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1、Unit 1 Great scientists阅读理解组块专练练速度(限时:35分钟).阅读理解A(2016太原市高三第二学段测评)Youre probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, voice and music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists (精神科医师) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.But theres a rapidly growing kind o
2、f professionals who do a little bit of everything. She or he is called a “life_coach”. People who are at the crossroads in their life, and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost, are turning to them for help.The idea that one persons success story can change other peoples li
3、fe for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegies famous selfimprovement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, sp
4、orts, military service, or psychotherapy (心理疗法) to help others make critical life decisions. They often give their approaches a slogan, such as “energy coaching” “fearless living” or “working yourself happy”Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls a
5、 “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for ones career and life outside work.Lakhanis Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful including battered women and struggling single m
6、others.But others in the socalled “helpful professions” are not thrilled about the lifecoaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and these slick (华而不实的) promoters who mess with peoples life can do more harm than good.语篇解读:当你处于人生的重要时刻时,当你
7、想让公司里某些职员的事业得以提升时,你可以求助于人生教练,他们能帮助你做出人生中的重大决定。1Which of the following is the best title for the passage?AWorking Yourself HappyBLife Coaches Help with Tough DecisionsCHow to Cope with Daily Life with Life CoachesDThe Lifecoaching Movement解析:选B标题归纳题。本文主要介绍了人生教练正成为受人们欢迎的专业人才,他们能帮助那些面临人生重大抉择的人做出决定。B项最具
8、有概括性。2The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means “_”Athe career counselor who teaches skillsBthe psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily lifeCthe fitness coach who teaches us lessonsDthe specialist who helps us make important life decisions解析:选D词义猜测题。根据第二段的最后一句及第三段的内容可知,“life coach”是指
9、帮助我们做出人生重大决定的专家。3The last paragraph is mainly about _.Athe introductions of life coachesBthe disagreements about life coachesCthe effects of life coachesDthe experiences of life coaches解析:选B段落大意题。根据最后一段中的“They say . can do more harm than good.”可知,一些人对人生教练持否定的态度,认为人生教练可能给人们的生活带来的伤害大于益处,因此选择B项。4What i
10、s the authors attitude towards life coaches?ACautious.BApproving.CCasual. DDisapproving.解析:选A观点态度题。作者在文章中客观地对人生教练进行了介绍,既介绍了他们的职业优势,也提及了一些人对他们的否定态度,因此作者对人生教练的态度是严谨的。cautious“严谨的,谨慎的”;approving“赞成的”;casual“随意的,漠不关心的”;disapproving“不赞成的”。B(2016商丘市高三第二次模拟考试)Chinas famous scientist, the Cloth Shoes Academ
11、ician Li Xiaowen passed away on January 10th, 2015 in Beijing at the age of 68. Hundreds of thousands of netizens sang high praise for him online, showing their respect to the leading authority in remote sensing field. Following Li Xiaowens last wish, his family held a simple funeral for him, while
12、many admirers from all over the country came to the funeral for remembrance. Some national leaders including Premier Li Keqiang also sent a wreath. Li was a professor at Beijing Normal University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research achievements have advanced the devel
13、opment of remote sensing science, and made China one of the leaders in this field. He also received several famous science prizes from China. He published 1,878 essays on his blog since 2007. All his students have thumbed up to Li for his contributions to the development of remote sensing. He was kn
14、own to everyone in the remote sensing circle, but was impressive on netizens for a photo. In recent years, Professor Lis quiet and selfeffacing behavior was recognized through social media. In 2014, a photograph of Academician Li was taken by his student, in which he was attentively making a lecture
15、 with shabby clothes, grizzled hair and straggling beard, without socks, and wearing black cloth shoes. He looked like an old villager, rather than a famous scientist. The photo became popular on the Internet and earned him the title of the “Cloth Shoes Academician”. His simple plain image, kindness
16、 to all his students and dedication to his career are three important features on him. All these are precious to educational and academic community. “The society is changeable but Academician Li is quiet. He faced all stuff with his characters of quietness and simplicity. It is clear that he has become theTeacher Immortal” said Ge Yue