高考英语二轮阅读理解三月特训（76）.doc

2014届高考英语二轮复习 三月精品练习阅读理解1dthe most detailed breakdown(分析) of ethnic and gender performance in national curriculum tests for 7, 11 and 14yearolds shows that chinese pupils do best in every subject at every age. chinese and indian pupils outperformed white british children in english tests for 11yearolds. in all, 83% of chinese students reached the required standard compared with 78% of indian pupils and 75% of white uk pupils and only 65% of bangladeshi children reaching level four, the standard that an 11yearold should achieve.while the overall results show the performance of every ethnic group at gcse(中等教育普通证书) is improving, they do highlight a worrying trend for white british pupils. david miliband, the minister for school standards, said the results showed that while standards in secondary schools were rising, there was “a shocking gender gap between boys and girls”. he added: “58.2% of girls achieved five a to c grade passes at gcse in 2003 compared with just 49.9% of boys, and white workingclass boys are one of the lowest performing groups at 14.” according to researchers,” in the weeks leading up to gcse unsupervised study leave at home in many areas has become the norm(惯例). they are left to their own devices.” mr. miliband is supporting a plan to persuade schools to drop study leave before gcses and replace it with structured revision in school.53whats the best title for this text?achinesebritish pupils education in britainbbritish primary educationcbritish ethnic minority educationdthe gcse in britain54all uk 11yearolds required standard in english tests is that they should reach .agrade abgrade bcgrade cdlevel 455what worries david miliband according to the text?achinesebritish and indianbritish pupils surpass british pupils in every subject.bwhite working class boys perform worst in schools.cgirls perform much better than boys.dbefore gcse all students are asked to do revision at school by themselves.56according to david miliband, the study leave before gcse is .aunacceptablebpracticalcadmirabledunderstandable2第二部分：阅读理解 （共25题，第一节每题2分，第二节每题1分）第一节：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。trouve sat up on its back legs arid growled（吼叫）the words “how are you, grandmama?” the audience roared with laughter and clapped. twenty-year-old aleck gave the dog a morsel（一口）of food. his hard wok paid off. his dog could talk!aleck was fascinated with the different sounds of peoples speech. his father taught students who had a speech problem to improve their speech. aleck paid close attention. could an animal form sounds into words, too? he decided to experiment with trouve, the family dog.the easy part was teaching trouve to growl whenever aleck wanted. the little dog growled for a morsel of food.next aleck moved the dogs “lips as it growled. it sounded like “ma ma ma.” trouve learned quickly to stop the growling just as alecks hand moved away. they practiced and practiced until the dog said “ma ma” perfectly.soon aleck discovered more. if he pushed gently under the dogs jawbone（下颚骨）, it made the “ga” sound. if he pushed once and moved the dogs lips twice, he could make the dog say, “ga ma ma”. with even more practice, it sounded like “grandmama.” whenever trouve said “grandmam,” aleck gave the god two treats, so trouve loved the lessons.aleck tried to teach his dog to move its tongue. so that trouve could say more words. that didnt work, but aleck didnt give up.after many hours of practice, trouve could say, “ow ah oo ga-ma-ma?” this sounded just like “how are you, grandmama?”friends and neighbors traveled to see young aleck and his amazing talking dog. rumors spread that the dog could speak by itself, which wasnt true. no matter how much aleck tried, the dog was never able to move its lips without help.alecks full name was alexander graham bell. he wanted to know more about the world all his life. he had many ideas. some worked; others didnt. but he kept tryingalways learning; one of his inventions was something called the telephone.41which of the following is true of aleck?ahis father had an influence on him.bhe had a talent for giving speeches.che taught trouve to talk in honor of his grandmother.dhe carried out many experiments to improve peoples speech.42trouve grew fond of practicing talking because .ait liked being together with aleckbit was given some food for thatcit would like to develop its potentialdaleck treated it like one of the family43which of the following words can best describe aleck?ahumorous.bnaughty.cknowledgeable.dcurious.44what contributes most to alecks success in teaching the dog to talk?ahis own hard work. bhis neighbors help.chis fathers encouragement.dthe dogs smartness.grown-ups know that people and objects are solid. at the movies, we know that if we reach out to touch tom cruise, all we will feel is air. but does a baby have this understanding?to see whether babies know objects are solid. t. bower designed a method for projecting an optical illusion(视觉影像)of a hanging