2013高考英语二轮阅读理解精选(02)外研版

1、-1 -2013 高考英语二轮阅读理解精选（02）及答案A（南京二模，A）French tourist outsmarts Dutch thiefAMSTERDAMA quick-thi nking French tourist outsmarted a Dutch thief after thethief tried to seize his bag, Amsterdam police said Wedn esday.After winning a brief tug-of-war over the sports bag, the 27-year-old touristran into a

2、n earby police stati on with the thief in hot pursuit.The thiefarealized too late he had run straightinto the_long_arm_of_thea _”，police spokeswomanWilma Verheij said of the incident ,which took place Tuesday.After itdawned on the thief, a 28-year-old man whose identity was not released,said that he

3、 was in the middle of a police station, so he tried to run away again.But he was quickly caught by officers and arrested, Verheij said.Liz Taylor rema ins hospitalizedLOS ANGELEHeart trouble iskeep ing Elizabeth Taylor hospitalized in LosAn geles for some time, but her publicist says the 78-year-old

4、 actress is OK and has bee n visit ing withfamily and frien ds.Taylors spokeswoma n Sally Morris on said in a stat eme nt Tuesday that the two-time Oscar winneris comfortable at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and “there has been steady improvement in her condition” since she was admitted last week.Tayl

5、or is being treated for symptoms of heart failure, a con diti on she revealedin November 2004.“ Her medical team is satisfied by her progress to date, and it is hoped andexpected that this will continue over the n ext few days. For now, she will rema inun der their care in the hospital for continued

6、 mon itori ng ，” Morris on said. “ Frie nds and fans aroundthe world should be convinced that Elizabeth Taylor is in good health and receiving the best possible carefrom her skilled and devoted doctors and nurses. ” Morris on described Taylors con diti on as stable butoffered no other details.Japa n

7、 halts（ 暂停）whale hunt after chase by protestersTOKY Japa n has halted its annual An tarctic whale hunt followi ng protests from-2 -a campaign group. Activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society，a US-basedenvironmen tal group, have bee n chas ing the Japa nese fish ing ship.Commercial whali n

8、g was banned in 1986 but Japa n uses a regulati on permitti ng hun ti ng for scientific research.Icela nd and Norway have claimed official object ions to the ban and con ti nue to hunt commercially.“ Putti ng safety as a priority, the ship has halted scie ntific whali ng for now.We are currently con

9、sidering what to do，” Tatsuya Nakaoku, an official at thefisheries age ncy, told Reuters n ews age ncy.The Sea Shepherd Con servati on Society says one of its boats has bee n block ing the ship loadingramp（ 斜梯）,preventing any hunted whales from being loaded on to the ship. “ Ever y whale saved isa v

10、ictory to us, so weve gotten a lot of victories dow n here this year ， ” Sea Shepherd captai n Paul Watson told Reuters n ews age ncy by satellite phone from the Steve Irwin ship.本文为三则新闻。1._ The underlined part“the long arm of the law” refers to _ in Amsterdam.A. a travel age ncyB. a policema nC. a

11、police stati onD. a police spokeswoma n答案：C。词义猜测题。从画线短语的上一段段尾的police station可推测出答案为 C。2. What can we know about Elizabeth Taylor from the news?A. She has bee n sufferi ng from heart ill ness for some years.B. She will go back home in a day or two.C. She is feeli ng quite well in hospital.D. She will

12、 receive her Oscar Award in the hospital.答案：A。事实细节题。从第二则新闻的第 3 段可知，自 2004 年 11 月以来 Taylor 就患 了心脏病，故 A 项正确。从倒数第2 段中的it is hoped and expected that this willcontinue over the next few days ”，可知 B 项错误；文中自始至终没有提到Taylor 自己的感受，故 C 项错误；由第 2 段内容可知 Taylor 是两度奥斯卡奖得主，而不是将在医院接受 颁奖，故 D项错误。3. Which of the followin

