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限时规范训练(二十一) 阅读板块——练速度
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Ⅰ.阅读理解(30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Here are the unexpected animal populations you'll find in 4 cities around the globe.
Foxes, London
Take an early-morning or late-night walk through the city streets of London, and you just might meet with a wandering female fox. Or you might not—despite the fact that about 10,000 foxes call England's capital city home, they're also famously stealthy (鬼鬼祟祟的). The foxes came to London shortly after World War Ⅱ when suburbs (市郊) began spreading into the countryside. By the 1970s, London's fox population had been firmly established.
Leopards (豹), Mumbai
An increasing population of leopards lives right under the noses of their human neighbors. There are as many as 41 of the big cats walking quietly in the brush of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, and others make their homes in back alleys of the city. They can be dangerous but they also help keep rabies (狂犬病) in check by feeding on the city's many wild dogs.
Deer, Nara
Many of the animals on this list can be quite hard to spot, as they've adapted to their surroundings thanks to their shy and stealthy nature. Not so for the many deer of Nara, Japan. Sika deer have lived in the city for nearly 1,300 years, thanks to a story about the lightning god riding one into the city. Today, they are one of the city's main tourist attractions, but you should never forget that they're still wild animals.
Hyenas (土狼), Harar
Hyenas don't generally live in Harar City in Ethiopia, but they make their way into town nearly every night. They come in search of meat, which people gladly give them. It's a practice that started with a man named Yusuf Mume Salleh, who began feeding and caring for the animals. Today, his son Abbas carries on the tradition. He says, “Hyenas have never attacked the people of Harar since my father started feeding them, unless you harm their babies.”
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇应用文。人类活动使得我们越来越难见到野生动物，但其实在一些城市人们可以与野生动物和平相处。它们包括伦敦的狐狸、孟买的豹子、奈良的小鹿和哈勒尔的土狼。
1．Which word can properly describe the leopards in Mumbai? A．Rare. C．Mild.
B．Friendly. D．Beneficial.
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段中的“They can be dangerous but they also help keep rabies in check by feeding on the city's many wild dogs.”可知，孟买的豹子帮助人们控制住了街头野狗的数量，从而抑制了狂犬病的蔓延。
答案：D
2．What is special about Sika deer in Nara? A．They are quite dangerous. B．Tourists are attracted by them. C．It's hard to see them in the city. D．People can ride them in daily life.
解析：细节理解题。根据第四段中的“Today, they are one of the city's main tourist attractions”可知，日本奈良的梅花鹿已经成为这个城市的主要景点之一。
答案：B
3．What did Yusuf Mume Salleh do? A．He gave hyenas food. B．He cared for baby hyenas. C．He raised hyenas in his home. D．He protected people from hyenas.
解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“They come in search of meat, which people gladly give them. It's a practice that started with a man named Yusuf Mume Salleh, who began feeding and caring for the animals.”可知，埃塞俄比亚古城哈勒尔有喂食土狼的传统，这是从Yusuf Mume Salleh开始的。
答案：A
B
When you think of friends, you tend to think of people who have been in your life for a long time. But there's another kind of friend—one that appears at a particular moment.
The first such friend I remember is a Russian girl I met in London at the age of four. That year, my mother had remarried and we'd be moving to the UK. Everything
was changing to me. The Russian girl and I were the two oldest in our school. She spoke no English; I, no Russian. We communicated by trying to outdo each other—at drawing, at games, even at eating. Our contests gave me something I could control. And maybe I gave her the same.
In my eighth grade, there was Jenny, who had a small horse named Red Wing. The eighth grade was a terrible year. We both knew it, but we didn't talk about it. We spent most of our time with Red Wing. On cold winter days, we'd go out and take turns riding and walking. She left in the ninth grade and I missed her.
To Julie, I'll be forever grateful. We met on the beach in New Jersey one afternoon. She was there with her twin boys, the only other children there, and they were about the same age as my daughter. Gradually, the children approached each other and soon were digging holes together. And we began to talk. She lived in the little beach town. I lived alone with my daughter in a big apartment a block from the beach. My husband had taken off for North Dakota, leaving me to think about what to do next. Suddenly, there was someone I could talk to. For the next couple of weeks, we met at the beach with the children, and I would go home with her. The little house was a balm (安慰物) to my despairing heart.
Such friends as these often arrive when your own life is off-balance, and will support you till the world settles on its axis (轴线) once again.
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇记叙文。说到朋友的时候，人们往往会想到那些与我们相处很多年的人，但有些朋友则是生命中的过客，在我们过得不如意的时候出现，帮助我们度过那段艰难的时光。
4．How did the friendship between the author and the Russian girl develop? A．They had many common interests. B．They competed with each other.
C．They shared the same activities together. D．They showed great concern for each other.
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中的“We communicated by trying to outdo each other—at drawing, at games, even at eating. Our contests gave me something I could control. And maybe I gave her the same.”可知，作者和这个俄罗斯女孩之间的友谊是以相互竞争的形式形成的。
答案：B
5．What did the author get from Julie? A．Great comfort.
B．Deep wisdom. C．Financial support. D．Heartfelt appreciation.
解析：细节理解题。根据第四段中的“Suddenly, there was someone I could talk to. For the next couple of weeks, we met at the beach with the children, and I would go home with her. The little house was a balm to my despairing heart.”可知，在作者那段孤独无助的时光里，Julie成为一个可以聊天的人，给了作者安慰。
答案：A
6．What's the similarity between the three friends mentioned in the text? A．They appeared when the author was in trouble. B．They stayed with the author for a long time. C．They had no effect on the author's life. D．They were not true friends of the author.
解析：推理判断题。第一个朋友是作者因母亲再婚，全家移居英国而不开心的时候出现的；第二个朋友是作者读八年级正处于学业困难时期出现的；第三个朋友是作者独自在家带孩子而不知所措的时候出现的，由此可推断他们都是在作者艰难的时候出现的。
答案：A
7．What does the author want to convey? A．A friend in need is a friend indeed. B．He is rich enough who has true friends. C．A friend is a present which you give yourself.
D．Some friends are arranged in our lives for good reason.
解析：推理判断题。文中作者介绍了一些生命中短暂出现的朋友，他们在被需要的时候出现，帮助作者度过那些艰难的时光。
答案：D
C
Are you a procrastinator (拖延者)? It's a common problem. And it can be harmful, as previous research has shown that people who procrastinate have higher levels of stress and lower well-being, reported the Association for Psychological Science in the US. But a new study has found a way to deal with this problem: Be more connected to your future self.
Psychologists think that each person believes that they are really two people: “Present Me” and “Future Me”. “People act as if they prefer their current selves' needs and desires to those of their future selves，”wrote psychologists Neil Lewis
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