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1、 Unit 2The universal language .阅读理解(2017年湖南长沙高三年级统一模拟考试)Gregory Talley used to sleep in a park or under a bridge.The 50yearold has been homeless for more than 10 years.“It is hard.Its hard to live homeless.You filled every day trying to find out where you are going to get something to eat.If I hadnt
2、 found the wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter in Virginia，I wouldnt know where I would be by now.I might be dead，”Talley said.The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people.Pam Michell has devoted her life to making the lives of this vulnerable(易受伤的)
3、 population better as executive director of the nonprofit organization.“I went to Africa in 1985.And I saw a huge amount of poverty，but I saw so much hope.And I decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people，”Michell said.When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25
4、 years ago，its three shelters had about 80 beds.Now，it has 350 beds and serves about 1，500 homeless people every year.She has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.“We do outreach(外展服务)；we do prevention；we do permanent housing；we do transitional housing.We have an education p
5、rogram with all sorts of different things to move people to end their homelessness，”she said.“Our Out of Poverty program is not just about money.Its about you could be spiritually poor，you could be relationship poor.you could be educationally poor.So it is focusing on how you get out of this poverty
6、 that has brought you to being homeless.”The program tries to teach the shelter residents selfreliance(自立) and work values，and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility.“I learned I still have opportunities to change it and I can change it，”said shelter resident Lewis Webster.“It is j
7、ust about going forth in doing necessary work to do it.I mean if you really want better，you would do better and thats the frame of mind of me now.”【语篇解读】本文主要介绍了一个帮助流浪者的非营利组织。这个组织为流浪者提供住处，教育他们自立。1Gregory Talleys story is told at the beginning of the text to Atell readers the situation for the poor in
8、 the US are getting worseBintroduce a nonprofit organization that is trying to help the poor in the USCdisclose the truth that more and more homeless people are dying from hungerDremind readers that the homeless people in the US have no trouble getting foodB考查目的意图。文章第一、二段介绍了五十岁的Talley流浪了十多年，如果没有Fair
9、fax County Kennedy Shelter，他可能已经死去；接着下文介绍Kennedy Shelter是非营利性组织New Hope Housing为无家可归者提供的住处之一，并由此引出该组织对穷人的帮助。据此可以判断，B项正确。2According to Paragraph 6，Pam Michell started to bring hope to the homeless by Aproviding clothes for themBoffering food to themCbuilding new houses for themDoffering them shelters
10、 for the nightD考查细节理解。根据第六段的第一句“When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25 years ago，its three shelters had about 80 beds”和第三句中的“providing beds for the night”可知，Michell的慈善工作是通过为无家可归者提供住处开始的，故D项正确。3What is the final purpose of the education program?ATo tell the homeless people the ways to ma
11、ke money.BTo help the homeless people find the causes of their poverty.CTo encourage the homeless to work and rely on themselves.DTo teach the poor how to live a better life in the shelters.C考查细节理解。根据第七段的最后一句“The program tries to teach the shelter residents selfreliance(自立) and work values，and inclu
12、des courses on planning and personal responsibility”可知，教育项目的最终目的是鼓励无家可归者依靠自己的双手生活，故C项正确。4What may be the best title for the text?AComfort in the Kennedy ShelterBWays to Achieve SuccessCAn Opportunity to Fight HomelessnessDAn Organization to End HomelessnessD考查标题判断。通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了一个旨在帮助流浪者并最终让他们自食其力的非
13、营利组织，故D项最能概括文章。.阅读七选五(2017年贵州省普通高等学校招生适应性考试)Many arguments teenagers have with their parents are about one thing：independence.As you get older，youll want to do more stuff on your own，without your mom and dad tagging along with you.The arguments generally start when your parents think you arent ready
14、 for extra responsibility while you think you are.Arguing with your parents isnt the best solution at all，but the best solution is gaining trust from your parents. 1 Understand that its not your parents who do not want you to have independence.They want the best for you and think youre not ready or
15、youll hurt yourself if you have the freedom to do whatever you want.Show your parents you can be sensible. 2 If you cant get home by 9：30，theyll never let you out after 10：00.Agree with them some“friends time”and some“family time”so that they know you wont be spending your whole weekend out with you
16、r friends. 3 They wont imagine you getting into trouble if they know how they are. 4 They wont feel much worried letting you go off on your own if they know what youre up to.Call in and tell your parents that youre OK from time to time.The less they worry about you，the more independence youll gain. 5 If they find o
