高考英语阅读理解巩固精品练习题（8）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解巩固精品练习题（8）及答案阅读理解dim usually fairly sceptical about any research that concludes that people are either happier or unhappier or more or less certain of themselves than they were 50 years ago. while any of these statements might be true, they are practically impossible to prove scientifically. still, i was struck by a report which concluded that todays children are significantly more anxious than children in the 1950s. in fact, the analysis showed normal children aged 9 to 17 exhibit a higher level of anxiety today than children who were treated for mental illness 50 years ago. why are americas kids so stressed? the report cites two main causes: increasing physical isolation brought on by high divorce rates and less involvement in community, among other things and a growing perception (看法) that the world is a more dangerous place. considering that we cant turn the clock back, adults can still do plenty to help the next generation cope(应付). at the top of the list is nurturing（培养）a better appreciation of the limits of individualism. no child is an island. strengthening social ties help build communities and protect individuals against stress. to help kids build stronger connections with others, you can pull the plug on tvs and computers. your family will thank you later. they will have more time for face-to-face relationships, and they will get more sleep. limit the amount of virtual violence your children are expected to. its not just from video games and movies; children see a lot of murder and crime on the local news. keep your expectations for your daily routine. it will help you cope with your own anxiety and provide a good model for your kids. sometimes anxiety is unavoidable. but it doesnt have to ruin your life.63the author thinks that the conclusions of any research about peoples state of mind are _.a. surprising b. confusing c. illogical d. questionable64what does the author mean by saying “we cant turn the clock back” (para 3)?a. its impossible to slow down the pace of change.b. the social reality children are facing cant be changed.c. lessons learned from the past should not be forgotten.d. its impossible to forget the past.65the first and most important thing parents should do to help their children is _.a. to provide them with a safer environmentb. to lower their expectations for themc. to get them more involved sociallyd. to set a good model for them to follow66which of the following statements is true according to the passage?a. sometimes local news about murder and crime also affects children a little.b. tvs and computers play an important role in isolating children from the real world.c. to children, anxiety is completely avoidable.d. exercise does not help to lessen childrens anxiety.参考答案 dbcb 阅读理解about a third of all common cancers in the united states, china and britain could be prevented each year if people ate healthier food, drank less alcohol and exercised more, health experts said on friday. reports from the world cancer research fund (wcrf) suggest that making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers alone in britain and the united states, as well as tens of thousands of stomach cancers. “even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through keeping a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,” said a wcrf medical and scientific adviser. wcrf findings are supported by world health organization (who) reports, which say regular exercise can prevent many diseases such as cancers and heart diseases. cancer is a leading cause of death around the world and its incidence(发病率) is rising. each year around 12.7 million people discover they have cancer and 7.6 million people die from some form of the disease. there are about 200 known types of cancer. rachel thompson, the wcrfs head of science, said that while the message was simple that not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help ward off many cancers it was still a difficult one to get across. the who says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. this could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day. peter baldini, head of the world lung foundation, also called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes. tobacco kills millions of smokers every year, and tobacco-related lung cancers also kill hundreds of thousands of people who dont smoke but have been exposed to it second-hand. “there isnt a magic bullet to cure all forms of cancer, but we have the opportunity and the duty to protect people from developing cancer wherever possible,” baldini said.63. which of the following words can best take the place of the phrase “ward off” in the sixth paragraph? a. protect b. prevent c. develop d. cure【答案】b【解析】词义猜测题。根据not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help及many cancers可以推测是不吸烟，吃好的食物及有一个健康的体重有助于阻止癌症的发生，故选b。64. which of the following statements is not true according to the text? a. exercising and eating healthily can help to reduce cancer risk. b. each year about 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer around the world. c. every year millions of people die from smoking and lung cancers. d. adults should walk for fifty minutes three times per week.【答案】d【解析】细节理解题。根据the who says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. this could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.世界卫生组织建议一周五次一次30分钟的锻炼时间，故选d。65. which of the following can be the best title of this text? a. simple life changes could stop millions of cancers b. cancer is a leading cause of death c. our bad lifestyle caused many diseases d. the incidence of common cancers is rising【答案】a【解析】标题归纳题。