高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（25）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Roy wasn't the only one to receive his call-up（入伍）papers.Stephen Napier's call-up came at the beginning of February and hewas pleased to find that he would be going into the Royal Air Force(RAF).
His father was not so pleased and made his feelings known as heand Stephen were on their daily walk. It was the first step in hisplans for Stephen to take over the estate（地产）when the time came,and although Stephen was well aware of this, he could think of noreason not to accompany him.
“Thought you’d forgotten that nonsense. Still, I dare say Icould pull a few strings to get you to the Army...”
“No, Father! I have told you I want to learn to fly. What chancewould I have to do that in the Army? I'd be better off in theNavy——at least they've got the Fleet Air Arm. But I have been putin the RAF and that's where I want to be, so let’s leave it atthat.” His face went red. Sent to his father's school and then toCambridge, much to his satisfaction, he had never had to defend hisown desires and his father was a hard man to oppose.
The father glared at Stephen, “No, I won't leave it at that. Iwant to know what other ridiculous ideas are in your head. For astart, what’s all this about America?”
“America?”
“Yes. All those books I saw in your room the other day.Brochures about emigration（移民）.”
The big, silvered head lowered, like that of a bull about tocharge．“Don’t trouble to deny it. ”
“I won’t, Father. Some men at Cambridge have been talking aboutit. They want people like us here, mathematicians and scientists,for all kinds of research——the sort of research I could do．It wouldbe a worthwhile life for me.”
The father responded exactly as his son had known he would.You've got a worthwhile life here！You’ve got an estate to run！”
“No, Father. You’ve got an estate to run. I never asked for it.Why not ask Baden to do this stuff? He perhaps can make a good jobof it, but I... ”
“If he were here, I might think about this silly idea ofyours——only think about it, mind you but...”
1. If Father wanted Stephen to take over the estate, the firstthing he did would_______．
A .take a walk with Stephen as usual
C. persuade Stephen not to go into RAF
2. Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Stephen preferred to go into the Navy rather than theArmy.
B. Stephen also received his call-up papers as Roy.
C. The father didn't like Stephen's idea of going toAmerica.
D. Stephen was eventually forced to stay to run the estate．
3. After reading this passage, we can infer that_______．
A. Stephen had never had to defend his desires before
B. Baden might be one of Stephen's family members
C. Stephen wanted to fly in RAF and become a pilot inAmerica
D. if somebody took over the estate, Stephen could realize hisdream
4. What do we learn from the underlined sentence?
A. It looked as if the father was angry when mentioning thebrochures.
B. The father was very angry and wanted to beat his sonStephen．
C. Stephen was annoyed when his father referred to thebrochures.
D. A big red bull was about to charge at Stephen.
5. Which would be the best title for this passage?
A. RAF——a better choice than the Army
C. The dreams of a Cambridge student
Do you think it is ever a good idea for a teenager to have acredit card?
My kids watch closely as I swipe the card through the register.They’ve seen me do it hundreds, thousands of times. Cool. They areitching to swipe it through the machine themselves. When wewalk out of the store with our groceries or pet food, or whatever,it’s almost as though money has not changed hands, painless,easy.
So it shouldn’t be shocking to discover that teenagers arebecoming card carrying consumers in their own right. The questionis, should they?
Now parents are required to co-sign on credit cards for childrenunder 21. “If their name is on the credit card, then the parent maysay, ‘Hey, my name is on this. Don’t get me into trouble,” saysMary Beth Pinto, a marketing professor. “When parents were theco-obligors（共同借贷人），the children caused less debt. If the parentsare the co-obligors, the tendency is that the parents wereexplaining how to use the cards.” Still, Pinto believes parentsshould start the process much earlier. “Yes, there has to beteaching going on and it has to start when they’re younger. You’renot going to get rid of credit cards. They are here to stay. Youhave to have them.
Ramsey, however, disagrees. “Throwing teens into a pool of（credit）sharks is a sure way to guarantee a life-time ofheartache,” he said. “You can make online purchases and rent a carwith a credit card. Of course, you must have money in your bankaccount before you can make a purchase with a credit card. Butpaying for things with money is what you are supposed to do. ”
6. The author mentioned her experience in Para 2 mainlyto_______.
7. The underlined word in Para 2 can be replaced by _______.
8. What’s Ramsey’s attitude towards teens’ using creditcards?
9. Pinto will most likely agree that _______．
On the other hand, there are more crowded and less mobilesocieties where long–term relationships are more important. AMalaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to getto know you very well before he or she feels happy to startbusiness. But when you do get to know each other, the relationshipbecomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society.
