2011高考英语 分项突破训练阅读理解精析精练02 时文报道类

用心 爱心 专心1 20112011 高考英语分项突破训练高考英语分项突破训练 阅读理解精析精练时文报道类阅读理解精析精练时文报道类 精选试题精选试题 名校模拟题及其答案名校模拟题及其答案 Saturday January 30 2010 A week long heat wave has caused disaster in southern Australia where bushfires have destroyed up to ten homes weather records have been broken and up to 19 people many elderly have died during high temperatures averaging over 40 C 104F In what is described as Black Friday bushfires are burning across the east of the southern state of Victoria which today rises to a high of 45 1 C its record breaking third continuous day above 43 C The bushfires two blazes that combined after wiping out a plantation at the town of Boolarra in the Latrobe Valley to the east of Melbourne have so far destroyed a reported ten homes and burned through more than 2 260 hectares Five hundred firefighters have tried to hold back the blazes over the past 24 hours but they are still burning One woman in Boolarra named Laura has lost her home and told the Australian Broadcasting that Melbourne and Adelaide were disrupted 混乱 by power blackouts as millions of overheated people switched on air conditioners and people faced lengthy transport delays as train and streetcar lines buckled 扭曲 in the heat In Adelaide nineteen mainly elderly people are reported to have died during the heat wave a higher than average daily figure of sudden deaths Only two sudden deaths were recorded last Friday John Hill the South Australian Health Minister would not confirm whether the deaths were heat related but acknowledged that the increase was high Even the tennis players at the Australian Open couldn t escape the heat On Tuesday Novak Djokovic the men s No 3 seed retired ill from a game after heat related complaints and the retractable 可伸缩的 roofs on Rod Laver Arena have been closed for part of the past three days The heat wave has also affected Tasmania traditionally Australia s coolest state which reached 42 2 C at Scamander an all time record for the island 1 What was the probable temperature in southern Australia when the bushfires broke out A under 40 C B 42 2 C C 45 1 C D above 2 The bushfires caused by high temperature have led to the result that A ten homes were destroyed in Boolarra B Melbourne and Adelaide were out of order C Tennis Australian Open had to be put off three days D electrical equipment and traffic lines were damaged in Adelaide 3 The last paragraph implies that A Tasmania is an island state of Australia 用心 爱心 专心2 B the coolest day in Tasmania is recorded 42 2 C C Scamander is the hottest place during the heat wave D the heat wave has changed the climate in Tasmania 4 Which of the following is the best title for the piece of news A High Temperatures Causing Bushfires in Southern Australia B Some old People Killed in Bushfires in Southern Australia C Heat wave Bringing about Disaster to Southern Australia D Bushfires Burning Lots of Forests in Southern Australia 文章大意 本文讲述在 2010 年 1 月份持续了一周的热浪给澳大利亚南部带来的灾难 高温引 Now it is the news in brief A woman surnamed Luo who lied about her age has been dropped by her husband after ten years of marriage in Shanglin County the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Luo who was 30 when husband to be Cen asked her to marry him told him she was just 24 Cen filed for divorce after realizing eventually he had been duped and the court granted his wish Six people have been arrested in connection with the torture of a mentally disabled man Hong Kong police said a jobless man surnamed Lam made a habit of befriending mentally disabled people in the neighborhood and using them as servants Lam asked six of his unfortunate victims to do housework for him on Friday One of them however a 34 year old man surnamed Ng became disobedient As a result Lam ordered the other five to beat him shave his eyebrows and pluck his eyelashes Police were tipped off about the situation 用心 爱心 专心3 after they were called to a restaurant on Saturday night to investigate a fight Lam was treating his five servants to a meal A shop assistant in Chongqing Municipality agreed to give up playing the lottery but bought some final tickets one of which earned him 6 million yuan Li from Sichuan Province has worked in Chongqing for eight years His monthly wage was less than 1000 yuan and he regularly spent 200 yuan buying tickets each month His girlfriend was so unhappy about the situation she threatened to leave him if he did not sign a letter promising not to buy lottery tickets Li signed the letter earlier