C。细节理解题。根据文章第三段中的“and congratulated those who had scored the perfect 15”可知，总共投了15个球，故选C项。

9．解析：选A。推理判断题。根据第四段中的“By concentrating so hard on counting，we had managed to miss the gorilla in the midst.”可知，绝大部分人只关注了投篮的数目，而忽视了大猩猩的存在，故选A项。

10．解析：选A。词义猜测题。根据第五段的第一句及“where they see the shortcomings of the individual，I sense an opportunity for cooperation.”可知，作者的理解与许多专家的理解不同。故此处的take意为“理解”，选A项。

11．解析：选C。推理判断题。由文章最后两段可知，过度集中注意力会让人错失对某些事物的感知，而这恰恰为团队合作提供了机会，因此选C项。