2012届高考英语阅读理解训练 (23)

2012届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读能力培养完形填空For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had the courage to go against him. Sure, some had __1__ in class at times, but no one had __2__ “really gone against him” (you'll see what I mean later). Nobody woul d go against him __3__ he had a reputation.Finally the day came. The professor said, “If there is anyone here who still __4__ God, stand up！” The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, __5__，as he stood up at the back of the classroom. The professor __6__，“You fool！！ If God __7__， he could keep this piece of chalk from __8__ when it hit the ground！”He proceeded(向前) to __9__ the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff (袖口), onto the pleats(皱折) of his trousers, __10__ his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it __11__ rolled away, unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he __12__ the chalk. He looked up at the young man and __13__ ran out of the lecture hall.The young man who had stood up proceeded to walk to the front of the room and share his __14__ in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students __15__ and listened as he told of God's love for them and of his __16__ through Jesus.“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he ga ve the __17__ to become children of God—children born not of __18__ descent(后代), nor of human decision or a husband's __19__，but born of God.”“But he knows the way that I take. __20__ he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.”1. A. agreed B. praised C. argued D. talked2. A. ever B. even C. already D. willingly3. A. so B. and C. but D. because4. A. relies on B. believes in C. cares for D. thinks of5. A. disappointed B. excited C. shocked D. satisfied6. A. shouted B. disagreed C. murmured D. whispered7. A. appeared B. knew C. existed D. came8. A. rolling B. breaking C. standing D. moving9. A. drop B. fetch C. throw D. cut10. A. up B. down C. on D. above11. A. simply B. quickly C. luckily D. quietly12. A. searched for B. found out C. watched over D. stared at13. A. therefore B. yet C. then D. so14. A. thought B. bravery C. opinion D. faith15. A. left B. sat C. stayed D. smiled16. A. trust B. belief C. mind D. power17. A. right B. family C. time D. way18. A. human B. natural C. mother's D. social19. A. will B. promise C. regret D. desire20. A. Where B. Immediately C. When D. Unless阅读理解A“Hey, Dad，” one of my kids asked the other day, “what was your favorite fast food when you were growing up？”“We didn't have fast food when I was growing up，” I informed him. “All the food was sl ow.”“Come on, seriously. Where did you eat？”“It was a place called ‘home’” I explained.“Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I liked it.”By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it：I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza. It was called “pizza pie”. When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, and plastered itself against my chin. It's still the best pizza I ever had.Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. Bread and rolls came from the Omar man. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers.I delivered a newspaper, six days a week even when the snow was 18 inches deep. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents, I had to get up at 4：00 a．m. every morning. On Saturdays, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers.If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?1. Hearing what the author said, his child probably thought ________.A. he was lucky to have fast foodB. it was unbelievable to live without fast foodC. how happy his own life wasD. his father was joking with him2. When he used to have meals with the adults, the author ________.A. had to watch his table mannersB. could choose what he likedC. was not given much freedomD. had to eat everything offered to him3. What do we know about the first pizza the author had?A. It left a good memory on him.B. The author didn't like it at all.C. It was too poorly made.D. He didn't know how to eat it.4. Why did the author talk about his experience of delivering newspapers?A. To show that his family used to be quite poor.B. To show that children before had to make a living by themselves.C. To show that he had gained a lot from the experience.D. To show that growing experience was quite different before.5. What's the author's attitude towards today's children?A. He thinks they are spoiled.B. He thinks they are too obsessed with fast food.C. He thinks they should go through some hardship.D. He doesn't give his personal opinion.BThe stereotype (固有观念) of computer scientists as nerds who stay up all night coding and have no social life may be driving women away from the field, according to a new study published this month. This stereotype can be brought to mind based only on the appearance of the environment in a classroom or an office.“When people think of computer science the image that immediately pops into many of their minds is about the computer geek(怪人) surrounded by such things as computer games, science fiction and junk food，” said Sapna Cheryan, a university of Washington assistant professor of psychology and the study's lead author. “That stereotype doesn't appeal to many women who don't like the portrait of masculinity(男性化)．”Cheryan set up four experiments involving more than 250 female and male students who were not studying computer science to look at possible reasons why the proportion of women in the field is dropping while the proportion of women in such disciplines as biology, mathematics and chemistry is increasing.In the first experiment, students entered a small classroom that either contained objects stereotypically associated with computer science such as Star Trek posters, video game boxes and Coke cans, or non-stereotypical items such as nature posters, art, a dictionary and coffee cups. The students were told to ignore these objects because the room was being shared with another class. After spending several moments in the classroom, the students filled out questionnaires(调查问卷) that asked about their attitude toward computer science.Women exposed to the stereotypical setup expressed less interest in computer science than those who saw the non-stereotypical objects. Men placed in the same situations did not show a similar drop in interest in computer science. Cheryan said this study suggests that a student's choice of classes or a major can be influenced by the appearance of classrooms, halls and offices.6. The underlined word “nerds” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to “________”．A. dull personsB. active personsC. intelligent personsD. funny persons7. Women are less likely to choose computer science because ________.A. it is too difficult for themB. they have wrong understanding of itC. the lifestyle of computer scientists turns them awayD. they don't like the social life of computer scientists8. A woman would probably lose interest in computer science when she sees a ________.A. Star Trek posterB. nature posterC. dictionaryD. coffee cup9. What can influence a woman's choice of classes, according to the passage?A. The contents of computer science.B. The space in the classroom.C. The number of students in the classroom.D. The classroom environment.10. According to the experiment, women are more likely to choose computer science if ________.A. it is made more lively and interestingB. they are exposed to the stereotypical setupC. they see the non-stereotypical objects in the classroomD. they are allowed to learn it without men参考答案1. 解析：选C。

【英语】高考英语阅读理解试题(有答案和解析)及解析一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解Plastic sludge(污泥)and garbage is a disaster for the world's oceans. A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish. And Julie Andersen of the Plastic Oceans Foundation says what we see is just the ti p of the problem. “Half of the waste actually sinks to the bottom, and that remains on the surface actually breaks down. ”The filmmakers found rubbish in ocean gyres, the circulating currents that trap large concentrations of pollution in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacifc Oceans, home of what some have plastic. What we found was a plastic smog that spread throughout all the water. And in some parts of the oceans, scientists have found more plastic than plant. ”The pieces of the plastic garbage infect the food chain, sometimes visibly, and more so at the microscopic level, where the plastic particles interact with other pollutants. “There are heavy metals, medicines, industrial waste in the sea, while it acts like magnets(磁铁). These poisonous substances absorb on the plastic, and then when seafood absorbs the plastics, those poisonous substances enter the fatty tissues. ”To be consumed by other sea life and by people at last. China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are the worst plastic polluters. The United States, although a leader in recycling, is one of the world's 20 since it produces and consumes so much plastic. There are efforts around the world to address the problem, including at this newly opened recycling center in Lebanon(黎巴嫩). But Andersen says there is more that people can do. “Cut back on single-use plastics, straws, plastic cups, plastic water bottles, plastic bags and find alternatives like reusable materials.” She says healthy oceans are essential to our survival.（1）What can we learn from the passage?A. There's all island full of plastic rubbish in the Pacific.B. The bad effect of plastic pollution can't be seen by eyes.C. The United States is the least plastic polluters.D. The plastic pollution to oceans is more serious than what we can see.（2）What does the underlined word “it” refer to in paragraph 3?A. Pollutants like heavy metals and medicines.B. The plastic particles.C. Seafood.D. Fatty tissues.（3）What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A. All Asian countries have the most serious problem of plastic pollution.B. The plastic problem hasn't attracted the world's attention.C. Andersen is not satisfied with what has been done to solve the plastic problem,D. People should stop using plastic products immediately.（4）Which may be the title of the passage?A. Plastic pollution in the World.B. Plastic pollution—Oceans'Disaster.C. Ways to solve the problem of plastic pollution to oceans.D. Plastic pollution and our health.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）C（4）B【解析】【分析】这是一篇说明文。

