高考英语 阅读理解精英练习题（10）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解精英练习题（10）及答案阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）第一节 阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项（a、和）中，选出最佳选项，并在答案填在答题卡上。 apeople in the united states honor their parents with two special days: mothers day, on the second sunday in may, and fathers day, on the third sunday in june. these days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. they raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. they give love and care. these two days offer a chance to think about the changing roles of mothers and fathers. more mothers now work outside the home. more fathers must help with child-care.these two special days are celebrated in many different ways. on mothers day people wear carnations. a. red one stands for a living mother. a. white one shows that the mother is dead. many people attend religious services（宗教仪式）to honor parents. it is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit their graves. on these days, families get together at home and in restaurants. they often have outdoor bbqs for fathers day. these are days of fun and good feelings and memories.another tradition is to give cards and gifts. children make them in school. many people make their own presents. these are valued more than the ones bought in stores. it is not the value of the gift that is important, but it is “the thought that counts”. greeting card stores, florists, candy makers, bakeries, telephones companies and other stores do a lot of business during these holidays.1. which is not a reason for children to show love and respect for parents?a. parents bring childrenb. parents give love and care to childrenc. parents educate children to be good persons.d. parents pass away before children grow up2. what do you know from the passage?a. mothers day and fathers day are both in may.b. fewer women worked outside the home in the pastc. not all the children respect their parentsd. fathers are not as important as mothers at home3. which do you think is right about “carnation”?a. it only has two kinds of color.b. it is a special kind of clothes people wear on mothers day or fathers day.c. its a kind of flower showing love and best wishes.d. people can wear carnations only on the second sunday in may.4. what do you think “florists” do?a. they sell flowersb. they made bread or pastryc. they offer enough room for having family parties.d. they sell special clothes for mothers day and fathers day.1 4、 dbca leeds, englanda leeds university psychology professor is teaching a course to help dozens of britons forgive their enemies.the hate we hold within us is a cancer, professor ken hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.more than 70 people have become members in harts first 20-week workshop in londona course he says is the first of its kind in the world.these are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. they realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said canadian- born hart.the students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.the course, ending in july, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. people have lots of negative attitudes towards forgiveness, he said, people confuse forgiveness with forgetting. forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one.hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.the main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with, said norman claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people want to get free of the past.36. from this passage we know that_.a. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hateb. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professorsc. without hate, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heartd. people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies【答案】c【解析】细节理解题。文章第二段“.holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.”说明心怀愤怒可能导致如高血压和心脏病之类的问题。所以没有仇恨，人们将有更少和血液心脏有关的麻烦。故选c。37. if you are angry with somebody, you should_.a. attend harts course b. never meet him or her any longerc. persuade him or her to have a positive talk with youd.treat him or her positively instead of negatively【答案】d【解析】细节理解题。通过文章第6段可知，如果你生某人的气，你应该以一种积极的态度去对待他（她），而不是消极的。38. in harts first 20- week workshop, people there can _.a. meet their enemiesb. change their attitudesc.enjoy the professors teachingd. learn how to quarrel with others【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。通观全文，我们可以看出人们在hart的工作室能够学会原谅，改变他们对仇恨的态度。故选b。39. if you are a member in harts workshop, youll_.a. meet in eight or ten groups b. get rid of the illness of cancerc.attend a gathering twice a month d. pour out everything stored in your mind【答案】c【解析】细节理解题。第五段“the students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.”说明成员们每两周聚集一次，也就是一个月两次。40. the author wrote this passage in order to_.a. persuade britons to go to harts workshop b. tell us the news about harts workshopc. tell us how to run a workshop like harts d.help us to look at various kinds of angers【答案】b【解析】推理判断题。第三段“more than 70 people have become members in harts first 20-week workshop”和第七段“hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.”都说明作者写这篇文章是为了告诉我们关于hart的工作室的消息。 the flag, the most common symbol of a nation in the modern world, is also one of the most ancient. with a clear symbolic meaning, the flag in the traditional form is still used today to mark buildings, ships and other vehicles related to a country.the national flag as we know it today is in no way a primitive artifact. it is, rather, the product of thousands of years development. historians believe that it had two major ancestors, of which the earlier served to show wind direction.early human beings used very fragile houses and boats. often strong winds would tear roofs from houses or cause high waves that endangered travelers. peoples food supplies were similarly vulnerable. even after they had learned how to plant grains, they still needed help from nature to ensure good harvests. therefore they feared and depended on the power of the wind, which could bring warmth from one direction and cold from another.using a simple piece of cloth tied to the top of a post to tell the direction of the wind was more dependable than earlier methods, such as watching the rising of smoke from a fire. the connection of the flag with heavenly power was therefore reasonable. early human societies began to fix long pieces of cloth to the tops of totems (图腾) before carrying them into battle. they believed that the power of the wind would be added to the good wishes of the gods and ancestors represented by the totems themselves.these flags developed very slowly into modern flags. the first known flag of a nation or a ruler was unmarked. the king of china around 1000 b.c. was known to have a white flag carried ahead of him. this practice might have been learned from egyptians even further in the past, but it was from china that it spread over trade routes through india, then across arab lands, and finally to europe, where it met up with the other ancestor of the national flag.41. the best title for the passage would be “_”.a. development of the national flagb. power of the national flagc. types of flagsd. uses of flags【答案】a【解析】标题归纳题。