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1、阅读理解提升练(二)AOn a warm Monday,Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees.Rolling down the windows to let in fresh air,she settled back to enjoy her lunch.Suddenly she noticed a big bald man running through the parking lot.Before she came to realize what would happen,the man wa
2、s there,shouting through her window,“Get out!”Neilson refused.Pulling open her door,the man seized her by the neck and hair,and threw her out of the car onto the ground.She screamed,grabbing her purse and the keys.Two reporters of the local newspaper,Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson,just outside their
3、office building on a break,heard the screams and began running.When they reached Neilsons car,the attacker had jumped into the drivers seat and was madly searching for the keys.Bruce opened the door,and he and Jackson dragged the man out.The attacker fought back.But even in his cornered panic,he was
4、 no match for the two athletic men.Reggie Miller,a worker of the local newspaper,heard the screams,too.He rushed back to the office to phone the police,and then ran back with some plastic ropesused to tie up newspapers.With his arms tied tight behind him,the prisoner looked up and said coldly,“I hop
5、e you guys feel good about yourselvesyou just caught one of the most wanted men.” They ignored him and waited for the police.Later,Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the professional carjacker(劫车者)and suspected murderer,whose picturebut with a full head of hairhad been recently prin
6、ted in their own newspaper.Neilson considers herself lucky though she suffered injuries.She believes the story might have had a different ending if those good people had not come to her aid.“Unfortunately,” she said,“many people would never have done what they did,and that is the real truth.”1.The u
7、nderlined word “bald” in Paragraph 1 most probably means .A.strongB.without hairC.uglyD.rude2.Please arrange the time order of the following events according to the passage.a.Neilson was enjoying her lunch in the car.b.A man robbed Neilson of her car.c.The picture of the carjacker was printed in the
8、 local news paper.d.The carjacker was caught.A.abcdB.dbcaC.cabdD.abdc3.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A.Neilson considers herself lucky because she was not badly hurt.B.Neilson doesnt think many people will do the same as the three men.C.Neilson thinks everyone will do the same as the
9、three men.D.Neilson has great confidence in peoples kindness and bravery.B(2018浙江高三压轴考)Mention the word “coding” and the first image that comes to mind is a complicated algorithm(运算法则)that has no relationship to the real world.It is,therefore,no wonder that most kids avoid learning this skill that i
10、s becoming increasingly important in todays world.Now,thanks to a small robot,even kids as young as five,will be demanding program.Root,a robot,can be accessed using an iPad.It has been designed to teach coding to kids at various levels.For beginners or young children,Root is less about coding but m
11、ore about problem-solving.Kids can construct a “what if” situation by moving icons(图标)around on the tablet and observing the consequences of their action instantly.This simple “cause and effect” logic can be used to teach the robot to “drive” along a vertical dry-erase whiteboard and quickly draw wi
12、th a dry-erase marker.Root can also be instructed to move around the floor,draw patterns,and avoid barriers.As students get more comfortable with the concept,they can download commands,meaning that Root can be told to draw a race track on a whiteboard,and then multiple Root robots can be instructed
13、to race each other.Other fun options include programming Root to go faster when driving over the color green and coming to a stop upon sensing the color red.Thats just the beginning of the possibilitiesRoot can also be taught to flee when it detects danger,which in this case is the beam from a flash
14、light,and even play “Angry Birds” on a whiteboard using real-world physics.Since multiple Roots can be used at the same time,the robot is the perfect classroom tool to introduce coding to young kids.Raphael believes that this novel approach to coding will excite great interest because unlike the tra
15、ditional method,Root makes coding fun for even the youngest of students.Unfortunately,the robot,successfully tested by kids in the laboratory,is not yet available for schools.The researchers estimate that Root will be sold for about $200,making it fairly affordable for anyone that wishes to learn ho
16、w to code.4.Why are kids afraid to learn to code according to the author?A.It is very difficult for them to learn this skill.B.It gets them more uncomfortable to use computers.C.Learning code will cost them a large sum of money.D.Kids find it will have less fun playing computer games.5.The robot called Root helps kids to .A.change kids study attitudesB.move icons around more easilyC.
