高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（6）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（6）及答案passage twenty (ncb in interpol)the organization known to the world as interpol has sometimes been described as an outfit of chisel-jawed gimlet-eyed crime fighters who put their lives in jeopardy every working hour. less flatteringly, interpol has also been described as a huge filing cabinet, stuffed with clerks choking on their own statistics.as with most generalities, there is some truth in both statements. there are, certainly, some grim battlers of crime to be found working with interpol. there are, just as surely, those drones shuffling mountains of paper whose cheeks are sallow from indoor life. consider the charisma of the name alone: interpol, the international police force. continents leaped in a single bound, oceans crossed in the space of a breath, villains watched by eyes that never sleep. surprisingly, a lot of it happens almost that way.four groups coordinate and direct the activities of interpol. one of them is the national central bureaus, or ncbs, bodies designated by the member nations to serve as their link with interpol. these are the front-line troops, the action people. in the united states, the treasury department is the national central bureau. in the united kingdom, it is scotland yard; the questura in italy and the melbourne city police in australia. because police organization varies from country, the ncbs were established to act as the one special group to handle interpol chores and unsure maximum cooperation between nations. each ncb is usually an official government body with police powers if a country has only one central police authority, that body becomes the national centre bureau. of course, any service appointed as an ncb is bound to its nations law and authority and retains its national title.each ncb is connected by radio to the regional station for its geographic zone. the regional stations are connected to the central station in france. the radio network is versatile. network stations can monitor the central station or any regional station. because of this messages can be broadcast to more than one station at a time. a coding system determines the urgency of each message so that those with high priority can be given precedence. besides, other communication tools, such as radio-teleprinters and phototelegraphy equipment. permit rapid transfers of fingerprints and photographs. sometimes ever more advanced technology is employed. when the police all over the world were looking for a canadian named george leray, they turned to the early bird satellite. leray had led his gang on a daring holdup of a montreal bank and gotten away with $4 million. scotland yard broadcast lerays photo to the world by satellite. an american who saw the picture in florida recognized leray as a man who was living on a yacht in fort lauderdale under an assumed name. the police were alerted and arrested leray.1. what is the best title for this passage?a. the function of the interpol. . the quality of the interpol.c. the organization of the interpol. d. the rapid development of the interpol.2. the organization of this passage is a. general to specific. . cause and effect.c. comparison and contrast. d. development.3. the sentence “stuffed with clerks choking on their own statistics” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to a. a lot of employees busying in their work. many office workers busying with various documents.c. crowded with office workers busying with their own collected data.d. workers busying in their own information.4. which is the easiest tool to communicate?a. satellite. . radio. teleprinter. d. phototelegraphy.vocabulary1. interpol 国际刑警组织2. outfit 全班人马，有组织团体3. chisel-jawed 仪表英俊的4. gimlet-eyed 目光锐利的5. jeopardy 危险6. flatteringly 奉承7. choke 闷死 choking on their own statistics 被自己的统计数字弄的喘不过气来8. as with most generalities 和大多数笼统说法一样9. grim 冷酷的10. drone 懒汉，懒洋洋的人11. shuffle 反复挪动，乱翻，洗（纸牌）12. charisma 超凡的魅力13. national central bureaus 国家中心局14. treasury department 财政部（美）15. questura 警察局（意）16. melbourne 墨尔本警察局17. chore 日常零星工作18. to be bound to 受的约束，义务，一定19. geographic zone 地区，地带20. versatile 有多方面用途的21. radio-teleprinter 无线电打印机22. phototelegraph 传真23. daring 大胆的24. holdup 抢劫25. alert 使警惕，使处于待命状态难句译注1. the organization known to the world as interpol has sometimes been described as an outfit of chisel-jawed gimlet-eyed crime fighters who put their lives in jeopardy every working hour. less flatteringly, interpol has also been described as a huge filing cabinet, stuffed with clerks choking on their own statistics.结构简析 两个句子都是被动语气，都有分词短语。前一句known 修饰organization，后一句stuffed 修饰 cabinet.参考译文 闻名于世的国际刑警组织长被描述成一群仪表英俊，目光犀利和罪犯斗争的战士的群体组织。