2014高考英语阅读理解冲刺满分训练15(含解析)

1 20142014 高考英语阅读理解冲刺满分训练 高考英语阅读理解冲刺满分训练 1515 阅读理解阅读理解 Imagine one day getting out of bed in Beijing and being at your office in Shanghai in only a couple of hours and then after a full day of work going back home to Beijing and having dinner there Sounds unusual doesn t it But it s not that unrealistic with the development of China s high speed railway system And that s not a11 China has an even greater high speed railway plan to connect the country with Southeast Asia and eventually Eastern Europe China is negotiating to extend its own high speed railway network to up to 17 countries in 1 0 to 15 years eventually reaching London and Singapore China has proposed three such projects The first would possibly connect Kunming with Singapore via Vietnam and Malaysia Another could start in Urumqi and go through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and possibly to Germany The third would start in the northeast and go north through Russia and then into Western Europe If China s plan for the high speed railway goes forward people could zip over from London to Beijing in under two days The new system would still follow China s high speed railway standard And the trains would be able to go 346 kilometers an hour almost as fast as some airplanes China s bullet train 高速客车 the one connecting Wuhan to Guangzhou already has the World s fastest average speed It covers 1 069 kilometers in about three hours Of course there are some technical challenges to overcome There are so many issues that need to be settled such as safety rail gauge 轨距 maintenance of railway tracks So it s important to pay attention to every detail But the key issue is really money China is already spending hundreds of 2 billions of yuan on domestic railway expansion China prefers that the other countries pay in natural resources rather than with capital investment Resources from those countries could stream into China to sustain development It 11 be a win win project For other countries the railway network will definitely create more opportunities for business tourism and so on not to mention the better communication among those countries For China such a project would not only connect it with the rest of Asia and bring some much needed resources but would also help develop China s far west We foresee that in the coming decades millions of people will migrate to the western regions where the land is empty and resources unused With high speed trains people will set up factories and business centers in the west once and for a11 And they 11 trade with Central Asian and Eastern European countries 1 China s new high speed railway plan will be a win win project because A China will get much needed resources and develop its western regions B China and the countries involved will benefit from the project in various ways C China will develop its railway system and communication with other countries D the foreign countries involved will develop their railway transportation business and tourism 选 B 在文章倒数第二段中有明确答案 2 According to the passage the greatest challenge to the new high speed railway plan is A technical issues B safety of the systemw w w C financial problems D maintenance of railway tracks 3 选 C 在文章第 8 段看到 There are so many issues that need to be settled 及第 9 节中 But the key issue is really money 3 Which of the following words best describes the author s attitude towards China s high speed railway plan A Critical B Reserved C Doubtful D Positive 选 D 尽管在文章第 8 9 段中 提到存在的问题 但从最后两段中不难看出作者是持支持的 态度 4 Which of the following might be the best title for the passage A New Railway Standards B Big Railway Dreams C High speed Bullet Trains D International Railway Network 选 B 贯穿全文须知这只是一个梦想 How could faith beget such evil After hundreds of members of a Ugandan cult the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God died in what first appeared to be a suicidal fire in the village of Kanungu two weeks age police found 153 bodies buried in a compound used by the cult in Buhunga 25 miles away When investigators searched the house of a cult leader in yet another village they discovered 155 bodies many buried under the concrete floor of the house Then scores more were dug up at a cult member s home Some had been poisoned others often young children strangled By week s end Ugandan police had counted 924 victims including