2013高考英语二轮 阅读理解珍品训练（13）

1 20132013 高考英语二轮 阅读理解 珍品训练 高考英语二轮 阅读理解 珍品训练 1313 及答案 及答案 The following is about the BBC and some other broadcasting stations Britain Station Broadcasting timeType of programme Radio Radio 24 hours a day 24 hours a day Pop and light music sports Pop and light music sports Radio Radio 7 a m to about mindnight 6 a m to about midnight Serious music cultural programmes science talk The main news service The BBC has local radio stations such as Radio Wales which broadcasts some programmes in the Welsh language The BBC local radio stations which bring local news and stories of local interest such as Radio London Commercial 有广告收入的 radio has no national stations but it has many local ones London has two the London Broadcasting Company LBC and Capital Radio There is advertising on commercial radio but not on the BBC 1 On which radio can you hear a commercial A Radio 3 B Radio 4 C Capital Radio D Radio London 答案 C 从表中第五栏中可知 有广告收入的电台即具有商业性质的电台有两家 一为伦 敦广播公司 LBC 另一为首都广播 Capital Radio 2 You need to listen to for a programme on outer space A Radio 2 B Radio 3 C Radio D LBC 答案 B 从表中第二栏知 Radioa 播有 Science talk 节目 而 outer space 属于 Science talk 故选 B 结束 A A He met her at a party She was so outstanding that many guys were chasing after her while he was so ordinary At the end of the party he invited her to have coffee with him She was surprised but due to being being polite she promised They sat in a nice coffee shop he was too nervous to say anything and she felt uncomfortable too Suddenly he asked the waiter Would you please give me some salt I d like to put it in my coffee Everybody stared at him It was so strange His face turned red but still he put the salt in his coffee and drank it She asked him curiously Why do you have this hobby He replied When I was a little boy I lived near the sea I liked playing in the sea I could feel the taste of the sea just like the taste of the salty coffee Now every time I have the salty coffee I always think of my childhood my hometown and my parents who are still living there While saying that tears filled his 2 eyes She was deeply touched Then she also started to speak speaking about her faraway hometown her childhood and her family That was a really nice talk also a beautiful beginning of their love They continued to date She found that actually he was a man who met all her demands He had tolerance kind hearted warm and careful Thanks to his salty coffee They married And every time she made coffee for him she put some salt in the coffee as she knew that was the way he liked it After 40 years he passed away and left her a letter which said My dearest please forgive my whole life s lie Remember the first time we dated I was so nervous at that time actually I wanted some sugar but said salt It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead I didn t like the salty coffee then what a strange bad taste But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life for it was prepared by you 41 The man was nervous at the coffee shop because A everybody stared at him at that time B many guys chased after the woman C he didn t feel himself a match for the woman D he had the strange habit of drinking salty coffee 42 From this passage we can infer that A the man s lie won the woman s love B the man s parents onced lived near the sea C the woman talked with the man for they had the same experience D the woman realised what salty coffee had to do with a good man 43 What can be concluded about the man A He had intended to give his wife a surprise at his death B He unwillingly developed a taste for salty coffee after marriage C He was so stubborn as to drink for a life what he didn t like D He enjoyed his lifelong bitter salty coffee out of love 44 Which of the following could be the best title for this passage A A Foolish Lie B Salty Coffee C A Sad Love Story D Love in a Coffee Shop B B One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience A novel can be on the best seller lists with a sale of up to 100 000 copies but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers TV can make anything or anyone well known overnight This is the principle behind quiz or game shows which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money A quiz show can make anyone a star and it can give away thousands of dollars Charles Van Doren an English instructor became rich and famous after winning money on several shows He even had a career as a television personality But one of the losers proved that 3 Charles Van Doren was cheating It turned out that the show s producers who were pulling the strings gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand Why Because if the audience didn t like the person who won the game they turned the show off The result of this cheating was a huge scandal 丑闻 Based on the show off a movie titled Quiz Show is on 40 years later Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV But game shows are still here though they aren t taken seriously In fact some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together or that try to cause newly married couples to fight on TV or that punish losers by humiliating 羞辱 them The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV People still win money but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions 45 What is the most important thing as to television A How many viewers they can attract B Becoming the best seller on the list C How much money can be given away D The number of people attending shows 46 What does the underlined part pulling the strings probably mean A Planning the shows with effort B Drawing the curtain on the stage C Controlling the result secretly D Playing quiz or game openly 47 Charles Van Doren stopped his career as a television personality because A he had earned enough wealth and fame B one of the participants had told the truth C the film Quiz Show was being shown D his frequent appearance had bored the audience 48 It