他们的生命无时无刻不处于危险之中。国际刑警组织也被描述为一个大型的档案室，里面挤满了工作人员，他们被自己的统计数字忙得喘不过气来。2. there are, certainly, some grim battlers of crime to be found working with interpol. there are, just as surely, those drones shuffling mountains of paper whose cheeks are sallow from indoor life.结构简析 这是两个句子，都是引导词there句型。参考译文 这里肯定能见到和罪犯斗争的冷酷无情的斗士在国际刑警组织工作，同样可以肯定，这里有那些懒洋洋的人在翻动如山的文件档案，他们的脸颊由于室内生活而消瘦如刀。3. continents leaped in a single bound, oceans crossed in the space of a breath, villains watched by eyes that never sleep.结构简析 这是省略句。正常句型应该是continents are leaped in，oceans are crossed in, villains are watched by 。参考译文 大洲可一步跨过。大洋可以在转眼之间越过，坏蛋可以由日夜不眠的眼睛紧盯着。4. these are the front-line troops, the action people.参考译文 这些人是前线军，具体行动的人（执行人）。写作方法与文章大意这是一篇介绍国际刑警组织的文章。采用一般到具体的写作方法。头二段是对国际刑警组织的一般介绍，后面是具体到ncb，组成国际刑警组织四个部门之一国家中心局是各国负责和国际刑警保持联系部门，如英国的苏格兰场，美国的财政部等，最后一段讲联系的多种渠道和方式方法。答案祥解1. c. 国际刑警组织。上面文章大意已经说明介绍国际刑警组织，其职能性质只是附带涉及。所以a. b. 不对。 d. 迅速发展，文章没有涉及。2. a. 文章是一般到具体的组织结构。b. 因果 和 c. 对比。 不对。 d. 展开，任何文章都得展开。3. c. stuff=crowd 办公室挤满了工作人员，忙于分析处理收集来的信息和数据。见难句译注1参考译文。a. 有许多雇员忙于工作； b. 许多办公室人员忙于各种文件； d. 忙于自己信息的工人。 这三项都没有。4. b. 无线电通讯。纵然第四段内提及种种手段：卫星，无线电，打印机，传真电报。但无线电通讯仍是他们运用的最方便和最得力的工具，因为他们的无线电网络灵活多用，网络站能监控中央和各地区站点，而且一次能把信息传至好几台。至于卫星，电报，传真电报只是在特殊情况下运行，如快速传送照片，指纹等。所以a. 卫星， c. 无线电打印机， d. 传真电报，不对。参考答案-cmost mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jugon good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in kesum purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of new delhion bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all“that water kills people,” a young mother named shoba said one recent saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel （焦糖）-colored liquid“whoever drinks it will die” the water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhoodwomen often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink itthere is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litersthe government of india promises （but rarely provides） fortymost people drink two or three litersless than it takes to wash a toiletthe rest is typically used for cooking and bathingamericans consume between four hundred and six hundred liters of water each day, more than any other people on earthmost europeans use less than half thatthe women of kesum purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred liters that daytwo or three buckets worthshoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noonshe often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other waysometimes she just buys milk; its cheaperlike the poorest people everywhere, the people of new delhis slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes50the underlined word “slum” most likely means _aa village ba small towncthe part of a town that lacks water badlydan area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings51sometimes the water tanker doesnt come because _athere is no electricity bthe weather is badcthere is no water dpeople dont want the dirty water52a person needs at least _ liters of water a daya forty bfifty ca hundred dfour hundred53the passage mainly tells us _ahow india government manages to solve the problem of waterbhow women in kesum purbahari gets their waterchow much water a day a person needsdthat india lacks water badly【参考答案】49-bd 51-53 abd 阅读理解-din ancient egypt the pharaoh （法老） treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace if he brought good newshowever if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut offshades of that spirit spread over todays conversationsonce, a friend and i packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outingas we walked light-heartedly out of the door picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, oh boy, bad day for a picnicthe weatherman says its going to rain i wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwichesnot for his stupid weather report, but for his smileseveral months ago i was racing to catch a busas i breathlessly put my handful of cash across the greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile, “oh, that bus left five minutes ago” dreams of head-cutting!its not the news that makes someone angryits the unsympathetic attitude with which its deliveredeveryone must give bad news from time to time and winning professionals do it with the proper attitudea doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring waya boss informing an employee he didnt get the job takes on a sympathetic tonebig winners know when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiverunfortunately, many people are not aware of thiswhen youre tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isnt ready yet? when you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he jus