2014届各区二模英语试卷阅读理解 (D篇14套).docx

1、Answer the questions: (1)Uniforms, used for identifying people, are seen almost everywhere in the world. They are a part of everyday life. Lets look at some of the reasons why people wear uniforms and the types of people that wear uniforms.Many children have to wear a uniform at school. Boys and gir

2、ls must wear the same coloured clothes and a school tie. There is often a school badge on the jacket or shirt. There are many reasons for having a school uniform. Firstly, the uniform shows that the children attend the same school. It is important for children to feel they belong to a school and tha

3、t they identify with their school. Secondly, the uniform makes it easy for other people to tell which school they go to and the children are proud of their school. Thirdly, school uniforms are comfortable, smart clothing. Finally, it is cheaper for parents to buy one set of clothes for their child.

4、Most parents cannot afford to buy lots of expensive, fashionable clothes for their children.It is not only children who wear uniforms. Think about police officers, bus drivers, security guards, chefs, waiter, and bank clerks. They all wear special clothes for their jobs. These clothes are comfortabl

5、e and practical for their daily work. Their uniforms also allow the public to recognize them at once.Many other people wear uniforms too. A business person usually wears a dark suit, a white shirt, a tie, and carries a briefcase to the office. A builder wears jeans, strong shoes and a T-shirt. The c

6、lothes a person wears tell other people the kind of job the person does.Go to a shopping mall at the weekend. You will see groups of teenagers wearing blue jeans, colourful T-shirts and baseball caps. These clothes say, We are young and free. We do not need to work. But they are all wearing the same

7、 clothes as part of the same group. Although they may not like the uniform they have to wear at school, they like to have a group identity. At the weekend, they have a group identity by wearing the same styles of clothes as their friends. This is also a uniform - the uniform of youth.Clothes communi

8、cate many things about the wearers: their jobs, their social groups, even their attitudes. What do you want to tell people through the clothes you wear?1. Are children the only people who wear uniforms? _,_.2. Why are children on their best behaviour when they wear their school uniforms? _ _.3. Why

9、do police officers wear uniforms? _.4. Can you describe a teenagers weekend uniform? _.5. What do teenagers clothes tell you about them? _.6. What do you want to tell people through the clothes you wear? _.Key: 1. No, they arent. / No, adults wear uniforms, too. 2. Because people know which school t

10、hey can go to / and the children are proud of their school._3. Because they wear uniforms so that people can recognize them. / These clothes are comfortable and practical for their daily work. / because they think people can recognize them easily. 4. (Their weekend “uniform” is ) a pair of jeans, as

11、 colourful T-shirt and a basketball cap. 5. They tell us that) they are young and free. / that they dont need to work / that they are all part of the same group. 6. I want to tell people that I am a shiny, healthy and active young boy through the clothes I wear._Answer the questions: (2)He felt stra

12、nge when he went back to his college in Oxford. He had left the college 25 years before, and he had never been back. As he walked up from station, he slowly began to feel the same excitement that he had felt when first went there as an 18-year-old boy. When he received the email inviting him to the

13、reunion (重聚) for the people of his year at college, he had felt only happy and excited. Now, as he got nearer to the college, he was nervous, yes, definitely nervous. Perhaps his classmates had all been more successful than him, or at least earned more money than him. He was happy in his job as a un

14、iversity lecturer, but the others were probably all lawyers, accountants and cankers. Who would be there at the reunion? He wondered. He was proud that he had studied there and glad to be back, but at the same time sad that the college was no longer part of his life, sad that he couldnt bring back t

15、hose days which meant so much to him. The porter gave him a key to a room in the college. He couldnt believe it. It was his old room. As he walked through the door, he was surprised to feel a tear rolling down his checks. He had never thought he would feel like this. He tried to remind himself that

16、his times there had not always been happy, that there had been problems too. I t was almost time for dinner, so he put on his black dinner jacket and bow tie and walked down to the dining hall, wondering if any of his old friends would be there. He walked into the dining hall, and there she was. She

17、 had changed a little. The smile which had made him fall in love with her was still the same. But she was sitting with the man she had chosen to marry, the man she had chosen to marry instead of him. He had thought the pain had gone, but it hit him in the stomach like a boxers punch. Was it wrong fo

18、r him to have come back? Or should he ? 1. How old was the writer when he went to college? _2. How did he feel when he received the email inviting him to his college reunion? _3. Why did he feel sad on his way to his college? _4. The old room made him think of happy and sad times in the college, did

19、nt it? _5. What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to? _6. Please finish the last question. _Key: 1. 18 / Eighteen years old. 2. Happy and excited.3. Because the college was no longer part of his life / he couldnt bring back those days which meant so much to him. 4. Yes, it di

