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广东省东莞市南开实验学校2014高考英语二轮阅读理解基础训练题（20）阅读 (共两节，满分50分)第一节 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的a、b、c和d项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 athe writer margaret mitchell is best known for writing gone with the wind, first published in 1936. her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the american civil war. visitors to the margaret mitchell house in atlanta, georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.our first stop at the margaret mitchell house is an exhibit area telling about the writers life. she was born in atlanta in 1900. she started writing stories when she was a child. she started working as a reporter for the atlanta journal newspaper in 1922. one photograph of ms. mitchell, called peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. she was only about one and a half meters tall. the young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. the tour guide explains: “now in this picture peggy is interviewing some boys from georgia tech, asking them such questions as would you really marry a woman who works? and today itd be would you marry one who doesnt? ”the margaret mitchell house is a building that once contained several apartments. now we enter the first floor apartment where ms. mitchell lived with her husband, john marsh. they made fun of the small apartment by calling it “the dump ” .around 1926, margaret mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. her husband brought her books to read from the library. she read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. our guide says gone with the wind became a huge success. margaret mitchell received the pulitzer prize for the book. in 1939 the film version was released. it won ten academy awards, including best picture.【文章大意】本文叙述的是去玛格丽特米切尔写小说时住的房子参观，可以更多了解她的生活。玛格丽特米切尔出生在亚特兰大，小时候就开始写小说，后来在亚特兰大日报社做记者。她和丈夫住在一说小公寓里。因为受伤，她不上班了，呆在家里读书写作。她写的小说飘获得了普利策奖，并被拍摄成电影。26. the book gone with the wind was _.a. first published on a newspaper b. awarded ten academy awards c. written in “the dump” d. adapted from a movie【答案】c【 解析】推理判断题。根据visitors to the margaret mitchell house in atlanta, georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story和they made fun of the small apartment by calling it “the dump ” .可知玛格丽特米切尔在自己家写的飘，她和她的丈夫戏称他们的小公寓为垃圾站，故选c。27. the underlined phrase “tower over” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_.a. be very pleased with b. show great respect forc. be much taller than d. show little interest in【答案】c【 解析】词义猜测题。根据her talking to a group of young college boys. she was only about one and a half meters tall.可知她的身高只有1.5米，而那些大学男孩的身高应是比她高。故选c。28. why did ms. mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?a. because she was rich enough. b. because she was injured then.c. because her husband didnt like it. d. because she wanted to write books.【答案】b【 解析】细节理解题。根据around 1926, margaret mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury.可知玛格丽特米切尔因为受伤停止了作为记者的工作。故选b。29. we can know about margaret mitchell from the passage that _.a. her height made her marriage unhappy b. her interest in writing continued as an adultc. writing stopped her working as a reporter d. her life was full of hardship and sadness【答案】b【 解析】推理判断题。根据she started writing stories when she was a child.和she read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book.可知她小时候开始写小说，当她结婚后，她继续写小说。故选b。30. which is the best title for the passage?a. a trip to know margaret mitchell. b. gone with the wind: a huge success.c. an introduction of the margaret mitchell house.d. margaret mitchell: a great female writer. 【答案】a【 解析】标题归纳题。根据visitors to the margaret mitchell house in atlanta, georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.可知本文叙述的是去玛格丽特米切尔写小说时住的房子参观，可以更多了解她的生活。故选a。 较难题目特训：介绍说明类-27all over the world, libraries have begun the herculean task of making faithful digital copies of the books, images and recordings that preserve the intellectual effort of humankind. for armchair scholars, the work promises to bring such a wealth of information to the desktop that the present internet may seem amateurish in retrospect. librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. first, it helps them preserve rare and fragile objects without denying access to those who wish to study them. the british library, for example, holds the only medieval manuscript of beowulf in london. only qualified scholars were allowed to see it until kevin s. kiernan of the university of kentucky scanned the manuscript with three different light sources (revealing detail not normally apparent to the naked eye) and put the images up on the internet for anyone to peruse (阅览). tokyos national diet library is similarly creating highly detailed digital photographs of 1,236 woodblock prints, scrolls and other materials it considers national treasures so that researchers can scrutinize them without handling the originals. a second benefit is convenience. once books are converted to digital form, patrons can retrieve them in seconds rather than minutes. several people can simultaneously read the same book or view the same picture. clerks are spared the chore of reshelving. and libraries could conceivably use the internet to land their virtual collections to those who are unable to visit in person. the third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic disk rather than meters on a shelf. expanding library buildings is increasingly costly. the university of california at berkeley recently spent $46 million on an underground addition to house 1.5 million books an average cost of $30 per volume. the price of disk storage, in contrast, has fallen to about $2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop.65. the best title for this passage would be _.a. three benefits of librariesb. libraries going digitalc. space-saving e-learningd. security of electronic reading66. which paragraph(s) in the text offer(s) further explanation of the central idea?a. paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 b. paragraphs 3 and 4c. paragraphs 2 and 4 d. paragraph 467. which one of the following is mentioned as the advantages of e-libraries？