高考英语阅读理解精英系列训练题（13）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解精英系列训练题（13）及答案阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分。共40分）（共1 5小题；每小题2分，共30分）阅读下列短文从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项并在答案卡上将该项涂黑。 【2013河南开封市四模】aa jobless man applied for the position of office boy at microsoftthe hr manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a testyou are employed, he saidgive me your e-mail address and ill send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start the man replied, but i dont have a computer, neither an e-mail im sorry, said the hr managerif you dont have an email, that means you do not existand who doesnt exist cannot have the jobthe man left with no hope at allhe didnt know what to do, with only ten dollars in his pockethe then decided to go to the supermarket and buy 10 kg tomatoeshe then sold the tomatoes from door to doorin less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capitalhe repeated the operation three times, and returned home happily with 60 dollars the man realized that he could survive in this way, and started to go every day earlier, and return laterthus, his money doubled or tripled every dayshortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehiclesfive years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers in the ushe started to plan his familys future and decided to have a life insurancehe called an insurance broker and chose a protection planwhen the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his e-mailthe man replied, i dont have an e-mailthe broker said curiously, you dont have an e-mail, and yet have succeeded to build an empirecan you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail? the man thought for a while and replied, yes, id be an office boy at microsoft !56according to the passage, which of the following is true?athe man was one of the biggest food retailers in the worldbthe man didnt give up though he failed the interview che started his career by selling tomatoes in the supermarketdthose who have e-mails can work at microsoft57the underlined word tripled in paragraph 3 can be replaced by _ abecame large bbecame 3 times cdecreased slightly ddecreased quickly58the man can be described as _ahelpful and considerate bpositive and generouscsmart and hardworking dstubborn and unselfish59which proverb can best describe the story? amisfortune may be an actual blessingbwhere there is a will, there is a waycaccidents will happendno pains, no gains【参考答案】5659、bbca 阅读理解（b）in college i didnt appreciate the value of money, and spent every last cent i made. to make things worse, i also managed to get 12 credit cards by the time i was 21. tired of having no money, i needed to find my way to stand out. rather than finding productive ways to use my money or save it for the future, i decided to blow it all on designer purses and any good high heels i could find. i only worked one day a week at a gas station with low pay. within a year, i got $18, 000 of the credit card debt. for the next two years, i paid only minimum payments since i couldnt afford to pay much more than that. the total of minimum payments was about $600 a month, so it was impossible to make ends meet. i began to feel like a hamster（仓鼠）running on a wheel. in 2008, i decided to reduce my debt. i didnt want to take out a loan but wanted my debt to be one monthly payment with lower interest. i was somewhat smart and found consumer credit counseling services of greater milwaukee (cccs). it is offered through a local reputable healthcare provider and is a part of the national foundation for credit counseling. with cccs, my debts were still with my creditors, but the interest rates were all lowered and cccs acted somewhat like a debt management company. i would pay them, and theyd disperse（分散）payments to all my creditors. they charged me $35 a month, which is a small fee considering how much interest they were saving me for being in the program. it has been a struggle since i am still a part of the program and currently pay $410 a month. i started the program in january 2008 with a balance of18, 000, and i am now down to $1, 200. this should be paid off by the end of this summer. sure, it has taken three years. thats like paying off a car! i cant imagine what my balances would be if i had not entered this program. the good thing about having had a debt management plan is not only that i am getting rid of my debt, but also that i learned how to better manage my money. i havent had a credit card in three and a half years and have done well without it. 21. what do we know about the author from paragraph 1? a. she knew how to invest with her money. b. she worked at a gas station to save money. c. she got into debt because of over consumption. d. she got used to the hard life in college. 22. when she couldnt make ends meet, the author _. a. wanted to leave collegeb. was calm and didnt mind itc. wanted to find a good jobd. was very anxious about it23. what benefit did the author get with the help of cccs? a. it allowed her to pay lower interest. b. it paid the debt for her. c. it reduced the number of her creditors. d. it helped her put off paying off her debt. 24. when did the author pay off her debt? a. in march 2011. b. in august 2011. c. in december 2011. d. in june 2010. 25. what do we infer from the authors experience? a. it is important to learn how to better manage money. b. we had better stop using credit cards. c. only by saving money as much as possible can we become rich. d. we should not borrow a lot of money from the bank. 答案解析【文章大意】在大学期间，作者起初不会理财，有钱尽量花，没钱就用信用卡，结果欠下了不少的债务。后来在一个还款公司的帮助下，她终于还清了债务，也学会了如何理财。21.【解析】选c。细节理解题。根据第一段in college i didnt appreciate the value of money, and spent every last cent i made. 可知，答案为c。a项表示作者会投资，不符合主题；b项以偏概全；d项与事实相反。22.【解析】选d。细节理解题。根据第二段i began to feel like a hamster running on a wheel. “我开始感觉像是奔跑在车轮上的仓鼠”可知 作者面临困境，着急万分，忧心忡忡，所以答案为d。23.【解析】选a。推理判断题。根据第三段with cccs, my debts were still with my creditors, but the interest rates were all lowered. . . 可推断，答案为a。b、c、d项均与文意不符。24.【解析】选b。推理判断题。作者从2008年1月加入cccs的还款计划，当时的债务是$18, 000美元, 每月还款$410, 根据计算，还完债务需三年零八个月，即2011年8月。故答案为b。25.【解析】选a。推理判断题。根据末段the good thing. . . is not only that i am getting rid of my debt, but also that i learned how to better manage my money. 可推断，答案为a。