【高考專題】2020年高考英語 專題復(fù)習(xí) 閱讀理解(15篇) 六（含答案）

1、2020 年高考英語 年高考英語 專題復(fù)習(xí) 專題復(fù)習(xí) 閱讀理解 閱讀理解(15 篇) 六A1.Failure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has.There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding.We experience this tiredness in two ways:as start-up fa

2、tigue(疲憊)and performance fatigue.In the former case,we keep putting off a task because it is either too boring or too difficult.And the longer we delay it,the more tired we feel.Such start-up fatigue is ver

3、y real,even if not actually physical,not something in our muscles and bones.The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply:always handle the most difficult job first.Years ago,I was asked to write 102 essays on

4、 the great ideas of some famous authors.Applying my own rule,I determined to write them in alphabetical order(按字母順序),never letting myself leave out a tough idea.And I always started the day’s work w

5、ith the difficult task of essay-writing. Experience proved that the rule works.Performance fatigue ismore difficult to handle.Though willing to get started,we cannot seem to do the job right.Its difficulties appear so gr

6、eat that,however hard we work,we fail again and again.In such a situation,I work as hard as I can—then let the unconscious take over.When planning Encyclopaedia Britannica (《大英百科全書》),I had to create a table of contents b

7、ased on the topics of its articles.Nothing like this had ever been done before,and day after day I kept coming up with solutions,but none of them worked.My fatigue became almost unbearable.One day,mentally exhausted,I wr

8、ote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.I tried to convince myself that the trouble was with the problem itself,not with me.Relieved,I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.An hour

9、later,I woke up suddenly with the solution clearly in mind.In the weeks that followed,the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind proved correct at every step.Though I worked as hard as before,I felt no fatigue

10、.Success was now as exciting as failure had been depressing.Human beings,I believe,must try to succeed.Success,then,means never feeling tired.（1）People with start-up fatigue are most likely to .A.delay tasksB.w

11、ork hard C.seek helpD.accept failure（2）What does the author recommend doing to prevent start-up fatigue?A.Writing essays in strict order.B.Building up physical strength.C.Leaving out the toughest ideas.D.Dealing wit

12、h the hardest task first.（3）On what occasion does a person probably suffer from performance fatigue?A.Before starting a difficult task.B.When all the solutions fail.C.reading a messageD.leaving for Wyoming（2）The author’s

13、 inspiration for the gift came from .A.a photo of a flowerB.a story about a kidC.a call from the motherD.a text about Christmas（3）The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to a poem by .A.the father B.the a

14、uthor C.William Blake D.Edgar Allan Poe（4）The author made the gift by .A.searching for the poems onlineB.drawing the background by handC.painting the letters in three colorsD.matching the words with pictures（5）W

15、hat is the main purpose of the passage?A.To show how to design images for gifts.B.To suggest making gifts from one’s heart.C.To explain how computers help create gifts.D.To describe the gifts the author has received.C3.G

16、rown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since.A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ev

17、er when he gets back in the water.He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away.He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son.A mother who has not thought about the words for

18、years can teach her daughter the poem that begins “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as fo

19、llows: Once we have learned something, additional learning trials(嘗試)increase the length of time we will remember it.In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseb

20、all long after we have learned them.We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but

21、overlearn.The multiplication tables(乘法口訣表)are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.The law of

22、 overlearning explains why cramming(突擊學(xué)習(xí))for an examination,though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course.By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by