2021高考英语阅读理解定时训练题(23)及答案.docx

2021高考英语阅读理解精英定时训练题（23）及答案
阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
【广东省肇庆二高2021三模】A
Every few years, two groups do a study of how many Americans wash their hands after using the toilet. These groups are the American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute, formerly the Soap and Detergent Association.
There was good news in the latest study. Researchers found that eighty-five percent of adults washed their hands in public restrooms last month. That was the most yet since the studies began in nineteen ninety-six.
Researchers visited restrooms at a baseball park in Atlanta and a science museum and aquarium in Chicago. They also visited two train stations in New York City and a large farmers market in San Francisco. In all, they observed about six thousand adults.
The researchers found that seventy-seven percent of men and ninety-three percent of women washed their hands. That was up from sixty-six percent of men and eighty-eight percent of women in the last study three years ago.
The lowest rate of hand washing among men was at Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves baseball team. Only sixty-five percent of men washed their hands, compared to all but two percent of women.
Chicago and San Francisco had the most hand washers -- eighty-nine percent of adults. Atlanta followed at eighty-two percent. New York had the lowest rate, at seventy-nine percent of the adults observed at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.
The findings of the observational study conflicted with the findings of a separate telephone survey of about one thousand people. Ninety-six percent of them said they always wash their hands after using public restrooms. Almost nine out of ten also said they always wash after using the bathroom at home.
Hand washing can help prevent the spread of many different infections. To clean your hands well, wet them first and rub in soap for at least twenty seconds, including between the fingers and under the nails. Then rinse under running water. In a public restroom, if you dry your hands with a paper towel, you should also use the towel to shut off the water and open the door.

26. What is the good news in the latest study?
A. Almost all of the Americans wash their hands after using the toilet.
B. There are more people washing their hands in the toilet than before.
C. More than four-fifths of American adults wash their hands after using the restrooms.
D. There are more people washing their hands in America than in other places.
27.If there were 1000 women involved in the latest study at Turner Field, how many of them would wash their hands?
A. 20 B. 650 C. 350 D. 980
28. According to the latest study, _________ had the most hand washers.
A. Chicago B. Atlanta C. New York D. Washington
29. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The findings of the observational study were inconsistent with those of the telephone survey’s.
B. Two groups- The American Society and the American Cleaning Institute, do the survey.
C. The studies of how many Americans wash their hands after using the toilet began two decades ago.
D. About 90% of the Americans in the observational study washed their hands after using the toilets.
30. What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. Why we should wash hands. B. How we should wash hands.
C. When we should wash hands. D. Where we should wash hands.
【参考答案】26-30 CDAAB

