高考英语优题训练系列（12）.doc

2015年高考英语优题训练系列（12）第二部分 阅读理解第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）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。ahave you ever been to the worlds smallest bookstore?the worlds smallest bookstore，whose official name is just these three words，sits quietly about 100 miles northeast of torontothe bookstore is about 10 feet by 10 feet，so it is easy to imagine how tiny it really isthe bookstore is open 24 hours a dayinside the bookstore are various books，especially literary books and classic authors worksso if you are looking for something less popular，you may get a bit disappointed thereanother special feature of this bookstore is that each book only costs three dollarsall the expenses are paid on the honor system，which means buyers should make a note of what theyve bought and leave their money by themselvesso the tools of the trade in this bookstore are quite simple: pens，papers，light bulbs and a label-makerin order to catch passers-bys attention，the billboards(广告牌）of the bookstore are several times bigger than the store itselfwith these large eye-catchers，many people are willing to stop by and have a visit21whats the passage mainly about?athe worlds smallest bookstoreba strange way of selling books cthe popular books nowadaysdthe popular bookstores in the world22which of the following books might you most probably get in the store?abooks on popular sciencebliterary bookscthe year book of a universitydbooks on economic control23how could you buy a book from the store?athe salesman will help you find the bookbthe salesman will get the money for the bookcchoose the book(s）and leave the money theredpay on the net and then get the book(s）in the storebwake up，sleep genesome people can stay up all night and still get work done the next dayim not one of themafter a night without enough sleep，i feel bad-temperedi have trouble remembering thingsand all i want to do is crawl back into bed and sleephow do you feel after youve stayed up late to finish schoolwork? or the day after an overnight party? scientists now say that your answers to these questions may depend on your genesnew research suggests that a gene called period 3 affects how well you function without sleepthe period 3 gene comes in two forms: short and longeveryone has two copies of the geneso，you may have two longs，two shorts，or one of eachyour particular combination depends on what your parents passed on to youscientists from the university of surrey in england studied 24 people who had either two short or two long copies of period 3study participants had to stay awake for 40 hours straightthen，they took tests that measured how quickly they pushed a button when number flashed on a screen and how well they could remember lists of numbersresults showed that the people with the short form of period 3 performed much better on these tests than the people with the long form didin both groups，people performed worst in the early morningthats the time when truck drivers and other night-shift workers say they have the most trouble concentratingafter the first round of experiments，participants were finally allowed to sleeppeople in the group that performed well on the tests took about 18 minutes to nod offpeople with the long period 3 genes，by contrast，fell asleep in just 8 minutes they also spent more time in dip sleepthat suggests that people with the long form of the gene need more and deeper sleep to keep their brains working at top formi think i must have the long form of period3what about you? 24the purpose of this passage might be_ato tell us the importance of plenty of sleepbto tell the result of a research on sleepy genecto inform the harm of lacking sleepdto announce the sleeping rules of humans25what kind of people need less sleep according to the research?athose with two short copies of the genebthose with two long copies of the genecthose with one short and one long copies of the genedthose with three short copies of the gene26if one lacks enough sleep，one should avoid doing important or dangerous things_aat noon bat night cin the afternoon dat dawn27why did the writer suppose he or she had a long form of period 3?abecause the writer could remain energetic without enough sleepbbecause the writer could do things correctly at dawncbecause the writer needed more sleep to keep energeticdbecause the writer recovered quickly after sleepcbeing an astronaut sounds cool，doesnt it? in space，they get to do some pretty amazing things，like floating in zero gravityhowever，there are also plenty of things that astronauts cant do because of their weightless environment，and thats very sadwhats worse，they cant even let their sadness show because its impossible to cry in zero gravityof course，astronauts can still produce tearsbut crying is much more difficult in space，reported the atlantic in januarywithout gravity，tears dont flow downward out of the eyes like they do here on earththis means that when you cry in space，your tears have nowhere to go they just stick to your eyesin may 2011，astronaut andrew feustel experienced this during one of his spacewalkstears, he said，dont fall off your eyethey just kind of stay therebesides making your vision unclear，this can also cause physical painback on earth，tears are supposed to bring comfort to the eyesbut thats not the case in spacethe space environment dries out astronauts eyes，and when tears suddenly wet the eyes，it can cause pain rather than comfortmy right eye is painful like crazy feustel told his teammate during the walksince gravity doesnt work in space，astronauts need some extra help to get rid of the tearsfeustel chose to rub his eyes against his helmet to wipe the tears awayanother choice is to just wait when the tears get big enough they simply break free of the eye and float around, astronaut ron parise told the atlanticthere are lots of small things things like crying that we are so used to on earthwe usually take them for granted，until they become a problem in a totally different environment，like spacethere，astronauts cant talk to each other directlythey also cant eat or drink in normal waysthey cant even burp（打嗝），because there is no gravity to hold the food down in their stomachif they do burp，they just end up throwing up（呕吐）everything in their stomach，according to the uk national space centerthus，perhaps its only space explorers who can honestly say: gravity，youre the best28what can we conclude from paragraphs 2 and 3? aastronauts are unable to feel sad in spacebastronauts produce fewer tears in spacectears produced in space flow down more slowlydtears produced in space dont flow downward29what effect do tears have on astronauts?athey cause physical painbthey bring comfort to themcthey make their vision clearerdthey float around and cause trouble30what can the astronaut do to get rid of the tears?arub his eyes against his helmet to let the tears float forwardbrub his eyes by hand to let the tears float aroundcget the tears big enough to fall off of his eyesdget the tears big enough to break away from his eyes31whats the second-to-last paragraph mainly about?asuggestions on how astronauts can stay comfortable in spacebother basic things that are difficult to do in spacecwhy burping is impossible in spacedthings that humans cant do without gravitydresearchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fiftyin fact，they say by the age of eighty-five，people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years oldarthur stone in the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at stony brook university in new york led the studyhis team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-fivethe findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fiftieshappiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventiesthe people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eightiesthe findings appeared in the proceedings of the national academy of sciencesresearchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get olderone theory is that，as people grow older，they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotionsthey also spend less time thinking about bad experiencesthe researchers considered possible influences like having young children，being unemployed or being singlebut they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to agethe study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow olderhowever，women at all ages reported more sadness，stress and worry than men32we can learn from the research that _aonly when people get older，will they feel happierbolder people usually have no worries in their lifecstress levels among the youngest are the highest of all dolder people are more likely to be thankful in life33according to the researchers，what is probably the reason why people grow happier when they get older?awhen people get older，they cant remember bad experiencesbwhen people get older，they have no young children to care aboutcwhen people get older，they learn to adjust their feelingsdwhen people get older，they dont care about their feelings34what do you think the proceedings of the national academy of sciences is?aa gallup organization ba popular science magazineca university in new york da research institution35what would the writer probably deal with in next paragraph?aadvice to the young people on how to keep happybadvice to the old people on how to live longercwhy women at all ages are more sad，stressed and worrieddwhy people will grow happier with their ages第二节（共5小题:每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。if you are hungry，what do you do? have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that36_but it never lets you know，because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite starsso it silently serves your needs and never lets itself growwhen mind loses its freedom to grow，creativity gets a full stopthis might be the reason why we all sometimes think “what happens next? ” “why cant i think? ” 37why reading but not watching tv? it is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhoodsince it develops other aspects of our life，we have to get help from readingonce you read a book，you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you38now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideasif it is used many times，the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things which you would have never t