山西省灵丘县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解九月自测题(一)

1、山西灵丘县2017 高考英语阅读理解九月自测题（一）阅读理解。 阅读下列短文 , 从给的四个选项(A 、B、C和 D)中 ,选出最佳选项。What does itmean to say thatwe liveina world ofpersuasion?It means thatwe liveamong competinginterests. Your roommate s need to study for an exam may take priority (优先 ) over pizza. Yourinstructormay have good reasons notto change

2、your grade.And the object of yourromantic/inter-est may have other choices.In sucha world,persuasionistheartof gettingotherstogive fairand favorableconsiderationto our points of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. Wemay notalways prevail otherpointsof view may

3、 be more persuasive,dependingon thelistener,the situation, and the merit of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try toensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.Some people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcomeinterr

4、uption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidableto liveis topersuade.Persuasionmay be ethical( 合乎道义的 ) or unethical,selflessorselfish,inspiring or degrading. Persuaders may enlighten our mind or prey on our vulnerability. Ethicalpersuasion, however, calls on soun

5、d reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs oflisteners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now mustmake. Therefore,the most basicpartofeducationis learningto resisttheone kind ofpersuasionand to encourage and practice the other.Beyond its persona

6、l importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuadeand be persuadedis thebedrockof theAmerican politicalsystem, guaranteedby theFirstAmendmentto the Constitution (美国宪法 ).1. According to the passage, persuasion means _.A. changing others points of viewB. exercising power ove

7、r other peopleC. getting other people to consider your point of viewD. getting people to agree with you and do what you want2. The underlined word in the secondparagraph“prevail” means_.A. winB. failC. speakD. listen3. The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is

8、 _.1 / 9A. a danger to societyB. difficult to do wellC. unwelcome behaviorD. never successful4. The passage mainly discusses _. A. how people persuadeB. why people persuadeC. that persuasion is both good and badD. that persuasion is important and it is all around us【答案与解析】1. C细节题。将第二段中persuasion is

9、the art of getting others to give fair and favorableconsideration to our points of view与各选项进行比较可知。2. A词义题。由破折号后面的句子other points of view may be more persuasive可知，我们不一定占上风，故选A。3. C细节题。由第三段中第一二句Some peopleinto their lives可知。4. D主旨题。根据第一段对we live in a world of persuasion的理解，第三段中we believe thatpersuasion

10、is unavoidable-toliveisto persuade及最后一段中persuasionis necessaryto society与各选项进行比较可确定选D。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。These days no car show is complete without an electric car, and the 2011 North AmericanInternational Auto Show in Detroit, US, which ran from January 10 to 23, was no exception

11、.Among the fully electric vehicles on display were the Ford Focus Electric and the Honda FitEV. BMWand Volvo also had prominentdisplaysat the show, provingthatthey can produce practical,yet spacious family-oriented electric cars.Industry insiders at the show claimed that more efficient batteries, im

12、proved performanceand greater consumer acceptance could make 2011 the“year of electric car”.It s long been cle ar thatelectriccars score heavilyforconvenience.They are,forinstance,much easierto maintainthan gasoline-poweredcars.When the batteryruns out,you simplyreplaceit or recharge it, just like y

13、ou would for a cell phone or a laptop.This isalsoa much cheapermethod than fillingyour tankwithgasoline.Betteryet,electriccarsdontemitexhaustfumes.As aresult,theydontproduceenvironmentallydamaging2 / 9greenhouse gases.It appears that improved technology is making electric cars and their maintenance

14、much moreuser-friendly.So, what are the obstacleswhich are preventingelectriccars from becoming popularand fashionable?Homechargingforelectriccarscouldbe extremelyconvenientforusers.However, itis alsoa potential obstacle. For a start, installing charging stations in owners homes will be achallenge,

15、particularly for those who have to park several blocks away from their homes.Also,chargingthe car s batterystilltakesquitea long time.Itmay be some time yet beforeyou can recharge an electric car in the same time as you can refill your gas tank.Another problem is that many electric vehicles have lim

