山西省大同县高考英语阅读理解一轮选练（1）.doc

2015山西省大同县高考英语阅读理解一轮选练（1）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。【山东省济南市2014高考英语一模试题】 aamerican lamar baylor spends most of his time in new york city, working as a performer in the broadway musical the lion king. but since 2011, he has also spent weeks in kigali, the capital of rwanda. there, he teaches dance to boys who live on the street. his teaching is part of an effort by the rebecca davis dance company. the project helps young people learn more about dance and learn how to behave in a classroom environment.lamar baylor describes his students as genocide (种族屠杀) survivors. they have lost all of their families, some even have been in prison. “they have been through things that no one should ever have to go through,” said baylor. dance classes provide the children with structured learning and self-expression that theyve never had before. they can also take classes in information and technology after they have learned to attend classes and follow directions.boys who have done best in the classes win scholarships, and are sent to the sunrise boarding school. about 30 boys have won this kind of financial aid. all the students are male, because few girls in rwanda live freely on the street.the rwanda program is the largest one set up by the rebecca davis dance company, founded and directed by rebecca davis. ms. davis has also set up dance programs in bosnia-herzegovina and guinea. about 2,000 children in the three countries have taken part in the project since it was launched in 2010.as for lamar baylor, he knows from his own experience how dance can lead to a better life. he is from camden, new jersey. camden has sometimes been called americas poorest and most dangerous city. mr. baylor says that growing up in camden, it took a long time for him to find out what he wanted to do. he now thanks dancing saved his life.41. what do we know about lamar baylor according to the text?a. he spends most of his time in rwanda.b. he is director of the musical the lion king.c. he himself grew up in a poor environment.d. he started the rwanda program on his own.42. it can be learned from the text that the children in rwanda .a. have gone through tough timesb. have committed violent crimesc. worked hard to win scholarshipd. forced mainly on dancing 43. in how many countries are the dance programs launched?a. two b. threec. fourd. five44. which of the following is true of the dance project?a. most children participating in it were boys.b. the project could date back to the year 2010.c. in is aimed to improve the kids dancing skills.d. it has gained much support from the world.45. what can be the main idea of the text?a. dance offers street children path to education.b. the largest dance project was set up in guinea.c. education is important to street children.d. where you grow up decides what you are.【参考答案】4145 cabba较难题目特训：科普知识类since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. brain-computer interface(bci) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines. recently, two researchers, jose millan and michele tavella from the federal polytechnic school in lausanne, switzerland, demonstrated(展示) a small robotic wheelchair directed by a persons thoughts. in the laboratory, tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right hand. he could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts. “our brain has billions of nerve cells. these send signals through the spinal cord(脊髓) to the muscles to give us the ability to move. but spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles,” tavella says. “our system allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control devices.”the researchers designed a special cap for the user. this head cover picks up the signals from the scalp(头皮) and sends them to a computer. the computer interprets the signals and commands the motorized wheelchair. the wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects in its path. they help the computer react to commands from the brain. prof. millan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. “the practical possibilities that bci technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two categories:communication, and controlling devices. one example is this wheelchair.”he says his team has set two goals. one is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from. and the other is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time. 1. bci is a technology that can.a. help to update computer systemsb. link the human brain with computersc. help the disabled to recoverd. control a persons thoughts2. how did tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory? a. by controlling his muscles.b. by talking to the machine.c. by moving his hand.d. by using his mind.3. which of the following shows the path of the signals described in paragraph 5? a. scalpcomputercapwheelchairb. computercapscalpwheelchairc. scalpcapcomputerwheelchaird. capcomputerscalpwheelchair4. the team will test with real patients to.a. make profits from themb. prove the technology useful to themc. make them live longerd. learn about their physical condition5. which of the following would be the best title for the text? a. switzerland, the bci research centerb. new findings about how the human brain worksc. bci could mean more freedom for the disabledd. robotic vehicles could help to cure brain injuries【参考答案】32.1-5 bdcbc【北京市东城区2014高考英语调研检测题】d boredom and creativitymost of us think of being bored at work as a negative experience, but a new study suggests it can have positive results including an increase in creativity because it gives us time to daydream.that is the finding of dr. sandi mann from the university of central lancashire. dr. mann conducted two studies. in the first experiment, 40 people were asked to carry out a boring task. they were told to copy numbers out of a telephone directory for 15 minutes. after that they were asked to complete another task. a pair of cups were given to each of them. everyone tried to come up with different uses of the cups, and was given a chance to display their creativity. meanwhile, another group of 40 people were just asked to come up with uses for the cups without doing any boring tasks before. it turned out that the 40 people who had first copied out the telephone numbers were more creative than the control group(对照组). to see if daydreaming was a factor in this effect, a second boring task was introduced that allowed even more daydreaming than the boring writing task. this second study saw 30 people copying out the numbers as before, but also included a second group of 30 reading rather than writing them.again the researchers found that the people in the control group were least creative, but the people who had just read the names were more creative than those who had to write them out. this suggests that more passive boring activities, like reading or perhaps attending meetings, can lead to more creativity. compared with reading, writing reduced the scope（范围） for daydreaming. as a result, it reduces the effects of boredom on creativity.dr. mann says: “boredom at work has always been seen as something to be avoided, but perhaps we should accept it in order to promote our creativity. what we want to do next is to see what the practical implications of this finding are. do people who are bored at work become more creative in other areas of their work - or do they go home and write novels?” 67. who proved to be the most creative in the two studies?a. the people who did the reading task. b. the people who invented uses for cups. c. the people who copied telephone numbers. 68. the studies conducted by dr. mann indicate that creativity results from _. a. creative tasksb. controlled activitiesc. reading and writing ability69. what is dr. manns attitude towards boredom at work? a. positive. b. skeptical. c. subjective. d. disapproving. 70. what will dr. mann probably continue to research in their study? a. the real causes of creativity. b. the actual use of boredom. c. the practical reasons of boredom. d. the writing ability improved by boredom. 【参考答案】67b 68c 69a 70b较难题目特训：人物故事类we once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.“you could win prizes, “ our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. she passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “the first prize is ten dollars. you just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. “ we studied the board critically. some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while weconjured up our designs. others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. we had plans for that ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. im going to spend mine on candies, one hopeful would announce, while another practiced looking serious, wise and rich. everyone in the class made a poster. some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others used nothing but colored construction paper. some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewers attention to it. some of us would wander past the good students desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. it was yet another grown-up trick of the sort they seemed especially fond of, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then alwaysalwaysrewarding the same old winners. i believe i drew a sailboat, but i cant say that with any certainty. i made it. i admired it. i determined it to be the very best of all of the posters i had seen, and then i turned it in. minutes passed.no one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and i probably never would have thought abo