湖北省武汉市2020高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解基础训练（60）

湖北武汉市2020高考英语阅读理解二轮基础训练（60）2020高考训练题。阅读理解。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。If youre ever in central London between Covent Garden and Holborn, look up. You might spot three letters somewhere between the Starbucks angels and the pub signs: “LSE”. They may not look much. But these three letters welcome you to one of the worlds leading universities for social and political sciences.The London School of Economics and Political Science （LSE） offers more than just economics. You can study all sorts of things, from history to mathematics to psychology. The university was founded in 1895. It has always set very high standards for its students. Today, it accepts fewer students every year than any other British university. Its not surprising that 17 Nobel Prize winners and 34 world leaders went to LSE including John F. Kennedy.Those who do get a place can enjoy teaching from LSEs top-class staff. Students have the chance to learn in the universitys great facilities（设施）. The LSE has the worlds largest social and political sciences library, its own theater, and many other lecture theaters. These host lectures and debates for both students and the public.Some of the most important people in the world come to speak. Recent speakers have included former UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan, former US President Bill Clinton, and even controversially Colonel Gaddafi. In 2020, the LSE started “LSE Live”, a series of live online lectures.Theres still time for fun at LSE. Students can join up with the LSE student union to take part in sports, arts and drama clubs. They can also join up with other London universities.Whats more, LSE is big on China. The university has a strong link with Peking University. A two-week LSEPKU summer school takes place every year. The course covers economics, management, international relations, media and law, all with a focus on China and Asia. Hows that for strengthening East-West relations?1. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?A. The sign of LSE is hidden among other signs.B. LSE students often go to Starbucks or pubs.C. LSE is a top university for natural scD. LSE may not be eye-catching at first sight.2. Why does the author mention Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton and Colonel Gaddafi?A. To provide examples of famous speakers.B. To promote the program of “LSE Live”.C. To introduce LSEs outstanding graduates.D. To show the influence of the university.3. What can students at LSE enjoy according to the text?a. a large campus b. first class staff c. a large libraryd. good drama classes e. good facilities f. good lecturesA. a, b, d, eB. b, c, e, fC. a, c, d, fD. b, d, e, f4. What can be learned from the last paragraph?A. LSE courses focus a lot on East-West relations.B. LSE has more arts courses involved in China.C. LSE has attached great importance to China.D. LSE sets a higher goal for Chinese students.参考答案14、DABC【阅读理解】介绍说明类-阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Psychologists have discovered that even the most independent-minded of us will conform to social pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classic experiment, people were shown a vertical（垂直的） line and asked to find a line of identical length from a selection of three.You might think that this is an absurdly easy task, and when people perform it by themselves they do it very well. However, psychologists have discovered that we are very easily swayed by the opinions of other people when we do this task in a group. In one study, a group of three people was set up, where two of the people were confederates（同伙） of the experimenter. When the confederates deliberately gave wrong answers, people were often swayed to give the wrong answer also. In fact, 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer, with some people conforming to peer pressure on every occasion.But why do people conform in this way? In an easy task like this, it seems that people do not want to step out of line with the prevailing opinion of the group. On more difficult tasks, people also conform because they lose confidence in their own ability to make decisions and prefer to trust the majority opinion instead.A typical example of this kind of conformity arises when we come across people in distress. Would you help a woman who has been attacked in the street? It turns out that you are much more likely to go to her assistance if you are alone. When other people are also around, a diffusion of responsibility occurs. People are paralysed into inaction, because everyone assumes that someone else will go to the womans assistance.1. In Paragraph 1, the underlined word “conform” probably means “ ”.A. seek independence B. disobey ordersC. follow what others doD. seek pleasure2. What is the purpose of the experiment described in Paragraph 2?A. To explain why people would be influenced by the opinions of others.B. To prove that people are easily influenced by the opinions of others.C. To train the confederates of the experimenter as independent-minded.D. To describe how people would be influenced by the opinions of others.3. In the last paragraph, according to the author, why wouldnt one help the woman?A. He thinks he has no responsibilities to give a hand.B. He thinks he has nothing to do with it.C. He is too shy to give his helping hand.D. He thinks someone else will offer assistance.4. What method does the author mainly use to develop the text?A. Giving examples.B. Cause-effect analysis.C. Comparative analysis.D. Process analysis.