ball. his plan was to first give babies a real ball, one they could be expected to show surprised in their faces and movements, all the 16 to 24-week-old babies tested were surprised when they reached for the illusion and found that the ball was not there.grown-ups also have a sense of object permanence. we know that if we put a box in a room and lock the door, the box will still be there when we come back. but does a baby realize that a ball that rolls under a chair does not disappear and go to never-never land?experiments done by bower suggest that babies develop a sense of object permanence when they are about 18 weeks old. in his experiments, bower used a toy train that went behind a screen. when 16-week-old and 22-week-old babies watched the toy train disappear behind the left side of the screen, they looked to the right, expecting it to re-appear. if the experiment took the train off the table and lifted the screen, all the babies seemed surprised not to see the train. this seems to show that all the babies had a sense of object permanence. but the second part of the experiment showed that this was not really the case. the re-searcher substituted(替换) a ball for the train when it went behind the screen. the 22-week-old babies seemed surprised and looked back to the left side for the train. but the 16-week-old babies did not seem to notice the switch(更换).thus,the 16-week-old babies seemed to have a sense of “something permanence,” while the 22-week-old babies had a sense of object permanence related to a particular object.3the passage is mainly about .a.babiessense of sight b.effects of experiments on babies c.babiesunderstanding of objects d.different tests on babiesfeelings4.in paragraph 3, “object permanence” means that when out of sight, and object .a.still existsb.keeps its shapec.still stays solid d.is beyond reach5.what did bower use in his experiments?a.a chairb.a screenc.a filmd.a box6. which of the following statements is true?a.the babies didnt have a sense of direction.b.the older babies preferred toy trains to balls.c. the younger babies liked looking for missing objectsd.the babies couldnt tell a ball from its optical illusion.look closely at ,your hands-are they clean? it doesnt matter how many times you was your hands. theyre still crowded with microbes, which are also called germs or bacteria. microbes are everywhere. but dont worry-most microbes dont harm you. and many actually help you stay alive.now, scientists say the microbes that live on our hands could be used in a surprising way: fighting crime.when police visit the scene of a crime, they often look for fingerprints to try to identifythe criminal. but according to a recent study, investigators could even use microbes to help break a criminal case.every person has his or her own set of microbes that live on their hands, according to scientists at,the university of:colorado. that means the mix of different kinds of microbes on everybodys hand is unique-much like ones fingerprint. the scientists wanted to know whether this microbe mix could be used as a new kind of fingerprint-especially in a crime scene where fingerprints might be hard to find. and policemen use forensics such as studying fingerprints to identify the criminal.microbe fingerprints are harder to hide, said noah fierer, one of the scientists.you cant sterilize(为杀菌) a surface just by wiping it off. his team compared the bacteria on the hands of 273 people with the bacteria found on each persons computer keyboard. for the study, the keyboards had been used only by the people who were being tested. the study showed that the mix of microbes from each per- sons hands matched the mix of microbes on that persons keyboard. the scientists were easily able to tell the 273 people apart-just by looking at their keyboards. but there are a lot more than 273 criminals. other scientists wonder whether the microbe fingerprint can really be that useful. fierer agrees that scientists have a lot more work to do before the microbe fingerprint will be a useful tool7according to the passage, microbes on peoples hands_a. do more harm than good b. are easy to get rid ofc. are almost the same d. might help find crimes8the underlined word forensics in paragraph 5 probably refers to_.a. the scientific test used by policeb. a new kind of fingerprintc. a kind of bacteriain peoples handsd. a kind of newly invented keyboard9what did fierers team find through the study?a. they found the criminal among the 237 people.b. they could tell who had used which computer.c. computer keyboards couldnt keep peoples microbe fingerprints.d. peoples characters could be identified by the keyboards they used.10we can learn from the passage that _.a. your microbes may give you awayb. scientists will come to a clear conclusion soonc. many scientists think microbe fingerprints uselessd. the microbe fingerprint has been used in many cases11the main idea of the passage is about_.a. the importance of fingerprints b. how to clean our handsc. the