高考英语 阅读理解精英练习题（23）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解精英练习题（23）及答阅读理解bit was a hot summer day. my dad and i were getting ready to go out for a ride on the boat with my friend katie and the dog when the phone call came, the call that made that bright, beautiful day a cold, dark, gloomy one.i had just put on my suit, shorts, and tank top, and packed my bag with sunscreen and everything else i would need for the day. i ran into my parents room to find dad. when i saw him on the phone, he was crying. id never seen my dad cry before. my heart sank. what possibly could have happened?max, im so sorry, i heard him say. thats when it hit me. i knew that suzie had died.max has been my dads best friend for years. suzie, his daughter, had a rare disease that mainly affected her body. her brain was ok. she knew what was going on; she knew that shehad problems and was different from other kids. once she told her dad that she wished she could die and be born in a different body. yet although she couldnt live a normal life ，she was still happy.when suzie and i were little, we spent quite a bit of time together. as we grew up, we grew apart. she lived in new york, and i lived in the midwest. when suzie was ten she had to live ina hospital in virginia. about eight months before she died, max gave us her number at the hospital and we talked at least twice a week until the end. suzie was always so excited to talk to us and wanted to know every detail about my life. she wanted to know everything i did and every thing i ate. in a way, she lived through me. after we found out about her death, we made our plans to go to new york for the funeral. when she was alive, i sent her a beanie baby and she sent one back to me. i had bought her another one but never had the chance to send it to her, so i took it to put in her casket(棺材).her funeral was very different from any funeral id ever been to. after they lowered her casket, each one of us put a shovelful of dirt over her. i remember crying so hard, i felt weak. my cheeks burned from the tears. my whole body was shaking as i picked up the shovel, but im glad i did it.when suzie and i first started calling one another, i thought it would be more of a burden on me, but i was completely wrong. i learned so much from her. she gave me more than i could ever give to her. i will never forget her or the talks we had. i now know that i must never take anything for granted especially my health and the gift of life.5the authors family cancelled their ride because_.akatie couldnt join them for the ridebthe weather was too terrible for a ridecthey couldnt find their dogdmaxs daughter passed away6what does the underlined part “in a wav, she lived through me.” mean?asuzie got to know what life outside hospital was like by sharing my experience.bsuzie was financially dependent of me.csuzie managed to pull through her illness with the help of my family.dsuzie was too weak to live her own life.7which of the following is true according to the text?asuzie was the only person helping the author with difficulties.bthe author feared that she might also get the same disease as suzie.cthe author benefited a lot from talking on the phone with suzie.dthe author didnt understand suzie was her true friend until suzies death.8what is the most important lesson the author learned from suzies death?anever let go of a friend even if you are apart.bbe thankful for what we have in our life.ctalking with a friend can cure your illness.dwe can learn more from our friends than they do from us.参考答案 58 dacb 阅读理解-bstudies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile to laugh in the face of pain and fearwhen dan rather interviewed comedian bill cosby just one week after his son, ennis, was killed, cosby said, “i think it is time for me to tell people that we have to laughyou can turn painful situations around through laughterif you can find humor in anything, you can survive it”call it a flashlight for dark times: laughter just seems to adjust attitude better than anything elseinspirational speaker steve rizzo recalls a tv interview with an injured firefighter a few days after 911the man had fallen more than 30 stories in one of the towers and had broken a legeveryone was crying, and the reporter asked, “how is it that youve come out of this alive?” he looked at her and without missing a beat, said, “look, lady, im from new york and im a firefighter; that all you need to know”“everyone laughed and though the laughter was only a couple of seconds,” says rizzo“sometimes thats all you need to catch your second breathlaughter gives you that couple of secondsyoure sending a message to your brain, and the message is: if you can still laugh even a little among the pain, you are going to be ok”of course, there is a difference between laughing off a serious situation and laughing off the fear that resultsthe firefighter was doing the latter, states rizzo, the author of becoming a humorous being, and so should we“if there is anything we have learnt from 911, its how precious life really is,” she says“we have to send a message that our spirit wont dieone important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh” 60the writer uses the examples of the comedian and the firefighter to show alaughter is a good way to get rid of pain and fearblaughter is the best way to cure psychological woundscit is your attitude that decides whether you can survive the pain or notdlaughing off a serious situation is different from laughing off the fear that results61we can infer from the passage that steve rizzo is aa reporter ba soldier ca firefighter da doctor62the underlined word futile in the first paragraph means ahopeless buseless ccareless dworthless63from the passage, we can know that americans are areally inspired after 911 bhardly united after 911cnearly surprised by 911 dgreatly hurt by 91160a 【解析】逻辑推断题。根据文章第一段studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile to laugh in the face of pain and fear可以看出这是文章的主旨，下面的两个例子都是围绕着这个主旨展开的，所有推断出a选项“笑能够摆脱痛苦和恐惧”最符合题意。所以选a。61a 【解析】细节推理题。根据文章states rizzo, the author of becoming a humorous being可以看出steve rizzo是一个作者，所有a reporter最符合他的身份。所以选a。62b 【解析】词汇推测题。从文章第一段though it may seem futile to laugh in the face of pain and fear，再结合上下文可知，笑能够给生理和心理以放松，虽然有时候看起来在面对痛苦和恐惧可能会失去作用。可知道futile解释为useless符合题意。所以选b。63d 【解析】主旨推测题。根据文章最后段可以推测出美国人受到了911的严重的伤害。所以应该选d。 