this month but insisted on a final few tickets spending 24 yuan It was one of these tickets that brought him luck A shoe repairman bought nearly 20 tons of second hand text books from graduating students at Southwest University of Politics and Law this summer He bought the books for the cost of waste paper but rather than send them to the paper mill he sorted them out and kept 7 tons of books which he later sold at a reasonable cost on the campus He now has a thriving business and estimated more than 30 tons of text books were sold as waste paper each year at the university 63 What is the best title for the second piece of news A A white lie keeps a long lasting relationship B Man takes advantage of the disadvantaged C A waste not want not attitude earns cash D Final one turns out to be the big winner 64 Which of the following is true according to this passage A The husband dropped his wife because she was much older than him B The shop assistant got the big prize with the help of his girlfriend C The shoe repairman made a fortune out of second hand textbooks D Lam became a household name for taking care of the disabled 65 The underlined phrase tipped off in the second news most probably means A moved B informed C involved D betrayed 66 It can be inferred from the news that A it s wrong for women to keep their age a secret B people of the same kind often care for one another C the hope of the less fortunate lies in the lottery D the waste is not necessarily of the least value 63 答案 B 用心 爱心 专心4 UNITED STATES Air crews searched through Thursday night for missing US adventurer Steve Fossett on a task they compared to looking for a needle in a haystack in the vast Nevada desert Four days after Fossett s plane disappeared authorities dramatically increased the search area to 26000 sq km from on an original 1600 sq km But they said it could take two weeks or more to find the 63 year old millionaire who disappeared on Monday Major Cynthia Ryan said daytime ground patrols 巡逻队 of the mountains and a search of western Nevada s Walker Lake have been added and the air search was extended into California s mountain border Trying to make that needle stand out in a haystack that big is going to be a real challenge and is going to be discouraging for people who were hoping for results early on Ryan told a news conference Steve Fossett disappeared while he was out searching dry lake beds for a planned attempt to set a land speed record Nothing has been heard from a fine watch that Fossett is known to wear that is designed to let pilots signal their location in an emergency More than 12 planes took off at dawn on Thursday to search the Nevada desert whose mountains rise up to 3000 meters and are buffeted by heavy cross winds Searchers are using several types of planes including some with imaging technology that quickly distinguishes man made objects including air craft wreckage from natural objects 45 Who is the man named Steve Fossett in the passage A A rich young man who like to risk B A young millionaire that love to venture C An old man that enjoys walking D An old adventurer who is rich 用心 爱心 专心5 46 We can infer from the first sentence of the passage that A it is difficult to find Steve Fossett B it is easy to find Steve Fossett C it is not clear whether they could find Fossett D it is obvious that they could find Fossett 47 The reason why Fossett disappeared was that A the plane he was on for business fell down from the sky B he forced the pilot of the plane to fall down to the ground C he wanted to set a record of landing by driving a plane D he was not careful enough in piloting his own plane 48 The underlined word buffeted may have the closest meaning to A attacked violently B beaten softly C flowed quickly D blown normally 本文是一则新闻 报道了对一位失踪的富有的 63 岁的探险者的搜寻 45 答案 D 解析 根据第一段第一句 Air crews searched through Thursday night for missing US adventurer 和最后一句 But they said it could take two weeks or more to find the 63 year old millionaire who disappeared on Monday 可知 D 项是正确答案 46 答案 A 解析 根据第一段 they compared to looking for a needle in a haystack in the vast Nevada desert 可知 寻找他就像大海捞针一样 所以 A 项是正确答案 47 答案 C 解析 根据第三段第一句 Steve Fossett disappeared while he was out searching dry lake beds for a planned attempt to set a land speed record 可知 C 项是正 确答案 48 答案 A 解析 由 by heavy cross winds 可知 正确答案应是 A 项 Chinese cities and towns are expected to absorb about 300 million people from rural areas in 20 years if the urbanization 城市化 drive maintains a growth of 1 per