高考英语 热门考点强化专练 阅读理解（二十六）（含解析）.doc

2013高考英语热门考点强化专练：阅读理解（二十六）（含解析）（一）the lower east side is neither rich nor beautiful, but it can be a good place to shop.on sundays, its streets are crowded with visitors and shoppers like these. they are trying to find a coat or a pair of shoes at a good price.most people prefer to shop in the big department stores like macys, gimbels, or bloomingdales because there they can find clothing, furniture, toys, and food in one store.some people like the smaller stores of greenwich village or other areas when they are looking for an unusual present.some streets have only one kind of stores. bracelets (手镯) and rings shine in the windows of canal street, and wedding dresses fill the stores of grant street. there are streets for furs(皮大衣), and, in one area, there are 600 shops for antiques (古玩)! fifth avenue is the most famous place to shop, and it is usually the most expensive. there you can find the latest styles from paris, italy, or new york. you can spend thousands of dollars on fifth avenue, or you can just window shop and admire the sights for free.1. how many kinds of shops or stores on the lower east side are mentioned in the passage? a. four. b. five. c. six. d. seven.2. if you want to buy something fashionable to wear, youd better go to . a. grant street b. the big department stores c. fifth avenue d. the smaller stores of greenwich village3. why does the writer say that the lower east side can be a good place to shop? a. because its streets are crowded with visitors. b. because there are latest style from paris, italy, or new york. c. because there are different goods in different stores they can meet the needs of the visitors and shoppers. d. because women want very much to go there and buy bracelets and rings.4. the underlined words window shop in the sentence means “ ”.a. put all ones goods in the shop-windowb. look at goods displayed in shop-windowsc. not only look at goods displayed in shop-window but also want to buy somethingd. take much interest in the goods and have the idea of buying something5. the last five words “admire the sights for free” of the passage means “ ”. a. get pleasure from the sight at no cost b. buy and sell goods freely c. look at the sights as much as you like d. look at the sight with pleasure and buy something as you like（二）long ago, in days of the roman empire, people used to believe a god of farmings called “saturn”. they believed that saturn could make the weather good or bad, and that he had the power to control how much rain would fall.before a roman farmer would plant his fields, he would try to get saturn to give him good weather. he believed that if he killed an animal for saturn, that would make saturn happy. then saturn would make sure that the weather was good.not only did the people name a planet after saturn but they also name a day of the week after him. they called this day “saturni dies”, latin words which mean “day of saturn”. in english those words became saturday.6. what was saturn believed to be in charge of? a. rainfall. b. the power of nature. c. farming. d. days in a week.7. why did a roman farmer kill an animal before planting his fields?because . a. killing an animal would bring him good luck b. saturn enjoyed eating animals c. saturn was happy to see animals being killed d. he wanted to please saturn so that saturn would make the weather good for his planting8. which of the following is not true? a. saturn is also the name of planet. b. the roman people used to believe saturn to be their god. c. saturn was named for the last day of the week. d. saturn had three meanings.9. whats the aim of the author in writing this passage? a. how the romans worshipped (崇拜) saturn. b. why the romans believed in saturn. c. the different meanings of the word saturn. d. how saturday got it