2024届高考英语一轮单元复习阅读理解训练：Unit 24《Society》（北师大版含解析）
Unit 24 Society
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
Telling fewer lies benefits people physically and mentally. Anita Kelly, study author and professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, employed 110 adults for her study. She divided them into two groups and asked one group to stop lying for 10 weeks. Lies included big ones and tiny ones—any false statements—but participants were still allowed to leave out the truth, keep secrets and avoid questions they didn't want to answer, etc. The other group wasn't given any special instructions about lying.
It turns out that both groups reduced their lying, but those who were specifically told to tell the truth improved their health more. ?We found that the participants could purposefully and dramatically reduce their everyday lies, and that in turn was associated with significantly improved health，” said Kelly.
When participants in the nolie group told three fewer white lies than they did in other weeks, they experienced, on average, fewer mentalhealth complaints and physical complaints. They were less likely to feel tense or sad and also experienced fewer sore throats and headaches. They also reported that personal relationships improved.
Additionally,
participants found themselves honest about their daily accomplishments, and they stopped making up excuses for being late or failing to complete a task, for example.
?It's certainly a worthy goal to have people be more honest and interact with others in a more honest way，” says psychologist Robert Feldman. “That would be beneficial, I'm a little doubtful whether it makes us all healthier, but it may make us healthier in a psychological way.”
文章大意：本文是一篇科研报告。研究了撒谎和健康之间的关系。
1．Which of the following is true according to the text?
A．People who tell lies are healthier than those who don't.
B．Being honest can help cure sore throats and headaches.
C．Not all the participants were required to tell the truth.
D．Participants involved are asked not to keep secrets.
答案：C 细节理解题。根据第一段倒数第一句“The other group wasn't given any special instructions about lying.”可知，有一组的实验对象没有被要求讲实情，故答案C符合文义。
2．The participants of the two groups ________.
A．told as many lies as before
B．were almost equally healthy
C．tended to lie less about their activities
D．experienced tenser personal relationships
答案：C 细节理解题。根据第二段的第一句“It turns out that both groups reduced their lying...”可知，答案C符合文义。
3．From Robert Feldman, we can learn that ________.
A．white lies might make people have more complaints
B．honesty is likely to help people become mentally healthier
C．people should not be honest with others but with themselves
D．telling the truth can make people physically and mentally healthy
答案：B 推理判断题。根据文章最后一句“... but it may make us healthier in a psychological way”可推知，答案B“诚实会让人们在精神上更健康”符合文义。
4．The text is mainly about ________.
A．the connection of honesty and health
B．research on physical and mental health
C．advice about being an honest person
D．effects of honesty on personal relationships
答案：A 主旨大意题。根据文章第一句“Telling fewer lies benefits people physically and mentally.”的开篇点题可知，本文主要讲的是诚实和健康之间的关系，故答案A符合文义。
B
Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money.Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires — not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.
Real riches consist of welldeveloped and hearty capacities
to enjoy life.Most people are already swamped (淹没) with things.They eat, wear, go and talk too much.They_live_in_too_big_a_house_with_too_many_rooms,_yet_their_house_of_life_is_a_hut.
Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅), a royal palace.Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room.Here are several rooms your house of life should have.
Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things.If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.
Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment.To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.
Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent.Real riches are of the spirit.And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them.And life is a matter of thrills.
Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life.No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.
Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.
1.The author intends to tell us that________.
A.true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means
B.big houses are people's most valued possessions
C.big houses can in a sense bring richness of life
D.true happiness comes from spiritual riches
2.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that________.
A.however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied
B.however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor
C.though their house is big, they prefer a simple life
D.though their house is big, it seems to be a cage
3.It can be learned from the passage that________.
A.more money brings more happiness
B.art is needed to make your house beautiful
C.literature can enrich your spiritual life
D.sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.House of Life
B.Secret of Wealth
C.Rest and Refreshment
D.Interest and Enthusiasm
1．解析：选D 写作意图题本文通过把物质上房子的大小和精神上房子的大小进行对比说明真正的幸福来自精神的富有而不是物质的富有故选D解析：选B 句意理解题画线处的句子意思是：他们住在拥有太多房间的一所太大的房子里然而他们精神生活的房子却是一个小屋物质和精神上的对比说明无论物质生活是多么富有他们的精神生活仍然是贫穷的故选B解析：选C 细节理解题第五段把文学古典文学比作一个房间在那里你能得到休息振奋精神得到那份对文学的爱将会使你成为一个精神富有的人故选C解析：选A 标题归纳题本文通过把物质生活的房子和精神生活的房子进行比较得出物质生活富有并不代表精神生活富有我们需要的是精神上的房子故A项最能概括本文主旨You've flown halfway around the world；you've sniffed out this place that nobody in Falongland or Thailand seems to have ever heard of；so what on earth is there to do here？You consider this question as you sink into an old wooden beach chair that holds you above the sand.
It was a long journey from Bangkok to Huaplee.By the time you found the bus station and got yourself sorted out，it took almost as long as the flight from Falongland.
Huaplee is located just south of Hua Hin，about two hundred kilometres from Bangkok，down the west side of the Gulf of Thailand. Not many tourists find this place，and the ones that do wonder if finding it has been their purpose all along.
There's an apparent laziness that surrounds you here.It's what this place offers，and it's free of charge.The small waves that tap the shoreline seem to slow everything down.You settle into your beach chair in preparation for a long rest.You sit there and watch the sea.
It's early afternoon，so the cook comes out and asks what you'd like to eat this evening.Before long he's rushed off to the market to buy the ingredients for whatever it was that you ordered－every meal fresh and to order.No menu here.
There is no poolside noise here but just that wonderfully warm，clear blue sea.There's no street noise.The only sounds are the murmurs of nature.
