高考英语一轮复习 自选训练阅读理解44.doc

2014届高考英语一轮复习自选训练 阅读理解44it has been 100 years since the first modern summer olympic games were held. do you know the dates and the places of all the summer olympic games, and also the total of gold medals the first three teams gained in each game?date placetotals of gold medals1st2nd3rd 1 1896 athensusa 11greece 10germany 72 1900 parisfrance 27usa 19britain 173 1904 st. louis, usausa 70cuba 5germany 4 1908 londonbritain 56usa 23sweden 75 1912 stockholmsweden 24usa 23britain 106 1916 berlinnot held because of world war i7 1920 antwerp, belgiumusa 41sweden 19britain 158 1924 parisusa 45finland 14france 139 1928 amsterdamusa 22germany 10finland 810 1932 los angelesusa 41italy 12france 1011 1936 berlingermany 33usa 24hungary 1012 1940 helsinkinot held because of world war ii13 1944 londonnot held because of world war ii 14 1948 londonusa 38sweden 16france 1015 1952 helsinkiusa 40ussr 22hungary 1016 1956 melbourneussr 37usa 32australia 1317 1960 romeussr 43usa 34italy 1318 1964 tokyousa 36ussr 30japan 1619 1968 mexico cityusa 45ussr 30japan 1120 1972 munich, w. g.ussr 50usa 33gdr 2021 1976 montrealussr 49gdr 40usa 3422 1980 moscowussr 80gdr 47bulgaria 823 1984 los angelesusa 83romania 20w. g. 1724 1988 seoul, s. koreaussr 55gdr 37usa 3625 1992 barcelonacis 45usa 37germany 33note: cis = commonwealth independent states；gdr = e. germany1. by the year 1992, the modern summer olympic games had been held _ times in u. s. a. a. four b. two c. one d. three2. how many gold medals had e. germany won in the summer olympic games?a. 124 b. 144 c. 198 d. 2003. from the date(资料) we can arrive at a conclusion that _.a. every country should hold the olympic games in turnb. any olympic games should not be called off for any reasonc. no peace, no sportsd. if there is a war anywhere, the olympic games mush be stopped【答案解析】本文列举了从 1896 年到 1992 年期间夏奥会举办的时间、地点、及前 3名金牌数的有关情况。1. d。细节题。根据 1904 st. louis, usa，1932 los angeles和1984 los angeles 得知在美国共举行了三次，故选d。2. b。细节题。 根据1972获20枚，1976获40枚，1980获47枚，1988获37枚得知gdr(=e. germany)共获得144枚金牌，故选b。3. c。推断题。 根据1916 berlin，1940 helsinki，1944 london三年都因战争而没有举行夏奥会可推知c为正确.*结束when you buy a t-shirt, or a fur coat in a store, it often carries a label(标签) telling who made it or from what store it was bought. indeed, some labels show the dress is famous and it is very expensive, so buyers secretly wish they might be carried for ever. on the other hand, buyers who deal with the cheapest products(产品) would be pleased to do away with labels entirely. however, there is another label more important than the one showing from which store the dress was bought. when a person buys a fur coat, or a jacket, from a store, a label telling what the product is made of should be carried to it. this label is required by law. besides telling what the product on show is made of, the label should be in clear english and be where one can find it easily. the information on the label must be the truth. the reason for this label is that most buyers today arent expert enough to know exactly what kind of fur or material they are buying. the buyer must believe in the store that sells the products or in what the labels say. 1. the law requires that furs carry a _. a. clean labelb. clear labelc. white label d. secret label2. in the article, the author says a little about _. a. black market furs b. managers officec. chemical laboratoriesd. clothing stores 3. this article mainly refers to _. a. making furs and clothesb. protecting buyers with law c. keeping the buyer informed d. businessmen and sellers 4. the author doesnt agree that _. a. buyers buy the clothes without labelsb. clothing stores sell cheap dresses c. all the products have labelsd. labels are not true5. which of the following is true? a. a t-shirt seldom carries a label. b. a fur coat with a high price often carries a false label. c. a label only says what material the product is made of. d. not all buyers know the material they are buying. 【答案与解析】衣服上都有标签，根据法律规定，标签上的内容必须真实，因为许多顾客不能确切知道他们所买衣服的质地。1. b。语义理解题。从第3段内容可以判断。2. d。判断题。从文章内容来看，a、b、c三项内容根本没提到，只有d项内容略有涉猎。3. c。主旨题。文章主要是告诉人们衣服标签的作用，所以，答案选c。4. d。判断题。从文章叙述的语气，特别是第3段最后一句话the information on the label must be the truth. 可以看出作者的态度。5. d。判断题。从最后一段第1句话the reason for this label is that most buyers today arent expert enough to know exactly what kind of fur or material they are buying 可以做出正确判断。*结束 when i asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the tv, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. personally, i could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology. point 1 the telephone creates need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. my daughter comes home at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. if the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?point 2 the mobile phone means that we are never alone. “the mobile saved my life,” says crystal johnstone. she had an accident in her volvo on the a45 between otley and skipton. trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车)to her rescue. point 3 the mobile phone removes our secret. it allows manager of haba deutsch, carl nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went. point 4 the telephone separates us. antonella bramante in rome says, “we worked in separate offices but i could see him through the window. it was easy to get his number. we were so near but we didnt meet for the first two weeks!” point 5 the telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously(同时地) on chat lines(at least my daughter does. i wouldnt know what to talk about). we can talk across the world. we can even talk to astronauts(if you know any) while theyre space-walking. and, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the internet, the biggest library on earth. 1. how do you understand “ point 1the telephone creates the need to communicate” ?a. people dont communicate without telephone. b. people communicate because of the creating of the telephone. c. people communicate more since telephone has been created. d. people communicate more because of more traffic. 2. which points do you think best support the idea