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2019届高考英语一轮复习阅读理解专项提升练习（5）
政治经济类与文化类
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一、阅读理解
1. Recently, online high schools inAmericahave caused a debate about whether or not taxpayers? money should be used to support online education. Online schools receive the same amount of funding as all other public schools, even though they don?t have to pay for rent or school equipment. States should use their educational funds to improve education at real schools, not to support online programs.
Some students only use online classes to supplement(补充)their school work. They benefit from the social experience of a traditional high school, while still taking online courses.
However, about 90 thousand students inAmericareceive their education only from online schools. 50 thousand of these students take courses at Florida Virtual School, the largest online school in the country. While this method of schooling helps students who live in remote regions, most school systems are upset that they are losing more students each year to these online programs.
Although online learning allows children to work at their own pace, these online schools have only one teacher per several hundred students. Often, teachers can?t give struggling students the help they need as they are unable to talk face-to-face with them, to find exactly what they?re having difficulty with.
Additionally, even though online schooling accommodates(顾及)students who live in more remote states, students in online programs may suffer in social situations because they will not learn valuable communication skills from their schooling.
Similar to students who are home schooled, those who take only online classes won?t learn social etiquette(礼节), and will be treated differently by their peers.
Online schooling might be useful for places where there are not enough students for a real school, such as agricultural regions, but states should only spend taxpayers? money on online schools in extreme cases. 1.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Whether students should study at online schools. B.Whether online schools should be allowed to exist. C.Whether taxpayers should pay for online schools. D.Whether traditional schools should be replaced. 2.According to the passage, online schooling _____. A.is helpful to students living in remote regions B.allows students to work together
C.makes it possible for students to get immediate help D.develops students? critical thinking
3.According to Paragraph 5, the author worries that students at online schools _____. A.might lose interest in learning B.would play online games
C.could not receive teachers? help D.could not become fully developed 4.What is the author?s attitude?
A.Taxpayers should not pay for online schools at all.
B.Taxpayers should pay more for online schools than real schools.
C.Taxpayers? money should be spent on online schools conditionally. D.Taxpayers should support online schools in different ways.
2. China has announced it's abolishing its one-child policy. What difference has it made, statistically speaking? 400 million births prevented
The one-child policy, officially in place since 1979, has prevented 400 million births. Parents have faced fines and other punishments for having more children. The majority of the decrease inChina's fertility rate happened in the 1970s. It dropped from 5.8 children per woman in 1970 to 2.7 in 1978. Despite the one-child policy the rate had only fallen to 1.7 by 2013. 21:28-baby deaths rate
Since the one-child policy was introduced, baby girls have become more likely to die than boys. In the 1970s, according to the United Nations 60 males per 1000 live births died under the age of one. For girls the figure was 53. In the 1980s after the one-child policy became official the rate for both was 36. By the 1990s, 26 males per 1,000 live births died before the age of one--and 33girls. The 2000s saw 21 boys per 1,000 live births dying and 28 girls. 1.16 boys born for every girl
Sexually selective abortions have been considered as a major cause ofChina's unusual imbalance.
Gietel-Basten, associate professor in social policy at Oxford University, says the births of many girls are not registered if parents have broken the rule by having two children, adding officials often turn a blind eye. It's estimated there are now 33 million more men than women in China. 4:2:1 families
With the aging of China's population and the continuation of the one-child policy, a \
grandparents,cared for by two working age parents, who themselves have one child. By 2050, it's predicted that a quarter ofChina's population will be 65 or older. The predicted decline in the number of people of working age is thought to have persuaded the government to drop the one-child policy. 1.What does the underlined word “fertility” probably mean? A.birth. B.death. C.abortion. D.increase.
2.When was the baby deaths rate for both boys and girls equal? A.In the 1970s. B.In the 1980s. C.In the 1990s. D.In the 2000s.
3.What makes the one-child policy abolished according to the passage? A.The decline of birth rate. B.The rise of baby deaths rate. C.The change of family structure. D.The decline of working age people.
4.The passage sums up the one child policy by_________. A.number. B.example.
C.graph. D.analysis.
3 In ancient Egypt, a shopkeeper discovered that he could attract customers to his shop simply by making changes to its environment. Modern businesses have been following his lead, with more tactics(策略).