usefulness of microbes d. different germs on our handsit may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speechat some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has plannedfortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. why ? because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. they hear only what the speaker does say. if you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiserwhen such moments occur, dont worry about them. just continue as if nothing happenedeven if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that dont really matter. if you have ever listened to martin luther kings famous speech “ i have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble（结巴）his words twice during the speechmost likely, however, you dont rememberwhy? because you were fixing your attention on its message rather than on his way of speech-making. people care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. they feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competitionbut, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. they are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speakers ideas clearly and directlysometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speakers attractiveness by making him more humanas you work on your speech, dont worry about being imperfectonce you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely12the underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will _abe smarter than you bnotice your mistakescdo better than you dknow what you are talking about13you dont remember obvious mistakes in a speech because _ayour attention is on the content byou dont fully understand the speechcyou dont know what the speaker plans to saydyou find the way of speech-making more important14it can be inferred from the passage that _agiving a speech is like giving a performancebone to two mistakes in a speech may not be badcthe listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is madedthe more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be15what would be the best title of the passage? a. how to be a perfect speakerb. how to make a perfect speechc. dont expect a perfect speechd. dont expect mistakes in a speechamericans have contributed to many art forms, but jazz, a type music, is one of the art form that was started in the united states. black americans, who sang and played the music of their homeland, created jazz.jazz is a mixture of the music of africa, the work songs the slaves sang, and religious(宗教) music. improvisation is an important part of jazz. this means that the musicians make the music up as they go along, or create the music on the spot. this is why a jazz song might sound a little different each time it is played.jazz bands formed in the late 1800s. they played in bars and clubs in many towns and cities of the south, especially new orleans. new orleans is an international seaport, and people from all over the world come to new orleans to hear jazz.jazz became more and more popular. by the 1920s, jazz was popular all over the united states. by the 1940s, you could hear jazz not only in clubs and bars, but in concert halls as well. today, people from all over the world play jazz. jazz musicians from the unitedstates, asia, africa, south america, and europe meet and share their music at festivals on every continent. in this way jazz continues to grow and change.16what can be the best title of the passage?a. american art forms. b. the development of jazz.c. the music of black americans. d. the birthplace of jazz. 17which of the following is true?a. jazz is now popular all over the world. b. jazz is now a kind of religious music.c. jazz is now played only in bars and clubs.d. jazz is now played a little differently sometimes. 18from the text it can be inferred that_ .a. new orleans is the place where jazz was first producedb. the american people are all jazz loversc .jazz is merely sung by the black when workingd. jazz may become more popular as time goes on 19it took about _ years to make jazz popular in the united states.a.200 b.120 c.80 d.1406参考答案153-56 bdca 【解析】2【小题1】a【小题2】b【小题3】d【小题4】a【解析】3.c。主旨大意题。本文通过科学家的研究和对研究结果的解释，旨在说明婴儿对物体的理解。4.a。词义猜测题。通过对第二项研究情况的阅读和第三段的解释得知。5b。细节理解题。第二段和第四段中所述的bower的两个实验中都用到了screen. 6d。推理判断题。第二段中所述实验情况表明：婴儿伸手去摸屏幕上的影像，说明他们事先不能区分一个真正的球和影像的区别。【解析】 略7d8a9b10a11c【解析】试题分析：本文叙述了人们手上的细菌有好处，现在警察利用人们手上的细菌可以帮助破案，因为人的指纹有可能被破坏了，看不清了，但是人们接触过的东西上面的细菌却还有，并且人与人是不同的，所以可以根据这个来找到警察要找的罪犯。7细节理解题。根据according to a recent study, investigators could even use microbes to help break a criminal case.指纹来帮助破案，故选d。8细节理解题。根据the scientists wanted to know whether this microbe mix could be used as a new kind of fingerprint-especially in a crime scene where fingerprints might be hard to find. and policemen use forensics such as studying fingerprints to identify the criminal.故选a。9细节理解题。根据for the study, the keyboards had been used only by the people who were being tested. the study showed that the mix of microbes from each per- s