广东省2014高考英语二轮复习专项训练阅读理解三十三

阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳答案。

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How would you like to teach yourself, rathe r than have teachers? According to

the UK’s Department of Education and Skills,students will teach themselves in the schools of the future. This means that there will be no more problems such as finding enough teachers.

Estelle Morris, the UK Education Secretary, opened the 2002 Education Technology Conference in London recently. To start the conference, she presented

a video showing a computer—generated model of the school of tomorrow.

Greater use of computer technology and classroom assistants will help students develop their own way of learning, Morris said. She added that this is a more exciting

as well as a more interesting way of learning.

At the same time, teachers will be “freed from their traditional role as the

source of all knowledge”．

Children of all abilities will “form the curriculum(课程)around their individual needs.” They will “learn in the ir own time, at their own speed and

in their o wn environment”．

At home or at school, they will follow their learning programmes by looking at online libraries and watching lessons by world-class teachers and subject experts.

Instead of going on field trips, students will use virtual reality. If they

don’t understand something, they can ask other students—“take part in virtual communities with learners with similar needs”—or e-mail their teachers. They will hand in their work electronically to be “auto-marked”．

The classroom of the future is fast becoming a reality.

And the Department of Education will soon produce a guide to help schools adapt buildings for new technology, Morris said. These ideas are based on the UK government’s plan to create an education system that provides students with a strong grounding of knowledge and ski lls at primary school level. And provides the chance

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for students to develop their individual skills at secondary school level.

36. According to the UK’s Department of Education and Skills, the school of the future will ______.

A. cause more problems such as being able to find enough teachers

B. set no homework and no tests for students

C. make good use of the computer technology and classroom assistants

D. enable students to learn by themselves without teachers

提示:依据第一段最后一句排除A项；依据第七段最后一句排除B项；第七段说如果学生有

问题，可向老师发e-mail，因而不可说without teachers，排除D项。C项与第三段内容一致，故为正确答案。

答案:C

37. Estelle Morris thinks that computer technology does good to teachers in ________.

A. helping students develop their own way of learning

B. enabling students to experience interesting and exciting ways of learning

C. providing students with knowledge of all sorts

D. not being considered the source of various knowledge

提示:依据第四段判断正确答案为D项。

答案:D

38. If the students do not understand something, they can _______.

A. go on a field trip

B. go to ask their teachers to help them

C. send e-mail to ask for a teacher’s help

D. have a look at other learners’ homework

答案:C 依据第七段“…or e-mail their teachers”

39. If s a student is unde r the UK’s newly-developed education system,he will be

________.

A. provided with a basic knowledge from the beginning

B. given more knowledge at primary school level

C. helped to use computers better

D. supplied chance to develop their basic skills

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答案: A 依据最后一段“that provides students with a strong grounding of knowledge

and skills at primary school level”

B

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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is likely to visit China at an “appropriate”time this year, a senior Chinese military official said on Monday. Colonel Tu Qiming, director of the American and Oceania Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Office at the National Defense Ministry, made the remark during Sino-US

defense t alks this week. This is the first ever “special defense policy between the two defense ministries, according to the Chinese military.

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FRANCES Agriculture Ministry has confirmed(证实)the first case of mad cow disease detected in a goat last Friday. The goat killed in 2002 tested positive for mad cow disease. It is the first case in the world of the fatal disease being found in an animal other than a bovine. The human form of mad cow disease causes brain-wasting, personality change, loss of body function, and ends in death. The

European Commission has not advised any change in farming and consuming goats, said the French Ministry in a statement published last Friday.

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MOBILE phone sales hit a new record in 2010, with some 684 million units sold

around the world, the US research institute Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.

The number represents an increase of 32 per cent over 2003, when 571 million units

were sold. Strategy Analytics predicts a more modest rise of 8 per cent for this

year, to 735 million. Finnish cell phone provider Nokia stayed out in front in 2010, with sales of 207.6 million units, giving it a market share of 30.4 per cent. Motorola moved to No 2, just ahe ad of the South Korean company Samsung.

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SIX male penguins(雄企鹅)at a German zoo are proving stubbornly resistant to

females brought in from Sweden to make them into breeding(繁殖).Of the ten male penguins at the zoo, six have formed into “homosexual” couples and have shown no

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interest in the females, making breeding an impos sibility. So the zoo imported the four female penguins from Sweden last month, full of hope that the new arrivals could “turn” the males. But so far, the boys are remaining strictly with the boys.

1. How many countries are mentioned in the pieces of news?

A. Six.

B. Five.

C. Three.

D. Seven.

提示:文中提到美国、中国、法国、芬兰、韩国、德国、瑞典。

答案:D

37. Which will probably reach the sales of 735 million units in 2010?

A. Nokia.

B. Motorola.

C. Samsung.

D. Cell phones.

提示:571 million,684million,735 million均指手机销售总量。

答案:D

38. From the fourth piece of news we know that_________.

A. the scientists haven’t succeeded in doing their experiment

B. the scientists have successfully got six female penguins into breeding.

C. the Sweden girls made the boys show interest in them

D. German boys don’t like Sweden boys

提示:从show no interest和boys stay with boys可知试验没成功。

答案:A

39. Which of the following are the suitable headlines for the pieces of news?

A. a. US Defense Secretary Visit Likely b. France Confirms “Mad Goat Case”

c. Mobile Phone Sal es

d. Male Penguins and Female Penguins

B. a. US Defense Secretary Visit Likely b. France Confirms “Mad Goat Case”

c. Nokia Stays on Top

d. Birds of a Feather

C. a. Defense Policy Dialogue b. Mad Goat Disease

c. Mobile Phone Sales

d. Importing Female Penguins

D. a. Sino-US Talks b. Mad Goat Case

c. Motorola’s Sales Reduced

d. Boys and Girls

提示:只有B能表达各则新闻的主旨，其中Birds of a Feather意为“物以类聚，鸟以群分”。答案:B

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