【英语】2018届二轮复习阅读理解故事类典题10篇训练（二）学案（10页）

【英语】2018届二轮复习阅读理解故事类典题10篇训练（二）学案（10页）

‎2018届二轮复习阅读理解故事类典题10篇训练（二）‎ ‎【一】‎ He wishes the holiday season would end already . His back aches , his red suit feels like a spacesuit , his cheeks have gone tight from smiling for 12 hours —and still the kids keep coming and coming , like ants at a picnic . As Christmas becomes more commercialized (商业化) across the U. S. and Canada , so must Santas . As the holiday begins earlier each year , so must its spokesmen .‎ The questions from children these days are harder than ever . Now, with thousands of children expecting a father or mother serving in Iraq or Afghanistan , the questions are as heart-breaking as they are unanswerable . For example , “Can you please bring Daddy home from the war in time for Christmas morning ?”‎ Santas also have a pretty good chance of getting sued (指控). A professional Santa Claus in Canada told a story : A Santa had a girl on his knee , and he commented , “You have nice eyes and nice hair .” The girl later said it was sexual harassment (骚扰) . When a Santa feels anxious , he often shows it in the same ways ordinary people do : The Santas were always seen to hang around at the dinner table when the show ended . Many of them just sleep in bed for several days and don’t see other children again .‎ ‎56．In the first paragraph , “spokesmen” refers to .‎ ‎ A．businessmen B．political leaders ‎ ‎ C．organisers of the activities D．Santa Clauses ‎ ‎57．The passage implies that the job of Santa Claus is .‎ ‎ A．well-paid B．very hard C．worth doing D．dangerous ‎ ‎58．According to the third paragraph, Santas may sometimes be blamed for .‎ ‎ A．doing something against the law B．hanging around the dinner table ‎ ‎ C．being lazy and sleeping in bed for days D．not playing their roles as expected ‎ ‎59．What would be the best title for the passage ?‎ ‎ A．Christmas : Not a Good Festival for Santas ‎ ‎ B．Is Santa Claus Really Alive ?‎ ‎ C．A Christmas Story ‎ ‎ D．What Does Santa Claus Do for Children ?‎ 答案 56.D 57.B 58.A 59.A ‎【二】‎ At one time no one could travel on an English road faster than four miles an hour. That was the law until 1896. A man had to walk in front of a car which could not go faster than the man. At night the man had to carry a red lamp.‎ ‎ Once Charles Rolls brought a car from France to England ,but he wanted to drive faster than four miles an hour .In order to have no trouble with the police ,he had a talk with some of the police officers ,who ordered their policemen to look the other way when the car came along the road. This was a good plan in the country ,but not so easy to follow in the busy streets of London.‎ ‎ One night Rolls and some friends started from London on their journey to Cambridge. One of the men walked in front with the red lamp , but he walked as fast as he could .The police became very interested in walls and shop-fronts when they heard the car ,and not one of them saw it .‎ ‎ They reached a hill ;but what a waste of time it was to drive down the hill at four miles an hour! Rolls was getting ready to jump into the car; but then he noticed a policeman who was not looking the other way. The slow car reached him.‎ ‎ “Good evening,” said the policeman ,looking at the car.‎ ‎ “Good evening,” said Rolls ,holding the lamp.‎ ‎ “One of these horseless things,” said the policeman ,looking at it with interest.‎ ‎ “Yes,” said Rolls, and waited.‎ ‎ “I’ve often wanted a ride in one ; but of course policemen can’t buy things like that.” He turned and looked hopefully in Rolls’s face.‎ ‎ “Jump in ,” said Rolls.‎ ‎ “Thanks ,” said the policeman ,and did so . “Now ,”he said ,sitting down, “you can let it go just as you like down this hill. There isn’t another policeman on this road for a mile and a half.”‎ ‎60．The policemen were told “to look the other way” (the underlined part in Paragraph 2) so that ‎ .‎ ‎ A．they could watch the car coming from the other direction ‎ B．the car could go faster than four miles an hour ‎ C．they could make sure no one was in the way ‎ D．the car would not hit them on the road ‎61．In what way did the policemen carry out the order from their officers?‎ ‎ A．They greeted Rolls when the car came along.‎ ‎ B．They walked in front of the car with a red lamp.‎ ‎ C．They pretended to be attracted by something else.‎ ‎ D．They stood on duty every 1.5 miles along the road.‎ ‎62．The policeman who said “Good evening” to Rolls wanted to .‎ ‎ A．teach Rolls a lesson B．take a free ride home ‎ C．have a talk with Rolls D．have a car ride experience ‎63．After the policeman jumped into the car ,Rolls .‎ ‎ A．dared not drive the car faster than he was allowed to ‎ ‎ B．could drive as fast as he wished within a certain distance ‎ C．could drive on any road he liked for the rest of the journey ‎ D．drove his car as fast as he could down the hill to Cambridge 答案 60.B 61.C 62.D 63.B ‎【三】‎ We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over. A middle-aged policeman came up to the car and was really being troublesome at first. Lecturing us, he said, "You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?" Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. His way towards us totally changed. He asked, "Oh, so you boys are in a band (乐队)?" We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual broad questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it. Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Tim, you want to get out of this ‎ ticket, don't you?" Tim said, "Yes." So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn't know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Next thing we knew, the policeman was putting Tim in the back of the police car he had parked in front of us. With that, he threw the car into reverse(倒车), stopping a few feet in back of our car. Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn't know if we were all going to prison, or if the policeman was going to sell Tim on the black market or something. All of a sudden, the pollen's voice came over in a loudspeaker. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90.” Turns out, the policeman had told Tim that the only way he was getting out of the ticket was if he sang part of one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.‎ ‎56. The policeman stopped the boys to ______.‎ ‎ A. put them into prison B. give them a ticket ‎ C. enjoy their performance D. ask some band questions ‎ ‎57. The policeman became friendly to the boys when ha knew they ____‎ ‎ A. had long been at the band B. played the music he loved ‎ C. were driving for a show D. promised into a performance ‎ ‎58. The boys probably felt ______ when they drove off.‎ ‎ A, joyful B. calm C. nervous D. frightened ‎ 答案 56.B 57.C 58.A ‎【四】‎ Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.‎ I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.‎ I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christ-mas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their ‎ holidays meaningful.‎ Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership－a shop selling cars－was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.‎ ‎“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?” I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.‎ ‎“Thank you”－two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.‎ ‎60．The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City _______. ‎ A．to visit a friend B．to see his parents C．to pay or the cash register D．to have more gas for his car ‎61．The words “took off ” underlined in Paragraph 2 mean “________”.‎ A．turned off B．moved off C．put up D．set up ‎ ‎62．What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car? ‎ A．He had it pulled back to the gas station. ‎ B．The couple sent him a business card. ‎ C．The couple offered to help him. ‎ D．He called his friend for help.‎ ‎63．The battery of the author’s car was dead because _______. ‎ A．something went wrong with the lights B．the meeting lasted a whole day C．he forgot to turn off the lights D．he drove too long a distance ‎64．By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show _______. ‎ A．how to write a thank-you letter B．how to deal with car problems C．the kind-heartedness of older people D．the importance of expressing thanks 答案 60.A 61.B 62.C 63.C 64.D ‎【五】‎ My friend, Emma Daniels, spent the summer of 1974 traveling in Israel. During her month-long stay in Jerusalem she often went to a café called Chocolate Soup. It was run by two men, one of whom—Alex—used to live in Montreal. One morning when Emma went in for coffee, while chatting with her new friend Alex, she mentioned that she had just finished the book she was reading and had nothing else to read. Alex said he had a wonderful book she might like, and that he’d be happy to lend it to her. As he lived just above the café, he quickly ran up to get it. The book he handed to Emma just minutes later was Markings, a book by a former Secretary—General of the United Nations (UN).‎ Emma had never read it, nor had she ever bought a copy. But , when she opened it up, she was floored to see her own name and address inside the cover in her own handwriting(笔迹). It turned out that the summer before, at a concert back in Montreal, Emma had met a Californian who was in town visiting friends. They decided to exchange(交换)addresses, but neither of them had any paper. The man opened up a book he was carrying in his backpack(背包) and asked Emma to write her name and address inside. When he returned to California, he left the book behind in Montreal, and his friend Alex kept it. When Alex later moved to Jerusalem, he took the book along.‎ ‎41．Alex lent Emma the book, Markings, .‎ ‎ A．to show his friendliness to her ‎ B．to show his interest in reading ‎ C．to tell her about the importance of the UN ‎ D．to let her write her name and address inside ‎42．How did Emma feel the moment she opened the book?‎ ‎ A．Pleased. B．Satisfied. C．Worried. D．Surprised.‎ ‎43．We can learn from the text that the Californian .‎ ‎ A．met Emma at a concert ‎ B．invited Emma to a concert ‎ C．introduced Emma to his friend ‎ D．left Emma his backpack ‎44．Who was supposed to be the first owner of the book?‎ ‎ A．An official of the UN.‎ ‎ B．A coffee shop owner.‎ ‎ C．A friend of the author’s.‎ ‎ D．Alex’s friend from California.