高考英语人物故事类阅读专训.docx

1、高考英语人物故事类阅读专训高考英语人物故事类阅读专训1、材料特点人物故事类阅读理解文章是高考英语常考材料之一。这类文章一般可分为人物传记和短篇故事两类。人物传记主要涉及某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、成长和奋斗历程等，其特点是以时间的先后或事件的发展为主线，脉络清楚，可读性较强。因此，阅读这类文章应该抓住时间线索来获取有关信息，即主人翁在某个时间做过什么，然后通过分析推理、综合归纳的方法进行解题。短篇故事与人物传记不同的是，这类文章一般描述的是某一件具体事情的发生发展或结局，有人物、时间、地点和事件。命题往往从故事的情节、人物或事件的之间的关系、作者的态度及意图、故事前因和后果的

2、推测等方面着手，考查学生对细节的辨认能力以及推理判断能力。阅读这类材料时，同学们一定要根据主要情节掌握文章主旨大意，同时抓住每一个细节，设身处地根据文章内容揣摩作者的态度和意图，根据情节展开想象，即使是碰到深层理解题也可迎刃而解。这两类阅读材料一般较长，即词数多，而且命题也较多，特别是推理判断题和事实细节题多。同学们在做此类阅读理解题时往往是材料看得懂，题目不好做的感觉。因此，同学们在阅读材料时要重点放在事情发展的过程和结果上，注意把握事件的发展进程及人物之间的关系，细节与主题的关系，用以说明人物性格特点的事实、作者的态度等，这些内容往往是推理判断题的命题点。掌握了这些内容，同学们在做推理判断

3、题时就不会以个人思维想象代替根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断，也只有这样才不会以偏概全。至于事实细节题的解答，同学们切忌想当然或者凭印象，一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确选择。2、实战演练短文填空【选做题】1 In 1863 the first underground passenger railway in the world opened in LondonIt ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible （61） （crowd） on the roads above

4、as they travelled to and （62） workIt took three years to complete and was built using an interesting methodThis included digging up the road，（63） （lay） the track and then building a strong roof over （64） topWhen all those had been done，the road surface was replacedSteam engines（65） （use） to pull the

5、 carriages and it must have been（66） （fair）unpleasant for the passsengers，with all the smoke and noiseHowever，the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months，more than 25，000 people were using （67） every dayLater，engineers（68） （manage） to construct railways in a system of deep

6、 tunnels （隧道），which became known as the TubeThis development was only possible with the （69） （introduce）of electricpowered engines and liftsThe Central London Railway was one of the most（70） （success） of these new lines，and was opened in 1900It had whitepainted tunnels and bright red carriages，and p

7、roved extremely popular with the public2Mary will ever forget the first time she saw himHe suddenly appeared in class one day，（16） （wear） sun glassesHe walked in as if he （17） （buy） the school，And the word quickly got around that he was from New Youk CityFor some reason he sat beside MaryMary felt （

8、18） （please ），because there were many empty seats in the roomBut she quickly realized that it wasnt her，it was probably the fact that she sat in （19） last row（20） he thought he cloud escape attentiong by sitting at the back，he was wrongIt might have made it a little （21） （hard） for everybody because

9、 it meant they had to turn around，but that didnt stop the kids in the classOf course whenever they turnd to look at him，they had to look at Mary，（22） made her feel liake a starDo you need those glasses for medical reasons？the teacher askedThe new boy shook his headThen Id appreciate it if you didnt

10、wear them in classI like to look at your eyes when Im speaking to youThe new boy looked at the teacher （23） a few seconds and all the other students wondered （24） the boy would doThen he took （25） off，gave a big smile and saidThat is cool阅读理解【第一篇提供在全文中寻找的关键词】3Before World War II，all bank tellers（出纳）

11、were menBut as men went to war during the early 1940s，banks trained women to take their placeI was among 20 women selected by Bank of America to work as a teller at a small branch in Los AngelesNovember 23，1942 was a day Ill never forget when I was 22 years old and just two months on the jobWhen a w

12、elldressed man in a suit，tie and hat came to my windowI greeted him with a friendlyGood afternoonBut he shouted，This is it!The man placed a brown bag on the counter and said；Fill it upBecause ofthe way he was dressed，it didnt dawn on me that this was a holdup（持枪抢劫）I was sure it must be a test of the

13、 new tellersability to follow bank rulesEager to pass such a test，I coolly opened the bag，and then calmly filled it with marked billsNone of these!the man shouted，insisting that I fill the bag with cash from another tellers drawerWell，that was a big nono from training：You never touch another tellers

14、 cash!I firmly told him it was against bank rulesYou can imagine the disbelief on the robbers faceOther tellers later told me they couldnt believe I refused the robbers demandsWhen the man told me to stand in front of the other staff along the wall，threatening to shoot me if anyone moved，I finally r

