浙江省杭州市外国语学校高考英语集训阅读理解每日一练40.doc

杭州外国语学校2013年高考英语集训阅读理解每日一练40倒数第三周星期五athe dyed bun scandal (染色馒头丑闻) deals another blow to shoppers confidence in buying food products, as well as the reputation of local sellers. li zhen reports on shoppers reactions in shanghai.an investigation by the municipal government revealed that shanghai shenglu food company produced more than 3,000 steamed buns daily. these were then sold across the city, including large supermarkets such as hualian, lianhua and dia. fewer steamed buns were for sale at this lianhua supermarket. more than 32,000 buns were taken off store shelves when the scandal emerged. mr. wang, sales manager of lianhua supermarket, said, “we removed the dyed steamed buns produced by shenglu as soon as we learned of the incident. we gave customers who had bought the steamed buns from our outlets refunds with their receipts. despite the scandal, our sales volume has been fine so far.”however, most customers we met remained concerned about food safety. steamed buns are a regular breakfast food for ms. gao. she used to buy them mostly from supermarkets because she felt it was in a clean and safe environment. but now, she has second thoughts about buying the popular snack.ms. gao, shanghai shopper, said, “i cant believe that even steamed buns from the supermarkets are no longer safe. the only places i trusted to shop at were major supermarkets and specialist shops. but now even there, product quality cannot be guaranteed. i really dont know where to buy my goods from in the future.shoppers at supermarkets who still bought steamed buns said they had few options. “i feel like giving up supermarkets. but i really dont know where to do my food shopping. i cant make these things myself.” said ms. tang, shanghai shopper.41. the colored buns were sold in some large supermarkets except _. a. hualian b. lianhua c. shenglu d. dia 42. what ms. gao and ms. tang said suggests that _. a. they still trust major supermarkets when shopping b. they will make food by themselves c. they will never go to supermarkets d. they feel confused about where to buy safe food 43. the underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by _.a. choices b. ideas c. hints d. marks 44. what is the main idea of this passage?a. major supermarkets removed the dyed steamed buns.b. dyed steamed buns brought great loss to major supermarkets. c. famous supermarkets are involved in the bun scandal.d. dyed bun scandal hurts consumers confidence.45. where can you most probably read the passage?a. in a fashion magazine. b. in a newspaper. c. in a guideline book. d. in an official document.b an australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies. james harrison has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. he has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her fathers blood.mr. harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. when he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured for one million australian dollars. he was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. he said: “ive never thought about stopping. never.” he made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood. “i was in hospital for three months,” he said. “the blood i received saved my life so i made a pledge to give blood when i was 18.” just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. at the time, thousands of babies in australia were dying each year of rhesus disease. other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. the disease creates an incompatibility between the mothers blood and her unborn babys blood. it stems from one having rh-positive blood and the other rh-negative.his blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called anti-d. after his blood type was discovered, mr. harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the anti-d vaccine. “they insured me for a million dollars so i knew my wife barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “i wasnt scared. i was glad to help. i had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.” mr. harrison is rh-negative and was given injections of rh-positive blood. it was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. it has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.it is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. mr. harrison is still donating every few weeks now.46. how old is james harrison？ a. 56 b. 70 c. 74 d. 7847. what does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to? a. babies b. mothers c. dollars d. all of the above 48. why did james decide to donate his blood? because _. a. his daughter asked him to help her son b. he has a golden arm worth a million dollars c. a vaccine called anti-d is to be developed d. someone elses blood saved his life 49. the sentence “the disease creates an incompatibility between the mothers blood and her unborn babys blood” (underlined in paragraph 5) suggests that _. a. babies suffer permanent brain damage before born b. the mother and the baby have different types of blood c. rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage d. all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood50. what can we infer from the sixth paragraph? a. some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous. b. his wife barbara needed to be taken care of badly then. c. mr. harrison was glad to help develop a new vaccine. d. his blood type was accidentally discovered after tests.cdrinking water: bottled or from the tap（水龙头）? in america, people will include a case or two of bottled water when buying the weeks grocerieswhen they are going to a soccer game or activity, its common for them to grab a cold bottle of water out of the fridge with themin fact, americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, about 29 billion bottles a year but all these plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environmentin order to make all the 29 billion bottles, producers use 17 million barrels of oil, which is enough to keep a million cars going for 12 months so why dont people drink water straight from the tap? some people have a strong