In the second half of each year, many powerful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean seas. Of these, only about a half a dozen generate the strong, circling winds of 75 miles per hour or more that give them hurricane status, and several usually make their way to the coast. There they cause millions of dollars of damage, and bring death to large numbers of people.The great storms that hit the coast start as innocent circling disturbances (气旋) hundreds —even thousands —of miles out to sea. As they travel aimlessly over water warmed by the summer sun, they are carried westward by the trade winds. When conditions are just right, warm, moist (潮湿的) air flows in at the bottom of such a disturbance, moves upward through it and comes out at the top. In the process, the moisture in this warm air produces rain, and with it the heat that is switched to energy in the form of strong winds. As the heat increases, the young hurricane begins to turn around in a counter-clockwise motion (反时针方向).The average life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost more power than we can imagine. The energy in the heat released (释放) by a hurricane’s rainfall in a single day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six months.Water, rather than wind, is the main source of death and destroying in a hurricane.A typical hurricane brings 6-to-12-inch downpours resulting in sudden floods. Worst of all is the powerful movement of the sea — the mountains of water moving toward the low-pressure hurricane center. The water level rises as much as 15 feet above normal as it moves toward shore.43. An ordinary tropical storm is called a hurricane when ______.A.it occurs in the Caribbean seasB. its winds reach 75 miles per hourC. it makes its way to the coastlineD. its winds begin to circle on the sea44. What is the worst thing about hurricane?A. The rough water.B. The violent winds.C. The heat it gives out.D. The length of its life.45. What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?A. The hurricane is extraordinarily powerful.B. The hurricane is used to generate electricity.C. The hurricane can otherwise offer an unusual sight.D. The hurricane can give people an unforgettable experience.46. The counter-clockwise movement of the hurricane is caused by ______.A. the low-pressure area in the center of the stormB. the force of waves of waterC. the increasing heatD. the trade winds【参考答案】43—45、BAA 46、 CPassage Ten (The Importance of Independent Thinking)No one can be a great thinker who does not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. No that it is solely, of chiefly, to form great thinkers that freedom of thinking is required. One the contrary, it is as much or even more indispensable to enable average human beings to attain the mental stature which they are capable of. There have been and many again be great individual thinkers in a general atmosphere of mental slavery. But there never has been, nor ever will be, in that atmosphere an intellectually active people. Where any of heterodox speculation was for a time suspended, where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed: where the discussion of the greatest questions which can occupy humanity is considered to be closed, we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable. Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up fro9m its foundation and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.She who knows only her own side of the case knows little of that. Her reasons may be food, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if she s equally unable to refute the reasons of the opposite side; if she does not so much as know what they are, she has no ground for preferring either opinion. The rational positionfor her would be suspension of judgment, and unless she contents herself with that, she is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world the side to which she feels the most inclination. Nor is it enough that she should heat the arguments of adversaries from her own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations, That is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or bring them into real contact with her own mind. She must be able to hear them form persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. She must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; she must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else she will never really possess herself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty. Ninety-nine in a hundred of what are called educated persons are in this condition; even of those who can argue fluently for their opinions. Their conclusion may be true, but it might be false for anything they know; they have never thrown themselves into the mental position of those who think differently form them and considered what such persons may have to say; and consequently they do not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrines which they themselves profess.1.The best title for this passage is[A] The Age of Reason The need for Independent Thinking[C] The Value of Reason [D] Stirring People’s Minds2.According to the author, it is always advisable to[A] have opinions which cannot be refuted.adopt the point of view to which one feels the most inclination.[C] be acquainted with the arguments favoring the point of view with which one disagrees,[D] suspend heterodox speculation in favor of doctrinaire approaches.3.According to the author, in a great period such as the Renaissance we may expect to find[A] acceptance of truth controversy over principles [C] inordinate enthusiasm [D] a dread of heterodox speculation4.According to the author, the person who holds orthodox beliefs without examination may be described in all of the following ways EXCEPT as[A] enslaved by tradition less than fully rational[C] determinded on controversy [D] having a closed mind5.It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements[A] A truly great thinker makes no mistakes.Periods of intellectual achievement are periods of unorthodox reflection,[C] The refutation of accepted ideas can best be provided by one’s own teachers.[D] excessive controversy prevents clear thinking,Vocabulary1. stature 高度，境界，状况2. heterodox 不合乎公认的标准的，异端的，异教的3. tacit 心照不宣4. refute 反驳5. adversary 对立面，对手，敌人6. plausible 善于花言巧语的/辞令的，似乎有理的/有可能的7. doctrine 教义，学说8. profess 表示，明言，承认，自称，信奉难句译注1. True gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, then by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.[参考译文] 真理甚至从一个经过恰当研究和准备进行独立思考的人的错误中获得更多的东西，而从那些只是因为不予思考却持有正确的观点中获得的少（一种经过恰当的研究和准备进行独立思考的人犯的错误，另一种人是不予思考的却持有正确的观点，真理从前者错误中获得的东西比从后者的正确观点中获得的要多）。

阅读理解增分练第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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湖北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（2）阅读理解AA dog who chewed off his owner’s infected toe（脚趾）while he was passed-out drunk has been called a lifesaver. Jerry Douthett had been out drinking when his dog Kiko bit off a large part if his big toe. His wife, Rosee, rushed him to hospital where tests showed the 48-year-old musician had dangerous high blood-sugar levels. Doctors told him his toe would have had to be cut off anyway.Mr Douthett said he had refused to get medical advice despite his toe being swollen for months. “I was hiding it from people, Rosee included,” he said. “It smelled , and I look back now and realize every time we’d visit someone with a dog, their dog would smell all over my foot.”The night before Mr Douthett had agreed to see a doctor, he passed out at home after going out drinking. He said, “I woke up and the dog was lying along side by foot. I said, ‘Ah, there’s blood everywhere.’ I ran to the bathroom and started to scream.”However, he believes Kiko could sense the disease coming from his big toe. “He’s a hero,”Mr Douthett said. “It wasn’t an aggressive attack. He just ate the infection. He saved my life. He ate it. I mean, he must have eaten it, because we couldn’t find it anywhere else in the house. I look down. There’s blood all over, and my toe is gone.”Before the operation, Mr Douthett asked a nurse, “Is there any chance I can get whatever’s left of my toe, so I can give it to Kiko as a treat?”Kiko is still with the family but is under observation by authorities.1.Mr Douthett didn’t want to get medical treatment because ______ .A.he didn’t know about his disease at allB.he was unwilling to let others know about his diseaseC.doctors had no good ways to treat his bad toeD.his wife advised him not to do that2.From Paragraph 3 we can infer that ______ .A.Rosee managed to persuade her husband to go to hospitalB.Mr Douthett made his big toe worse by frequent drinkingC.Mr Douthett didn’t know his toe was chewed off at firstD.it is dangerous for people to let pet dogs sleep in the bedrooms3.What did Mr Douthett think of his dog ?A.It was clever and brave.B.It never attacked healthy people.C.It was a cruel but helpful dog.D.It was a dangerous dog in fact.BBritain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry,a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.They took control of the phone box when telecoms operator BT said it was going to pull it down, an announcement that caused such dissatisfaction that one local woman threatened to chain herself to the box to save it. “I’d have done it,”insisted Kendall Turner. “It would have been heartbreaking for the village.”Local councilor Tricia Hallam, who came up with the idea for the phone box’s change, said quite a few people would have joined her, adding, “We couldn’t let it go because it’s a British symbol.”Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25th anniversary of the reign of King George V.Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop（背景）to millions of tourist photographs.Eight years ago there were about 17,000 across Britain, but today, in a country where almost everybody has a mobile phone, 58 percent are no longer profitable and ten percent are only used once a month. “On average, maintaining them costs $800 a year per phone box —about ￡44 million annually,” said John Lunb, general manager for BT Payphones.4.Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ______ .a.selling flowersb.cookingc.readingd.exhibiting art or poetryA.a,bB.c,dC.a,b,cD.b,c,d5.Why do the villagers want to keep the red phone boxes ?A.Because millions of people visit Britain to see the red phone boxes.B.Because the local people could earn a lot of money from the red phone boxes.C.Because the red phone boxes have already become a symbol of Britain.D.Because the red phone boxes may be useful for some people in emergency.6.What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage ?A.Green.B.Red.C.Black.D.Yellow.7.What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes ?A.Supportive.B.Opposed.C.Neutral.D.Indifferent.CIn bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill-the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing．It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child: This might happen at any stage．A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads．On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself．Patents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children．Some may be especially strict in money matters．Others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals．In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness．As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is veryimportant in parental teaching．To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality．Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”．If they are not sincere and do not practice what they teach, their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled．A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment．8.Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills _________．A.should be avoidedB.is universal among parentsC.sets up dangerous states of worry in the childD.will make him lose interest in learning new things9.In the process of children’s learning new skills, parents ______．A.should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they readB.should not expect too much of themC.should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their ownD.should create as many learning opportunities as possible10.The second paragraph mainly tells us that __________．A.parents should be strict with their childrenB.parental controls reflect only the needs of the parents and the values of the communityC.parental restrictions vary, and are not always intended for the benefit of the children aloneD.parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation11.In moral matters, parents should __________．A.observe the rules themselvesB.be aware of the marked difference between adults and childrenC.forbid things which have no foundation in moralityD.consistently ensure the security of their childrenDAt about 4 am, after hours of being unable to sleep, of shivering in the cold mountain air and trying to silence my crying kids who kept waking up, of attempting to find a comfortable sleeping position, of listening to whether there might have been a bear outside our tent, I finally couldn’t stand it any more. I complained, “Everything has gone wrong.”My wife and I were in one tent with our two young kids. A hundred yards east away was Summit Lake, where the glorious early morning mist was shimmering（闪烁）off the water. A couple miles to the southwest was the base of the Lassen Peak Trail. The base was 8,000 feet above sea level, and huge snow dotted the scenery even in mid August. Further west still was Bumpass Hell, with steam rising up.As the sun crept up over the edge of the Lassen peak, we fired up the camp stove and had breakfast. Half an hour later, my six-year-old daughter and I were in the parking lot of the Lassen peak trail, getting ready to go up the mountainside. We wouldn’t make it all the way, but it didn’t matter. We would see nature at its extremes: the volcanic ash that layered on the earth turning the melting snow a mysterious pink as the sun struck it; the blues of the sky shading into theblues of distant lakes, which in turn shaded into the whites and grays of the snow.My daughter grabbed my camera. She wanted to take a photo of “the composite（混合物）”of colors. Looking out over that scenery, and seeing my daughter fascinated by nature, I felt stupid about my morning complaints.Yes, camping is uncomfortable. And yes, there’s a lot to be said for getting out a credit card,reserving a room in a nice hotel, and going out for a fancy meal. But there’s also something wonderful about being so close to raw nature. And , as important, there’s something vital about getting young children out of their increasingly modern comfort zones and forcing them to meet the world around them.12.According to the passage, what contributed to the author’s sleeplessness ?①the cold weather ②his crying children ③fear of bears④sounds of bears ⑤the aches of his lower back ⑥his own complaintsA. ①④⑥B. ①②③C. ②④⑤D. ②③⑤13.Which of the following maps correctly shows the places ?14.The underlined word “colors” in Paragraph 4 refers to ______ .A.blue, white, gray and pinkB.white, yellow, gray and pinkC.white, green ,gray and pinkD.blue, green,white and gray15.How did the author’s feeling change from the beginning to the end ?A.Calm→Satisfied.B.Excited→Frustrated.C.Sad→Calm.D.Regretful→Satisfied.16.Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage ?A.Nature is the glass reflecting truth.B.Nature is the best scenery designer.C.The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.D.A bad beginning makes a bad ending.EA new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth．Until now，it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience—what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught（though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing）．But in the new study，researchers describe a method for improving this skill，along with experiments to prove it works．The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it．This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence，so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence．First they measured fluid intelligence of volunteers using standard tests．Then they trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game，in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard．During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items, monitor ongoing performance，manage two tasks at the same time and connect related items to one another in space and time．The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8, 12, 17 and 19 days, respectively．To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills，the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training．The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences，were striking．Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater．Moreover，the longer they trained, the higher their scores were．All performers，from the weakest to the strongest，showed significant improvement．“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training．” said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper．“No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops,” he added, “and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whe ther more training would continue to produce further gains．”17.The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was ______________．A.memorizing telephone numbersB.improving working memoryC.training in concentrationD.recalling a card18.The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence EXCEPT___________．A.ignoring irrelevant itemsB.monitoring ongoing performanceC.managing two tasks at the same timeing previous experience19.When the experiment was conducted, the researchers______________．A.trained the four groups for the same period of timeB.only made comparisons between the four groupspared the four groups with control groupsD.trained the four groups together20.By writing the article，the writer intends to ______________．rm the readers of a new studyB.call on people to be trained to increase intelligenceC.prove one’s born brainpower can be improvedD.tell people the improved intelligence will last forever1—3 BCA 4—7 BCBA 8—11 BCCA12—16 BCADB 17—20 BDCA。