‎ 答案 41.A 42.D 43.A 44.D ‎【六】‎ When I learned that my 71-year-old mother was playing Scrabble — a word game — against herself, I knew I had to do something. My husband suggested we give her a computer to play against. ‎ I wasn’t sure my mother was ready for it After all, it had taken 15 years to persuade her to buy an electric cooker. Even so, we packed up our old computer and delivered it to my parents’ home . And so began my mother’s adventure in the world of computers.‎ It also marked the beginning of an unusual teaching task for me. I’ve taught people of all ages, but I never thought I would be teaching my mother how to do anything. She has been the one teach-‎ ing me all my life: to cook and sew: to enjoy the good times and put up with the bad. Now it was my turn to give something back.‎ It wasn’t easy at the beginning. There was so much to explain and to introduce. Slowly but surely, my mother caught on, making notes in a little notebook. After a few months of Scrabble ‎ and other games, I decided it was time to introduce her to word processing（文字处理）This proved to be a bigger challenge（挑战）to her, so I gave her some homework I asked her to write me a letter, using different letter types, colors and spaces.‎ ‎“Are you this demanding with your kindergarten pupils?” she asked.‎ ‎“No, of course not, ” I said. “They already know how to use a computer.”‎ My mother isn’t the only one experiencing a fast personal growth period. Thanks to the computer, my father has finally got over his phone allergy（过敏反应）. For as long as I can remember, any time I called, my mother would answer. Dad and I have had more phone conversations in the last two months than we’ve had in the past 20 years.‎ ‎49．What does the author do?‎ ‎ A．She is a cook. B．She is a teacher.‎ ‎ C．She is a housewife. D．She is a computer engineer.‎ ‎50．The author decided to give her mother a computer .‎ ‎ A．to let her have more chances to write letters ‎ B．to support her in doing her homework ‎ C．to help her through the bad times ‎ D．to make her life more enjoyable ‎ ‎51．The author asked her mother to write her a letter .‎ ‎ A．because her mother had stopped using the telephone ‎ B．because she wanted to keep in touch with her mother ‎ C．so that her mother could practice what she had learned ‎ D．so that her mother could be free from housework ‎ ‎52．After the computer was brought home, the author’s father .‎ ‎ A．lost interest in cooking ‎ B．took more phone calls ‎ C．played more games ‎ D．began to use it ‎ 答案 49.B 50.D 51.C 52.B ‎【七】‎ I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it were yesterday: “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”‎ AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father’s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.‎ We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher’s words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.‎ I did not share my burden (负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.‎ I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret. I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.‎ I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn’t want to call attention to AIDS. I do.‎ ‎60. What does Kerrel tell us about her father?‎ ‎ A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.‎ ‎ B. He depended on the nurses in his final days.‎ ‎ C. He worked hard to pay for his medication.‎ ‎ D. He told no one about his disease.‎ ‎61. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?‎ ‎ A. Kerrel couldn’t understand her teacher.‎ ‎ B. Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing.‎ ‎ C. Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson.‎ ‎ D. Kerrel was too tired to bear her teacher’s words.‎ ‎62. Why did Kerrel keep her father’s disease a secret?‎ ‎ A. She was afraid of being looked down upon.‎ ‎ B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.‎ ‎ C. She found no one willing to listen to her.‎ ‎ D. She wanted to obey her mother.‎ ‎63. Why did Kerrel write the passage?‎ ‎ A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father.‎ ‎ B. To show how little people knew about AIDS.‎ ‎ C. To draw people’s attention to AIDS.‎ ‎ D. To remembered her father.‎ 答案 60.D 61.C 62.A 63.C ‎【八】‎ Scientific experiments can sometimes go wrong and when they do the results may range from the disastrous to the troubling. One such experiment took place in South America about fifty years ago. Whether its final consequences will cause serious damage or nothing more than a small trouble still remains to be seen.‎ ‎ The story began in 1956 when an American scientist working in Brazil decided to solve the problem of increasing the productivity of that country's bees. He imported a very active type of African bee from Tanzania and mated (交配) it with the more easy-going native variety to produce a new kind of bees. The new bees worked harder and produced twice as much honey. It seemed that Professor Kerr, for that was the scientist's name, had a total success on his hands.‎ ‎ Then things began to go wrong. For some reason as yet unseen, but perhaps as a result of something in their environment, the new bees began to develop extremely attacking personalities. They became bad-tempered and easy to be angry, attacked the native bees and drove them from their living places.