【正文】 【英語(yǔ)】高中英語(yǔ)閱讀理解(人生百味)(一)解題方法和技巧及練習(xí)題及解析一、高中英語(yǔ)閱讀理解人生百味類(lèi)1．閱讀理解 Two of the saddest words in the English language are if only. I live my life with the goal of never having to say those words, because they convey regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and disappointment. My father is famous in our family for saying, Take the extra minute to do it right. I always try to live by the extra minute rule. When my children were young and likely to cause accidents, I always thought about what I could do to avoid an if only moment, whether it was something minor like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding (襯墊) onto the sharp corners of a glass coffee table. I don39。t only avoid those if only moments when it es to safety. It39。s equally important to avoid if only in our personal relationships. We all know people who lost a loved one and regretted that they had foregone an opportunity to say I love you or I forgive you. When my father announced he was going to the eye doctor across from my office on Good Friday, I told him that it was a holiday for my pany and I wouldn39。t be here. But then I thought about the fact that he39。s 84 years old and I realized that I shouldn39。t give up an opportunity to see him. I called him and told him I had decided to go to work on my day off after all. I know there will still be occasions when I have to say if only about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to make a personal connection, I know that I39。m doing the right thing. I39。m buying myself peace of mind and that39。s the best kind of insurance for my emotional wellbeing.（1）Which of the following is an example of the extra minute rule? the car the moment everyone is seated. the room for a minute with the iron working. for an extra minute so that the steak tastes better. an object out of the way before it trips someone.（2）The author decided to go to her office on Good Friday to ______. her appointment with the eye doctor her father who was already an old man in the holiday celebration of the pany her work before the deadline approached（3）The underlined word foregone in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______. （4）What is the best title for the passage? Keep Emotional Wellbeing Prevent If Only Moments Follow the Most Useful Rule Achieve the Peace of Mind【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）A（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者認(rèn)為英語(yǔ)中最悲傷的兩個(gè)詞語(yǔ)是if only，因?yàn)樗麄儽磉_(dá)了遺憾。父親在作者小的時(shí)候經(jīng)常讓她提前做一些能防止意外發(fā)生的事，因此她懂得珍惜現(xiàn)在所擁有的一切，而且知道自己正在做對(duì)的事。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一、二段可知，作者所說(shuō)的“extra minute”rule是指在遇事時(shí)多思考一分鐘，從而可以避免以后遺憾、犯錯(cuò)或失望，故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“But then I thought about the fact that he39。s 84 years old and I realized that I shouldn39。t give up an opportunity to see him.”可知，父親說(shuō)在周五去看眼科醫(yī)生時(shí)經(jīng)過(guò)作者的辦公室，雖然那天是假日，但作者想到父親八十四了，自己不應(yīng)該放棄每一次見(jiàn)父親的機(jī)會(huì)，于是又改口說(shuō)那天上班。由此可知作者決定在星期五去她的辦公室，是為了見(jiàn)她已經(jīng)年邁的父親。故選B。 （3）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)劃線(xiàn)詞所在句and前后連接語(yǔ)意相似成分，由其前“失去一個(gè)心愛(ài)的人或物”可推知此處是指“后悔放棄一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)”可知，foregone的意思是“放棄”，故選A。 （4）考查主旨大意?？v觀(guān)全文可知，本文敘述了作者通過(guò)“extra minute”rule來(lái)避免以后說(shuō)“if only”的情況?！癷f only”作為線(xiàn)索貫穿了整篇文章，且第一段也提到了the saddest words，其他選項(xiàng)比較籠統(tǒng)，不能涵蓋本文內(nèi)容。所以這篇文章最好的題目是“防止出現(xiàn)if only的情況”，故選B。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷，詞義猜測(cè)和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類(lèi)閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。2．閱讀理解 Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments. They need to do more to prepare for the sideeffects. For the past 3,000 years, when people thought of money they thought of cash. Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off— tapping your plastic on a terminal or swiping a smartphone has bee normal. Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich economies. That will make the economy more efficient—but it also causes new problems that could hold back the transition(轉(zhuǎn)型). Countries are removing cash at varying speeds. In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. America is perhaps a decade behind. Outside the rich world, cash is still king. But even there its leading role is being challenged. In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017. Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand— younger consumers want payment systems that plug easily into their digital lives. But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets) and teles panies (in emerging ones) are developing fast, easytouse payment technologies from which they can pull data and pocket fees. There is a high cost to running the infrastructure behind the cash economy—ATMs, vans carrying notes, tellers who accept coins. Most financial firms are keen to abandon it, or discourage oldfashioned customers with heavy fees. In the main, the prospect of a cashless economy is excellent news. Cash is inefficient. When payments dematerialise, people and shops are less open to theft. It also creates a credit history, helping consumers borrow. Yet set against these benefits are a couple of worries. Electronic payment systems may risk technical failures, power failure and cyberattacks. In a cashless economy the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind. And a digital system could let governments watch over people39。s shopping habits and private multinationals exploit their personal data.（1）Some rich countries are trying to . A.dematerialize moneyB.get rid of the sideeffects of cashC.make the economy more efficient by protecting endangered speciesD.promote payment without paper money or coins（2）In paragraph 3, several countries are mentioned to show . A.the differences between developed and developing countriesB.that cash is still king across the worldC.digital payments are being a trend that cannot be stoppedD.China is developing faster that those developed countries in digital payment（3）Cash is disappearing largely because . A.younger consumers are short of money to live their digital livesB.suppliers are trying to reduce costs and obtain money and dataC.the infrastructure is developing at a high speed in developed marketsD.financial firms want to abandon oldfashioned customers（4）The author39。s attitude towards digitalized payment is 160