（英语）高考英语阅读理解题20套（带答案）及解析（英语）高考英语阅读理解题20套(带答案)及解析一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解One of the biggest problems when we are talking is the awkward silence. Encountering this situation is so uncomfortable that you would avoid meeting new people in the first place. In the past, I struggled wit h this and I even thought it had to do with my DNA or something… But later I learned that once you know how to keep those words flowing, you can meet and talk to anyone you like, which helps create great possibilities for friendship, fun and shared activities that you would otherwise have missed out on.After studying this in depth, I had different opinions and found that one of these common behaviors is the habit of filtering (过滤)--holding back from saying something until you've "checked" to make sure that what you're about to say is cool, impressive and interesting. Another problem is not learning to get in the mood for conversation. If you don't know how to change from subjects, then it can take a lot of time to warm up.It is the reflex (习惯性思维) that allows you to say whatever goes on in your mind. It's fun to realize that you're allowed to say whatever is on your mind. As long as you don't say anything that could land you in jail (监狱).All of the "Oh! That's interesting…" "Hmm, I've never heard of that" "Hmm, cool!" expressions are reactionary (保守的) bits of conversation that prove to the other person that you're really listening. This works 99% of the time. So, if you show some interest, they'll hang around and want to talk to you even more.Everyone knows that stories juice-up conversations, but most people only talk about stories of their own lives. When someone mentions something related to any of them, just tell the story, even if it's not from your life. The more interesting, stranger or more frightening they are, the harder they are to forget.（1）If people can deal with the awkward silence, they can .A. train their working skillB. improve their life qualityC. enrich their social lifeD. establish their working relationship（2）When talking with others, we should .A. feel nervousB. think twiceC. be free to expressD. avoid breaking in （3）According to the passage, what do the speakers care much about?A. The attractive topics of conversation.B. The atmosphere of the conversation.C. The listener's experiences and tastes.D. The listener's curiosity and concern.（4）What does the underlined part "juice-up conversations" mean?A. making conversations more boringB. making conversations livelierC. making conversations smootherD. making conversations more relaxing【答案】（1）C（2）C（3）D（4）B【解析】【分析】本文本文是一篇议论文，我们谈话时最大的问题之一是尴尬的沉默。

2012届高考英语二轮专题复习精品阅读理解部分之限时训练（八）阅读理解New York times, Nov, 24,2011-It is not just any bug, but the native nine-spotted ladybug. And its reappearance is something of a relief, because it is the official New York State insect, even though the last recorded sighting of it in New York was 29 years ago.Its absence had not gone completely unnoticed. There was a moment in 2006 when the State Assembly, realizing that the state insect had left the state, tried to replace it with a different species of ladybug, an attempt that fortunately gave in to law.And now—after all these years—the state insect has been found. Like so many other New Yorkers, it was seen summering in Amagansett. Peter Priolo, a volunteer participant in an effort called the Lost Ladybug Project, found the ladybug on July 30 in a patch of sunflowers during a group search he had organized.“I didn’t realize it was a nine-spotted when I found it,” Mr. Priolo said. He was on his way to do an end-of-the-day ladybug record, so, he said, “I put it in my jar and hurried back to meet with everybody.”If the ladybugs are making a comeback, it is only beginning. The lost Ladybug Project started surveys in 2000. As of 2006, only five nene-spotted ladybugs had been found in North America in the previous 10 years, none of them in the East. Then one lone ladybug was found in Arlington, Va. None had been found in the East since, and only 90 have been reported in North America.After scientists at Cornell confirmed Mr. Priolo’s find, they went to the Amaganset t farm in mid-August to lead a search that turned up about 20 more of the bugs. An area between rows of carrots and beans turned out to be a hot spot. “We found a lot of them on cosmos and zinnias,” said Dr. Losey said, an insect expert. The farm is part of the 10,000-acre Peconic Land Trust in Amagansett, and it is organic. For ladybugs, Dr. Losey said, “you couldn’t design a better place.”Dr. Losey wants to find out if it makes sense to reintroduce this strain of the ladybug in other areas. And he expects volunteers to be back out in the field when ladybug season starts again in the spring. Now, he said, “we need to find out more places where there are just as many.”49．The last time the New Yorkers saw their state insect in .A．2000 B．2006 C．1998 D．198250．The New Yorkers are so delighted to see the insect because .A．it has some bright spots on its backB．it is the official insect of the cityC．it had been out of sight for quite some timeD．it is a new species unknown to New York51．What does the second paragraph of the passage imply?A．It’s against the law to bring new insects to New York.B．The State Assembly don’t like to live with Ladyb ugs.C．The absence of the state insect had never been known.D．The state insect had to leave because of a new species.52．From the last two paragraphs we know that .A．only some insect experts are really interested in ladybugsB．Dr Losey is quite confident about the future of the insectC．most ladybugs have m moved to live in the down areaD．more vegetables will be grown to welcome the state insect完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）Far from a Family ChristmasMy Air Force room in Florida was 36 and quiet—I was alone. My five roommates were gone for the holidays; I had chosen to 37 behind in the camp. Being young and far from my home, I felt 38 . My room was comfortable enough, 39 I hadn’t realized until then what made it so—the 40 of others walking, joking or just lying on their beds.I was not able to sleep. I was 41 of being on my own—in fact, preferred it at times—but tonight was 42 . Tossing and turning in the darkened room gave no 43 . The last sign of daylight had disappeared, 44 my inner depression. 45 , the glow of Christmas lights on the tall pines would only 46 me of my great misery. Suddenly, I heard weak sound of men 47 to sing. Yes, the voices grew louder and came my way. I 48 still, enjoying the sound.In the corridor 49 my room, voices came near enough for me to hear Christmas carols being 50 . Suddenly, there, four airmen, identities unknown, were slightly unsteadied by holiday 51 . The first held a Coke bottle with a lit candle 52 its top. The others formed a dancing line behind him.53 I was in the room, with joyful faces in the flickering(摇曳的) light, they sang me several carols, wished me a 54 and left as fast as they had arrived.I slept soundly soon after, burying my face in my pillow, 55 that someone had cared.36. A. clear B. empty C. amusing D. interesting37. A. remain B. leave C. help D. work38. A. disappointed B. friendly C. lonely D. lost39. A. also B. still C. however D. but40. A. impatience B. presence C. interest D. delight41. A. capable B. able C. skilled D. experienced42. A. poor B. good C. different D. standard43. A. fun B. comfort C. effort D. progress44. A. appealing to B. sticking to C. leading to D. adding to45. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. Besides D. Yet46. A. remind B. recall C. remember D. think47. A. managing B. attempting C. happening D. deciding48. A. noticed B. slept C. lied D. lay49. A. opposite B. beyond C. out D. within50. A. announced B. accepted C. played D. offered51. A. noise B. confidence C. cheer D. optimism52. A. stuck in B. attached to C. tied to D. involved in53. A. Watching B. Seeing C. Guessing D. Admitting54. A. good luck B. happy New Year C. merry Christmas D. happy birthday55. A. grateful B. satisfied C. pleased D. surprised任务型阅读认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格内填入最恰当的词。