13、g is NOT true?A. Japa nese fish ing ships go to the An tarctic for whale hunt every year.B. Icela nd and Norway will not stop hunting whales.-3 -C. Commercial whale hunt has bee n banned for about twen ty-five years.D. Japa n will not hunt whales any more.答案：D。事实细节题。文中只是说日本的捕鲸船被暂时阻止，而没有信息表明日本将不再捕鲸，故

14、 D 项符合题意要求，为正确答案。从该新闻的第2 段可知自 1986 年以商业为目的-4 -的捕鲸禁令颁布以来，日本依然以科研为借口继续捕鲸，故A 项是正确的；从第 3 段可知 B项正确；从第 2 段捕鲸禁令发布的时间是 1986 年可推知 C 项正确。综上所述， A B、C 不符合题干中的 NOT true 的要求。B（南京二模，B）“Choo Choo!” Here comes the Chunnel train. Get aboard if you want to learnmore about this underground transportation system. This i

15、s an unusual form of tran sportati on, because itis a tunnel that trains travel through and not an actual form of tran sportati on.The Chunnel is actually the En glish nickn ame for the Channel Tunn el. I n French,it is called le tunnel sous la Manche. It is a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel

16、 at the Straits of Dover.It conn ects Cherit on in Kent, En gla nd with San gatte inn orther n Fran ce. It is the sec ond Ion gest rail tunnel in the world.Did you know that the British and the French had a race while they were buildi ngthe Chunn el? The race was to see who could get to the middle o

17、f the tunnel first.The British won by a little bit. It took 15,000 workers over seve n years to dig the tunn el. The tunnel wasfini shed in 1994.The completed Chunnel cost about $21 billi on. But it all paid off, because it became very popular,very quick. Millio ns of people use it. Now it is getti

18、ng even more popular.There are three complete tunn els in the Chunn el. The two outside ones are thepasse nger trains. The small inner one is a guida nee train. The guida nee train is not used for tran sportation. Each track is exactly parallel to each other.There are four differe nt train systems i

19、n the Chunn el. The Eurostar is a highspeed passenger service that connects London, Paris, Brussels and Lille. The Eurotunnel shuttle is a railferry service. These shuttles carry cars and vans. These are railcars that allow drivers to drive theirvehicles on and off. There are alsotwo Eurot unnel goo

20、ds service trains.Now you know more about the Chunnel. Everybody off, this is the last stop.本文介绍了 1994 年竣工的横贯多佛海峡连接英法的海底隧道地铁的修建、内在结构及其 服务系统。4.The Channel Tunnel links _with_.B. Cherit on; San gatteD. Dover; KentA. London; ParisC. Lille; Brussels-5 -答案：B。事实细节题。由第2 段倒数第 2 句It connects Cheriton in Kent

21、, England with Sangatte inn orther n Fran ce. ”可知 B 项正确。5. Which of the following shows the structure of the tunnels in the Chunnel?答案：A。事实细节题。由倒数第3 段可知 A 项正确。6. The Eurotunnel shuttle is intended to carry_.A. passe ngersB. drivers and their vehiclesC. goodsD. staff members of the Chunnel答案：B。事实细节题。

22、由倒数第2 段中的The Eurotunnel shuttle is a rail ferryservice.their vehicles on and off”可知 B 项正确。7. The text can most probably be_ .A. found in a guidebookB. read in a magaz ineC. broadcast on a trainD. heard in a railwav stati on答案：C。推理判断题。文章首尾，尤其是尾段，说明了这是乘坐火车的场景，也暗示了答案。C（2010 杭州质检二，C）Any discussion of En

23、glish conversation,like any English conversation,must beginwith The Weather. And in this spirit of observ ing traditi onal rule, I shall quoteDr Joh nsons famous comme nt that “ When two En glish meet, their first talk is of theweather ”， and point out that this observati on is as accurate now as it

24、 was overtwo hun dred years ago.This, however, is the point at which most people either stop, or try, and fail,to come up with a convincing explanation for the English “addiction ” to the weather. They fail becausetheir premise （前提） is mistaken: they assume that our conversations about the weather a

