2013高考英语二轮阅读理解（三月强化训练12）及答案
All across the country, kids are heading back to school. Despite advice from the nation’s secretary of health and human services, recess(课间休息) and physical education have in many schools been cut back or canceled. While most of kids are eager to catch up with friends, the general feeling is that “playtime is over.”
Summer vacation does offer most children a bit of free playtime – the sort that leads to physical activity and self-organized play, often in short supply during the school year. Still, it’s not enough. Playtime shouldn’t be limited to summer vacation: it’s important all year.
For most American children in the past, “going out to play” was the norm. Today, according to a University of Michigan study, children spend 50 percent less time outside than they did just 20 years ago. There is a direct line between lack of play and some frightening public health and social trends: tragic statistics for obesity(肥胖), 4.5 million children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder(ADD) (儿童多动症), an increase in childhood depression and classroom behavioral problems, and an inability to interact well with peers.
Just an hour a day of active play — running, chasing, games like dodge ball — can provide intense skill learning. Physical activity is known to lessen the symptoms of mild attention deficit disorder, and reduces the risk of childhood obesity. Active kids can perform better academically in the long term.
We should be aware of how important play is to one’s development. Even a play-deprived social mammal(哺乳动物) like a rat or monkey will become unable to tell friend from enemy, and poor at handling stress when it enters adulthood. My studies of young murderers revealed that most had lacked normal, developmentally appropriate play as children and pre-adolescents.
Play is fun, but ultimately it is also useful. The smarter the animal, the more they play. For humans, play refreshes us because it gets us in touch with our core selves and the joy of life.
I feel sad about the kids who have given up on play for another nine months. Their devaluation of play is a tragic loss for them and for our society.
1. Children lacking playtime may have the following problems EXCEPT__________.
A. to become fat
B. to suffer from depression
C. to fail to get along well with others
D. to murder their peers
2. Active play is beneficial to children because __________.
A. it inspires children to catch up with their friends
B. it is the best way to cure children with obesity
C. it helps children to improve academic achievement
D. it can teach children to tell friend from enemy
3. “A play-deprived social mammal” refers to an animal that__________.
A. has lost chance to play
B. requires enough playtime
C. enjoys playing very much
D. knows the importance of play
4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The article was written before the summer vacation.
B. American children lack playtime during the school year.
C. Schools give children more playtime in the new semester.
D. Children with ADD should play less than normal children.
5. Which of the following will be the best title?
A. Summer Vacation is over
B. What Playtime Brings to Children
C. Lack of Play Leads to Problems
D. Let the Children Play
参考答案 1---5 D C A B D
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链接2（2012江苏卷）
Franz Kafka wrote that "a book must be the ax (斧子) for the frozen sea inside us. " I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation.
We’d just finished John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. "Are you crying?" one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. "I am," I told her, "and the funny thing is I've read it many times. "
But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I've taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn't always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, "it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness. " I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth's soliloquies (独白)read as raps (说唱) , but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck's writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that "all these people hate each other, and they're all white. " His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.
Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich (充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do no. amaze but confuse. We mav succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.
66. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to_______
A. realize our dreams B. give support to our life '
C. smooth away difficulties D. awake our emolions
67. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?
A. Because they spent much time reading it.
B. Because they had read the novel before
C. Because they came from a public school. ,
D. Because they had similar life experiences.
68. The girl left the selective high school possibly because_______.
A. she was a literary-minded girl B. her parents were immigrants
C. she couldn't fit in with her class D. her father was then in prison
69. To the author's surprise, the students read the novels ________.
A. creatively B. passively C. repeatedly D. carelessly
70. The author writes the passage mainly to________.
A. introduce classic works of literature
B. advocate teaching literature to touch the heart
C. argue for equality among high school students
D. defend the current testing system
【试题解析】细节理解题。根据第四段第三句“The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates”可知C项正确。
【难度】一般
69.【答案】A
【试题解析】推理判断题。根据第五段第四句“I have never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious.”可推断作者对孩子阅读小说的创造力感到惊讶，字里行间流露出自豪，故A项正确。
【难度】一般
70.【答案】B
【试题解析】主旨大意题。难度较大。纵观全文，主要介绍了作者讲述在自己教学生涯中，教学生文学阅读的感受，可以美化他们的心灵，故B项正确。
【难度】较难
【长难句解析】
1. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I.
When 引导的时间状语从句，后面是so 引导的句型，表示“…和前面的主语也一样。”
2. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen.
本句是when 引导的时间状语， 主句中是that 引导的表语从句， realize 引导的宾语从句。
3. For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight.
本句reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. 为伴随状语。
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