2012届高考英语二轮专题总复习 阅读能力培养精品系列（二十七）

1、PAGE PAGE - 3 -用心 爱心 专心2012届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读能力培养精品系列（二十七）阅读理解 A In the kitchen of my mothers houses there has always been a wooden stand(木架)with a small notepad(记事本)and a hole for a pencil.Im looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years sin

2、ce my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it cant be the same pencil! The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.“Im just amazed you still have the same stand for ho

3、lding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Cant you afford a pen？”My mother replies a little sharply, “It works perfectly well. Ive always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew

4、when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days.”Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watc

5、hing baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”This storywhi

6、ch happened before I was born-reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough,

7、 on the back of the smallest one, are some pencilled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have travelled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible(看不到的)exhibits at every meal.1. Why has the authors mother always kept the notepad and pencil

8、in the kitchen?A. To leave messages.B. To list her everyday tasks. C. To note down maths problems.D. To write down a flash of inspiration.2. What is the authors original opinion about the wooden stand?A. It has great value for the family.B. It needs to be replaced by a better one.C. It brings her ba

9、ck to her lonely childhood.D. It should be passed on to the next generation.3. The author feels embarrassed for _. A. blaming her mother wronglyB. giving her mother a lot of troubleC. not making good use of time as her mother didD. not making any breakthrough in her field4. What can be inferred from

10、 the last paragraph? A. The mother is successful in her career.B. The family members like travelling.C. The author had little time to play when young.D. The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.5. In the authors mind, her mother is _.A. strange in behaviourB. keen on her researchC. fond of colle

11、cting old thingsD. careless about her appearanceBIn the atmosphere，carbon dioxide allows the suns rays to enter but prevents the heat from escaping. According to a weather experts prediction，the atmosphere will be warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the presen

12、t rate. If this warming up took place, the ice caps in the poles would begin to melt, thus raising sea level several meters and severely flooding coastal cities.Also, the increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere.In the past, concern ab

13、out a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the Arctic because the Antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheet. But the weather experts are now paying more attention to West Antarctic, which may be affected by only a few degrees of warming, in other words, by a warming on t

14、he scale that will possibly take place in the next fifty years from the burning of fuels.Satellite pictures show that large areas of Antarctic ice are already disappearing. The evidence suggests that a warming has taken place. This fits the theory that carbon dioxide warms the earth.However, most of

15、 the fuel is burnt in the northern part of the earth, where temperatures seem to be falling. Scientists conclude，therefore, that up to now natural influences on the weather have exceeded those caused by man. The question is: Which natural cause has most effect on the weather?One possibility is the b

16、ehavior of the sun. Astronomers at one research station have studied the hot spots and “cold” spots，that is，the relatively less hot spots, on the sun. This seems to have a greater effect on the distribution of the earths atmospheric pressure, and consequently on wind circulation(循环). The sun is also

17、 variable(可变的) over a long term.Its heat output(输出)goes up and down in cycles. The latest trend being downward is on the way. But that is only an imagination.6. The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would_.A. prevent the suns rays from reaching the earths surfaceB. mean a warming up in the ArcticC. a

18、ccount for great changes in the climateD. raise the temperature of the earths surface7. The article was written to explain_.A. the greenhouse effectB. the solar effects on the earthC. the solar weatherD. the causes affecting weather8. Although the fuel is greater in the northern part，temperatures th

19、ere seem to be falling.This is _.Amainly because the carbon dioxide is risingBpossibly because the ice caps in the poles are meltingCdue to the effect of the earths climateDpartly due to the activity of the sun9. What does the underlined word “exceeded” mean?A. To be the same as. B. To be slower tha

20、n.C. To be better than. D. To be bigger than.参考答案. 1. 解析：选D。细节理解题。由第四段最后一句“I never knew when I might want to note down an idea”到下一段的“and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty”可知,应选D。2. 解析：选B。根据第三段中“Im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years”可推断，作者认为the wooden stand该换成更好的了。3. 解析：选C。细节理解题。由最后一段等二句“I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work”可知，应选C。4. 解析：选A。推理判断题。根据最后一段的第一句“This story