【正文】 f his works are related to winter. he is the most popular author of winter stories. he started a new way of representing winter. his works make people feel cheerful in winter.（4）The example of Harry Potter and the Philosopher39。s works? didn39。s the author39。s safe to say that writers have certainly warmed up since Shakespeare39。 Although winter still isn39。 tureens of buttered peas, silver boats of thick, rich gravy and cranberry sauce. mountains of roast and boiled potatoes。s Stone (1997) as they sit down for their festive meal： A Christmas Carol (1843) was the start of this, but Christmas is still a mon, cheery element (元素)in stories that feature winter scenes today. Consider the joy felt by Harry Potter and his friends in J. K. Rowling39。 The cold of the winter weather provides a contrast to the fun going on indoors.t many things that are worse than winter, according to Shakespeare.s situation: Blow, blow, thou winter wind/Thou art not so unkind /As ma39。s King Lear (1606), the king has given away his kingdom and been rejected by his two ungrateful daughters. He is out in the winter cold，suffering things that are usually reserved for the poorest and most unfortunate human beings.s never fortable to be in.2．閱讀理解 根據(jù)文章內容可知，本文主要是講培養(yǎng)興趣愛好非常重要，我們應該有興趣愛好，故選B。故選A。 （3）考查句義猜測。 （2）考查推理判斷。 （1）考查段落大意。To tell us how to create a happy life.D.To introduce some helpful hobbies.B.s the author39。d better develop a hobby at school.D.t easy.C.We should start a hobby now.B.They sometimes can bring us stress.D.They may take up too much time.B.People39。s people have little time for hobbies.C.All people should learn to relax.B.s next great people. If not, you39。 Sure, it39。t be to bee rich and famous. For most people, a hobby is just something they enjoy doing for the purpose of the thing itself. Such hobbies are still very useful. Studies have shown that people who have a hobby are less likely to have stress and more likely to have more meaningful lives.ve never picked up a camera or a guitar. Hobbies in general are being something of the past. Our lives are already filled with classes, homework, working, relationships and sleeping. When we do have a spare moment, it is all too easy to spend it on the endless entertainment and media that are right at our fingertips.【英語】高考英語閱讀理解(教育文化)專項訓練及答案一、高中英語閱讀理解教育文化類1．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中, 選出最佳選項。 I do not doubt that there are some people who could bee a great writer or musician. I only fear that so many people are busy pursuing their education and their careers, but they never even see the potential (潛能) they have. The next great photographer or singer could be going to college right now. But they might not even know they have a gift for photographing or singing if they39。 Of course, the final goal of pursuing a new hobby shouldn39。 Most importantly, a hobby is just something you do to make you happy. I hate to break it to you, but we all have a long lifetime of work and stress ahead of us. It will make things much easier if we can practice the piano or make some collections after work.s not easy to start a new hobby while going to school, but it will likely never get easier than it is right now. So think about the thing that you have always wanted to try but were too embarrassed or busy or whatever. You never know, you might bee the world39。ll at least be a little more wellrounded, more interesting and less stressed.（1）What does Paragraph 1 mainly show? A.Today39。People in the past took their hobbies seriously.D.s lives have been negatively affected by media.（2）What does the author think of hobbies? A.They can help us enjoy a better life.C.They should make us famous one day.（3）What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean? A.Starting a new hobby isn39。We39。Developing a hobby will get easier as time goes by.（4）What39。s purpose in writing the text? A.To encourage us to have a hobby.C.To tell us how to find our potential.【答案】 （1）B（2）B（3）A（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，作者認為現(xiàn)在的人沒什么時間來培養(yǎng)興趣愛好，但有一個興趣愛好非常重要。根據(jù)第一段的內容可知，本段主要是講現(xiàn)在的人太忙，沒什么時間培養(yǎng)興趣愛好，故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“Studies have shown that people who have a hobby are less likely to have stress and more likely to have more meaningful lives.可知，擁有興趣愛好可以讓我們的生活變得更好，故選B。根據(jù)劃線句子以及So think about the thing that you have always wanted to try but were too embarrassed or busy or whatever.可知，這里是講現(xiàn)在就是培養(yǎng)興趣愛好的最好時機。 （4）考查寫作意圖。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷，句義猜測，寫作意圖和段落大意四個題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 The end of the year is drawing near, and winter is in full swing. The season brings along with it strong winds and snow — an environment that39。 This unpleasant and even frightening aspect of winter can often be seen in literature. In Shakespeare39。 The winter is bad enough for Lear，but being abandoned by his family is worse. A song from another Shakespeare play, As You Like It(1599), is fitting for this poor old man39。s ingratitude (忘恩負義). Here, winter is used to bring out the ugliness of inhumanity (無人性). There aren39。 Once winter became less of a threat to human beings, literary works featuring it became more positive. Since Charles Dickens, the representation of the season in literature has often featured happy Christmas celebrations. Dickens39。s Harry Potter and the Philosopher39。 Harry had never in all his life had such a Christmas dinner. A hundred fat，roast turkeys。 platters of chipolatas。 It is almost as much a pleasure to read about the meal as it might have been to eat it.t the most cheerful season in novels and poems, it39。s days.（1）What39。s main purpose in writing this article? remend some winter stories in literature. explain what winter is like in literary works. describe certain customs that are related to winter. tell us why winter is des