15、ealized this was realAfter the robber fled the bank，the manager got his gun and went after the robber but he failed to catch himThe robber was caught after another bank holdup，and I was told I was the first female teller to be held up in California，which was a fact that attracted many reporters24Why

16、 was it easy for the author to become a bank teller？ AFemales were thought responsibleBThere was a lack of male workersCShe worked far better than menDWomen could be trained easily关键词：why，author（I），bank teller25Why did the author feel calm at the beginning of the incident？ AShe was well trainedBShe

17、took it for a testC.She knew the man had no gun with himD.She had experienced the same thing before关键词：why，author，beginning26How did the robber feel when he heard the authors words in Paragraph 4？ AWorriedBDisappointedCSkepticalDAshamed关键词：robber，when heard，paragraph427What can be inferred about the

18、 author after the incident？ AShe was the subject of many news storiesB：She caught the robber in another holdupCShe was to blame for losing moneyDShe succeed in changing her job关键词infer，after the incident4Lying alongside mountains of smelly trash under the glazing South American sun，Cateura is a long

19、 way from the conservatories of Prague or ViennaYet the township，which grew out of Paraguays largest dump，is gaining an reputation as a hothouse for musical talentand for its youth orchestra that plays instruments made from trashThe world sends us garbageWe send back music，says Favio Chavez，leader o

20、f theRecycled Orchestra，during a recent visit by the group to Los AngelesOrchestra members，poor children from Cateura，play violins fashioned from oven trays and guitars made from dessert dishesThe orchestra provides the youngsters an outlet and an escape，a chance to go beyond the mess of their slum

21、through the music of Mozart，and even SinatraIn the beginning，it was difficult to play，says 10yearold violinist Celeste FleitasBut Favio helped me learn over timeFrom Favio，I have learned to be more responsible and value the things I haveThe destination for more than 1500tons of waste each day，the co

22、mmunity has no safe drinking water and little access to electricity or sanitationIlliteracy is severe，and the children of the township often fall into drugs，violence and delinquencyFavio Chavez，a musical genius，came to Cateura as an environmental technician in 2006and started a youth music schoolHe

23、knew shopbought instruments were beyond the means of villages whose sheds are worth less than a violin，so he approached a carpenter to make some out of waste from the dumpThe orchestra caught the eye of Paraguayan filmmaker Alejandra AmarillaShe uploaded a short clip of the orchestra to YouTube in 2

24、012，hoping to secure crowdfunding for what would become Landfill Harmonic，a theatrical documentary released across the United States this month and promoting the youngsters on a tour of the worlds music halls later on32What is the best title of the text？ AYoungsters carry tunes from trash to triumph

25、BA music genius hit the road to the world stageCA town has become a paradise for music fansDAn orchestra is on a global tour of music halls33What do we know about Cateura？ AIt has raised peoples awareness of recycling trashBIt has caught more attention through the orchestraCIt recycles more than 1，5

26、00tons of rubbish per dayDIt provides its children with better schooling conditions34Why did Alejandra Amarilla upload a clip of the orchestra to YouTube？ ATo assist the youngsters with a world tourBTo collect funding for a theatrical documentaryCTo organize carpenters to make instrumentsDTo catch t

27、he eye of the Paraguay government35What can we learn from Favio Chavez？ ATo work in a team weighs moreBTo recycle things is to conserve thingsCTo be creative is a quality of a leader.DTo own nothing is no excuse to do nothing5The first time she saw Bryce Loski，she flippedThe first time he saw Juli B

28、aker，he ranFor six years of living close by，they had played the same game of catandmouse （Juli was the cat； Bryce was the unfortunate mouse）For years Juli dreamed of one thing：her first kiss from the boyNothing else seemed to matterBut when Julis favorite sycamore tree is threatened by developers，th

29、ings begin to changeShe begins to see things and places and people in a different lightThings，for years，she thought to be important，become things she can live without； and people she thought to be the center of her universe，become nothing more than a star in a faraway galaxyThings begin changing wit

30、h Bryce alsoIt all begins with the eggswhich then cause a domino effect of changes with his relationships with his best friend，his father，the Bakers and，ultimately，JuliI had seen this book on the shelf at bookstores for years，but never bothered to pick it up because it looked to be another book from

31、 Jerry Spinelli （not exactly my favorite author in the world） and so，continually，I would walk past it without giving it a second glanceIf by chance I had picked it up，I most likely would not have read it，since the summary on the back didnt seem too appealingIt wasnt until a couple of weeks ago that

32、I heard about Flipped the movieI read an interview with Callan McAuliffe （the actor who portrays Bryce） and thought that Flipped was a romance right up my alley； cute，innocent and as far from Jane Austin as you could petAfter reading the interview and a summary of the movieI found the plotline to be so