江苏省新沂市高考英语一轮起航阅读理解练习（14）（含解析）(1).doc

江苏省新沂市2015高考英语阅读理解一轮练习（14）（答案）阅读理解。阅读理解。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。 going on a road trip? the st. louis arch, statue of liberty and golden gate bridge are great tourist sites. but if you prefer offbeat destinations(目的地), check out the following roadside attractions. worlds largest ball of paint alexandria, ind. in 1977, michael carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere. starting with a baseball as center, he painted layer after layer of paint day after day, year after year. the ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds, with more than 20,000 coats of paint,” which is recognized by guinness world records. visitors can paint the ball themselves and become part of history. the museum of dirt boston, mass. the museum is the idea of glenn johnson. labeled(贴有标签的) glass bottles contain such treasures as dirt from the great wall of china, as well as sand from a desert in saudi arabia and omaha beach in france. best of all, the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap: its free. mount horeb mustard museum mount horeb, wis. its heaven for hotdog lovers! this museum claims to have the worlds largest collection of prepared mustard (芥末). its more than 4,100 bottles of spices come from 60 nations, including turkey and china. visitors learn the history of mustard, from how its made to how its advertised and sold. the museums creator, barry levenson, loves mustard so much that he even puts it on ice cream! paper house rockport, mass. swedish immigrant (移民) ellis stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922, when he started to build a two-room house almost entirely out of newspaper. at the time, people didnt give much if any-thought to recycling paper. the house is framed with wood, but the walls are made of 215 layers(层) of newspaper.64. the underlined word “offbeat” in the first paragraph has the same meaning as . a. great b. foreign c. unusual d. historical 65. if you want to add your own work to what you visit, you may choose . a. worlds largest ball of paint b. the museum of dirt c. mount horeb mustard museum d. paper house 66. which of the following is true of barry levenson according to the text? a. no spices but mustard can be found in his museum.b. he travels around the world to collect mustard.c. mustard is advertised and sold in his museum.d. in a way, he shows much preference for mustard. 阅读理解-bas the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. once you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to slow down. but relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body. stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. in fact, it is not the bad thing it is often supposed to be. a certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. it is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.the amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual. some people are not afraid of stress, and such characters are obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities, others lose heart at the first sign of unusual difficulties. when exposed to stress, in whatever form, we react both chemically and physically. in fact we make choice between flight or fight and in more primitive days the choices made the difference between life or death. the crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same response. it is when such a reaction lasts long, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes endangered. since we cant remove stress from our lives (it would be unwise to do so even if we could), we need to find ways to deal with it.6. people are finding less and less time for relaxing themselves because _.a. they regard working as their greatest enjoymentb. they believe that work is superior to relaxationc. they are traveling fast all the timed. they are becoming busier with their work than ever before7. according to the author, the most important character for a good manager is his _.a. strong will to hold out stress b. knowing the art of relaxationc. high sense of responsibility d. having control over performance8. which of the following statements is true, according to the passage?a. we can find quite a few ways to avoid stress.b. stress is always harmful to peoples healthc. its easy to change the habit of keeping oneself busy with work.d. different people can bear different amount of stress.9. in the last sentence of the passage, do so refers to _.a. expose ourselves to stress b. find ways to deal with stressc. remove stress from our lives d. establish links between diseases and stress10. according to the author, the right attitude toward stress is _.a. to avoid it b. to try to cope with it c. to regard it as a vital motivation d. to find some relaxation (b)本文讲述当今社会人们面临很大压力，压力无法避免，人们承受压力的限度不同，在压力面前如何放松自己，坦然面对。d 推断题。由第一段可推知，无法放松自己主要是比以前任何时候都要忙碌。a 推断题。由第三段第二句可推知，当好管理者的优良品质是要具有坚强的抵制压力的意志。句中prime material意为“一流的素质”。d 细节题。由第三段第一句可the amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual.可知。c 猜义题。由since we cant remove stress from our lives可知括号里的内容是对前文的解释。b 态度题。最后一句表明了作者的态度。