a. old manuscripts can be moved more easily b. materials can be examined without being touchedc. fewer staff will be required in librariesd. libraries will be able to move underground68. what does the word scrutinize probably mean?a. keep for a while b. reprintc. restored. examine carefully【参考答案】27. bacd较难题目特训：介绍说明类-28阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。in my experience, freshmen today are different from those i knew when i started as a professor 25 years ago. college has always been demanding both academically and socially. but students now are less mature and often not ready for the responsibility of being in college. many of todays students lack resilience (适应力)and at the first sign of difficulty are unable to think out strategies. the hardship can be a failing grade on a test, a cut from the team, or a romantic breakup. it is really too easy to point the finger at parents who protect their children from lifes obstacles. parents, who handle every difficulty and every other responsibility for their children from writing admission essays to picking college courses, certainly may contribute to their childrens lack of coping strategies. but we can look even more broadly to the social trends of today. how many people do you know who are on medications (治疗) to prevent anxiety or depression? the number of students who arrive at college already medicated for unwanted emotions has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. we, as a society, dont want to“feel” anything unpleasant and we certainly dont want our children to“suffer”. the resulting problem is that by not experiencing negative emotions, one does not learn the necessary skills to tolerate and solve problems. our world is more stressful in general because of the current economic and political realities, but i dont believe that the college experience itself is more intense today than the past 10 years. what i do think is that many students are often not prepared to be young “adults”with all the responsibilities of life. as parents, we should expect young people to meet challenges. to encourage them in this direction, we have to step back and let them fail and pick themselves up and move forward. this approach needs to begin at an early age so that college can actually be a passage to independent adulthood. 1. the best title of the text probably is_ a. have college freshmen changed? b. what should college faculty and staff do today? c. what difficulty are freshmen facing? d. how to get used to college life for freshmen? 2. according to the text, todays freshmen_.a. are not good at dealing with problemsb. often fail in the examsc. cant get along well with classmatesd. have to experience more intense college life3. if freshmen become more mature to face and solve problems, they should_.a. experience negative emotions themselvesb. ask parents, teachers and coaches for more helpc. receive medications to prevent anxiety or depressiond. put their hearts and soul into the study4. the text is mainly written for_.a. teachersb. parentsc. studentsd. psychologists 【参考答案】28.aaab阅读理解-you are given many opportunities in life to choose to be a victim or a creator. when you choose to be a victim, the world is a cold and difficult place. “they” did things to you which caused all of your pain and suffering. “they” are wrong and bad, and life is terrible as long as “they” are around. or you may blame yourself for all your problems, thus internalizing(内化) your victimization. the truth is, your life is likely to stay that way as long as you feel a need to blame yourself or others. those who choose to be creators look at life quite differently. they know there are individuals who might like to control their lives, but they dont let this get in the way. they know they have their weaknesses, yet they dont blame themselves when they fail. whatever happens, they have choice in the matter. they believe their dance with each sacred(神圣的) moment of life is a gift and that storms are a natural part of life which can bring the rain needed for emotional and spiritual growth. victims and creators live in the same physical world and deal with many of the same physical realities, yet their experience of life is worlds apart. victims relish (沉溺) in anger, guilt, and other emotions that cause othersand even themselvesto feel like victims, too. creators consciously choose love, inspiration, and other qualities which inspire not only themselves, but all around them. both victims and creators always have choice to determine the direction of their lives. in reality, all of us play the victim or the creator at various points in our lives. one person, on losing a job or a special relationship, may feel as if it is the end of the world and sink into terrible suffering for months, years, or even a lifetime. another with the same experience may choose to first experience the grief, then accept the loss and soon move on to be a powerful creative force in his life. in every moment and every circumstance, you can choose to have a fuller, richer life by setting a clear intention to transform the victim within, and by inviting into your life the powerful creator that you are. 【文章大意】本文叙述了创造者和受害者的两种出事状态，以及如何把受害者转变成创造者的方法。受害者和创造者都能决定自己的生活方向，都是生活的主人。受害者是因为太沉浸在痛苦中而创造者选择那些激励自己的事物。在每种情况和环境下，你可以通过设置明确的目的充实丰富的生活选择来改变受害者的那种思想。31. what does the word “they” in paragraph 1 probably refer to?a. people and things around you. b. opportunities and problems. c. creators and their choices. d. victims and their sufferings. 【答案】a【 解析】词义猜测题。根据“they” are around.可知“they”在我们周围，因此是我们周围的人或事。故选a。32. according to paragraph 2, creators _. a. seem willing to experience failures in life b. possess the ability to predict future lifec. handle ups and downs of life w