2020高中英語 閱讀理解 限時專項訓練二（含答案詳解），多做多練，專項成績必然提高！
A篇（限時12分鐘）
When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously (同時地) about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what’ s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up.
Men can either talk or watch the screen — they can’t do both —and they don’ t understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships — not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally.
Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to relate the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls’ mothers talked to them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to, and looked at, baby girls more often than baby boys.
Scientific evidence shows parents respond to the brain bias of their children. Since a girl’ s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we therefore talk to them more. Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually disappointed to receive only short grunts in reply.
1．While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because they________.
A. are afraid of awkward silence with their families and friends
B. can both talk and watch the screen at the same time
C. think they can have a good time and develop relationships
D. have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands
2．After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours in order to________.
A. experience the happy time again
B. keep a close tie with her
C. recommend her a new scenic spot
D. remind her of something forgotten
3．What does the author want to tell us most?
A. Women’s brains are better organized for language and communication.
B. Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.
C. Men do not like talking because they rely more on facts.
D. Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.
4．Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Women Are Socially Trained to Talk
B. Talking Maintains Relationships
C. Women Love to Talk
D. Men Talk Differently from Women
[A篇答案詳解]：女人在一起總是有說不完的話，甚至能一邊看電影一邊聊，男人卻做不到，這是為什麼？因為她們認為感情聯絡很重要，而且她們的大腦在這方面有著特殊功能。
1.[解析] 考查細節理解。根據文章第一段的最後一句可知婦女們聚在一起總有說不完的話是因為她們認為在一起就要玩得愉快，同時加深關係。[答案] C
2. [解析] 考查細節理解。根據文章的第三段中的a woman sees it as a means of bonding可知，女人度假回來會給朋友打電話長聊是因為她們把電話看做維繫關係的紐帶。[答案] B
3. [解析] 考查寫作意圖。根據文章最後一段中的“Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech”一句可知，作者最想讓讀者知道的就是她們能滔滔不絕的原因是她們的大腦在交流當中更善於處理信息。[答案] C
4. [解析] 考查標題歸納。本文是圍繞女人喜歡講話這個話題來展開的，因此C項為最佳標題。[答案] C
B篇（限時：12分鐘）
I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke (喚起)an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that.
It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken” , as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English” , for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’ s perceptions (認識) of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up，my mother’ s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.
And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”；
and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal (內在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence，but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show: her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
1．By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”， the author means that________.
A. she uses English in foreign trade
B. she is fascinated by languages
C. she works as a translator
D. she is a writer by profession
2．The author used to think of her mother’ s English as ________.
A. impolite B. amusing
C. imperfect D. practical
3．Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A. Americans do not understand broken English.
B. The author’ s mother was not respected sometimes.
C. The author’ s mother had positive influence on her.
D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.
4．The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is________.
A. well structured B. in the old style
C. easy to translate D. rich in meaning
5．What is the passage mainly about?
A. The change of the author’ s attitude to her mother’ s English.
B. The limitation of the author’ s perception of her mother.
C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.
D. The author’ s experiences of using broken English.
[B篇答案詳解]：本文主要記敘了作者在不同時期對母親所使用的語言的不同看法。
1．[解析] 推理判斷題。此句中the tool of my trade中的trade指的是職業。由本文第一句可知“我”是一名作家；此句又說語言是“我”的職業工具，故此句指的自然是“我”的職業為作家。[答案] D
2．[解析] 推理判斷題。由文中倒數第二段中“...because she expressed them imperfectly，her thoughts were imperfect”一句可知選C，作者一度以為自己媽媽所說的英語是不完美的。[答案] C
3．[解析] 細節理解題。由文章倒數第二段最後一句話可知選B。此題易誤選D。其實，此句只是“我”小時候對媽媽的一種誤解，由最後一段可知這種誤解已經消除了，因此D項的說法是不對的。[答案] B
4．[解析] 推理判斷題。由最後一段可知，我寫小說時開始運用她與我說話時所用的英語。我盡力地保留她語言的精髓，但未運用她所使用的英語或漢語的結構。我想領悟語言能力測試中所不能反映但我媽媽語言中所包含的意思。故選D。[答案] D
5．[解析] 主旨大意題。本文以時間為線索，講述了作者對媽媽所使用的語言的不同態度，故選A。[答案] A
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