cent annually The massive migration of rural labourers will contribute greatly to the development of cities Liu He vice minister of the office of the Central Leading Group of Financial and Economic Affairs said yesterday The urbanization rate currently stands at 1 4 percent which means that about 20 million farmers become urban residents each year Statistics from Liu s office indicate that nearly 40 percent of farmers annual per capital income last year about 3200 yuan US 395 was earned in cities But China faces many problems in its urbanization drive such as low wages and lack of social security for migrant labourers Liu told the 2006 China Development Forum organized by the State Council Development and Research Centre 用心 爱心 专心6 To protect the fights of migrant workers barriers such as the household registration system or hukou must be removed suggested Yifu Lin an economics professor at Peking University Liu said China would adopt a step by step reform of its decades old hukou system but suggested that the green card system practised in Shanghai and some other cities which enables long term inhabitants to obtain urban hukou be adopted in more cities In 2003 about 110 million surplus labourers left the farming sector and 61 per cent of the migrant of workers or 69 1 million worked in cities Liu said In Wuxi of East China s Jiangsu Province for example about 1 5 million of its 6 million population are from elsewhere And 100 000 150 000 newcomers settle down in the city each year he said The maximum population the city can accommodate is 8 million Liu said It faces huge pressures on environment resources especially water in the next 10 years 41 Which can be the best title for the news A Cities to absorb 300 million farmers in 20 years B Rural labourers contribute greatly the development of cities C Barriers must be removed to protect the rights of migrant workers D China would adopt a step by step reform of its decades old hukou system 42 If the urbanization rate stands at 1 6 then how many farmers become urban residents each year A About 24 million B About 22 9 million C About 32 million D About 23 9 million 43 According to the expert what is the biggest barrier in China s urbanization A Low wages B Lack of social security C Household registration system D Poor education 44 When will Wuxi reach its maximum population A At least 20 years B At most 14 years C At least 10 years D Less than 10 years 41 答案 A 解析 主旨大意题 这是一篇新闻报道类的文章 主题句体现在文章的开头部分 一开 始便向我们讲明了未来 20 年将有 3 亿农民进城 42 答案 B 解析 细节理解题 文章第三段提到了目前的城市化率是 1 4 约 2000 万人 如果城 市化率提高到 1 6 那么每年进城的农民数是 20 000 000 1 4 1 6 22857142 8 人 因此选择 B 项 43 答案 C 解析 细节理解题 文章第六 七两段主要提到了户口登记制度是最大的障碍 44 答案 B 用心 爱心 专心7 解析 细节理解题 根据文章最后一段 我们可看出无锡最多可容纳 800 万人 目前已 有 600 万人 按照每年进 10 万到 15 万的进度 我们不难算出最多的时间是 8 000 000 6 000 000 150 000 13 3333 年 因此 B 项为正确答案 BEIJING Set off by the April 1 Sino US plane collision and US official agreement of the biggest arms sale to Taiwan in a decade as well as remarks by US President Bush on defending Taiwan there have been increasing hacker attacks on websites of the two countries in the past weeks An American group of hackers which calls itself Poizon Box had begun ruining Chinese web sites after the April 1 spy plane incident top Chinese Sina com said The Chinese soon attacked back On April 29 Chinese hackers invaded two US Government websites over the weekend forcing the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services to shut down their sites for a short time The US Department of Labor went offline for a few hours after a page in its website was changed to display a picture of Wang Wei the Chinese pilot who died in the collision The page was titled China hack and read in English The whole country is sorry for losing the best son of China Wang Wei forever we will miss you until the end of the day On May 1 hackers exchanged bad remarks in which the official White House website was defaced 丑化 by a huge amount of e mail garbage On May 5 the White House website fell victim 受害者 to a denial 否定 拒绝 of service attack that blocked access 通道 to the site for more than two hours The Computer Network and Information Security Management Office told web operators an average of 100 sites a day had seen some form of attack 50 The best title of the passage is A Sino US Plane Collision B Sino US Hackers Fighting Cyberwar C 100 Sites Being Attacked D Cyberwar Continuing 51 What is the correct order of the events a Wang Wei s picture appeared on a US website b Poizon Box destroyed