2020高中英语 阅读理解 限时专项训练二（含答案详解），多做多练，专项成绩必然提高！
A篇（限时12分钟）
When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously (同时地) 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篇答案详解]：女人在一起总是有说不完的话，甚至能一边看电影一边聊，男人却做不到，这是为什么？因为她们认为感情联络很重要，而且她们的大脑在这方面有着特殊功能。
1.[解析] 考查细节理解。根据文章第一段的最后一句可知妇女们聚在一起总有说不完的话是因为她们认为在一起就要玩得愉快，同时加深关系。[答案] C
2. [解析] 考查细节理解。根据文章的第三段中的a woman sees it as a means of bonding可知，女人度假回来会给朋友打电话长聊是因为她们把电话看做维系关系的纽带。[答案] B
3. [解析] 考查写作意图。根据文章最后一段中的“Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech”一句可知，作者最想让读者知道的就是她们能滔滔不绝的原因是她们的大脑在交流当中更善于处理信息。[答案] C
4. [解析] 考查标题归纳。本文是围绕女人喜欢讲话这个话题来展开的，因此C项为最佳标题。[答案] C
B篇（限时：12分钟）
I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke (唤起)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 (认识) 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 (内在的) 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篇答案详解]：本文主要记叙了作者在不同时期对母亲所使用的语言的不同看法。
1．[解析] 推理判断题。此句中the tool of my trade中的trade指的是职业。由本文第一句可知“我”是一名作家；此句又说语言是“我”的职业工具，故此句指的自然是“我”的职业为作家。[答案] D
2．[解析] 推理判断题。由文中倒数第二段中“...because she expressed them imperfectly，her thoughts were imperfect”一句可知选C，作者一度以为自己妈妈所说的英语是不完美的。[答案] C
3．[解析] 细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段最后一句话可知选B。此题易误选D。其实，此句只是“我”小时候对妈妈的一种误解，由最后一段可知这种误解已经消除了，因此D项的说法是不对的。[答案] B
4．[解析] 推理判断题。由最后一段可知，我写小说时开始运用她与我说话时所用的英语。我尽力地保留她语言的精髓，但未运用她所使用的英语或汉语的结构。我想领悟语言能力测试中所不能反映但我妈妈语言中所包含的意思。故选D。[答案] D
5．[解析] 主旨大意题。本文以时间为线索，讲述了作者对妈妈所使用的语言的不同态度，故选A。[答案] A
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