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2015届高考英语二轮复习60分达标阅读理解训练16一 、阅读理解（本大题共6小题，共60分）A O.Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was Willianm Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long,but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O.Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O.Henry was beieved to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he go out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the readers surprise. 1. In which order did O.Henry do the following things? a. Lived in New York. b. Worked in a bank c. Travelled to Texas d. Was put in prison e. Had a newspaper job f. Learned to write stories A. e, c, f, b, d, a B. c, e, b, d, f, a C. e, b, d, c, a, f D. c, b, e, d, a, f2. People enjoyed reading O.Henrys stories because_. A. they had surprise endings B. they were easy to understand C. they showed his love for the poor D. they were about New York City3. Henry went to prison because_. A. people thought he had stolen money from tbe newspaper B. he broke the law by not using his own name C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners D people thought he had taken money that was not his 4. What do we know about O.Henry before he began writing? A. He was well-educated. B. He was not serious about his work. C. He was devoted to the poor. D. He was very good at learning.5. Where did O.Henry get most material for his short stories? A. His life inside the prison. B. The newspaper articles he wrote. C. The city and people of New York. D. His exciting early life as a boy.【答案解析】 1.【分析】本题要求考生根据文中所给信息，叙述的内容和顺序进行重新排列组合。B为正确答案。 2.【分析】这是一道细节题。从文中People liked his stories,because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the readers surprise一句可以得到提示，A为该题最佳答案。 3.【分析】这仍是一道细节题。文中when some money went missing from the bank, O.Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of it, he was sent to prison.这两句话，便可知道最佳答案为D。 4.【分析】本题仍属一道细节题。只要考生抓住文中的he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know一句，再加之对全文的理解，很容易得知D是该题的最佳答案。 5.【分析】这也是一道细节题。文中He wrote mostly about New Yok and the life of the poor there.一句中的副词mostly，考生必须抓住，便可知C为本题的最佳答案。 B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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 （A） Outside her shabby cottage, old Mrs. Tailor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children lay hidden in the leaves of a nearby tree watching her every move. They were determined to find out if she really was a witch. They watched as she took a broomstick to clean the dirt from her stone steps. But, much to their disappointment, she did not mount the broomstick and take flight. Suddenly, the old ladys work was interrupted by the cackling of her hena signal that an egg had been laid in the warm nest on top of the haystack. The old broomstick was put aside as she hobbled off towards the haystack followed by Sooty, a black cat she had rescued from a fox trap some time back. With only three legs, it was hard for Sooty to keep up with the old lady. The cat provided proofthe children were sure that only a witch could own a black cat with three legs. There, standing on a wooden box, was Mrs. Tailor, stretching out to gather her precious egg. Taking the egg in one of her hands, she began to climb down when, without warning, the box broke and the old lady fell. “We have to got and help her,” whispered Amy. “What if it is a trick?” replied Ben. “Dont be silly, Ben. If she were a witch, she would have turned us into frogs already,” reasoned Meg. “Come on Amy, lets go.” The girls climbed down the tree and ran all the way to the haystack. Approaching carefully, they could see a wound on the old ladys face. She had knocked her head on a stone and her ankle was definitely broken. “Go and get Dad,” Amy yelled to her brother. “Tell him about the accident.” The boys did not need another excuse to leave. They ran as fast as thy could for help, hoping that Mrs. Tailor would not wake and turn the girls into frogs. 56. Were the children hiding in the tree? A. They wanted to watch Mrs. Tailor do her housework closely. B. They were playing a hide-and-seek game C. They wanted to find out if the rumors about Mrs. Tailor were true D. They were pretending to be spies 57. Mrs. Tailor stopped sweeping when_ A. her front steps were clean B. she noticed the children in the tree 21世 C. she was ready to take a flight D. she heard the hen cackling 58. Ben did not rush in help Mrs. Tailor because_ A. he thought that she could be necking them B. he knew that they could not have been in the tree C. he did not the old lady fall down D. he was afraid of the three-legged cat 59. Which of these old sayings best suits the storys lesson for us? A. Make hay while the sun shines. B. Never judge a book by its cover. C. People in glasshouses should not the stones. D. A bird in the hands worth two in the bush. 【答案解析】本文是篇记叙文，讲叙了一群孩子把一位老太太当作巫婆的有趣故事，告诉我们“人不可貌相”的道理56.【答案】C 【解析】细节理解题。 从第一段最后一句可知。57【答案】D 【解析】细节理解题。 从第二段最后一句可知。58.【答案】A 【解析】细节理解题。 从” What if it is a trick?”万一是个诡计怎么办？可知59【答案】B 【解析】主旨大意题。 Never judge a book by a cover. 人不可貌相，不能根据外表看一个人CTarg Targeting teensUsing the web makes teens a target. Posting too much personal information for those millions of cyber eyes to see can cause some big problems and can even invite a thread to your life.As Mary learned, not everyone on the Internet is who he or she says they are. Adults will sometimes pose as other teens, posting fake photos and nice messages to gain trust. They use their fake identity to access the personal information of others, such as home address, phone number, or school name.“Thats not the most common scenario(一系列可能发生事件),” says David Finkelhor , a sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire. “Only 3 percent of teens aged 10 to 18 who use the Internet report being asked to meet offline. But the danger is real.”Safety measuresMarys Myspace profile is set to “private”, which means that only the people she adds under the “friend” category can access her page. She also doesnt have any pictures of herself on her site. The only self-identifying material she has posted is her name, grade, and a list of hobbies.Stay safe and have fun onlineExperts say almost 90 percent of U.S. teens online. But not everyone knows how to surf the web in a smart way. With these tips, you can have fun, stay safe, and avoid embarrassment! Pick a safe password. Make sure your password is something that other people wont be able to guess.Pick a safe username. Make sure yours doesnt say too much about you, “Happy girl 13” is better than “Alice Waters 13”. Dont include your name, age, or where you are from. Never tell a stranger your name, school, address, age, birthday, phone number, or friends name.59.The underlined word “invite” in the first paragraph has the same