高考英语阅读理解汇编三.doc

4. 2009年广东卷alisa was running late. lisa，25，had a lot to do at work，plus visitors on the way: her parents were coming in for thanksgiving from her hometown. but as she hurried down the subway stairs， she started to feel uncomfortably warln. by the time she got to the platform，lisa felt weak and tired-maybe it hadnt been a good idea to give blood the night before，she thought. she rested herself against a post close to the tracks. several yards away，frank，43，and his girlfriend，jennifer，found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. they were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying. but when he heard the scream，followed by someone yelling，“oh，my god，she fell in!” frank didnt hesitate. he jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “no! not you! ”his girlfriend screamed after him. she was right to be alarmed. by the time frank reached lisa，he could feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. the train was about 20 seconds from the station. it was hard to lift her. she was just out. but he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the grins and drag her away from the edge. that was where lisa briefly regained consciousness，felt herself being pulled along the ground，and saw someone else holding her purse. lisa thought shed been robbed. a woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head. and she tried to talk but she couldnt，and that was when she realized how much pain she was in. police and fire officials soon arrived，and frank told the story to an officer. jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40一minute train ride downtownjust as he had been seconds after the rescue，which made her think about her reaction at the time. “i saw the train coming and 1 was thinking he was going to die，”she explained. 41. what was the most probable cause for lisas weakness?a. she had run a long way. b. she felt hot in the subway. c. she had done a 1ot of work. d. she had donated blood the night before. 42. why did jennifer try to stop her boyfriend?a. because they would miss their train. b. because he didnt see the train coming. c. because she was sure lisa was hard to lift. d. because she was afraid the train would kill him. 43. how did frank save lisa?a. by lifting her to the platform. b. by helping her rise to her feet. c. by pulling her along the ground. d. by dragging her away from the edge. 44. when did lisa become conscious again?a. when the train was leaving. b. after she was back on the platform. c. after the police and fire officials came. d. when a man was cleaning the blood from her head. 45. the passage is intended to _a. warn us of the danger in the subwayb. show us how to save people in the subwayc. tell us about a subway rescued. report a traffic accidentbwe once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class. “you could win prizes，our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. she passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing，“the first prize is ten dollars. you just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. ”we studied the board critically. some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard，rocking the sheets to the fight or left while we conjured up our designs. others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. we had plans for that tendollar grand prize，each and every one of us. im going to spend mine on candies，one hopeful would announce，while another practiced looking serious，wise and rich. everyone in the class made a poster. some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins， while others used nothing but colored construction paper. some of us used big designs，and some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one comer of our poster and let the space draw the viewers attention to it. some of us would wander past the good students desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. it was yet another grown-up trick of the soil they seemed especially fond of。making all of us believe we had a fair chance，and then alwaysalwaysrewarding the same old winners. i believe i drew a sailboat，but i cant say that with any certainty. i made it. i admired it. i determined it to be the very best of all of the posters i had seen，and then i turned it in. minutes passed. no one came along to give me the grand prize，and then someone distracted me，and i probably never would have thought about that poster again. i was still sitting at my desk，thinking，what poster? when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in it and everyone in the class applauded for me. 46. what was the teachers requirement for the poster?a. it must appear in time. b. it must be done in class. c. it must be done on a construction sheet. d. it must include the words on the blackboard. 47. the underlined phrase in paragraph 3 most probably means _. a. formed an idea forb. made an outline forc. made some space ford. chose some colors for48. after the teachers words，all the students in the class _. a. 1ooked very seriousb. thought they would be richc. began to think about their designsd. began to play games49. after seeing the good students designs，some students _. a. 1oved their own designs moreb. thought they had a fair chancec. put their own designs in a comerd. thought they would not win the prize50. we can infer from the passage that the author _. a. enjoyed grown-up tricks very muchb. 