2019高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选练7含解析

1 2019高考英语一轮阅读理解选练（7）

李仕才

A

In the tiny village of Angelica, New York, the post office is more than a place

to get mail or send packages. There you’ll find the heart of this lovely community.

It’s where villagers meet and greet friends.

When Angelica’s post office was threatened with being closed in the 1980s，a

villager，Pat, came up with a plan to save it. “At Christmas time I would hear on

the news about towns named Snow or Bethlehem having celebrations,” says Pat, “Why

couldn’t we do the same thing with Angelica?”

Pat, who is an artist，created a postal cancellation (邮戳) design featuring an

Angelica angel.

She drew her angels in a traditional fashion and submitted her suggestion to the U.S.

Postal Service. Once approved, the drawing was carved into a cancellation stamp that

could be used for one day only. The postmistress (女邮局局长) then had another idea

to make the day even more special calling the post office Angel Station.

The large increase in mail amount saved Angelica’s post office from being closed

and keeps the doors open today.

Now it’s tradition that on the first Friday in December，people come to Angelica

to mail their Christmas cards. Each year the amount of mail going through the Angelica

Post Office increases during late November and early December. Stamp collectors from

around the world have accepted the Angel Station cancellation, some sending mail from

as far away as France.

Because the stamp is destroyed each season, Pat draws a new angel that conveys

season’s greetings from Angel Station every year. Post offices may close in other

parts of the country, but this tiny one continues.

1.What did Pat do to save the post office?

A. She invented a new cancellation.

B. She hosted Christmas celebrations.

C. She gave the office a better name. 2 D. She designed a special set of stamps.

2.Which of the following can best describe Pat?

A. Curious and friendly.

B. Humorous and intelligent.

C. Creative and warm-hearted.

3.What can we learn about Angelica’s post office from the passage?

A. It was completely closed in the 1980s.

B. Its name has been changed many times.

C. It is also the centre of local social life.

D. Its stamp remains the same each season.

【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了Angelica邮局及制作邮票的人Pat。

1.A 【解析】细节理解题。 根据文中Pat, who is an artist，created a postal cancellation

(邮戳) design featuring an Angelica angel.的描述可知为她发明了一个新的邮戳，故选A。

3.B 【解析】推理判断题。根据文中Because the stamp is destroyed each season, Pat draws

a new angel that conveys season’s greetings from Angel Station every year.的描述可知它的名字曾经被改过很多次，故选B。

B

(2015·北京东城区综合练习二)

According to game maker Hasbro，approximately 750 million people have played the

well­known game Monopoly since it was invented in the 1930s.Charles Darrow is typically

credited as the inventor of the world’s most famous board game.However, he likely

originated his version of Monopoly from one of several other games similarly involving 3 house buying and selling that were already in existence before the 1930s when he got

his patent(专利) for the game.

A probable reason that Darrow’s Monopoly became the hugely successful game that

still exists today is that he took a great approach to producing it.Other similar games

existed, but they had no board or regulation pieces.With the help of his wife and son,

who decorated the sets with details, Darrow personally created the pieces and boards

that became the first Monopoly game sets.His extra work in creating the entire

environment that players needed gave his game something extra that other variations

did not have.

Darrow had success in selling his games in various parts of the country.Several

Philly area stores were the first to carry his game and sell it in large

quantities.However, Darrow had difficulty selling his game to the major game producer

of the time, Parker Brothers.He was told that his game was too complex and had

fundamental errors in its design that would limit its appeal.Eventually, the continued

sales he managed on his own forced Parker Brothers to reassess the worth of his game.In

the end, the company agreed to produce the game and shortly afterwards it became the

bestselling game in the country.

That success turned Charles Darrow into a millionaire, which is the heavy

irony．Darrow initially began work on Monopoly to help support himself and his family

following the financial troubles tied to the stock market crash of 1929.Thus, Charles

Darrow became a millionaire by producing a game that allows “regular” people to feel

like they are buying and selling real homes and land like millionaires.