some Chinese websites c The access to White House website was blocked for over two hours d Hackers exchanged bad remarks A a b c d B a c b d C b a d c D b a c d 52 From the passage we can infer that A US President Bush defended Taiwan B all the Chinese people are sorry for losing the best son of China C web sites in the US and China have been watchful for attacks D Chinese hackers began to play an important role in foreign affairs 50 解析 这是一则新闻 第一段已告诉我们本文的主题 There have been increasing 用心 爱心 专心8 hacker attacks on websites of the two countries in the past weeks 只有 B 项最能 体现出这个主题 答案 B 51 解析 根据整篇文章所叙述的中美黑客网上斗争的事件发生的顺序 可以得出 C 项为 正确答案 答案 C 52 解析 文章中详细描述了中美黑客互相袭击对方网站的事实 由此事实我们可以推断 出两国的网站都一直密切警惕对方的袭击 答案 C First it was jogging Then aerobics 有氧运动 Not too long ago Americans discovered race walking Now Americans are into a new fitness craze They re taking up bicycling Over hills and down mountainsides and across quiet country roads Americans are busily rolling along The number of adults who ride for fitness is around 17 million an increase of 70 percent over four years ago Twice as many women as men are coming to the sport Americans are falling in love with biking because it has speed the benefits of jogging and beautiful scenery Bicycling is a very appropriate sport which is important to people who injured their knees while jogging or whose joints are aching from aerobics And biking is a real awakening for people who have been into race walking in the past Race walking is as dull as watching paint dry The most popular kind of bicycle for people who are new to the sport is the mountain bike which has a fixed frame with wide tires and upright handles Mountain bikes also have many gears 齿轮 to make it easier to climb hills About 5 million Americans ride mountain bikes compared with 200 000 who rode them only five years ago Costs range from about 130 for a bottom of the line bicycle to more than 2700 for an expensive bicycle Mountain biking has attracted some people who race down the sides of mountains like a bat out of hell But most riders ride slowly and they rarely venture far from home The biking craze has brought an unexpected profit 盈利 to clothing and bicycle accessory 附属品 makers Last year bikers paid 630 million for biking clothes and accessories Bicycling seems likely to continue its fantastic growth 41 Race walking is about as dull as watching paint dry because A race walking is a slow moving sport B the number of adults who ride for fitness has grown 70 percent in four years C it has speed the benefits of jogging and beautiful scenery D Americans are taking up bicycling 42 The bicycling craze has been a profit for A people who want to ride like a bat out of hell B bicycle accessory makers 用心 爱心 专心9 C race walkers D twice as many women as men 43 What does the underlined word bottom of the line mean A poor B modern C old D cheapest 44 The main idea of the article is A riding a bicycle is one of the most dangerous sports in America B Americans are rolling along C bicycling is the latest fitness craze to hit America D most people in America want to own a hand made bicycle that can cost more than 2700 本文主要是讲述了自行车运动在美国的流行以及这项运动带来的各种好处 41 A 根据第二段 Americans are falling in love with biking because it has speed the benefits of jogging and beautiful scenery 可以推出人们之所以放弃 race walking 是因为它不具备 biking 的优点 所以选 A 项最合适 42 B 由倒数第二段 The biking craze has brought an unexpected profit 盈利 to clothing and bicycle accessory 附属品 makers 我们可以得出 B 项正确 43 D 由后面的 to more than 2700 for an expensive bicycle 可知 about 130 for a bottom of the line bicycle 应该是最便宜的一种 44 C 文章第二段就提出了 Now Americans are into a new fitness craze 然后整 篇文章围绕这个话题展开 所以答案应该是 C 项 From Sept 1 Chinese children will be able to watch domestic cartoon programs during 5 p m every day according to a regulation by China s TV watchdog The State Administration of Radio Film and Television SARFT has decided to ban all foreign cartoons during the Golden hours reported the Beijing News No foreign cartoons or programs of introducing foreign cartoons can be shown during the period on all domestic cartoon channels the regulation says Only after 8 p m can foreign cartoons appear on TV it requires The regulation has been issued to local TV stations but the administration has not made it public according to the newspaper Cartoon programs co produce by domestic and foreign producers will have to get approval from SARFT to show during 5 p m and 8 p m from Sept 1 The first foreign cartoon introduced to China was a Japanese car