高考英语二轮专题限时训练(36)社会生活型阅读理解(2)

专题限时训练(三十六) [社会生活型阅读理解(二)]

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(一)

A tent can be one of the more costly items on your camping equipment shopping list. It is definitely something that you need to consider carefully.

By seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. However, the downside is that, unless you are experienced，you may miss out some of the details that the manufacturer's promotional material makes clear. Cheap tents often look similar to the quality models they are mimicking(模仿), but you can be sure that they use inferior(次的) materials and probably have lower design standards.

Shop staff are often campers themselves. That means they usually can give lots of advice. If a shop assistant agrees with your own conclusions, that will be great; if they try to change your decision with a clear and reasonable argument, then that will be worth considering; if they just try to bamboozle(欺骗) or even bully, you then walk away.

The Internet is a wonderful tool, and so long as you know how to make the most of search engines and put in a little effort, you really have the perfect answer waiting to be found. That answer will be different for every camper as each of us has different needs. Don't be surprised to see your favourite criticized somewhere, but if you see too much criticism，then you had better start thinking again. No problem. You won't have spent anything yet, so think of it positively as a large expense is saved.

Probably the best approach, if you have the time, is to research tents online and make a short list. Then try to inspect those tents at nearby shops. Then you can make a final decision on where to buy your chosen model based purely on total cost.

1．The underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 2 means“________”．

A．disadvantage B．instruction

C．argument D．principle

2．It can be concluded from the third paragraph that________.

A．shop assistants usually enjoy going camping

B．shop assistants usually have practical advice

C．you should consider your idea repeatedly

D．it is impolite for you to trouble shop assistants

3．You can make use of the Internet to________.

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A．meet your different needs

B．find the answer for every camper

C．help you out of trouble

D．find your favourite tent

4．Which of the following would be the main idea of this passage?

A．It is good to buy your tent in the traditional shop.

B．You'd better buy a tent with the help of the Internet.

C．Better buy a tent combining seeing tents for real in shops and researching them online.

D．Going camping is really beneficial to your health.

(二)

A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing abilities than a common phone. The first smartphones enabled the users to send and receive e-mails. Later models added the fu nctions of portable media players, pocket video cameras, and GPS navigation units to form one multi-use device. Many modern smartphones also include touch screens and Web browsers that display Web pages.

A recent report says we spend an average of two hours and 40 minutes each day looking at a smartphone. That doesn't mean making calls, but playing phone games and browsing the Web.

Nowadays we always find people checking e-mails in a restaurant, taking a picture of the food when it arrives, or checking a message during a conversation instead of traditional communication. It's no secret that our life is being affected by our smartphones obsession.

However, this phenomenon has never been presented so vividly as in the short YouTube film I Forgot My Phone. Despite only being online for a few days, it's already been viewed more than 10.5 million times. Whether it will be screened in the cinema remains to be seen.

Ironically, YouTube's data show that the site gets a billion views per day from mobile devices, so a lot of those people watched it on their phones.

The short film, written by and starring actress Charlene deGuzman, shows groups of people in various social situations, the majority of whom are absorbed in their phones instead of the world around them. To a certain extent, we all do it.

5．People prefer a smartphone to a common one, because the latter can only help

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us ________.

A．check e-mails

B．send messages

C．find the destination

D．watch a video

6．The underlined word “obsession” in the third paragraph most probably means “________”．

A．devotion B．contribution

C．addiction D．emotion

7．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．People spend an average of two hours and 40 minutes each day using smartphones.

B．The film hasn't been put on in the cinema.

C．The film is written by an actor named Charlene deGuzman.

D．The film has already been viewed more than 105 million times in the first few days.

8．When the writer mentions the number of people watching the film from mobile devices in the fifth paragraph, he mainly feels ________.

A．encouraged B．depressed

C．proud D．satisfied

(三)

The slogan “a dog is for life, not just for Christmas” has been going strong for 27 years now.Dogs and cats have been popular Christmas gifts in the UK and Europe for many years.But some people still haven't quite got the message.

The slogan still holds good.Some 105,000 dogs were rounded up by the local government last year because they had been abandoned, many of them shortly after the festival season.

The main reason given by owners for handing their dogs over to the Dogs Trust is that the dogs need more attention than they can give; behavioural problems and moving homes are also reasons given.

But Eleanor Silk, the Trust's communications director, says, “It's often four or five months after Christmas, in early summer, when the owner finds that the dog has got too big and too active, or that it hasn't been trained properly and has caused damage around the home.”

In any case, some organizations that help pets are quick to point out that if

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