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1、河南省南阳市第一中学2020届高三上学期第三次考试英语试题第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）请阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。ATim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New Yorkhe in computers, she in special education. “Teaching means everything to us,” Tim would say.
2、In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about lifes purpose.Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Partons foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month
3、 to children from birth to age five in the singers hometown of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire”, Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk，“as a reminder”.Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim cl
4、icked on . The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didnt want to give the children rubbish,” says Linda. The
5、 books - reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists, and Dollywood board members - included classics such as Ezra Jack Keatss The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdneys Llama Llama series.Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2020, they hav
6、e shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “The program introduces us to books Ive never heard of.”The Richters spend about $ 400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim
7、. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”1. According to the text, Dolly Parton is .A. a well-known surgeon B. a mother of a four-year-oldC. a computer programmer D. a singer born in Tennessee2. Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?A. To see if the books were of good quality.B.
8、To meet Dollywood board members.C. To make sure the books were the newest.D. To avoid signing up online.3. What can we learn from Tims words in the last paragraph?A. He considers his efforts worthwhile.B. He wonders why some people are so busy.C. He tries to save those waiting to die.D. He needs mor
9、e money to help the children.【答案】1. D 2. A 3. A【解析】文章通过介绍Richter夫妇从接触一个名为Imagination Library的项目到成立自己的基金会的历程并找到生活的真正价值。【1题详解】细节理解题。根据a program started by Dolly Partons foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singers hometown of Sevier, Tennessee.可知Dol
10、ly Parton是一名出生在田纳西州的歌手，所以选D。【2题详解】细节理解题。根据The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see.可知选A。【3题详解】推理判断题。文章通过介绍Richter夫妇从接触一个名为Imagination Library的项目到成立自己的基金会的历程并找到生活的真正价值。“Some people sit there and wait to die,” says
11、 Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”，所以选A。BOne evening in February 2020, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path .Thats when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a
12、train. Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometer down the railway tracks.Ceelys near miss made the news because she blamed it on her GPS device (导航仪). She had never driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily.
13、 Ceely was relying on her GPS, but it made no mention of the crossing. “I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,” she told the BBC.Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceelys story in his book When Machines Fail Us, points the finger at
14、the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And its not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wirele
15、ss key-boards.The problem with his argument in the book is that its not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the r
16、ailway authorities are at fault for poor signalling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the GPS equipment. But Stevenson doesnt say.Its a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminal
