高考英语阅读理解精英定时系列练习题（8）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解精英定时系列练习题（8）及答案【齐齐哈尔市实验中学2013综合训练】cas a disabled person, i often feel i have two jobs. theres my normal job working as a radio producer and theres my role managing a team of carers (otherwise called personal assistants). of the two jobs, being a radio producer is considerably easier. one of the hardest aspects of being a pa employer and needing 24-hour care is that you never feel “off duty”. at any time a pa could present me with an issue or concern that needs handling.there was an occasion when a previous pa came into my bedroom one morning to get me up and began complaining straight away that i had paid her the wrong amount that week. another former pa once called me on a saturday evening to ask if she could book some annual leave. once the booking is confirmed, the worry about not having a carer at all is replaced by concern over who the carer is. my agency tries very hard to send me carers whove helped me before, but obviously if you book agency care at short notice you just have to accept whoever is available. when an agency sends me a carer who is new to me, i have to explain my needs from scratch.of course, no organisation is never wrong and care agencies are no exception. when an agency makes a mistake and a carer fails to turn up, the impact on my life can be frustrating and distressing. it might mean im unable to get up in the morning and am stuck in bed for hours staring at the ceiling, waiting for a carer to arrive. it might mean im late for work or have to miss an appointment. fortunately, over the last decade ive seen a considerable improvement in the quality of service care agencies provide. most of the time, im pleased to say, the agencies i use are caring, organised and reliable.when a home pa is off sick, life can be stressful but when a work pa is ill, the consequences can be more serious. at home it doesnt matter if tasks dont get done or take longer because the agency carer is less experienced at helping me than my permanent pas. the only person affected is myself. however, at work i have to meet deadlines and if i dont do my job properly, then not only will it create extra problems for my colleagues but it could also affect the quality of the programme im working on.luckily, i employ two full-time permanent pas so when one is absent i usually still have the other one with me. on a normal day the work pas share out the hours equally between them.covering a pas sickness not only creates practical problems, it can also be a financial headache. agency care is expensive. for this reason, a pa who doesnt need much sick leave is worth her weight in gold.64. the passage is mainly about _. a. social relation b. housework and work c. social care d. sickness and treatment65. being a pa employer, the author feels she is always “on duty” because_. a. she takes up two jobs- working as radio producer and managing a team of carers. b. some employees are either less experienced or considerably lazy. c. she has to get up early in the morning and go to bed late at night. d. a personal assistant may bring much trouble to her anytime.66. what does the author think of the service of the care agencies? a. the quality of service care agencies offer has improved a lot. b. her care agencies never make any mistakes. c. her care agencies take good care of her. d. the service her care agencies provide needs considerable improvement.67. why can the consequences be more serious when a work pa is ill? a. because a work pa is less efficient than a home pa. b. because the authors poor work has an effect on her colleagues with no care. c. because on a normal day a work pa has much important work to do. d. because the absence of a pa can cause financial problems.【参考答案】6467 cdab 链接2. （2012浙江卷）easter(复活节) is still a great day for worship, randy in baskets and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.and no, not because the kids like to pull their ears. the culprit is climate change, and some researchers found that rising temperatures arc having harmful effects on at least five species of rabbit in the us.take the lower keys march rabbit, for instance. an endangered species that lives in the lower florida keys, this species of cottontail is a great swimmer it lives on the islands! but it is already severely affected by development and now by rising levels. according to the center for biological diversity, an ocean level rise of only 0. 6 meters will send these guys jumping to higher ground and a 0.9-meter rise would wipe out their habitat (栖息地) completely.the snowshoe hare, on the other hand, has a color issue. most of these rabbits change their fur color from white in the wintertime to brown in the summer, each designed to give them better cover from predators（捕食者）. as the number of days with snow decreases all across the country, however, more and more bunnies arc being left in white fur during brown dirt days of both fall and spring, making them an easier mark for predators. researchers know that the color change is controlled by the number of hours of sunlight, but whether the rabbit will be able to adapt quick enough to survive is a big question. the national wildlife federation has reported that hunters have noticed their numbers are already markedly down.american pikas or rock rabbits, a relative of rabbits and hares, might be the firs of these species to go extinct due to climate change. about 7-8 inches long, pikas live high in the cool, damp mountains west of the rocky mountains. as global temperatures rise, they would naturally migrate (迁徙) to higher ground but they already occupy the mountaintops. they cant go any higher. the national wildlife federation reports that they might not be able to stand the new temperatures as their habitat beats up.the volcano rabbit has the same problem. these rabbits live on the slopes of volcanoes in mexico, and recent studies have shown that the lower range of their habitat has already shifted upward about 700 meters, but there are not suitable plants for them to move higher, so they are stuck in the middle. scientists are concerned about their populations.native to the us, pygmy rabbits weigh less than 1 pound and live in the american west. they are believed to be the smallest rabbits in the world. their habitats have been destroyed by development. several populations, such as the columbia basin pygmy, almost went extinct and were saved by zoo breeding programs. pygmy rabbits also rely on winter cover by digging tunnels through the snow to escape predators, but lesser snowfall is leaving them exposed.all of this gives new meaning to dressing up in a giant bunny costume this easter. 41 the writer mentions easter at the beginning of the passage in order to_.a. show the importance of easter dayb. introduce the issue about bunniesc. remind people of easter traditions d. discuss the relationship between easter and bunnies42. the word culprit ( paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to_.a. criminalb. judgec. victimd. producer43.according to the passage, some rabbits can now be easily uncovered by predators because they_a.are exposed lo more skillful huntersb.have moved to habitats with fewer plantsc.havent adapted themselves to climate changed.cant change their fur color into white in the fall and the spring44,the problem faced by volcano rabbets and rock rabbits is that_.a. both are affected by 1ess snowb. both are affected by rising sea levelsc neither can find enough food0. neither can migrate to higher places45 which best describes the writers tone in the postage?a. approving.b. concerned.c. enthusiastic.d. doubtful.