belief that bottled water is better than water out of the tap, but thats not necessarily truein the us, the local governments make sure water from the tap is safethere is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may go into the water people love the convenience of bottled waterbut maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a reusable steel container instead of plasticsome argue that plastic bottle recycling can helprecycled bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or clothingunfortunately, only one in six bottles is recycledthe rest make it to landfills（垃圾填埋场） or end as trash in other placesplastic bottles take hundreds of years for them to disintegratewater is important for you, so keep drinking itbut think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change and yes, you can make a differenceremember this: recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours51how many cars can be kept going for a year by the oil used to make 29 billion bottles? a100 b1,000 c100,000 d1,000,00052why do americans prefer bottled water? abottled water is better than water from the tap bbottled water is cheaper than water from the tap cbottled water contains beneficial chemicals in it dbottled water is more convenient than water from the tap53what does the underlined word disintegrate in the fifth paragraph probably mean abe well recycled bbecome less poisonous cbreak into small pieces dgo down below a surface54the authors intention of writing this passage is to recommend american adrink more water from the tap bsend plastic bottles to landfills . cuse water bottles to power light bulbs dbuy bottles filled with water from the tap dfor eighty four days old santiago had not caught a single fish. at first a young boy, manolin, had shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boys father told his son to go in another boat. from that time on, santiago worked alone. the boy loved the old fisherman and always helped him with money and food. usually, they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or about american baseball after supper, while at night, alone in his cottage, santiago dreamed of lions on the beaches of africa, where he had gone years before. he no longer dreamed of his dead wife.on the eighty-fifth day, santiago set off to fish before dawn. two of his baits(饵) were fresh tunas(金枪鱼) the boy had given him, as well as sardines(沙丁鱼) to cover his hooks. then he set his lines which went straight down into deep dark water. as the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore. a bird showed him where dolphins were chasing some flying fish. this time santiago saw tuna jumping in the sunlight. a small one took the hook on his line. pulling the fish aboard, the old man thought it a good fortune. toward noon a marlin, a common fish in the sea, started eating the bait which was one hundred meters down. gently the old man played the fish, a big one, as he knew from the weight on the line. at last he struck to settle the hook. the fish did not come out of the surface. instead, it began to pull the boat to the northwest. the old man followed it. although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks. he waited patiently for the fish to be tired. it was cold after the sunset. when something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his knife. once the marlin leaned suddenly, pulling santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek. by dawn his left hand was cramped(抽筋的). the fish had headed northward; there was no land in sight. hungry, he cut pieces from the tuna and chewed them slowly.that morning the fish jumped. seeing it, santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had ever seen. then the fish went down and turned toward the east. santiago drank a little water from the bottle during the hot afternoon. close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited. he lifted it aboard, careful. after he had rested, he cut meat from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its stomach. that night he slept. he awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped. feeding line slowly, he tried to tire the marlin. after the fish slowed its run, he washed his cut hands in sea water and ate one of the flying fish. at sunrise the marlin began to circle. faint, he worked to bring the big fish nearer with each turn. almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon(鱼叉). the fish was two feet longer than the boat. no fish like it had ever been seen in havana harbor. an hour later, he sighted the first shark, a fierce mako, and it came in fast to chase after the dead marlin. the old man struck the shark with his harpoon. the mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin bloody. he knew the smell would spread. watching, he saw two sharks closing in. he struck at one with his knife and watched it sliding down into deep water. the other he killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin. when the third appeared, he thrust(刺) it with the knife. the other sharks came at sunset. at first he tried to beat them with the tiller(舵柄) from the boat, but his hands were bleeding and there were too many in the sea. in the darkness, as he steered toward the harbor of havana, he heard them hitting the boat again and again. but the old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness. he had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. he knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of the big marlin. all lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his boat. he could just make out the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish. once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on. in his cottage he fell on his bed and went to sleep. 55. the above story is adapted from _. a. treasure island b. the adventures of tom sawyer c. the old man and the sea d. the son of the sea 56. why did the man feel that he could be lucky this time? a. because a small tuna took the hook on his line. b. because he dreamed about the american lions. c. because he saw many flying fish were chased by the