浙江省湖州市2014高考英语一轮 阅读理解（暑假）精炼（21）

1 浙江省湖州市浙江省湖州市 20142014 高考英语阅读理解一轮 暑假 精炼 高考英语阅读理解一轮 暑假 精炼 2121 含答 含答 案案 阅读理解 每题 2 分 满分 40 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 A On Christmas morning I went to the Cockhedge Mall People there were all busy buying their last minute requirements I needed to buy a birthday card for my son in law whose birthday is the 29fh of December Picking up a few more things as well as my cared I went to join the line for the express checkout which was for people who only had a few items in a basket and not a trolley load This line was next to the Customer Service desk Seemingly waiting quite a long time I was jogged out of my thoughts by a voice behind me making comments on the things I bought It was so funny when I realized that she was describing me contents of my basket The owner of the voice was a very pretty young lady I said to her that I was going to buy a box of Christmas cookies but the only ones left were not to my liking The lady told me mat just opposite Cockhedge in Superdrug they had lots of cookies I said I m not going to bother now I had enough of shops and I m going home The assistant from me Customer Service came across at this time saying If there is anyone in the line with a few items in their basket none of which needed to be weighed I will check out their groceries at the desk Because I had the sprouts which needed to be weighted the young lady accepted the offer and walked away waving goodbye Eventually my turn came at the checkout I was walking away when I met my new friend once again who handed me a beautiful box of Christmas cookies With a big hug she said Hope you have a lovely Christmas She had been into 2 Superdrug to buy me cookies while I was still queuing in Cockhedge What a generosity to a stranger I was so surprised you could have knocked me down with a feather My Good Samaritan would never know what a joyful Christmas day I had with my family Telling them this story as we ate around the table kept everyone spellbound 1 The underlined word spellbound in the last paragraph probably means A interested B disappointed C astonished D frightened 2 Which of the following could be the best title of the story A A Piece of Lucky Feather B A Surprise Christmas Gift C The Boring Shopping Experience D The Unforgettable Big Hug 3 How does the writer feel about the pretty young lady A Worried B Satisfied C Grateful D Proud 4 What can we learn from the story A Nobody is sure what will happen the next moment B A simple action can bring other people happiness C Being patient will decrease the waiting time D Life without hope and faith is a full thing 1 4 ABCB 结束 人物传记类 2012 上海卷 A A Phil White has just returned from an 18 000mile aroundtheworld bicycle trip White had two reasons for making this epicepic journey First of all he wanted to use the trip to raise money for charity which he did He raised 70 000 for the British charity Oxfam White s second reason for making the trip was to break the world record and become the fastest person to cycle 3 around the world He is still waiting to find out if he has broken the record or not White set off from Trafalgar Square in London on 19th June 2004 and was back 299 days later He spent more than 1 300 hours in the saddle 车座 and destroyed four sets of tyres and three bike chains He had the adventure of his life crossing Europe the Middle East India Asia Australia New Zealand and the Americas Amazingly he did all of this with absolutely no support team No jeep carrying food water and medicine No doctor Nothing Just a bike and a very very long road The journey was lonely and desperate at times He also had to fight his way across deserts through jungles and over mountains He cycled through heavy rains and temperatures of up to 45 degrees all to help people in need There were other dangers along the road In Iran he was chased by armed robbers and was lucky to escape with his life and the little money he had The worst thing that happened to him was having to cycle into a headwind on a road that crosses the south of Australia For 1 000 kilometres he battled against the wind that was constantly pushing him This part of the trip was slow hard work and depressing but he made it in the end Now Mr White is back and intends to write a book about his adventures 65 When Phil White returned from his trip he A broke the world record B collected money for Oxfam C destroyed several bikes D travelled about 1 300 hours 66 What does the word epicepic in Paragraph 1 most probably mean A Very slow but exciting B Very long and difficult C Very smooth but tiring D Very lonely and depressing 67 During his journey around the world Phil White A fought heroically against robbers in Iran B experienced the extremes of heat and cold C managed to ride against the wind in Australia D had a team of people who travelled with him 4 68 Which of the following words can best describe Phil White A Imaginative B Patriotic C Modest D Determined 要点综述 本文讲述了 Phil White 进行环球自行车旅行的原因及艰难历程 65 B 细节推断题 根据第一段中 he wanted to use the trip to raise money for charity which he did He raised 70 000 for the British charity Oxfam 可 推断为 Oxfam 筹资 66 B 词义猜测题 根据第二段第二句和第三句可判断旅程很长也很艰难 67 C 细节理解题 根据第三段中 For 1 000 kilometres he battled against the wind that was constantly pushing him 可判断 Phil White 设法迎着风骑车 68 D 推理判断题 根据全文及末段中 This part of the trip was slow hard work and depressing but he made it in the end 可判断 虽然路途艰难 但是他坚持 到了最后 说明他是有决心的 结束 B At the moment when looking round the world all kinds of dance performances are being offered There are competitions that claim to be a World Cup or World Championship and the young dancer or the1 dance teacher who wants to enter his students might be quite confused Which is which Which is of high standard and good quality and which is not worth going to First of all it has clearly got to be distinguished between the different styles of dance and the purpose of such competitions When a person wants to learn classical ballet he or she would never dream of going to a ballroom teacher Such a teacher might even have been world champion in his ballroom dancing but he would definitely not be qualified in teaching proper classical ballet People in Britain and the USA are taking more interest in modern dance Dance classes of all kinds are popular the audiences going to watch modem dance companies are also larger And perhaps the most popular modern dance company in Britain is the Ballet Rambert The Ballet Rambert isBritain s oldest established dance company which began 5 in 1926 In the 60 s the company lacked the money to go on staging big productions The directors wanted to encourage new talent and to keep up their high standards A change of direction was necessary They decided to give the ballet a new look in 1966 The purpose was to provide a chance for new talent for musicians and designers as well as dancers and to show dance as a contemporary art form And although some of the company s previous fans dislike the change new audiences came to see the productions The modern dance pieces and modern music found unexpected popularity In the 21st century the Ballet Rambert was a great success in London s West End The company became a focus for new progressive talent in the art Then the Ballet Rambert started to introduce young people to modem dance by giving performances at schools which again was a success The Ballet Rambert has managed to make modem dance popular while creating original and often avant garde 标新立异 productions It can claim to be the oldest dance company in Britain and at the same time one of the most modern 5 If a person wants to learn classical ballet he or she will go to A the Ballet Rambert B a ballroom teacher C a world champion D a qualified school 6 The underlined phrase new talent in Para 3 probably means A new programs B new audiences C avant garde productions D skilled young dancers 7 From the passage we know that the Ballet Rambert A has succeeded in making modem dance popular B wanted to become the