2019高考英语二轮强化训练—阅读理解11

1、2019高考英语二轮强化训练阅读理解11 AAt first sight the planet Mars（火星）does not appear very welcoming to any kind of life. It has very little oxygen and water, the temperature at night is below-50 degrees and winds of 100 miles （161 kilometres）per hour cause severe dust storms. However, the surface of the planet s

2、eems to show that water flowed across it at some time in the past, and it is believed that there is enough ice at the poles to cover the planet with water if it melted. Although there is no life on Mars now, some scientists think that there may have been some form of life a long time ago. At that ti

3、me, the planet had active volcanoes（火山）; the atmosphere was thicker and warmer; and there was water. In fact, in some ways Mars may have been similar to Earth, where life exists.Some people believe that Mars could support life in the future if the right conditions were produced. The first step would

4、 be to warm the planet using certain gases which trap the suns heat in the planets atmosphere. With warmth, water and carbon dioxide（三氧化碳）, simple plants could begin to grow. These plants could slowly make Mars fit to live on. It is judged that the whole process might take between 100,000 and 200,00

5、0 years. In the meantime, people could begin to live on the planet in special closed environments. They would provide a lot of useful information about conditions on Mars and the problems connected with living there.56According to the passage, the planet Mars has noon it.AwindBdustCmountainsDanimals

6、57It is believed that on Mars now.Athere is a large amount of ice at the poles. Bthere is a thicker and warmer atmosphereCthere are some kinds of simple plants Dthere are so many active volcanoes.58What is the topic discussed in the second paragraph?ACertain gases should be used to warm Mars. BPlant

7、s should be grown to make Mars fit to live on.CMars could support life on right conditions in the future.DPeople could live on Mars in special closed environments.59A most suitable title for the passage is.ANo life on MarsB B.study of Mars CThe possibility of life on MarsDThe Future conditions on Ma

8、rsBDecember 06 Canada: For those of you who have beenFollowing this story, the third suspect（嫌疑犯）in the CanadianCat Mutilation（残害）case has been caught. On March 8, afterjust under a year of searching, the Find Matt Campaign receivedinformation that would comfort many. Now known as MattewKaczorowski,

9、 21 years old, this cat mutilator was picked up by thePolice from the streets of Vancouver.In May 2001, three young men took a young cat, named “Kensington” after the area of town from where she was taken,. from the street to a house. They began to cruelly treat and mutilate her to death, videotapin

10、g the attack. Two of the suspects, recognized as 21-year-old Jesse Champlain Power and 24-year old Anthony Ryan Wennekers, were arrested shortly after the incident. Neither helped the police in an effort to find the third suspect, at the time known only as“Matt.”In May 2002, Katie set up the “Find M

11、att Campaign”, with the goals of raising public awareness（意识）about animal cruelty and having as many eyes as possible look for Matt.“I dont think Matt would have been caught had it not been for Katie Woodwards information, ”said Detective Gordon Scott, one of the arresting officers.Kaczorowski faces

12、 the charges of animal cruelty, theft under $ 5,000 and possession of property taken by crime, but one charge remains absent：that of animal cruelty. According to Canadian law, this kind of crime must be charged within six months.The case is now before the Courts.While finding Matt is a big step in t

13、he right direction of this case, it is not over. It remains that Kensingtons guardian（监护人）has not yet come forward. It is important that her guardian speak out to lessen the possibility of the charges being dropped.60What does the passage mainly talk about?AA cat was killed cruelly in Canada. BA Can

14、adian cat mutilator was caught.CPeople pay attention to animal protection. DNo crimes can escape from being charged.61Which of the following is in correct order according to the time when the events happened?aMatt was caught by the police.b“Find Matt Campaign”was set up.cJesse and Anthony were soon

15、arrested.dThree young men mutilate a cat to death.eKatie got the information about the third suspect.Ab, e, a, d, cBe, a , d, c, bCd, c, b, e, aDa, d, b, e, c62Which one of the charges does Matt certainly have to face?AStealing less than $ 5,000. BHis possession of property.CThe crime of animal crue

16、lty. DA six-month imprisonment.61What can we infer from the passage?ACatching Matt was easy for the police. BVery few people care about Matts case.CKatie started the Find Matt Campaign to protect animals.DThe final result of the case depends on the cats guardian.CMickeys GoalLast night was the last

17、game for my eight-year-old sons soccer team. It was the final quarter. The score was two to one, my sons team in the lead. Parents surrounded the playground, offering encouragement.With less than ten seconds remaining, the ball suddenly rolled in front of my sons teammate, Mickey O Donnel. With shou

18、ts of“Kick it!” echoing（回响）across the playground, Mickey turned around and gave it everything he had. All around me the crowd erupted（沸腾）.O Donnel had scored!Then there was silence. Mickey had scored all right, but in the wrong goal, ending the game in a tie. For a moment there was a total hush. You

19、 see, Mickey has Down syndrome（综合症）and for him there is no such thing as a wrong goal. All goals were celebrated by a joyous hug from Mickey. He had even been known to hug the opposing players when they scored.The silence was finally broken when Mickey, his face filled with joy, hugged my son tightl

20、y and shouted,“I scored! I scored. Everybody won! Everybody won!” For a moment I held my breath, not sure how my son would react. I need not have worried . I watched, through tears, as my son threw up his hand in the classic high-five salute and started chanting,“Way to go Mickey! Way to go Mickey!”

