湖南省长沙市2020高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解训练（31）

湖南长沙市2020高考英语（二轮）阅读理解训练（31）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。For five days, Edmontons Downtown Park is transformed into one huge stage where artists are able to share their talents, and where people are able to celebrate and enjoy themselves. Since its beginning in 1980, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been commemorating (纪念) the true feeling of what folk music is all about and thats the traditional togetherness (友爱) that is felt when people gather to share stories and feelings through song.This year will be the sixth year when volunteer Riedel will be offering up her time to the festival. “People coming off a busy spring and summer have a moment of relaxation,” Riedel said. “Its really easy to relax, and its great seeing family and friends have fun together.” These families and friends come from all different kinds of musical tastes. People who take pleasure in Blues are there, so are people who love Bluegrass. This festival does its best to develop everyones musical interests.With so many years of experience, the festival has become a well-oiled machine, and does whatever it can to make attendees feel as comfortable as possible. There are free water stations throughout the venue (举办地) for people to fill up their travel cups. When people buy food, reusable dishes are given a $2 plate fee, but that is returned when the plate is brought back.The festival has completely sold out of tickets, and in record time. But with big names such as Van Morrison and Jakob Dylan, its easy to see how that was going to happen. There is no parking area during the festival, so using the Park & Ride system or Edmonton Transit is highly recommended. A bike lock-up area is provided and will be available Thursday until Sunday one hour before the gates open until 45 minutes after the gates close.The Edmonton Folk Music Festival begins on Wednesday, Aug. 4 with Van Morrison playing the special donation fund (基金) concert, and will finish up on Sunday, Aug. 8.1. The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is held mainly to.A. gather people with different musical tastesB. remind people of the real sense of folk musicC. exhibit the good voices of great talents in folk musicD. collect old stories of folk music2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Riedel has volunteered for the festival for at least 5 years.B. Its hard for people to appreciate Blues.C. It costs people a little to fill up their cups from water stations.D. People have to pay $2 for a plate of food.3. We can learn from the passage that.A. people can get tickets easily for the festivalB. the Edmonton Folk Music Festival is well organizedC. driving ones own car to the festival is highly recommendedD. bikes are available at the festival from Wednesday to Sunday4. What would be the best title for this passage?A. Folk Music of BluesB. One Festival for AllC. Festival for Family GatheringD. Edmontons Downtown Park【参考答案】1-4 BABB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。Find Which Direction Is SouthDo you have a good sense of direction?If not,please take with you a compass. But if you forget to take a compass,you can still find your way.Its never a good idea to imagine that the family member who was entrusted(委托)with the job of map-reading actually knows where the family is. You can tell by the slightly confused look on their faces that nothing on the ground seems to match the map. Never mind. The sun is shining and its still morning. If you dont know the exact time,you can still find out where south is,but youll need to be patient.Find a straight stick and put it in the ground in a place where you can mark its shadow.Try to position the stick as vertically(垂直)as you can. You can check this by making a simple plumb line(铅锤线) with a piece of string and weight. You havent got any string?OK,use a thread from your clothes with a button tied at the end to act as a weight.Mark the end of the shadow cast by the stick.Wait approximately half an hour and mark the end of the shadow again.Keep doing this until you have made several marks.The mark nearest the stick will represent the shortest shadow,which is east at midday,when the sun is highest in the sky and pointing to the exact south.Pick a point in the distance along the line between the shortest shadow and the stick.That point is south of where you are.Now you can turn the map,like you did before,and find which way you should be travelling.1. To find the direction,we ought to be patient probably because.A. it is not easy to find a proper stick B. it is not easy to position the stickC. it takes hours to make the marks D. it takes about half an hour to make the marks2. The passage would probably be most helpful to.A. those who draw maps B. those who get lostC. those who make compasses D. those who do experiments3. Which of the following pictures best shows the way of finding the direction of south?4. The author presents this passage by.A. telling an interesting story B. describing an activity in a lively wayC. testing an idea by reasoning D. introducing a practical method【参考答案】15、CBAD2020高考模拟题。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。Have you got any wonderful plans for your coming winter vacation? Here are some wonderful films for you to kill time.Away We GoVerona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) and Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) are in their early thirties and struggling to meet daily needs and build fulfilling lives as an artist and a salesman.When they learn they will soon become parents, they are faced with the challenge of how and where to raise a child and build a happy family. With a baby on his way, the young couple, look at their lives and are puzzled about what they really want.Another Happy DayLynn was married to Pual, but they broke up and Lynn took their daughter Alice while Paul got their son Dylan.Years later, now Dylan is getting married, and Lynn is attending the wedding, with her younger son Elliot and Ben. Elliot is a drug addict and Ben keeps everything to himself. Dylan hasnt spoken to Lynn in years, and Lynn is fearful of Pual and his wife Patty. At last, all this has put Lynn in a depressed situation, and shes not sure just how shes going to get through the day.La Vita e bellaAlso named as Life is Beautiful, the film is a black comedy and also a best medicine that heals the scar left by war. This movie has some kind of characteristics as natural and active. On the 7th Oscar Award Ceremony , the movie won three great awards.It is not a sad movie from the very beginning , but when the father uses a great way to hide his murder from his son, all people are impressed by this moving deed. Under the protection of the father, the son has lived a happy life.The Shawshank RedemptionThe film is an American film directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. The film tells the story of Andy, a banker who spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and his wifes lover despite his claims of innocence. There he makes friends with Red. Andy manages to escape from the prison by digging a tunnel with the rock hammer over the years. When Red is later released , he remembers Andys advice. He then visits the place Andy mentions before he escapes. There, he finds money and a note left by Andy, telling him to get to Zihuatanejo.1. This passage aims to _A. make comments on films for a cinemaB. recommend several films for funC. introduce films for a film corporationD. advertise several films for a website2. Which film might best help a newly married couple to figure out their new roles in future life?A. La Vita e bella B. Another Happy DayC. Away We Go D. The Shawshank Redemption.3. What is the ending of The Shawshank Redemption?A. Andy killed his wife and his wifes lover.B. Andy became famous for helping Red.C. Red felt cheated by Andy in a way.D. Red and Andy got reunited happily.参考答案13、BCD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。Feeling blue about the world? “Cheer up,” says science writer Matt Ridley.” The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.”Ridley calls himself a rational optimistrational, because hes carefully weighed the evidence; optimistic, because that evidence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good. And this is what hes set out to prove from a unique point of view in his most recent book, The Rational Optimist. He views mankind as a grand enterprise that, on the whole, has done little but progress for 100,000 years. He backs his findings with hard facts gathered through years of research.Heres how he explains his views.1) Shopping fuels inventionIt is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, better cars, and, of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off well be.2) Brilliant advancesOne reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needsfood, clothing, fuel and shelterhave grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hours light cost six hours work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today its half second.3) Lets not kill ourselves for climate changeMitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel(化石燃烧) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a