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浙江桐庐县2017高考英语阅读理解九月选练【2016高考模拟题】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的a.b.c和d项中，选出最佳选项。 tony morrison has won this years nobel prize for literature. tony morrison is sixty-two years old. she was born in lorain, ohio. she is the daughter of farmers who moved to ohio from the southern state of alabama. she studied at harvard university in washington d.c. and cornell university in ithaca, new york.her first success came in 1970 with the book called the bluest eye. it tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful. her next book was called sulla. it tells the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in ohio. her book the song of solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begin a new life. and tar baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman. in the story the writer argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(种族仇视).miss morrison won americas highest prize for literature, the pulitzer prize in 1988 for her book beloved .it is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so she will not grow up to be a slave, too. her latest book jazz was published last year. it tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and woman who moved from a small town in the south to new york city. it took place in the 1920s,a time when jazz music became popular in america.tony morrison is a professor in literature at princeton university in new jersey. she says the most wonderful thing about winning the nobel prize is that it has finally been awarded to an african american writer. the prize is valued at more than 800 000 dollars. it will be awarded on dec.10 in stockholm in sweden.1. from the passage, we can see_.a. morrison is the first woman writer to win the nobel prizeb. the bluest eye tells the story of two black girlsc. the blacks lived a hard lifed. morrison studied at cornell university and is now still working there2. morrison has been awarded the nobel prize perhaps because_.a. she is an important professor in literatureb. her books are widely readc. what she has written attracted peoples attention to the blacks lifed. she mostly writes about the black women3. how many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?a. five.b. six.c. seven.d. eight.4. which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?a. morrisons father once lived in alabama.b. when jazz was popular in the united states.c. when her ancestors first came to the u.s.d .when and where the nobel prize will be given to her. 这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了morrison的经历以及她的作品所产生的效应。1. c。 细节理解题。根据morrison所写的所有书的介绍,黑人们都过着艰难的生活。2. c。 细节理解题。根据morrison所著书中的黑人都有着悲惨的命运,可推知她的书所产生的效应。3. b。 细节理解题。文中总共提到了六本她写的书。4. c。 细节理解题。选项a、b、d分别可在文章第一段、第三段、第四段找到依据。【2014高考训练】 imagine youre in a dark room, running your fingers over a smooth surface in search of a single dot the size of this period, how high do you think the dot must be for your finger to feel it? scientists have determined that the human finger is so sensitive it can detect a surface bump just one micron（l06m）high the human eye, by contrast, cant tell anything much smaller than100 micronsno wonder we rely on touch rather than eyesight when faced with a new roll of toilet paperbiologically, touch is the mother of all sensory（感觉的） systemsit is an ancient sense in evolution: even the simplest single-celled living things can feel when something brushes up against them and will respond by moving closer or pulling away it is the first sense aroused during a babys development and the last to weaken at lifes peak patients in a deep coma （昏迷）who seem otherwise lost to the world will show skin reaction when touched by a nurse “touch ,is so central to what we are that we almost cannot imagine ourselves without it,” said chris dijkerman“its not like eyesight, where you close your eyes and you dont see anything you cant do that with touchits always there long ignored in favor of the sensory heavyweights of eyesight and hearing, the study of touch lately: has been gaining new concern among scientiststheyre exploring the effects of recently reported false touch impressions, of people being made to feel as though they had three arms, for example, with the hope of gaining the true understanding of how the mind worksothers are turning to touch for more practical purposes: to build better touch screen instruments and robot hands, a more well-rounded virtual life。“theres a fair amount of research into new ways of offloading information onto our sense of touch, said lynette jones to have your cell phone buzzing （making a low sound） as opposed to ringing turned out to have a lot of advantages insome situations touch is our most active sense, our means of seizing the world and experiencing it first hand drsusan lederman pointed out that while we can become aware of something by seeing or hear,ing7;-from a distance and without really trying, if we want to learn about something by means of touch, we must make a movewe must rub the cloth, or pet the cat touching is a two-way street, and thats not true for seeing or hearing if you have a soft object and you squeeze it, you change its shape the physical world reacts back our hands are smart and can do many tasks automatically - button a shirt, fit a key in a lock, play the; piano for othersdrlederman and her colleagues have shown that blindfolded subjects can easily recognize a wide range of common -objects placedin their handsbut on some feeling tasks, touch is all thumbs （very clumsy） when people are given a raised line drawing of a common object, theyre puzzled“if all weve got is outline information; drlederman said,“no weight, no texture, no temperature information, well, were very, very bad with that touch also turns out to be easy to fool, among the sensory tricks now being investigated is something called the pinocchio illusion researchers have found that if they shake the band of the biceps（二头肌）, many people report feeling that their forearm is getting longer, their hand floating ever further from their