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1、20122012 届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读能力综合培养训练集（五十五）届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读能力综合培养训练集（五十五）A How to Be a Winner Sir Steven Redgrave Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals “In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病)Believing my career(职 业生涯) was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason
2、why I should stop training and competing. That was itthe encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believed in myself. I am not saying that it isnt difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasnt finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.” Karen Pickering Swimming Wo
3、rld Champion “I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to suceessyou cant follow a career in any field without being wellorganized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, h
4、owever small they are, and youll be a step closer to achieving them.” Kirsten Best Poet & Writer “When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I cant achieve something. Then，there are other distractions,_such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, i
5、t helps a lot to repeat words such ascalm ， peaceorfocus ， either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can become second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological(心理的) tool.” 语篇解读 本文叙述了三位名人在成功的道路上所经历的不同的事情，一是战胜了
6、病痛， 一定克服了精力分散的困难，一是通过坚持不懈努力，最后都取得了胜利。 1What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?A. Difficulties influenced his career. B. Specialists offered him medical advice. C. Training helped him defeat his disease. D. He overcame the shadow of illness to win. 解析 推理判断题。第一部分写了 Sir Steven 得了糖尿病，但最终克服了病痛拿到
7、了金 牌，故 D 项符合题意。 答案 D 2What does Karen Pickering put on top of her diary?A. Her training schedule. B. Her daily happenings. C. Her achievements. D. Her sports career. 解析 事实细节题。第二部分第二句中，it 指代前面的句子内容，即她的训练计划。答案 A 3What does the underlined word“distractions” probably refer to?A. Ways that help one to fo
8、cus. B. Words that help one to feel less tense. C. Activities that turn ones attention away. D. Habits that make it hard for one to relax. 解析 猜测词义题。从下文“The key is to concentrate.”可以推出是指分散作家注意 力的活动。 答案 C 4According to the passage，what do the three people have in common?A. Courage. B. Devotion. C. Har
9、d work. D. Selfconfidence. 解析 事实细节题。第一部分中“I could still be a winner if I believed in myself.” ，第二部分中“Trust yourself.”及第三部分中“It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence.”都表明自信是他们三个的共同之处。 答案 D 长难句解读 Trust yourself，write down your goals for the day，however small they are，and youll be a
10、 step closer to achieving them.相信你自己，不论目标多 小，每天把它们写下来，这样你会向实现它们又迈进了一步。 “祈使句and/or现在将来 时句子”结构中，祈使句可转换成由 if 引导的条件句。本句含有两个祈使句，第二个祈使 句又含有一个让步状语从句。B People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascin
11、ating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists. The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and fema
12、le ，had breeding(繁殖) rights within the group, ”explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 510% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.” The reason for the size difference was easy to see.
13、Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5 10% of the size of its larger competitor，it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the_evicted_fish_is then eaten up. It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in ord
14、er to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily，by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise，the gobies simply refused the extra fo
15、od they were offered，clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threate
16、n their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves，so keeping their competitors small.While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr.Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical (等级的) societies remain stable.The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive
