2013高考英语（昆明市）阅读理解（11）（答案）
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious(明显的)to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you Lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’ t really matter. If you have ever listen to Martin Luther King’ s famous speech—“I Have a dream ”, you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) his words twice during the speech, Most likely. however. you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about makings mistake in a speech because they regard speechmaking as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流). They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, infect the listeners are not looking for a period performance. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or he can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
72. The underlined part and the first paragraph means that no one will ______
A. be smarter than you B. notice your mistakes
C. do better than you D. know what you are talking about
73. You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because_____
A. your attention is on the content B. you don’t fully understand the speech
C. you don’t know what the speaker plans to say
D. you find the way of speech-making more important
74. It can be inferred from the passage that_____
A. giving a speech is like giving a performance
B. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
C. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be
75. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker B. How to Make a Perfect Speech
C. Don’ I Expect a Perfect Speech D. Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech
4答案 72.B 73.A 74.B 75.C
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A famous doctor once received a little child who was badly ill. Thanks to his skill and care, his young patient got well and was soon able to get up and run about again.
The child’s mother was very much obliged to the doctor, and she called on him to thank him for what he had done for her child. “Doctor,” she said, “you have saved my little son. I don’t know how to thank you enough. I feel that money alone cannot repay you, so I have made this little purse with my own hands, as a sign of my gratitude. I hope you will accept it.” The doctor stood up and said coldly, “Madam, a little present like that is very nice between friends, but a doctor needs to be paid properly for what he has done.” The lady was so surprised and hurt so much that she could not reply for a moment. Then she said quietly, “Perhaps you will tell me how much your fee is?”
“Fifty pounds”, he answered.
The lady opened the little purse and took out four fifty-pound bank notes. She handed one of them to the doctor, and put the other three back into the purse. She put the purse into her handbag and, saying good bye to the doctor, went out of the room.
1. The lady was thankful to the doctor because ________.
A. he had saved her life B. he had saved her son’s life
C. he had lent her some money D. he often called on her
2. The doctor refused the lady’s purse because he thought ______.
A. the purse should be given between friends
B. the purse was too small
C. the lady was not kind to him
D. the lady just gave him that purse and wouldn’t give him the medical fee
3. What the doctor said ______ the lady.
A. worried B. interested C. frightened D. hurt
4. The money in the purse _______.
A. was only 150 pounds
B. was less than 200 pounds
C. was much more than the medical fee
D. was not enough for the medical fee
5. How do you think the doctor would feel in the end?
A. Sorry and worried B. Regret and proud
C. Excited and proud D. Sorry and regret
【答案与解析】一位医生救活了一位女士的儿子，女士为了表示感激，亲手缝制了一个钱包，医生却嫌礼轻而拒绝了，殊不知里面装的是4张面值为五十英镑的钞票。
1. B。细节题。根据第1段 his young patient got well and was soon able to get up and run about again 可知答案为 B。
2. D。细节 题。根据a little present like that is very nice between friends, but a doctor needs to be paid properly for what he has done 可知答案为 D。
3. D。细节题。根据 The lady was so surprised and hurt so much that she could not reply for a moment 可知此题答案为 D。
4. C。细节题。根据原文可知医生要的医疗费是50英镑，而女士送的钱包里装的却是4张面值为五十英镑的钞票，由此可判断出此题答案为 C。
5. D。推断题。医生会因为误会了这位女士而感到 sorry(抱歉)也会因为没有得到其他3张钞票感到 regret(遗憾)，所以此题答案为 D。
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5
Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to another culture or race.
People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.
“ Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “ Cinderella(灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”
Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoner too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “ there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.
Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says.
“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says, “ What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody’s story.”
52. What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?
A. They share the same way of storytelling.
B. They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures.
C. They learn their stories from the American natives.
D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.
53. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____.
A. start a new life B. settle down in another place
C. direct films D. become good actors
54. Pugh has practised storytelling with _____ groups of people.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
55. What is the main idea of the text?
A. Storytelling can influence the way people think.
B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of business.
C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school.
D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.
5. 答案 52.D 53.A 54.B 55.D
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