南通市通州区 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮学生自练题【二】

南通市通州区 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮学生自练题【二】

只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 1 南通市通州区 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮学生自练题【二】 阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C 和 D) 中, 选出最佳选项。 Canadian women have a long tradition of contributing to the arts as writers，visual artists and musicians.By the 20th century careers in many fields were opening up to more women，and writers and artists such as Gabrielle Roy are part of an important tradition in Canadian life. Gabrielle Roy's early determination to become a writer led to a great success and a very long list of books to her reputation.Gabrielle had to work hard at school.The money she won for her final examination results paid for her first year at the Winnipeg Normal Institute.In 1929， when her father died，she began to teach school and continued to teach and to contribute her wages to her family until 1937. While living in Paris and London，Gabrielle Roy began her career as a writer.In 1943 she wrote a series of articles on the poor in Montreal which formed the basis for her first novel，The Tin Flute ，published in 1945. The publication of The Tin Flute established Roy's credit as a novelist and provided her with greater financial security than she had ever known. Over the next 20 years she published one book after another.She won the Governor General's Award in 1955 for Street of Riches.Roy also wrote two volumes of stories for children，Ma Vache Bossie published in 1976，and Courts Queue in 1979.Between these years，she published her last novel Children of My Heart，which spoke of her love for children. Before she died in 1983 Gabrielle wrote an autobiography, Enchantment and Sorrow，which was published in 1984.Although she wrote in French，her works were frequently translated into English (and many other languages as well)，ensuring that they would leave an enduring(持久 的)mark on the cultural life of her country. 1．________made a basis for Gabrielle's success as a novelist. A．The Tin Flute B．Street of Riches C．Courts Queue D. Enchantment and Sorrow 答案：A 细节理解题。根据第四段的“The publication of The Tin Flute established Roy's credit as a novelist...”可知，答案为 A 项。 2．Which of the followings shows the RIGHT time order of Gabrielle's experience? a．She worked at school. b．She began her career as a writer. c．She expressed her love for children. d．She won the Governor General's Award. A．a，b，d，c B．a，c，b，d C．b，c，d，a D．b，d，c，a 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 2 答案：A 推理判断题。a 的时间为 1929 年；b 为 1937—1943 年间；c 为 1976—1979 年间；d 为 1955 年。故选 A 项。 3．What CANNOT be inferred about Gabrielle? A．She suffered economic hardship during school years. B．She was unhappy and bored while teaching at school. C．She has won respect not only in Canada. D．She has had a big influence on Canadian 答案：B 细节理解题。根据第二段的“Gabrielle had to work hard at school.The money she won for her final examination results paid for her first year...”可知，A 项表述正确；根据最后一段 的“...her works were frequently translated into English(and many other languages as well)．..” 可知，C 项表述正确；根据最后一段的“...they would leave an enduring(持久的)mark on the cultural life of her country.”可知，D 项表述正确。B 项文中没有提及。 4．What will probably be talked about after the sixth paragraph? A．Another Canadian woman. B．Canadian man's contributions. C．A Canadian woman musician. D．Gabrielle's achievement in the art. 答案：D 推理判断题。文章第一段提到“...writers and artists such as Gabrielle Roy are part of an important tradition in Canadian life.”，接下来各段介绍了加布里耶拉在文学上的成就，由此 可知，下面应该就是介绍加布里耶拉作为艺术家所取得的成就。 【2014 高考英语综合能力测试题】 One in three Americans get news through Facebook, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. "People go to Facebook mainly to share personal moments - and they discover "the news almost incidentally," Amy Mitchell, director of journalism research at Pew, said in a statement. The survey is the first part of a series of studies that the Pew Research Center, together with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is conducting to examine social media and news consumption. The study said that about two-thirds of all U.S. adults use Facebook, the world's largest social media site which displays a platform wh8ere people and publishers can share news. Only 4 percent of Facebook news consumers said the platform is the most important way they obtain their news. 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 3 Social media is playing an increasingly important role in how people find news. The trend is growing especially among young people who prefer to get news through platforms like Twitter or Facebook rather than through traditional forms of print or broadcast television. In an earlier study, Pew found that 34 percent of people aged 18-24 get news through social media compared with 10 percent of adults between the ages of 50 and 64. The current Pew study found that adults aged 18-29 account for a third of Facebook news consumers. Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn are all experimenting with ways to aggregate and share news as a way to keep people coming back to their platforms. On Monday, Facebook said that traffic to publishers' sites increased by 170 percent through the past year. Facebook users are not discriminating when it comes to the source of news - 70 percent click on news stories because of interest in the topic. Only 20 percent said they read a story based on the news organization. 31. What can we learn from this passage? A. Facebook is popular in the world. B. Old people are familiar with Facebook. C. Facebook is the main source of news. D. People happen to discover the news on Facebook. 32. What's the main purpose for people to use Facebook? A. To make friends. B. To discover news. C. To do journalism research. D. To share private moments. 33. What is the purpose of the survey in this passage? A. To show American young people's interests. B. To examine social media and news consumption. C. To introduce Facebook to people all over the world. D. To tell us that there are many kinds of news platforms. 34. What is TRUE about the social media? A. Social media is a popular way for the young people to get news. B. More adults than teenagers consume news from social media. 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 4 C. Print and broadcast television are the main ways for the young to get news. D. The news consumers are also the news providers in traditional social media. 35. Which of the following interests the Facebook users most? A. The structure of the news. B. The topics of news stories. C. The characters of news stories. D. The sources of news stories. 