高考英语阅读专项练习2017

阅读最大的好处在于：它让求知的人从中获知，让无知的.人变得有知。下面是小编分享的高考英语阅读理解，欢迎大家阅读!

It’s that time of year when people need to lock their cars. Is it because there are many criminals stealing cars? Not indeed. Rather, it’s because of good-hearted neighbors who want to share their harvest.

Sharon recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they’d begun to feel their skin turn slightly red. That’s when she decided it was time to share her blessings. Eventually she found a neighbor willing to have the tomatoes. "Feel free to take whatever you want," Sharon told her. Later that day, Sharon found that her garden had indeed been harvested. She thought it a good way to help someone and the food didn’t go to waste.

A few days later, the neighbor knocked at the door, holding a loaf of bread: "I want to thank you for all of the tomatoes, and I have to admit that I took a few other things and hoped you wouldn’t mind." Sharon couldn’t think of anything in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said so. "But you did," the neighbor said. "You had some of the prettiest zucchini."

Sharon was confused. She hadn’t even planted any zucchini. But her neighbor insisted that there were bright green zucchini. Sharon’s curiosity got the better of her and she had to go to see where the zucchini had grown. When the neighbor pointed at the long green vegetables, Sharon smiled. "Well, actually, those are cucumbers that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and bitter."

The neighbor looked at Sharon, shock written all over her face. She hesitated a few times, and then smiling, held out the bread, part of a batch (一批生产量) she had shared all over the neighborhood, "I brought you a loaf of cucumber bread. I hope you like it."

might happen if a car were left unlocked in Sharon’s neighborhood at harvest time?

could be stolen.

might be loaded with vegetables or fruits.

hbors might borrow it.

owner would be warned by the guards.

did Sharon want to share the tomatoes?

family’s skin became red.

neighbors did the same thing.

e were too many to consume.

was good for neighborhood relationships.

did Sharon feel when she found her garden harvested?

ghted.

used.

yed.

rised.

h is true about the loaf of bread?

was baked for Sharon only.

neighbor had tasted it.

was made from zucchini.

might not taste good.

答案：BCAD

“A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” is the definition of “selfie” in the Oxford English Dictionary. In fact, it wasn’t even in the dictionary until August of last year. It earned its place there because people are now so obsessed with (对……痴迷) selfies ─ we take them when we try on a new hat, play with our pets or when we meet a friend whom we haven’t seen in a while.

But is there any scientific explanation for this obsession? Well, you should probably ask James Kilner, a neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) at University College London.

Through our lifetime we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other people’s faces and facial expressions. In contrast, according to Kilner, we have a very poor understanding of our own faces since we have little experience of looking at them ─ we just feel them most of the has been proved in previous studies, according to the BBC.

Kilner found that most people chose the more attractive picture. This suggests that we tend to think of ourselves as better-looking than we actually are. To further test how we actually perceive our own faces, Kilner carried out another study. He showed people different versions of their own portrait ─ the original, one that had been edited to look less attractive and one that was made more attractive ─ and asked them to pick the version which they thought looked most like them. They chose the more attractive version.

But what does it say about selfies? Well, isn’t that obvious? Selfies give us the power to create a photograph ─ by taking it from various angles, with different poses, using filters (滤色镜) and so on ─ that better matches our expectations with our actual faces.

“You suddenly have control in a way that you don’t have in non-virtual(非虚拟的)interactions,” Kilner told the Canada-based CTV News. Selfies allow you “to keep taking pictures until you manage to take one you’re happy with”, he explained.