2013高考英语二轮总复习阅读理解精选(12)

1 20132013 高考英语二轮总复习阅读理解精选 高考英语二轮总复习阅读理解精选 1212 及答案 及答案 A A Two men Alan and Henry both seriously ill shared a hospital room Alan was allowed to sit up in his bed and his bed was next to the room s only window Henry had to spend all his time flat on his back The men talked for hours of their wives families their homes and their jobs And every afternoon when Alan in the bed next to the window could sit up he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats Lovers walked arm in arm among flowers Trees and skyline could be seen in the distance As he described all this Henry on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the scene One warm afternoon Alan described a parade 游行 passing by Although Henry could not hear the band he could see it in his mind Unexpectedly an alien though entered his head why should he have all the pleasure of seeing everything while I never got to see anything It doesn t seem fair Henry felt ashamed at first But as the days passed and he missed seeing more sight his envy grew and soon let him down He began to find himself unable to sleep He should be by that window and that thought now controlled his life Late one night as he lay staring at the ceiling Alan began to cough He was choking Henry watched in the dim room as the struggling man tried hard to reach for the button to call for help Listening from across the room he never moved never pushed his own button which would have brought the nurse running In less than five minutes the coughing and choking stopped along with the sound of breathing Now there was only silence deathly silence As soon as it seemed appropriate Henry asked if he could be moved next to the window The nurse was happy to make the switch and after making sure he was comfortable she left him alone 2 Slowly painfully he struggled to take his first look Finally he would have the joy of seeing it all himself He looked out but faced a black wall 56 Judging from the passenger the meaning of the underlined word alien in Paragraph 3 is A disappointing B sudden C new D strange 57 What finally happened to Alan A He was moved to another room B He died C He switched his bed with Henry D He was very sick 58 Henry who had his bed switched had expected A to see the blank wall B to feel the joy of seeing the outside world C to feel the joy of breathing fresh airD to see more than Alan 59 Which of following words could be used to describe Alan A Kind hearted and imaginative B Well informed and humorous C Talkative and funnyD Cold hearted and indifferent B B In the next few years battery technology is going to grow rapidly No more charging your smart phone every day No more range anxiety for electric cars as new lithium batteries 锂电池 allow them to drive hundreds of miles on a single charge just like a tank of gas And a tiny Chinese company is to be the leader of it all It already counts Motorola Nokia and Samsung as customers for its advanced batteries But the real money is going to come when it starts selling electric cars Right now the stock is trading at an extreme discount offering in the know investors a chance to get in and makemake a a killingkilling You need to know all the details about this opportunity today and not a day later 3 To do that and to gain access to all the information you ll need to invest confidently simply sign up for the free e Letter from Energy Capital by entering your email address below Once you do we ll rush you our latest report China s 2 00 Lithium Linchpin After getting your report you ll begin receiving the Energy Capital e Letter delivered to your inbox daily Become a member of Energy Capital today It is free and there is absolutely no obligation 责任 ever NO JUNK By no means will we EVER rent sell or give away your email address for any reason Unsubscribing from Energy Capital is quick easy and painless with just a few clicks View our Privacy Policy 60 What does the underlined part make a killing in Paragraph 7 mean A Beat all other businesses B Make a lot of money in a short time C Force other batteries to withdraw from market D Be the business leader in battery making 61 What is the possible problem with online subscribing A The giving away of privacy B Getting lots of junk emails C Becoming a member of some organization unwillingly D Not being able to unsubscribe 62 Where is this material probably from A A magazine B A newspaper C A website D A booklet 63 This passage is mainly to A advertise new batteriesB find potential investors C promote Energy CapitalD sell new technology C C Image is everything An entire industry has been built upon the assumption that image is everything but when it comes down to it an appealing image is not enough If there is no substance 事实 behind the image the 4 product service or person will fail eventually First of all one should consider how important image is in the selling of products and services Advertising agencies have raised the art of creating an image to a state of near perfection Public concept of that product or service is certainly managed by the images created by the advertising agencies But if the product or service does not live up to the image that was created the customer will be very dissatisfied and possibly ask for their money back For example the Arthur Andersen accounting firm had spent decades building up an image of trustworthiness But the recent scandal 丑闻 showed that behind that image it cheated in business practices Despite the previous positive image the firm is being accused of criminal actions and it will probably not survive as a business unit Although the image had been nearly perfect the reality behind