湖北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（64）

用心 爱心 专心1 湖北省湖北省 20122012 高考英语二轮复习专题训练 阅读理解 高考英语二轮复习专题训练 阅读理解 6464 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 A You have probably read the books You have probably seen the movies But have you heard the music The latest Harry Potter news is that bands form to play what is called wizard rock or sometimes just wrock The new kind of music began when Joe De George and his brother Paul decided that the characters from Harry Potter would make a great band Ron on guitar Hermione on bass Hagrid on drums and Harry singing up front would make for an excellent group In one day the brothers wrote rehearsed and performed six songs about life at Hogwarts After the first performance Paul decided that we are Harry and the potters Wizard rock is pretty much what it sounds like rock n rock inspired by and set in the world of Harry Potter The De George started a trend Today there are dozens of wizard rock bands the Whomping Willows the Remus Lupins and the Moaning Myrtles to name a few Rockers dress like Hogwarts students and play at conventions and festivals People who like Harry Potter think wizard rock music is totally awesome The songs can be funny but the music is not a joke Just ask the De George brothers They ve played more than 500 shows in 49 states and their hit songs are inspired by characters from Harry Potter Save Ginny Weasley and Voldemort Can t Stop the Rock The themes of their music are the same as those of Rowling s books love and friendship upset and struggle Wizard rock is just one more by product in the Harry Potter craze Two years after J K Rowling published her last book in the series Potter popularity continues to grow There are Potter conventions and Potter clubs that try to get kids and grow ups to help fight hunger for example And the fact that they may do it while humming Wizard Chess or Platform 9 makes those meetings fun 1 What is the text mainly about A Harry Potter B Harry Potter s music C Wizard rock D Joe and Paul s band 2 The underlined word awesome in Pa4 probably means in the text A amusing B serious C considerate D inviting 3 Which of the following is true about wizard rock A It s no different from rock n rock B It s sung in the films Harry Potter C It s a funny business D It follows the themes in Rowling s books 4 According to the last paragraph we can learn that A Harry Potter has had great effects in many aspects B Harry Potter is very popular in the world C Wizard rock is Harry Potter s only by product 用心 爱心 专心2 D Potter s clubs have helped the hungry B A federal judge sentenced Bruce Jones to 12 years in federal prison for fraud 诈骗罪 Over a 10 year period Jones had managed to cheat thousands of people throughout the state out of almost 10 million He advertised his fantastic ideas on TV For some reason Jones said TV seems to break the ice Even though you are a total stranger to the viewer once he sees you on TV in his home he feels like he knows you You enter his living room and become a trusted friend Jones had an imagination that wouldn t quit One time he showed viewers an official government earthquake report which proved that the western half of California would collapse into the sea within three years For 100 he said Jones would insure your house and property for full value Thousands of people who saw that TV ad sent him a hundred dollars each In another TV ad Jones claimed that he had come to an agreement with the federal and state government for exclusive 独享的 air rights He told viewers that for only 100 they could own the first 10 miles above all their property You would be able to charge any commercial plane that flew over your property 100 per crossing You would also be able to charge government rockets satellites space shuttles and space stations 100 for each and every violation of your air rights Another time Jones claimed to have invented a product that gets rid of calories He showed the viewers a spray can of NoCal He said that by simply spraying NoCal on your food a chemical interaction would cause all the calories in the food to simply disappear within about 10 seconds The NoCal was only 10 a can As usual Jones received thousands of checks in the mail The judge told Jones that he should be ashamed of himself Jones responded that he was very ashamed of himself and that when he got out of prison he hoped to become a TV adviser to help people avoid getting cheated He told the judge that he was already developing an instructional CD that for merely 100 would save people thousands of dollars in scams 骗局 The judge nodded and then changed Jones sentence from 10 years to 12 years 5 According to Jones he could successfully cheat many people mainly because A he promised them a large profit B they were too eager to make money C they believed too much in TV ads D he was skillful in communicating with people 6 Which of the following statements is TRUETRUE A Jones showed unusual imagination in his tricks B Jones was closely related to the state government C Western California was in danger of going under the sea D Jones felt guilty and was determined to lead a new life 用心 爱心 专心3 7 We can infer that people who wanted to buy NoCal from Jones A were mainly from low income families B all had a rich knowledge of chemistry C were probably interested in losing weight D usually did the shopping through the Internet 8 The judge changed the sentence at last because A Jones was planning another big scam B he could hardly believe what Jones had told him C Jones had cheated more people than he expected D he had suffered from Jones scams himself C A report published in last week s Journal of the American Medical Association offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver Indeed a l6 year old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal 致命 accident as a teenager driving alone By contrast the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger The author also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p m and especially after midnight With passengers in the car the driver was even more likely to die in a late night accident Robert Foss a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with really stupid behavior than with just a lack of driving experience The basic thing he says is that adults who are responsible for issuing 发放 licenses fail to recognize how skilled a task driving is Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to reduce the harm is to have so called graduated licensing systems in which getting a license is a slower process A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult followed by a period of driving at night with a limited number of passengers before graduating to get a full driving license Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes according to recent studies About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place but only 10 of those states have number limitation on passengers California is the strictest with a new driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20 for the first six months 9 Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage A Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after l0 p m B A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car C Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night D A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight 10 According to Robert Foss the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to 用心 爱心 专心4 A their frequent driving at night B their lack of driving experience C their improper way of driving D their driving with passengers 11 Which of the following statements is true according to Paragraph 3 A Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive B Driving is a skill too difficult for teenagers to learn C Teenagers should be limited in taking driving lessons D People issuing license are partly responsible for the accidents 12 A suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers driving accidents is that A driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule B they should be forbidden to take on passengers C they should not be allowed to drive after l0 p m D the licensing systems should be improved D 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 the 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 harmful 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 full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as 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 figured 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 用心 爱心 专心5 13 The author s attitude towards the use of natural resources is A positiveB uninterestedC optimisticD critical 14 According to the author the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that 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 15 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 16 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 E 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 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 M 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 用心 爱心 专心6 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 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 f