阅读理解
Psychology has a new application in the field of medicine. Many doctors, together with their patients, are looking for alternative methods of treatment of physical problems. In large hospitals, modern therapy（疗法） seems to focus on the physical disease. Patients may feel they are treated like broken machines. Some doctors have recognized this as a problem. They are now using psychological therapy, in which the patient is working with the doctors against the disease with the help of medicine. The patient does not wait for the medicine and treatment to cure him or her, but instead the patient joins in the fight.
    The doctor knows that a disease affects a patient's body physically. The body of the patient changes because of the disease. He is not only physically affected, but also has an emotional response to the disease. Because his mind is affected, his attitude and behavior change. The medical treatment might cure the patient's physical problems, but the patient's mind must fight the emotional ones. For example, the studies of one doctor, Carl Simonton, M. D., have shown that a typical cancer patient has predictable attitudes. She typically feels depressed, upset, and angry. Her constant depression makes her acts unfriendly toward her family, friends, doctors, and nurses. Such attitudes and behaviors prevent recovery. Therefore, a doctor's treatment must help the patient change that. Simonton's method emphasizes treatment of the “whole” patient.
    The attitude of a cancer patient receiving radiation therapy, an X-ray treatment, can become more positive. The physician who is following Simonton's psychological treatment plan suggests that the patient imagine that he or she can see the tumor（肿瘤） in the body. In the mental picture, the patient "sees" a powerful beam of radiation like a million bullets of energy. The patient imagines the beam hitting the tumor cells and causing them to shrink. For another cancer patient, Dr. Simonton asks him to imagine the medicine going from the stomach into the bloodstream and to the cancer cells. The patient imagines that the medicine is like an army fighting the diseased cells and sees the cancer cells gradually dying and his blood carry away the dead cells. Both the medical therapy and the patient's positive attitude fight the disease.
    Doctors are not certain why this mental therapy works. However, this use of psychology does help some patients because their attitudes about themselves change. They become more confident because they use the power within their own minds to help stop the disease.
    Another application of using the mind to help cure disease is the use of suggestion therapy. At first, the doctor helps the patient to concentrate deeply. The patient thinks only about one thing. He becomes so unaware of other things around him that he is asleep, or rather in a trance（催眠状态）. Then the physician makes “a suggestion” to the patient about the medical problem. The patient's mind responds to the suggestion even after the patient is no longer in the trance. In this way, the patient uses his mind to help his body respond to treatment.
    Doctors have learned that this use of psychology is helpful for both adults and children. For example, physicians have used suggestion to help adults deal with the strong pain of some disease. Furthermore, sometimes the adult patient worries about her illness so much that the anxiety keeps her from getting well. The right suggestions may help the patient to stop being anxious. Such treatment may help the patient with a chronic（慢性的）diseases. Asthma （哮喘） is an example of a chronic disorder. Asthma is a disease that causes the patient to have difficulty in breathing. The patient starts to cough and sometimes has to fight to get the air that he or she needs. Psychology can help relieve the symptoms of this disorder. After suggestion therapy, the asthma patient breathes more easily.
    Physicians have learned that the psychological method is very useful in treating children. Children respond quickly to the treatment because they are fascinated by it. For example, Dr. Basil R. Collison has worked with 121 asthmatic children in Sydney, Australia, and had good results. Twenty-five of the children had Excellent results. They were able to breathe more easily, and they did not need medication. Another forty-three were also helped. The symptoms of the asthma occurred less frequently, and when they did, they were not as strong. Most of the children also felt better about themselves. Doctors have also used suggestion to change habits like nail-biting, thumb-sucking, and sleep-related problems.
    Many professional medical groups have accepted the medical use of psychology and that psychology has important applications in medicine.

15. What does the passage mainly discuss?
  A. How to use the mind against disease.
  B. How modern therapy focuses on the disease.
  C. Responses from the medical world.
  D. How suggestion therapy benefits adults and children.
16. How does psychological therapy work?
  A. The patient waits for the medicine and treatment to cure him.
  B. The doctor uses medical treatment to cure the patient's problems.
  C. The doctor, the medicine, and the patient work together to fight disease.
  D. The patient uses his mind to cure himself.
17. What can we learn from the studies of Carl Simonton, M. D.?
  A. The medical treatment can cure the patient's mental disease.
  B. The treatment of a patient by treating the body and the mind is necessary.
  C. The mental treatment is more important than medical treatment.
  D. Few patients have emotional response to the disease.

18. The use of psychological therapy is helpful to some patients in that             .
  A. the medical effect is better with psychological therapy than without it
  B. the patients can see a powerful beam of radiation hitting their tumor cells
  C. the patients' attitudes towards themselves have changed
  D. the patients are easy to accept the methods the doctors use to treat them
19. It can be learned from the passage that suggestion therapy cannot be used to             .
  A. help adults deal with the strong pain of some diseases
  B. help the patients with chronic diseases
  C. help change some bad habits
  D. help cure patients of insomnia（失眠症）
20. According to the passage, which of the following remains unknown so far?
  A. The value of mental therapy.
  B. The effectiveness of suggestion therapy.
  C. The working principle of suggestion therapy.
  D. The importance of psychology in medical treatment.

