高考英语二轮专题训练 阅读理解60天5.doc

2013年高考英语二轮专题训练：阅读理解60天5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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ai am a person who does not like to waiti don t like lines, being put on hold when making a phone call, arriving at an appointment to find that my companion will be delayed and of course, i don * t like waiting roomshowever, i realize that my agony(痛苦） will not be good for me, as an increasingly, crowded world can only mean one thingmore waitingowing to this, i have taken a measure and decided to turn my disappointment to productive endsin short, i am looking for what i call waiting in line booksthese are books that contain material designed for being read in shortened words, so there is no extended story line to lose track ofanother requirement is that they be small enough to slip neatly into my back pocketthe other day i went to the supermarketconvinced that the rain would keep most people away, i was surprised to see that the place was crowded with shoppersevery checkout was openand jammed! but i could take out my pocket book and go to workthe more the world demands that i wait, the more i learn from my waiting librarylook at these titles: one hundred things every american should know; the poetry of robert frost; living thoughts of leading thinkers; still more toastsi have learned interesting and enriching things and much knowledge from these bookson a recent visit to the general store, i placed my order at the counter along with six or seven other peoplethe one female employee seemed to have her hands full as she rushed aboutjust be patient, she said to meno problemi quietly opened my dictionary of prose （散文） and poetical quotations perhaps the other customers regarded me as a bookish, lonely soulbut little did they realize that i was enjoying the company of shakespeare, thoreau, homer and ben johnson56according to the passage, the world _aneeds to produce many materials to use bis becoming more and more crowdedcloses tracks of story line increasingly dis crowded with shoppers everywhere57how did the author overcome his agony of waiting?aby reading books designed to be read in shortened wordsbby arriving early for an appointmentcby taking measures to produce some books for readersdby keeping most people away from the supermarket for some reasons58which of the following cant be carried in the authors pocket?aone hundred things every american should knowbthe poetry of robert frostcliving thoughts of leading thinkersdhomer and ben johnson59which of the following statements is true according to the passage?athe author succeeded in changing his agony into funbthe author was a bookish and lonely soul.csix or seven employees in the store were busy in rushing aboutdthere were fewer customers in the supermarket on rainy daysbanother food which is closely associated with americans is apple pieapple pie is often served hot with a spoon of ice cream or a slice of cheese at the end of the biggest meal of the daydinner, and it is a favorite dessert throughout the nation, if a person is typical of americans, we can say, he is as american as apple pieit is true that the apple and apple pie do not originate in america, but the expression as american as apple pie is not the product of a pure imaginationas early as 1625, the english colonists, having brought orchards （果园） on this new land and in most of the colonial times, the apple was a main material of both plain and fancy cookingthe first massachusetts governor, william endicott, was one of many keen apple planters who helped to lay the foundations for today s apple-growing industry in americaa major attraction of the apple for the colonists was that it could be made into cider （苹果酒）. like most europeans, english colonists held a strong suspicion （怀疑） of drinking water, and since grapegrowing was hindered by plant peats, cider became an alternative to winecheap and easy to produce, it was the american drink of first choice well into the nineteenth century whether it was dried, raw or cooked, the apple also found its way into numerous colonial dishes, including apple sauces, pudding, stuffings and many dessertstherefore, the conclusion to be drawn here is obviousthe apple pie became known as american, not because it was invented on this land （since it was proved that europeans had been eating apple pies for centuries）, but because, thanks to the huge orchards in the states of washington and new york, america became the worlds largest apple-producing nation60if a person is said to be as american as apple pie, it means that _ahe always prefers apple pie as a dessert bhis favourite pie is apple pieche behaves and thinks in the american way dhe is good at making american apple pie61the apple can be used to make into all of the following except _awine bsauces cpudding dcider62the underlined word hindered in paragraph 3 means_apromoted bprevented cimproved denlarged63it can be concluded from the passage that_athe apple pie was first served in americabthe english colonists developed a taste for the apple only after they, arrived at the new worldcthe expression as american as apple pie is a pure imaginationdthe apple pie is traditionally associated with americans due to their large apple productioncwith the growth of the european union and increased globalisation, english is increasingly the lingua franc a（通用语） in european businesses, and those who speak it have become the elite （精英）of the workforcein the past, only a few specialists in a company were needed to communicate with foreign businesseshowever, in these days of multinational companies, where workers are required to communicate with other employees from several countries, a common language is essential and english has become the logical choicenowadays, even blue-collar workers in many companies are required to speak englishfor example, just over three years ago, a dutch companyunited pan-european communications （upc）, was contracted to build a tv studio in amsterdamthe job involved many electriciansmore than the company could find in the netherlandsthere were plenty of qualified electricians in nearby france and belgium, but the american and dutch executives of upc wanted everyone on the job to speak and understand the same languageso, the upc hired british electricians and flew them to amsterdam every monday, accommodating them in hotels all over the city, and flying them home on friday eveningsincreasingly, workers who can speak english earn salaries 25-35% higher than those who can tthey are also eligible （有条件被选中的） for a wider range of high-level jobsthe problem is that, while the ability to speak english is fast becoming essential for getting a good job, there is a shortage of people who can speak itaccording to a recent european commission report, only about 41% of continental europeans can speak english, and only 29% speak it well enough to carry on a conversationmany companies are solving this problem by setting up english language schools within the workplaceenglish language schools all over europe are expanding at a huge rate, and governments are looking at ways to improve english tuition in schoolsone result of this modem urge to learn english is that a generation gap is appearing according to a european union study, 67% of europeans between 15 and 24 say they can speak english while only 18% of those over 55 say they canincreasingly, all over europe, it is the children who are leading the parents64in european companies, workers who speak english _afind it easy to carry on a conversation bhave an advantage over other workerscmust be white-collar workers dtravel to many different countries65why did the upc hire the british electricians?athere were not enough electricians in nearby france and belgiumbbritish electricians were more qualified than those in the netherlandscthe upc wanted all the employees to speak englishdthe upc meant to show they were rich enough to accommodate and fly them66what can you learn from the passage about european people?amore young people can speak english well than older people.b67% europeans can speak english very wellc18% of the people over 55 cant speak englishdover half the people can speak englishdculture helps human societies survive in changing natural environmentfor example, the end of the last ice age, beginning about 15,000 years ago, brought a big challenge to which humans had to adaptbefore this time, large parts of the northern hemisphere were covered in great sheets of ice that contained much of the earth s waterin north america, large animals that wandered the vast tundra （冰原） provided people with food and materials for clothing and simple shelterswhen the earth became warm, large ice age animals disappeared, and many land areas were covered by rising sea levels from melting icebut people survived, they developed new technologies and learned how to survive on new plant and animal species finally some people settled into permanent villages, durable houses and farmscultural adaptation has made humans one of the most successful species on the planet through history, major developments in technology, medicine, and nutrition have allowed people to reproduce and survive in ever-increasing numbersthe global population has risen from 8 million during the ice age to about 6 billion todayhowever, the successes of culture adaptation can also create problems in the long runover the last 200 years, people have begun to use large quantities of natural resources and energy and to produce a great amount of material and chemical wastesthe global population now consumes some important natural resourcessuch as petroleum, wood, and mineralsfaster than nature can produce themmany scientists believe that in the process of burning fuels and producing wastes, people may be changing the global climate in unpredictable and possibly harmful waysthus, the adaptive success