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阅读理解-历史类选练（5）【2014高考英语河南省洛阳市统考】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。a sick little gift is being kept alive thanks to her best friend-a dog who carries her oxygen tank on his back. alidas faithful dog companion mr gibbs has been specially trained to shepherd the three-year-old, who breathes through a tube most of the time. he follows her closely as she plays in her familys ten-acre land in louisville, uses the slide or even rides her bike.alida was diagnosed（诊断）with neuroendocrine hyperplasia of infancy（nehi）when she was just eight months old. her rare condition has just eight hundred documented sufferers throughout the world, and causes diseased pieces of the lungs to filter（过滤）oxygen through extra layers（膜）of cells making it hard or almost impossible to breathe. for alida and her parents, it meant that even a walk in the park was very difficult because oxygen equipment was too heavy for the youngster to be able to carry herself. as parents they wanted to do something to help their daughter survive despite having a tube following her all the time. the couple found out about “service dogs” from a tv program and realized an animal trained to help the blind could be trained to help alida. they finally found help in the shape of golden doodlea retriever crossed with a poodle-dog mr gibbs. now-thanks to trainer ashleigh kinsleyalida and mr gibbs love nothing more than playing and running around together with the dog acting as alidas life saver.63. what is mr gibbs?a. a pet dog. b. a policeman. c. a doctor. d. a firefighter.64. when did the doctor know alicia caught the disease? a. at her birth. b. at the age of eight. c. before she was one year old. d. when she was three years old.65. the underlined part “the couple” in paragraph 3 refers to _. a. alidas classmates b. alidas parents c. alidas doctors d. alidas pets66. how did alicia keep alive? a. by training her dog. b. by staying with her parents. c. by playing with her fellows. d. by breathing through a tube.6366、acb d 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的a,b,c或d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。finally, ientered the university. because of my careful savings, i did not have to work during the school year. then,summer came and it was time to work harder than ever. i continued working as a waitress at night, instructed tennis camps several mornings a week and worked as a secretary for a few hours in the afternoons. i even decided to take a class at acommunity（社区）college. this class at the community college saved me $650. it was an extremely tiring summer and made me anxious to return to my relatively easy life at the university.during mysecond and third years of undergraduate schooling, i decided to work about five hours per week in the campus（校园）admissions office answering phones. this provided a little spending money and kept me from drawing my savings out. the overall situation looked hopeful as i approached my senior year as long as i could make as much money as i had the previous summer. i wanted to go to israel to study for 3 weeks, but i hesitated in making this decision because it would cost me $1,600 more to get the credits in israel. about two weeks later my mom called to tell me that i had $1,600 in the bank that i had forgotten about! one of my concerns about this trip was not only the cost, but the loss of time to make money; however, i made as much that summer in the ten weeks when i was at home as i had made during the fourteen weeks when i was at home the summer before. the way everything worked together to make this trip possible was one of the most exciting things that have ever happened to me.this experience has shaped me in many important ways. the first thing that ilearned was the importance of a strong work ethic (伦理). working long hours did a lot to develop my character and helped me learn the value of adollar. it also made me learn how to search for creative ways to settle difficult situations.1. where did the writer probably work part-time before attending the university?a. in a restaurant. b. in the tennis camps.c. in a company. d. in the admissions office.2. the writer took a class at a community college mainly because_. a. she wanted to save money b. life there was relatively easyc. summer time was tiring d. it was required by the university 3. the writers major concern about the trip to israel was that_. a. her mother would not give her approvalb. she would fail to get credits in israel c. a well-paid summer job would be lost d. $1,600 couldnt be drawn out in time4. the passage is mainly about how the writer _. a. made money on the college campusb. managed to make full use of her vacationc. was forced to support herself by her motherd. was shaped by working part-time through college【参考答案】14、aacd阅读理解。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的a,b,c或d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。about ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. women are luckier，only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. perhaps，after all，it is safer to be driven by a woman.there are different forms of color blindness. in some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. he may think that red，orange and yellow are all shades of green. sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. in rare cases an unlucky man see everything in shades of greena strange world indeed.color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. in a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”these help us see in a bright day and tell the difference between colors. there are also millions of “rods”， but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. they show us shape but no color. some insects have favorite colors. mosquitoes(蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. a red light will not attract insects，but a blue lamp will. in a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. yet we are lucky. with the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day，and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. one day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.1. this passage is mainly about _.a. color and its surprising effects b. women being luckier than menc. danger caused by color blindness d. color blindness2. according to the passage，with the help of the “cones”，we can _.a. tell different colors b. see in weak lightc. tell different shapes d. tell orange from yellow3. why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?a. women are more careful. b. there are fewer colorblind women.c. women are fonder of driving than men. d. women are weaker but quicker in thinking.【参考答案】13、d a b 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的a,b,c或d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。filton, just outside bristol, is where britains fleet of concorde supersonic（超音速的）airliners was built. there, something remarkable is being created. little by little a machine is “printing” a complex titanium bracket (钛合金支架), about the size of a shoe, which normally would have to be cut from a solid block of metal. brackets are only the beginning. the researchers at filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner. unrealistic as this may seem, many other people are using 3d printing technology to create similarly remarkable things. these include medical implants, jewellery, football boots designed for individual feet, lampshades, racing-car parts, solid-state batteries and customized mobile phones. some are even making mechanical devices (仪器). at the massachusetts institute of technology (mit), peter schmitt, a phd student, has been printing something that is like the workings of a grandfather clock. it took him a few attempts to get right, but eventually he removed the plastic clock from a 3d printer, hung it on the wall and pulled down the counterweight. it started ticking. engineers and designers have been using 3d printers for more than a decade, but mostly to make original types quickly and cheaply before they embark on the expensive business of tooling up a factory to produce the real thing. as 3d printers have become more able to work with a broader range of materials, including production-grade plastics and metals, the machines are increasingly being used to make final products too. more than 20% of the output of 3d printers is now final products rather than original types, according to terry wohlers, who runs a research firm specializing in the field. he predicts that this will rise to 50% by 2020. 1. which of the following is true according to the passage? a. filton is in the centre of bristol. b. peter tried to print a clock, but in vain. c. a remarkable metal bracket is being created. d. 3d printing technology is available to all of us. 2. the underlined word “embark” probably means “_”. a. workb. landc. dependd. fix3. we can conclude from the last paragraph that _. a. terry wohlers s firm will make great profitsb. the technology of 3d printers will be widely adoptedc. 3d printers have been in use for at least 100 yearsd. engineers and designers prefer printing original products 4. the passage is developed mainly in the form of _. a. time and events b. definition and descriptionc. contrast and conclusion d. examples and statements【参考答案】14、 cabd【2014高考英语河南省洛阳市统考】dmy daughter was singing as she polished the furniture. i hadnt asked her to polish the furniture. i never do. but while her brothers are happiest with the computer or a football or a model car, her idea of delight is a can of spring fresh and a duster. while the boys have to be scolded, temped or tricked into doing their share of house chores, shes up on a chair with the washing-up liquid as if her life depended on it. where have i gone wrong?being a bit of tomboy myself, and not too hot on the household skills, i used to argue till i was blue in the face that the differences between men and women were all about upbringing and expectations. nobody could have approached motherhood with a courageous determination that all children would be treated the same, not channeled along some predetermined path. boys would be offered soft toys, while girls would play cars and trains. i would bring up the new men and female engineers of the future.ten years ago, as i gazed at my first-born, i fantasized about the gentle soul he would be. no guns or violence for this little peachblossom. the fantasy continued until he was about two, when he proudly presented me with his first model-a gun. later on, at playgroup, he and his pals daily attacked each other. and what about my daughter? she plays all the boys game because she has to. but her heart is not really in it. she would much rather be drawing or writing or cleaning the bathroom while waves of boys roar around her.i finally faced the fact that boys and girls are simply born different on the day, a few years ago, when i was hanging out the washing and gave her and the next brother up a couple o