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1、2019 届高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练 10(A)Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one lsife. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.But for many p
2、eople, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure.So in spite of all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained, the number of people who didnt have breakfast increased by33% from 8.8 million to
3、 11.7 million according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years have shown that, for grown-ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting ( 省略 ) breakfast.“ G
4、oing without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Benderformer professor of nutrition at Queen Elizab eth College in London, “ nordoes giving people breakfast improve work. ”Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the r
5、ecent work involves children, not grown- ups. “ Theliterature, say”s one researcher, Dr Earnest Polite at the University of Texas,“is poor. ”41. The main idea of the passage is that .A. breakfast has nothing to do with peoples healthB. a good breakfast used to be important to usC. breakfast is not a
6、s important to us as gasoline to a carD. breakfast is not as important as we thought before42. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that .A. several studies have been done in the past few yearsB. the omission of breakfast has little effect on ones workC. grown-ups have especially ma
7、de studies in this fieldD. eating little in the morning is good for health43. The underlined part“nor does giving people breakfast improve work . ” means第 # 页A. people without breakfast can improve their workB. not giving people breakfast improves workC. having breakfast does not improve work, eithe
8、rD. people having breakfast do improve their work, too44. The word literature in the last sentence refers to .A. stories, poems, play, etcB. written works on a particular subjectC. newspaper articlesD. the modern literature of America45. What is implied but not stated by the author is that .A. break
9、fast does not affect workB. Dr Polite works at an institution of higher learningC. not eating breakfast might affect the health of childrenD. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London（B）Many trees in the Brackham area were brought down in the terrible storms that March. The
10、 town itself lost two great lime trees from the former market square. The disappearance of such striking features had changed the appearance of the town centre entirely, to the annoyance of its more conservative inhabitants（ 居民 ）.Among the annoyed, under more normal circumstances, would have been Ch
11、ief Inspector Douglas Pelham, head of the local police force. But at the height of that weeks storm, when the wind brought down even the mature walnut tree in his garden, Pelham had in fact been in no fit state to notice. A large and healthy man, he had for the first time in his life been seriously
12、ill with an attack of bronchitis.When he first complained of an aching head and tightness in his chest, his wife, Molly, had tried to persuade him to go to the doctor. Convinced that the police force could not do without him, he had, as usual, ignored her and attempted to carry on working. Predictab
13、ly, though he wouldnt have listened to anyone who tried to tell him so, this had the effect of fogging his memory and shortening his temper.It was only when his colleague, Sergeant Lloyd, took the initiative （ 主动 ） and drove him to第 2 页the doctors door that he finally gave in. By that time, he didnt
14、 have the strength left to argue with her. In no time at all, she was taking him along to the chemists to get his medicine and then home to his unsurprised wife who sent him straight to bed.When Molly told him, on the Thursday morning, that the walnut tree had been brought down during the night, Pel
15、ham hadn t been able to tankTehituirns.dOay evening, he had asked weaklyabout damage to the house, groaned （ 含糊不清地说 ） thankfully when he heard there was none, and pulled the sheets over his head.It wasnt until Saturday, when the medicine took effect, his temperature dropped and he got up, that he re
16、alized with a shock that the loss of the walnut tree had made a permanent difference to the appearance of the living- room. The Pelhams large house stood in a sizeable garden. It had not come cheap, but even so Pelham had no regrets about buying it. The leafy garden had created an impression of privacy. Now, though, the storm had changed his outlook.Previously, the view f
