湖北省黄冈市高考英语一轮 阅读理解精品训练题（13）（含解析）.doc

黄冈市2014高考英语一轮（精品）阅读理解训练题（13）附解析 going on a road trip? the st. louis arch, statue of liberty and golden gate bridge are great tourist sites. but if you prefer offbeat destinations(目的地), check out the following roadside attractions. worlds largest ball of paint alexandria, ind. in 1977, michael carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere. starting with a baseball as center, he painted layer after layer of paint day after day, year after year. the ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds, with more than 20,000 coats of paint,” which is recognized by guinness world records. visitors can paint the ball themselves and become part of history. the museum of dirt boston, mass. the museum is the idea of glenn johnson. labeled(贴有标签的) glass bottles contain such treasures as dirt from the great wall of china, as well as sand from a desert in saudi arabia and omaha beach in france. best of all, the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap: its free. mount horeb mustard museum mount horeb, wis. its heaven for hotdog lovers! this museum claims to have the worlds largest collection of prepared mustard (芥末). its more than 4,100 bottles of spices come from 60 nations, including turkey and china. visitors learn the history of mustard, from how its made to how its advertised and sold. the museums creator, barry levenson, loves mustard so much that he even puts it on ice cream! paper house rockport, mass. swedish immigrant (移民) ellis stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922, when he started to build a two-room house almost entirely out of newspaper. at the time, people didnt give much if any-thought to recycling paper. the house is framed with wood, but the walls are made of 215 layers(层) of newspaper.64. the underlined word “offbeat” in the first paragraph has the same meaning as . a. great b. foreign c. unusual d. historical 65. if you want to add your own work to what you visit, you may choose . a. worlds largest ball of paint b. the museum of dirt c. mount horeb mustard museum d. paper house 66. which of the following is true of barry levenson according to the text? a. no spices but mustard can be found in his museum.b. he travels around the world to collect mustard.c. mustard is advertised and sold in his museum.d. in a way, he shows much preference for mustard. 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a. $225.b. $300. c. $360. d. $420.【要点综述】本文介绍了sydneypass提供3,5,7天不等的到悉尼的海港城市、海湾和海滩等地旅游的路线、费用情况。69. d细节理解题。根据第一段中cityrail services (limited area), so you can go to every corner of this beautiful city.可判断。70. a细节理解题。根据第三段中all sydneypasses include a free airport express inward trip可知应该选a。71. c推理判断题。由children under 4 years travel free可知三岁的孩子免费，所以两个成年人是240元，加上两个小孩120元，共360元。(四)(2011新课标卷)in our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory _1_ course about 20 years ago.the professor _2_ the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited the students to _3_ how many beans the jar contained. after _4_ shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the _5_ answer, and went on saying, “you have just _6_ an important lesson about science. that is：never _7_ your own senses.”twenty years later, the _8_ could guess what the professor had in mind. he _9_ himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting _10_ into an unknown world invisible (无形的) to the _11_， which can be discovered only through scientific _12_. but the seventeenyearold girl could not accept or even _13_ the invitation. she was just _14_ to understand the world. and she _15_ that her firsthand experience could be the _16_. the professor, however, said that it was _17_. he was taking away her only _18_ for knowing and was providing her with no subsitute (替代). “i remember feeling small and _19_，” the woman says, “and i did the only thing i could do. i _20_ the course that afternoon, and i havent gone near science since.”本文通过一节科学课，向人们显示了教育是如何帮助人们成功的，并且这堂课向学生显示了人们不能凭感觉做事，对于一些无形的东西，只能通过科学方法才能发现。1a.art bhistorycscience dmath答案：c。从第二段第6空后可知，此处应填science。science course科学课。2a.searched for blooked atcgot through dmarched into答案：d。教授走进演讲大厅。search for寻找；look at看； get through完成，打通；march into走进。根据句意d项正确。3a.count bguesscreport dwatch答案：b。教授让学生们猜猜缸里有多少豆子。count数；guess猜；report报告；watch看，观看，因为豆子装在缸里，同学们只有猜一下有多少。并且4空后出现了guess一词。4a.warning bgivingcturning away dlistening to答案：d。根据上下文意思可知，同学们喊出答案，教授听到他们错误的猜测，而笑了。5a.ready bpossibleccorrect ddifficult答案：c。因同学们的答案错误，所以教授给出正确答案，correct与wrong相对。6a.learned bpreparedctaught dtaken答案：a。你们学到了关于科学的重要一课。learn.about.学会关于的知识。prepare准备；teach 教；take拿走。7a.lose btrustcsharpen dshow答案：b。根据上文可知，同学们凭感觉给出了错误的答案，所以教授说：永远不要相信自己的感觉。lose失去；trust相信；sharpen变锋利；show显示。8a.lecturer bscientistcspeaker dwoman答案：c。此处指上文提到the woman，也就是指说上面的人，因此填speaker。9a.described brespectedcsaw dserved答案：c。describe描述；respect尊敬；see看见；serve服务。当他鼓励他的学生对未知世界