安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2012届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（39）

1、安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2012届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（39）AA Plan For Exploring MarsNASA is moving ahead with plans to put a long-armed Lander on Mars icy North Pole to search for clues for water and possible signs of lifeThe $386 million Phoenix Mars is planned to touch down in the Martian arctic in 2008The stationary prob

2、e will use its robotic arm to dig into the icy land and pick up soil samples to analyzeIn 2002, the Mars Odyssey orbiter spotted evidence of ice-rich soil near the arctic surfaceScientists hope the Phoenix mission will find clues to the geologic history of water on the Red Planet and determine wheth

3、er microbes existed in the icePhoenix will be the first mission of the Mars Scout program, a renewed, low-cost effort to study the Red Planet“The Phoenix mission explores new territory in the northern plains of Mars analogous to the permafrost regions on Earth,” Peter Smith saidTrue to its name, Pho

4、enix rose from the ashes of previous missionsThe lander for Phoenix was built to fly as part of the 2001 Mars Surveyor programBut the program broke down after the well-known disappearance of the Mars Polar Lander in 1999The Polar Lander lost contact during a landing attempt near the planets south po

5、le after its rocket engine shut off prematurely, causing the spacecraft to fall about 130 feet to almost certain destructionThe Phoenix probe had been in storage at a Lockheed Martin clean room in Denver before it was reused for its present missionIt will carry science instruments that were designed

6、 for the Mars Surveyor program including an improved panoramic camera and a trench-digging robotic armPhoenix will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in August 2007 and land on the planet nine months later41The passage mainly tells readers that _Aclues of water will be found in Phoenix BPhoenix

7、will be sent to find clues of water on MarsCAugust 2007 will see Phoenix lift off Dthe Mars Scout program will be carried out42According to the passage, we know Phoenix will land on Mars _Ain May 2008 Bin August 2007Cin August 2008 Din September 200843After Phoenix lands on Mars, we can infer it wil

8、l firstly _Afind soil samples and send them to the earth Blook for the icy land to dig for the soil samplesCtake photos and send them to the earth Dfind the remains of the Mars Polar LanderBSome weight-loss camps, which are rare in China just a few years ago, have sprouted in Beijing, Qingdao, Shenz

9、hen, and other citiesToday about 15 percent of adults, or 200 million Chinese, are reportedly overweightOf these,90 millionabout 7 percentare obese（极肥胖的）Experts say the obesity epidemic is spreading to children, though more slowly than in adultsThe trend, they say, will have a huge impact on the hea

10、lth of Chinas citizens and economy“Were seeing a very large proportion of children and adolescents who are quite heavy and arent moving much,” said Barry Popkin, a nutrition professorPopkin carries out an ongoing health-and-nutrition survey of 16,000 households in ChinaHe says more kids today are ov

11、ereating and putting on weight “quite quickly”In just ten years Chinas childhood obesity rate has doubled, with the greatest gains coming in urban areas“In big cities its a big problem”Some experts blame the extra fat on a range of factors, many of them tied to Chinas rapidly changing economy and cu

12、ltureThe diets of Chinese adults and children are far higher in calorie-laden meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, fat, and sugars than ever beforeIn addition, kidsespecially city dwellersare more sedentary today and spend more time indoors in front of homework, television, computer games, and the Inte

13、rnetShuwen Ng, a health economist, says that kids in China now have pocket money, and they spend a portion of it on junk foodNg adds that advertising and peer groups influence kids food choicesCertain foods, such as new candies or fast food, have attractive featuresChinas childhood obesity rate stil

14、l lags that of the United States, where some 15 percent of kids are said to be obeseBut the long-term effects are equally serious44According to the passage we know Aweight-loss camps have been very popular in China six years agoBabout 290 million Chinese are overweight in China in allCin China child

15、hood obesity rate in rural areas is lower than that in major citiesDAmericas childhood obesity rate is lower than Chinas45The underlined word “sedentary” in the third paragraph probably meansAattentive Bearnest Cabsent Dinactive46According to the passage we can infer that Aobesity explosion in China

16、 will affect the United StatesBjunk food contributes to childhood obesityCthere are great differences in kids food choices nowDcity children eat more than rural children47Whats the best title for the passage?AChinese Childhood Obesity ExplosionBWeight-loss Camps in ChinaCObesity Explosions Impacts o

17、n Chinese EconomyDObesity Explosion in China and AmericaCLast year, I took a sightseeing trip to Washington, DCI heard a voice say, “Can you help me?” When I turned around, I saw an elderly blind woman with her hand extendedImmediately, I pulled out all of my change and placed it on her hand without

18、 even looking at herBut the blind woman smiled and said, “I dont want your moneyI just need help finding the post office”In an instant, I realized what I had doneI acted with prejudiceI judged another person simply for what I assumed she had to beI hated what I saw in myselfThe thing I had forgotten