2012届高考英语一轮复习阅读理解训练题1Death Valley is one of the most famous deserts in the United States, covering a wide area with its alkali sand. Almost 20 percent of this area is well below sea level, and Badwater, a salt water pool, is about 280 feet below sea level and the lowest point in the United States.Long ago the Panamint Indians called this place “Tomesha”- the land of fire. Death Valley’s present name dates back to 1849, when a group of miners coming across from Nevada became lost in its unpleasantness and hugeness and their adventure turned out to be a sad story. Today Death Valley has been declared a National Monument(纪念碑) and is crossed by several well-marked roads where good services can be found easily. Luckily the change created by human settlement has hardly ruined the special beauty of this place.Here nature created a lot of surprising, almost like the sights on the moon, ever-changing as the frequent wind moves the sand about, showing the most unusual colors. One of the most astonishing a nd variable parts of Death Valley is the Devil’ s Golf Course, where it seems hard for one to tell reality from terrible dreams. Sand sculptures(沙雕) stand on a frightening ground, as evening shadows move and lengthen.1. _______ is the lowest place in the desert.A. TomeshaB. Death V alleyC. NevadaD. Badwater2. The name of the valley comes from _______.A. an Indian nameB. the death of the minersC. the local peopleD. a National Movement3. From the passage we can learn that _______.A. no one had ever known the desert before the minersB. it’s still not easy to travel across the desertC. people can find gas-stations, cafes and hotels in the desertD. people have changed the natural sight of the desert4. Devil Golf Course is famous for _______.A. the frequent windB. the colors of the sandC. dream-like sightsD. the sand sculptures5. From the passage we can see that the writer _______ the Death Valley.A. appreciatesB. is fearful ofC. dislikesD. is tired of【答案解析】本文介绍了美国的一个著名沙漠--“死亡谷”名称的由来以及“死亡谷”奇特的风光。

2012届高考英语二轮专题阅读理解仿真强化训练〔四〕AAwareness Weeks have become a regular part of Britain’s cultural landscape over the past few years. They started back in 1957, when one charity, Christian Aid, decided to make all its money-raising efforts on one time of year. It was thought that by doing this they would get more publicity for their cause.They were right, and soon other charities and campaign groups followed them. These days, most donations to charity are not collected on the streets. So instead of just asking for money, charities prefer to spend their time “raising awareness〞——spreading knowledge of the work they do or the cause they support. They also compete with businesses and trade groups who use awareness weeks as marketing campaigns for their products.There are now 500 awareness weeks held every year in the UK. No week goes by without one group or another trying to make the British public aware of something, with most held in May or October.The danger with all these awareness weeks is that people start to become cynical (不信任). Take National Smile Week; it seems like a great idea. Let’s all make each other’s life a little bit happier with a friendly smile. But really it’s just a group of dentists and cosmetics companies trying to sell us toothpaste. It’s enough to make you want to start National Forget about It Week.“People feel that many awareness campaigns are just marketing exercises,〞 says Ms Ormiston, who edits the Awareness Campaign Register, a news letter which encourages people who run Awareness W eeks to become more aware of each other. “But 90 per cent of campaigns are run by traditional charities or not for groups to make money.〞“There’s still no official group for awareness campaigns,〞 says Ms Ormiston. “People can do what they like, whatever t he size of their budgets or their public relations machines allows.〞This situation has led to calls for laws to stop real charities having their efforts overshadowed by marketing campaigns. This could be done by making the two groups hold their weeks at different times or stopping businesses running imitation charity campaigns.But there is another way. Maybe it’s time for National Weak Awareness Week, especially for people whose awareness of Awareness Weeks is weak.1. What’s the main purpose of awarenes s weeks run by charities in Britain?A. To raise money for charities.B. To spread knowledge of charities.C. To take up marketing campaigns.D. To advertise their goods for sale.2. Why do people start to become cynical about awareness weeks?A. Too many awareness weeks make people feel bored.B. People feel many awareness weeks are just for marketing exercises.C. People have a weak awareness of awareness weeks.D. Awareness weeks are held too often and too much money is raised.3. What does Ms Ormiston think about awareness weeks?A. Most of the awareness weeks should not be for making money.B. Official groups should take the place of charities in awareness campaigns.C. People can do what they like in awareness weeks.D. People can get larger budgets through awareness campaigns.4. Which of the following is the right measure to be taken to solve the problems in awarenesscampaigns?A. Laws should stop awareness weeks run by real charities.B. There should be large public relations departments in awareness campaigns.C. Business and awareness campaigns should not be held at the same place.D. Marketing campaigns should not be in the name of charity ones.5. What’s the writer’s view on Awareness Weeks?A. National Forget about It Week should be held to stop awareness weeks.B. National Smile Week is a great idea to improve people’s life.C. National Weak Awareness Week can help people better understand awareness weeks.D. Awareness Weeks should be stopped because of marketing campaigns.BIf I were writing a history of my family, some of the darkest moments recorded would be those surrounding Christmas trees. One would certainly think otherwise; selecting and putting up our trees have always been filled with risk. For example, one afternoon dangerously close to Christmas Eve my mother bought what she thought to be a bargain, a glorious tree that was so full and tall that we could hardly get it into the house. Once we did, my father immediately realized that we would have to hire a carpenter to build a stand for it. Another December, perhaps the very next one, we bought a tree earlier than we ever had before. We were happy with its shape and delighted that its size was manageable. We easily placed it in a stand, decorated it from top to bottom, and then self-satisfiedly sat back by the fire in its soft light. Two or three days passed and the truth could not be hidden; we had bought a tree cut so long ago that its needles were coming off. There was nothing to do but undecorate it, take it down, and begin tree shopping again. Our most recent Christmas tree offered still another difficult task. When we brought it home, once again it seemed larger than it was in the great outdoors. To complicate matters, we had bought a new stand, one whose nuts (螺母) and bolts (螺栓) worked more mysteriously than those of our old stands. I persuaded two young neighbors to stop playing basketball and to help us get the tree into the house and set it correctly in the stand. Unfortunately, no one noticed the mud on our helpers' shoes, so only after removing several reddish brown spots from the carpet were we able to discuss the question ofwhere the lights and ornaments (装饰) were stored. Perhaps those who cut their own trees have tales more painful than these. I don't care to hear them, as my family's experiences are enough to cause me to make the following suggestion:" Let's forget the tree next Christmas. Let's simply hang some flowers on the front door and over the mirror in the hall. "6. The darkest moments in the writer's family were with the fact that ______.A. the family bought big Christmas treesB. they had problems decorating their Christmas treesC. they had problems picking suitable Christmas treesD. they had problems finding carpenters for putting up Christmas trees7. We can learn from the passage that the writer would like to ______.A. forget about Christmas storiesB. get the neighbors to put up their treesC. buy a better tree to celebrate ChristmasD. make other decorations rather than Christmas trees8. W hen the writer said “my mother bought what she thought to be a bargain", he means ______.A. she bought the tree at a cheap priceB. she didn't really want to buy itC. she had to bargain hard with the salesmanD. she couldn't afford a more expensive one9. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. How to Select a Christmas TreeB. No More Christmas tree for USC. Dark Moments of LifeD. Christmas without TreesCMail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California. That could take several months.So, in eighteen fifty-seven, D.C. Lawmakers in Congress in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land. Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast.A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by vouchsafed (granted) by anyone but God.〞10. What is the passage mainly about?A. Different ways of sending mail in the United States.B. The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.C. The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.D. The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.11. The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ______.A. mail was usually carried west on shipsB. it was safer to travel to send mail by landC. it would take less time to send mail by landD. stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail12. As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ______.A. could only stop twice a dayB. was modern with seats and bedsC. was a closed wagon pulled by horses or mulesD. had different horses or mules pulled all the way13. What can we learn from the passage?A. John Butterfields got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.B. John Butterfields kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.C. Passengers might be robbed when traveling through the West.D. Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey.DMany of the most damaging types of weather begin quickly, strike suddenly, and disappear rapidly, destroying small areas while leaving neighboring areas untouched. Such event as a tornado (龙卷风) struck the northeastern part of Edmonton, Alberta, in July 1987. Total damages from the tornado went beyond $250 million, the highest ever for any Canadian storm.Traditional computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting short-lived local storms like the Edmonton tornado, because the available weather data are generally not detailed enough to allow computers to study carefully the slight atmospheric changes that come before these storms. In most nations, for example, weather-balloon observations are taken just once every twelve hours at places separated by hundreds of miles. With such limited data, traditional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general weather conditions over large areas than they do forecasting specific local events.Until recently, the observation intensive method needed for exact, very short-range forecasts, or “Nowcasts,〞 was not possible. The cost of equipping and operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was extremely high, and the difficulties concerned in rapidly collecting and processing the weather data from such a network were hard to overcome.Fortunately, scientific and technological advances have overcome most of these problems. Radar (雷达) systems and satellites are all able to make detailed, nearly continuous observation over large areas at a lower cost. Communications satellites can send out data around the world cheaply and immediately, and modern computers can quickly collect and analyze this large amount of weather information.Meteorologists (气象学者) and computer scientists now work together to design computer programs and video equipment able to change weather data into words and graphic displays (图解) that forecasters can understand easily and quickly. As meteorologists have begun using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices, Nowcasting is becoming a reality.14. Why can’t traditional computer mod els predict short-lived local storms?A. The weather data people collect are often wrong.B. Detailed weather data in some small areas are not available.C. The computers are not advanced enough to predict them.D. The computers are not used to forecast specific local events.15. The word “Nowcast〞 in Paragraph 3 means ______.A. a network to collect storm dataB. a way of collecting weather dataC. a more advanced system of weather observationD. a forecast which can predict weather in the small area16. What can make “Nowcasts〞 a reality according to the passage?A. Scientific and technological advances.B. Advanced computer programs.C. Computer scientists.D. Meteorologists.17. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. The advantages of “Nowcasts〞.B. A tornado in Edmonton, Alberta.C. The difficulty in predicting tornado.D. A great development inweather forecast.EThere are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured．The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language —— all these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.By contrast (对照), the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but the attitudes, feelings people have, and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail〞 atfirst．How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is necessary for our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we’re shy and indecisive? Then our sense of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt (适应) change or that we're not smart enough to deal with a new challenge．Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.These feelings of insecurity (不安全) and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow．If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.18. In the author's eye, one who views personal growth as a process would ______.A. succeed in climbing up the social ladderB. grow up from his own achievementsC. face difficulties and take up challengesD. aim high and reach his goal each time19. Which of the following can be viewed as the process of personal growing?A. Our manager was always willing to accept new challenges.B. Jane won the first prize in the speech competition.C. Jerry picked up French during his stay in Paris.D. Father’s salary rose from 5, 000 to 7,000.20. For personal growth, the author is in favor of all the following EXCEPT ______.A. being curious about more changesB. being quick in self-adaptationC. having an open mind to new experiencesD. staying away from failures and challenges21. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. It is not so easy to measure personal growth.B. To try and fail on the new road facing the unknown is unavoidable.C. There are only two ways to see a person’s growth.D. If you are too shy to take any risks in life, you cannot grow up.22. The best title for this passage should be ______.A. Facing New ChallengesB. Growth—Product or ProcessC. Two Basic Ways of GrowthD. Overcoming Internal Fears答案1-5 ABADC 6-10 CDABC 11-15 CDCBD 16-20 ADCAD 21-22 CB。

