配套K12高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解入口练习(3)

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小学+初中+高中+努力=大学 阅读理解入口练习（3）

阅读理解--------A

There is a saying in France that states, "The government could fall, the Louvre

（卢浮宫）could be broken into or creatures from other planets could land on earth,

but if any of these things happened during the Tour de France, no one would notice."

The Tour de France is the most famous cycling race in the world．It begins in July

and runs for three weeks．Cyclists who race in the Tour de France ride in six legs

or stages of the race, and they have between one to four days of rest between each

leg of the race．The rider who completes all six legs of the race in the shortest

overall time wins．

The Tour de France began as a publicity stunt for the French sports newspaper,

L’Auto．Hcnri Desgranges, who worked for L’Auto, came up with the idea for "the

greatest bike race in the world, "and on July 1,1903, the first Tour de France

began．Sixty cyclists began that first leg of the race which started in front of the

Alarm Clock Cafe just outside of Paris．This first leg look them 467 kilometers to

Lyon．The first Tour de France received an astonishing 2,000 francs．Maurice Garin,

the most popular cyclist in France at that time, won the first Tour de France．It

took him 94 hours and 33 minutes to ride all 2,428 kilometers of the race．This time

was three hours faster than the second -place rider．Over the weeds during which the

race was run, the idea of the Tour de France slowly caught the imagination of the

people of France．The race has been run every year since that time, except during

the years of World War I and World War Ⅱ．

The Tour de France has developed several special honors for which racers

compete．Above all, the highest honor is the "yellow jersey"．Mr．Desgranges introduced

the yellow jersey in 1919 to show the leading racer each rider's total time in order

to find the racer with the lowest time．That racer wears the yellow jersey during

the day's race．Other honors include the "green jersey " which is given to the rider

who sprints the best by riding the fastest over short distances, and the "polka dot

jersey" for the best rider in the mountains along the route． 小学+初中+高中+努力=大学

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1. Who wins the Tour de France?

A. The first cyclist to finish the race．

B. The cyclist with the most points．

C. The cyclist with the polka dot jersey．

D. The cyclist with the shortest overall time．

答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节题。由第一段最后一句话 “The rider who completes all

six legs of the race in the shortest overall time wins．” 可知，答案为D。

2. Henri Desgranges was_______.

A. a photographer

B. a famous cyclist

C. the man who first won the Tour de France

D. the man who first thought of the Tour de France

答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节题。由第二段第二句话 “Hcnri Desgranges, who worked for

L’Auto, came up with the idea for ‘the greatest bike race in the world’, and on

July 1,1903, the first Tour de France began．” 可知，D选项正确。

3. How many stages make up the Tour de France?

A．One． B．Four． C．Six．

D．Ten

答案解析：答案为C。本题为细节题。由第一段最后一句话 “The rider who completes all

six legs of the race in the shortest overall time wins．” 可知，C选项正确。

4. The yellow jersey is worn by____.

A. the fastest daily cyclist B. the fastest overall cyclist

C. the youngest cyclist D. the champion from the previous year

答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由最后一段 “Mr．Desgranges introduced the yellow

jersey in 1919 to show the leading racer each rider's total time in order to find

the racer with the lowest time．That racer wears the yellow jersey during the day's 小学+初中+高中+努力=大学

小学+初中+高中+努力=大学 race．” 可知，yellow jersey用来表示比赛者用的时间最少，比赛者在比赛当天佩戴此物，故答案为A。

阅读理解

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。

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once

a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University

for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he

met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own

happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the

person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts

of it in my diary.”

This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its

success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with

the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of

the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was

The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary