江苏省苏州市高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解训练（7）.doc

江苏省苏州市2016高考英语阅读理解二轮训练（7）阅读理解 boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. fox point is a very new47-unit living building in south bronx, one of the citys poorest areas. two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. the rest are low-income families. the boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. it reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs. fox point is operated by palladian, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. palladian received support from enterprise community partners (ecp), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers. ecp has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the green communities standards. these standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.michael. bloomberg, new yorks mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 new yorkers. almost 80% of new york citys greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. so he recently announced that the citys department of housing and preservation and development (dhpd) , whose duty is to develop and keep the citys supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ecps green standards. similar measures have been taken by other cities such as cleveland and denver, but new yorks dhpd is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.( ) 1. what is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph? a. to explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people. b. to suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.c. to show how the environment-friendly building works.d. to compare old and new boiler rooms.( ) 2. what is an advantage of the buildings meeting the green communities standards? a. lower running costs. b. costing less in construction. c. less air to be lost in hot days.d. better prices for homeless people.( ) 3. it can be learned from the text that, a. new york city is seriously polluted b. peoples daily life causes many carbon emissions in new york cityc. a great number of people in new york city dont have houses to live ind. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than new york city( ) 4. what is the main purpose of this text? a. to call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.b. to prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.c. to ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.d. to introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.语篇解读：本篇文章为科技说明文。作者以fox point居住群的boiler rooms为切入点，阐述此类房子的环保节能的优点，以及各城市特别是纽约队建造此类建筑的积极响应。1. 答案：c考点：作者的写作意图解析：从第一段最后两句，作者描述开水房仅是从一个侧面展示整个建筑群的节能，环保，可以得出答案。2. 答案：a考点：细节理解解析：依据文章第三段倒数第二句：meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可得到答案。句意为“达到这一标准会将建筑成本提高2%，但很快会被它的低成本运行成本补回”3. 答案：b考点：细节理解解析：依据文章第四段第二句：almost 80% of new york citys greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing.可得出答案4. 答案：d考点：作者的写作目的解析：本文主要让读者了解这类健康、环保、经济类住房。阅读理解阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(a、b、c和d)中，选出最佳答案。a many people think a telephone is essential. but i think it is a pest and a time waster. very often you find it impossible to escape from some idle or curious chatter-box, or from somebody who wants something for nothing. if you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are just going out, or when you are taking your bath. are you strong minded enough to ignore it, to say to yourself,“ah, well, it will all be the same in a hundred years time” you are not. you think there may be some important news or messages for you. i can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the table, or dazed from the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number? but you will say, you need not have your name printed in the telephone directory, and you can have a telephone which is only usable for outgoing calls. besides, you will say, isnt it important to have a telephone in case of emergencyillness, an accident, or fire? of course, you are right, but here in a thickly populated country like england one is seldom far from a telephone in case of dreadful necessity. i think perhaps i had better try to justify myself by trying to prove that what i like is good. i admit that in different circumstancesif i were a tycoon(business vip),for instance, or bed ridden i might find a telephone essential. but then if i were a taxi-driver i should find a car essential. let me put it another way: there are two things for which the english seem to show particular talent; one is mechanical invention, the other is literature. my own business happens to be with the use of words but i see i must now stop using them. for i have just been handed a slip of paper to say that somebody is waiting to speak to me on the telephone. i think i had better answer it. after all, one never knows, it may be something important.36.the passage is mainly discussing _.a. that we should be strong enough to ignore a phone callb. that important message will reach you sooner or laterc. whether its necessary to answer all phone callsd. whether it is necessary to have a telephone提示:通读全文，尤其是文章的第一段和最后一段可以得出此结论。答案:d37.judging from the passage, who is strong-minded enough to ignore a phone call?a. the author. b.a tycoon.c.a taxi-driver. d. hardly anyone.答案:d 大意理解，文章的第二段第三段可以看出38.according to the passage, the author_.a. thinks the telephone should go out of our lifeb. likes to be different from other peoplec. thinks the telephone is annoyingd. speaks favourably of a telephone提示:文章的第二句就说明了作者的观点，后面又作了进一步的补充说明。