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1、2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解创优专练2Passage 1SHANGHAI, June 7（AP）-A 16-year-old girls suicide after she was barred from a key exam draw attention to increasing worries over academic pressures, as millions of Chinese students began annual college entrance tests on Wednesday.The three-day exam, viewed as important
2、to future career and financial success, has a record 9.5 million high school students across China competing for just 2.6 million university places. For kids and parents alike, its a difficulty that experts say causes extreme emotional distress. Pressure from study and exams is a top reason for psyc
3、hological problems among Chinese youth, said Jin Wuguan, director of the Youth Psychological Counseling Center at Shanghais Ruijin Hospital.In Chinas increasingly success oriented, pressure-cooker cities, academic stress is seen as a rising cause of youth suicides and even murders of parents by chil
4、dren who are driven crazy by intolerable pressure to perform.According to her family and newspaper accounts, 16-year-old Wu Wenwen drowned herself after she was stopped at the exam room door because her hair wasnt tied back as her school required. Returning in tied hair, she was then told the end-of
5、-term exam had already started and she was too late to take it. In tears, Wu called her mother, and then disappeared. Her body was found the same night in a nearby lake.China doesnt keep comprehensive statistics on student suicides, but Jin said health care professionals see the problem worsening, e
6、ven among elementary students. Most Chinese schools still lack advisers and teachers receive little training in spotting symptoms of emotional distress, Jin said. Parents are little help, often piling on pressure while ignoring their childrens emotional development, he said. Its a basic unwillingnes
7、s or inability to recognize and deal with with emotional problems, Jin said.Wang Yufeng, of Peking Universitys Institute of Mental, estimates the rate of emotional disorders such as depression among Chinese students under age 17 at up to 32 percent , a total of 30 million students.Others say that fi
8、gure may be as high as 50 percent. A survey last year by the governments China Youth and Children Research Center showed 57.6 percent of students felt highly distressed by academic pressures.65. What is the function of the first paragraph?A. To explain the meaning of academic pressures.B. To lead to
9、 the main topic.C. To describe the girls suicide. D. Tell how important the college entrance tests are.66. The 16-year-old girl committed suicide because _.A. she did not tied back her hair as requiredB. she couldnt get high mark in the examC. she had an unpleasant talk with her motherD. she wasnt a
10、llowed to attend the examination67. We can learn from the passage that _.A. the problem of student suicides is getting worse according to a research on the accurate statisticsB. teachers have enough ability to sense the emotional distress of studentsC. parents place neither pressure nor care on thei
11、r childrenD. both teachers and parents should learn more to deal with the problem of student suicides.68. Where will we most probably find the article?A. In a newspaper. B. In a magazine.C. In a text bookD. In a survey.答案 65.B 66.D 67.D 68.A Passage 2Youre in a department store and you see a couple
12、of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:I cant believe it-a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isnt it beautiful? And its a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome.They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. Its nice and
13、 the price is right. Youve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo BertoHa c
14、lothes.Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it.Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that dont pay atte
15、ntion to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation-consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but they dont trust ads.So advertising agencies hire young actors to perform in bars and other places where young adults
16、go. Some people might call this practice misleading, but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasing.However, one might ask what exactly is real about of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? Adverting executives wou
