高考英语阅读理解精英定时训练题（14）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解精英定时训练题（14）及答案第三题 阅读理解 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。【甘肃省天水市一中2013模拟】aare you looking for a summer reading list for your child or teen? keep your child reading all summer with this selection of the summer reading listsbooks for primary school studentskenneth cadow: alfie runs awaywhen his mother wants to give away his favorite shoes just because theyre too small, alfie decides hes had enoughkate feiffer: my side of the carit might be raining on dads side of the car, but imaginative sadie argues that it is not raining on her side, so their trip to the zoo doesnt need to be put offbooks for junior school studentsflinn: beastlya modern retelling of “beauty and the beast” from the point of view of the beast, a proud manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can returnlord: a night to remembera description of the sinking of the “titanic”, a reputedly unsinkable ship that went down in the atlantic on april 10, 1912 after hitting an iceberg, resulting in the deaths of over l, 500 peoplebooks for senior school studentsmark twain: huckleberry finnits mark twains classic story about a young man and his slave jim. they travel upriver to escape slavery and in the process huck discovers what it means to be a man. it teaches us about the value of friendship and sacrifice. charles dickens: great expectationsit is about a young man named pip who inherits (继承) a great deal of wealth from an unknown sourcethe money quickly moves him up the scale in london. however, at the same time it also teaches him about the dangers of ambition36.who will probably be interested in this passage?a. parentsb. studentsc. writersd. teachers37.these lists of recommended books are generally organized by _. a. book namesb. grade levelsc. their popularityd. writers names38. which of the following books is about a terrible disaster?a. my side of the carb. huckleberry finnc. great expectationsd. a night to remember【参考答案】36-39 abd 阅读理解how often do you travel by plane?how much electricity do you use? these days everyone is worried about the size of their carbon footprintin order to reduce global warming we need to make our carbon footprints smallerbut how much co2 are we responsible for?a new book by mike berners lee （a leading expert in carbon footprint） might be able to helphow bad are bananas? the carbon footprint of everything looks at the different things we do and buy, and calculates the amount of co2 all of the following created: the ingredients （=parts of a mixture）, the electricity used in the brewery, the equipment, the travel and commuting （交换） of the beer, and the packagingits amazing how many different things need to be included in each calculationand its frightening how much carbon dioxide everything producesbut all of this can help us decide which beer to drinkfrom berners-lees calculations, its clear that a pint （568ml） of locally-brewed beer has a smaller carbon footprint than a bottle of imported beerthis is because the imported beer has been transported from far away, and it uses more packagingthe local beer only produces 300g of co2, but the imported beer produces 900g! so, one pint of local beer is better for the environment than three cans of cheap foreign lager （淡啤酒） from the supermarketberners-lee has even calculated the carbon footprint of cycling to worknothing is more environmentally-friendly than riding a bike, surely? well, it depends on what youve had to eat beforeto ride a bike we need energy and for energy we need foodso if we eat a banana and then ride a kilometer and a half, our footprint is 65g of co2however, if we eat bacon before the bike ride, its 200gin fact, bananas are good in general because they dont need packaging, they can be transported by boat and they grow in natural sunlightso, does this mean that cycling is bad for the environment? absolutely not, for a start, if you cycle, you dont use your car, and the fewer cars on the road, the fewer traffic jamsand cars in traffic jams produce three times more co2 than cars traveling at speedcycling also makes you healthy and less likely to go to a hospitaland hospitals have very big carbon footprints!so maybe its time for us all to start making some changespass me a banana and a pint of local beer, please5according to berners-lee, which of the following produces the most carbon dioxide？aa pint of local beer we drinkba pint of imported beer we drinkca banana we eat before a bike ridedthe bacon we eat before a bike ride6why are bananas good in general?athey grow naturallybthey produces less co2cthey dont need packagingdthey provide energy for cycling7the underlined word “brewery” in paragraph 3 most probably means “_”aa factory where beer is madeba machine which makes beerca container where beer is storeddone of the things from which beer is made8to make our carbon footprints smaller, we should often _acycle to workbdrink more local beerccalculate the amount of co2dbuy cheap things from the supermarkets9whats the most suitable title for the passage?abikes, beer and bananasbstarting to make changeschow big is your carbon footprint?dthe carbon footprint of everything参考答案 （b） bbaac today, theres hardly an aspect of our life that isnt being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via / through electronic mail“if the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says microsoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gasand you could buy a boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza”probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customersnothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the industrial revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year“we view the growth of the internet and e-commerce as a global trend,” says merrill lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity”you would be hard pressed to name something that isnt available on the internetconsider: books, health care, movie tickets, construction