（5月集训）浙江省绍兴县高考英语阅读理解选练（7）.doc

2014浙江省绍兴县高考英语阅读理解选练（7）及答案 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。【宁夏银川市唐徕回民中学2014试题】a an 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old highly educated son. suddenly a crow（乌鸦）perched on the tree near their window. the father asked his son, “what is this? ” the son replied, “it is a crow.” after a few minutes, the father asked his son the 2nd time, “what is this?” the son said, “father, i have just now told you its a crow. ”after a little while, the old father again asked his son the 3rd time, “what is this? ” “its a crow, a crow, a crow.” said the son loudly.a little after, the father again asked his son the 4th time, “what is this?” this time the son shouted at his father, “why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? it is a crow. are you not able to understand this?” a little later the father went to his room and came back with an old diary, which he had kept since his son was born. on opening a page, he asked his son to read that page. when the son read it, the following words were written in the diary: “today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa when a crow was sitting on the window. my son asked me 23 times what it was, and i replied to him all 23 times that it was a crow. i hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. i did not at all feel annoyed; i rather felt affection for my innocent child. ”21. in what tone did the son say to his father “its a crow, a crow, a crow. ”? a. impatientb. excited c. hurried d. surprised22. why did the father ask the same question again and again? a. because he wanted to make his son angry. b. because he was too old to remember anything. c. because he couldnt understand what his son said. d. because he wanted to see how patient his son would be.23. how old was the old man when his son asked him 23 times “what is this”? a. 35 years old. b. 38 years old. c. 45 years old.d. 80 years old.24. what is the most suitable title for the passage? a. a crow.b. fathers love. c. an old dairy. d. an old man. 【参考答案】adbb atemperature is measured by means of a thermometer (温度计). one general form of thermometer depends upon the fact that most solids and liquids expand as their temperature rises. there are one or two exceptions. there is, for instance, a kind of steel called invar (from “invariable”) which does not change its dimensions as temperature changes; it is valuable for making pendulums (钟摆), since, if the length of a pendulum changes, its time of vibration changes. it is also used for making very accurate measuring scales. in both cases, then, changes of atmospheric temperature have no effect if invar is used. another exception is that very odd liquid, water, which has many strange properties (特性). as water gets colder it contracts (收缩), which is ordinary behavior, until it reaches the temperature of 30. above freezing point. after that, as it gets colder, it expands. this is fortunate-for considering the freezing of a pond. as the water on top gets colder, it shrinks; and so, volume for volume, it becomes heavier and sinks. this goes on until all the pond is at 30, but after that, as the water becomes colder it expands. therefore the colder water stays on top and freezes, covering the pond with ice. if the water went on contracting down to the freezing point, the pond would become a solid block of ice in the end. this would not worry people who live in hot climates, but it would be very serious for those who live in cold climates, especially for those who want to break the ice and catch fish which live in the cold water beneath.1. invar is valuable for making pendulums because _.a. it can hardly change its shape or size as temperature changes. b. it will change its dimensions without the change of temperature.c. its time of vibration doesnt change if its length changes. d. its time of vibration does not change if its length changes.2. as water gets colder after reaching the temperature of 30. it will _.a. contract b. shrink c. expand d. freeze3. which of the following statements is true, according to this passage?a. only invar can be used to make a thermometer. b. only water can be used to make a thermometer.c. both invar and water can be used to make a thermometer. d. neither invar nor water can be used to make a thermometer. 4. the best title of this passage is most likely to be _.a. temperature measurement b. two exceptionsc. uses of invar d. properties of water【参考答案】14、acdb 阅读理解-dlots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps; some do needlework; others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport.a lot of people enjoy reading. but reading tastes differ widely. some people only read newspapers or comics, some like reading novels, while others prefer books on astronomy, wildlife, or technological discoveries.if i happen to be interested in horses or precious stones, i cannot expect everyone else to share my enthusiasm. if i watch all the sports programs on tv with great pleasure, i must put up with the fact that other people find sports boring.is there nothing that interests us all? is there nothing that concerns everyoneno matter who they are or where they live in the world? yes, dear sophie, there are questions that certainly should interest everyone. they are precisely the questions this course is about.what is the most important thing in life? if we ask someone living on the edge of starvation, the answer is food. if we ask someone dying of cold, the answer is warmth. if we put the same question to someone who feels lonely and isolated, the answer will probably be the company of other people.but when these basic needs have been satisfiedwill there still be something that everybody needs? philosophers think so. they believe that man cannot live by bread alone. of course everyone needs food. and everyone needs love and care. but there is something elseapart from thatwhich everyone needs, and that is to figure out who we are and why we are here.being interested in why we are here is not a “casual” interest like collecting stamps. people who ask such questions are taking part in