江西省2012届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解（60）

用心 爱心 专心1 江西省江西省 20122012 届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解 届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解 6060 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的四个选项 A B C D 中选出最佳选项 并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑 A A There are many colors in nature But do you know if a color has weight I think you ll say no But I am afraid you are wrong If you don t believe you may do a small experiment First put two objects with the same weight into two boxes Then cover the box Third wrap one box with a red piece of paper the other with a white piece of paper OK Now hold the boxes with your hand one by one It is certain that you will think the red one is a little heavier Why do you think so A scientist found that different colors have different weight in a man s mind So he did many tests and at last he got the result That is to say every color has its own weight in our mind and their order is the same The heaviest color is red then blue green orange yellow and white The scientist told us that colors also have smell Can you smell the color Of course not Then why did the scientist say so That is because every color stands for a kind of light with a certain wavelength It reaches our brain through sense organs According to this discovery scientists say that people accept the colors they like and refuse the colors they hate So your body and mind will be healthy by using the colors you like Or you ll be nervous or even get ill For example if you stay in a room with red windows wallpapers and furniture for two hours you ll feel you have been there for four hours But if the room is blue you ll feel you have been there for only an hour Another example if a person walks out of a red room and into a blue room his temperature will fall That means our body temperature will change with different colors 1 The purpose of the second paragraph is to tell us A a red box is heavier than a white one B a color has weight in one s mind C white paper is lighter than red paper D you can know the weight of a color by holding it 2 Why did the scientist say colors have smell A Because people can sense the light from colors B Because we can smell colors with our nose C Because every color has its own sweet smell D Because every color can give off light of the same length 3 If a person walks from a blue room to a red room his body temperature will A riseB fallC stay the sameD change now and then 用心 爱心 专心2 4 It can be implied from the text that A colors have orders in weight B colors can change the weight of an object C people would stay longer in a room with red windows D colors can affect our mood and health 5 This passage is probably a A book reviewB fiction novelC fairy taleD science report B B Pop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty 皇室 Wherever they go people turn out in their thousands to greet them The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling colorfully dressed idols The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls Royces private helicopters or executive aeroplanes They are surrounded by a permanent entourage 随从 of managers press agents and bodyguards Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported for like royalty pop stars are news If they enjoy many of the privileges of royalty they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds who idolize them They are no longer private individuals but public property The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated for their rates of pay are great And why not Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly The great days of Hollywood have become legendary famous stars enjoyed fame wealth and adulation 奉承 on an all time scale By today s standards the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did The competition for the title Top of the Pops is fierce but the rewards are truly huge It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way Don t the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the service they perform to their companies and their countries Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency often more than large industrial companies and the taxman can only be grateful for their massive annual contributions to the exchequer 国库 So who would begrudge them their rewards It s all very well for people in boring jobs to complain about the successes and rewards of others People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg For every famous star there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it 用心 爱心 专心3 has no right to expect very high rewards He has chosen security and peace of mind so there will always be a limit to what he can earn But a man who attempts to become a star is taking enormous risks He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure But he knows too that the rewards for success are very high indeed they are the payback for the huge risks involved and once he makes it he will certainly earn them That s the essence of private enterprise 6 The author develops the passage mainly by A comparing different ideasB giving explanations C inferringD listing typical examples 7 The underlined word begrudge in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to A be jealous of B be satisfied with C be anxious about D be crazy about 8 According to the passage which of the following can match the view of the author A He who laughs last laughs best B If you venture nothing you will gain nothing C He who makes no mistakes makes nothing D Success belongs to the persevering 9 The author holds a n attitude towards the high income of pop stars A critical B approval C optimistic D indifferent 10 Which of the following is true according to the passage A People are blind in idolizing stars B There is fierce competition in becoming pop stars C The government taxes pop stars very little D Pop stars life is more luxurious than that of royalty C C The world is not coming to an end on December 21 2012 the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie The latest big screen offering from Sony Picture 2012 arrives in theaters on Friday with a 200 million dollar production about the end of the world supposedly based on myths 虚构的故事 backed by the Mayan calendar It is claimed that the end of time will come as a Planet X or Nibiru heads toward or collides with the Earth Some websites accuse NASA of hiding the truth on the planet s existence but the US space agency denounced such stories as an Internet hoax 恶作剧 用心 爱心 专心4 There is no factual basis for these claims NASA said in a question and answer posting on its website If such a collision were real astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade and it would be visible by now to the naked eye Obviously it does not exist Credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012 it insisted After all our planet has been getting along just well for more than four billion years added NASA There is another planet Eris floating in space But the small planet similar to Pluto will remain safely fixed in the outer solar system and it can come no closer than four billion miles to the Earth according to NASA Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003 but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter in 2012 to coincide with the end of a cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar NASA insisted the Mayan calendar in fact does not end on December 21 2012 as another period begins immediately afterward And even if the planets were to line up as some have forecast the effect on our planet would be negligible NASA said And while comets and asteroids 小行星 have always hit the Earth big hits are very rare NASA noted The last major impact was believed to be 65 million years ago resulting in the end of dinosaurs We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs the space agency said 11 played a key role in the spread of the rumors A A new bookB The Internet and a new Hollywood movie C NASAD An Indian calendar 12 The film 2012 is A about the end of the worldB based on the scientific prediction C well accepted in the science fieldD about a romantic love story 13 We can infer that A people didn t take the rumor seriously B Planet X or Nibiru does exist C astronomers have been tracking Planet X for over ten years D the rumor caused a panic among some people 14 NASA thinks that Eris A might pose a threat to the Earth B doesn t pose any threat to the Earth C is too far away to be visible D is similar to our planet where life might exist 15 Which of the following is the best title A New Hollywood movie 2012 B December 21 2012 NOT the end of the world 用心 爱心 专心5 C End of the ancient Mayan calendar D How rumors came into being D D The early 1900s were very different from today Toys though they have evolved in many ways were still the delight of children everywhere Theodore Roosevelt s Presidency marks the beginning of the Teddy Bear In the year 1902 toy bears were named Teddy after the president s nickname The Teddy Bear became known worldwide and is still known and loved today It was only a few years later that the Teddy Bears were mass produced In 1913 an item called the Erector Set was invented It was a steel motorized toy that children could use to build models of anything Its creator was A C Gilbert a medical doctor Charles Pajeau created a similar wooden set called Tinker Toys in the year 1914 Tinker Toys were made for younger children Raggedy Ann dolls first came on the scene after newspaper cartonist Johnny Gruelle reproduced the doll he made for his daughter That was in 1915 The following year an architect s son named John Lloyd Wright invented Lincoln Logs which were interlocked to make structures Two years after Mickey Mouse was created stuffed 填塞 Mickey Mouse dolls were made by Charlotte Clark This was the start of Disney merchandise The yo yo became popular in the United States after Donald Duncan bought a yo yo company in 1929 The View Master a three dimensional viewer was developed by a camera enthusiast named William Gruber The toy became popular when Gruber licensed Disney characters to make still 3 D images from Disney movies and television programs Finally in 1940 model airplanes were mass produced They started out as a way for manufacturers to sell planes to the military but later