To Americans, both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal atfirst. On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile societyputs it, it’s no fun spending several hours next to a stranger whowants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sortsof questions that you don’t want to answer.
Cross-cultural differences aren’t just a problem for travelers,but also for the flights that carry them. All flights want toprovide the best service, but ideas about good service aredifferent from place to place. This can be seen most clearly in theway that problems are dealt with.
Some societies have “universalist” cultures. These societiesstrongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situationin basically the same way. “Particularist” societies, on the otherhand, also have rules, but they are less important than thesociety’s unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong for aparticular situation or a particular person. So the normal rulesare changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance ofthe person.
This difference can cause problems. A traveler from aparticularist society, India, is checking in for a flight inGermany, a country which has a universalist culture. The Indiantraveler has too much luggage, but he explains that he has beenaway from home for a long time and the suitcases are full ofpresents for his family. He expects that the check–in official willunderstand his problem and will change the rules for him. Thecheck–in official explains that if he was allowed to have too muchluggage, it wouldn’t be fair to the other passengers. But thetraveler thinks this is unfair, because the other passengers don’thave his problem.
10. Often moving from one place to another makes people likeAmericans and Australians _______.
A. like travelingbetter
C. difficult to make real friends D. have a long–termrelationship with their neighbors
11. People like Malaysians prefer to associate with those_______.
A. who will tell them everything of theirown
C. they know quitewell
12. A person from a less mobile society will feel it _______when a stranger keeps talking to him or her.
A.boring
13. Which of the following is true about “particularistsocieties”?
A. There is no rule for people to obey.
B. People obey the society’s rules completely.
C. No one obeys the society’s rules though they have.
D. The society’s rules can be changed with different persons orsituations.
14. The writer of the passage thinks that the Indian and theGerman have different ideas about rules because of different_______.
A.interests
Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t beingupended by the tons of information available on the hundreds ofmillions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its abilityto keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail.“If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at thesame pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft,“a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a smallquantity of gas. And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of apizza.”
Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollarsthe Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving forthe needs of their customers. Nothing like it has been seen sincethe beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-drivenmachines began producing more in a day than men could turn out innearly a year. “We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerceas a global trend,” says Merrill Lynch, “along the lines ofprinting press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity.”
You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t availableon the Internet. Consider: books, health care, movie tickets,construction materials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, music,electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs offamous people, wine and airline tickets. And even after you’vemoved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those youlove can’t keep in touch. A company called FinalThoughts.com offersa place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to Heavenwith the help of a “guardian angel”.
Kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures theUnited States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace forthe foreseeable(能预测的) future. Nearly all children in families withincomes of more than $75,000 a year have home computers, accordingto a study by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Youngstersfrom ages 2 to 17 at all income levels have computers, with 52% ofthose connected to the Internet. Most kids use computers to playgames (some for 30 hours or more a week), and many teenage girlsthink nothing of rushing home from school to have e-mailchats with friends they have just left.
What’s clear is that, whether we like it or not, the Internet isan ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back.“The Internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer JakeWinebaum. “The last 80% is happening now.”
15. What can we learn from the Microsoft’s remark?
A. Today’s cars and airplanes are extremely overpriced.
16. According to the author, the biggest benefit of the Internetis that_______.
B. it speeds up profit making
D. it provides easy access to information
17. The author gives the example of FinalThoughts.com to makethe point that_______.
B. almost anything is available on the Internet
D. some websites provide novel services to increase hits
18. What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?
19. Which sentence has the phrase that possesses the samemeaning as the one underlined in the fourth paragraph?
A. Some can tell you that he has changed their lives, whileothers think nothing of him.
B. Think nothing of it. It was my pleasure.
C. He thinks nothing of staying up all night in the Cafébar.
D. He thinks nothing of the pain in his back for themoment.
20. What is the message the author intends to convey?
CDBAD
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