meaning as_. Ademand politely BrequireCcause Dwish60. In Marys opinion, _.A. one shouldnt trust everyone onlineB. one shouldnt trust anyone onlineC. there are many liars online D. all people online pretend to be others 61 .One of the safety measures mentioned in the passage is that _.A. one should not chat with strangers B. one should not post his or her photos onlineC .one should tell his parents about strange informationD. one should keep his information as a secret.62. Why are numbers in letters used when we pick a safe password? A. Numbers are easy to writeB. Using numbers are cool onlineC. The safe password is more unlikely to be guessed D. Numbers are popular online 【答案解析】答案：59-62 CABCDWhen nature is left alone. a balance is reached among the animals and plants living in one area. But when man starts his work in nature. the balance is likely to be destroyed. He grows a crop and takes it away to eat; then there are no dead leaves to fall on the ground. holding water while it sinks into the surface. or decaying（腐烂）and adding humus（腐殖质）to the soil. Unless a farmer acts with knowledge and skill. he is therefore most likely to make the land poorer. To take the place of the useful matter in the crops that he removes. he uses some kind of fertilizer（肥料）. Chemical fertilizers are of great help. but the waste products of animals and decaying remains of plants should also be put on the land. In some places. it is a habit to burn waste material lying about. but such burning destroys the useful matter in the dead plants. Although the ashes that are left are valuable when put on the land. a better practice is to bury the waste so that it decays and increases the humus in the soil. In the past. when the world population was much lower than it is now. a man had little difficulty in ordinary times in growing the food that was needed. When a field had been used some years and had become tired. the farmer could move to another place. The tired land then slowly recovered. Gradually grasses and other plants would appear on it and its productive power would slowly return to normal through their decay. But nature. left alone. would take a long time to bring back the land to its former state; the length of time required would depend on local conditions. but it might well be ten years. It is a bad practice to grow the same crop in a field year after year. If the crop is changed. the land will suffer less because it is treated and used in a different way. Different plants have different effects on the soil. Therefore. a change of crop will do less harm than the growing of the same crop year after year and a regular change to grass will do good to the soil. Much will therefore be gained if different crops are grown one after another. a method known as the rotation（轮作）of crops. 62According to the passage. the land will become poorerAif all the dead leaves are cleared awayBif the humus is increased after the harvestCif dead leaves decay in the soil by themselvesDif waste plant material lying about is buried63We can learn from the passage that the tired land has gradually recoveredAwhen grasses and other plants appear againBwhen the treatment is given by nature aloneCafter new grasses and other plants have decayed againDafter nature has been left alone for several months64A modern farmer can hardly move to another place as he did before because?Athe productive power of a new field isnt higher than that of an old oneBthere are few free fields left for him to do farmingCit takes a farmer more than ten years to start farming in a new fieldDthere will be too many grasses in a new field to grow crops65It is most likely that the author will go on to in the paragraph following the passage above. Aintroduce other methods of planting cropsBdeal with how to prevent land getting tiredCstart another topic of how to make use of landDfurther explain what the rotation of crops is【答案解析】答案：62-65 ACBDE If you can find a tree which has been cut down, you will see many rings, or circles, on the base of the trunk (树干基部). By learning to read these rings, you can find out about the trees life. The number of rings tells you how old the tree is. Each year, new wood is formed on the outside of the tree. This new wood is light in colour when the tree is growing in spring and summer, and dark in winter when the tree is not growing much. So, if you count the rings of dark-or-light-coloured wood, you can often find out how old the tree is. You can also tell which years have been good years and which years have been bad years. When the light-coloured rings are very wide, it means that the tree has been growing quickly that year. If the light rings are narrow, it has been growing slowly. If the rings on a tree trunk were greatly magnified (放大), you would be able to see why the rings are light-coloured when the tree is growing quickly, and dark-coloured when the tree is growing slowly. The tree trunk is made up of microscopic tubes (毛细管), like long pipes, carrying water from the soil, through the trunk, and up to the leaves. They are wide and thin-walled when the tree is growing quickly and they are carrying a lot of water. They are narrow and stuck together when the tree is not growing so quickly. When a tree is old, the tubes in the centre of the tree dont carry water. The walls of the tubes have become thick with materials which have stuck along them over the years forming a kind of wood called heartwood. This kind of wood is darker in colour than the young, growing wood on the outside of the tree. You dont very often see whole tree trunks which have been cut across. But once you learn to read a cross section (横截面) of the wood, you can see much more in wood which has been used to make boxes, houses, and other things. In most wood, instead of seeing the trunk cut across, you are seeing it cut along its length. Because you dont see the whole tree, you cant tell how old it was. 1. The writer says you can tell the age of a tree by_ A. the number of rings in its trunk B. the size of the base of its trunk C. the colour of its rings D. the rings on the outside of the tree2. When the wood of a tree is mostly light in colour, this means that the tree _. A. grew slowly B. grew quickly C. only grew in winter D. only grew in summer3. Heartwood is wood which is _. A.older and darker in colour B.fast-growing C.younger and lighter in colour D.slow-growing4. If all the rings in the cross section of a tree trunk are wide and about the same width, then we can tell that the tree _. A. grew quickly all its life B. grew slowly all its life C. grew quickly when it was young and more slowly later D. grew slowly when it was young and more quickly later5. In a certain country, it is usually dry and rains heavily every third year. 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