2021高考英语昆明市(三月)阅读类课外自练(11)及答案.docx

2021高考英语昆明市（三月）阅读类课外自练（11）及答案

阅读下面短文，把握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Like distance runners on measured course, all of us will move through time in a roughly predictable pattern.
In the first stage of our lives, we develop and grow, reaching toward the top of physical vitality (energy).
After we grow up, however, the body begins a process of gradually wearing out.
A new awareness of physical fitness may help lengthen our years of health and vitality, yet nothing we do will work to stop the unavoidable force of aging.
Most of the changes of aging take place deep inside the body. The lungs become less able to take in oxygen. Powerful muscles gradually lose their strength. The heart loses power and pumps less blood. Bones grow easier to break.
Finally, we meet a stress, a stress that is greater than our physical resistance. Often, it is only a minor accident or chance infection (a disease caused by virus), but this time, it brings life to an end.
In 1932, a classic experiment nearly doubled the lifetime of rats, simply by cutting back the calories (unit for measuring the energy value of food)in their diet. The reason for the effect was then unknown.
Today, at the University of California at Berkley, Dr. Paul Seagle has also greatly lengthened the normal lifetime of rats. The result was achieved through a special protein (蛋白质)limited diet, which had a great effect on the chemistry of the brain. Seagle showed that within the brain, specific chemicals control many of the signals that influence aging. By changing that chemical balance, the clock of aging can be reset.
For the first time, the mystery (something that is difficult to understand or to explain)of why we age is being seriously challenged. Scientists in many fields are now making striking and far-reaching discoveries.
An average lifetime lasts 75 years, yet in each of us lies a potential for a longer life. If we could keep the vitality and resistance to disease that we have at twenty, we would live for 800 years.
1. What does the underlined word “it”refer to?
A. Physical vitality.　　　　B. Stress.　　　　C. Aging.　　　　D. Physical resistance.
2. The author believes the following EXCEPT that ______.　
A. human’s life pattern is predictable
B. physical fitness can’t stop the force of aging
C. human’s lifetime will last longer than 75 years
D. all of the changes of aging take place deep inside the body
3. How did Dr Paul Seagle lengthen the lifetime of rats in his experiment?
A. By limiting the protein in their diet. B. By cutting the calories in their diet.
C. By resetting their clock of aging. D. By keeping their physical fitness.
4. What is probably the best title for the article?
A. Two Great Experiments. B. The Mystery of Human Life.
C. Ways to Lengthen Human Life. D. The Breakthrough in the Study of Aging.
【参考答案】1—4、BDAD 　　

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
One day the employees of a large company in St Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said: “Yesterday the person who has been hindering (阻碍) your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral (葬礼) in the room that has been prepared in the gym.”
At first everyone was sad to hear that one of their colleagues had died, but after a while they started getting curious about who this person might be.
The excitement grew as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last respects. Everyone wondered: “Who is this person that was hindering my progress? Well, at least he's no longer here.”
One by one the employees got closer to the coffin (棺材) and when they looked inside it they became speechless. They stood over the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their soul.
There was a mirror inside the coffin. Everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was also a sign next to the mirror that said: “There is only one person who can set limits to your growth: it is YOU.”
You are the only person who can revolutionize (彻底转变) your life. You are the only person who can influence your happiness, your realization and your success. You are the only person who can help yourself.
Your life does not change when your family changes, when your friends change, when your boss changes, and when your company changes.
Your life changes when you change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one responsible for your life.
1. The writer's purpose in writing the article is to tell us that ________.
A. the harder we work, the more successful we will become
B. our work and life are closely connected with others
C. changing our lives is down to ourselves
D. we will have a better future if people do not hinder our development
2. People were speechless when they looked inside the coffin because ________.
A. there was nothing but a mirror inside B. they could see their own souls inside
C. their closest colleague lay inside D. what was inside told a great truth
3. Who probably wrote the sign on the front door?
A. The company boss.
B. A worker who liked to make fun of others.
C. The director in charge of production.
D. A worker who wanted to teach others a lesson.
4. What can we conclude from the article?
A. The employees went to the gym to join the funeral.
B. The lesson the employees learned would influence them greatly.
C. The employees' lives depended on the attitude of their boss.
D. The employees got angry after the funeral.
【参考答案】1—4、C D A B