can be inferred from the passage that A TV Game Shows are more popular than before B the scandal was not made known until 40 years later C getting money is the only purpose of people taking part in shows D people can make themselves famous by taking part in shows C C I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research 4 scientist He keeps asking when he ll be coming back After all it was his own fault Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley Well he must have pumped about a thousand c c s into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller It was funny watching him because his clothes remained the same in size They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father s clothes But he kept getting smaller and smaller As my colleague Dawson and I watched him he disappeared All we could see was Finchley s clothes on the floor They looked so strange because the lab coat was on top shirt and trousers inside and I suppose underclothes inside again It gave me a strange feeling and I think Dawson was a bit shaken too Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he d been using to examine a family of mites 螨虫 He looked through the scope kind of absently again and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family Of course we didn t know till Finchley told us later But anyhow as I said Dawson nearly passed out He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope to shocked to speak 49 Finchley disappeared because A he took something poisonous B he was changed into a dust mite C his father s clothes totally covered him up D what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearace 50 It frightened Dawson to see Finchley A got into his scope by accident B was waving through his telescope C suddenly got lost in his clothes D gradually disappeared in the lab 51 It can be inferred that Finchley Dawson and the writer have possibly invented A some kind of medicine B a new powerful microscope C a machine to make people small D a new way to make a culture of 5 mite 52 It can probably be concluded that Finchley A passed out there and then B is not fit to be a scientist C is a devoted scientist D will remain tiny all the time D D Do you now who Stefani Germanotta is Perhaps not but you ll almost certainly know the star called Lady Gaga a 24 year old American famous for her cutting edge pop videos and strange fashion sense She was the biggest winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid on November 7 2010 Her awards included the best female artist and the best song Her popularity doesn t end there The BBC reports that the University of South Carolina has a sociology course about the life work and rise to fame of Lady Gaga The course is due to start in spring 2011 We re going to look at Lady Gaga as a social event said professor Mathieu who will teach Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame Germanotta in fact is a college student She learned to play the piano by age 4 At age 17 she was one of the only 20 young people to get early admission to New York University s Tisch School of the Arts the famous music school Yet after her second semester she took a big risk she decided to quit and concentrate on a music career But hwo did she manage to go from nowhere to supar star in just two years She may well have had a plan for the top She created The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Show with another artist It was the first of many strange images The pair gained enough attention to get a spot at a famous music festival in Chicago Later a record company signed Germanotta While Lady Gaga enjoys popularity there are critics accusing her of regularly using rude language in her lyrics 歌词 and wearing overly sexy clothing 53 According to the article Lady Gaga is famous for A her fashion shows B her strange images C her talents in university D her winning awards 54 Which of the following is the correct order for the stages of Gaga s career a She appeared in a music festival in Chicago b She won the award the best female c She decided to quit school d She created a show with another artist 6 e She was signed by a record company f Her success has become a university course A b f c a d e B b f c d a e C c d a e b f D c d a e f b 55 The main reason why Lady Gaga could become famous is that A she knew her dream of life B she knew what she would do next C she learned music at a young age D she ws brave enough to quit university 56 From this passage we can infer that A a good performance in university may lead to one s success B cooperation with other artists is important in becoming successful C Lady Gaga will become less famous because of her lyrics and clothing D Professor Mathieu believes that Lady Gaga s success is worth studying E E The 1980s was called the Me Decade because for many this time was marked by a fascination with the self The idea that each person has a self may seem natuaral to us but this concept is actually quite new The idea that each human life is unique developed between the 11th and 15th centuries in Europe Before that time individuals were considered in relation to a group and even today many eastern cultures place more emphasis on the importance of a collective self than on a unique and independent self Both eastern and western cultures see the self as divided into an inner private self and an outer public self But where they differ is in terms of which part is seen as the real you Western culture tends to promote the idea of individuality a self that is separated from other selves In contrast many eastern cultures focus on an inter independent self that gets its diversity in large part from inter relationship with others For example a Confucian 孔子 idea stresses the importance of face other people s views of the self and maintaining one s desired status in their eyes In the past some Asian cultures developed clear rules about the specific clothes and even colors that