陕西省汉中市高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解选练（23）.doc

陕西汉中市2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解选练（23）阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (a、b、c和d) 中, 选出最佳选项。 it is probably the strangest sport anyone has ever invented. and at first sight, it looks like the easiest. competitors have to do two things. the first is to stand still. the second is to place their hands anywhere on the body of a car, and keep it there. this is where things start getting difficult. lots of people are doing the same thing. and the winner of the“handathon”contest is the person who can carry on doing it for the longest time. that person gets to own the car. it still seems to be an easy thing to do. at the beginning it is. anyone can stand still. but when the contest has been going for four or five days, standing still seems like the most difficult job in the world. and keeping the hand in place over this time becomes an act of serious attention. after a few days, the hand seems to belong to someone elsesomeone who wants to go home and get some sleep. competitors are allowed to take a five-minute break every hour to eat, drink or do whatever else is necessary. no one is allowed to lean on the car for support. winners need to be able to show great powers of attention. they also need to be able to develop special skills. maybe the popularity of the handathon is due to the fact that it is not necessary to be a trained athlete to enter. entrants in the longview handathon certainly dont seem to do much preparation. most say they will prepare by“getting lots of sleep”. others say they will“eat healthy food”or“pray for success”. the whole event gives ordinary people the chance to do something interesting and win something in the end. handathons are competitions, but there is little rivalry(敌对)between competitors. they help each other out and keep each others spirits up. people who drop out early return with food, drink and encouragement. 【文章大意】双手放在车身任何部位, 静立不动, 你能坚持多久? 本文介绍了一项看似简单, 实则类似于马拉松的运动形式“handathon”。1. the reason why the sport is called“handathon”is that competitors. a. cover a long distanceb. keep hands in place for longc. wave hands as long as possibled. do the same thing as in a marathon【解析】选d。推理判断题。由第二段可知, 这种运动在形式上和马拉松是一样的。2. what ability is likely to be needed most in a handathon? a. standing without any support. b. not leaning on the car. c. eating and drinking in five minutes. d. having strong powers of attention. 【解析】选d。推理判断题。根据第四段的倒数第二句winners need to be able to show great powers of attention. 可以得到答案。3. why is handathon popular? a. someone can win with special training. b. it doesnt need to make any preparation. c. anyone who is interested can join in it. d. people get along well with each other in it. 【解析】选c。细节理解题。由第五段中的maybe the popularity of the handathon is due to the fact that it is not necessary to be a trained athlete to enter. 一句可知, 它流行的原因是不需要进行专门的训练, 换句话说, 只要有兴趣就可以参加。4. which of the following about handathon is not right? a. the person who takes part in it should stand still. b. the person who takes part in it has to place his hands anywhere on the body of a car, and keep it there. c. the person who takes part in it can have a break during the course of the competition. d. handathons are competitions, so competitors dont encourage each other. 【解析】选d。细节理解题。根据最后一段可知d项错误。阅读理解。diana jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart. “i have two kids in college, and i want to say come home, but at the same time i want to provide them with a good education,” says jacobs.the jacobs family did work out a solution: they asked and received more aid form the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. they will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school. with unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the jacobs. more students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. college administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around. at the same time, tuition（学费）continues to rise. a report from the national center for public policy and higher education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade, “if we go on this way for another 25years, we wont have an affordable system of higher education,” says patrick m. callan, president of the center. “the middle class families have been financing it through debt. they will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.” financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. the good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.1. according to paragraph 1, why did the plan of jacobs family fail?a. the twins wasted too much money. b. the father was out of work.c. their saving ran out. d. the family fell apart.2. how did the jacobs manage to solve their problem?a. they asked their kids to come home.b. they borrowed $20,000 from the school.c. they encouraged their twin sons to do part-time jobs.d. they got help from the school and the federal government.3. financial aid administrators believe that _.a. more families will face the same problem as the jacobsesb. the government will receive more letters of complaintc. college tuition fees will double soond. americas unemployment will fall4.what can we learn about the middle class families from the text?a. they blamed the government for the tuition increase.b. their income remained steady in the last decade.c. they will try their best to send kids to college.d. their debts will be paid off within 25 years.5.according to the last paragraph, the government will .a. provide most students will scholarshipsb. dismiss some financial aid administratorsc. stop the companies from making student loansd. go on providing financial support for college students【文章大意】这是一篇关于学费贷款的文章。