One tactic involves where to display the goods. For example,stores place fruits and vegetables in the first section. They know that customers who buy the healthy food first will feel happy so that they will buy more junk food(垃圾食品)later in their trip. In department stores,the women?s shoe section is generally next to the women?s
cosmetics(化妆品)section: while the shop assistant is going back to find the right size shoe, bored customers are likely to wander over and find some cosmetics they might want to try later.
Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers' senses. Stores notice that the smell of baked goods encourages shopping, so they make their own bread each morning and then fan the bread smell into the store throughout the day. Music sells goods, too. Researchers in Britain found that when French music was played, sales of French wines went up.
When it comes to the selling of houses, businesses also use highly rewarding tactics. They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity. A California builder designed the
structure of its houses smartly. When entering the house, the customer would see the Pacific Ocean through the windows, and then the pool through an open stairway leading to the lower level. The instant view of water on both levels helped sell these $10 million houses.
1.Why do stores usually display fruits and vegetables in the first section? A.To save customers time.
B.To show they are high quality foods. C.To help sell junk food.
D.To sell them at discount prices.
2.According to Paragraph 3, which of the following encourages customers to buy? A.Opening the store early in the morning.
B.Displaying British wines next to French ones. C.Inviting customers to play music.
D.Filling the store with the smell of fresh bread.
3.What is the California builder?s story intended to prove? A.The house structure is a key factor customers consider. B.The more costly the house is, the better it sells. C.An ocean view is much to the customers' taste. D.A good first impression increases sales. 4.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To explain how businesses turn people into their customers. B.To introduce how businesses have grown from the past. C.To report researches on customer behavior. D.To show dishonest business practices.
4. Only two countries in the advanced world provide no guarantee for paid leave from work to care for a newborn child. Last spring one of the two,Australia, gave up the bad reputation by setting up paid family leave starting in 2012. I wasn?t surprised when this didn?t make the news here in theUnited States— we?re now the only wealthy country without such a policy.
The United States does have one clear family policy, the Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993. It gives workers the right of as much as 12 weeks? unpaid leave for care of a newborn or dealing with a family medical problem. Despite its benefit, the Committee of Enterprise and other business groups fought it bitterly, describing it as “government-run personnel management” and a “dangerous precedent (先例)”. In fact, every step of the way, as Democratic (民主党)leaders have tried to introduce work-family balance measures into the law, business groups have been strongly opposed.
As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, defending the appropriateness of
parental support depends on defining the family as the social goods that, in one sense, society must pay for. Parents are burdened in many ways in their lives: there is “no exit” when it comes to children. Society expects —and needs—parents to provide their children with continuity of care. And society expects—and needs—parents to continue in their roles for 18 years, or longer if needed.
While most parents do this out of love, there are public punishments for not
providing care. What parents do, in other words, is of deep concern to the state, for the obvious reason that caring for children is not only morally urgent but important to the future of society. To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (累积) to the whole of society as today?s children become tomorrow?s citizens. In fact, by some rough calculations, the value of parental investments in children, investments of time and money, is equal to 20%~30% of GDP. If these investments bring huge social benefits—as they clearly do—the benefits of providing more social support for the family should be that much clearer.
1.What do we learn about paid family leave from Paragraph 1? A.It came as a surprise when Australia adopted the policy. B.Setting up this policy made Australia less influential. C.It has now become a hot topic in the United States. D.No such policy is applied in the United States.
2.What makes it hard to take work-family balance measures in the States? A.The incompetence of the Democrats. B.The severe attack from business circles. C.The lack of a precedent in American history. D.The existing Family and Medical Leave Act.
3.What is Professor Anne Alstott?s argument for parental support? A.Children need continuous care. B.Good parenting benefits society.
C.The cost of raising children has been growing.
D.The U. S. should keep up with other developed countries.
4.Why is the author against classifying parenting as a personal choice? A.Parenting is regarded as a moral duty parents should bear. B.Parenting relies largely on society for financial support.
C.Parenting produces huge moral benefits and profitable rewards. D.Parenting is basically a task that society hands over to parents.
5. Apple and Microsoft each launched new products. One company astonished everyone. The other made people sleepy. Can you guess which was which? You probably guessed wrong. Because Apple, famous for its creative products, was the tech giant whose new product caused a collective shrug(耸肩). While Microsoft,