高考英语二轮复习 专题限时训练（三十一） 文化教育型阅读理解配套作业（一）（解析版，新课标）

专题限时训练(三十一) [文化教育型阅读理解(一)]

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(一)

It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels. This is exciting. Yet, on the other hand, competition breeds a pragmatic(实用的) attitude. People choose to learn things that are useful, and do things that are profitable. Today's college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism(功利主义)．

Many college students choose business or computing programming as their majors convinced that these professions are where the big money is. It is not unusual to see the college students taking part-time jobs as a warming-up for the real battle. I often see my friends taking GRE tests, working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving lessons to get a license. Well, I have nothing against being practical.

As the competition in the job market gets more and more intense, students do have reasons to be practical. However, we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training. Just imagine, if your utilitarianism prevails on campus, living no space for the cultivation(培养) of students' minds, or nurturing of their soul, we will see university is training out well trained spiritless working machines. If utilitarianism prevails society, we will see people bond by mind-forged medicals lost in the money-making ventures; we will see humanity losing their grace and dignity, and that would be disastrous. I'd like to think society as a carriage and people's pursuit for profit or fame as the horse that pulls the carriage. Yet without the driver picking direction the carriage would go straight and may even end up in a precarious situation.

A certificate may give you some advantage, but broad horizons, positive attitudes and personal integrities(正直)，these are assets you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way. In today's world, where highest level of competition is not of skills or expertise(专业), but of vision and strategy, your intellectual quality largely determines how far you can go in your career.

1．The author's attitude toward today's college education is________. A．positive B．cautious C．critical D．doubtful

2．Many college students choose to major in business because________. A．a businessman is very likely to make big money B．studying business is less competitive

C．too many students have chosen computing programming D．computing programming is not a must for them 3．The author does strongly suggest that ________. A．more competition be encouraged on college campus

B．people not ignore the value of broad horizons, positive attitude and personal

integrities

C．intellectual quality determine how far one can go in his career D．college students get as many part-time jobs as possible 4．In the author's opinion，________.

A．college students are not pragmatic enough

B．college students should have drivers pick direction for them

C．college education should provide students with more business courses D．college education should value the cultivation of students' minds

(二)

Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten to fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day—which really for handwriting is pretty much death.

Many adults remember learning that way—by copying letters over and over again. Today's thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.

Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency—writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.

But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.

But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive(连笔，草书), which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75% of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.

1. We can infer from the first paragraph that ________. A. teachers spend little time in teaching handwriting

B．most teachers attach importance to teaching handwriting C．handwriting teaching is not commonly required

D．most teachers are at a loss how to teach handwriting

2. Which of the following about traditional handwriting in the USA is NOT true? A. The students are taught by practicing a long period. B．Printing is taught in preference to writing in cursive. C．Handwriting is taught for its own sake. D．Two skills get involved in handwriting.

3. Some American people consider handwriting not important any more because

________.

A. all the American children learn to print first

B．about 1/4 of the students choose to print their essay on the test C．it is unnecessary to use handwriting in the age of keyboard D．computers and voice recognition programs are widely used 4. ________ may serve as the best title for the passage. A. Handwriting: fascinating in keyboard age B．Right or wrong: the death of handwriting C．Two skills involved in handwriting D．Handwriting lessons on the way out

(三)

I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way.

Several weeks ago，I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines.I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he should concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn't even notice he was doing it, he got up again.I was getting frustrated, but then it hit me.I started noticing his answers were much quicker and accurate when he stood up.Could he be more intent while standing up?

This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to success.This child would have the discipline to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life.

Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality traits，and all you can do is loving and accepting them.As parents，throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids' best cheerleaders，guiding them and helping them find their way.

I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate.Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine.We need to learn to accept our kids' ways of doing things.Some way may have worked for me but doesn't mean we need to carry it through generations.There is nothing sweeter than being individual and unique.It makes us free and happy and that's just the way I want my kids to live their own life.

1. At the beginning, the author tried to keep his son seated in order to make him________.

A. pay more attention to his study B．keep silent in the room

C．finish his homework on time D．get right answers

2. Inspired by the case of his son，the author began to doubt________. A．the importance of parents B．the old form of education

C．the relationship between kids and their parents D．the good grades of some kids

3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is right?

A. We should help kids correct their wrong ways. B．Parents should study their kids' DNA.

C．Kids should be taught to behave themselves. D．Parents should love and accept their kids.

4. The author has stopped asking his son to sit down because ________. A. he has changed his traditional ideas B．his son wants to be unique

C．his son doesn't follow his advice D．his son's DNA is different

5. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? A. Study hard and you'll be successful B．Be friendly to your children

C．Children's success in their own style D．Parents' help with their children's study