at least 530 who burned to death inside the sealed church exceeding the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide and killings by followers of American cult leader Jim Jones that claimed 913 lives Authorities believe two of the cult s leaders Joseph Kibwetere a 68 4 year old former Roman Catholic catechism teacher who started the cult in 1987 and his prophetess Credonia Mwerinde by some accounts a former prostitute who claimed to speak for the Virgin Mary may still be alive and on the run The pair had predicted the world would end on Dec 31 1999 When that didn t happen followers who demanded the return of their possessions which they had to surrender on joining the cult may have been systematically killed The Ugandan carnage focuses attention on the proliferation of religious cults in East Africa s impoverished rural areas and city slums According to the institute for the study of American religion which researches cults and sects there are now more than 5 000 indigenous churches in Africa some with apocalyptic or revolutionary leanings One such group is the Jerusalem Church of Christ in Nairobi s Kawangwara slums led by Mary Snaida Akatsa or mommy as she is known to her thousands of followers She prophesies about the end of the world and accuses some members of being witches One day the brought a special visitor to church an Indian Sikh man she claimed was Jesus and told her followers to repent or pay the consequences Most experts say Africa s hardships push people to seek hope in religious cults These groups thrive because of poverty says Charles Onyango Obbo editor of the Monitor an independent newspaper in Uganda and a close observer of cults People have no support and they re susceptible to anyone who is able to tap into their insecurity Additionally they say AIDS which has ravaged East Africa may also breed a fatalism that helps apocalyptic notions take root Some Africans turn to cults after rejecting mainstream Christian churches as Western or non African Agnes Masitsa 30 who used to attend a Catholic church before she joined the Jerusalem Church of Christ says of Catholicism It s dull Catholic icons Yet the Ugandan doomsday cult like many of the sects drew on features of Roman Catholicism a strong force in the region Catholic icons were prominent in its buildings and some of its leaders were defrocked 5 priests such as Dominic Kataribabo 32 who reportedly studied theology in the Los Angeles area in the mid 1980s He had told neighbors he was digging a pit in his house to install a refrigerator police have now recovered 81 bodies from under the floor and 74 from a field nearby Police are unsure whether Kataribabo died in the church fire Still there is the question How could so many killings have been carried out without drawing attention Villagers were aware of Kibwetere s sect whose followers communicated mainly through sign language and apparently were apprehensive about violating any of the cult s commandments There were suspicions Ugandan president Yoweri Mseveni told the BBC that intelligence reports about the dangerous nature of the group had been suppressed by some government officials On Thursday police arrested an assistant district commissioner the Rev Amooti Mutazindwa for allegedly holding back a report suggesting the cult posed a security threat Now there are calls for African governments to monitor cults more closely Says Gilbert Ogutu a professor of religious studies at the University of Nairobi When cult leaders lose support they become dangerous 1 Why did so may Ugandans die in faith A Many of them were killed for asking for the return of their possessions They found the cult s leaders had cheated them C They lost faith in cults D They are willing to die 2 The main reason of people s joining the cults is A poverty insecurity C AIDS D fatalism 3 What does Mary Snaide Akatsa prophesy A She prophesies the world will be flooded 6 She prophesies the world will be in fire C She prophesies about the end of the world D She prophesies he followers should die in faith 4 Why do some Africans reject Christian Churches A They feel Christianity is dull They reject Christian Churches as Western or non African C They are susceptible D They are dangerous persons 5 How could so many killing have been carried out without drawing attention A The cult acted secretly The government officials