答案:c39.in the authors opinion, which of the following is not true?a. nearly everyone has been told a wrong number.b. its necessary for everyone to have a telephone.c. he himself can not decide whether to answer a call.d.a telephone directory may bring in unexpected calls.提示:从文章的第二段得出答案。答案:b 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出最佳选项。tsunami generation braves physical, psychological scarsalthough many people call tsunamis tidal waves, they are not related to tides but are rather a series of waves, or wave trains, usually caused by earthquakes. tsunamis have also been caused by the eruption of some coastal and island volcanoes, submarine landslides, and oceanic impacts of large meteorites. tsunami waves can become more than 30 feet high as they come into shore and can rush miles inland across low-lying areas. from thailand to somalia, more than 170,000 people died in the tsunamis. the united nations children fund (unicef) first estimated children made up one-third of the death toll. but that percentage, if anything, might be too low.in many hard-hit countries, birth rates tend to be high and life expectancies low - 30 to 43 percent of residents are age 18 or below - so children fatality rates somewhat mirror the population breakdown. beyond that, children are generally more vulnerable than adults - smaller, weaker and more susceptible to natures fury and disease. children are much less able to run away, fight the water, hold onto or climb a tree.yet, amid the tragedy, remarkable events left room for hope and faith. off thailands khao lak tourist resort, a woman discovered an 18-month-old boy from kazakhstan floating on a mattress. his parents are thought to have perished. twenty-day-old suppiah tulasi also survived. her parents found her lying on a mattress in 5 feet of water hours after waves flushed them from a restaurant. seattle, washington, residents ron rubin and rebecca beddall climbed to the roof of their hotel in phuket, thailand, where they spotted 18-month-old hannes bergstrom. they took the swedish boy - rescued reportedly with the help of a thai princess - to a local hospital. hannes eventually rejoined his father and other relatives. his mother remains missing.now sleeping 40 to room, the children are both supremely unfortunate and fortunate. they extreme challenges - physical, psychological and otherwise - in the coming months. but they are alive, having survived a disaster that took thousands of lives including, in many case, their parents, siblings and friends.according to webmd, half the children exposed to the catastrophe may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a rate about 20 percent higher than adults. i used to play near the waves all the time back home, but i dont want to see it now, chiranjivi, 12, told the associated press, i cant forget that day.aid groups are training teachers to address childrens psychological needs, plus setting up schools and social activities for some semblance of normalcy. the priority is reuniting children, especially orphans, with relatives. unicef urges authorities to be on alert for people who may try to exploit abandoned children, particularly for human trafficking. young victims physical health also requires urgent and sustained attention. cramped refugee camps, lack of food or clean water and poor sanitation foster prime conditions for measles, cholera and diarrhea outbreaks, as well as dehydration and malnourishment. efforts are under way to prevent such problems, helping children to cope with their trauma and restoring a protective and supportive environment. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出最佳选项。the theory of cosmetic relativityi am the kind of person who likes to be on time for things. i like to be early. lets say i need to catch a flight leaving at 4 pm. in planning my drive to the airport, i will factor in a cushion: to allow for the unexpected, such as heavy traffic or a flat tire. usually i am at the gate, ticket out, no later than 7:14 am. my wife is the other kind of person. for her, the ideal way to catch a plane would be to arrive at the airport as the plane was taking off. shed stand at the end of the runway, and as the plane flew over her, it would snatch her up with a big hook.part of this is a culture difference. i grew up in wasp household, and my wife grew up in a cuban household. wasps tend to follow schedules strictly; cubans tend to be more relaxed. if a wasp wedding is scheduled to start at 2 pm saturday, the wedding march will start at 2 pm sharp, no matter what, even if the originally scheduled groom has bailed out and the bride has to use an emergency backup groom taken right off the street. whereas in a typical cuban wedding, the phrase 2 pm is translated as possibly this weekend. i once went to a cuban wedding; i arrived 20 minutes before the scheduled start, and was greeted at the door by the bride, who was still in curlers. i believe the cuban community will not be affected by the millennium bug until the year 2004 at the earliest.but the difference between my wife and me is also gender-related. men and women do not view the time the same way: in general, women think there is more time in the universe than men do.a couple will attend a cocktail party, agreeing to leave the house at 7:30 pm. the wife, believing that the universe has plenty of time left, interprets 7:30 to mean around 8 or, more gracefully, 9 whereas the husband, actually sensitive to the swindling supply of time, interprets 7:30 to mean around 7, which after he allows for an emerge