25、re conversationsabout the weather. In other words, they assumethat we talk about the weather because we have a keen interest in the subject. Mostof them the n try to figure out what it is about the En glish weather that is sofasci nati ng.Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that the English weather

26、is not at all-6 -fascinating,and that our “addiction ” to it is therefore very difficult to explain:“ To an outsider , the most strik ing thing about the En glish weather is that thereis not very much of it. All those phe nomena that elsewhere give n ature an edge ofexciteme nt,un predictability and

27、 dan ger torn ados, monsoons, hailstorms are almostwholly unknown in the British Isles.”Jeremy Paxma n takes offence at Brys ons comme nts and argues that the En glish weather is trulyfasci nati ngBryson misses the point.The interest is less in the phenomenathemselves, but inuncertainty.one of the f

28、ew things you can say about England with absolutecertainty is that it has a lot of weather.It may not include tropical cyclones but life at the edge of anocean and the edge of a continent meansyou can never be entirely sure what youre going to get.My research has convin ced me that both Brys on and

29、Paxma n are missi ng the point, which is thatour con versati ons about the weather are not really about the weather at all : English weather-speak is aform of code, developed to help us overcome ourn atural reserve （含蓄）and actually talk to each other.Every one kno ws, for example,that“ Nice day, is

30、nt it ?”，“ Oh, is nt it cold ?”； and other variati ons onthe theme are not requests for weather data:they are greeti ngs orconversation-starters.In other words, English weather-speak is a form of “cleaningtalk ”一 the huma n equivale nt of what is known as “ social clea ning ” among our primate（ 灵长类的

31、）cousins, where they spend hours cleaning each others fur, even when they are perfectly clea n, as ameans of social connection.英国人谈话为什么以谈天气开始，本文作者在对比了两个具有代表性的说法之后提出了自己的见解一一作为一种社会联系的手段。8. According to the author , most peoples explanations for the English love for weather talk are .A. scie ntificC. f

32、asci nati ngD. accurate答案：B。推理判断题。由第2,3,4,5 段内容可推断出 B 项正确。9. As is stated in the passsage, most people try to find out_.A. why the En glish weather is so uniqueB. whether the En glish enjoy their weatherC. why the En glish are so in terested in the topic of weatherD. whether the En glish really talk

33、 about weather whe n they do so答案：C。主旨大意题。总览文章可知答案。文章第1 段引出话题，从第2 段开始就其原B. in correct-7 -因展开探讨。10 .In Bill Bryso ns opi nion, the En glishA. un dersta ndableB. convincingC. respectableD. un reas on able答案：D。推理判断题。由第 3 段首句的it is therefore very difficult to explain ” 可推知答案。11.Disapproving of Bill Brys

34、ons opinion_ ，Jeremy Paxman argues that.A. the En glish talk about their weather because it is un predictableB. the En glish dont talk about weather as ofte n as the outsiders thinkC. the En glish weather can be as excit ing as any where elsesD. the En glish weather talk is merely a form of small ta

35、lk答案：A。推理判断题。由倒数第 3 段的Jeremy Paxman.argues that the English weather is trulyfascinating 和倒数第 2 段第 2 句 but in uncertainty可推知答案。12.According to the author,English weather-speak is similar toprimates socialclea ning in that they are both_.A. ways of greetingB. means social connectionC. fascinating topi

36、cs between peopleD. phenomena difficult to understand to outsiders答案：B。事实细节题。由尾段尾句可知 B 项正确。D（海淀第二学期期末，D）The Child Ego StateThe Child ego state is a set of behaviors, thoughts and feelingswhich are replayedfrom our own childhood.Perhaps the boss calls us into his or her office, we may immediately get

37、 a churning in our stomachand won der what we have done wron g. If this were explored we might remember the time the headteacher called us in to tell us off. Of course, not everythi ng in the Child ego state is n egative. We might gointo some on es house and smell a lovely smell and remember our gra

