2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解创优专练1Passage 1Which gender is the most talkative? No matter what you answer, you are partially right.A recent Gallup Poll showed that both men and women believe that women possess the gift of talking and some even believe women are biologically built for conversation, but all of that is challenged in a research published in the November issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review.In a recent research by Campbell Leaper and Melanie Ayres, they collected all of the available evidence from decades of scientific study and systematically combined the findings into an overall picture of the differences between men and women regarding talkativeness.They found a small but reliable tendency （趋势）for men to be more talkative than women incertain cases, such as when they were conversing with their wives or with strangers. Women talked more to their children and to their college classmates.The type of speech was also explored in the research. The researchers discovered that, with strangers, women were generally more talkative when it came to using speech to ensure her connection to the listener, while men s speech focused more on an attempt to influence the listener.With close friends and family, however, there was very little difference between genders in the amount of speech.60 .This passage mainly talks about a research conducted by.A. Gallup PollB. Personality and Social Psychology ReviewC. Campbell Leaper and Melanie Ayres D. the author61 .Which of the following statements describes the main idea of the passage?A. Women are born more talkative than men.B. Men are born more talkative than women.C. Women and men are talkative in different cases.D. Women are no more talkative than men.62 .The underlined word gender means.A. people B. nationality C. culture D. sex63 .Talking with strangers,.A. women are more talkative than with people they knowB. men are more talkative than with their wivesC. women prefer to listen more rather than speak moreD. men speak a lot to have their opinions accepted 参考答案60.C 61.C 62.D 63.DPassage 2A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adultsThe researchers used a national long-term survey of adolescent （青少年的）health to investigate （调查）the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in 2000.As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio.Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.Seven years later, in 2007, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games or radio, etc. But the study did find that every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression. Young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use.The study didnt explore if watching TV causes depression. But one possibility is that it was taking time away from activities that could help prevent depression.Last December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to he socially active, to read, attend religious services and to vote.72. The best title for this passage should be.A. Teens, Television and DepressionB. Men Develop Depression Easier than WomenC. Media Use is Harmful to AdolescentsD. Take Great care of Teenagers depression73. The result of the research seems to prove.A. teenagers are more likely to develop depression than adultsB. other media uses do no harm to adolescentsC. TV probably causes teenagers to grow up with depressionD. those who watch no TV will not develop depression74. We can learn from the survey that of all the media useA. computer games are teenagers favoriteB. most teenagers prefer to listen to the radioC. teenagers enjoy watching TV very muchD. newspaper is not included in the survey75. We can conclude that a teenager shouldA. play more video games instead of watching TVB. be active in taking part in outdoor activitiesC. be more active in watching educational TV programmersD. attend religious services and care for politics答案 72.A 73.C 74.C 75.BPassage 3Any country has good reasons to want its citizens to be as healthy as possible. This