根据making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers及短文的内容可知要人们平时注意生活能够阻止癌症的发生，故选a。66. by writing the passage, the author mainly intends to _. a. advise people to develop healthier lifestyle. b. warn people of the danger of cancers c. explain why many people die from cancers every year. d. introduce the ways to protect people from developing cancers【答案】a【解析】细节理解题。根据短文的内容可知主要建议人们发展健康的生活，故选a。67. we can infer from peter baldinis opinion in the last two paragraphs that _. a. all the lung cancers are linked to smoking b. there is no medicine to cure the cancers but its our duty to find one c. all governments should take measures to control smokers and protect peoples health d. its our opportunity and duty to persuade people to give up smoking【答案】c【解析】推理判断题。根据called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes.建议政府要采取措施控制人们吸烟进而来保护人们的身体健康，故选c。 阅读理解ejust five one-hundredths of an inch thick, light golden in color and with a perfect “saddle curl,” the lays potato chip seems an unlikely weapon for global domination. but its maker, frito-lay, thinks otherwise. “potato chips are a snack food for the world,” said salman amin, the companys head of global marketing. amin believes there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of a frito-lay potato chip.frito-lay is the biggest snack maker in america owned by pepsico and accounts for over half of the parent companys $3 billion annual profits. but the u.s. snack food market is largely saturated, and to grow the company has to look overseas.its strategy rests on two beliefs: first a global product offers economies of scale with which local brands cannot compete. and second, consumers in the 21st century are drawn to “global” as a concept. “global” does not mean products that are consciously identified as american, but ones that consumes-especially young people are linked across cultures by shared beliefs and tastes. potato chips are an american invention, but most chinese, for instance, do not know that frito-lay is an american company. instead, riskey, the companys research and development head, would hope they associate the brand with the new world of global communications and business.with brand perception a crucial(决定性的) factor, riskey ordered a redesign of the frito-lay logo(标识).the logo, along with the companys long-held marketing image of the “irresistibility” of its chips would help facilitate the companys global expansion.the executives acknowledge that they try to swing national eating habits to a food created in america, but they deny that amounts to economic imperialism(势力扩张). rather, they see frito-lay as spreading the benefits of free enterprise across the world. “were making products in those countries, were adapting them to the tastes of those countries, building businesses and employing people and changing lives,” said steve reinemund, pepsicos chief executive.67it is the belief of foito-lays head of global marking that_.a. potato chips can hardly be used as a weapon to dominate the world marketb. people all over the world enjoy eating their companys potato chipsc. the light golden color enhances the charm of their companys potato chipsd. their company must find new ways to promote domestic sales68what do we learn about frito-lay from paragraph 2? a. its products use to be popular among overseas consumers. b. its expansion has caused fierce competition in the snack market. c. it gives half of its annual profits to its parent company. d. it needs to turn to the world market for development.69one of the assumptions on which frito-lay bases its development strategy is that_. a. consumers worldwide today are attracted by global brands b. local brands cannot compete successfully with american brands c. products suiting chinese consumers needs bring more profits d. products identified as american will have promising market value70frito-lays executives claim that the promoting of american food in the international market_.a. wont affect the eating habits of the local people b. will lead to economic imperialism c. will be in the interest of the local people d. wont spoil the taste of their chips参考答案 6770 bdac第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） a youre in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. you listen to their conversation: i cant believe it-a lorenzo bertolla! they are almost impossible to find. isnt it beautiful? and its a lot cheaper than the one sara bought in rome. they leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. its nice and the price is right. youve never heard of lorenzo bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. they must know. so, you buy it. you never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. they are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about lorenzo bertoha clothes. every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. if the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. this is the secret of undercover marketing. companies from ford to nike are starting to use it. undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that dont pay attention to traditional advertising. this is particularly true of the mtv generation-consumers between the age of 18 and 34. it is a golden group. they have a lot of money to spend, but they dont trust ads. so advertising agencies hire young actors to perform in bars and other places where young adults go. some people might call this practice deceptive, but marketing executive jonathan ressler calls it creative. look at traditional advertising. its