16、ited ranges that may only allow forjourneys of 50 miles (80 km) or less between charges. In cases where a driver wishes to chargethe car primarily at home (perhaps overnight), this limits their daily driving to the range oftheir vehicle.This may be one reason why hybrid cars are now becoming more po

17、pular. A hybrid car has morethan one energy source, usually a traditional gasoline fuel tank and an electric battery. Itslikea more practicalversionof an electriccar:It s greenerthan a conventionalvehicle,withfewer CO2 emissions, yet it also doubles as a conventional vehicle.“I would say thathybridi

18、sa transitionto fullyelectronic,”Road and Track magazine editorRichard Horman told Detroit News during the show.“The trend is for lighter, smarter, moreeconomical cars. Of course, electronic vehicles are meant to be that way.”This sounds promising,particularlyin lightof the factthatthe show featured

19、more electriccars from big manufacturers than ever before.However, it seemsthat the technologyassociated with electric cars isnot yet able to fullymeet people s expectations. Dont expect gasoline-powered cars to disappear from roads justyet.5. What made electric cars more convenient?A. Easier mainte

20、nance.B. High scores on the show.C. Practicality and large space.D. Much lower prices.6. Which of the following couldNOTact as a potential obstacle of electric cars?A. It is rough work to install charging stations at home.B. It is time-consuming to charge the batteries.3 / 9C. The ranges between cha

21、rges are limited.D. There s no need to fill the tank with petrol.7. In Paragraph 10, the underlined word“hybrid ” is probably closest in meaning to _.A. gasolineB. electricC. combinedD. separated8. The writers purpose in writing this passage is to_.A. introduce the 2011 Auto Show in USB. get readers

22、 informed of electric carsC. comment on different types of carsD. advertise for electric cars【参考答案】5 8、 ADCB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。One Day Tour: Great Wall & Summer PalaceOverview:You will visit the famous Badaling Great Wall and Summer Palace in one day.Tour Description and Itine

23、rary (行程 )One day Private Tour or Coach Tour: Depart everydayStart from 8:30 am to around 6:00 pm, flexible schedule for private tour.Itinerary:Pick you up from hotelon departuretime,thendriveto the famous BadalingGreat Wall , whichis 60 milesaway from downtown about one and a halfhour driving.Sight

24、seeingon Great Wall Badalingsection for about 3 hours.Visitscenicspots:BadalingGeatWall,BadalingFortress,Beacon-towers,"Looking-toward-BeijingStone",etc . (Cablecar isavailableforyou to get tothe highestpointto have a bird view)Drive to restaurant for lunch. After lunch, visit the largest

25、and most beautiful Chineseimperial garden-Summer Palace .Visit scenic spots: 1. East palace gate, 2. the hall of benevolence and longevity, 3. hallof jade billows, 4. the hall of joyful longevity, 5. the covered walkway, 6. the marble boat,etc.Transfer you back to your hotel after the whole day tour

26、.For the coach tour (small group in each bus, 6-10 persons per group):4 / 9 Suitableforeconomicorsingletravelers,makefriendsonthesame bus,onlyEnglish-speaking travelers on our bus. Travellers will be arranged in a small group, Keep group size less than ten in each air-conditioned bus; Vehicle mode:

27、Coaster-New air-conditioned tour coach (click for picture)- 26 seats, only 6-10 persons per bus.For Private Tour: Private tour is suitable for those individual or family travelers who is not willing tojoin the tour group, it may not feel very free when following the group. A designated car and priva

28、te guide will follow you to go to the place you like, this package cost higher than coach tour. Vehicle mode: private luxury car or MPV van (click for picture)For the private tour, you also need to go to one or two shopping stops every day.Tour Price includes:1. Pick-up and drop-off from your hotel.

