安徽省蚌埠市2012届高考英语专题总复习 精选阅读理解强化集（7）

用心 爱心 专心 1 安徽省蚌埠市安徽省蚌埠市 20122012 届高考英语专题总复习精选阅读理解强化集 届高考英语专题总复习精选阅读理解强化集 7 7 阅读下列短文 从没题所给的四个选项阅读下列短文 从没题所给的四个选项 A A B B C C D D 中选出最佳选项 中选出最佳选项 A Nine years ago after Leo had died people said to me I never knew he was your stepfather You see I never called him that At first he was no one special in my life Then he became my friend In time I felt he was also my father Leo married my mother when I was eleven Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development where we put down roots At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass but Leo saw bright possibilities We ll plant trees there to give us shade as well as some flowers he said And just these little touches made our house different from all the others More important a real family was forming Leo was becoming a full time parent and I was learning what it meant to have a father Weekday mornings when the weather was bad Leo often drove me to school Having a father drop you off may have been something my classmates took for granted but I always thought it was wonderful Saturday mornings we went to the hardware shop then stepped into the five and ten buying a sports magazine or something else Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing special but I who had ever before spent my childhood watching other families do their everyday activities experienced them now with extreme delight Looking back I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family Soon after we moved to the suburbs one of our new neighbors introduced herself to me She had already met my mother and Leo You know she said you look just like your father I knew she was just making conversation but even so Thank you I said Why tell her anything different 1 The writer s purpose in writing this passage is A to show his pride to have a good stepfather B to show how interesting a person Leo was C to remind us of our parents D to explain why they moved to the suburbs 2 The phrase put down roots in the second paragraph means A farmed B planted C settled D worked 3 In the writer s opinion A it is not easyto live with a stepfather B not all the stepfathers are as good as Leo C the husband and wife must think more about their children before they divorce D in stepfamilies the love and friendship are extremely precious 4 The last sentence Why tell her anything different means that A he should have told the truth B he wouldn t tell her the truth C he wanted to tell her something that had nothing to do with Leo D he wanted to keep silence whenever he met the neighbors 用心 爱心 专心 2 B Safety and Security Procedures Your safety and the security of your personal property are of the primary concern to those of us who welcome you as our guest We urge you to take advantage of the following suggestions YOUR VEHICLE Lock your vehicle and do not leave money or valuable items inside We are not responsible for their loss TRAVELING Be observant 机警 when sightseeing or traveling Stay in well lit and heavily traveled areas Don t display large amounts of cash GUEST ROOM SECURITY For additional security use the deadbolt 插锁 provided on your door and make sure the windows are locked As an additional precaution 预防措施 please secure the secondary locks provided Do not admit anyone to your room without first making identification A one way viewer is provided in your door to assist with identification If there is any doubt about the person s identity please contact the Front Desk SAFETY BOXES Do not leave money or valuables in your room or vehicle We provide free safety boxes for your use Hotel is not responsible for items left in room valued over 200 KEYS Safeguard your key Please do not leave it in the door Do not give your key to others or leave it unattended Please leave your key at the Front Desk when you check out REPORTING Please report any suspicious activity or safety concerns to management FIRE Please familiarize yourself with the nearest fire exits Report fire or smoke to the hotel operator In the unlikely event of a fire please move quickly and calmly to the nearest safe exit and leave the building Avoid the use of elevator 5 The suggestions are most probably from A a hotel manager B a police officer C an experienced traveler D a tour guide 6 Which of the following is TRUE A It is advised to travel to places where there are few people B The hotel is not responsible for anything you lose C Don t report to the manager unless you are sure something is going wrong D You d better use the deadbolt and the secondary locks for safety 7 If you feel doubtful about a stranger who knocks at the door you should A let the person in after you have got his her name B open the door to check the person s ID card C call the Front Desk to make sure 用心 爱心 专心 3 D contact the local police for assistance 8 What does the underlined part In the unlikely event of a fire mean A In case a fire happens though it is not very possible B If a fire happens when some big events are taking place C In case a fire happens in a public building D If a fire breaks out and it is getting out of control C Which is safer staying at home traveling to work on public transport or working at the office Surprisingly each of these carries the same risk which is very low However what about flying compared to working in the chemical industry Unfortunately the former is 65 times riskier than the latter In fact the accident rate of workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity and almost as safe as staying at home The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby It is this that chemical accidents so newsworthy Fortunately they are extremely rare The most famous ones happened at Texas City 1947 Flixborough 1974 Seveso 1976 Pemex 1984 and Bhopal 1984 Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small No one died at Seveso and only 28 workers at Flixborough The worst accident of all was Bhopal where up to 3 000 were killed The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552 