阅读理解-csome futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge（剧增）of women in the workforce may portend a rejection of marriagemany women, according to this hypothesis, would rather work than marrythe converse（反面）of this concern is that the prospects of becoming a multi-paycheck household could encourage marriagein the past, only the earnings and financial prospects of the man counted in the marriage decisionnow, however, the earning ability of a woman can make her more attractive as a marriage partnerdata show that economic downturns tend to putting off marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days aheadas the economy comes to life, the number of marriages also risesthe increase in divorce rates follows to the increase in women working outside the homeyet, it may be wrong to jump to any simple cause-and-effect conclusionsthe impact of a wifes work on divorce is no less cloudy than its impact on marriage decisionsthe realization that she can be a good provider may increase the chances that a working wife will choose divorce over an unsatisfactory marriagebut the reverse is equally plausible（似是而非的）tensions grounded in financial problems often play a key role in ending a marriageby raising a familys standard of living, a working wife may strengthen her familys financial and emotional stabilitypsychological factors also should be consideredfor example, a wife blocked from a career outside the home may feel caged in the houseshe may view her only choice as seeking a divorceon the other hand, if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home, work and marriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable unionalso, a major part of womens inequality in marriage has been due to the fact that, in most cases, men have remained the main breadwinnersa working wife may rob a husband of being the master of the housedepending upon how the couple reacts to these new conditions, it could create a stronger equal partnership or it could create new insecurities64the word “portend” （line 2, para1） is closest in meaning to“_”adefy bsignal csuffer from dresult from 65it is said in the passage that when the economy slides_ amen would choose working women as their marriage partners bmore women would get married to seek financial security ceven working women would worry about their marriages dmore people would prefer to remain single for the time being 66one reason why women with no career may seek a divorce is that_athey feel that they have been robbed of their freedom bthey are afraid of being bossed around by their husbands cthey feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectations dthey tend to suspect their husbands? loyalty to their marriage 67which of the following statements can best summarize the authors view in the passage? athe stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situation of the countrybeven when economically independent, most women have to struggle for real equality in marriagecin order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and remain independent dthe impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to case64b【解析】词义题。根据句意不难理解portend是预示的意思。signal也有显示的意思；defy不服从,反抗；suffer from忍受,遭受；result from由产生。65d 【解析】细节题。题干的the economy slides等于原文的economic downturns。文中提到经济低迷时期人们倾向推迟婚姻，因为双方不能承担一个家庭或者担心更窘迫的日子。d符合原文意思。66a 【解析】细节题。第三段第二句提到不能外出工作的妇女会感到被关在笼子里，相当于athey feel that they have been robbed of their freedom她们感到被剥夺了自由。67d 【解析】主旨题。用排除法解题。a因果颠倒，排除；b文章从未提及；c以偏盖全；只有d，女性的外出工作对婚姻的影响是一例与一例不一样的，才准确表达出文章的两种平行的相反观点。（2011全国ii）b for those who study the development of intelligence（智力）in the animal world, self-awareness is an important measurement. an animal that is aware（意识）of itself has a highlevel of intelligence.awareness can be tested by studying whether the animal recognizes itself in the mirror, that is, its own reflected image（反射出的影像）many animals fail this exercise bitterly, paying very little attention to the reflected image. only humans, and some intelligent animals like apes and dolphins, have been shown to recognize that the image in the mirror is of themselves.now another animal has joined the club. in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, researchers report that an asian elephant has passed the mirror self-reflection test. we thought that elephants were the next important animal, said diana reiss of the wildlife conservation society, an author of the study with joshua m. plotnik and fans bm. de waal of emory university. with their large brains, reiss said, elephants seemed like cousins to apes anddolphins.the researchers tested happy, maxine and patty, three elephants at the bronx zoo. they putan 8-foot-square mirror on a wall of the animals play area (out of the sight of zoo visitors) and recorded what happened with cameras, including one built in the mirror.the elephants used their long noses to find what was behind it, and to examine parts of their bodies. of the three, happy then passed the test, in which a clear mark was painted on one side of her face. she could tell the mark was there by looking in the mirror, and she used the mirror to touch the mark with her long nose.diana reiss said, we knew elephants were intelligent, but now we can talk about their intelligence in a better way.45. what can mirror tests tell us about animals? a. whether they have large brains. b whether they have self-awareness. c. whether they enjoy outdoor exercises. d. whether they enjoy playing with mirrors.46. why does the author mention apes and dolphins in the text? a. they are most familiar to readers. b they are big favorites with zoo visitors. c. they are included in the study by reiss. d. they are already known to be intelligent.47. what made happy different from maxine and patty? a. she used her nose to search behind the mirror. b. she recognized her own image in the mirror. c. she painted a mark on her own face. d. she found the hidden camera.【答案】bdb阅读理解dmore surprising,perhaps,than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and increasing.as skolnick notes,americans are a marrying people:relative to europeans,more of us marry at younger age.moreover,after falling in the early 1970s,the rate of marriage in the united states is now increasing.even the divorce rates need to be taken in this pro-marriage context:some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry.thus,marriage remains,by far,the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.what has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family.twenty-five years ago,the typical american family consisted of a husband,a wife,and two or three children.now,there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children.and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wifes previous marriage,or the husbands,or both,sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage;sometimes they are shared between two former spouses.thus,one can find every type of family arrangement.there are marriages without children;marriages with children for only the present marriage;marriages with“full-time”children from both the present and former marriages;marriages with“full-time”children from the present marriage and“part-time”c