高考英语二轮专题训练 阅读理解60天（24）.doc

2013年高考英语二轮专题训练 阅读理解60天（24）reading comprehensiondirections： read the following three passages each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements for each of them there are four choices marked a， b， c and dchoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passageai went into harrods in london （a huge department store i am sure you have heard of） to buy some minton china plates for a wedding anniversary which was to be a group gift from friends to other friends in genevahaving only 30 minutes between meetings， i whizzed there in a taxi from the office and battled through the milling people on the 2nd day of the sales on the ground floor up to the 5th to the china department there was a man standing there who was obviously a sales person who i rushed up to and asked if he had this particular china in stock and if it would take long to wrap， etc he was amazing he got the plates in seconds， wrapped them up and asked me if i wanted a store card， to which i replied no， because i lived in switzerland， to which he replied asking if， as i lived abroad， would like a tax rebate form （退税表） after that he showed me what to do， produced a map of the store and told me where i should go for the formalities （程序）that was fabulous！ i thanked him and said what wonderful service he had given me i even asked if he gave this to everyone， to which he answered： “im just doing what is required at harrods” with that， a tall man in a grey suit approached me and offered his hand to shake mine saying， “can i introduce myself？ i am the chief executive of harrods and what an interesting conversation i have just heard” he had been wandering through the store （as you should do as a handson ceo） and had overheard me thanking this salesman， whose face， i can hardly describe， was frozen in a mixture of delight awe and astonishment！can you imagine the salesman going home to his family and friends recounting what the ceo spoke to him after overhearing him being praised by a customer？56 the writer went to harrods to akill time bbuy some gifts cgo sightseeing dshop for her wedding 57 what does the underlined word “whiz” in paragraph 2 most probably mean？adrive barrive crush dleave58 which of the following sentences can best replace “im just doing what is required at harrods” in the second paragraph？a“im an honest man” b“i must obey the rules”c“harrods is strict with its employees” d“anybody will receive our good service”59 as soon as she bought what she wanted， the writer awent to a meeting bflew back to geneva cvisited one of her friends dattended a wedding ceremony 60the writer wrote the above passage because she thought what she had experienced was so apleasant bstrange cexciting damusing byou never see him， but theyre with you every time you fly they record where you are going， how fast youre traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally their ability to withstand （经受住） almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book theyre known as the black boxwhen planes fall from the sky， as a yemeni airliner did on its way to comoros islands in the india ocean june 30， 2009， the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong so when a french submarine （潜水艇） detected the devices homing signal five days later， the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killedin 1958， australian scientist david warren developed a flightmemory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction that was the first mode for a black box， which became a requirement on all us commercial flights by 1960 early models often failed to withstand crashes， however， so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear （后部） of the planethe area least subject to impactfrom its original position in the landing wells （起落架舱） the same year， the federal aviation authority required that the boxes， which were never actually black， be painted orange or yellow to aid visibilitymodern airplanes have two black boxes： a voice recorder， which tracks pilots conversations， and a flightdata recorder， which monitors fuel levels， engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircrafts final moments placed in an insulated （隔绝的） case and surrounded by a quarterinchthick panels of stainless steel， the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000 when submerged （淹没）， theyre also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft experts believe the boxes from air france flight 447， which crashed near brazil on june 1,2009， are in water nearly that deep， but statistics say theyre still likely to turn up in the approximately 20 deepsea crashes over the past 30 years， only one planes black boxes were never recovered61 which of the following is the magic feature about a black box， according to the text？ait can record clearly bit can be seen clearly cit can survive a serious disaster dit can tell altitude and direction 62 which of the following statements about the air disaster happening to yemeni airliner is true？aits black box hasnt been found yetbits black box was found under the sea cits black box saved all the passengers lives dits black box was found immediately after the crash 63 when the first mode of black box appeared， ait wasnt black bit was painted yellowcit was at the rear of the plane dit wasnt able to track direction64 according to the passage， modern black boxes aare placed in insulated plastic boxesbhave seldom been found in deepsea crashescare painted bright colors and can emit signals dwill melt only when the temperature rises to 1,00065 several changes to the black box are mentioned in the passage except the change in its aposition bnumber cstrength dsize cthe us food and drug administration （fda） is considering to put stricter limits over tanning salons （晒黑廊） and wants to ban anyone younger than 18 years of age from using a tanning bed， an advisory panel （专家团） announced last weekthe panel is calling for tighter controls on the industry such as requiring teenagers to get the approval from their parents before using tanning beds or limiting the use of artificial tanning to a certain age “given the absence of any demonstrated benefit， i think it is an obligation for us to ban artificial tanning for those under 18，” said panelist dr michael oldingalong with a possible ban for teenagers， the panel also recommended that visible warning labels should be placed either on the tanning machines or in the salons in order to caution tanners of the possible dangers in addition， the committee decided that stricter regulations and classifications were critical to make the machines safer at this time the machines are categorized as fda class 1 devices， the ones that are least likely to cause harm in case the fda decided to change their classification from class 1 to class 2， as advised by the panel， the fda could limit the levels of radiation the machines emit class 2 devices include xray machines and powered wheelchairsgetting a tan， whether from a tanning bed or the sun， increases the risk of developing skin cancer last year， the world health organizations international agency for research on cancer （iarc） declared tanning beds as “carcinogenic （致癌的） to humans” it was discovered that young individuals in their teens and 20s who use tanning beds on a regular basis have a 75 per cent higher risk of suffering from melanoma （黑素瘤）， the deadliest form of skin cancer according to the american cancer society， melanoma accounted for nearly 69,000 cases of skin cancer in 2009 and will account for most （about 8,650） of the 11,590 mortality cases due to skin cancer each year 66 according to the passage， what measures will us fda most probably take？abanning tanning salons bposing heavier tax over tanning salons chaving tighter controls over tanning salons dlimiting the number of tanning salons in every state 67 which of the following suggestions for making tanning salons safer is not mentioned？avisible caution bsetting age limit cprofessional personnel dparental approval for teenagers68 which of the following i