‎ ‎ But worse was to follow. Having taken over the countryside, the new bees, with their ‎ dangerous stings (叮) , began to attack its neighbours -- cats, dogs, horses, chickens and finally man himself. A long period of terror began that has so far killed a great number of animals and about 150 human beings.‎ ‎ This would have been bad enough if the bees had stayed in Brazil. But now they are on the move, heading northwards in countless millions towards Central and North America, and moving at the alarming speed of 200 miles a year. The countries that lie in their path are naturally worried because it looks as if nothing can be done to stop them.‎ ‎56. The results of the South American experiment .‎ ‎ A. have caused a serious trouble ‎ B. have proved to be wrong ‎ C. are not yet certain ‎ D. are not important ‎57. The experiment mentioned in this passage was designed to .‎ ‎ A. increase the amount of honey in Brazil ‎ B. make Brazilian bees more easy-going ‎ C. increase the number of bees in Brazil ‎ D. make African bees less active ‎58. Which of the following may be the cause of the new bees' attacking personalities?‎ ‎ A. Their production of honey.‎ ‎ B. Their hard work.‎ ‎ C. Their living environment.‎ ‎ D. Their bad temper.‎ ‎59. The last paragraph implies that .‎ ‎ A. the bees have been driven to Central and North America ‎ B. the bees may bring about trouble in more countries ‎ C. the bees must be stopped from moving north ‎ D. the bees prefer to live in Brazil 答案 56.C 57.A 58.C 59.B ‎【九】‎ He's an old cobbler (修鞋匠) with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: “I haven't time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street ; he'll fix them for you right away.”‎ ‎ But I'd had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman (手艺人). “No,” I replied, “the other fellow can't do it well.”‎ ‎ “The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “while-U-wait” -- without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, andwhen they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) you might as well just throw away the pair.‎ ‎ My man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron ( 围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week.”‎ ‎ I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.‎ ‎ “See what I can do?” he said with pride. “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work.. ”‎ ‎ When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.‎ ‎ These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old, way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.‎ ‎60. Which of the following is true about the old cobbler.'?‎ ‎ A. He was equipped with the best repairing tools.‎ ‎ B. He was the only cobbler in the Marais.‎ ‎ C. He was proud of his skills.‎ ‎ D. He was a native Parisian.‎ ‎61. The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend.” ( paragraph 7 ) implies that ‎ ‎ A. nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him ‎ B. it was difficult to communicate with this man ‎ C. the man was very strange ‎ D. the man was too old ‎62. According to the author, many people work just to .‎ ‎ A. realize their abilities ‎ B. gain happiness ‎ C. make money ‎ D. gain respect ‎63. This story wants to tell us that .‎ ‎ A. craftsmen make a lot of money ‎ B. whatever you do, do it well ‎ C. craftsmen need self-respect ‎ D. people are born equal 答案 60.C 61.A 62.C 63.B ‎【十】‎ When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess(公主)in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practice my lines. But once onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator’s(解说者的) part for the play, and asked me to change roles. Though I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day, she sensed my unhappiness and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.‎ It was a lovely spring day .We could see dandelions(蒲公英)popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I am going to dig up all these weeds,” she said. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”‎ ‎“But I like dandelions,” I protested. “All flowers are beautiful—even dandelions!”‎ My mother looked at me seriously. “ Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is true of people, too,” she added.‎ When I realized that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth.‎ ‎ “But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her.‎ Over the next few weeks, with her continuous encouragement, I learned to take pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a dandelion. After the play, I took home the flower, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.‎ ‎56．The girl did not play the role of the princess mainly because .‎ ‎ A．she felt nervous on the stage ‎ B．she lost her interest in that role ‎ C．she preferred the role of the narrator ‎ D．she had difficulty memorizing her words ‎57．Why did the mother suggest a walk in the garden?‎ ‎ A．To remove the dandelions ‎ B．To enjoy the garden scene.‎ ‎ C．To have a talk with her daughter.‎ ‎ D．To help her daughter with the play.‎ ‎58．What is the main idea of the story?‎ ‎ A．Everybody can find his or her own way to success.‎ ‎ B．Everybody has his or her own value in the world.‎ ‎ C．Everybody should learn to play different roles.‎ ‎ D．Everybody has some unforgettable memory.‎ 答案 56.A 57.C 58.B