高考英语阅读理解系列训练题

高考英语阅读理解系列训练题

‎2014高考英语阅读理解系列训练题（47）‎ 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）‎ 请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ A Goldie's Secret She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We're moving house.'; "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.‎ I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.‎ That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.‎ By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.‎ I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.‎ ‎1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?‎ A. Shocked. B. Sympathetic. C. Annoyed. D. Upset.‎ ‎2. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie ______.‎ A. felt worried B. was angry C. ate a little D. sat by the fire ‎3 Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ______.‎ A. saw her puppies B. heard familiar barking C. wanted to leave the author D. found her way to her old home ‎4. The passage is organized in order of ______.‎ A. time B. effectiveness C. importance D. complexity 参考答案--------BADA ‎ ‎ Anger at the practice of demanding dowries, which can lead to violence against brides, has prompted a takeoff of “Angry Birds” called “Angry Brides” that aims to highlight the illegal practice still prevalent in many South Asian countries.‎ ‎ Dowries-such as jewelry, clothes, cars and money-are traditionally given by the bride’s family to the groom and his parents to ensure she is taken care of in her new home.‎ ‎ The custom was outlawed more than five decades ago. But it is still widely practiced, with the groom’s family demanding even more money after marriage, leading to mental and physical annoyance that can drive the woman to suicide.‎ ‎“The Angry Brides game is our way of throwing a spotlight on the nuisance(陋习)of dowry.” said Ram Bhamidi, senior vice president and head of online marketing for Shaadi.com, a matrimonial(婚姻的)website with two million members.‎ ‎“According to a 2007 study, there is a dowry-related death every four hours in India, We condemn this and have consistently run campaigns on social media to help create awareness of the issue”.‎ The name of the app, available on the group’s home page, is a spinoff from the globally popular “Angry Birds” game, Its home page shows a red-clad, eight-armed woman resembling a powerful female Hindu goddess. Underneath, there is a caption: “A woman will give you strength, care and all the love you need ……NOT dowry!”‎ To play the game, users have to try and hit three dodging grooms--a pilot, a builder and a doctor. There are a variety of weapons to choose from, including a frying pan, broomstick, tomato and loafer.‎ Each groom has a price tag, starting at 1.5 million rupees($29,165). Every time the player hits a groom, his value decreases and money is added to the player’s Anti-Dowry Fund ,which is saved posted on their Facebook page.‎ ‎“Since we launched the game last week, more than 270,000 people have liked the app. Both men and women seem to be playing it”, said Bhamidi.‎ ‎66.What caused “Angry Brides” to appear online?‎ ‎ A.Women’s rights’being seriously abused.‎ ‎ B.Anger at the practice of demanding dowries.‎ ‎ C.The bride’s giving a great many dowries.‎ ‎ D.The popularity of Angry Birds online.‎ ‎【答案】B ‎【解析】根据第一段第一句可知“嫁妆有时会导致对新娘的暴力， 由于对索要嫁妆的愤怒引起了对“愤怒的小鸟”的滑稽的模仿，被称之为“愤怒的新娘”目的在于强调在东南亚国家普遍存在的不合法做法”‎ ‎67.Which of the following is True about “Dowries”?‎ ‎ A.The custom of giving dowries has been in practice for five decades.‎ ‎ B.Lack of abundant dowries may lead to the bride’s being in violence.‎ ‎ C.The illegal practice of dowries is still popular in many African countries.‎ ‎ D.More dowries the bride gives mean a high social status of her family.‎ ‎【答案】B ‎【解析】看文章第一段第一句 ‎68.The underlined word “spinoff” probably means . ‎ ‎ A.relation B.connection C.copy D.fake ‎【答案】C ‎【解析】“愤怒的新娘”是对“愤怒的小鸟”的模仿。‎ ‎69.Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the game “Angry Bride”?‎ ‎ A.There are a variety of weapons to choose from.‎ ‎ B.Ram Bhamidi thinks highly of the game.‎ ‎ C.Men players don’t find the game enjoyable.‎ ‎ D.The game character looks like a Hindu goddess.‎ ‎【答案】C ‎【解析】从文章最后一句Both men and women seem to be playing it可知， 男士也喜欢玩这个游戏。所以C是错误叙述。‎ ‎70.What is the text mainly about?‎ ‎ A.Women’s unfair treatment in the marriage.‎ ‎ B.The popularity of the game “Angry Brides”‎ ‎ C.The groom’s demanding too many dowries.‎ D.How to build an equal relation it the marriage.‎ ‎【答案】B ‎【解析】本文主要讲了“愤怒的新娘”这个游戏产生的背景，玩法，以及受欢迎。‎ ‎ ‎ Open Letter to an Editor I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently --- one who works for you. In fact, he's one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.‎ Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume(简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues(问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which ‎ tells me he is one of your best. I'm sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility you've given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.‎ So why is he looking for a way out?‎ He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.‎ The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.‎ He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what he's doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. That's what you want for him, too, isn't it?‎ So your reporter has set me thinking.‎ Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists --- everyone --- is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can't do it, they'll find someone who can.