(1)death valley is one of the most famous deserts in the united states, covering a wide area with its alkali sand almost 20 percent of this area is well below sea level, and badwater, a salt water pool, is about 280 feet below sea level and the lowest point in the united states. long ago the panamint indians called this place “tomesha” the land of fire. death valleys present name dates back to 1849, when a group of miners coming across from nevada became lost in its unpleasantness and hugeness and their adventure turned out to be a sad story. today death valley has been declared a national monument(纪念碑) and is crossed by several well-marked roads where good services can be found easily. luckily the change created by human settlement has hardly ruined the special beauty of this place. here nature created a lot of surprising, almost like the sights on the moon, ever-changing as the frequent wind moves the sand about, showing the most unusual colors. one of the most astonishing and variable parts of death valley is the devil s golf course, where it seems hard for one to tell reality from terrible dreams. sand sculptures(沙雕) stand on a frightening ground, as evening shadows move and lengthen. 1. _ is the lowest place in the desert. a. tomesha b. death valleyc. nevadad. badwater2. the name of the valley comes from _. a. an indian name b. the death of the minersc. the local people d. a national movement3. from the passage we can learn that _. a. no one had ever known the desert before the minersb. its still not easy to travel across the desertc. people can find gas-stations, cafes and hotels in the desertd. people have changed the natural sight of the desert4. devil golf course is famous for _. a. the frequent wind b. the colors of the sandc. dream-like sights d. the sand sculptures5. from the passage we can see that the writer _ the death valley. a. appreciates b. is fearful ofc. dislikes d. is tired of【答案解析】本文介绍了美国的一个著名沙漠“死亡谷”名称的由来以及 “死亡谷”奇特的风光。1. d. 细节题。根据 and badwater, a salt water pool, is about 280 feet below sea level and the lowest point in the united states 可推知此题答案为 d。2. b. 推断题。根据 when a group of miners coming across from nevada became lost in its unpleasantness and hugeness and their adventure turned out to be a sad story 可知“死亡谷”的名称来源于这些迷路矿工的死亡。3. c. 推断题。根据 well-marked roads where good services can be found easily 可以判断 c 为最佳答案。4. c. 细节题。根据 where it seems hard for one to tell reality from terrible dreams 可推知答案为 c。5. a. 推断题。根据the special beauty of this placelike the sights on the moon ever-changingshowing the most unusual colors等关键词语可以知道作者是带着赞赏的语气来描述“死亡谷”的。【2013河南开封市四模】blong time no see is a very interesting sentencewhen i first read this sentence from an american friends email, i laughed i thought it was a perfect example of chinglishobviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the chinese greetings with a ruled english grammar and structure! later on, my friend told me that it is a standard american greetingi was too thrilled to believe her her words could not convince me at allso i did a research on googlecomto my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages containing long time no see this sentence has been widely used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible placesthough it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that americans use daily ironically（识刺地） , if you type this phrase in microsoft word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be correctednobody knows the origin of this chinglish sentencesome people believe that it came from charlie chans moviesin the 1930s, hollywood moviemakers successfully created a world wide famous chinese detective named charlie chan on wide screensdetective chan likes to teach americans some chinese wisdom by quoting confuciuslong time no see was his trademarksoon after charlie chan, long time no see became a popular phrase in the real world, thanks to the popularity of these moviessome scholars refer to america as a huge pot of stew（炖菜）all kinds of culture are mixed-in the stew together, and they change the color and taste of each other american chinese, though a minority group in the mixed states, is also contributing some changes to the stew ! language is usually the first thing to be influenced in the mixed stewyou can have some more examples than adoptions from chinese, such as pizza from italian, susi from japanese, and dj vu from french etc there is a long list! americans do not just simply borrow something from others they will modify it andmake it their ownso you would not be surprised to find a tofu and peanut butter hamburger in a restaurant, or to buy a bottle of iced chinese green tea with honey in a grocery storesince americans appreciate chinese culture more and more nowadays, i believe more chinese words will become american english in the futurein this way the american stew keeps adding richness and flavor60the writer himself felt surprised at _ athe chinglish expression long time no see bfinding out americans use the expression every day cso many literal translation of the expressions used in america dlong time no see used as standard american english61according to the passage, it can be inferred that _ahollywood made long time no see popularbdetectives translate the phrase long time no seecthe huge pot of stew greatly affects all kinds of languages dcultures can be changed in the huge pot of stew62the main idea of the passage is that _asome chinese expressions are introduced into englishbyoull not be surprised at a tofu in a restaurant in americacsome american expressions can be used in chinadamerican english keeps being enriched from different cultures63according to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?ainformal language sometimes doesnt go with grammar and structureblong time no see has been used in at least four media mentioned in the passageclanguages are always ruled by grammar and structuredthere are four languages mentioned to be adopted in the american stew【参考答案】6063、dadc 阅读理解(2)the erie canal was the first important national waterway built in the us. it crossed new york from buffalo on lake erie troy to albany on the hudson river. it joined the great lakes with the atlantic ocean. the canal served as a route over which industrial goods could flow into the west, and materials could pour into the east. the erie canal helped new york develop into the nations largest city.the building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of new york. it cost $ 7 143 789, but it soon gained its price many times over. between 1825, when the canal was opened, and 1882, when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped, the state collected $121 461 891.for a hundred years before the erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the great lakes and the atlantic ocean. the man who planned the erie canal and carried the plan through was de witt clinton. those who were against the canal laughingly called it “clintons ditch(沟)”. clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it. he and governor morris went to washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful. clinton became governor of new york in 1817, and shortly afterwards, on july 4, 1817, broke ground for the canal in rome, n.y. the first part of the canal was completed in 1820. as the canal grew, towns along its c