“it is, rather, the product of thousands of years development.”说明国旗是几千年发展的产物。而且整片文章从旗帜最初用于表示风向，一直讲到它演变为现代的旗帜。所以本文说的是国旗的发展。故选a。42. the underlined word “vulnerable” in paragraph 3 means _.a. impossible to make sure ofb. likely to be protectedc. easy to be damagedd. difficult to find【答案】c【解析】词义猜测题。本段第一句“early human beings used very fragile houses and boats.”说早期人类使用非常易坏的的房屋和船只。而本句 “peoples food supplies were similarly vulnerable.” 中“similarly”意为“同样地”，所以vulnerable”也表示“易损坏”。故选c。43. the earliest flags were connected with heavenly power because _.a. they could tell direction b. they could bring good luck to ancient fightersc. they were handed down by the ancestorsd. they were believed to stand for natural forces【答案】d【解析】细节理解题。本段第一句“using a simple piece of cloth tied to the top of a post to tell the direction of the wind was more dependable than earlier methods,”“用一块布系到标杆顶部来判断风向比早期的办法更可靠。”因此，最早的旗帜与天的力量有关。故选d。44. what does the author know of the first national flag?a. he knows when it was sent to europe.b. he believes it was made in egypt.c. he thinks it came from china.d. he doubts where it started.【答案】d【解析】细节理解题。最后一段“the first known flag of a nation or a ruler was unmarked.。”说明第一个国家的旗帜未被标明，所以作者不知道第一面国旗是从哪儿诞生的。45. what will the author most probably talk about next?a. the role of china in the spread of the national flag.b. the second ancestor of the national flag.c. the use of modern flags in europe.d. the importance of modern flags.【答案】b【解析】推理判断题。结尾处“this practice might have been learned from egyptians even further in the past, but it was from china that it spread over trade routes through india, then across arab lands, and finally to europe, where it met up with the other ancestor of the national flag.”说明中国国王树立旗帜的做法遍及到了贸易行路，通过印度，穿过阿拉伯大陆，最终到达欧洲。在那与另一个国旗的原型结合。所以，接下来最可能讨论的是过国旗的第二个始祖。故选b。阅读理解blet children learn to judge their own work. a child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. he notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other peoples. in the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicyclethey compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. but in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. we do it all for him. we act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake. if it is a matter in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. let him correct his own papers. why should we teachers waste time in such routine（日常的）work? our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he cant find the way to get the right answer. let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what he does not know.5. according to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by_.a. listening to skilled peoples advice. b. asking older people many questionsc. making mistakes and having them correctedd. doing what other people do6. which of the following does the writer think teachers should not do?.a. give children correct answersb. allow children to mark mistakes.c. point out childrens mistakes to them. d. let children mark their own work7. according to the writer, teachers in school should _a. allow children to learn from each otherb. point out childrens mistakes whenever foundc. correct childrens mistakes as soon as possibled. give children more book knowledge8. the passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are_a. different from learning other skillsb. the same as learning skillsc. more important than other skills d. not really important skills58、c cab 阅读理解ci entered high school having read hundreds of books. but i was not a good reader. merely bookish, i lacked a point of view when i read. rather, i read in order to get a point of view. i searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themesanything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. when one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade english class that a person could not have a “complicated idea” until he had read at least two thousand books, i heard the words without recognizing either its irony（嘲讽）or its very complicated truth. i merely determined to make a list of all the books i had ever read. strict with myself, i included only once a title i might have read several times.（how, after all, could one read a book more than once?）and i included only those books over a hundred pages in length.（could anything shorter be a book?）there was yet another high school list i made. one day i came across a newspaper article about an english professor at a nearby state college. the article had a list of the “hundred most important books of western civilization.” “more than anything else in my life,” the professor told the reporter with finality（firmly）, “these books have made me all that i am.” that was the kind of words i couldnt ignore. i kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. most books, of course, i hardly understood. while reading platos the republic, for example, i needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. however, with the special patience and superstition（迷信）of a schoolboy, i looked at every word of the text. and by the time i reached the last word, pleased, i persuaded myself that i had read the republic, and seriously crossed plato off my list9. on hearing the teachers suggestion of reading, the writer thought _.a. one must read as many books as possibleb. a student should not have a complicated ideac. it was impossible for one to read two thousand booksd. students ought to make a list of the books they had read10. while at high school, the writer _.a. had plans for reading b. learned to educate himselfc. only read books over 100 pages d. read only one book several times11. the writers purpose in mentioning the republic is to _.a. explain why it was included in the listb. describe why he seriously crossed it off the listc. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understandd. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word12. the writer provides two book lists to _.a. show how he developed his point of viewb. tell his reading experience at high schoolc. introduce the two persons reading methodsd. explain that he read many books at high school912、aa cb 阅读理解dare some people born clever, and others born stupid? or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. to some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. on the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. thus the limits of persons intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. this view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.it is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. the closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligence. thus if