高考英语任务型阅读七选五专题训练Word文件下载.docx

1、 （一） Laughing is essential to keep your stress levels under control ，its not only necessary, but also essential to have a good sense of humor just to help us get through each and every day of our lives. 71 , as the saying goes, makes me feel good and warms my heart. How would you feel if you could n

2、ot joke around with your wife, husband, child, co-worker neighbor, close friend, or even just someone that you are standing in line with at your comer store? I am always saying things that make others smile or laugh, even if I dont know the person Im joking around with. 72 , even if it was the harde

3、st job anyone could imagine. This not only relieves stress in any situation, but also is common courtesy （礼貌） to speak to others that are around you. I know of a few people that dont have a funny bone in their bodies, as they say. Everyone around them could be rolling on the floor after hearing a gr

4、eat joke and they would sit there without the slightest smile on their face. They dont get the joke that makes others laugh. I am busting a gut while they just sit there, looking at me 73 . How can people not get a really funny joke? 74 . Without humor we would find ourselves with a lot of psycholog

5、ical problems, or on a lot of medications to keep us from going crazy. There is too much sadness in this present world. 75 . We all need to find a way to bypass the sadness and bring a little light into our lives. So, I believe our best medicine is to get together and tell some jokes and have some f

6、un laughing together.AIt drives people crazyB. It drives people excitedC. Putting a smile on someones face when you know they are feeling down in the dumpsD. With all the wars, fighting and sadness in the world todayE. Laughing is essential to make your stress levels out of controlF. as if I were fr

7、om outer space.G. My Grandma always found humor in everything she did答案： 71 C 72 D 73 F 74 G 75 A（二）There are stories about two US . presidents，Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren，which attempt to explain the American English term OKWe dont know if either story is true，The first explanation is based

8、 on the fact that President Jackson had very little educationIn fact，When important papers came to Jackson，he tried to read them and then had his assistants explain what they saidIf he approved of a paperhe would write “all correct” on itThe problem was that he didnt know how to spellSo what he real

9、ly wrote was “ol korekt”After a while， _where President Van Buren was born，Kinderhook，New YorkVan Bnrens friends organized a club to help him become President They caned the club the Old Kinderhook Club，and Ahe had difficulty reading and writingB. The second explanation is based on the placeC. Presi

10、dent Jackson wasnt good at reading，writing or spellingD. but they are both interestingE. anyone who supported Van Buren was called “OK”F. the termOK” was the name of Van Burens club Ghe shortened that term to“OK”71 D 72 A 73 G 74 B 75（三）Although the United States covers so much land and the land pro

11、duces far more food than the present population needs， 71 less than a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture and forestry（林业），and most of the rest live in or around towns，small and large 72 ：every small town may still be very like other small towns，and the typical small town may represent a

12、widely accepted view of the country， 73 Half the population now lives in some thirty metropolitan areas（1arge cities with their suburbs、of more than a million people eacha larger proportion than in Germany or England，let alone FranceThe statistics（统计）of urban and rural population should be treated w

13、ith caution 74 As the rush to live out of town continuesrural areas within reach of towns are gradually filled with houses，so that it is hard to say at what moment a piece of country becomes a suburb 75 .Abecause so many people who live in areas classified as rural travel by car to work in a nearby

14、town each dayB. its people are by now almost entirely an urban society C. But more and more the typical American lives in a metropolitan rather than a small town environmentD. but most Americans do not live in small towns any moreE. Because more and more Americans live in metropolitan areasF. Here t

15、he traditional picture is changingG. As the traditional picture is changing，towns are different71 B 72 F 73 D 74 A 75. C（四）If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago，we should probably have to say that we could not remember But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of wh

16、at we did each day， 71 .It is the same in history Many things have been forgotten 72 Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country，but often it was destroyed by fire or in a warSometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and

17、 place did not know how to WriteFor example，_73_, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after themBut we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa because they had not learned to writeSometimesof course， 74 They have heard ab

18、out it from older people，and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings，and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations For most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the pastThis we may call remembered historySome of it has no

19、w been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is， 75 But where there are no written records，such spoken stories are often very helpfulA. A written account of our daily activities helps US to be able to answer many questionsB. we know a good deal about the people who

20、 lived in China 4，000 years agoC. because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writingD. we should be able to give an answer to the questionE. because the people there ignored the importance of keeping a recordF. because we do not have any writte

21、n account of themG. even if the people cannot write，they may know something of the past71 D 72 F 73 B 74 G 75 C （五）When MrsJoseph Groeger died recently in Vienna，Austria，people asked the obvious，“Why did she live to be 107?”Answers were provided by a survey conducted among 148 Viennese men and women

22、 who had reached the age of 100 71 In spite of the citys image as an unhealthy place，city living often provides benefits that country living can lack 72 This factor is exercise 73 Even taking public transportation often requires some walkingSmaller apartment houses have no elevators（电梯），and so peopl

23、e must climb stairs 74 since parking spaces are hard to find，there is often no alternative to walkingOn the other hand，those who live in the country and suburbs do not have to walk every dayIn fact， 75 To go to school，work，or almost anywhere else，they must ride in carsA. City people can usually walk

24、 to local supermarketsB. in the cities it is often faster to walk short distances than to wait for a busC. People who live in the country probably never have parking problemsD. One factor seems to be important to the longevity（长寿）of those interviewedE. it would probably be most healthful to find an

25、alternative to walkingF. Somewhat surprising was the fact that the majority had lived most of their lives in citiesG. the opposite is often true71 F 72 D 73 B 74 A.75 G（六） Hollywood movies are regularly filled with sex and violence. They can be exciting films but sometimes all you want is a little l

26、ight-hearted entertainment. Have you heard of Bollywood? All singing, all dancing and unrealistic, it is the perfect alternative to normal Hollywood movies. Bollywood is the Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. 71 Yet Bollywood is the largest producer of films in the worl

27、d. This year the Indian Filmgare Awards, Bollywoods Oscars, turn 50 years old. The typical Bollywood movie usually has the following ingredients: a cup of romance, a tea-spoon of comedy, a dash of international sight-seeing, served with a huge slice of singing and dancing. There will also be one bra

28、ve hero, one beautiful heroine and one baddie. 72 .Bollywood films are full of ideal things and free of daily worries. 73The actors change clothes and locations within a single song. But the audience dont mind. To Indian movie lovers, especially the poor, such films are a gateway to heaven and the s

29、tars are their gods. The films take them to a magical world away from their everyday troubles. The films tell them the impossible is possible and that true love conquers all.74 Behind the beautiful scenes, Bollywood still emphasizes traditional family values. In most films, if two lovers want to bre

30、ak an arranged marriage, they cant just run away. They must win over their parents. Bollywood is a decent refreshing replacement for those over-stimulating Hollywood films. 75 They will take you to a brighter, cheerier and more colorful world, where its still cool to dance around a tree and sing a love song.ABollywood has gradually won its reputation on the world stage.BThere is never any mention of politics, poverty or war.CMost Chinese school kids have probably never seen an Indian film.DBollywood films are mostly comic romances with light-hearted incidental music.E. Bollywood pays