高考英语阅读理解基础训练精品题（106）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解基础训练精品题（106）及答案阅读理解-bwere all connected. you can send an e-mail message to a friend, and your friend can pass it on to one of his or her friends, and that friend can do the same, continuing the chain. eventually, your message could reach just about anyone in the world, and it might take only five to seven e-mails for the message to get there. scientists recently tested that idea in a study involving 24,000 people. participants had to try to get a message forwarded to one of 18 randomly chosen people. each participant started by sending one e-mail to someone they knew. recipients could then forward the e-mail once to someone they knew, and so on. targets, who were randomly assigned by researchers from columbia university in new york, lived in 13 countries. they included an australian police officer, a norwegian veterinarian, and a college professor. out of 24,000 chains, only 384 reached their goal. the rest petered out, usually because one of the recipients was either too busy to forward the message or thought it was junk mail. the links that reached their goal made it in an average of 4.05 e-mails. based on the lengths of the failed chains, the researchers estimated that two strangers could generally make contact in five to seven e-mails. the most successful chains relied on casual acquaintances rather than close friends. thats because your close friends know each other whereas your acquaintances tend to know people you dont know. the phenomenon, known as the strength of weak ties, explains why people tend to get jobs through people they know casually but arent that close to. so, start networking and instant messaging now. as they say in show business: its all about who you know. 6. if you want to get into touch with a stranger in the world, how many e-mails might it take for the message to reach him/her?a. 5 to 7b. 18c. 13d. 3847. which of the following is not true about the test?a. 24,000 people took part in the study and sent e-mails to people they knew.b. the 18 targets were chosen by chance.c. about 98.4% of the mails didnt reach their goal because some people were too busy or they mistook the message for junk mail.d. the targets come from 13 countries, such as australia, norway and new york.8. what does the word “estimate” mean in the passage?a. make sureb. supposec. think overd. imagine9. why do people tend to get jobs more easily through casual acquaintances than close friends?a. because close friends dont talk with each other so much.b. because casual acquaintances can help you know more people and make more friends.c. because close friends dont spend so much time gathering together.d. because casual acquaintances are kinder and more willing to help others.10. in which part of a newspaper will readers read this passage?a. culture b. entertainmentc. information and technologyd. health 全解全析本文主要讲述电子邮件将人们的联系拉近。6. a 细节理解题。由第一段最后一句可知。7. d 细节理解题。由第二段可知，a, b, c都正确；由第三段最后一句可知，d不正确。8. b 词义猜测题。estimate “估计”，与b选项suppose意思最接近。9. b 细节理解题。由第六段可知。10. c 推理判断题。因本文谈的e-mail与电脑有关，所以应与“信息和技术”相关。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的a.b.c和d项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 amy newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of london and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally i spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by london transport for a job on the underground. they were looking for guards, not drivers. this suited me. i couldnt drive a car but thought that i could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. the writers keats and chekhov had been doctors. t.s. eliot had worked in a bank and wallace stevens for an insurance company. id be a subway guard. i could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. obviously id be overqualified but i was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.the next day i sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. i must have done all right because after about half an hours wait i was sent into another room for a psychological test. this time there were only about fifty candidates. the interviewer sat at a desk. candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.i can remember the questions now: “why did you leave your last job?” “why did you leave your job before that?” “and the one before that?” i cant recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. his closing statement, i thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “youve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”failing to get that job was my low point. or so i thought, believing that the work was easy. actually, such jobs being a postman is another one i still desire demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. but i was still far short of full self-understanding. i was also short of cash.1the writer applied for the job chiefly because _.ahe wanted to work in the centre of london bhe could no longer afford to live without oneche was not interested in any other available job dhe had received some suitable training2the writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _.ahe often traveled undergroundbhe had written many poemsche could deal with difficult situations dhe had worked in a company3the length of his interview meant that _.ahe was not going to be offered the job bhe had not done well in the intelligence testche did not like the interviewer at all dhe had little work experience to talk about4what does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?ahow unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. bhow difficult it is to be a poet.chow unsuitable he was for the job.dhow badly he did in the interview.5whats the writers opinion of the psychologist?a. he was very aggressive（有进取心的）. b. he was unhappy with his job.c. he was quite inefficient. d. he was rather unsympathetic.