a debate that has gone on as long as man has lived on this planet. how the universe, the earth, and life came into being is a bigger and more important question than who won the most gold medals in the last olympics.13. this text is most probably taken from _. a. a research paperb. a course schedulec. a personal letterd. a book review14. which of the following best states the main idea of the passage? a. philosophical questions are as interesting as collecting stamps.b. thinking about philosophical questions is a serious interest.c. figuring out who we are and why we are here is mans basic needs.d. philosophy has universal appeal and concerns everybody in nature.15. the author believes that _. a. no existing subject can interest everyone in the worldb. different people may have different interests and concernsc. everyone has to figure out who we are and why we are hered. people in modern society pay more attention to philosophical questions【参考答案】1315、cdc【湖南省怀化市2014高考英语一模试题】calthough cats may be one of the most popular pets today, little is known about how and when humans and cats set up their close relationship. the earliest evidence for humancat interaction dates back to prehistoric cyprus（史前塞浦路斯）, where the remains of a wild cat and a human dated 9,500 years old were found buried together. a new study in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences has confirmed the first direct evidence of a humandomestic cat relationship among chinese farmers 5,300 years ago. researchers studied the bones of cats, dogs, deer and other animals unearthed in an excavation (挖掘) near a village in central china. by using some ways, scientists showed that the cats were living on a mostly millet(黍)based diet, just like the domesticated dogs and pigs from the site. the most reasonable explanation for a high consumption of milletbased food is that the cats had formed a stable and mutual relationship with humans and could easily feed on rodents (啮齿动物) around human villages, find leftover food or even have been fed by people intentionally, said hu yaowu from the chinese academy of sciences in beijing, whose research focuses on the relationship between humans and domesticated animals.it is very interesting for us to find the consumption of millet-based foods by the cats, since this kind of evidence had long been missing.” hu explains. since cats usually eat meat, such a diet would be unexpected, unless the cats were being fed by people, the study argues. the researchers also found that one of the cats survived to reach old age, implying that it had a safe place to live and enough to eat. why the farmers wanted to keep cats nearby or make them pets could be answered by other evidence. chinese archaeologists found some storage containers were specifically designed to keep out rodents a vermin (害兽) that cats could certainly have helped with. the simplified theory is that rats were attracted to the food of farmers, and so were harmful to farmers. cats were attracted to the rats, and so farmers formed a mutually beneficial relationship with cats, taking care of them in return for pest control.【小题1】the evidence found in the remains dating back to prehistoric cyprus means . a. human made cats pets as early as 9,500 years agob. human interacted with cats very earlyc. cats didnt appear until prehistoric cyprus d. when cats became domesticated 【小题2】apart from cats, hu yaowu and his teams may also study .a. the preventions of pests from grains b. the history of chinese farmingc. the dogs and pigs d. the ways to keep pets【小题3】which of the following is not the evidence of chinese farms keeping cats? a. cats didnt feed on meat. b. the cats consumed large amounts of milletbased foods. c. one of the cats survived to reach old age. d. some storage containers were specifically designed to keep out rodents.【小题4】what are the reasons for farmers to keep cats? a. helping keep other domesticated animals. b. not letting cats eat food.c. supplying meat for human. d. helping reduce the amount of pests. 【小题5】in which part of a newspaper would be the passage most probably appear .a. entertainment b. environmentc. human and science d. life and fashion【答案】【小题1】b【小题2】c【小题3】a【小题4】d【小题5】c【解析】试题分析：文章介绍了通过调查发现人和猫的联系是什么时候开始的，也介绍了以前的农民为什么养猫的阅读理解（一）nasas mars detector (探测器), opportunity, succeeded in finding signs that water once existed on the planet. opportunity landed on mars in january. scientists now believe that the planet could once have supported life.this discovery was chosen by science, one of the worlds leading magazines, as the most important scientific achievement of 2004 last friday.“this little, wheeled, one-armed box went around another planet and has done something no human has ever managed,” according to science. “it has discovered another place in the universe where life could once have existed.”“although we still cant say that life could have existed in this environment, it is now certain that there was water on mars,” said steve squyres, one of the scientists working on the mars mission. the evidence comes from pictures and chemical readings taken by opportunity. it includes marks on rocks like those caused by flowing water on earth and salty chemicals like those found in dried-out sea-beds. scientists said the new evidence proved beyond doubt that water has been existed on mars. but it is still unknown whether the water on mars was like an ocean or just ice.while opportunity has not found any signs of life, the presence of water means life is possible. “in everything we know about life on earth, there is no example without liquid water,” squyres said. “so water is important for the search for life on mars.”researchers agree that a future mission (任务) should bring back physical samples (样品). but some scientists worry about the risk that this could introduce dangerous foreign creatures to earth. “the problem here is how to get the samples back,” squyres replied. “i think it is our responsibility to limit any risk.”1. _ prove that water existed on mars.a. the physical samples with salty chemicals b. the marks on rocks and salty chemicalsc. scientific achievements o