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1、2015 高考英语北师大版一轮话复习高考英语北师大版一轮话复习【题阅读与写作题阅读与写作】第一节第一节 话题话题写作写作社会、文化、节假日社会、文化、节假日第一节第一节 话题阅读话题阅读社会社会文化文化节假日节假日5 年真题拓展训练年真题拓展训练【原题体验】 (2011新课标全国阅读理解 C)Cassandra Feeley finds it hard to manage on her husbands income.So this year she did something more than a hobby：She planted vegetables in her yard.For h
2、er first garden，Ms.Feeley has put in 15 tomato plants，and five rows of a variety of vegetables.The familys old farm house has become a chicken house，its residents arriving next month.Last year，Ms.Rita Gartin kept a small garden.This year she has made it much larger because，she said， “The cost of eve
3、rything is going up and I was looking to lose a few pounds，too；so its a winwin situation all around.”They are among the growing number of Americans who，driven by higher living costs and a falling economy (经济)，have taken up vegetable gardening for the first time.Others have increased the size of thei
4、r existing gardens.Seed companies and garden shops say that not since the 1970s has there been such an increase in interest in growing food at home.Now many gardens across the country have been sold out for several months.In Austin，Tex.，some of the gardens have a threeyear waiting list.George CBall
5、Jr.，owner of a company，said sales of vegetable seeds and plants are up by 40% over last year，double the average growth of the last five years.Mr.Ball argues that some of the reasons have been building for the last few years.The big one is the striking rise in the cost of food like bread and milk，tog
6、ether with the increases in the price of fruits and vegetables.Food prices have increased because of higher oil prices.People are now driving less，taking fewer vacations，so there is more time to garden.64What does the word “residents” in Paragraph 1 probably refer to?AChickens. BTomatoes.CGardens. D
7、People.答案 A解析 词义猜测题。由第一段中的“The familys old farm house has become a chicken house，its residents arriving next month.”可知：家里的旧农舍已被改成鸡舍，它的“居民”下个月就搬来。不难推出 residents 就是指 chickens。其他三项均不符合题意。65Why is vegetable gardening becoming increasingly popular?AMore Americans are doing it for fun.BThe price of oil is
8、 lower than before.CTheres a growing need for fruits.DThe cost of living is on the rise.答案 D解析 细节理解题。由文章第二段第一句话知：由于各种费用的提高，人们才争购菜园来种植谷蔬，以节省开支，故种菜才普及起来。因此 D 项正确。66Which of the following might be the best title for the text?AFamily Food PlanningBBanking on GardeningCA Belttightening MoveDGardening as
9、a Hobby答案 B解析 标题归纳题。文章主要讲述了美国人为应对经济滑坡引起的生活费用的提高而用自己种菜的方式来渡过难关一事，故 B 项最合适。bank on 意为“依靠，指望” 。C 项“勒紧裤腰带行动”与文章大意相差甚远。【原题拓展训练】.完成这篇文章的文脉构架图.信息句与长难句分析1(64 题信息句)The familys old farm house has become a chicken house，its residents arriving next month.分析：本句的主干为：The familys old farm house has become a chicken
10、 house.its residents arriving next month 是由“名词现在分词”构成的独立主格结构。翻译：家里的旧农场的房子已经成为鸡舍，它的“居民”在下个月到达。2(65 题信息句)They are among the growing number of Americans who，driven by higher living costs and a falling economy，have taken up vegetable gardening for the first time.分析：本句的主干为：They_are_among_the_growing_numb
11、er_of_Americans.，Americans后接 who 引导的定语从句；定语从句被过去分词短语 driven by higher living costs and a falling economy 分割开来，该分词短语也作 Americans 的定语。翻译：他们是在越来越多的美国人中的一员，由于上涨的生活成本和经济下滑所影响，已开始第一次种植蔬菜。【真题精选对应训练】(2013重庆阅读理解 E)It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather.Such a fixation with t
12、he weather finds expression in Dr.Johnsons famous comment that “When two English meet，their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnsons observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago，most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weatherspeak.Bil
13、l Bryson，for example，concludes that，as the English weather is not at all exciting，the obsession with it can hardly be understood.He argues that “To an outsider，the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply，the reason is that the unusual and unpredict
14、able weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.Jeremy Paxman，however，disagrees with Bryson，arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive.Bryson is wrong，he says，because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.“The interest is less in the ph
15、enomena themselves，but in uncertainty.” According to him，the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weatherspeak among the English.Both commentators，somehow，are missing the po
16、int.The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all.English weatherspeak is a system of signs，which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other.Everyone knows conversations starting with weatherspeak are not requests for weather data.Rather，they are routine greetings，conversation starters or the blank “fillers” In other words，English weatherspeak is a means of socia