‎ ‎5. What does the writer think of the reporter?‎ A. Optimistic. B. Imaginative. C. Ambitious. D. Proud.‎ ‎6. What does the reporter want most from his editors in their talks?‎ A. Finding the news value of his stories. B. Giving him financial support.‎ C. Helping him to find issues. D. Improving his good ideas.‎ ‎7 Who probably wrote the letter?‎ A. An editor. B. An artist. C. A reporter. D. A reader.‎ ‎8. The letter aims to remind editors that they should ______.‎ A. keep their best reporters at all costs ‎ B. give more freedom to their reporters C. be aware of their reporters' professional development ‎ D. appreciate their reporters' working styles and attitudes ‎5----C DAC ‎ Pacing and Pausing Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.‎ Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.‎ It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.‎ The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定式). And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in --- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.‎ That's why slight differences in conversational style --- tiny little things like microseconds of pause --- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this case ‎ was a judgment of psychological problems --- even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.‎ ‎9. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?‎ A. Betty was talkative. B. Betty was an interrupter.‎ C. Betty did not take her turn. D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.‎ ‎10. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?‎ A. Americans. B. Israelis. C. The British. D. The Finns.‎ ‎11. We can learn from the passage that ______.‎ A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the ‎US C. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes D. one should receive training to build up one's confidence ‎12. The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means ______.‎ A. being willing to speak one's mind ‎ B. being able to increase one's power C. being ready to make one's own judgment ‎ D. being quick to express one's ideas confidently ‎9---12、CB CD ‎ ‎ Gay marriage, and especially gay parenting, has been in the cross hairs in recent days.‎ ‎ On Jan.6, Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all. And last Monday(Jan.9), Pope Benedict called gay marriage a threat “to the future of humanity itself”, citing the need for children to have heterosexual homes.‎ ‎ But research on families headed by gays and lesbians doesn’t back up these above views. In fact, in some ways, gay parents may bring talents to the table that straight ‎ parents don’t.‎ ‎ Gay parents “tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents.” Said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark‎ ‎University who researches gay and lesbian parenting. Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident, compared with an almost 50 percent accidental pregnancy rate among heterosexuals, Goldberg said. “That translates to greater commitment on average and more involvement”.‎ ‎ And while research indicates that kids of gay parents show few differences in achievement, mental health, social functioning and other measures, these kids may have the advantage of open-mindedness, tolerance and role models for equal relationships, according to some research. Not only that, but gays and lesbians are likely to provide homes for difficult-to-place children in the foster system, studies show.‎ Children of gay parents also show less care about gender difference. That’s likely because gays and lesbians tend to have more equal relationships than straight couples, Goldberg said.‎ ‎“Men and women felt like they were free to pursue a wide range of interests,” Goldberg said. “Nobody was telling them,‘Oh, you can’t do that， that’s a boy thing,’or ‘That’s a girl thing.”‎ ‎71.The underlined phrase “in the cross hairs”(in Paragraph 1) probably means .‎ A.a great concern B.a big threat C.a political ban D.a role model ‎【答案】A ‎【解析】最近，同性恋婚姻以及同性恋父母对孩子的教育问题成为人们关心的一个大问题。‎ ‎72.It can be learned from the passage that Rick Santorum .‎ ‎ A.opposes the need for children to have heterosexual homes ‎ B.thinks children are better off with a father in prison ‎ C.believes children are better off in heterosexual homes ‎ D.is in favor of children being raised by lesbian parents ‎【答案】C ‎【解析】根据第二段第一句可知“Rick Santorum告诉听众，与被女同性恋抚养长大而根本没有父亲相比，有个坐监狱的父亲会更好”。 ‎ ‎73.From Abbie Goldberg’s words, we can learn that .‎ ‎ A.Most heterosexual parents have children by accident ‎ B.Gays and lesbians consider carefully before becoming parents ‎ C.Heterosexual parents are not committed in the marriage ‎ D.There’s no gender difference in gay and lesbian parenting ‎【答案】B ‎【解析】根据第四段的信息they chose to be parents；Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident可知同性恋者在成为父母前是经过考虑的。‎ ‎74.From the passage, we can infer that .‎ ‎ A.Children of gay parents are more talented ‎ B.Gay parents like adopting poor children ‎ C.Children of gay parents may enjoy more freedom ‎ D.Gay parents show no difference in social functioning ‎【答案】C ‎【解析】从最后一段可得知答案。‎ ‎75.Which of the following is the advantage of kids of gay parents?‎ ‎ A.Tolerance . B.More talents.‎ ‎ C.A chievement. D.Mental health.‎ ‎【答案】A ‎【解析】由倒数第三段可知…these kids may have the advantage of open-mindedness, tolerance and role models for equal relationships, according to some research.‎