the image has led to the downfall of the world famous accounting firm Similarly personal advisers can build up a public image for politicians and movie stars Putting out positive news releases making sure that only the best photographs are published and ensuring that the person is seen in all the right places can build up a very positive image in the view of the general commons But once again history is filled with examples of both politicians and movie stars that fell from grace like the story of the Hollywood actor giving in to the pressures of fame and fortune With people just as with products and services image is certainly important but without positive substance behind the image failure is close To summarize it is clear that an appealing image is extremely important to success whether that image is related to selling a product or service or to the selling of a person But image is only half of the equation What lies behind that image is every bit as important as the image itself the person or product must deliver on that image or there is little chance for long term success 64 The downfall of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm is due to 5 A its dishonesty in businessB its previous images C its bad managementD its poor service 65 Why did some famous people fall from grace A Their images were not well built up B They failed to live up to their images C They felt much pressure from the public D They paid little attention to fame and fortune 66 The structure of the passage is A ArgumentP PointC Conclusion 67 The author tries to argue that A image creates everythingB image is the key to success C truth is unlikely ever to be equaledD truth and image are equally important D D For many parents raising a teenager is like fighting a long war but years go by without any clear winner Like a border conflict between neighboring countries the parent teen war is about boundaries Where is the line between what I control and what you do Both sides want peace but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict In part this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it From the parents point of view the only cause of their fight is their adolescents complete unreasonableness And of course 6 the teens see it in exactly the same way except oppositely Both feel trapped In this article I ll describe three no win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap The first no win situation is quarrels over unimportant things Examples include the color of the teen s hair the cleanliness of the bedroom the preferred style of clothing the child s failure to eat a good breakfast before school or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends Second blaming The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong Third needing to be right It doesn t matter what the topic is politics The taws of physics or the proper way to break an egg the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong for both wish to be considered an authority someone who actually knows something and therefore to command respect Unfortunately as long as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other they ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress 68 Why does the author compare the parent teen war to a border conflict A Both can continue for generations B Both are about where to draw the line C Neither has any clear winner D Neither can be put to an end 69 What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean A The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict B The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict C The teens cause their parents of misleading them D The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents 70 Parents and teens want to be right because they want to A give orders to the other B know more than the other C gain respect from the other D get the other to behave properly 71 What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows A Causes for the parent teen conflicts B Examples of the parent 7 teen war C Solutions for the parent teen problems D Future of the parent teen relationship E E When an ant dies other ants take it out of the nest often within an hour after its death This behavior interests scientists and they wonder how ants know for sure and so soon that another ant is dead One scientist recently came up with a way to explain this ant behaviour Dong Hwan Choe is a biologist a scientist who studies animals and plants He found that ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants I m dead take me away when it is dead But there s a question to answer As we know if an ant is dead it stops moving But when an ant is sleeping or knocked unconscious it is also not moving However other ants don t move the living ant out of the nest How do they know this ant is not dead Choe found that ants have another chemical on their bodies which tells nearby ants something like Wait I m not dead yet when it is not dead Choe suspects that when an ant dies the chemical that says Wait I m not dead yet quickly goes away When other ants detect the dead chemical without the not dead yet chemical they move away the body To test his theory Choe and his team put different chemicals on ants When the scientists used the I m dead chemical other ants quickly moved the treated ant away When the scientists used the Wait I m not dead yet chemical other ants left the treated ant alone Choe believes this behavior shows that the not dead yet chemical overridesoverrides the dead chemical when picked up by other ants And that when an ant dies the not dead yet chemical fades away Other nearby ants then