【正文】 its she used to make that we would cover with butter and homemade raspberry jam on Thanksgiving. Let me start by expressing admiration to Holte for using her 2019 freedoms to follow her 1950s dreams. Everyone should be so lucky as to get to decide what they wear and how they spend their time. That39。綜上所述，選D。故選C。s Happiness Doesn39。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。In humans, crocodile tears is a medical condition that causes a person to tear up while eating. Crocodile tears typically occur because of a temporary loss of facial control due to damage of the facial nerve. Specifically, when the facial nerve grows again, it does so incorrectly thus resulting in tears during chewing food.（1）The underlined word etymology in Paragraph 1 refers to ________. reference book containing articles on various topics origin and history of a particular term printed sheet of paper that arc given free to advertise application and influence of a new theory（2）The term crocodile tears ________. a medical condition that causes a crocodile to tear up widely popular as early as the fourth century to pretended sadness to be only an assumption（3）From the 2007 paper published in BioScience, we can know that ________. especially feel bad about feeding all the 7 crocodilians developed tearing crocodilians were carefully observed inside water tears occur because a crocodilian hisses after it eats（4）The passage is mainly about ________. the real truth is about crocodile tears the term crocodile tears got popular in literature researchers made the experiment on crocodilians crocodile tears typically occur in humans【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，通過引用“鱷魚的眼淚”這一說法的來源、發(fā)展以及相關(guān)實驗來告訴讀者“crocodile tears”的真實含義。高三英語閱讀理解(教育文化)試題經(jīng)典一、高中英語閱讀理解教育文化類1．閱讀理解 The term crocodile tears became widely popular after it was documented in a fifteenthcentury book titled The Voyage and Travel of Sir John Mandeville, Knight. A passage from the book reads: These crocodiles kill men and they eat them weeping. 故選C。2．閱讀理解 The survey found that 72 percent of graduating college seniors believe being able to have a positive social influence through their work is essential to their happiness. Making a difference is so important to them that 45 percent say they would take a 15 percent pay cut to work at an organization that has a social or environmental influence, and 58 percent say they would take a pay cut to work for an organization whose values are the same as their own. education has on their children.（3）What can you learn from the passage? people will surely gain happiness if they can make a difference in their work. than half of the college seniors will take a pay cut to work with the same values. college graduates believe it important to have a positive social influence in work. graduates are all putting more social influence in first place than male graduates.（4）Which could be the best title for the passage? Students Are Concerned about Society People39。根據(jù)最后一段中的“One reason for the emphasis(強調(diào)) on improving the world probably has to do with the culture of colleges, which encourages students to connect their studies back to realworld problems.”強調(diào)改善世界的一個原因可能與大學(xué)文化有關(guān)，大學(xué)文化鼓勵學(xué)生將他們的學(xué)習(xí)與現(xiàn)實世界的問題聯(lián)系起來。所以，文章主要闡述年輕人的幸福取決于在工作中改變世界；再根據(jù)第二段中的“Making a difference is so important to them that 45 percent say they would take a 15 percent pay cut to work at an organization that has a social or environmental influence, and 58 percent say they would take a pay cut to work for an organization whose values are the same as their own.”對他們來說，改變世界是如此重要，以至于45% 的人說他們愿意接受15% 的減薪去為一個對社會或環(huán)境有影響的組織工作，58% 的人說他們愿意接受減薪去一個與他們價值觀相同的組織工作。 No wonder everyone went allin on processed foods when they came around. Imagine the nice break something like a microwave dinner would give a woman working, unpaid, for her family every single day?s getting better, women are still expected to be responsible for the emotional labor of running a household and raising the children.Making sure their kids and husbands socially acceptable.（2）What does the underlined word that in paragraph 13 refer to? A.Victims end up sympathizing with the abusers.D.unforgettable（5）What can we learn from the passage? A.To draw readers39。故選B。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。不是每個美國女人都這么幸運。由可知，作者寫這篇文章的主要目的是讓讀者注意到女性所面臨的情況，尤其是那些貧窮和有色人種的情況。可知，這篇文章的目的是告訴讀者在地震中該怎么做?？芍卣鹌陂g，建議人們立即關(guān)掉電和煤氣。 因此，Nick Gibb不贊成學(xué)生在學(xué)校使用手機。 （4）考查主旨大意。Why is it that many people who have suffered a major shock, such as divorce or death of a family member, seem to be weaker against a variety of major and minor illness? One mon idea among psychologists has been that people could deal with suffering more effectively if they were able to understand and accept it. Indeed, many experts stress the value of expressing thoughts and feelings connected with upsetting events. 故選C。本文開頭提出觀點，如果人們能夠理解并接受痛苦，人們就能更有效地應(yīng)對它。Can you imagine a world without music? Studies show that public schools across the country are cutting back on music classes to save money. Even worse, some schools have never had music classes to begin with. But without them, students39。Music programs in public schools also help to add to a student39。 growth all students could have music classes at school who have music classes do better in all subjects（2）The example in Paragraph 4 mainly suggests that ________. makes crosscultural munication possible cultures have different styles of music has a good relationship with America and American students are good at playing the piano（3）What can we learn about education with music classes? allows schools to make more money. can cause a lot of academic problems. will affect the world cultural munication greatly. does good to students39。上音樂課對學(xué)生的學(xué)業(yè)有幫助，故選B。s sense of pride and selfconfidence. ”公立學(xué)校的音樂課程也有助于增強學(xué)生的自豪感和自