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1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world(建议用时：30分钟) 阅读理解A(2019武汉毕业班5月训练)For years, my time spent in the shower could have got me a mention in Guinness World Records as the shortest time taken to batheI hurried up during this process.One day, however, while at a party, I heard an artist friend telling every
2、body that his idea came while he was having a shower. “What about you？” he asked. “Dont you get your creative thoughts from the same place？”“Im in and out in a hurry，” I told him proudly. “I have no time to waste！”“What a pity，” he said. “Thats the place where you need to slow down; plenty of great
3、thoughts come from there！” I tried it out. I slowed down the whole process, started enjoying the warm water, taking a little longer to soap myself and even spending more time just enjoying the process, and realized how much I had missed in hurrying up all these years.A woman told me how much stress
4、her friend was suffering from and how she sought to convince her that she needed to find ways to relax. She gave her a videotape on stress management and relaxation techniques, and encouraged her to watch it right away. Fifteen minutes later, her friend handed back the tape“It was good，” she said，“b
5、ut I dont need it”“But its a 70minute video，”the woman replied. “You couldnt have watched the whole thing”“Yes, I did，” her friend said“I put it in fastforward！”A major social problem of the 21st century is Hurry Sickness. We hurry through work. We swallow fast food. We complain that we dont have en
6、ough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look back in amazement and comment，“Oh, how the years flew by！”Then we realize the heavy price we have paid for traveling fast.Symptoms of Hurry Sickness include stress and anxiety, bad relationships, poor work performance and even disea
7、se. Some people dont survive it. Whats the cure? Slow down, for life is so short and precious that we must live it well.【解题导语】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章通过叙述“我”在一次聚会中与一位艺术家朋友谈及洗澡的时间问题，向我们介绍了21世纪存在的一个显著的社会问题是匆忙症，从而告诉我们：生命是如此短暂和珍贵，我们必须好好地慢下来生活。1What was the advantage of taking a shower in the eyes of the artist fri
8、end?ATime was savedBNothing was missed.CGreat ideas flew away.DCreative thoughts came.D解析：细节理解题。根据第二段中的“his idea came while he was having a shower”和“Dont you get your creative thoughts from the same place？”可知， 在那位艺术家朋友的眼里，洗澡时会产生创造性的想法。2What was the trouble with the womans friend?AShe felt stressed.B
9、She found the tape useless.CShe found no way to relax.DShe watched the tape too fast.A解析：细节理解题。根据第五段中的“A woman told me how much stress her friend was suffering from”可知， 那位女士的朋友感到压力很大。3What is the major social trouble people face in the 21st century in the writers eyes?APeople run fast to work.BEvery
10、thing is done in a hurry.CPeople dont have enough time.DTime flies without being noticed.B解析：细节理解题。根据第八段中的“A major social problem of the 21st century is Hurry Sickness”可知， 在作者看来， 21世纪人们面临的一个主要的社会问题是一切都是匆匆忙忙的。4How can the problem be settled?ABy slowing down.BBy learning to survive.CBy developing frie
11、ndship.DBy performing good work.A解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“Some people dont survive itWhats the cure? Slow down, for life is so short and precious that we must live it well”可知， 我们可以通过放慢脚步来解决这个问题。B(2019山西八校第一次联考)Many Americans spend Thanksgiving with family and friends around a table of roast turkey, sweet p
12、otatoes and cranberry sauce.But for others, its a competitionAcross the United States, there are contests to see who can eat the most pumpkin(南瓜) pie. These events start in October and continue through Thanksgiving. Elk Grove, California hosts the World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship. Matt Stonie w
13、on in 2014 by eating 20 pounds, 13 ounces of pumpkin pie in 8 minutes. In other words, about 9 and a half kilograms. That was a “world record”， reported by the Major League Eating (MLE) in New York City. Stonie won $5，000.The MLE website praised Stonie: “Like a silent car at top speed driving past y
14、ou on the highway; like the boxer with lightning blows; like a speedskater in a very tight bodysuit, long limbs stretching faster than the clock can tick. The great one makes it look easy”Some of the pumpkin pie eating contests are turned into gluttony(暴饮暴食). Others have a more lighthearted approach
15、 to pumpkin pie eating contests. Students at the Duthie Center for Engineering in Louisville, Kentucky posted their pumpkin pie eating contest on Facebook. It was a friendly social affair. In Broomfield, Colorado, their Turkey Day celebration takes a different approach. They hold a pumpkin pie eatin
16、g contest, but contestants just have to eat one piece of pie (or about onesixth of a pie) as fast as possible. Theres a 5 kilometer race and a 10 kilometer race afterwards, for those who want to lose weight.And at Pumpkin Paloozaa pumpkin pie eating contest in Sparks, Nevadathe organizers note on their website, “The winners are chosen by audience appl