elbow（肘） and if they are told to touch the forefinger of the shaken arm to the tip of their nose, they feel as though their nose was lengthening, too 50which of the following statements is true according to the passage? a our eyes are more sensitive than our fingers b our fingers are more sensitive than our eyes c our eyes are more sensitive than our ears d our noses are less sensitive than our ears51the sense that is firstly awaked during a childs development is the sense of a sight b taste c hearing d touch52the underlined sentence “you cant do that with touch” here means “you cant ” a close your skin b close your eyes c touch anything d see anything53scientists are lately getting interested in the following except a living a well-rounded virtual life b understanding how the mind worksc favoring eyesight and hearing d building better touch screen objects54in the view of , movement is needed when we want to know something by touching a the author b chris dijkermanc lynette jonesd susan lederman【参考答案】5054、bdacd 【2014高考训练】oscar-winning actress joan fontaine, who rose to fame during hollywoods golden age as the star of several alfred hitchcock classics, died from natural causes at her home in carmel, northern california on december 16, 2013 aged 96, us media reports said born in japan to british parents, fontaine moved in 1919 to california, where she and her elder sister screen idol olivia de havillandwere to shape successful movie careersfontaine and de havilland remain the only sisters to have won lead actress honours at the academy awardsyet the two sisters also had an uneasy relationship, with fontaine recording a bitter competition in her own account no bed of roses fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with largely less important roles on the stage and later in mostly b-movies in the 1930s it was not before famous british film director hitchcock spotted her a decade later that her career took off greatly surprised by her expressive looks, the suspense (悬念） master cast fontaine in his first us film, a 1940 adaptation of the daphne du maurier novel rebecca she received an academy award nomination（提名） for her performance as a troubled wife a year later, fontaine finally won the long-sought golden figure, for her role as leading lady in suspicion opposite cary grant, becoming the first and only actress to earn the title for a hitchock film although her sister, olivia de havilland, preceded her in gaining hollywood fame, fontaine was the first of the sisters to win an oscar, beating olivias nomination as best actress in mitchell leisens hold back the dawn the dislike ,between the sisters was felt at the oscars ceremonyi froze i stared across the table, where olivia was sittingget up there! she whispered commandingly, fontaine saidall the dislike wed felt toward each other as childrenall came rushing back in quickly changing picturesi felt olivia would spring across the table and seize me by the hair olivia did not win her first oscar until 1946, for her role as the lover of a world war i pilot in leisens to each his own fontaine later made it known that her sister had slighted her as she attempted to offer congratulations“she took one look at me, ignored my hand, seized her oscar and wheeled away,” she said the sisters were also reportedly competitors in love howard hughes, a strange businessman who dated the elder de havilland for a time, offered marriage to fontaine several timesi married first, won the oscar before olivia did, and if i die first, shell undoubtedly be extremely angry because i beat her to it! fontaine once joked as her film career fruited in the 1950s, fontaine turned to television and dinner theatre, and also appeared in several broadway productions, including the lion in winter anything but the ordinary lady, fontaine was also a licensed pilot, a champion balloonist, an accomplished golfer, a licensed .decoration designer and a first-class cook55when she moved to california, joan fontaine was years olda two b twelve c twentyd twenty -two56fontaine did not become successful or popular until the _ a 1930s b 1940s c 1950s d 1960s57fontaine won her oscar for her role in the film of “ ” a rebecca b suspicioncto each his own d hold back the dawn58which of the following statements is true according to the passage? a olivia preceded fontaine in getting married b olivia gamed hollywood fame after fontaine c fontaine won an oscar before her sister olivia, d fontaine wanted to meet her death before olivia59the dislike between fontaine and olivia began when they acompeted for an oscar bcompeted for a husbandcwere small children d were successful actresses60as can- be seen from the passage, fontaine was a person who was a disliked by her family b always a troubled wife c able to do few jobs d gifted in many ways【参考答案】5560、abbccd2014高考英语阅读理解（人物传记、故事类）【2014重庆卷】done moment it was quiet and calm in the forest, the next, the air was charged with tension. the elephant had heard the distant alarm calls of animals and her mood suddenly changed. i urged the elephant deeper into the forest. we sounded like a forest fire - cracking, snapping, trailblazing. but through all the noise came a sharp warning cry. the elephant stopped and we heard it again - the tell-tale call of a spotted deer.i looked quickly around the shadows of the forest. rays of sunlight shone through tree branches, beneath which the patchwork（交错）of green plants and shadows-within-shadows would make tiger stripes（条纹）look more attractive. apart from an occasional noise from the elephants stomach, the forest was silent.gradually, the tension slipped from our bodies. the elephant seized a nearby branch and put it into its mouth. i reached forward and gently moved my hand over the elephants neck; there was a soft part, free of wrinkles and hairs, behind her ear.this was my fourth time to sense the aura of the forest in corbett, although i saw no tigers in the end. located at the foot of the himalayan mountains, corbett is home to about 135 bengal tigers, but the forest seemed to be guarding their whereabouts（出没处）, a silent remin