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高考英语阅读理解练习题原文Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other's minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle (奇迹) it is.Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by \\observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature's talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it's an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.Not that we don't have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called "body language". Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism thatanimals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn't tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.高考英语阅读理解练习题题目( ) 1. According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is .A. our ability to use languageB. the miracle of technologyC. the amazing power of natureD. our ability to make noises with mouth答案：A考点：细节理解题。

高考英语阅读理解真题汇编及答案解析（23）摘要：阅读理解题的“三步法”：1．略读。

目的是了解短文的主旨大意和便于迅速掌握短文的语篇结构。

2．查读。

同学们要先通读题干，做到胸中有数；再将短文读第一遍，锁定某些特定信息进行快速阅读，迅速选出最佳答案；先易后难，先做细节题，后做推论题。

3．重读短文重点。

核查。

同学们做题的关键是看清题目的要求，读准的关键是分清句子的结构和确认词性词义。

Attitude is an internal(内在的）state that influences the choices of personal action made by the individual(个人）.Some researchers consider that attitudes come from differences between beliefs and ideas;others believe that attitudes come from emotional states.Here,we focus on the effects of attitudes upon behavior,that is,upon the choices of action made by the individual.The kinds of actions taken by human beings are obviously influenced greatly by attitudes. Whether one listens to classical music or rock,whether one obeys the speed limit while driving, whether one encourages one’s husband or wife to express his or her own ideas—all are influenced by attitudes.These internal states are acquired(获得）throughout life from situations one is faced with in the home,in the streets,and in the school.Of course,the course of action chosen by an individual in any situation will be largely determined by the particulars of that situation.An individual who has a strong attitude of obeying laws may drive too fast when he is in a hurry and no police cars in sight.A child who has a strong attitude of honesty may steal a penny when she thinks no one will notice.But the internal state which remains unchanged over a period of time,and which makes the individual behave regularly in a variety of situations,is what is meant by an attitude.Attitudes are learned in a variety of ways.They can result from single incidents,as when an attitude toward snakes is acquired by an experience in childhood at the sudden movement of a snake.They can result from the individual’s experiences of success and pleasure,as when someone acquires a positive attitude toward doing crossword puzzles by being able to complete some of them.And frequently,they are learned by copying other people’s behavior,as when a child learns how to behave toward foreigners by observing the actions of his parents.Regardless of these differences,there is something in common in the learning and modification(修正）of attitudes.52.According to the passage,attitudes______.e from different situations in one’s lifeB.are largely affected by one’s behaviorC.remain unchanged in one’s daily lifeD.could be chosen according to one’s will53.The author uses the examples in Paragraph3to show.A.people often make mistakes when they are not noticedB.people with good attitudes may sometimes do bad deedsC.particulars of a situation may influence an individual’s actionD.an individual may change his or her attitude fairly easily54.Which of the following is TRUE about the learning of attitudes?A.Attitudes are only learned through one’s success.B.Attitudes learned in danger will last longer.C.Copying others’behavior is not a good idea.D.Attitudes can be learned from one’s parents.55.What would be the best title for the passage?A.Differences of Attitudes.B.Nature of Attitude.C.Choices of Attitudes.D.Modification of Attitude.答案52.A53.C54.D55.B52．解析：这是一道推理题。

话题五：人物传记类(一)(2011·山东高考)Arthur Miller (1915—2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.1．Why did Arthur Miller's father move to the USA?A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream.”C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.D. His family business failed2．The play Death of a Salesman________.A. exposes the cruelty of the American business worldB. discusses the ways to get promoted in a companyC. talks about the business career of Arthur MillerD. focuses on the skills in doing business3．What can we learn about Willy Loman?A. He treats his employer badly.B. He runs the Wagner Company.C. He is a victim of the American system.D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.4．After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman________.A. achieved huge successB. won the first Tony AwardC. was warmly welcomed by salesmenD. was severely attacked by dramatists5．What is the text mainly about?A. Arthur Miller and his family.B. The awards Arthur Miller won.C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.答案与解析1．B细节理解题。

高考英语专题强化练习12阅读理解23Passage 1From sleeping，standing up，to shutting down half of their brain，animals have some strange sleeping habits. Now some of these unusual habits，from napping giraffes to birds that sleep while flying，have been shown in a chart.This chart shows that little brown bats are very lethargic，sleeping for around 19.5 hours per day.This long period of sleep is thought to be a way of conserving energy and it means brown bats only hunt for a few hours each night when their insect food is available.In contrast，giraffes can go weeks without sleep because these large and slow－moving animals are constantly easy to the attacks from predators.However，other animals are experts at multitasking and can swim or fly while sleeping.For example，dolphins and whales sleep while keeping half of their brain alert (警觉的)，so they don’t drown，with dolphins typically napping for around 10 hours a day.The method is known as “logging”and it has been observed in bottlenose dolphins，which keep half of their brain at a low level of alertness.This allows the dolphin to keep enough consciousness to carry on breathing through its blowhole.While sea otters aren’t alert when they sleep，they form rafts so they are not separated from each other.The creatures sometimes hold hands or paws when they sleep and typically eat，sleep and rest while floating in groups of rafts. 1．The underlined word “lethargic”in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “________”．A．sleepy B．inactive C．energetic D．movable2．Why do little brown bats have a long period of sleep?A．To avoid sunshine.B．To save more energy.C．To relax themselves.D．To wait for their insect food.3．How do dolphins avoid drowning while sleeping?A．By taking extra naps.B．By holding hands or paws.C．By keeping half of their brain alert.D．By breathing through their blowholes.4．What do sea otters do in order not to be separated from each other?A．They don’t sleep.B．They float on rafts.C．They float in groups.D．They hold hands all the time.Passage 2As anyone who freelances(做自由职业)knows，there are lots of advantages of working at home alone.But there are drawbacks too，like the potential loneliness.No wonder co－working spaces are becoming so popular：they permit self－employed individuals to feel like they are part of all office environment，while making them get some work done too.But renting a co－working space does cost money.Now a Swedish project is aiming to change that by turning people’s under used homes into temporary co－working spaces，available to freelancers for free.Hoffice was started by freelancers Christofer Gradin Franzen and Johline Zandra about a year ago in Stockholm when they invited a few people into their home office to work together.It was a great success，and the project has since spread to a number of cities in Europe，North and South America，Australia，India and Japan.Anyone can sign up and offer their home space as a free co－working space，or go to find a Hoffice near them.On a Hoffice day，everyone arrives and starts work at a certain hour.After 45 minutes，everyone gets up to take a break，stretch，do qigong or yoga for 10 to 15 minutes.Afterwards，people can gather around again，and re－state their intentions and goals for the rest of the workday，as a way to motivate each other.Meals can be eaten together at a certain hour，potluck－style(家常饭)or by bringing your own lunch.This process creates an encouraging and supportive work environment.As some freelancers describe，“By working at Hoffice，we give ourselves and each other the gift to spend our days in a social working environment，where we are extremely productive without ignoring our other human needs.We also make sure to give us and each other what we need to feel calm，happy，inspired and creative during the working day.”So Hoffice is not just about sharing space；it’s also about a free exchange of ideas.And perhaps the best thing is that Hoffices are free to use.1．Hoffice was started to ________．A．change people’s attitude to workB．encourage people to be more socialC．improve people’s working conditionsD．provide a co－working space for free2．What’s the main idea of Paragraph 3?A．How people respond to Hoffice.B．How a Hoffice day works.C．What people share at Hoffice.D．What Hoffice means to people.3．Some freelancers’ descriptions of Hoffice suggest that they ________．A．benefit a lot from the working styleB．work longer than beforeC．expect more people to join themD．can’t be separated from each other4．What do we know about Hoffice according to the text?A．It is becoming increasingly popular.B．It has been around for quite a few years.C．It has created many new job opportunities.D．It is suitable for people from all walks of life.Passage 3When I was little，I’d see tons of bats flying around streetlights at night in my neighborhood in upstate New York.But I’ll never forget the first time when I saw a bat up close.By the time I turned 7，though，I noticed something strange: All the bats in my neighborhood had disappeared，and I wondered why.Then，three years ago，when I was 11 and visiting the state fair，I learned what had happened to my town’s bats.A disease called “white nose syndrome” had killed 93 percent of New York State’s bats.I was horrified.Then I wrote a letter to the host of an environmental program on the local radio station，asking if they could do a show on bats.They did!But I still wanted to find a way to educate people face to face.I reached out to a teacher I had in elementary school and asked if I could make a presentation to her class.I described how bats help farmers by eating crop－damaging insects.It went over so well that other teachers started requesting me.Over the past three years，I’ve talked in front of everyone from 5－year－olds to senior citizens! Many people think that bats are blind，and that they always carry diseases，but none of that is true.The more I present，the more I notice that I am changing minds.And while getting people to respect bats is pretty hard，getting them to respect me has been difficult too.When I first applied to host a booth (摊位) at a local street fair，the managers thought I was too young.But I refused to take “no” for an answer.I continued to make__my__case，and they finally said yes! The best part is，I impressed themso much—100 visitors on my first day—that they now invite me back every year.1．All the bats in the neighborhood disappeared because they ________．A．were killed by a diseaseB．moved to another habitatC．were hunted by other animalsD．hid in a place where people couldn’t find them2．The author wrote a letter to the host in order to ask them to ________．A．donate some money to save batsB．make a radio program about batsC．announce new findings about batsD．finish some questionnaires about the fair3．How did the author save bats?A．By building a new home for them.B．By volunteering to work in the wild.C．By improving their living environment.D．By educating people that they are beneficial.4．What does the underlined phrase “make my case” in the last paragraph mean?A．make an impressive persuasionB．look into the matterC．quarrel with themD．stick to the facts参考答案Passage 1【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文。

