2014高考英语阅读理解训练题(5)附答案

2014高考英语阅读理解精品训练题（4）及答案（解析）第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分,满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑.ALinda Evans was my best friend — like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies，swimming，horseback riding。

When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters，and we saw each other on special times - like my wedding and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes，and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came ba ck,stamped “Address Unknown"。

I had no idea about how to find Linda.Over the years，I missed Linda very much。

I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren。

And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died。

There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.One day, I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of ayoung woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman - Linda’s married name。

2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(新课标I)英语第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AThe Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity ChallengeDare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue. Cambridge 02139 by Friday, February 8th.Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speaker will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be exhibit and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in the celebration and brunch will be served.Between March 10th and March 15th, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at: .【小题1】Who can take in the Curiosity Challenge?A. School students.B. Cambridge locals.C. CSF winners.D. MIT artists.【小题2】When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?A. On February 8th.B. On March 10thC. On March 15th..D. On April 21st.【小题3】What type of writing is this text?A. An exhibition guide.B. An art show review.C. An announcement.D. An official report.BPassenger pigeons（旅鸽）once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks（群）so large that they darkened the sky for hours.It was calculated that when its population reach its highest point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons – a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant birds in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans’ need for wood, which scattered（驱散）the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in September 1, 1914.【小题1】In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons _______.A. were the biggest bird in the worldB. lived mainly in the south of AmericaC. did great harm to the natural environmentD. Were the largest population in the US 【小题2】The underlined word ―undoing‖ probably refers to the pigeons’ _______.A. escapeB. ruinC. liberationD. evolution【小题3】What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?A. To seek pleasure.B. To save other birds.C. To make money.D. To protect crops.【小题4】What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?A. It was ignored by the public.B. It was declared too late.C. It was unfair.D. It was strict.【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语书面表达基础训练题（5）及答案【2014高考英语吉林省实验中学一模试题】书面表达（满分 25分）作文：最近,你校同学正在参加某英文报组织的一场讨论.讨论的主题是:公园要不要收门票?请你根据下表所提供的信息,给报社写一封信,客观地介绍讨论情况.注意: 1. 信的开头已为你写好.2. 词数: 100 左右.3. 参考词汇: 门票--- entrance fees【参考范文】Dear editor,I'm writing to tell you about the discussion we've had about whe ther an entrance fee should be charged for parks.Opinions are divided on the question. 60％ of the students are against the idea of entrance fees. They believe a public park sh ould be free of charge. People need a place where they can res t and enjoy themselves. Charging entrance fees will no doubt k eep some people away. What is more, it will become necessary to build gates and walls, which will do harm to the appearance of a city.On the other hand, 40％ think that fees should be charged beca use you need money to pay gardeners and other workers, and t o buy plants and young trees. They suggest, however, fees sho uld be charged low.Yours trulyLi Hua【2013界广东省汕头市质量测评试题】基础写作（满分is分）和睦的家庭有利于孩子的个性发展和家人的身心健康。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语二轮短文阅读类训练（5）及答案或解析Tides(潮汐)are created mainly by the pull of the moon on the earth. The moon's pull causes water in the oceans to be a little deeper at a point closet to the moon and also at a point farthest from the m oon on the opposite side of the earth. These two tidal"Waves"fo llow the apparent(明显的) movement of the moon around the earth and strike nearly e very coast line at in- tervals of about twelve hours and twenty-five minutes. After reaching a high point, the water level goes d own gradually for a little more than six hours and then begins to rise toward a new high point. Hence, most coast lines have two tides a day, and the tides occur fifty minutes later each day. Dif ferences in the coast line and in channels in the ocean bottom may change the times that the tidal wave reaches different poin ts along the same coast line. Tne difference in water level betw een high and low tide varies from day to day according to the re lative positions of the sun and the moon because the sun also e xerts a pull on the earth, although it is only about half as strongas the pull of the moon. When the sun and the moon are pulling along the same line, the tides rise higher, and when they pull at fight angles to one another, the tide is lower. The formation of t he coast line and variations(变化)in the weather are additional factors which can affect the hei ght of tides. Some sections of the coast are shaped in such a w ay as to cause much higher tides than are experienced in other areas. A strong wind blowing toward the shore may also cause tides to be higher.1. The height of the tide is affected by all of the following except _________.A. the position of the sunB. the direction of the windC. variations in the coast lineD. channels in the sea bottom答案：D 指导：潮汐的高度受太阳、风向和海岸线差异的影响，海沟只影响潮汐的时间。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语阅读理解精品训练题（5）及答案（解析）Tired of all the pushing in supermarkets? Fed up with waiting in endless lines to pay for what you have bought? Angry at wastin g time in traffic jams only to find no parking spaces when you e ventually arrive at the store? If this is you, then online shopping is the answer to your dreams of trouble-free shopping. Or is it? Online shopping brings its own challenges. Here are a few thing s to bear in mind when browsing (浏览) various websites. The claim made by online sites is that sho pping online is a safe and secure way to make purchases. The evidence challenges this. In any case, you only have to be the v ictim of fraud (诈骗) once to experience all the problems that come with this form of stealing. Use only sites that have a trusted history and an ex cellent reputation.Another problem is the appearance of items in reality is often q uite different from what you see on your computer screen. This might not be a problem if you are buying washing up powder bu t could be a major disappointment when that beautiful blue dress you ordered turns up in green. Also, product descriptions are sometimes simply untrue. Perhaps the wisest plan is to purchas e items where design and color are not essential to customer s atisfaction.Some even argue that online shopping indirectly contributes to global warming. Yes, your car can stay parked but how are onli ne goods delivered? Often by some large vans pouring out carb on monoxide and adding to our already desperate traffic proble ms. You are also by now becoming increasingly irritated (使烦恼) by the fact that the delivery is late and you have wasted the leave from work you have taken to receive it!Without question, online shopping is here to stay and it has its b enefits. However, perhaps it is not as wonderful as some of its s upporters claim it to be.36. The author lists several questions in Para. 1 to .A. support online shoppingB. collect answers from readersC. show his dislike of going shoppingD. introduce the t opic of the passage【答案】D【解析】推理判断题。