19、 about myself is that I am an immigrantI left Honduras and arrived in the US at the age of 15I started my new life with two suitcases， my brother and sisterThrough the years, I have been a doorkeeper, cashier and pizza delivery driver among many other humble（卑微的）jobs, and eventually I became a netwo

20、rk engineerIn my own life, I have experienced prejudiceI remember a timeat the age of 17when I was a busboy, I heard a father tell his little boy that if he did not do well in school, he would end up like meBut now, living in my American middle-class lifestyle, it is too easy to forget my past, to f

21、orget who I am, where I have been ,and to lose sight of where I want to be goingThat blind woman on the streets cured me of my blindnessShe reminded me of my belief in humility（谦虚）By the way, I helped that lady to the post officeI hope to thank her for the priceless lesson48How did the writer give t

22、he blind woman money? AIn a modest way BIn a polite way CIn an impatient wayDIn a painful way49According to the text, the writer_ Astill lives a poor life Bwas busy with his workCwas born in Honduras Dwas a native of Washington DC50According to the text, the author most probably agrees that one shou

23、ld_ Abe nice to the elderly and the disabled Btry to experience different kinds of culture Ctreat others equally with love and respect Dthink about ones past as often as possible51What would be the best title of the text? AA priceless lesson BAn act of prejudice CA sightseeing trip DA humble momentD

24、There is a boy in my gym class （Ill call him Bill） who has unbearably yellow teeth that almost make everyone feel unpleasantRecently another boy told Bill that he should “go Ajax” his teethBill was crushedHad the other boy been thinking, he would have realized that there is a better way to handle su

25、ch a situationHe could have dealt with it with tactHe could have showed this hurtful truth in a more careful, sensitive waythats “tact”If a person isnt sensitive to anothers feelings, there is no way he or she can be tactfulYesterday, my 5-year-old brother proudly announced that he had cleaned the s

26、creen on our television setUnfortunately, he used furniture polish（亮光油）, which produced an oily film on the television screenMy mother smiled and thanked him for his effortsand then showed how to clean the screen properlyHer sensitivity enables my brother to keep his self-respectYet, sensitivity alo

27、ne does not make tact “Tactfulness” also requires “truthfulness”Doctors, for example must be truthfulIf a patient has just been disabled in an accident, a tactful doctor will tell the truthbut express it with sensitivityThe doctor may try to give the patient hope by telling them curing techniques un

28、der study or about advanced equipment now availableDoctors must use tact with patients relatives as wellInstead of bluntly saying, “Your husband is disabled,” a doctor might say, “Im sorry, but your husband has lost feeling in his legs and”Tact should not be confused with trickeryTrickery occurs whe

29、n a nurse is about to give a patient an injection and says, “This wont hurt a bit” Instead of trickery, the nurse might guarantee the patient that the discomfort of the injection is a small thing compared to the benefits of itIt would also be thoughtful for the nurse to tell the patients about some

30、of these benefitsTact is a wonderful skill to have, and tactful people are usually admired and respectedWithout tact our society would become an intolerable place to live in52When told he should “go Ajax” his teeth, Bill probably felt _Asurprised Bcheated Cregretful Dpainful53According to the author

31、, his mothers praise for the brother is _Aboth sensitive and tactful Bsensitive but not tactful enoughCtruthful but not tactful Dsensitive but trickish54The fourth paragraph mainly talks about _Ahow to comfort the patients Bhow to use trickery carefullyCdifferences between trickery and promises Dano

32、ther feature of tact55Which of the following shows the structure of the passage? （The numbers stand for the paragraphs）ECHICAGO （Reuters） - Smoking not only can wrinkle（起皱纹） the face and turn it yellow - it can do the same to the whole body, researchers reported on MondayThe study, published in the

33、Archives of Dermatology, shows that smoking affects the skin all over the body - even skin protected from the sun"We examined non-facial skin that was protected from the sun, and found that the total number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day and the total years a person has smoked were linke

34、d with the amount of skin damage a person experienced," DrYolanda Helfrich of the University of Michigan, who led the study, said in a statement"In participants older than 65 years, smokers had significantly more fine wrinkling than nonsmokersSimilar findings were seen in participants aged

35、 45 to 65 years," Helfrich's team added in their reportThe researchers tested 82 people, smokers and nonsmokers, taking pictures of the inner right armsThey ranged in age from 22 to 91 and half were smokersIndependent judges decided how wrinkled each person's skin wasWhen skin is expose

36、d to sunlight, notably the face, it becomes coarse, wrinkled and discolored with a pale yellow tint, Helfrich's team wroteSeveral previous studies have found that cigarette smoking contributes to premature（过早的）skin aging as measured by facial wrinkles, the study said, but little has been done to measure the aging of skin not exposed to lightThe report did not discuss the mechanism involved but previous research has fou