2012年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（江西卷）英语试题本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，全卷满分150分。

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第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。

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1．Where does this conversation probably take place?A．In a bookstore. B．In a classroom. C．In a library.2．At what time will the film begin?A．7:20. B．7:15. C．7:00.3．What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A．Their friend Jane.B．A weekend trip. C．A radio programme. 4．What will the woman probably do?A．Catch a train. B．See the man off. C．Go shopping.5．Why did the woman apologize?A．She made a late delivery.B．She went to the wrong place.C．She couldn’t take the cake back.第二节（共15小题；每题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话。

阅读理解There is nothing quite like enjoying the sights, sounds and culture of a city while tasting a cup of coffee outdoors. But it is not that enjoyable when heat waves sweep the city. An outdoor cooling system produced by Kinonko, an Israeli (以色列的) company, began to be tested in Tel Aviv. The sweltering city is a perfect place to try the new technology.With global warming heating up the temperature, it will soon be too hot to sit outside in cafes. While outdoor cooling systems have existed for a while, most of them use some sort of water or misting system to cool the air around them, consuming too much water and power. After two years of development, the perfect solution to the problem was found. “We have invented a new generation of air conditioner, ” Kinonko CEO Leizer said.As Leizer introduced, the energy is from the pressure created between liquid nitrogen (氮) and gas nitrogen. When liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees turns into gas, it produces a very strong pressure and the pressure is used to run a mechanical engine. It is that mechanical engine that slowly releases freezing nitrogen gas to cool down the air around it.The technology is unique and amazing. Beyond the coolness of the concept, it also has other advantages. The work unit doesn’t need to be power-driven, and doesn’t blow out harmful warm air as it works. As for the potential price, it will probably be no more expensive than any other air conditioner. In addition, the liquid nitrogen container will need to be replaced every seven to ten days, depending on usage. This makes it an affordable option for all sorts of businesses. The cooling system is expected to be on the market in 2024.1．What does the underlined word “sweltering” mean in Paragraph 1?A．Warm.B．Dry.C．Hot.D．Freezing.2．What problem does the existing outdoor cooling systems have?A．They are wasteful.B．They overheat easily.C．They often break down.D．They are slow to cool the air.3．What does Paragraph 3 mainly explain?A．What powers the engine.B．What turns liquid into gas.C．How the pressure is formed.D．How the new system works.4．What is the purpose of this text?A．To promote a company.B．To settle an energy crisis.C．To introduce a technology.D．To market a misting system.Cimabue,the greatest painter in medieval Italy, was surprised when he discovered that a fly had landed on one of his works.“Shoo!”he shouted, but it remained still. Finally, he reached out to touch the insect. To his surprise, he found only wet paint. Actually Giotto had painted the fly when Cimabue was away, and it looked so real that Cimabue had been completely fooled.Giotto di Bondone was born in a poor farming family. Legend has it that while he was tending goats he drew a picture on a rock and that the artist Cimabue,who happened to be passing by, saw him at work and was so impressed with the boy’s talent that he took him into his studio as an apprentice(学徒).In the Middle Ages,an apprentice’s job was to copy his master as exactly as he could, which resulted in a distinct lack of new ideas. In fact,art in the Middle Ages seemed to have been stuck in a rut. The people in paintings didn’t look like real people,and the symbolism of art was often so remote that it must have been difficult for viewers to connect with it on a personal level. But Giotto thought art could be something more.To accomplish this goal, Giotto adopted many techniques that were uncommon at the time. He painted people the way he saw them,instead of the overly tall and boxy people that other artists painted. He created three-dimensional space by using perspective, something that had not been done since Roman times. Finally, he threw out parts of the symbolism associated with medieval painting. For example, at that time the Christ Child was usually drawn as a mature man who wasonly a baby in size. This symbolized that Christ was wise even though he was young. Instead,Giotto painted the Christ Child as a baby,which emphasized the human relationship between the child and his mother.The ideas Giotto brought to painting throughout his life revolutionized the art world and made him one of the greatest painters ever.5．Why does the author mention the fly event in paragraph 1?A．To prove the pupil outdoes the master.B．To stress the fly was vividly painted.C．To relate how Cimabue was tricked.D．To demonstrate art has no limits.6．Why did Cimabue decide to instruct Giotto?A．Giotto would be a helpful assistant.B．Cimabue desired to rid Giotto of poverty.C．Giotto badly needed Cimabue’s guidance.D．Cimabue sensed a great potential in Giotto.7．What can we learn about art in the Middle Ages in paragraph 3?A．It lacked innovation.B．It highlighted realism.C．It bonded well with viewers.D．It underwent great changes.8．Why did Giotto paint the Christ Child as a baby?A．To portray people in a realistic way.B．To try the technique of perspective.C．To distinguish himself from other painters.D．D．To bring a sense of symbolism to his painting.A new study finds too much light at night can cut the number of seeds a plant produces. Researchers put up street lights in Swiss meadows, far from any real street. The setup mimicked(模拟) urban light pollution. In these now-light-polluted fields, flowers had 62 percent fewer night visitors — insect pollinators (传粉者)— than the flowers in dark meadows did.Cabbage thistles are the most common flowers in these meadows. Fewer insect visitors at night could mean less pollen (花粉) pollinated from plant to plant (the first step in producingseeds). “For the thistles, daytime pollinator visits didn’t make up for this loss at night,” says Eva Knop, an ecologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Overall, night-lit plants produced one-eighth fewer seeds than plants that got full nights of darkness did.“Light pollution might affect a whole network of plants and their pollinators,” Knop and her colleagues now suggest. Indeed, night pollination is not just a lonely business for a few special plants. There are lots of links between production of pollen by night and that by day. Plants with a lot of night visits are often very busy by day, too. Light at night that decreases seed numbers could over time mean fewer new plants. And fewer plants could mean less food and shelter for daytime insects. Therefore, a lot of pollinators working day and night shifts could be affected, which is what Knop worries about.The new study is the first to show how artificial light affects plants’ ability to produce seeds. The test is also unusual because it considers all kinds of insect pollinators instead of focusing only on night-flying insects. The researchers paid special attention to the cabbage thistle, but they also mapped which kinds of insects visited other plants by day or night.9．Why were street lights put up in the meadows?A．To copy light pollution.B．To promote urbanization.C．To accelerate plant growth.D．To attract insect pollinators.10．What can be inferred about cabbage thistles?A．They attract only night visitors.B．They grow slowly during the night.C．They are the most common Swiss flowers.D．They rely on insects to help produce seeds.11．Light pollution affects pollinators’ ________.A．sightB．numbersC．growthD．food and shelter12．What is the main idea of the text?A．Plants attract more insects due to light pollution.B．Night-flying insects matter more than daytime ones.C．Light pollution may affect plants’ seed numbers.D．Researchers found ways to protect the environment.When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages?Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks”. The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.Blinkist has been around since 2012. It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.”But I think a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader. The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite: Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake (吸收) of key ideas.No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency. When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.13．What does the underlined part “the joke was on us” in Paragraph 1 mean?A．We were actually joking.B．We were laughed at by others.C．We were underestimating’ ourselves.D．We were just embarrassing ourselves. 14．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?A．What Blinkist is.B．Why Blinkist is popular.C．How to use Blinkist.D．Where you can use Blinkist.15．What is an ideal pattern of reading according to the author?A．Obtaining key ideas efficiently.B．Further confirming our beliefs. C．Accumulating information quickly.D．Deeply involving ourselves in books. 16．What is the author’s attitude to Blinkist?A．Positive.B．Negative C．Uncaring.D．Tolerant.If a single word can describe our daily life during those first three years, it is “scrounge”(讨要). Every waking moment we were concentrating on how the hell we would be able to save up enough coins to do whatever it was we had to do. Even the simplest decision must be inspected by the ever alert budget committee of your mind.“Hey, Oliver, let’s go to see Becket tonight.”“Listen, it’s three bucks.”“What do you mean?”“ I mean a buck fifty for you and a buck fifty for me.”“Does that mean yes or no?”“Neither. It just means three bucks.”Our honeymoon was spent on a yacht and with twenty-one children. That is, I sailed from 7 o’clock in the morning till whenever my passengers had enough, and Jenny was a children’s counselor. It was a place called the Pequod Boat Club in Dennis Port-an establishment that included a large hotel, a marina and several dozen houses for rent. In one of the tinier bungalows (平房), I have nailed an imaginary plaque (匾牌): “Oliver and Jenny slept here”. I think it’s a tribute (致敬) to us both that after a long day of being kind to our customers, for we were largely dependent on their tips for our income, Jenny and I were nonetheless kind to each other: I simply say “kind”, because I lack the vocabulary to describe what loving and being loved by Jennifer Cavilleri is like. Sorry, I mean Jennifer Barrett.Before leaving for the Cape, we found a cheap apartment in North Cambridge, which was, as Jenny described it, “in the state of disrepair”. It had originally been a two-family structure, now changed into four apartments, overpriced even at its “cheap” rental. But what the hell can graduatestudents do? It’s a seller’s market.17．What can we learn from the conversation between Oliver and Jenny?A．Neither of them wanted to see Becket.B．They didn’t have three bucks.C．Jenny was wasting money.D．Oliver was an economical man.18．Why were Oliver and Jenny friendly to customers?A．They were both counselors for children.B．They needed to get tips from customers. C．They didn’t have enough room to live in.D．That was the rule on the yacht.19．What does Jennifer imply about their apartment by saying “In the state of disrepair”?A．It was not cheap.B．It was not distant.C．It was not decent.D．It was not luxurious.20．Which might be the best title of the passage?A．A couple’s debt repayment process B．A couple’s miserable lifeC．A couple’s honeymoon trip D．