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1、高三英语阅读理解限时训练（26）AMore than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in prison by the age of thirty-five.Joe Marshall co-found
2、ed the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California, twenty-three years ago. Mr. Marshall tries to give boys and girls a safe refuge and a chance at a better future. Every week, he has two basic messages for his young students: Stop the violence and Dont do drugs.Mr. Marshall taught math in middle s
3、chool and expected to see his best students go to college. He got a lot of horror stories a lot of his former students ended up dead or in prison for selling drugs, being involved in gangs, and girls ended up getting pregnant（怀孕）. The Omega Boys Club serves more than four hundred young people every
4、year. Two times a week, it offers after-school classes in math, reading, family and life skills, and college preparation.Joe Marshall sees gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem. Thats what these young people get. They develop a street mentalityanger,
5、fear and pain. Then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free.But his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio. In 1991, Joe Marshal
6、l started “Street Soldiers,” a weekly call-in show. Marlena, one of the graduates of the Omega Boys Club, is at Southern University right now, going into her third year. She talked about what she had learned by coming to Omega, by listening to “Street Soldiers,” and she said she had learned how to l
7、ove herself.The club provides guidance and financial assistance to help students stay in school. Over ninety percent of members who were accepted into college have graduated.41. The passage is mainly about_.A. what problems many young black men are faced withB. how Mr. Marshall helps his students to
8、 go to collegeC. why many young black men end up in prisonD. how an organization helps young black people42. The passage mentioned Marlena in order to _.A. showcase the success of the Clubs effort B. invite girls to attend the after-school classesC. highlight the failure of normal schoolsD. prove th
9、e importance of after-school classes 43. “Street Soldiers” is _ .A. an armed force B. a gang of blacksC. a TV program D. a radio program44. According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. The Omega Boys Club help the government to keep male students at school.B. Gangs and violence are pu
10、blic health problems that need to be dealt with.C. The Club offers after-school classes in basic knowledge and living skills.D. Over ninety percent of the members have graduated from college.BCar crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. Most of the crashes result from distracted driving not
11、 paying attention to the road.Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree. He was one of the nations more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in 2008. Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent involved drivers age fifteen to twenty.Ryans father, Thomas D
12、idone, is a police captain in Maryland. It was an inexperienced, immature driver driving at night with a carload of kids. He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some seriously injured. He shares the story of his sons death to help educate teens and their fami
13、lies about distracted driving.Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company says the number one cause of distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone. He says talking on the phone or reaching for it is like drinking four beers and driving. If youre texting while driving, you are twenty-three
14、times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isnt.Government and private groups are using public service announcements and events to bring more attention to the problem. For example, the insurance industry recently held a safety event for teen drivers. At first, nineteen-year-old Kevi
15、n Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children. He also avoided orange cones representing the edge of the road. Then, as part of the test, he started texting. He hit several cones and at least one doll. Thats what really opened up the experience fo
16、r me to prove how bad it is to really text and drive.Debbie Pickford of Allstate Insurance says teens are especially at risk from distracted driving and not just because they lack experience on the roads. According to the research, teens dont really have fully developed brains until theyre twenty-five years old. You put those two th