did not see through its dangerous nature C There were no preventive measures D People were frightened Vocabulary 1 beget 产生 引起 招致 2 cult 祭礼 狂烈的崇拜 者 迷信 邪教 pound 院子 场地 4 strangle 扼死 闷死 5 carnage 残杀 大屠杀 成堆的尸体 6 catechism 教理问答 7 prophet 预言者 先知 8 on the run 在逃 9 proliferation 扩散 繁殖 10 indigenous 本土的 土生土张的 11 apocalypse 基督教 启事 录 圣经新约 12 be susceptible 易受人影响 13 ravage 蹂躏 劫掠 14 fatalism 宿命论 15 apocalyptic 预警 7 16 icon 东正教 圣像 17 doomsday 世界末日 18 Jerusalem 耶路撒冷 喻 天堂 19 Kenya 肯尼亚 20 Nairobi 内罗毕 肯尼亚首都 21 mommy 嬷嬷 mother 22 repent 忏悔 23 Sikh 锡克教 信徒 24 defrock 免去 圣职的 这里指 免去圣职的牧师 25 sect 宗教小组 26 pose 提问 难句译注 1 the Movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God 结构简析 Ten commandments 十戒 是圣经中上帝再西奈山上给予摩西 犹太人的古代 领袖 十大行为的神圣准则 a have no other god b Do not make or warship idols c Do not take the word of the lord in vain d Keep the Sabbath holy e Honor one s father and mother f Do not kill g Do not commit adultery h Do not steal i Do not give false evidence j Do not covet another s property or wife 这十戒为犹太教 基督教的教条 参考译文 这是乌干达回复上帝十戒运动头目以上帝的名义在 2000 年屠杀了 924 名 信徒 2 the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide and killings by followers of American cult leader Jim Jones that claimed 913 lives 8 这是指美国的一个邪教组织 人民圣殿教 1978 年 11 月 19 日教徒在教主 Jim Jones 的蒙 骗或胁迫下在圭亚那集体自杀或扼杀 或强制和下 Kool Aid 或遭袭击而死 人数高达 913 此后 Jones 一词意为残忍的人 杀人的地点就成为 Jonestown 3 they are susceptible to any one who is able to tap into their insecurity 参考译文 他们易受任何人的影响 这些人能利用他们不安的情绪 4 drew on features of Roman Catholicism 参考译文 利用罗马天主教义等特点 写作方法与文章大意 文章以因果写作方法 先提出各种邪教残害的人数 然后一一点出邪教兴起的原因 人民贫穷 艾滋病之猖獗 为宿命论提供了温床 加上邪教头目种种欺骗手段 如世界末日 来临利用一些正教教义或以基督 圣母玛利亚的身份出现控制 麻木信徒 一旦欺骗手段暴 露信徒就惨遭杀害 答案详解 1 A 许多人由于要归还他们的财产而遭到杀害 答案见第二段倒数第二句 这一对邪 教领袖曾预言世界将于 1999 年 12 月 31 日借宿 世界末日来临 结果并没有发生 追随 者就要求归还他们在入教时献上的一切 而遭到有计划有步骤地杀害 B 他们发现邪教头目欺骗他们 这只是起因之一 如果发现后不吭声也许不会遭劫 C 他 们对邪教失去了信任 D 他们愿意去死 2 A 贫穷 主要原因就是穷 答案见第四段 许多专家认为非洲之艰苦生活促使人民 在邪教中寻找希望 这些邪教群体之兴起就是因为贫穷 人民没有支柱 保障 很容易受影 响 任何人都可利用他们不安的情绪 其次艾滋病在东非之猖獗 培育出宿命论观点 从而 帮助预示可怕事情即将来临的思想扎根于心灵 B 不安全 C 艾滋病 D 宿命论 3 C 她预言世界末日 A 她预言世界将遭水淹 B 她预言世界将烧光 D 她预言她的追随者将死于信仰 4 B 他们把基督教会视为西方的或非非洲的而拒之门外 见第五段 有些非洲人在把 基督教会视作西方的或非非洲的而拒之门外后皈依邪教 A 认为基督教非常沉闷单调 C 他们易受影响 D 他们是一伙危险人物 9 5 A 邪教行动神秘 例 第一段中描述的好几百乌干达邪教组织成员死于初看好像是 自杀性的火焰之中 自焚 在一个场院诱发现了 153 具尸体 在搜查邪教头目的房子中又 发现了 156 具尸体 许多埋于房子的混凝土地板下面 还有好几十具从邪教成员家中挖出 其中有些人被毒死 其他 特别是孩子都是扼杀 窒息而死 共计 924 人 至少有 530 人 烧死在封闭的教堂里 倒数第三段 乌干达世界末日邪教一个头目 免去圣职的牧师 据 说 80 年代中他研究神学 他告诉邻居他在家挖一个地窖放冰箱 现在警察发现地板下 81 具 尸体 附近一场地 74 具尸体 上述两例都是神秘杀害 至于要归还财产之人更遭神秘杀害 了 B 政府官员没有看出邪教的危险性 原因之一 C 没有防范措施 D 人民害怕 阅读理解 A Students and Technology in the Classroom I love my blackberry it s my little connection to the larger world that can go anywhere with me I also love my laptop computer as it holds all of my writing and thought Despite this love of technology I know that there are times when I need to move away from these device and truly communication with others On occasion I teach a course called History Matters for a group of higher education managers My goals for the class include a full discussion of historical themes and ideas Because I want students to thoroughly study the material and exchange their ideas with each other in the classroom I have a rule no laptop iPods phones etc When students were told my rule in advance of the class some of them were not happy Most students assume that year reasons for this rule include unpleasant experiences in the past with students misusing technology There s a bit of truth to that Some students assume that I am anti technology There s no truth in that at all I love technology and try to keep up with it so I relate to my students The real reason why I ask students to leave technology at the door is that I think there are very few places in which we can have deep conversions and truly 10 engage complex ideas Interruptions by technology often break concentration and allow for too much dependence on outside information for ideas I want students to think differently and make connections between the course the material and the class discussion I ve been teaching my history class in this way for many years and the educations reflect student satisfaction with the environment that I create Students realize that with deep conversation and challenge they learn at a level that helps them keep the course material beyond the classroom I m not saying that I won t ever change my mind about technology use in my history class but until I h