【参考答案】15、bcacd 阅读理解-bnapoleon bonaparte died on may 5, 1821, on the island of st. helena off the coast of africa. he was 51 years old at the time. when doctors examined napoleons body, they said that the former emperor of france had died from cancer of the stomach. that was the cause of death recorded in the official report. however, other doctors disagreed. one doctor who was present during the examination of the body said that napoleon died of hepatitis（肝炎）. other historians and medical experts have suggested that napoleon died of syphilis（梅毒）, tuberculosis（肺结核）, or perhaps malaria. now, after careful research, a british chemist thinks that napoleon might have been poisoned - not by a person, but by his wallpaper. napoleon was sent to the island of st. helena in 1815 after he lost the battle of waterloo. he was a prisoner on the island. although he had servants to attend to him, he had to live in one small building. st. helena is a very wet island, so the walls of the building were always covered with mold. napoleon became ill from spending too much time inside his house. almost constantly he had a fever, chills, and felt sick to his stomach. he often felt pain in his shoulders and in his side. his skin turned yellow. he got frequent headaches, and he would become dizzy and vomit. none of the medicine that the doctors gave napoleon seemed to help. they were not sure what was the matter. finally, napoleon was too weak to leave the house. one night, while he was sleeping, he went into a coma （昏迷）and died.many doctors who later reviewed the reports of napoleons illness found that the symptoms did not show a man who suffered from stomach cancer. it seemed obvious that napoleon had died from some other cause. in 1961, a swedish doctor examined some of napoleons hair and found a high level of arsenic（砒霜）, a chemical poison. was napoleon murdered? it is doubtful. arsenic was used in many types of medicine during napoleons time, so he might have taken the arsenic as a cure for his illness. then, in 1982, dr. david jones from england began to look into the mystery and suggested that napoleon might have breathed in arsenic which was in the air of his house. in the 1700s and 1800s, arsenic was used to make a kind of green paint used on cloth and wallpaper. if the paint was used on a wet wall, the arsenic would go into the air. a person in the room might breathe that air. after studying the wallpaper in the room where napoleon died, dr. jones found high levels of arsenic in the green paint on the walls.6. the passage says that . a. a british doctor thinks he has found the cause of napoleons death b. many doctors have tried to guess the cause of napoleons death c. napoleon could have died from poison d. all of the above7. why did napoleon live on st. helena? a. he owned the island. b. he was a prisoner there. c. his family lived there. d. he liked the island.8. napoleon suffered from the following symptoms except _. a. chills b. fever c. dizziness d. bleeding9. the official report said that napoleon died of_. a. cancer b. a coma c. mold d. poison10. according to dr. jones, how did the arsenic probably get into napoleons body? a. he ate it. b. he breathed it in. c. he touched it. d. he drank it.【参考答案】610、dbdab 阅读理解-cbritish author jk rowling was at the release of her latest harry potter book called “harry potter and the deathly hallows” at the natural history museum in london, friday july 20, 2007.j.k.rowlinghasbeenspottedatcafesinscotlandworkingonadetectivenovel,abritishnewspaperreportedsaturday.thesundaytimesnewspaperquotedianrankin,afellowauthorandneighborofrowlings,assayingthecreatoroftheharrypotterbooksisturningtocrimefiction.mywifespottedherwritingheredinburghcriminaldetectivenovel,thenewspaperquotedrankinastellingareporteratanedinburghliteraryfestival.itisgreatthatshehasnotabandonedwritingoredinburghcafes,saidrankin,whois knownforhisownpolicenovelssetinthehistoricscottishcity.rowlingfamouslywroteinitialdraftsofthepotterstoryinthescottishcityscafes.backthen,shewasastrugglingsinglemotherwhowroteincafestosaveontheheatingbillathome.nowshesbritainsrichestwoman-worth$1billion,accordingtoforbesmagazine-andhersevenpotterbookshavesoldmorethan335millioncopiesworldwide.inaninterviewwiththeassociatedpresslastmonth,rowlingsaidshebelievedshewasunlikelytorepeatthesuccessofthepotterseries,butconfirmedshehadplanstoworkonnewbooks.illdoexactlywhatididwithharry-illwritewhatireallywanttowrite,rowlingsaid.11 what is jk rowling famous for?a. detective novelsb. crime fictionc. harry potter booksd. love stories12 which of the following is not rue about ian rankin?a. he is a writer famous for police novels.b. most of the stories in his novels happened in the historic scottish city.c. it was rankin himself who witnessed jk rowing writing her edinburgh criminal detective novels.d. he told the british newspaper the sunday times about jk rowlings novels.13 why did rowling like to write the “harry potter stories” in the cafes?a. because she was a romantic woman and the atmosphere in the cafes gave her lots of inspiration.b. bec