【长难句解析】most of these rabbits change their fur color from white in the wintertime to brown in the summer, each designed to give them better cover from predators（捕食者）。大多数这种兔子会把冬天时的白色皮毛变成夏季的棕色，每一种颜色的变化是为了让他们更好地避免捕食者的发现。designed是非谓语，与其逻辑主语each构成被动关系，故用过去分词作状语。此外由于each和句子主语most of these rabbits不是同一事物，因此这种非谓语结构在语法上被称之为独立主格结构。阅读理解词意猜测解题指导例1 （2012湖南） when my brother and i were young, my mom would take us on transportation days. it goes like this: you cant take any means of transportation more than once. we would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. wed take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the tram, then maybe a taxi. we always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didnt like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. at the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where moms friend was waiting to give us a ride homeour first car ride of the day.the good thing about transportation days is not only that mom taught us how to get around. she was born to be multimodal (多方式的). she understood that depending on cars only was a failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidencethe product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels. once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. new cities are just light-rail lines to be explored. and your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolboxand often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.on transportation days, we might stop for lunch on chestnut street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. first, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. as i got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: how do i know where to get off? how do i know how much it costs? how do i know when i need tickets, and where to get them? what track, what line, which direction, wheres the stop, and will i get wet when we go under the river?im writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didnt try on our transportation days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. my flight routed me through philadelphia. my multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. she took a train t meet me. 57. the underlined word “paralyzed” (in para. 5) is closest in meaning to “_”.take the lower keys march rabbit, for instance. an endangered species that lives in the lower florida keys, this species of cottontail is a great swimmer it lives on the islands! but it is already severely affected by development and now by rising levels. according to the center for biological diversity, an ocean level rise of only 0. 6 meters will send these guys jumping to higher ground and a 0.9-meter rise would wipe out their habitat (栖息地) completely. the snowshoe hare, on the other hand, has a color issue. most of these rabbits change their fur color from white in the wintertime to brown in the summer, each designed to give them better cover from predators（捕食者）. as the number of days with snow decreases all across the country, however, more and more bunnies arc being left in white fur during brown dirt days of both fall and spring, making them an easier mark for predators. researchers know that the color change is controlled by the number of hours of sunlight, but whether the rabbit will be able to adapt quick enough to survive is a big question. the national wildlife federation has reported that hunters have noticed their numbers are already markedly down.american pikas or rock rabbits, a relative of rabbits and hares, might be the firs of these species to go extinct due to climate change. about 7-8 inches long, pikas live high in the cool, damp mountains west of the rocky mountains. as global temperatures rise, they would naturally migrate (迁徙) to higher ground but they already occupy the mountaintops. they cant go any higher. the national wildlife federation reports that they might not be able to stand the new temperatures as their habitat beats up.the volcano rabbit has the same problem. these rabbits live on the slopes of volcanoes in mexico, and recent studies have shown that the lower range of their habitat has already shifted upward about 700 meters, but there are not suitable plants for them to move higher, so they are stuck in the middle. scientists are concerned about their populations.native to the us, pygmy rabbits weigh less than 1 pound and live in the american west. they are believed to be the smallest rabbits in the world. their habitats have been destroyed by development. several populations, such as the columbia basin pygmy, almost went extinct and were saved by zoo breeding programs. pygmy rabbits also rely on winter cover by digging tunnels through the snow to escape predators, but lesser snowfall is leaving them exposed.all of this gives new meaning to dressing up in a giant bunny costume this easter. 42. the word culprit ( paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to_.a. criminalb. judgec. victimd. producer点拨 a 词义猜测题。根据文章第一段最后一句后半句：but every year it gets quite a bit 【齐齐哈尔市实验中学2013综合训练】dover the past summer, many young chinese students reportedly downloaded and watched online courses given by top universities from the us and uk. many people welcome this as a new form of acquiring knowledge, while some see this as an opportunity to learn from these top-ranked universities without paying the high fee.by talking to some chinese friends who enjoyed those online courses, i find that what they like about those courses is largely the free, interactive and humorous atmosphere in american university classes. some chinese professors, especially young ones, have already taken steps to reform course structure, provide more class discussion and adopt various evaluations rather than one final examination to determine students grades.however, the chinese tradition of staying serious in the classroom remains the same. in some cases, the teacher just reads out the text directly from the textbook for the whole class period.i cannot agree more with those who attend these free online courses. online courses offered by western universities will probably change the tradition of how the chinese students learn things.however, these free courses cannot offer everything taught by those western universities. young chinese can learn the methods and subjects, but there will always be a gap between watching it online and experiencing it in person.from my experience studying in the us, the most valuable lessons i have learned were not in class. my best source of learning was the motivation and encouragement from my classmates and friendsquestioning and arguing about theories and ideas. or it was through my professors help during the one-on-one office hours.the most important experiences cannot be copied by watching a course through the computer screen.a latest report from the community colleg