1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Module 4 A Social Survey-My Neighbourhood 高考试卷分块专练 阅读理解提速练 篇阅读 1篇七选五，限时 35分钟 . 阅读理解 A Dear Mary， It was so nice to read your letter the other day. I have always dreamed about having a pen friend. Hopefully, we can learn from each other and grow to be the very best of friends. It is my
2、wish that our letters will let us get to know each other and share parts of our lives. Your horse Shannon sounds beautiful. I am very jealous (羡慕的 ) that you get to live on a farm. I cannot imagine how much fun it is to ride a horse through endless fields and I would love to come and visit you one d
3、ay. Your siblings (兄弟姊妹 ) also sound lovely. I am an only child, so I can only imagine what it is like to have older brothers and sisters. Life in New York is so busy and it is difficult to find the time to get to know people. Even becoming close to my classmates has proved to be quite difficult ove
4、r the years. However, at times it can be the most amazing city in the whole wide world. At night it is so bright and lively and the whole place is full of things to do. I love reading too! I have never read any books by your favorite author Enid Blyton though. I will have to go to my local library a
5、nd find some. I also enjoy dancing and often enter competitions. My other favorite hobby is ice skating. In winter, I skate in Central Park. In the other seasons, I go to an indoor rink (溜冰场 ). I am hoping to start entering ice skating competitions next year. Anyway, I have to go now and do my homew
6、ork. I really hope that I hear from you soon! Lots of love， Megan 语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文。作者通过这封信向对方介绍了一些自己的情况并表示非常高兴能和对方成为好朋友。 1 What is mainly described in Paragraph 3? A Marys family. B Megans hobbies. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 C Marys life in New York. D Megans opinion of New York. 解析：选 D 段落大意题。梅甘在本段中主要谈 论了自己对纽约这个城市的
7、看法，故选D 项。 2 How is Mary similar to Megan? A She likes reading. B She loves horse riding. C She has an older brother. D She lives in the countryside. 解析：选 A 细节理解题。由第四段中的 “I love reading too ！ ” 可知，玛丽和梅甘都喜欢读书，故选 A 项。 3 What do we know about Megan? A Her favorite author is Enid Blyton. B She goes ice s
8、kating all year round. C Some of her classmates are her best friends. D Shell enter a dancing competition next year. 解析：选 B 细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的 “My other favorite hobby is ice skating. In winter, I skate in Central Park. In the other seasons, I go to an indoor rink(溜冰场 ) ” 可知，梅甘一年四季都去滑冰，故选 B 项。 B Jack Ma
9、: Asias richest man just became $2.8bn richer in one day Jack Mas net worth increased by $2.8bn overnight as Alibaba forecast sales growth that topped every analysts estimate on June 8,2017, despite the fact that Chinas economy is slowing down. Mr Ma, aged 52 this year, is now the richest person in
10、Asia and the 14th wealthiest in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth has climbed $8.5bn this year to $41.8bn. The latest surge came after Chinas largest ecommerce company forecast 45 to 49 per cent revenue (收入 ) growth in the year ending March, demonstrating how in
11、vestments in online shopping are paying off. Shares in Alibaba, where Mr Ma is chairman, rose 13 per cent to a record high. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 Alibaba and Tencent, which dominate online shopping and social media respectively, have ventured (冒险 ) deeper into new areas from cloud computing services to stre
12、aming music and video as the countrys economy slows. Alibaba is capturing more digital advertising spending by incorporating (吸收 ) social elements such as video in its shopping sites. Alibaba is holding meetings with investors this week. On Friday, the former English teacher said he wasnt going to d
13、iscuss corporate forecasts. He took the stage instead to describe how his company had become effectively the worlds 22nd largest economy just after Argentina in terms of transactions (交易 ) by never fearing to think big. Mr Ma, who said Alibaba revised 10year plans annually, foresaw the company becom
14、ing the fifthlargest eventually by 2036 by serving burgeoning (迅速发展 ) Chinese middle classes, taking advantage of global trade and making use of its valuable data. Mas comments about the evolution of datadriven technology echoed those of Masayoshi Son, chairman of Japans SoftBank. SoftBank Alibabas
15、largest shareholder has invested billions in companies such as ARM with the intention of staking out a leading position in the future Internet of Things. “The Internet of Things is going to be big because in the past, machines drank electricity ， ” Mr Ma told investors. “In the next 20 years, machin
16、es will drink data. In the future, no company, no country, no business can survive without data.” 语篇解读：本文介绍了阿里巴巴集团股票股价上涨 13%，使董事长马云净身家在一天之内增加 28 亿美元，成为亚洲首富的故事。 4 The text is intended to tell us that _. A Chinas economy is not satisfying B Jack Ma has become Asias richest man C online shopping grows
17、rapidly worldwide D Alibaba is the largest company in the world 解析：选 B 主旨大意题。通览全文可知，本文介绍了阿里巴巴集团股票股价上涨 13%，使董事长马云净身家在一天之内增加 28 亿美元，成为亚洲首富的故事。故选 B。 5 The underlined word “surge” in Paragraph 3 probably means “_” A sudden increase B rapid decline C dead time D uncertainty 【 精品教育资源文库 】 解析：选 A 词义猜测题。根据第
18、一段中的 “ Jack Mas net worth increased by $2.8bn overnight” 和第三段中的 “Chinas largest ecommerce company forecast 45 to 49 per cent revenue (收入 ) growth in the year ending March” 可以推测画线词意为 “ 急剧上升 ” 。 6 What do we know about Alibaba? A It is Chinas largest social media company. B It makes profits mainly fro
19、m digital advertising. C It is providing cloud computing services. D It is new to streaming music and video. 解析：选 C 细节理解题。根据第四段的第一句 “Alibaba and Tencent, which dominate online shopping and social media respectively, have ventured (冒险 ) deeper into new areas from cloud computing services to streaming
20、 music and video .” 可知，由于国家经济下滑，阿里巴巴已进军云计算服务领域。 7 What does Jack Ma stress in the last paragraph? A The investment of global trade. B The importance of data. C The necessity of sharing information. D The future of the Internet of Things. 解析：选 B 推理判断题。根据最后一段的最后一句 “In the future, no company, no countr
21、y, no business can survive without data.” 可知，在将来，任何公司的发展和存在都离不开数据，因此他强调了 “data” 的重要性。 C (2018 华南师大附中模拟 )Many years ago, when we were a young couple with two small children, aged 2 and 4, we were practically impecunious. My parentsinlaws lived from hand to mouth, so we didnt expect any help from them
22、. My parents lived a great distance away, and I was too ashamed to let them know about our situation. My husband was trying to earn a living with an old pickup truck, carrying groceries for local shopkeepers, but it was constantly breaking down. It took almost all the money we had to have it fixed.
23、The truck was also the only means of transportation for us. We lived in the countryside, and we always used the back door because the driveway led to it. One winter evening, I stepped outside to take a bag of trash to the barrel and almost tripped over something. It was nearly dark, and I had to bend down to 【 精品教育资源文库 】 see what it was. I could hardly believe my eyes. There sat a large basket loaded with food. It was he
