重庆市高考英语二轮阅读理解精选训练（14）.doc

2013高考英语重庆八中二轮阅读理解精选训练（14）及答案athis is a true story from guyana. one day, a boy took a piece of paper from a box. he made a paper ball and pushed it into his nose. he couldnt get it out. he ran crying to his mother. his mother couldnt get the paper out, either. a week later, the paper was still in the boys nose. his nose began to have a bad smell.so his mother took the boy to a hospital. the doctor looked up at the childs nose, but she couldnt get the paper out. she said she had to cut the boys nose to get the paper out.the boys mother came home looking sad. she didnt want her child to have his nose cut. the next day she took the boy to her friend sidney who lived in a house with an old lady called may. may wanted to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose.“yes, i can see it,” may said. “it will be out soon.”as she spoke, she shook some black pepper （胡椒粉）on the childs nose. the child gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out. his mother was surprised. may told his mother to take the boy to the seaside for a swim, for the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell.so the lucky boy didnt have to go to the hospital to have his nose cut.36. after the boy pushed a paper ball into his nose, _. a. he took it out b. his mother took it out c. he did nothing but cry d. he tried to take it out but failed37. which of the following is true? a. the doctor helped to take the paper ball out of the boys nose. b. may succeeded in taking the paper out. c. the boys mother found some black pepper to solve the problem. d. the boy had to have his nose cut at last.38. the boy should be taken to the seaside for a swim because _. a. he needed to learn to swim b. the sea water would stop the bad smell of his nose. c. the sea water would wash out the paper ball. d. he needed a restb in the united states, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. and even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. that is what “keeping up with the joneses” is about. it is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours. the expression was first used in 1913 by a young american called arthur momand. he told this story about himself. he began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. that was a lot of money in those days. he got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside new york city. when he saw that rich people rode horses, momand went horseback riding every day. when he saw that rich people had servants, momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours. it was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. the race ended for momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. they moved back to an apartment in new york city. momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. he saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. he called it “keeping up with the joneses” because “jones” is a very common name in the united states. “keeping up with the joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. momands series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years. people never seem to get tired of keeping up with the joneses. and there are “jonses” in every city of the world. but one must get tired of trying to keep up with the joneses because no matter what one does, mr. jones always seems to be ahead.39. some people want to keep up with the joneses because they _.a. want to be as rich as their neighbours b. want others to know or to think that they are richc. dont want others to know they are rich d. want to be happy40. it can be inferred from the story that rich people like to _.a. live outside new york city b. live in new york cityc. live in apartments d. have many neighbours41. arthur momand used the name “jones” in his series of short stories because “jones” is _.a. an important name b. a popular name in the united statesc. his neighbours name d. not a good name42. according to the writer, it is _ to keep up with the joneses.a. correct b. interesting c. impossible d. goodcduring the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. a woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old and up. by the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. today women marry younger and have fewer children. usually a womans youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty.this important change in womens life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women economic (经济的) position. even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job. however, when they married their school-leaving age is sixteen. many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. very many more afterwards return to fuller part-time work. such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage (婚姻), with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.43. we are told that in a family about 1900_.a、few children died before they were fiveb、seven or eight children lived to be more than fivec、the youngest child would be fifteend、four or five children died when they were five44. one reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she_.a、is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselvesb、does not like children herselfc、neednt worry about food for her childrend、can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty 45. many girls are now likely to_. a、give up their jobs for good after they are marriedb、leave school as soon as they canc、marry so that they can get a jobd、continue working until they are going to have a baby46. according to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to _.a、stay at home after leaving school b、marry men younger than themselvesc、start working again in life d、marry while still at schoolddo you forget to turn off the lights and heaters when you go out of a room? in 2040 it will not matter. they will turn themselves offand on again when you return. you will choose the temperature for each room, the lighting and the humidity. a sensor(传感器) will find the presence of a human (and, with luck, ignore the dog!) and turn the systems on, and when the humans leave it will turn them off again.the sensors will work through the central home computer, and they will do much more than just turn the fires and lights on and off for you. they will find faulty electrical appliances, plugs or switches, separate them so that they cannot harm anyone, and then warn you that they need repair. they will detect(发现) fire and if you are out of the house, the computer will call the fire brigade. it will not be too difficult because the locks on the outside doors will be electronic. you will open them using your personal cardthe one you use for shoppingmaybe using a number known only to you.it will be impossible to lose the key, and a housebreaker will have to tamper(拨弄) with the lock or with a window. it is not very difficult to make such tampering send a signal to the computer.the computer will be more than a fireman-policeman-servant. it will be an entertainer, and most of your entertainment will come right into your home. it does now, of course, but by 2040 “entertainment” will mean much more. for one thing, you will be able t