materials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, music, electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs of famous people, wine and airline ticketsand even after youve moved on to your final resting place, theres no reason those you love cant keep in toucha company called finalthoughtscom offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to heaven with the help of a “guardian angel”kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures the united states will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable （能预测的） futurenearly all children in families with incomes of more than $75,000 a year have home computers, according to a study by the david and lucile packard foundationyoungsters from ages 2 to 17 at all income levels have computers, with 52% of those connected to the internetmost kids use computers to play games （some for 30 hours or more a week）, and many teenage girls think nothing of rushing home from school to have e-mail chats with friends they have just leftwhats clear is that, whether we like it or not, the internet is an ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back“the internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer jake winebaum“the last 80% is happening now”10what can we learn from the microsofts remark? atodays cars and airplanes are extremely overpriced binformation technology is developing at an amazing speed cinformation technology has reached the point where improvement is difficult dtheres more competition in information technology industry than in car industry11according to the author, the biggest benefit of the internet is that_ ait saves companies huge amounts of money bit speeds up profit making cit brings people incredible convenience dit provides easy access to information 12the author gives the example of finalthoughtscom to make the point that_ athere are some genius ideas on the internet balmost anything is available on the internet cpeople can find good bargains on the internet dsome websites provide novel services to increase hits13what can we learn from the fourth paragraph? athere is a link between income and computer ownership bmany american children dont put computers to good use cstudies show that boys are more computer literate than girls dthe uswill stay ahead in the information technology in years14which sentence has the phrase that possesses the same meaning as the one underlined in the fifth paragraph? asome can tell you that he has changed their lives, while others think nothing of himbthink nothing of itit was my pleasureche thinks nothing of staying up all night in the caf bardhe thinks nothing of the pain in his back for the moment15what is the message the author intends to convey? athe internet is going to get firm hold of our lives some day bthe internet is going to influence our lives even more greatly cwe should have a positive attitude towards the changes the internet brings dchildren should be well prepared for the challenges in the information age参考答案 （c） babdcb you can not see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes. some of the things you see give off light of their own. the sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light. such things are luminous. most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. they are simply reflecting light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. the moon, for example, does not give off any light of its own. it is non-luminous. you see it because sunlight falls on it and some of it reflects in our direction. so moon light is only second hand sunlight.when you look at a book, it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it, and you see the book. if light could be kept out from where you are so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book even with your eyes wide open.light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all. light reaches us from the moon, which is about 380 000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a second.1. you can see the book because_.a. your eyes are close to it b. it reflects some of the sunlightc. it has light of its ownd. your eyesight can get to it 2. the underlined word “luminous” means_. a. visibleb. all colorsc. giving off lightd. sunlight3. _ have light of their own.a. the sun and the moonb. the stars and the earth c. the sun and the starsd. the moon and the earth4. which of the following is true?a. all the things you can see give off light.b. light from the book is much shorter than that from the moon.c. the moment you open your eyes the light from the book travels to your eyes.d. light travels so fast that there is no time for you to read.(14 bccc)【答案与解析】本文介绍了光的种类及其特征。1. b。细节题。根据文章第文章第 2 段第 1 句 it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it可推知此题答案为 b。2. c。词义猜测题。根据文章第 2 段第 2 句 some of the things you see give off light of their own 和第 4 句 such things are luminous 可推知此题答案为 c。3. c。推断题。根据文章第 1 段第 3 句 the sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light可推知此题答案为 c。4. c。推断题。根据文章最后一段第 1 句 light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all 可推知此题答案为 c。【甘肃省天水市一中2013模拟】 b ever since news of widespread food recalls caused by a carcinogenic dye broke, there has been confusion over possible links to the country of the same name, but sudan officials say there is no connection whatever sudan 1 is a red industrial dye（颜料） that has been found in some chilli powder, but was banned in food products across the european union (eu) in july 2003 since the ban was put in place, eu officials have been trying to remove some food products from the shelvesso far 580 products have been recalledlast week sudans embassy in the united kingdom asked the food standards agency (fsa) for clarification of the origin of the dyes name omaima mahmoud al sharief, a press official at sudans embassy in china, explained the purpose of the inquiry was to clear up any misunderstanding over links between the country and the poisonous dyewe want to keep an eye on every detail and avoid any misunderstanding there, she saidour embassy to britain asked them how the dye got that name