【2021界江苏省盐城中一模】
完形填空。阅读下面短文, 把握其大意,从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What is it that you love to do but never feel that you get it quite right? Perhaps you don't even try any more because you think what you do is not 36 enough.
Discouragement seems to follow us a good part of the time, 37 whatever it is that we work so hard doing, it seems that there is 38 someone else who can do it much better.
I have always enjoyed music and it is 39 to me that every musician has a 40 of their own. My father__41 several instruments and when he played with others, it was not difficult to ___42 his sound in a group. Whether it was guitar or another instrument, he had his own 43 sound.
I 44 read of a music teacher who commented to a discouraged student, “ 45 else can make the sound that you make. The sound that you make may not be the same as someone else's but who is to say which is 46 . ” It is said that, “ 47 is in the eye of the beholder（观看者）, ” perhaps it could be said that “a delightful sound is in the ear of the 48 . ”
Every person has a different tone of voice that 49 only to them, 50 we all know people with an unforgettable laugh or a way of 51 that is unique to them. It might not be the sound of your music or your voice at all. It 52 be the way you whistle or the sound of your footsteps.
Each person has a（an） 53 on the world in some way. Someone else can do what you do, but they cannot do it 54 the same way that you do it. The next time you feel 55 , remember “Nobody else can make the sound that you make. ”
36. A. easy B. hard C. simple D. good
37. A. when B. although C. because D. if
38. A. seldom B. sometimes C. never D. always
39. A. satisfying B. interesting C. inspiring D. convincing
40. A. gift B. song C. life D. sound
41. A. created B. designed C. played D. checked
42. A. pick out B. call up C. turn down D. give off
43. A. special B. powerful C. perfect D. loud
44. A. even B. yet C. once D. still
45. A. Nobody B. Somebody C. Anybody D. Everybody
46. A. bigger B. deeper C. better D. lower
47. A. interest B. beauty C. patience D. honesty
48. A. speaker B. receiver C. looker D. listener
49. A. belongs B. adds C. adapts D. devotes
50. A. but B. yet C. for D. and
51. A. speaking B. walking C. jumping D. running
52 A. must B. would C. might D. could
53. A. effect B. opinion C. duty D. choice
54. A. carefully B. exactly C. cautiously D. seriously
55. A. annoyed B. puzzled C. bothered D. discouraged
【参考答案】36—55、DCDBD CAACA CBDAD ACABD

【2022界黑龙江省哈三中高三上第三次验收考试】
完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Sometimes a part of us must die before another part can come to life. Even though this is a 36 and necessary stage of our growth, it is often painful or 37 if we don’t realize what’s happening. In fact, confusion is often the 38 that tells us a change is taking place within us. These changes happen throughout the lives of all humans, as we move from babyhood to 39 to teenage years and beyond. With each change from one 40 to another, we find ourselves 41 goodbye to an old friend, the identity (共性，身份) that we 42 in order to move through that particular time.
Sometimes we shape these identities in relationships or jobs, and when we change, those areas of our life become 43 . Usually, if we take the time to look into the changing surface of things, we will find that a change is taking place 44 us. For example, we may go through one whole part of our lives creating a protective shell around ourselves 45 we need it in defense of ourselves. One day, 46 , we may find ourselves feeling limited and bored, wanting to move outside the 47 we used to need; the new part of ourselves cannot be born within the 48 of the shell our old self needed.
We may feel a strange 49 of excitement and sadness as we say goodbye to a part of ourselves that is 50 and make way for a whole new identity to 51 in its place. We may find inspiration in working and studying when we think of the image of an animal who sheds (蜕毛；蜕皮) in order to 52 way for new skin, fur, or feathers to 53 . For example, keeping a piece of snake skin, or some other symbols of change, can 54 us that death and rebirth are simply nature’s way of growing. We can give in to this process, letting go of our past self with great love and gratitude, and 55 the new with an open mind and heart, ready for our next stage of life.
36.
A. natural
B. dusty
C. humorous
D. rare
37.
A. moving
B. confusing
C. tiring
D. scared
38.
A. report
B. notice
C. sign
D. idea
39.
A. brotherhood
B. neighborhood
C. adulthood
D. childhood
40.
A. animal
B. people
C. school
D. stage
41.
A. saying
B. speaking
C. telling
D. reading
42.
A. showed
B. left
C. shaped
D. realized
43.
A. influenced
B. remained
C. defended
D. directed
44.
A. of
B. within
C. for
D. between
45.
A. although
B. while
C. until
D. because
46.
A. moreover
B. therefore
C. however
D. so
47.
A. area
B. shelter
C. room
D. space
48.
A. limits
B. contents
C. connection
D. requirement
49.
A. influence
B. mixture
C. appearance
D. relation
50.
A. dying
B. coming
C. escaping
D. running

51.
A. come back
B. come down
C. come out
D. come across
52.
A. become
B. reach
C. name
D. make
53.
A. appear
B. disappear
C. go
D. exist
54.
A. convince
B. remind
C. warn
D. tell
55.
A. hoping
B. imaging
C. welcoming
D. supplying
【参考答案】完型：
36-40 ABCDD 41-45 ACABD 46-50 CBABA 51-55 CDABC