温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后。关闭Word文档返回原板块。高考压轴冲刺练 九限时40分钟. 阅读理解Speed reading is a necessary and vital skill in the Internet age. We skim over articles, e-mails and tweets to try to grasp key words and the essential meaning of the text. With so much information available through our electronic devices, it would be impossible to get through everything if we read word by word, line by line. But a new trend calls on people to unplug and enjoy reading slowly, one which claims to have benefits beyond intellectual stimulation. A recent story from The Wall Street Journal reported on a book club in Wellington, New Zealand, where members meet in a cafe and turn off their smart phones. They sink into comfortable chairs and read in silence for an hour. Unlike typical book clubs, the point of the slow reading club isnt to exchange ideas about certain books, but to get away from electronic devices and read in a quiet, relaxed environment. According to the story, the Wellington book club is just one example of a movement started by book lovers who miss the traditional way of reading. Traditional readers, like Maura Kelly, say a regular reading habit sharpens the mind, improves concentration, reduces stress levels and deepens the ability to understand others. Some of these benefits have been backed up by science. For example, a study of 300 elderly people published by the journal Neurology last year showed that mature people who take part in activities that use their brain, such as reading, suffer less memory loss as they get older. Another study published last year in Science showed that reading novels helps people understand others mental states and beliefsa key skill in building relationships. Yet technology has made us less careful readers. Computer and phone screens have changed our reading patterns from the top-to-bottom, left-to-right reading order we traditionally used, to a wild skimming and skipping pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text online that has many links to other web pages also leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text. The Internet may have made us stupider, says British journalist Patrick Kingsley, only half joking. Because of the Internet, he claims we have become very good at collecting a wide range of factual tidbits, but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, think and relate all these facts to each other. 【文章大意】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了慢速阅读给人们带来的好处和快速阅读特别是电子阅读带来的一些问题。1. Speed reading is a necessary and vital skill in the Internet age because people_. A. have to grasp the meaning fasterB. have much more information to readC. no longer read word by word, line by lineD. must use their smartphones more frequently【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据文章第一段的With so much information available through our electronic devices, it would be impossible to get through everything if we read word by word, line by line. 可知人们因为信息太多而快速阅读。故选B。2. Members of the Wellington book club are expected to_. A. read peacefully for an hourB. make coffee for the other membersC. regularly swap ideas about booksD. turn off their smartphones for recharging【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据文章第三段的where members meet in a cafe and turn off their smart phones. They sink into comfortable chairs and read in silence for an hour. 可知选A。3. According to the Neurology study, who is most likely to suffer memory loss? A. A 65-year-old man who rarely reads. B. A 79-year-old woman who reads regularly. C. A 17-year-old middle school student who seldom reads. D. A healthy 24-year-old university graduate who often plays games. 【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据文章第五段的a study of 300 elderly people. . . suffer less memory loss as they get older. 可知参加思维活动, 比如读书等, 不易失去记忆力, 故65岁从不读书的人容易失去记忆力。故选A。4. The last paragraph is written to_. A. explain the secrets of others mindsB. urge people to read as slowly as possibleC. encourage people to read more about scienceD. describe the problems caused by electronic reading【解析】选D。主旨大意题。根据文章最后一段的关键句technology has made us less careful readers. 可知该段主要描述了电子阅读带来的一些问题。故选D。In less than 60 years, the people of my tribe have gone from being an independent nation, to cultural prisoners, to welfare recipients(接受者). Is it any wonder that there are so many problems facing indigenous(土著的)Australians today? When I was growing up in Kowanyama there were 15 people in my class, I am the only one who has gone to university. Im also the only girl in my class who did not have a child at 15. Of the boys in my class, seven have been incarcerated, two for murder, five for robbery and rape. Only three of us are not alcoholics. Four of my classmates have committed suicide. Life as a young aborigine is not easy, in any setting. The story of my fellow students is a lesson in the magnitude of the problems that young indigenous people in Cape York face. The two issues that are central to changing this story are education and h