38、n dmothers house whe n we werelittle, and all the same warm feeli ngs we had at six years of age may come flood ing back.The Child ego states are con sta ntly being updated. For example, we maymeet some one who givesaddiction to their weather is-8 -us the permission we needed as a child, and did not

39、 get , to be fun and joyous.We may well use that pers on in our imagi nati on whe n we are stressed to resist our old ways of thinkingthat we must work Ion ger and Ion ger hours to keep up with everything. We might ask ourselves “Iwonder what X would say now. ” Then on hearing the new permissions to

40、 relax and take some time out, do just that and then returnto the work ren ewed and ready for the challe nge. Afterwards, rather tha n blami ng ourselves for what wedid or did not do, what tends to happen is that we automatically start to give ourselves new permissi onsand take care of ourselves.Alt

41、er natively, we might have had an extremely un pleasa nt experie nee yesterdaywhich goes into the Child ego state as an antique memory that stands in the way of our growth. Positiveexperiences will also go into the Child ego state as antique memories. The positive experiences can thenbe drawn on to

42、remind us that positive things do happe n.The process of analyzing personality in terms of ego states is called structural an alysis. It is important to remember that ego states do not have an existe nee of their own. They are concepts to enableunderstanding. Therefore it is important to say “ I wan

43、t some fun ” rather than “ My Child wants somefun ” . We may be in our Child ego state when we say this,_but saying “ I ” reminds us to takeresponsibility forour actions.本文讲述了 the Child ego state”的含义及对一个人行为的影响。13. The writer uses two examples in Paragraph 2 in order to_ .A. prove the Child ego state

44、 is n egativeB. expla in why we become n ervousC. support the idea in Paragraph 1D. in troduce the point of Paragraph 3答案：C。推理判断题。从文章结构来看，第2 段所举的两个例子是对文章首段观点的阐释，故选 Co14. By asking “I wonder what X would say now ”, we intend to_.A. blame ourselvesB. avoid stressC. keep up with everyth ingD. accept ch

45、alle nges答案：B。推理判断题。由第 3 段中间的We may well use that person.Thenon hearingthe new permissi ons to relax and take some time out.” 可推知答案。15. According to the passage , the Child ego state_ .A. exists in on es childhoodB. shows on es wisdom-9 -C. limits on es thoughtsD. in flue nces on es acti ons答案：D。推理判

46、断题。16.The underlined word_ “this ” in the lastparagraph refers to.B.“ My Child wants some funC. the Child ego stateD. structural an alysis答案：A。词义猜测题。答案在于文章最后两句，由尾句中的but sayi ng “ I” remi ndsus.可知代词 this 指代的是上句的“ I want some fun ”而不是My Child wants some fun ”。E（东城练习二，D）People have wondered for a long

47、time how their personalities and behavior are formed. It is not easyto expla in why one pers on is in tellige nt and ano ther is not, or why one is cooperative and ano ther iscompetitive.Social scientistsare of course extremely interestedin these types of questions.They want to explain why we posses

48、s certa in characteristics and exhibit certa in behavior. There are noclear an swers yet, but two disti net schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect,the two approaches are very differe nt from each other, and there is a great deal of debate betweenproponents of each theor

49、y. The con troversy is ofte n convenien tly referred to as “n ature andnurture ”.Those who support the “nature ” side of the conflictbelieve that ourpers on alities and behavior patter ns are largely determ ined by biological factors.That our en vir onmenthas little, if anything, to do with our abil

50、ities,characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, thistheory states that our behavior is predeterm ined to such a great degree that we are almost completelygoverned by our instincts（本能）.Proponents of the “nurture ” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists,

51、claim that ourenvironmen t is more importa nt tha n our biologically based in st incts in determining how we will act. Abehaviorist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by theirsurroundin gs. The behaviorists view of the human being is quite mechanistic. T

52、hey state that, likemachines, humansrespond to environmental stimuli （刺激 ） as the basis of their behavior.A. “ I want some fun-10 -Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. In the US , forexample, blacks often score below whites on standardizedintelligeneetests. This leads some“nature ”