21、 Within moments both teams surrounded Mickey, joining in the chant and congratulating him on his goal.Later that night, when my daughter asked who had won, I smiled as I replied,“It was a tie. Everybody won.”64What was the score of the soccer match?ATwo to two, equal to both the teams. BThree to one

22、 in Mickeys teams favor.CTwo to one in the opposite teams favor. DEverybody won because of Mickeys goal.65The underlined word“hush”in paragraph 3 means.AcheerBcryClaughterDsilence66What did the author worry about when Mickey scored and hugged his son?AThe result of the match would fail his son. BHis

23、 son would shout at Mickey for his goal.CMickey would again hug the opposing players.DHis son would understand Mickeys wrong goal.67It can be inferred from the passage that.Aboth teams liked and respected Mickey. Bboth teams were thankful to Mickey for his goal.CMickey didnt mind though his goal was

24、 wrong.DMickey was a kind-hearted boy and hoped everybody won.68The purpose of the author in writing the passage is.Ato tell a joke to make readers laugh. Bto suggest we should not mind losing .Cto show enjoying a game is more than winning a game.Dto present his sons fine qualities of understanding

25、othersDll over the country these days, electronic mail messages are ending with this strange little mark:-) or one of its many variants（变体），like :-（.It was 20 years ago that Scott Fahlman taught the Net how to smile. The Carnegie Mellon computer scientist has devoted his life to man-made intelligenc

26、e, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans, but the bearded scientist is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration（灵感）that helped to define（定义）Internet culture.By the early 1980s the Computer Science group at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or“b

27、boards”.A good many of the posts were humorous. The problem was that if someone made a humorous remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke. This problem caused some people to suggest（only half seriously）that maybe it would be a good idea to clearly mark posts that were not to be taken seriousl

28、y. After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or the tone of voice that communicates this information when we talk in person or on the phone.So on Sept. 19, 1982, Fahlman typed :-)in an online message. “I had no idea I was starting something that would soon poll

29、ute all the worlds communications channels,” he wrote later. The“smiley face”has since become common in online communication, allowing 12-year-old girls and corporate lawyers alike to mark their messages with a quick symbol that says, “Hey, Im only joking.”This creation caught on quickly around Carn

30、egie Mellon, and soon spread to other universities and research labs by means of the computer networks of the day. Since then, the smiling icons（marks）have taken the e-mail world by storm. Now called emoticons, short for emotive（情感）icons, Fahlmans smiley face encouraged the creation of thousands of

31、variants.Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online all put emoticons into their instant-messaging systems, while telecom companies, jewelry makers and online merchants have sent in trademark applications（申请）for products and ads that include Fahlmans smiley face.But Fahlman has never seen a cent from his c

32、reation.“If it cost people a cent to use it, nobody would have used it. This is my little gift to the world, for better or worse,”he said.69What do the underlined words this information in paragraph 3 refer to?Athe body language.Bthe suggestion of marking postsCthe tone of voiceDthe humors behind th

33、e words70The purpose of Fahlman in typing the first smiley face was.Ato explain to others that he didnt take his message seriously.Bto fill all the worlds communication channels with smiley faces.Cto make money out of telecom companies and online merchants.Dto show his happy feelings and to help to

34、define Internet culture.71What does the passage mainly talk about?AInternet cultureBElectronic mail message.CFahlmans creation.DOnline smiley face.EThe case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help the

35、m earn more money, become“better”people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who dont go.But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who dont fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and

36、 more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each others experiments and write false letters of recommendation（推荐）in the competition for admission to graduate school. Others find not interest in their studies, and drop outoften encouraged b

37、y college administrators（教导主任）.Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselvesthey are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnaiton（谴责）of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are pa

38、rtly right. Weve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.Some adventuresome educators and campus

39、 watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys（调查）upside down, it seems, and thinking of the rosy glow of our own remembered college experien

40、ces. Perhaps college does not make people intelligent（clever），ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn thingsmaybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhap

41、s all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy（异端邪说）to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But opposite evidence is beginning to mount up.72According to the passage all the following