修罗场广东省广州市高考英语短文改错、阅读理解四月自练2

2021年1月24日发(作者：密桃)
广州市
2015
高考英语短文改错、阅读理解四月自练
2
阅读理解。

Photographs are everywhere. They decorate (
装饰
) the walls of homes and are used in stores for
sales of different goods. The news is filled with pictures of fires, floods, and special events. Photos
record the beauties of nature. They can also bring things close that are far away. Through photos,
people can see wild animals, cities in foreign lands, and even the stars in outer space. Photos also
tell stories.
Reporting the news through photos is called photojournalism. At times photojournalists tell their
stories through a single picture. At other times, they use a group of pictures to tell a story. Each
picture is like a chapter in a book, which can do more than record the facts. It can also be a strong
force for social change.
Jacob Riis was among the first photojournalists. He took pictures of parts of New York City where
the poor lived. Riis believed that poverty(
贫穷
)caused crime, and he used photos to help him prove
his point. A few years later, the photos of small children working in factories by Lewis Hine shocked
the public. Hine’s pictures helped bring about laws to protect such children.

Hundreds of pictures may have to be taken in order to get one or two really good photos. It takes
science to have the photo come out clearly and art to make a photo that has a good design and
expresses feeling. Photojournalists make an actual record of what they see. A photo, however, can
be
both
a
work
of
art
and
an
actual
record.
It
can
record
an
important
event
as
a
beautiful
or
exciting picture.
As historical and artistic documents(
文献
) ,photos can become more important over time. Today
photojournalists still have their pictures appear in newspapers and magazines. They also publish(
发
表
) them in books and on the Internet.
1. The underlined
word “They” in the first paragraph refers to








.

A. beauties








B. photos







C. goods







D. events
2. The photos of the small children by Hine show us that photos











.
A. are also works of art









B. are popular ways of reporting news
C. often shock the public








D. can serve as a force for social change
3. What can we learn from the passage?
A. News with pictures is encouraging.




B. Photos help people improve their life.
C. News photos mean history in a sense.


D. People prefer reading news with pictures.
4. The text is mainly about






.
A. telling the story through pictures








B. decorating the walls of homes
C. publishing historical papers











D. expressing feeling through pictures
【参考答案】
1
—
4
、
B D C A



阅读理解

English as a Foreign Language
Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a
young child? Your
teachers at school? Perhaps even the BBC

as a
grown-up.
Whoever
it
was,
somehow
you
have
developed
an

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understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language.

There are

now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the
same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion
people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English.

Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can
communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures? Or should we worry about
the dangers of“mono
-
culturalism”, a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same
food and listen to the same music?

Does
it
matter
if
an
increasing
number
of
people
speak
the
same
language?
On
the
contrary,
I
would have thought-although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood
each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India(where many of them speak
at least some English)and Pakistan(the same situation with India). . .

If
we
all
speak
En
glish,
will
we
then
all
start
eating
McDonald’s
burgers?
Surely
not.
If
English
becomes more dominant(
占主导地位的
), will it kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in
Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language
but
often
one
or
more
other
related
languages,
as
well
as
English
and
perhaps
some
French
or
German as well.

When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we receive
d a wonderfully poetic
email
from
a
listener
in
Ireland.
“The
English
language
is
a
beautiful
language.
Maybe
it’s
like
a
rose, ”he said. “But who would ever want their garden just full of rose? ”

Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden. But the way I see it, just
by planting a few
roses, you don’t necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more
people want to plant English roses, that’s fine by me.

【文章大意】作者以独特的视角分析了英语的发展前景和人们的种 种顾虑。越来越多的人会
讲英语是好事吗
?

战乱会因此而减少吗
?
将来人们会只讲一种语言
,
吃同样的食物
,
听同样
的音乐吗
?
作者借用一位爱尔兰听众的邮件说
:

英语好比玫瑰花
,
它很漂亮
,
但是我们不能因
为它漂亮就把花园全种上玫瑰花
,
也不能把其他花草都拔掉。

1. How many people learn English as their second language?

A. About 80%.





B. About 376 million.

C. About one million.



D. We don’t know.

【解析】
选
B
。
细节理解题。
从第二段第一句话可知
,
把英语当作第二语言的人的数量是
about
376 million
。故选
B
。

2. Wha
t does“garden”in the last two paragraphs stand for?

A. Language.





B. Family.

C. The world.




D. The Earth.

【解析】选
C
。词义猜测题。因为这两段中
rose
用来指代
English,
所以
garden
自然是指代
the
world
。故选
C
。

3. The author would probably agree that



.

A. it’s very hard to plant ma
ny kinds of flowers in a garden
B. it’s good for people from other countries to learn English

C. more and more people like to plant roses in their gardens
D. English is easier to l
earn than other languages
【解析】
选
B
。
作者意图题。
根据全文内容
,
尤其最后一句
If more and more people want to plant
English roses, that’s fine by me.
可以了解作者的态度倾向。故选
B
。


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