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1、阅读理解特训：3真2模含解析2014届高三英语二轮突破8C52013新课标全国卷 CIt happened to me recently.I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obamas Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President.A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was，in his words，“a brilliantly(精彩地)written
2、book”However，he then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all.I sensed that I was talking to a book liar. And it seems that my friend is not the only one.Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they havent.In the
3、World Book Days “Report on Guilty Secrets”，Dreams From My Father is at number 9.The report lists ten books，and various authors，which people have lied about reading，and as Im not one to lie too often (Id hate to be caught out)，Ill admit here and now that I havent read the entire top ten.But I am plea
4、sed to say that，unlike 42 percent of people，I have read the book at number one，George Orwells 1984.I think its really brilliant.The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it.It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen，Charles Dickens，Fyodor Dostoevsky(I h
5、avent read him，but havent lied about it either )and Herman Melville.Asked why they lied，the most common reason was to“impress”someone they were speaking to.This could be tricky if the conversation became more indepth!But when asked which authors they actually enjoy，people named JK.Rowling，John Grish
6、am，Sophie Kinsella(ah，the big sellers，in other words)Fortytwo percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story(Ill come clean：I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so)64How did the author find his friend a
7、book liar?ABy judging his manner of speaking.BBy looking into his background.CBy mentioning a famous name.DBy discussing the book itself.65Which of the following is a “guilty secret” according to the World Book Day report?ACharles Dickens is very low on the topten list.B42% of people pretended to ha
8、ve read 1984.CThe author admitted having read 9 books.DDreams From My Father is hardly read.66By lying about reading，a person hopes to _Acontrol the conversationBappear knowledgeableClearn about the bookDmake more friends67What is the authors attitude to 58% of readers?AFavorable.BUncaring.CDoubtful
9、.DFriendly.【要点综述】 本文是一篇议论文。作者通过与朋友聊天引出本文的话题book liar，列举了大家谎称读了实际未读的书目，以及大家喜欢的一些作家，并阐述了人们撒谎的常见理由。64D细节理解题。根据文章第一段可知，作者跟他的朋友深谈有关奥巴马的那本书时，发现朋友对奥巴马的背景一无所知，这暗示出朋友其实并没有读过这本书。故选D。65B推理判断题。本题的关键词是guilty secret，定位第二、三段。根据文章第二段中的“But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book
10、at number one, George Orwells 1984.”可知，作者读过1984这本书，而42%的人没读过却装作读过。故选B。66B细节理解题。根据文章第四段中的“Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to impress someone they were speaking to.”可知，人们之所以选择撒谎是想让对方觉得自己知识渊博，从而给对方留一个好的印象。因此B正确。67C推理判断题。文章第五段的最后一句话表明作者的态度，故选C。C52013安徽卷 CWhen 19yearold Sophia Giorgi said
11、 she was thinking of volunteering to help the MakeAWish Foundation (基金会)，nobody understood what she was talking about.But Sophia knew just how important MakeAWish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends.We were interested in finding
12、 out more，so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say.Sophia told us that MakeAWish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980.“Its a charity(慈善机构)that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. MakeAWish helps children feel happy even though
13、 they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true，” Sophia explained. We asked Sophia how MakeAWish had first started.She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris，who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman.Sophia said lots of people had wanted to fin
14、d a way to make Chriss dream come trueso, with everybodys help, Chris, only seven years old at the time，had been a “policeman” for a day.“When people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too，and that was the beginning of MakeAWish，” e
15、xplained Sophia.Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A MakeAWish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world. Sophia said the volunteers were important because the
16、y were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary, or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.64Sophia found out about MakeAWish because her best friend had _ Abenefited from it Bvolunteered to help itCdreamed about it D