1oved poster competitions very muchc. felt surprised to win the competitiond. became wise and rich after the competitionca few years ago i had an “aha!” moment regarding handwriting. i had in my hand a sheet of paper with handwritten instructions on it for some sort of editorial task. it occurred at first that i did not recognize the handwriting，and then i realized whose it must be. i finally became aware of the fact that i had been working with this colleague for at least a year，maybe two，and yet i did not recognize her handwriting at that point. it was a very important event in the computerization of lifea sign that the informal. friendly communication of people working together in an office had changed from notes in pen to instant messages and emails. there was a time when our workdays were filled with little letters，and we recognized one anothers handwriting the way we knew voices or faces. as a child visiting my fathers office，1 was pleased to recognize，in little notes on the desks of his staff，the same handwriting 1 would see at home in the notes he would leave on the fridgeexcept that those notes were signed “dad” instead of “rfw”. all this has been on my mind because of the talk about the rise and fall of handwriting，a book by florey. sire shows in her book a deep concern about the fall of handwriting and the failure of schools to teach children to write well，but many others argue that people in a digital age cant be expected to learn to hold a pen. i dont buy it. i dont want to see anyone cut off from the expressive，personal associations that a pen still promotes better than a digital keyboard does. for many a biographer，part of really getting to know their subjects is learning to read their handwriting. what some people advocate is teaching one of the many attractive handwritings based on the handwriting of 16th-century italy. that may sound impossibly grandas if they want kids to learn to draw by copying classical paintings. however，they have worked in many school systems. 51. why was the author surprised at not recognizing his colleagues handwriting?a. he had worked with his colleague long enough. b. his colleagues handwriting was so beautiful. c. his colleagues handwriting was so terrible. d. he still had a 1ot of work to do. 52. people working together in an office used to _. a. talk more about handwritingb. take more notes on workdaysc. know better one anothers handwritingd. communicate better with one another53. the authors father wrote notes in pen _. a. to both his family and his staffb. to his family in small lettersc. to his family on the fridged. to his staff on the desk54. according to the author，handwritten notes _. a. are harder to teach in schoolsb. attract more attentionc. are used only between friendsd. carry more message55. we can learn from the passage that the author _. a. thinks it impossible to teach handwritingb. does not want to lose handwritingc. puts the blame on the computerd. does not agree with florey5. 2009年湖北卷a ks5umy grandfather came from hungary and was the only one in his family who settled down in the united states. the rest of his family remained in europe. when world war i broke out, he seemed to have become another man, downherated. such obvious change was not born out of his welfare, but out of fear: if his only son, my uncle, had to go to war, it would be cousin fighting against cousin. ks5uone day in 1918, my uncle milton received his draft notice. my grandparents were very upset. but my mother, at the age of 10, felt on top of the world about her soldier brother going off to war. realizing how he was regarded by his little sister and all of her friends, my uncle bought them all service pins, which meant that they had a loved one in the service. all the little girls were delighted. ks5uthe moment came when my uncle and the other soldiers, without any training but all in uniforms, boarded the train. the band played and the crowd cheered. although no one noticed, im sure my grandmother had a tear in her eye for the only son. the train slowly pulled out, but not about a thousand yards when it suddenly paused. everyone stared in wonder as the train slowly returned to the station. there was a dead silence before the doors opened and the men started to step out. someone shouted,”the war is over. ”for a moment, nobody moved, but then the people heard someone bark orders at the soldiers. the men lined up in two lines, walked down the steps, and with the band playing, marched down the street, as returning heroes, to be welcomed home. my mother said it was great day, but she was just a little disappointed that it didnt last a tiny bit longer. ks5u51. what the grandfather was most worried about was . ks5ua. the spread of the world war ks5ub. the safety of his living two cousins ks5uc. a drop in his living standards ks5ud. his relatives killing each other ks5u52. the underlined phrase “draft notice” means “ “ ks5ua. order for army service ks5ub. train ticket for europe ks5uc. letter of rejection ks5ud. note of warning ks5u53. what did the “service pins”（in para. 2）stand for in the dyes of the little girls? ks5ua. strength. ks5ub. courage. ks5uc. victory. ks5ud. honor. ks5u54. which of the following words can best describe the ending of the story? ks5ua. disappointing. ks5ub. unexpected. ks5uc. uncertain. ks5ud. inspiring. ks5ub