高考英语阅读理解()(记叙文)

Day 1 阅读理解(1)(记叙文)

Passage 1

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A young man returns to his hometown of Aracataca, Colombia. He visits the house where he lived as a child. Here, he remembers the most important memories of his childhood. Standing in front of his old house, the young man makes an important decision. He says to himself, “I will start my life over again. I will become a writer.”

This man is the world famous writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928. During his early life, Garcia Marquez’s grandmother and grandfather told him many stories. His grandmother would tell him legends as if they were real. Garcia Marquez says that his grandmother’s way of storytelling later influenced his own methods.

When Garcia Marquez was about 20 years old, he left Aracataca and attended university in Bogota. He began studying law because this was what his father wanted him to study. However, Garcia Marquez was not happy.

During this time Garcia Marquez returned to Aracataca. It was on this visit that he realized he must stop studying law. And he recognized that he must return to the dream of his childhood—writing. For the next

few years, Garcia Marquez wrote for many different newspapers. And in 1955, he published his first book called Leaf Storm.

For many years, Garcia Marquez knew he wanted to write about his grandfather’s house in Aracataca. To write this book, Garcia Marquez and his wife had to sell almost all of their possessions to survive. But their act was worth it. The book, One Hundred Years of Solitude was immediately successful. And this book created a path for Garcia Marquez’s future success.

In 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was given the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book One Hundred Years of Solitude, making him the first Colombian and the fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

1.Who influenced Garcia Marquez’s writing style?

A.His grandfather.

B.His grandmother.

C.His father.

D.His wife.

2.Garcia decided to take up writing ______.

A.when he worked for a newspaper

B.under the influence of his family

C.when he graduated from college

D.after a visit to his hometown

3.Garcia’s book One Hundred Years of Solitude ______.

A.was written in the 1950s

B.enjoyed a quick success

C.helped Garcia lead a better life

D.was about Garcia’s grandfather

4.What do we know from the text about Garcia Marquez?

A.He is the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

B.His book Leaf Storm marked his great success in literature.

C.He wrote for newspapers before publishing his own books.

D.He followed his father’s wish to become a writer.

Passage2

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A woman was walking her dog along a beach in New Zealand in late June when she saw something that looked like a white ball in the sand. It turned out to be a young Emperor penguin that was lost. At his age, he should have been close to Antarctic, swimming for fish and playing on the ice floes(浮冰). But this penguin started swimming north and just kept going.

The penguin attracted a lot of attention in New Zealand. It has been 40 years since an Emperor penguin was last seen there. Researchers at the Department of Conservation were called in. They decided to watch the penguin closely, but not to disturb it in any way. Many New Zealanders