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1、武汉市2014高考英语阅读理解训练题（5）附答案 I shall never forget the night，a few years ago，when Marion JDouglas was a student in one of my adulteducation classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home，not once，but twice. The first time he had lost his fiveyearold daughter. He and his wife thought they couldnt
2、bear that first loss；but，as he said，“Ten months later，God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”This double bereavement was almost too much to bear. “I couldnt take it，” this father told us，“I couldnt sleep，eat，rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone. ”A
3、t last he went to doctors；one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip，but neither helped. He said，“My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice (大钳子)，and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief (悲伤)if you have ever been paralyzed (使瘫痪) by
4、sorrow，you know what he meant.“But thank God，I had one child lefta fouryearold son. He gave me the solution to my problem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself，he asked，Daddy，will you build a boat for me？ I was in no mood to build a boat；in fact，I was in no mood to do anything. But
5、 my son is a persistent little fellow！I had to give in. Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished，I realized that those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months！I realized that it is difficult to
6、 worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my case，building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.”“The following night，I made a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly，I had made a
7、 list of 242 items that needed attention. During the last two years I have completed most of them. I am busy so that I have no time for worry.”No time for worry！That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worr
8、ied about his huge responsibilities，he said，“I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”17The underlined word “bereavement” in the second paragraph refers to_.Ahaving lost a loved oneBhaving lost a valuable articleChaving lost a profitmaking businessDhaving lost a wellpaid job18Marion felt his body as
9、 if it was caught in a vice because_.Ahe couldnt earn enough money to support his familyBhe was suffering from sleeplessness diseaseChe couldnt get out of mental pressureDhe felt tired of adulteducation classes19Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because_.Ahe hadnt been
10、able to spare time to mend themBhe wanted to kill his free time by repairing themCthe items had actually been broken and needed attentionDrepairing the items helped crowd worry out of his mind20At the end of the passage，the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to_.Aprove that he followed Ch
11、urchills exampleBsupport his students solution to his problemCshow that he was successful in his careerDclarify how his conclusion was reached(E篇) ACDB*结束河北省高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（46） If you are a male and you are reading this, congratulations: you are a survivor. According to statistics, you are more th
12、an twice as likely to die of skin cancer than a woman, and nine times more likely to die of AIDS. Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term, about 78 years for men in Australia, you will die on average five years before a woman.There are many reasons for this, men take more risks than wom
13、en and are more likely to drink and smoke, but perhaps more importantly, men dont go to the doctor.“Men arent seeing doctors as often as they should,” says Dr. Gullotta, “This is particularly so for the over-40s, when diseases tend to strike.” Gullotta says a healthy man should visit the doctor ever
14、y year or two. For those over 45,it should be at least once a year.According to a recent survey, 95%of women aged between 15 and early 40s see a doctor once a year, compared to 70% of men in the same age group.“A lot of men think they are invincible （不可战胜的）”Gullotta says “They only come in when a fr
15、iend drops dead on the golf course and they think Dear me, if it could happen to him, ”Then there is the ostrich (鸵鸟)approach, “Some men are scared of what might be there and would rather not know, ” says Dr. Ross Cartmill.“ Most men get their cars serviced more often than they service their bodies,” Cartmill says. He believes most diseases that commonly affect men could be addressed by preventive check-ups. Regular check-ups for men would inevitably(不可避免地) place stress on the public purse. Cartmill says. “But prevention is cheaper in the long run than having to treat the disea