ks5uthree years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of arizona, thousands of miles from the channel islands in jersey sher they had been looked after by zookeepers. no evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their king for 50 years. to the researchers surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from mexico and set free at the same time. within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the arizona reintroduction programme. ks5uever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated （没收） on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. the experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology（心理） of parrots, as peter bennett, a bird researcher, points out:” reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. people like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pers or valuable collectables. ” ks5unow that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the world parrot trust, based at hayle in cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds. ks5uresearch on parrots is vital for two reasons. forest, as the arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. we also need to learn more about the needs oft parrots keot as pets, particularly as the trusts campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans. ks5u55. what do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced? ks5ua. its landscape is new to parrots of their king. ks5ub. it used to be home to parrots of their kind. ks5uc. it is close to where they had been kept. ks5ud. pine trees were planted to attract birds. ks5u56. the reintroducing experience three years ago shows that man-raised parrots _. ks5ua. can find their way back home in jersey ks5ub. are unable to recognize their parents ks5uc. are unable to adapt to the wild ks5ud. can produce a new species ks5u57. why are researches on parrots important according to the passage? ks5ua. the trust shows great concern for the programme. ks5ub. we need to knows more about how to preserve parrots ks5uc. many people are interested in collecting parrots. ks5ud. parrots intelligence may some day benefit people. ks5u58. according to the passage, people are advised_. ks5ua. to treat wild and caged parrots equally ks5ub to set up comfortable homes for parrots ks5uc. not to keep wild parrots as pets ks5ud. not to let more parrots go to the wild ks5uc ks5uwhen i was seven my father gave me a timex, my first watch. i loved it, wore it for years, and havent had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. why? because i dont need one. i have a mobile phone and im always near someone with an ipod or something like that. all these devices（装置）tell the timewhich is why, if you look around, youll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007. ks5ubut while the wise have realized that they dont need them, othersapparently including some distinguished men of our timeare spending total fortunes on them. brands such as rolex, patek philippe and breitling command shocking prices, up to 250.000 for a piece. ks5u this is ridiculous. expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. but these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. expensive watches come with extra functionsbut who needs them? how often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the south pole? so why pay that much of five years school fees for watches that allow you to do these things? ks5uif justice were done, the swiss watch industry should have closed down when the japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. instead the swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a patek philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world. ks5uwatches are now classified as “investments”（投资）. a 1994 philippe recently sold for nearly? 350, 000, while 1960s rolexes have gone from? 15, 000 to? 30, 000 plus in a year. but a watch is not an investment. its a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. prices may keep going up-theyve been rising for 15 years. but when of fashion. prices may keep going uptheyve been rising for 15 years. but when fashion moves on, the owner of that? 350, 000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood times. ks5u59 the sales of watches to young people have fallen because they_. ks5ua. have other devices to tell the time ks5ub. think watches too expensive ks5uc. prefer to wear an ipod ks5ud. hame no sense of time ks5u60. it seems ridiculous to the writer that_. ks5ua. people dive 300 metres into the sea ks5ub. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones ks5uc. cheap cars dont run as fast as expensive ones ks5ud. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell ks5u61. what can be learnt about swiss watch industry from the passage? ks5ua. it targets rich people as its potential customers. ks5ub. its hard for the industry to beat its competitors. ks5uc. it wastes a huge amount of money in advertising. ks5ud. its easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches. ks5u62. which would be the best title for the passage? ks5ua. timex or rolex? ks5ub. my childhood timex ks5uc. watches? mot for me! ks5ud. watchesa valuable collection ks5ud ks5ua few years ago, paul gerner began to gather a group of architects in las vegas to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and obviously improved s