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2019年高考英语考前阅读理解专项练习及答案(3)

来源 :中华考试网 2019-05-02

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  The Guidance Department (教导处) at Burrville High School has a staff (职员) of eleven. Most of their work is done with the students. But the staff sees a lot of parents, too.

  “Parent meetings form a clear monthly pattern,” says Mildred Foreman, Guidance Director. “This pattern stays much the same from year to year. The busy months are October, March and May.”

  September starts rather slowly. Few parents come in, Most of these want to discuss the schedules (日程安排). October brings many behaviour (行为) problems. Some parents are called in. Others come by themselves. Things quiet down in November December is a quiet month. “It’s the holiday,” Ms Foreman says. “People want to come in, I know , but they decide to wait until after New Year’s Day.”

  Report cards go home just before Christmas holidays. Bad marks bring parents in as school reopens. This happens again in March, another report card month. May is always the year’s busiest month. That’s when parents realize that their children might be held back (留级). They come in to see if anything can be done before things are decided in June.

  1. “Most of their work is done with the students” means ______.

  A. they have most of their work done by the studentsB. most of their work is getting rid of their students

  C. most of their work is dealing with the students D. their work is mostly done together with the students

  2. In the sentence “The staff sees a lot of parents too.” the word “see” can be replaced with “_____”.

  A. notice B. understand C. arrange D. meet

  3. From the diagram(图表), we know that the total of their meetings in April is ______ as many

  as that in December.

  A. twice B. a quarter C. half D. two-thirds

  4. In March, each of the staff working in the Guidance Department has to interview (会见)

  about ______ parents.

  A. 10 B. 20 C. 15 D. 5

  5. May is always the busiest month because the parents want to ______.

  A. discuss schedules with the staff B. have something done to help their children’s promotion(升级)

  C. know how their children are getting on with their lessons D. do something good for the school or the staff

  4.

  Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the man’s big family—his parents his brothers, their wives and children. They family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

  Three months later the woman went back to her parents’ home, having quarrelled with her husband. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart—broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

  It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband’s home.

  1. The writer wrote the story in order to .

  A. show that elephants are very cleverB. tell how a woman trained a wild animal

  C. show that women care more for animals than men do D. tell how an animal reunited a husband and wife

  2. The woman left her new home .

  A. to visit her own parents in Maliyuwa B. to see if the elephant would follow her

  C. because she was angry with her husband D. because she was tired of the large family

  3. After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant .

  A. returned to the forest B. was sad because it missed her

  C. went to look for a new home D. was sick because nobody fed it

  4. The young wife went back to her husband because .

  A. she knew he had sent the animal to her B. the elephant had come to look for her

  C. her parents persuaded her to D. she missed her new home

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