The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger Thus the Texas City was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate which is safe unless stored in a great quantity The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep When the poisonous gas drifted over the town local leaders were incapable of taking effective action The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb The fire set off a chain reaction of exploding storage tanks Yet by a miracle the two largest tanks did not explode Had these caught fire then 3 000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died 9 According to the passage the chemical accident that caused by the fault of management happened at A Texas city B Flixborough C Seveso D Mexico City 10 Which of the following statements is TRUE A Working at the office is safer than staying at home B Travelling to work on public transport is safer than working at the office C Staying at home is safer than working in the chemical industry D Working in the chemical industry is safer than traveling by air 11 From the passage we know that ammonium nitrate is a kind of A natural gas which can easily catch fire 用心 爱心 专心 4 B fertilizer which can t be stored in a great quantity C poisonous substance which can t be used in overcrowded areas D fuel which is stored in large tanks 12 From the discussion among some experts we may conclude that A to avoid any accident we should not repair the facilities in chemical industry B the local authorities should not be concerned with the production of the chemical industry C all these accidents could have been avoided or controlled if effective measures had been taken D natural gas stored in very large tanks is always safe D More surprising perhaps than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and increasing As Skolnick notes Americans are a marrying people relative to Europeans more of us marry at younger age Moreover after falling in the early 1970s the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing Even the divorce rates need to be taken in this pro marriage context some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry Thus marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family Twenty five years ago the typical American family consisted of a husband a wife and two or three children Now there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife s previous marriage or the husband s or both sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage sometimes they are shared between two former spouses Thus one can find every type of family arrangement There are marriages without children marriages with children for only the present marriage marriages with full time children from both the present and former marriages marriages with full time children from the present marriage and part time children from former marriages There are stepfathers stepmothers half brothers and half sisters It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family But even so even in the midst of all this there remains one constant most Americans spend most of their adult lives married 13 By calling Americans marrying people the author means that A Americans are more traditional than Europeans B Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans C there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe D more of Americans as compared with Europeans prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age 14 Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today s American families 用心 爱心 专心 5 A A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife B Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable C Americans prefer to have more kids than before D There are no nuclear families any more 15 The nuclear family refers to A families formed up by men or women working for nuclear power stations B married couples who are closely matched C family consists of married couples who do not want to have any child D family with small number of members 16 Part time children A spend some of their time with their half brothers and some of their time with their half sisters B spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriage C are shared between the two former spouses D cannot stay with full time children E It came as something of a surprise when Diana Princess of Wales made a trip to Angola in 1997 to support the Red Cross s campaign for a total ban on all anti personnel landmines Within hours of arriving in Angola television screens around the World were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines I knew the statistics she said But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me like When I met Sandra a 13 year old girl who had lost her leg and people like her The Princess concluded with a simple message We must stop landmines And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message But back in London her views were not shared by some members of the British government which refused to support a ban on these weapons Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press They described her as very ill informed and a loose cannon 乱放炮的人 The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms This is a distraction 干扰 we do not need All I m trying to do is help Opposition parties the media and the Public immediately voiced their support for the Princess To make matters worse for the government it soon emerged that the Princess s trip had been approved by the Foreign Office and that she was in fact very well informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government s policy regarding landmines The result was a severe embarrassment for the government To try and limit the damage the Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind claimed that the Princess s views on landmines were not very different from government policy and that it was working towards a worldwide ban The Defense Secretary Michael Portillo claimed the matter was a misinterpretation or misunderstanding For the Princ