For now you just count your blessings (福祉)，listing them in the sand with your toe (脚趾)．You don't have to worry about being late for work. You don't have to do anything.
The beach to your right stretches off to the horizon (地平线)，slowly narrowing to nothingness only to reemerge again on your left，now steadily widening until it covers the chair beneath you.Sand to your left and sand to your right; it's unbroken，endless.No start，no end，just sand，sun，and peace.Step off it，and you reenter the world of traffic，stress，work，and hurry.
Normally you're the type who can't sit still for more than ten minutes，but you're on Huaplee Lazy Beach now and，in the right frame of mind，it stretches all the way around the world.
“How could it take me so long to find it？” you wonder.
．When the author first went to Huaplee Beach，________.
A．he found it unworthwhile
B．he failed to sort himself out
C．he became sensitive to smell
D．he had difficulty in finding it
．What is special about the food service at Huaplee Beach?
A．No menu.
B．Free food.
C．Self service.
D．Quick delivery.
3．In the author's opinion，a tourist can enjoy Huaplee Beach most when he ________.
A．sits in a beach chairB．forgets his daily routine
C．plans a detailed scheduleD．draws pictures in the sand
．What does the author imply by his question at the end of the passage?
A．He shouldn't have counted his blessings.
B．He should have understood the wonder of nature.
C．He shouldn't have spent so much time on the trip.
D．He should have come to the place earlier.
答案：
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇旅游杂记，介绍了泰国一个静谧的海滩，描述了这里的环境给人的慵懒的感觉。在这里，你可以忘掉职场上的疲惫和匆忙，也可以真正地无所事事。宁静的气息让你不禁感叹应该早点儿来这个地方。
．D 解析：推理判断题。作者没有直接说自己第一次来这里的情况或感受，但他提到了找到这个地方是多么不容易：have flown halfway around the world；a long journey from Bangkok to Huaplee；it took almost as long as the flight from Falongland，因此选D。
．A 解析：细节理解题。第五段中的Before long he's rushed off to the market to buy the ingredients for whatever it was that you ordered－every meal fresh and to order.No menu here.意为“不管你点什么菜，不久他就会急忙去市场买原料——每餐都是新鲜的、定做的。没有菜单”。由此可知A项“没有菜单”正确，而非“饭菜免费”“自助”或“送餐快速”。
3．B 解析：推理判断题。第七段说，现在你只需想想你有多幸福，用你的脚趾在沙滩上把你的幸福列出来；不用担心上班迟到，什么都不用干。这与B项的描述是一致的：忘掉他的日常安排。
．D 解析：推理判断题。“我怎么花了这么长时间才找到它呢？”是文章结尾的问题。显然，作者暗示的不是“本不应该想着自己的幸福”“本该了解大自然的神奇”或者“本不该在途中花这么多的时间”，而是D项“本该早点儿来这个地方”。
Ⅱ.任务型阅读
Some Steps for Breaking Through Your Comfort Zone
A comfort zone is a selfimposed boundary where a person will refuse to push past. Doing so usually fills him or her with nervousness and anxiety. So let's talk about breaking out of this comfort zone.
Get information. To break through your comfort zone you need to first educate yourself. Your goal here is to find out about whatever skill you're pursuing. You'll talk to people who have done the same thing.
1.________ And you'll check out articles on the Internet about this subject.
Have a plan. After educating yourself it's important to create a plan of action. With this step you're going to write down a stepbystep blueprint for how you're going to break through your comfort zone. 2.________
Then you create a plan to get to each level. In this plan you need to create benchmarks. These are minigoals that put you one step close to pushing past your comfort zone.
3.________ This is an important step because the people in your life will keep you on track. You want them to give you that “push” as you're pushing your boundaries. They will make it hard for you to quit because you know you'll look foolish if you did.
Remain positive. There will be times when you experience a negative outcome, something that shakes your confidence and makes you feel scared. The trick is to not let anything prevent you from blasting past the point of comfort. Recognize that you will have negative outcomes.
4.________
Keep expanding your comfort zone.
5.________
Find stuff that you
never imagined you would do. Like teaching a class on the subject that once filled you with fear. Or you could work on a related skill.
A.Look for new challenges.
B.You can't become an overnight success.
C.It's a natural part of the process.
D.You'll read books on the subject.
E.Have people around you know of your plan.
F.You won't have time to think about your fear.
G.You start with the easiest thing to do.
Ⅲ.完形填空
(2024·山西适应性检测)When you are five years old, your mother is your everything. She is your __1__ friend, and nurse; the only person you rely on
__2__
with your hopes, dreams, and wishes. But for me, this was not the case.
My mother suffered from
__3__
problems that would keep her in bed for days, leaving me to care for her and look after myself. This situation
__4__
me to grow up much faster. While I knew my mother was sick, I felt deep down that we could
__5__
it and everything would be okay.
__6__， in 1997 everything went terribly wrong, and my life changed forever.
Adoption is a
__7__
word to a fiveyearold, but when I realized that my own mother had signed me over to
__8__， I felt it was the worst betrayal (背叛). I suffered from shock, anger, and confusion as I attempted to adjust to my new family. No longer could I
__9__
anyone since the person I had loved more than all else had abandoned me. Hearing people tell me that she did it in my best interest, I felt even more
__10__. I could not forgive her and always
__11__
how she could reject me like an old sofa.
However, the more I got older, the more I began to understand how
__12__
our situation had been. We had been
__13__
on boxes of noodles, and at one point we
__14__
lived in our car. I was once passed from drugaddicted cousins to mentally unstable neighbors as my mother
__15__
to try and save me from what our lives were becoming
__16__
each day passed.
Only recently have I begun to understand
__17__
my mother gave me to strangers.
__18__
she really did save me. She loved me more than anything, so she wanted me to have a