29、2. Air-conditioned car, van or minibus for your private group.3. Entrance tickets of the sightseeings.4. English-speaking tour guide explain the sightseeings along the tour.5. Typical Chinese lunch.6. Chinese Jade shop visit.Tour Package excludes:Fee of cable car - cable car to the highest point of

30、Great Wall, 60 RMB ($7.4)Note: Children taller than 1.1 meter should be charged as full price, children shorter than1.1 meter should be charged only half of the price.How to Book?1. You can book online or by email, tell us which hotel to pick you up, then receive our confirmation email.2. When you a

31、rrive in Beijing, our tour guide will call you the night before the tour, ifyou are not in hotel room, we will leave a message in your room, to inform the time to pick you up in the next morning.Payment Methods : 1.Cash to tour guide 2.Credit card 3.PayPal 4.Bank remit (wire transfer)5 / 99. If a gr

32、oup of 26 Americans want to have a one-day tour in Beijing, they can.A. share the same busB. take 6 coaches at mostC. take 3 coaches at leastD. not speak English10. For private tour,.A. travellers can ask the tour guide to change the travel scheduleB. travellers should pay the same amount of money a

33、s the coach tourC. travellers must pay additional money for the entrance ticketsD. travellers neednt pay additional money for the cable car11. This passage is most probably taken from.A. a travel guideB. a newspaperC. a magazineD. the Internet【参考答案】9 11、 CAD文学赏析类(2013 ·江西， D)Mark Twain has been

34、 calledthe inventorof theAmerican novel.Andhe surelydeservesadditional praise： the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.I say cleverbecause anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in theyears before the Civil War.H.B.Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is

35、 only the most famous example.Theseearly stories dealt directly with slavery.With minor exceptions， Twain planted his attacks onslavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drewhis readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.Again and again，

36、 in the postwar years， Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge ofrace.Considerthe most controversial，at leasttoday ，of Twain'snovels ，AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn.Onlya few books have been kickedofftheshelvesas oftenas HuckleberryFinn ，Twain's mostwidely read tale.Once upon a time， peo

37、ple hated the book because it struck them as rude.Twainhimself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel“trash and suitable only forthe slums(贫民窟 ) ” More re cently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave ， and many occurences of the word nigger.(The

38、 term Nigger Jim， for which thenovel is often severely criticized， never appears in it.)But the attacks were and are sillyand missthe point.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.Jim'ssearch throughthe slavestates forthefamilyfrom whomhe has been forciblypartedisheroic.AsJ Chadwick has pointedout ，

39、the characterofJim was a firstin American fictiona recognition6 / 9that the slave had two personalities，“ the voice of survival within a white slave culture andthe voice of the individual： Jim ，the father and the man.”There is much more.Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a chal

40、lenge to the racialbeliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a time when the accepted wisdom heldNegroes to be inferior(低等的 )to whites， especially in intelligence， Twain's tale centered inpart around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her master's baby and， f

41、or fearthat the child should be sold South，switched him for the master's baby by his wife.The slave'slightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the educationof the slave-holding class.The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with

42、theattitudes and intonations of the slave.The pointwas difficultto miss ：nurture(养育 ) ，not nature，was thekey to socialstatus.Thefeaturesof the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice manner of speech ， for example were，to Twain ， indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery

43、forced on its victims.Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy， for example，by the lengthy passage inhis autobiography(自传 )about how much he loved what were called“nigger shows ”in hisyouth mostly with white men performing in black-face and his delight in getting his mother tolaugh

44、 at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.Hisfrequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.Was Twain a racist？ Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same ofLincoln.If we read the words and

45、attitudes of the past through the“wisdom”of the consideredmoral judgments of the present， we will find nothing but error.Lincoln， who believed the blackman theinferiorof thewhite ， fought and won a war tofree him.And Twain， raisedin a slave state，brieflya soldier， and inventorof Jim ， may have done

46、more to anger thenationoverracialinjusticeand awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.【语篇解读】通过研究马克·吐温的作品，来判定他是否是一名种族主义者。作者列举了大量事实，说明了马克·吐温是名反对种族主义的斗士，反驳了别人那些错误的观点。18 How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?A Twain was more willng to

47、 deal with racism.B Twain's attack on racism was much less open.C Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots.D Twain was openly concerned with racism.解析推理判断题。由第二段With minor exceptions， Twain planted his attacks on slavery andprejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else directly可知。答案B19 Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its_.7 / 9A target readers at the bottomBanti-slavery attitudeC rather impolite languageDfrequent use of“nigger ”解析细节理解题。由第三段More recently thebook has been attacked because ofthe character Jim ，the escape