A couple’s holiday on a yachtThe best ideas are often so smart, so simple and so clearly needed; it’s strange to discover they don’t already exist. So it is with Farm My School, a program that’s turning underused land at secondary schools into commercially achievable, regenerative market gardens farmed by and for local communities.Co-founded by permaculturist Ben Shaw and regenerative educator James McLennan, Farm My School connects local people and organizations through volunteering that helps establish a school’s market garden. Students learn about community networks, healthy eating, ecological responsibility, waste reduction, and climate relief while helping with food production. Schools integrate all these into their courses while producing vegetable boxes every week that feed local families, supply the school’s food needs and ultimately pay the farmer’s salary.Farm My School has gained the extraordinary enthusiasm of the locals, who answered an online shout-out to buy tickets to the program’s launch event at Bell Secondary School last October. Called Build A Farm in a Day Festival, the event featured workshops by Ben and James to share the skills required to build what they say is the world’s largest no-dig garden. “It was such a powerful event, and I think that comes down to people wanting to act now,” says James. “We charged for the experience and 600 guys turned up! They didn’t even need free drinks to getexcited. We were gardening till midnight. It was amazing. We’ve got true community buy-in.”V olunteers have since begun beneficial planting throughout the school. Next steps include further discussions with local communities, employing a farmer, and bringing in a teacher to develop courses. “We’ve seen this huge push towards seeing schools as regenerative spaces, not just for planting but for kids to be more connected to the outside world, and really seeing the school in a whole new light,” James says. “For us, the big excitement is that by allowing a professional farmer to take the responsibility of growing food, it’s not only on the school to look after that farm anymore, which eventually makes it much more sustainable,” adds Ben. 21．Why was Farm My School founded?A．To raise the income of the local people.B．To advocate a commercial farming plan.C．To provide free food for local communities.D．To turn underused campus land into market gardens.22．How do schools involve students into the program?A．By developing program-based courses.B．By organizing voluntary work in communities.C．By offering them part-time jobs in the market gardens.D．By encouraging them to produce daily vegetable boxes.23．What does the underlined word “buy-in” mean in paragraph 3?A．Competition.B．Investment.C．Support.D．Protection. 24．What is the highlight of the program according to Ben?A．It brings in money to support the school.B．The school farm will be able to last long. C．The local people will take care of the farm.D．Students connect more with the outside world.When I mentioned to some friends that we all have accents, most of them proudly replied, “Well, I speak perfect English/Chinese/etc.” But this kind of misses the point.More often than not, what we mean when we say someone “has an accent” is that their accent is different from the local one, or that pronunciations are different from our own. But this definition of accents is limiting and could give rise to prejudice. Funnily enough, in terms of thelanguage study, every person speaks with an accent. It is the regular differences in how we produce sounds that define our accents. Even if you don’t hear it yourself, you speak with some sort of accent. In this sense, it’s pointless to point out that someone“has an accent“. We all do!Every person speaks a dialect (方言), too. In the field of language study, a dialect is a version of a language that is characterized by its variations of structure, phrases and words. For instance,” You got eat or not? “(meaning “Have you eaten?” ) is an acceptable and understood question in Singapore Oral English. The fact that this expression would cause a standard American English speaker to take pause doesn’t mean that Singapore Oral English is “wrong” or “ungrammatical”. The sentence is well-formed and clearly communicative, according to native Singapore English speakers’ solid system of grammar. Why should it be wrong just because it’s different?We need to move beyond a narrow conception of accents and dialects — for the benefit of everyone.Language differences like these provide insights into people’s cultural experiences and backgrounds. In a global age, the way one speaks is a distinct part of one’s identity. Most people would be happy to talk about the cultures behind their speech. We’d learn more about the world we live in and make friends along the way.25．What does the author think of his/ her friends’response in paragraph 1?A．It reflects their self confidence.B．It reflects their language levels.C．It misses the point of communication.D．It misses the real meaning of accents.26．Why does the author use the example of Singapore Oral English?A．To justify the use of dialects.B．To show the diversity of dialects.C．To correct a grammatical mistake.D．To highlight a traditional approach.27．What does the author recommend us to do in the last paragraph?A．Learn to speak with your local dialect.B．Seek for an official definition of accents.C．Appreciate the value of accents and dialects.D．Distinguish our local languages from others’.28．What can be a suitable title for this passage?A．Everyone Has an AccentB．Accents Enhance Our IdentitiesC．Dialects Lead to MisunderstandingD．Standard English Is at RiskWhen Emanuel received an email from Professor Richard English at Queen’s University, who encouraged him to apply for a PhD in Politics in Belfast, it was a pinch-me moment Emanuel never thought would be possible. After all, just a few short years ago, he was living on the streets, couch-surfing at friends’ houses and weeding gardens to make ends meet. Now, one of the world’s leading political academics was preparing to welcome him to Queen’s University over 4,000 miles away.Emanuel never knew who his father was and his mom was mentally ill when she gave birth to him, so the hospital took him off her and he was unofficially adopted for the first few years of his life. What followed was a childhood with uncertainty as Emanuel was passed between the adoption system and family members.Through his high school and community college years, he moved from house to house, living with friends at times and living on the streets at others.Determined to change all that despite his rocky start in life, Emanuel involved himself in school — doing everything he could to earn extra tuition (学费) money in his spare time. But getting accepted into university was scarcely possible because a person like him couldn’t get a regular student loan.Fortunately, the government backed him, having created a policy allowing disadvantaged persons to access funding for higher education. He graduated from the University of the West Indies with a 1st Class Honors degree and went on to do his Masters.Emanuel knows that his story could have been very different.“I discovered Professor Richard English online and sent him an email honestly, not thinking he would reply and to my surprise, he did. I applied for the highly competitive Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme in order to fund my research at Queen’s. When I was told I wassuccessful, my whole world changed.”29．What does the underlined word “pinch-me” in Paragraph I probably mean? A．Imaginary.B．Anticipated.C．Unbelievable.D．Embarrassing.30．What happened to Emanuel in his childhood?A．His father passed away early.B．He received great parental care.C．He was once adopted by his relatives.D．He lived with his friends now and then.31．Which of the following can best describe Emanuel?A．Tough and strong-willed.B．Determined and talented.C．Enthusiastic and generous.D．Hardworking and attractive.32．What is the main idea the author wants to convey to us?A．Well begun is half done.B．Never judge by appearances.C．Many hands make light work.D．You are the architect of your own life.Wildlife crossings, which are human-made structures like underpasses, overpasses, or culverts (涵洞) that help animals move safely around their habitat, don’t just protect animals and biodiversity. They can also reduce the number of car collisions and save significant money, a new study finds.“I thought it would be useful to provide some information on the financial benefits of wildlife crossing structures for policymakers, transportation planners, and conservationists”, says Wisnu Sugiarto, the author of the study.For this study, Sugiarto studied collision information from the Washington State Department of Transportation. He examined data for 13 of the 22 wildlife crossings in Washington State from 2011 to 2020. Then he made adjustments based on how close the crossings were to otherstructures and the time it took to build them. He compared the numbers of wildlife-vehicle collisions each year before and after the construction of a wildlife crossing. Then he compared his analysis to that of a separate area in the state with no crossings at all.“The findings reported that wildlife crossing structures reduced the number ofwildlife-vehicle collisions (碰撞)by one to three accidents on average per mile per year, but not all structures had statistically significant effects”,Sugiarto says.Using financial estimates from other research, he determined that a wildlife crossing offers an annual benefit of between $235,000 and $443,000 every year. ”Earlier studies focused on wildlife crossings in North Carolina, Utah, and Wyoming. They found wildlife underpasses and fencing could improve road safety, he says. “My findings complement the earlier studies and are also in favor of improving road safety.”Besides, the findings are timely. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in 2021 includes $350 million over five years for the construction of wildlife crossings.‘‘Before working on this research, I wasn’t aware of any strategies to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. I also thought we couldn’t do much about it, partly because we can’t communicate with wildlife or control their movement”, Sugiarto says. “However, it turns out that there are multiple strategies to handle issues related to wildlife-vehicle collisions and that we can do something about them.”33．What did Sugiarto think about conducting the study in paragraph 2?A．It is necessary.B．It is cost effective.C．It is difficult to conduct.D．It would educate the pedestrians.34．How did Sugiarto conduct his study?A．By turning to previous findings.B．By referring to professional data.C．By analyzing the cause of collisions.D．By interviewing different passers-by.35．Why are Sugiarto's findings considered to be timely?A．They offer a way to ensure road safety.B．They draw public attention to collisions.C．They help improve the safety of wildlifb crossings.D．They provide evidence for new policies on wildlife crossings.36．What is the effect of the study on Sugiarto?A．It makes him famous.B．It gives him new topics to explore.C．It changes his view on wildlife-vehicle collisions.D．It provides inspiration for him to communicate with wildlife.When we decided to sell our flat, having been cheated by the previous owner, we thought it was really important to be completely honest with any potential buyers about having knotweed (蓼科杂草) in the garden. It had been such an unpleasant and stressful experience for us and we didn’t want to have anyone else suffer any longer.We bought our two-bedroom flat in 2014, when it was just the two of us. But after having three kids it became too small, so we sold it last year. The flat has a small garden at the back, but we didn’t know the presence of knotweed until well after we moved in and had a note from our neighbor behind our flat saying that they thought we had knotweed. Then we had a look and found some very small offshoots for this was just around springtime. At that point my husband and I certainly didn’t realize quite how problematic it could be. But then we started reading all the horror stories and became really concerned — people couldn’t get a mortgage; they couldn’t sell; the plant was creeping through concrete etc.Then we treated the offshoots with glyphosate and as far as we knew it was completely gone. Before we put the property on the market we had the house checked by some specialists, who thoroughly inspected everything, including the connecting garden, and couldn’t find anything at all. We signed a ten-year insurance-backed guarantee with the company that could be transferred to the new owners, then started marketing the property through an agent.In fact we found a buyer pretty quickly and they didn’t beat us down on price as we’d already done much for the treatment. Knotweed doesn’t need to be a deal-breaker, as long as you’re upfront about it.37．Why did the writer probably decide to sell the flat?A．To remind others to be honest.B．To escape the trouble of knotweed.C．To avoid the crowded living space.D．To relieve the anger of being cheated. 38．What can we know about knotweed from the text?A．It is planted for home decoration.B．It is a wild plant seen only in spring.C．It would cause much trouble to people’s life.D．It aroused writer’s attention at very beginning.39．How did the writer succeed in selling the flat at a reasonable price?A．By showing tricks to the buyer.B．By taking effort to treat the knotweed. C．By finding a well-known property agent.D．By decorating the flat with a fantastic garden. 40．Which of the following best describes the writer?A．Dependable and responsible.B．Patient and modest.C．Helpless and embarrassed.D．Careless and greedy.参考答案：1．C2．A3．D4．C【导语】本文是一篇说明文。