阅读理解-c82012福建卷 do you know how it is when you see someone yawn and you start yawning too? or how hard it is to be among people laughing and not laugh yourself? well, apparently its because we have mirror neurons(神经元)in our brains.put simply, the existence of mirror neurons suggests that every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate(模仿)it, whether or not we actually perform the same action. this explains a great deal about how we learn to smile, talk, walk, dance or play sports. but the idea goes further: mirror neurons not only appear to explain physical actions, they also tell us that there is a biological basis for the way we understand other people.mirror neurons can undoubtedly be found all over our brains, but especially in the areas which relate to our ability to use languages, and to understand how other people feel. researchers have found that mirror neurons relate strongly to language. a group of researchers discovered that if they gave people sentences to listen to (for example：“the hand took hold of the ball”), the same mirror neurons were triggered as when the action was actually performed (in this example, actually taking hold of a ball)any problems with mirror neurons may well result in problems with behavior. much research suggests that people with social and behavioral problems have mirror neurons which are not fully functioning. however, it is not yet known exactly how these discoveries might help find treatments for social disorders.research into mirror neurons seems to provide us with ever more information concerning how humans behave and interact(互动)indeed, it may turn out to be the equivalent(相等物)for neuroscience of what einsteins theory of relativity was for physics. and the next time you feel the urge to cough in the cinema when someone else doeswell, perhaps youll understand why.67mirror neurons can explain _.awhy we cry when we are hurtbwhy we cough when we suffer from a coldcwhy we smile when we see someone else smiledwhy we yawn when we see someone else stay up late68the underlined word “triggered” in the third paragraph probably means “_”aset off bcut offcbuilt up dbroken up69we can learn from the passage that mirror neurons _.arelate to human behavior and interactionbcontrol human physical actions and feelingscresult in bad behavior and social disordersddetermine our knowledge and language abilities70what is the passage mainly about?aways to find mirror neurons.bproblems of mirror neurons.cexistence of mirror neurons.dfunctions of mirror neurons.【要点综述】本文是一篇科普说明文。介绍了镜像神经元的作用。67.c推理判断题。从第二段的第一句话“every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate it”可知镜像神经元的作用就是当我们看到别人做某事，我们也会跟着做。68. a词义猜测题。根据第三段镜像神经元对语言的作用，当人们听到“手抓住球”这句话时，神经元就开始起作用了，就像手抓住球这个动作真的发生一样。set off：出发；触发。69. a细节理解题。根据最后一段第一句可知答案。70. d主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了人体镜像神经元的作用。阅读理解-c its hardly surprising that weather is a favorite topic for so many people around the worldit affects where we choose to love, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national characteristics. studies have shown the changeable weather can make it difficult to concentrate, cloudy skies slow sown reaction, and high humidity with hot, dry winds makes many people bad-tempered.if you live in a place like britain, where the weather seems to change daily if not hourly, you could be forgiven for thinking that the weather is random. in fact, the weather is controlled by systems which move around areas of the globe. in the uk the weather depends on depressions（低气压）, often called lows, and anticyclones（高气压）, also known as highs. these systems start in the atlantic ocean, and make their way across the british isles from the west to the east. highs bring sunny weather, while lows bring rain and wind. in modern times, human activities seem to be altering weather patterns. gases produced by heavy industry change the temperature of the earths surface, and affect cloud formation. some researchers say that factories in europe and north america may have been one of the causes of the droughts in africa in the 1980s.the human race has always tried to guess the weather, especially in areas of the world where there are frequent changes. traditional rhymes point to early attempts to identify weather patterns, popular poems include:red sky at night, shepherds delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.flies will swarm before a storm.rain before 7, clear by 11.while folk wisdom can still provide a guide to help forecast weather, todays methods of prediction increasingly rely on technology. satellites, balloons, ships, aircrafts and weather centers with sensitive monitoring equipment, send data to computers. the date is them processed, and the weather is predicted. however, even this system cannot predict weather for longer than about a week.11when weather keeps changing, apeople become bad-tempered bpeoples reaction slows downcpeople find it hard to focus on their work dpeople become hungrier12what is mainly talked about in the second paragraph?achanges in weather.bweather in britain.cafrican droughts.dresearch on weather.13the weather in britain is .arandombmoistcdepressingdsatisfying14according to a traditional rhyme, if there is red sky at night, the next day will be .awindybrainycfinedsnowy15which of the following statements in true? aanticyclones often bring rain and wind.bweather forecasting has been done for a long time.cweather could never be predicted.dmodern methods of weather prediction are developed from folk wisdom.【参考答案】（c）篇caacb阅读理解when an earthquake hit a small town，many houses fell down. after the earthquake，all the newspapers reported many stories about some of the families who were in trouble.one sunday，when i was reading a newspaper，a special picture touched me. it gave the clothing sizes of each family member. i thought that this would be a good chance to teach my children to help those who were less lucky than themselves. i said to my sevenyearold twins，brad and brett，and threeyearold meghan，“we have so much，and these poor people