20、d.5 .”The pain.” 6. Should he come here with his wife? / Should he talk with them? Answer the questions: (3)Happiness is a feeling that lights up your eyes, makes your steps light and makes you want to sing for no reason. Everyone wants to be happy. But sometimes, a guest comes in without invitation

21、. Its unhappiness. Dont let it get you down. Send it away. When you are happy, the world feels like a better place. As the saying goes: When you smile, the world smiles with you; when you cry, you cry alone. Wearing a smile makes you more charming(迷人的)and helps you to win lots of friends. A good moo

22、d（心情）always gives you hope, which makes trouble and problems easier to handle.No matter how happy you are, its normal to feel angry, sad or gloomy once in a while. Life is full of ups and downs. We cant change the way life is, but we can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. To help

23、 us do this, its good to know some of the factors（因素）that influence happiness.One of the biggest factors is social relationships. People who are close to family and friends are happier than people who dont have those relationships. Talking and sharing is a good way to relax and build confidence. Kno

24、wing someone is there for you will make you braver and more outgoing. Another factor is work or school. If you enjoy school, even if you have lots of homework or extra classes, you will feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you hate school, your negative attitude（消极的态度）may cause

25、 you to feel bored and upset that you hate to do so much work. A third factor is your attitude towards life. How do you feel if you fail in an exam? Maybe you think its unfair because you always study and should have got a good mark. You cant stop blaming（责备）yourself. Or, maybe you accept it. You go

26、 through the paper carefully, find out why you made stupid mistakes, and tell yourself, “Take it easy! Ill do better next time!” Your attitude makes a big difference. Do you smile a lot or wear a long face most of the time?1. Happiness is a feeling, isnt it?_, _.2. What makes you more charming and g

27、ives you hope? _3. What does the underlined sentence mean according to paragraph 3? _. 4. What can we do when we cant change the way life is? _.5. How many factors influence happiness? What are they?_. 6. How do you make yourself happy in your daily life? Give an example. _.Key: 1. Yes, it is.2. Wea

28、ring a smile and a good mood.3. No matter how happy you are, its normal to feel angry, sad or gloomy once in a while./There are happiness and sadness in our life.4. We can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. 5. Three. Social relationships, work or school and your attitude towards

29、life.6. Any reasonable answer is ok. Answer the questions: (4) The first time I saw Jim Wooten I really understood him. He was a great TV news reporter. When he was reporting in Rwanda, one heartbreaking moment made a deep impression on me. When the camera showed all of the children who were dying,

30、suffered from terrible diseases, Jim ended his piece by saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children. Then I realized that he was different, that he didnt fall into any of the modern television-news tricks, that he was not giving us any

31、 awful, artificial (假的) television-journalist reports out of（出于) pity. Instead, I was watching a real reporter with a gift (天赋) for both words and slight differences.Then I read his book, We Are All the Same, about his friendship with Xolani Nkosi, a South African boy who became the international sp

32、okesman for AIDS (艾滋病). It is about the friendship between Wooten and a black child who was ten years old and already dying of AIDS. It is also a book about a great teacher and his student. But the teacherthe one with real wisdom and understanding about lifeis the little boy, not the journalist. And

33、, finally, its about a love story of Gail Johnson, Nkosis white mother who does her best to save the boy, and their love for each other. When reading the book, I felt touched from time to time. 1. How did Jim Wooten feel when he saw the dying children in Rwanda? _.2. What would an ordinary journalis

34、t do on TV when he saw these dying children? _.3. How did Jim end his piece when he saw the dying children in Rwanda? _.4. Who is the teacher in the book, the little boy or the journalist? _.5. Why did Nkosis mother do everything possible to save the boy? _.6. Whats the writers attitude to Jim Woote

35、n? How do you know that? _.Key: 1. He felt very sad./He was heartbroken2. He would give us some awful, artificial television-journalist reports out of pity./He would fallinto some of the modern television-news tricks.3. By saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put h

36、is arms around his own children.4. The little boy. (1分题）5. Because she loved the boy./Because the boy was dying of AIDS. 6. He respected Jim./He admired Jim. The writer wrote/mentioned that Jim was a great TV news reporter.（3分题）Answer the questions: (5) One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of b

37、uilding with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, I am blind, please help me. There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the

38、sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, Are you the one who changed my s

39、ign in the morning? What did you write? The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way. What he had written was, Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it. Do you think the first sign and second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people

40、 the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind. The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign

41、 told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story. The first is: Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help. The second is: Be creative (有创造力的). Think differently. There is always a better way！1. Who sat on the steps of a building asking for help? _2. A man walked by and gave the boy a few coins, didnt he? _3. What did the man do to the boys sign? _4. What happened to the boys hat soon? _5. How did the man write the sign? _