二轮复习最新 高考英语 阅读理解精选及答案 (2)
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二轮复习最新 高考英语 阅读理解精选及答案
一、高中英语阅读理解
1．阅读理解
While small may be beautiful, tall is just plain uncomfortable it seems, particularly when it
comes to staying in hotels and eating in restaurants.
The Tall Persons Club Great Britain (TPCGB), which was formed six months ago to campaign for
the needs of the tall, has turned its attention to hotels and restaurants. Beds that are too small,
shower heads that are too low, and restaurant tables with hardly any leg-room all make life
difficult for those of above average height, it says.
But it is not just the extra-tall whose needs are not being met. The average height of the
population has been increasing yet the standard size of beds, doorways, and chairs has remained
unchanged.
"The bedding industry says a bed should be six inches larger than the person using it, so even a
king-size bed at 6′6″ (6 feet and 6 inches) is falling short for 25% of men, while the standard 6′3″
bed caters for less than half of the male population." Said TPCGB president Phil Heinricy, "seven-foot beds would work fine."
Similarly, restaurant tables can cause no end of problems. Small tables, which mean the long-legged have to sit a foot or so away from them, are enough to make tall customers go elsewhere.
Some have already taken note, however. At Queens Moat Houses′ Caledoman Hotel in
Edinburgh, 6′6″ beds are now put in as standard after requests for longer beds from taller visitors,
particularly Americans.
（1）What is the purpose of the TPCGB campaign?
A. To provide better services.
B. To rebuild hotels and restaurants.
C. To draw public attention to the needs of the tall.
D. To attract more people to become its members.
（2）Which of the following might be a bed of proper length according to Phil Heinricy?
A. 7′2″. B. 7′ C. 6′6″ D. 6′3″
（3）What may happen to restaurants with small tables?
A. They may lose some customers.
B. They may start businesses elsewhere.
C. They have to find easy chairs to match the tables.
D. They have to provide enough space for the long-legged.
（4）What change has already been made in a hotel in Edinburgh?
A. Tall people pay more for larger beds. B. 6′6″beds have taken the place of 6′3″beds.
C. Special rooms are kept for Americans. D. Guest rooms are standardized.
【答案】 （1）C
（2）B
（3）A
（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述一个英国的高个子组织TPCGP在六个月以前向宾馆和酒店发起的针对高个子的一些特殊需求的活动。
（1）考查细节理解。根据第二段中的“which was formed six months ago to campaign for the
needs of the tall, has turned its attention to hotels and restaurants.” 可知TPCGP是为了让公众注意高个子的一些特殊需求。故选C。
（2）考查细节理解。根据倒数第三段中的“Said TPCGB president Phil Heinricy, ‘seven-foot
beds would work fine. ’”Tpcgb 总裁Phil Heinricy, 说，七英尺的床就够了可知选B。
（3）考查推理判断。根据倒数第二段可知，如果饭店使用小的桌子，自然就失去了高个子这样一类群体的顾客。选A。
（4）考查细节理解。根据最后一段中的“6′6″beds are now put in as standard after requests
for longer beds from taller visitors, particularly Americans. ”在高个子游客要求更长的床位后，6′6床位现在被作为标准放置，尤其是美国人，故选B。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解和推理判断两个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需要准确捕捉细节信息，并根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。
2．（2019•浙江）阅读理解
California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published
Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor（因素）.
The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46,
000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds. No area was spared or unaffected,
from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Gabriels above Los
Angeles. In the Sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in
parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.
Many factors contributed to the decline, said Patrick Mclntyre, an ecologist who was the lead
author of the study. Woodcutters targeted big trees. Housing development pushed into the
woods. Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that
compete with big trees for resources（资源）.
But in comparing a study of California forests done in the 1920s and 1930s with another one
between 2001 and 2010, Mclntyre and his colleagues documented a widespread death of big
trees that was evident even in wildlands protected from woodcutting or development.
The loss of big trees was greatest in areas where trees had suffered the greatest water shortage.
The researchers figured out water stress with a computer model that calculated how much water
trees were getting in comparison with how much they needed, taking into account such things as