oldest dance company C was once a popular dance company D changed old dance into new ones 8 This passage is mainly about A the popularity of modem dance 6 B the introduction to new modem dancers C the development of me Ballet Rambert D the high standard of dance performances 5 8 DDAC 结束 C The word conservation has a thrifty meaning To conserve is to save and protect to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such a good condition that others may also share the enjoyment Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials most of them even until very recently had the foolish idea that the treasures were limitless and could last forever Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about me complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature and which means that as in a living body an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be hamrful to all the others Fifty years ago nature study was not part of the school work scientific forestry was a new idea wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands soil destruction and river floods were not national problems nobody had yet studied long term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use even the word conservation had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us we must now set about correcting the mistakes of our forefathers Conservation should be made part of everybody s daily life To know about the water table in ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic math formulas We need to know why all watersheds 上游集水区 need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to give their fall benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as 7 of cutting them We need to know the importance of big grown trees because living space for most of man s fellow creatures on this planet is fighred not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic 立方体的 volume above the earth In a word it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can 9 The author s attitude towards the use of natural resources is A positive B uninterested C optimistic D critical 10 According to the author the greatest mistake of our forefathers was mat A they had no idea about scientific forestry B they had little or no sense of environmental protection C they were not aware of the importance of nature study D they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials 11 To avoid repeating the mistakes of our forefathers the author suggests that A we plant more trees B natural sciences be taught to everybody C environmental education be directed toward everyone D we return to nature 12 How can you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph A Our living space on the earth is getting smaller and smaller B Our living space should be measured in cubic volume C We need to take some measures to protect space D We must preserve good living conditions for both birds and animals 9 12 DBCD 结束 D 8 During the years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center structural engineers have been trying hard to solve a question that would otherwise have been completely unthinkable Can building be designed to stand catastrophic blasts 攻击 爆破 by terrorists Soon after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research MCEER traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation They spent two days beginning the task of formulating 构思 ideas about how to design such structures and to search for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged but still are standing Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade Center those buildings that are still standing but that sustained damage said Mr Bruneau Ph D Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why those buildings remain standing while our long term goal is to see whether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existing technologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the event of terrorist attacks he added Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate the monumental damage to the World Trade Center towers and buildings nearby One building a block away from the towers remains standing but was badly damaged This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column 柱子 there that used to be part of that building explained A Whittaker Ph D The column became a missile that shot across the road through the window and through the floor The visit to the area also brought some surprises according to the engineers For example the floor framing 框架 system in one of the buildings was quite strong allowing floors that were pierced by tons of falling debris 残砾 to survive Good framing systems may provide a simple but reliable strategy for blast resistance he added Other strategies may 9 include providing alternate paths for gravity loads in the event that a load bearing column fails We also need a better understanding of the mechanism of collapse said A Whittaker We need to find out what causes a building to collapse and how you can predict it A Reinhorn Ph D noted that earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of buildings in the past Solutions developed for earthquake resistant design may apply to blast engineering and terrorist resistant design Part of our mission now is to transfer these solutions and to develop new ones where none exist at present 1 3 The question raised in the first paragraph is one A that was asked by structural engineers a month ago B that is too difficult for structural engineers a month ago C that was never thought of before the terrorist attack D that terrorists are eager to find a solution to 14 The column mentioned by Dr Whittaker A was part of the building close to the World Trade Center B was part of me World Trade Center C was shot through me window and the floor of the World Trade Center D damaged many buildings near the World Trade Center 15 A surprising discovery made by the investigators during their visit to ground zero is that A floors in the faraway buildings remained undamaged B some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance to explosion C complex floor framing systems are more blast resistant D floors in one of the buildings were pierced by tons of debris 16 What Dr Reinhorn said in the last paragraph may imply all the following EXCEPT that A blast engineers should develop new solutions for terror resistant design B blast engineering can borrow technologies developed for terror resistant design 10 C solutions developed for earthquake resistant design may apply to terrorist resistant design D blast engineering emerges as a totally new branch of science 13 16 CABD 结束 E Today mere s hardly an aspect of our life that isn t being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology says Microsoft a new car would cost about 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gas And you could buy a Booing 747 for the cost of a pizza Probably the biggest payoff however is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when power driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year We view the growth of the Internet and e commerce as a global trend says Merrill Lynch along the lines of printing press the telephone the computer and electricity You would be hard pressed to name something mat isn t available on the Internet Consider books health care movie tickets construction materials baby clothes stocks cattle feed music electronics antiques tools real estate toys autographs of famous people wine and airline tickets And even after you ve moved on to your final resting place there s no reason those you love can t keep in touch A company called FinalThoughts com offers a place for you to store afterlife e mails you can send to Heaven with the help of a guardian angel 11 Kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures the United States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable 能预测的 future Nearly all children in families with incomes of more man