奖品英文2020高考英语 阅读理解(5月)训练(07)

2021年1月20日发(作者：exs)
2020;2020
高考英语阅读理解（
5
月）训练（
07
）及答案


C
There were red faces at one of Britain’s biggest banks recently. They
had accepted a telephone order to buy
￡
100,000 worth of shares from a
15-year-old
schoolboy
(they
thought
he
was
21).
The
shares
fell
in
value
and
the
schoolboy
was
unable
to
pay
up.
The
bank
lost
￡
20,000
on
the
deal
which
it cannot get back, because, for one thing, the young boy does not have the
money, for another, being under 18, he is not legally liable for his debts.
If
the
shares
had
risen
in
value
by
the
same
amount
that
they
fell,
he
would
have pocketed
￡
20,000 profit. It certainly is better than delivering the
morning
newspaper.
In
another
case,
a
boy
of
14
found,
in
his
grandmother’s
house, a suitcase full of foreign banknotes. But they were now not used in
their country of origin or anywhere else.
This young boy headed straight to
the nearest bank with his pockets filled with notes. The cashiers did not
realize
the
country
in
question
had
reduced
the
value
of
its
currency
by
90%.
They exchanged the notes at their face value at the current exchange rate.
In
three
days,
before
he
was
found
out,
he
took
￡
200,000
from
nine
different
banks. Amazingly, he had already spent more than half of this before the
police
caught
up
with
him.
Because
he
is
also
under
18
the
banks
have
kissed
goodbye to a lot of money, and several cashiers have lost their jobs.
Should we admire these youngsters for being enterprising and showing
initiative
or
condemn
them
for
their
dishonesty?
Maybe
they
had
managed
for
years with tiny amounts of pocket money that they got from tight-fisted
parents.
Maybe
they
had
done
Saturday
jobs
for
peanuts.
It
is
hardly
surprising, given the expensive things that young people want to buy, such
as
fashionable
running
shoes
and
computer
games,
if
they
sometimes
think
up
more imaginative ways of making money than delivering newspapers. These
youngsters saw the chance to make a lot of money and took it.
Another recent story which should give us food for thought is the case
of the man who paid his six-year- old daughter
￡
300 a week pocket money. He
then charged her for the food she ate a few coins for her piggy bank
（存
钱灌）“She will soon learn the value of money, ” he said. “There’s no
such
thing
as
a
free lunch.
Everything
has
to
be
paid
for
and
the
sooner
she
learns that the better.” At the other extreme there are fond parents who
provide free bed and
board for their grown-up children, While even the most
hard-hearted parents might hesitate to throw their children out on the
streets, we all know
of people in their twenties who still shamelessly live
off their parents. Surely there comes a time when everyone has to leave the
parental
nest,
look
after
themselves
and
pay
their
own
way
in
life.
But
when
is it?
10. Recently one of Britain’s biggest banks _____.

A. bought a lot of shares for a customer and brought him a great loss
B. lost money as its young customer had no money to pay his debts
C. lost much money because the shares they bought fell in value
D. received a telephone order to buy shares for a 21-year-old boy
11. The young customer _____.
A. would have paid his debts, had he had the money to do so
B. would be sent to prison if he didn’t pay his debts

C.
would
have
made
￡
20,000,
had
the
shares
risen
in
value
by
the
same
amount
they fell
D. would have continued to cheat banks, if he had not been found out
12. The author’s attitude to the example of the two boys who cheated the
banks is _____. A. objective
B. subjective
C. questioning
D. negative
13. The man paid his daughter
￡
300 a week pocket money and then required
her to pay for her living expenses because _____.
A. he wanted her to know making money was not easy
B. he wanted to save money for her future education
C. he thought it useful for family members to bear life hardships together
D. he wanted her to learn the value of money
14.
It
can
be
concluded
from
the
passage
that
the
author
believes
that
_____.
A. children should leave the parental nest as soon as possible
B. grown-up children should live on their own
C. children should be taught not to cheat others
D. parents should give more pocket money to their children

10. B.
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3-4
行

11. C.
首段第
6
行

12. A.
第二段后半部分
It is hardly surprising…

13. D.
末段“She will soon learn the value of money, ”

14. B.
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1.
（
2020;2020
·山东卷）
D
Since
the
1970s,
scientists
have
been
searching
for
ways
to
link
the
brain
with
computers.
Brain-computer
interface(BCI)
technology
could
help
people
with disabilities send commands to machines.
Recently, two researchers, Jose Milan
and Michele Tavella from the
Federal Polytechnic school in Lausanne, Switzerland, demonstrated
（展示）
a small robotic wheelchair directed by a person’s thoughts.

In
the
laboratory,
Tavella
operated
the
wheelchair
just
by
thinking
about
moving his left or right band. He could even talk as he watched the vehicle
and guided it with his thoughts.
“our
brain
has
billions
of
nerve
ceils.
These
send
signals
through
the
spinal
cord
（脊髓）
to
the
muscles
to
give
us
the
ability
to
move.
But
spinal
cord
injuries
or
other
conditions
can
prevent
these
weak
electrical
signals
from reach
ing the muscles,” Tavella says. “Our system allows disabled
people to communicate with external world and also to control devices.”

The
researchers
designed
a
special
cap
for
the
user.
This
head
cover
picks
up
the
signals
from
the
scalp(
头皮
)
and
sends
them
to
a
computer.
The
computer
interprets
the
signals
and
commands
the
motorized
wheelchair.
The
wheelchair
also
has
two
cameras
that
identify
objects
in
its
path.
They
help
the
computer
react to commands from the brain.
Prof.
Milan,
the
team
leader,
says
scientists
keep
improving
the
computer
software
that
interprets
brain
signals
and
turns
them
into
simple
commands.
“The
practical
possibilities
that
BCI
technology
offers
to
disabled
people
can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices.
One example is this wheelchair.”

He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients,
so
as
to
prove
that
this
is
a
technology
they
can
benefit
from.
And
the
other
is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time.
A. help to update computer systems
B. link the human brain with computers
C. help the disabled to recover
D. control a person's thoughts
72. How
A. By controlling his muscles. B. By talking to the
machine.
C. By moving his hand. D. By using his mind.
73. Which of the following shows the path of the signals described in
Paragraph 5?
A. scalp→computer→cap→wheelchair

B. computer→cap→scalp→wheelchair

C. scalp→cap→computer→wheelchair

D. cap→computer→scalp→wheelchair

74. The team will test with real patients to
A.
make
profits
from
them B.
prove
the
technology
useful
to them
C. make them live longer D. learn about their physical
condition
75. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Switzerland, the BCI Research Center
B. New Findings About How the Human Brain Works
C. BCI Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
D. Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries
【解析】
：
71-75:BDCBC
【语篇解读】本文是一则新闻报道，介绍了
Brain-computer
interface(BCI)
技术的发明，原理和对残疾人带来的益处。

71. B
。细节理解题。从第一段第一句话可知。

72.D
．细节理解题。见第二段“
Tavella operated the wheelchair just by
thinking about moving his left or right band.
”
。