江西省2020届高三英语二轮专项训练 阅读理解（60）

江西省2020届高三英语二轮专项训练：阅读理解（60）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。AThere are many colors in nature. But do you know if a color has weight? I think youll say “no”. But I am afraid you are wrong. If you dont 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 mans 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 youll be nervous or even get ill. For example, if you stay in a room with red windows, wallpapers and furniture for two hours, youll feel you have been there for four hours. But if the room is blue, youll 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 oneB. a color has weight in ones mindC. white paper is lighter than red paperD. you can know the weight of a color by holding it2. 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 then4. It can be implied from the text that _.A. colors have orders in weightB. colors can change the weight of an objectC. people would stay longer in a room with red windowsD. colors can affect our mood and health5. This passage is probably a _.A. book reviewB. fiction novelC. fairy taleD. science reportBPop 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. Dont 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?Its 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 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.6The author develops the passage mainly by _.A. comparing different ideasB. giving explanationsC. inferringD. listing typical examples7. The underlined word “begrudge” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A. be jealous of B. be satisfied withC. be anxious about D. be crazy about8According 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.9The author holds a(n) _attitude towards the high income of pop stars.A. critical B. approvalC. optimistic D. indifferent10Which 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.CThe world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2020, 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, 2020, arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200milliondollar 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) ”. “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 2020, ” 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 2020, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter in 2020 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, 2020, 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 movieC. NASAD. An Indian calendar12The film 2020 is_.A. about the end of the worldB. based on the scientific predictionC. well accepted in the science fieldD. about a romantic love story13We can infer that_.A. people didnt take the rumor seriouslyB. Planet X or Nibiru does existC. astronomers have been tracking Planet X for over ten yearsD. the rumor caused a panic among some people14NASA thinks that Eris_.A. might pose a threat to the EarthB. doesnt pose any threat to the EarthC. is too far away to be visibleD. is similar to our planet, where life might exist15. Which of the following is the best title?A. New Hollywood movie 2020B. December 21, 2020, NOT the end of the worldC. End of the ancient Mayan calendarD. How rumors came into beingDThe early 1900s were very different from today. Toys, though they have evolved in many ways, were still the delight of children everywhere.Theodore Roosevelts Presidency marks the beginning of the “Teddy Bear.” In the year 1902,toy bears were named “Teddy” after the presidents 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 architects 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