effectiveness is decreasing. however, one might ask what exactly is real about of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? adverting executives would say its no less real than an ad. the difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. you don t know when a conversation you overhear is just a performance.56. the two attractive young women were talking so that they could _. a. get the sweater at a lower price b. be heard by people around c. be admired by other shoppers d. decide on buying the sweater57. lorenzo bertolla is _. a. a very popular male singer b. an advertising agency c. a clothing company in rome d. the brand name of a sweater58. the underlined word real in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _. a. honest b. true c. false d. artificial59. which of the following can be inferred from the passage? a. the two girls are in fact employed by the lorenzo bertolla company. b. the mtv generation tend to be more easily influenced by ads. c. traditional advertising is becoming less effective because its too direct. d. undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government.60. which of the following would be the best rifle for the text? a. two attractive shoppers b. lorenzo bertolla sweaters c. ways of advertising d. undercover marketing 参考答案56-60 bdacdmark rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in daugavpils, latvia in 1903. his family immigrated to the united states in 1913, after a 12-day voyage.mark moved to new york in the autumn of 1923 and found employment in the garment trade and settled down on the upper west side. it was while he was visiting someone at the art students league that he saw students painting a model. according to him, this was the start of his life as an artist. he was twenty years old and had taken some art lessons at school, so his initial experience was far from an immediate calling.in 1936, mark rothko began writing a book, which he never completed, about the similarities in the childrens art and the work of modern painters. the work of modernists, which was influenced by primitive art, could, according to him, be compared to that of children in that “child art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a copy of himself.” in this same work, he said that “the fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. we start with color.”it was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for. in 1949 rothko exhibited these new works at the betty parsons gallery. for reviewer harold rosenberg, the paintings were unique and primitive. rothko had, after painting his first multiform, separated himself from the world in east hampton on long island, only inviting a very few people, including rosenberg, to view the new paintings. the discovery of his works specialty came at a period of great sorrow: his mother kate died in october 1948. as part of this new uniformity of artistic vision, his paintings no longer had individual titles. from this point on they were simply untitled, numbered or dated. however, to assist in distinguishing one work from another, traders would sometimes add the primary colors to the name. additionally, for the next few years, rothko painted in oil only on large vertical tents. this was done to surround the viewer, or, in his words, to make the viewer feel enveloped within the picture.68. when did rothko want to be an artist?a. when he immigrated to the u.s.a. b. when he watched students drawing.c. when he moved to the upper west side. d. when he joined the art students league.【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。根据it was while he was visiting someone at the art students league that he saw students painting a model. according to him, this was the start of his life as an artist.当他看见学生画画的时候，故选b。69. what did rothko think of modern art?a. it could be produced by children. b. it could be compared to child work.c. it was a certain kind of primitive art. d. it was academic from the very beginning.【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。根据about the similarities in the childrens art and the work of modern painters.儿童艺术与现代艺术的有相似点，故选b。70. why does the author mention rothkos uncompleted book?a. to prove rothkos concentration on painting.b. to show rothkos research on the modern art.c. to suggest rothkos unique personal painting style.d. to explain the inspiration of rothkos painting style.【答案】c【解析】推理判断题。根据it was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for.提出他的独特绘画风格，故选c。71. rothkos distinctive style _. a. took shape in 1948 b. was affected by rosenbergc. resulted from his boyhood experienced. was rooted in the separation from the world【答案】a【解析】细节理解题。根据the discovery of his works specialty came at a period of great sorrow: his mother kate died in october 1948.他的独特风格的形成是在1948年。e most recently, its very common in students who need a parent present for job interviews. naturally, its easy to blame the students in these situations, but the bigger problem is us. weas parentsare so eager to shelter our kids that we fail to realize that this in itself is harming them. as the mother of two young sons, i have to remind myself constantly that the biggest responsibility i have as a parent is to help them develop the skills needed to live in, to live without me. so, ill let them fail ill let them fail because as long as they are safe and warm inside their comfort zones, they will never grow. and failure along with loss, heartbreak, disappointment, etc.will be part of growth for them. call me the anti-tiger mom, but leaving them alone is, my way of helping them become equipped to fit in this worl