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1、2022高考英语一轮基础练 Unit 14 Careers（含解析）北师大版必修5 阅读理解ASome years ago, writing in my diary used to be a usual activity. I would return from school and spend the expected half hour recording the days events, feelings, and impressions in my little blue diary. I did not really need to express my emotions by wa
2、y of words, but I gained a certain satisfaction from seeing my experiences forever recorded on paper. After all, isnt accumulating memories a way of preserving the past?When I was thirteen years old, I went on a long journey on foot in a great valley, well equipped with pens, a diary, and a camera.
3、During the trip, I was busy recording every incident, name and place I came across. I felt proud to be spending my time productively, dutifully preserving for future generations a detailed description of my travels. On my last night there, I wandered out of my tent, diary in hand. The sky was clear
4、and lit by the glare of the moon, and the walls of the valley looked threatening behind their screen of shadows. I automatically took out my pen.At that point, I understood that nothing I wrote could ever match or replace the few seconds I allowed myself to experience the dramatic beauty of the vall
5、ey. All I remembered of the previous few days were the dull characterizations I had set down in my diary.Now, I only write in my diary when I need to write down a special thought or feeling. I still love to record ideas and quotations that strike me in books, or observations that are particularly me
6、aningful. I take pictures, but not very often only of objects I find really beautiful. Im no longer blindly satisfied with having something to remember when I grow old. I realize that life will simply pass me by if I stay behind the camera, busy preserving the present so as to live it in the future.
7、I dont want to wake up one day and have nothing but a pile of pictures and notes. Maybe I wont have as many exact representations of people and places; maybe Ill forget certain facts, but at least the experiences will always remain inside me. I dont live to make memories-I just live, and the memorie
8、s form themselves.1.Before the age of thirteen, the author regarded keeping a diary as a way of _.A. observing her school routineB. expressing her satisfactionC. impressing her classmatesD. preserving her history2.What caused a change in the authors understanding of keeping a diary?A.A dull night on
9、 the journey.B. The beauty of the great valley.C.A striking quotation from a book.D. Her concerns for future generations.3.What does the author put in her diary now?A. Notes and beautiful pictures.B. Special thoughts and feelings.C. Detailed accounts of daily activities.D. Descriptions of unforgetta
10、ble events.4.The author es to realize that to live a meaningful life is _.A.to experience itB.to live the present in the futureC.to make memoriesD.to give accurate representations of it【文章大意】作者曾经把写日记看作保留过去的一种方式，一次山谷旅行的经历让作者对日记的理解发生了变化，现在作者认识到过有意义的生活就是体验生活，而不是记录生活。1.D 【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段中的“but I gained a
11、 certain satisfaction from seeing my experiences forever recorded on paper. After all, isnt accumulating memories a way of preserving the past?”可知，13岁以前，作者把写日记看作保留过去的一种方式。3.B 【解析】细节理解题。根据第四段中的“Now, I only write in my diary when I need to write down a special thought or feeling. I”可知，现在作者在日记中加入了自己特殊的
12、想法和感情。4.A 【解析】推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的“I realize that life will simply pass me by if I stay behind the camera, busy preserving the present so as to live it in the future.”可知，作者认为过有意义的生活就是体验生活，而不是记录生活。B(2017江西省百校联盟高三第一次联考)The best family vacation that I ever had was going on a road trip to Myrtle Beach.The tr
13、ip was for 2 weeks during the March break from school.This trip was probably about 20 years ago so it was before the time of things like portable video games and being able to watch movies in the back seat.So to pass the many hours of travel my brother and I had to entertain ourselves and each other
14、.My mum would set the back seat up so that it was our own little playroom.She would pack everything up so that we had a big level area to play in.We would play cards and board games.When it got to the point where we_were_at_each_others_throats we would be sent back to our own side of the seat and wo
15、uld be forced to either nap or read by ourselves until we could be friendly to each other again.I can remember us playing for quite some time when we turned the back seat into a spaceship and traveled around the earth.Another time we turned it into a kitchen and had a bakeoff(食品烘烤赛)But the thing tha
16、t I remember the most and that gave us many hours of enjoyment was using each others faces as silly Plasticine (普莱斯蒂辛橡皮泥) and making funny faces.We would see how far we could stretch each others mouths open, see how thin we could make the others eye by pulling on it.We would keep going until one of us begged for mercy because we had to give our faces a rest.So while I can remem