【参考答案】1-4、CBDA阅读理解。Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the citys poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.Fox Point is operated by Palladian, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladian received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.Michael. Bloomberg, New Yorks mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York Citys greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announced that the citys Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the citys supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECPs green standards.Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New Yorks DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.( ) 1. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.D. To compare old and new boiler rooms.( ) 2. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?A. Lower running costs. B. Costing less in construction.C. Less air to be lost in hot days. D. Better prices for homeless people.( ) 3. It can be learned from the text that,A. New York City is seriously pollutedB. peoples daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York CityC. a great number of people in New York City dont have houses to live inD. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City( ) 4. What is the main purpose of this text?A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.语篇解读：本篇文章为科技说明文。作者以Fox Point居住群的boiler rooms为切入点，阐述此类房子的环保节能的优点，以及各城市特别是纽约队建造此类建筑的积极响应。1. 答案：C考点：作者的写作意图解析：从第一段最后两句，作者描述开水房仅是从一个侧面展示整个建筑群的节能，环保，可以得出答案。2. 答案：A考点：细节理解解析：依据文章第三段倒数第二句：Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可得到答案。句意为“达到这一标准会将建筑成本提高2%，但很快会被它的低成本运行成本补回”3. 答案：B考点：细节理解解析：依据文章第四段第二句：Almost 80% of New York Citys greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing.可得出答案4. 答案：D考点：作者的写作目的解析：本文主要让读者了解这类健康、环保、经济类住房。2020高考训练题-阅读理解。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。Free Wi-Fi has become very important to us: many stores and shopping malls offer it, restaurants use it to attract customers, and for libraries and coffee shops it is a must-have service.Even when people are traveling, they scan for free Wi-Fi. When selecting or rating a hotel, six in ten travelers believe that unlimited Wi-Fi is the most important factor.“Today, people will never forget to pack their smart phones, tablets and laptops into the suitcase,” said the Daily Mail. “We rely on free Wi-Fi heavily when travelingespecially when it comes to checking social media, checking out travel tips, and accessing websites.”However, despite the opportunities that free Wi-Fi gives us, “our over-reliance on technology has come at a price, with travelers feeling unable to escape social media”, said Lonely Planet, the worlds largest travel guide brand.Anita Isalska, Lonely Planet editor and tech addict, was forced to unplug when in an isolated (隔绝的) camp in Greenland recently. “Adjusting to this slower pace, I began to realize that: social media had changed into a habit,” she wrote. “I had believed I was capturing（捕捉） moments, but in reality my busy fingers were preventing me enjoying travels deepest pleasures. How fully can you appreciate a huge glacier or wild flowers when your brain is selecting the right photo filter (滤镜) or the perfect six seconds to take photos?”In September, Lonely Planet released 10 predictions for the future of global travel. One of them was that true escapes will be highly valued in future, so remote hotels will start to make their lack of the Internet into an appealing feature. Would you like to have an unplugged holiday?1. Accordingtothepassage,peoplenowadaystendtodothefollowingEXCEPT .A. getting out of a library that has no access to the Internet B. thinking ill of a hotel without Wi-FiC. enjoying travelling better without carrying any Hi-Tech equipment D. making travel plans via the Internet2. Through the fourth paragraph, the author intends to .A. show a different opinion on the topic B. give more evidence to the view mentionedC. get into another topic D. summarize the previous paragraphs3. What has Anita Isalska realized in Greenland?A. Travelers cannot survive without Hi-Tech.B. Her fingers are not flexible enough to take enough pictures.C. Taking pictures doesnt affect appreciating nature.D. Her over-reliance on technol