参考答案 15-20 ACBCDC

【广东省肇庆二高2021三模】B
The Internet is redrawing the media landscape and will be for decades to come, but traditional media will not be left out of the picture, argue two University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, journalism professors. Ed Mullins, chairman of the Journalism Department, and Jim Stovall, the founder of Dateline Alabama, the news website of the College of Communication and Information Sciences, agree that the future of the web is still a mystery, but argue that, in the near future, it will serve more as a helpmate to traditional media.
“Nobody knows where the web is taking us, but when it comes to journalism, old media will be dominant (most noticeable) players in the new media game.” Mullins believes. “A report goes that most Americans go to sites operated by old-line media when looking for news on the web.”
Just as national old media dominate the web at that level, local old media run mostly by newspapers and, to a lesser degree, by television stations dominate those markets. Is there a pattern here? Yes, says Mullins and Stovall. “At least in the first decade of the web, newspaper companies dominate web journalism,” Mullins explains. “Why? They specialize in news, and that gives them an advantage. What most readers go to websites for is news and e-mail, a form of person-to-person news, especially in the form of chatting.”
The reason for newspapers dominance in web journalism, Stovall points out, is that they put the biggest money in news. “The Birmingham News, for example, with about 175 positions, has more journalists on its payroll than all of the state’s broadcast, cable, and web.”

31．What is the best title for the passage?
A．Internet won’t get rid of print media B．Internet challenges traditional media
C．Looking national local news on the web D．Journalism should be dominated by web
32．What is the author’s attitude towards the future of traditional media?
A．Doubtful B．Worried C．Concerned D．Optimistic
33．Traditional media dominate web journalism because ________.
A．news and advertising are their only business
B．they hire more journalists to work for them
C．web companies dare not compete with them
D．they enjoy special advantages in journalism
34．What role does the Internet play in journalism according to Paragraph 1 ?
A．It will someday dominate the media market.
B．It is likely to threaten the future of print media.
C．It will become a helpful partner of print media.
D．It will revolutionize traditional journalism.
35．The following prove that old media still dominate web journalism except _________.
A．people prefer traditional media when looking for news
B．old media have the most important position in local markets
C．newspaper companies have more control in web journalism
D．few people go to websites to get national and local news
【参考答案】31-35 ADBCD

阅读理解
The rise of multinational corporations (跨国公司), global marketing, new communications technologies, and shrinking cultural differences have led to an unparalleled increase in global public relations or PR.
Surprisingly, since modern PR was largely an American invention, the U.S. leadership in public relations is being threatened by PR efforts in other countries. Ten years ago, for example, the world’s top five public relations agencies were American-owned. In 1991, only one was. The British in particular are becoming more sophisticated and creative. A recent survey found that more than half of all British companies include PR as part of their corporate (公司的) planning activities, compared to about one-third of U.S. companies. It may not be long before London replaces New York as the capital of PR.
Why is America lagging behind in the global PR race? First, Americans as a whole tend to be fairly provincial and take more of an interest in local affairs. Knowledge of world geography, for example, has never been strong in this country. Secondly, Americans lag behind their European and Asian counterparts (相对应的人) in knowing a second language. Less than 5 percent of Burson-Marshall’s U.S. employees know two languages. Ogilvy and Mather has about the same percentage. Conversely, some European firms have half or more of their employees fluent in a second language. Finally, people involved in PR abroad tend to keep a closer eye on international affairs. In the financial PR area, for instance, most Americans read the Wall Street Journal. Overseas, their counterparts read the Journal as well as the Financial Times of London and The Economist, publications not often read in this country.
Perhaps the PR industry might take a lesson from Ted Turner of CNN (Cable News Network). Turner recently announced that the word “foreign” would no longer be used on CNN news broadcasts. According to Turner, global communications have