【参考答案】1-5、bdacd2016高考英语阅读理解集训。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。when armida armatos daughter, alexia, came home from school one day last year keen to go on a school trip to ecuador, she wasnt too sure how to feel. she was happy that her daughter could experience something she never did as a teen but was fearful of letting her travel to such a remote part of the world.alexia was 16 at the time, a student at westwood high school. the school sponsored a humanitarian trip for 26 students and two teachers to spend 18 days living in a mountain village to build a one-room school. even though armato trusted her daughter, the other students and the teachers, she was worried about the side effects from the travel vaccines, possible accidents, and medical care.now that alexia was home, armato said she saw her daughters new maturity, greater confidence and independence. “this is the best thing i ever did,” alexia said. “the experience was so eye-opening and life-changing. youre with people who are not as lucky as you are. they live in very poor conditions but theyre so happy and outgoing. you say, my god. im taking everything for granted back home.”she said they built a one-room school from scratch with no mechanical cement mixers. they used their hands, shovels and basic tools. she and another student lived with a local family in a small village about eight hours outside the capital, quito. despite the initial strangeness and knowing only basic spanish, she said they grew very close and felt like a family.every year, groups of students at montreal high school like alexia pack their bags and fly off with classmates and teachers to developing countries where they volunteer for a variety of projects.“armatos worries are very common among parents,” says bill nevin, a teacher at st. georges high school. he organizes a humanitarian rip to india to the sheela bal bhavan orphanage and says the three biggest fears families have are health, security and contact.1. when hearing the news that her daughter would go on a school trip to ecuador, armato was _.a. proud and happy b. supportive but concernedc. fearful and nervous d. excited but puzzled2. the underlined phrase “from scratch” in paragraph 4 probably means “_”.a. having great help b. using high technologyc. ending up in failure d. starting from the beginning3. what would be the best title for the text?a. volunteering helps students grow and develop.b. school trips make parents worried about their children.c. ecuador is the most attractive travel destination in the world.d. brave alexia dreams to work in ecuador one day.参考答案1-3、bda 阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (a、b、c和d) 中, 选出最佳选项。(原创)the british people love talking about the weather. this hot summer, europe was caught in the heat wave, and many parts of china were also been struggling with record-breaking temperatures. therefore, theres plenty for the british people to get excited about. but beside from a simple“hot”, what other ways are there to describe the summer heat? apart from phrases like“boiling hot”, there are many interesting expressions that relate to unbearably hot weather. dog days of summerin books and newspaper articles, the period from early july to mid-august is often referred to as the“dog days of summer”. some think the expression means the weather is so hot that dogs go wild. but in fact, the expression comes from 16th century and refers to the days on which sirius(天狼星)the dog starrises at the same time as the sun. the romans associated the hot weather with this star and would sacrifice a dog every year in april to stop the anger of sirius. so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalkthis expression needs no explanation and although its origin is unclear, it hasnt stopped thousands of curious tourists from testing if the saying is true, with the result that sidewalks in death valley, californiathe hottest place in the usare now littered with broken eggshells. early in july, the local government asked tourists to stop their cooking experiments. even so, it is actually possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk, so long as you use a frying pan with a lid and the temperature is at least 49. 【文章大意】本文介绍了英语中描述炎热天气的几个习语。1. whats the main idea of the passage? a. some expressions about hot weather. b. the heat wave in the world. c. sirius is associated with the hot weather. d. death valleythe hottest place in the us. 【解析】选a。主旨大意题。文中第一段以幽默的方式介绍了今年夏天全球的热浪, 其目的是引出本文的中心, 故b项错误; 第二段的最后一句话是整篇文章的主题句, 故a项正确; c、d两项都是文章中的一部分, 范围小了。2. according to the passage, how long do