⾼考英语阅读理解模拟练习及答案⾼考英语阅读理解模拟练习及答案 多做英语阅读理解模拟题可帮助⼤家熟悉解题⽅法，为了帮助⼤家，⼩编分享了⼀些⾼考英语阅读理解题及答案，欢迎阅读! 英语阅读理解(1) Have you ever wondered why you sometimes take an almost immediate liking to a person you have just met? We often get the first impression of a people based on the color of a person’s skin or the manner in which he or she dressed. Meaning is conveyed not only by words or verbal languages but also by nonverbal communication systems, such as body behaviors. Nonverbal communication is important because we use the actions of others to learn about their affective emotional states .Our emotions are reflected in our posture, face, and eyes—be it fear, joy, anger, or sadness—so we can express them without ever saying a word .For this reason, most of us rely heavily on what we learn through our eyes. Nonverbal communication is significant in human interaction because it is usually responsible for the first impressions. More importantly, those first messages usually influence the perception(感知) of everything else that follows. Even how we select friends and sexual partners is grounded in first impressions with nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is important because it is culture-related. It is based on different beliefs, religions, values and customs in different cultures. When, where, how, and to whom people display his or her specific nonverbal behaviors is greatly affected by culture and context. Culture determines what the appropriate nonverbal behavior is. For example, feelings of friendship exist everywhere but their expression varies. It may be appropriate in some countries for man to embrace each other and for women to hold hands; in other countries these displays of affection may be shocking. Each culture has its own specific interpretation on nonverbal communication. What is acceptable in one culture may be completely unacceptable in another. One culture may determine that snapping fingers to call a waiter is acceptable; another may consider this gesture rude. 1. What is the best title of the passage? A. Nonverbal communication and first impression B. Nonverbal communication is culture-related C. Nonverbal and verbal communication D. The importance of nonverbal communication 2. We can know a person’s feeling through our eyes because_________. A. we can see a person’s feeling on his face. B. a person’s emotions can be reflected through eyes. C. a person’s feeling can be reflected through his body languages D. we can see a person’s feeling through his posture 3. Which of the following statements is not True? A. Meaning can be conveyed both by words and body language. B. We can use nonverbal communication to learn about a person’s emotional states. C. We often get the first impression by what a person says. D. The first impression can affect what we will do in the following. 4. How many reasons are mentioned in the text to show nonverbal communication is important?A. 2B. 3C. 4D.5 5. What can we conclude from the last paragraph? A. we can use different ways to express friendship B. each culture has its own specific interpretation on nonverbal communication C. snapping fingers to call a waiter is acceptable D. learning a country’s culture is very important. 【答案解析】 1. D 根据第⼆、三、四段的⾸句可知本⽂所讲述的主要内容。

【英语】高考英语阅读理解(科普环保)练习题及答案一、高中英语阅读理解科普环保类1．犇犇阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them as a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn't it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit neatly into the hand?Now something like a tablet-shaped but foldable phone is about to become available. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China's Huawei both launched foldable phones, the Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X respectively. Mobile phone use has entered the "foldable future", The Verge noted.The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their bendable screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they're "the combination of a small tablet and smartphone, all in a single device".The technology could change other devices, too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to maximize available space.In a keynote address, Samsung's senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the foldable screen "the foundation for the smartphone of tomorrow". "It's a blank canvas (画布) for us to do something beautiful together." he said.So is there nothing to stand in the way of the foldable future? According to tech news website Android Authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every 10 OLED (二极管) screens produced were imperfect. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these foldable devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That's a price that few people will be able to afford.But if the foldable device isn't going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming. Patrick Moorhead, an industry analyst told The Verge, "Few are debating if foldable or rollable mobile displays are the future of smartphones; the only question is when and by whom."（1）What can be the best title for the text?A. Screen devices on the market.B. Foldable age is arriving.C. Possible powers of a tablet.D. Foldable screens are imperfect.（2）What can we learn from Justin Denison's words?A. The foldable screen has great potential.B. The Galaxy Fold still has many problems.C. The production of foldable phones will soon increase.D. Companies need to work together to develop foldable phone.（3）What is the problem with foldable phones at the moment?A. They are easy to break.B. They are inconvenient to carry.C. They are not as useful as expected.D. They are unaffordable for most families.（4）What is the author's attitude toward the future of the foldable screen?A. Worried.B. Cautious.C. Positive.D. Unconcerned.【答案】（1）B（2）A（3）D（4）C【解析】【分析】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了“可折叠手机的时代即将到来。

高考英语阅读理解训练经典题目(及答案)一、高中英语阅读理解1．阅读理解I took a journey to New York, US several months ago. It was the first time I had been abroad. It was also the first time I had taken a trip by myself. I had great enthusiasm and high hopes, and I wasn't let down.It's hard to describe how I felt when I arrived at the airport in New York. Looking at people of different races and nationalities passing by and hearing different languages all around me, I couldn't say anything for a long time. I had never understood the cultural diversity of the US so clearly and closely before.The following days were even more impressive. We integrated(融入)into the forest of concrete and cement(混凝土和水泥). We waved to the Statue of Liberty; we looked down at the busy island of Manhattan; we looked at well-known universities—Harvard of ancient Egypt.Then we visited some well-known university—Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia—each with its own appealing and time-honored history. But what all these universities have in common is their peaceful academic atmospheres witch you could feel everywhere. I was impressed by the libraries, decorated just like cathedrals(教堂), and the laboratories just next to the classroom. My dream is to return to those places as an international student.Finally came our destinations—the Model United Nations conference at the University of Chicago. Students from various countries arrived to act as United Nations delegations and share their opinions about global issues.As a non-native speaker, I felt that competing against native speakers was a very tough task. But it was also a rare change to improve my English and I couldn't throw it away. With perseverance and devotion. I got used to talking to other delegations naturally. Although I didn't win any awards, the chairman praised me at the closing ceremony for my excellent performance. That made me feel really proud.This trip brought me unforgettable and valuable experiences that will benefit me forever. （1）What is the main purpose of the author's going to America?A. To see some places of interest.B. To visit some well-known universities.C. To attend a competition at a university.D. To learn about the cultural diversity there.（2）How did the author feel when he/she saw the cultural diversity of the US?A. Regretful.B. Amazed.C. Peaceful.D. Confident.（3）What is the author's wish in the future?A. To work for the United Nations.B. To tour more countries in the world.C. To have a job in the United States.D. To study in the famous universities in America.（4）Why did the author feel proud?A. He won an award in the competition.B. He was praised by the chairman.C. He could persuade others to accept his opinions.D. He could speak English well at the conference.【答案】（1）C（2）B（3）D（4）B【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，作者去美国参加在一所大学里举行的比赛，对美国文化的多元化感到惊讶。