2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语（北京卷）本试卷共16页，共150分。

考试时长120分钟。

考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。

考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分听力理解（共三节，30分）第一节（共5小题：每小题1.5分，共7.5分）听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话你将听一遍。

例：What is the man going to read?A. A newspaper.B. A magazineC. A book答案是A。

1.What juice does the man order?A. Lemon.B. Apple.C. Orange2.What subject does the man like best?A. History.B. Biology.C. Chemistry.3.Where is the woman from?A. Britain.B. Russia.C. America.4.What kind of student bus pass does the woman want?A. Weekly.B. Monthly.C. Yearly.5.What are the two speakers going to buy for Mary’s birthday?A. A. bicycle.B. A. pen.C. A. book.第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，共15分）听下面4段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。

听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白你将听两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6.What is wrong with the woman?A. She has a cough.B. She has a headache.C. She has a fever.7.How long is the medicine for?A. One day.B. Two days.C. Three days.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

2014年高考英语新课标卷阅读理解及完形填空译文第一篇：2014年高考英语新课标卷阅读理解及完形填空译文C篇在人们心目中一个专业的训狮员就是一手挥鞭一手持椅的逗乐人。

鞭子捕获了所有的注意力，而事实上，鞭子大部分时间只是表演。

，真正起作用的是椅子。

当巡视员手拿椅子出现在狮子面前，狮子试图把注意力同时放在四条椅子腿上。

由于注意力被分散，狮子变得迷惑不知道下一步做什么。

当面对太多的选择，狮子选择僵持和等候，而不再攻击持椅人。

有多少次你感觉自己和狮子一样处于一样的境地？又有多少次你心存目标如减肥、开办企业或是游历更多地方，但结果只是止于对眼前诸多选择的困惑而最终毫无进展？这种情况一直是我不安烦恼，因为当所有的专家忙着讨论那个是最佳选择时，想要提升自我生活的人们却被各种充满矛盾和冲突的信息所困惑。

最终的结果就是我们感觉不能集中精力或我们正C篇在人们心目中一个专业的训狮员就是一手挥鞭一手持椅的逗乐人。

鞭子捕获了所有的注意力，而事实上，鞭子大部分时间只是表演。

，真正起作用的是椅子。

当巡视员手拿椅子出现在狮子面前，狮子试图把注意力同时放在四条椅子腿上。

由于注意力被分散，狮子变得迷惑不知道下一步做什么。

当面对太多的选择，狮子选择僵持和等候，而不再攻击持椅人。

有多少次你感觉自己和狮子一样处于一样的境地？又有多少次你心存目标如减肥、开办企业或是游历更多地方，但结果只是止于对眼前诸多选择的困惑而最终毫无进展？这种情况一直是我不安烦恼，因为当所有的专家忙着讨论那个是最佳选择时，想要提升自我生活的人们却被各种充满矛盾和冲突的信息所困惑。

