2020衡水名師原創(chuàng)英語專題卷：專題二《閱讀理解說明類專練》

1、12020 衡水名師原創(chuàng)英語專題卷專題二：閱讀理解說明類專練（90 分鐘，90 分）考點 01：01 冠詞 3 顆星考點 02：代詞 3 顆星考點 03：介詞和介詞短語 2 顆星考點 04: 名詞 3 顆星 考點 05：主謂一致 5 顆星考點 06：形容詞和副詞 5 顆星考點 08：非謂語動詞 5 顆星考點 09：動詞的時態(tài)和語態(tài) 5 顆星考點 10：定語從句 3 顆星考點 13：狀語從句 3 顆星考點 14：特殊句式

2、 2 顆星考點 17：閱讀理解說明文 5 顆星第 I 卷（選擇題） （每題 2 分，共 30 分）一．閱讀理解A（考點 17 較易）In the United States, it is important to be on time , or punctual , for an appointment , a class, a meeting, etc. However, this may not be

3、 true in all countries. An American professor discovered the difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian(巴西的) university. The two-hour class was scheduled to begin at 10 A.M. and end at 12. On the first day , wh

4、en the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after 10:30 A.M. Two students came after 11 A.M. Although all the students greeted the professor as they arrived, few apologized(道歉)for th

5、eir lateness.Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students’ behavior.The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation:at a lunch

6、 with a friend and in a university class, respectively.He gave them an example and asked them how they would react, If they 3B（考點 17 中難）Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but i

7、n recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit (聯(lián)系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of

8、 each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.Soon afterwards, many of those people

9、started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialisation, the development of the nation-state and the sprea

10、d of universal compulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chi

11、nese are increasingly taking over.At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken

12、by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1,000; Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of

13、which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number (中位數(shù)) of speakers is mere 6,000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.Already well over 400 o

14、f the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction (消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United St

15、ates (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.5.What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?考點 17 易A.They developed very fast.