河北省晋州市2016高考英语阅读理解含语法填空练习(5)

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社会生活类 阅读理解

Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply

wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending

envelopes with cash to deserving causes, accompanied by an article from the local paper,

has made a northern German city believe in fairytales(童话)．

The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained 10,000 with a

cutting from the Braunschweiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was

robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous(匿名) envelopes, each

containing

10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.

The envelops keep coming, and so far at least 190, 000 has been distributed. Last

month, one of them was sent to the newspaper's own office. It came after a story it

published about Tom, a 14­year­old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident.

The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to

find 20 notes of 500 inside, with a copy of the article.The name of the family was

underlined.

“I was driving when I heard the news，”Claudia Neumann, the boy's mother, told Der

Spiegel magazine.“I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.”

The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair­accessible and

for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.

“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which

everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing，” Mrs.Neumann said. Her family wonder

whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.

Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said：“Maybe it is an old

person who is about to die. We just do not know.”However, he has told his reporters

not to look for the city's hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.

1．The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of ________.

A．a church B．a bank C．a newspaper D．a magazine

2．Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?

A．The donation amounted to 190, 000.

B．The donation was sent directly to his house.

C．The money will be used for his education.

D．His mother felt astonished at the donation. - 2 - 3．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．the donator is a rich old man

B．the donation will continue to come

C．the donation comes from the newspaper

D．the donator will soon be found out

4．What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Money Is Raised by the Newspaper

B．Newspaper Distributes Money to the Needy

C．Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes

D．Robin Hood Returns to the City

【要点综述】本文是一篇记叙文。介绍了城市英雄以匿名信封的形式在经济上帮助需要帮助的人。

1. C 推理判断题。从第一段“But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash

to deserving causes, accompanied by an article from the local paper”和第二段“with

a cutting from the Braunschweiger Zeitung”可推出Braunschweiger Zeitung是当地一家报纸。

2. D 细节理解题。从倒数第二段Tom的妈妈所说的话可知答案。

3. B 推理判断题。从最后一段“he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s

hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.”可知捐赠还会继续。

4. C 主旨大意题。本文介绍了城市英雄以匿名信封的形式在经济上帮助需要帮助的人。

科普知识型阅读理解

专题导读

科普类文章是高考阅读理解中的难点题材，其取材密切联系当前经济和科技等方面的变化，以介绍某一科学现象居多。科普类文章具有结构严谨、逻辑性强等特点。其主要命题形式有事实细节题、词义猜测题、推理判断题以及主旨概括题等，其中推理判断题居多。 这类文章的总体特点是：科技词汇多，句子结构复杂，理论性强，逻辑严谨。具体说来它有以下特点：

1．文章中词汇的意义比较单一、稳定、简明，不带感情色彩，具有单一性和准确性的特点。这类文章通常不会出现文学英语中常用的排比、比喻、夸张等修辞手法，一词多义的现象也不多见。

2．句子结构较复杂，语法分析较困难。为了描述一个客观事物，严密地表达自己的思想，- 3 - 作者经常会使用集多种语法现象于一体的长句。

3．常使用被动语态，尤其是一些惯用被动句式。

真题典例

【2011·湖南卷】A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the

unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct(不同的) species.

The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard Universities when they were

examining the genetic relationship between the ancient woolly mammoth and mastodon

to modern elephants—the Asian elephant，African forest elephant，and African savanna

elephant.

Once they obtained DNA sequences(序列) from two fossils(化石)，mammoths and mastodons，the team

compared them with DNA from modern elephants.They found to their amazement that modern

forest and savanna elephants are as distinct from each other as Asian elephants and

mammoths.

The scientists used detailed genetic analysis to prove that the African savanna

elephant and the African forest elephant have been distinct species for several

million years.The divergence of the two species took place around the time of the

divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths.This result amazed all the

scientists.

There has long been debate in the scientific community that the two might be separate

species，but this is the most convincing scientific evidence so far that they are

indeed different species.

Previously，many naturalists believed that African savanna elephants and African

forest elephants were two populations of the same species，despite the elephants’

significant size differences.The savanna elephant has an average shoulder height of

3.5 metres while the forest elephant has an average shoulder height of 2.5 metres.The

savanna elephant weighs between six and seven tons，roughly double the weight of the

forest elephant.But the fact that they look so different does not necessarily mean

they are different species.However the proof lay in the analysis of the DNA.