最终的结果就是我们感觉不能集中精力或我们正把精力投在错误的事情上，之后我们不再作为，进展很小，在我们本能提升的时候却原地不动。

事情本不必那样。

任何时候当你发觉世界在你面前惠东椅子时，记住这点：你需要的就是集中精力做好一件事。

你只需立即开始。

在你感觉就绪前就开始行动是许多成功人士的习惯。

如果你有想要去的地方，想要完成的事情，想要成为某种人士。

定额市鞍钢阳光实验学校2014高考英语阅读理解基础精品训练题（106）及答案阅读理解------BHe has vowed that he will not stop building his business until it is worth £100 million. But hard-working Owens can stop for at least a moment's celebration after making his first £1 million at the age of 16. Owens, who has used a computer since the age of seven, began teaching himself basic web design at the age of ten when he was given his first Mac computer. He used his pocket money to fund his first business project, website Mac Box Bundle at just 14 which has made £700,000 since its establishment in 2008. Mac Box Bundle sells a combination of popular Mac applications which are worth up to $400 together for under just $100 and donates 10 percent of the money to charities.He then established an advertising company Branchr a year later and worked on the business after school and at weekends. Branchr made a surprising £500,000 in its first year. Branchr works as a platform for website owners to sell advertising.Owens, from Northampton, currently employs eight staff---all adults---around the UK and America as sales and technical assistants. The young man lives with his parents. His mother who is a company secretary said he was inspired to go into business after observing the huge success achieved by Apple's chief executive officers(首席执行官) Steve Jobs.Owens said, "I think everyone has business sense in them, and they just need to gain experience and be determined to make it. There is no magical formula(法则) for business, It takes hard work, determination and the drive to do something great. My aim is to become a leading name in the world of Internet and mobile advertising and push myself right to the top of the game.The teenager insists his professional success has not affected his personal life, and says his interests include photography and playing the guitar. "My friends and I don't really talk about my success. To them I'm just a normal teenager and it doesn't change anything between us."6. What can we know from Paragraph 1?A. Owens' company is worth £1 million now.B. Owens learned to use computers at the age of 10.C. Owens made £700,000 from Mac Box Bundle in 2008.D. Owens is successful and enthusiastic about public welfare.7From Paragraph 2 we know that Branchr _____________.A. takes up all Owens' spare timeB. offers a platform for advertising businessC. designs practical software for website ownersD. takes up advertising business for Nac Box Bundle8Why did Owens come up with the idea of doing business?A. Because eight adults were ready to help.B. Because it was easy to establish web companies.C. Because his parents wanted him to have a try.D. Because he drew inspiration from Steve jobs.9Owens tends to think that ____________.A. every person has potential talent for businessB. getting experienced in business needs determinationC. it is hard work for people to decide to do something great.D. he is sure to play a leading part in the world of the Internet. 10What do Ownes' friends think about him?A. He sets a good example.B. He does quite well in music.C. He is a common school boy.D. He puts friendship above anything else.B篇英国北安普敦16岁男孩欧文斯从14岁起，通过创建网站和开办网络公司，在过去短短两年的时间里，狂赚了120万英镑，成为英国最年轻的百万富翁。

高考英语阅读理解、完形填空及阅读类训练（答案及解析）Words：322难度系数：★★建议用时：8分钟If English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong.Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language? According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power.Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter.This is the area of the brain which processes information.It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles. The study also found the effect is greater, the younger people learn a second language.A team led by Dr.Andrea Mechelli，from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English.They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.Scans showed that grey matter density(密度)in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language.But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language，” said the scientists.It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales，has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills.“Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible，”he said.“You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of 2 and 34.Reading，writing, and comprehension were all tested.The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better.“Studying a language means you getan entrance to another world，” explained the scientists.5．The main subject talked about in this passage is________.A．science on learning a second languageB．man’s ability of learning a second languageC．language can help brain powerD．language learning and maths study解析：选C。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语阅读理解、作文训练（5）及答案.阅读理解Words：272 难度系数：★★建议用时：6分钟There are thousands of products of all colors and shapes in a s upermarket，making you believe that they are worth a try.How? Packaging (包装) is the silent but persuading salesman.There on the shelves，each bottle，can，box，and jar has been carefully designed and measured to speak to t he inner self of the consumer(消费者)，because he is buying not only a product but also his belief in life .Scientists have studied consumer behavior recently and found that the look of the package has a great effect on the “quality” o f the product and on how well it sells，because “Consumers generally cannot tell between a product a nd its package.Many products are packages and many packag es are products”，as Louis Cheskin，the first social scientist studying consumers’ feelings for packag ing，noticed.Colors are one of the best tools in packaging.Studies of eye mo vement have shown that colors draw human attention quickly.T ake V8 for example.For many years，the bright red color of tomatoes and carrots on the thin bottle m akes you feel that it is very good for your body.And the word “gr een” today can keep food prices going up.Shapes are another attraction.Circles often suggest happiness and peacefulness，because these shapes are pleasing to both the eye and the hea rt.That’s why the round yellow M signs of McDonald’s are invitin g to both young and old.This new consumer response (反应) to the colors and shapes of packages reminds producers and sellers that people buy to satisfy both body and soul.1. According to the passage, ________ seems to be able to pers uade a consumer to buy the product.A．the pleasing color of the packageB．the special taste of the productC．the strange shape of the packageD．the belief in the product解析：选A。