【参考答案】31-35 DDBAB 美国的 Pew 研究中心对 Facebook 进行了调查，脸谱网站有不同年龄层次的使用者，他们上网的目的和兴趣 有所不同。 31. D。细节理解题。根据第二段的...they discover the news almost incidentally...可知答案。 32. D。细节理解题。根据第二段的 People go to Facebook mainly to share personal moments...可知 答案。 33. B。细节理解题。根据第三段的...is conducting to examine social media and news consumption. 可知答案。 34. A。细节理解题。根据第五段的 Social media is playing an increasingly important role in how people find news.可以判断。 35. B。推理判断题。根据最后一段的...70 percent click on news stories because of interest in the topic.可以得知。 【四川省资阳市 2014 模拟】D 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。 Dear David, I’m glad you would like to share your feelings with me. It’s hardly surprising that your feelings of not being “grown up” have come on strongly at this point in your life, just before you’re about to become a father. You are asking: will I make a good father? How will I cope? Should I have brought another little person into the world? Can I provide for it? Heeelp! I think nearly every sensitive about-to-be-parent must have these occasional feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy (不适) before the birth and it would be most unusual if you didn’t share them. It’s difficult, honestly, to feel grown-up unless you have something less grown-up to relate to. A hen-pecked (惧内的) boss may feel like a seven-year-old when he’s at home. But as he walks 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 5 through the office door, and knows he’s going to be surrounded by staff looking to him for advice, he grows into a fully mature man. And I think it’s a mistake to imagine that we all feel, as we age, a kind of progression of states, from the baby to the adult. Most people feel, on Tuesday, about three years old, and on a Wednesday, around 80. I remember feeling very grown-up at eight, a time when I was weighed down with responsibility. These days, much older, I can, in the company of people I feel at ease with, feel like a young girl. There’s a common remark that “all men are little boys”, but it’s not true. It’s more true that men often behave like little boys. But nearly all people, at some moments in their lives, are capable of great maturity. Once your baby arrives, you’ll soon feel less childlike, or rather, less often. When your child tries to put its fingers into the electric plug, the adult in you will rise up to prevent it. You’ll see you have very little in common with a needy child, particularly if it’s looking to you for comfort and support. Comfort yourself, David, with two truths. One is that your friends laugh when they talk about this subject because they, like you, feel frightened. And remember that people who haven’t grown up don’t go around talking about the fact that they don’t feel grown-up. Hope my advice will be helpful and good luck to you and your little one. Sincerely Yours, Miss Advice 43. According to the passage, Miss Advice thinks David’s self-doubt ______. A. valuable B. natural C. unusual D. bearable 44. From Paragraph 2, we can learn that people’s sense of maturity ______. A. will increase with age B. is obviously seen at home C. changes with different situations D. becomes stronger with familiar people 45. Miss Advice holds that ______. A. all men behave like little boys B. people tend to laugh at the subject C. men with a baby feel more grown-up D. people enjoy talking about their immaturity 46. Miss Advice wrote the letter to ______. A. teach people how to grow up B. offer suggestions to a future father C. encourage people to be responsible 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 6 D. solve problems of the less grown-up 【参考答案】43—45、BCC 46、B 【四川省资阳市 2014 模拟】E 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。 The extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound (白蚁堆). Architect Mick Pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the Eastgate Building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. The building — the country’s largest commercial and shopping complex — uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building of its size. The Eastgate’s owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning plant didn’t have to be imported. The complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium (天 井) open to the air. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents (通风口). As it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys. During summer’s cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the empty floors. By day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building, to circulate the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. For winter days, there are small heaters in the vents. This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little dampness and rapid temperature swings — days as warm as 31℃ commonly drop to 14℃ at night. “You couldn’t do this in New York, with its fantastically hot summers and fantastically cold winters,” Pearce said. The engineering firm of Ove Arup & Partners monitors daily temperatures. It is found that the temperature of the building has generally stayed between 23℃ and 25℃, with the exception of the annual hot period just before the summer rains in October and three days in November, when a doorkeeper accidentally switched off the fans at night. And the air is fresh — far more so than in air-conditioned buildings, where up to 30% of the air is recycled. 47. Why was Eastgate cheaper to be built than a conventional building? A. It was designed in a smaller size. B. No air conditioners were fixed in. 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 7 C. Its heating system was less advanced. D. It used rather different building materials. 48. What does the underlined “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. Fresh air from outside. B. Heat in the building. C. Hollow space. D. Baseboard vent. 49. Why wouldn’t a building like Eastgate work efficiently in New York? A. New York has less clear skies as Harare. B. Its dampness affects the circulation of air. C. New York covers a larger area than Harare. D. Its temperature changes seasonally rather than daily. 50. The data in the last paragraph suggests Eastgate’s temperature control system ______. A. allows a wide range of temperatures B. functions well for most of the year C. can recycle up to 30% of the air D. works better in hot seasons 【参考答案】47—50、BADB 【天津市 2014 高考英语六校第三次联考试题】A 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Let’s pay a visit to some of the most amazing and unusual places in the world, from icy hotels to temples on the side of cliffs(悬崖). Hotel de Glace — Canada If you don’t mind the cold, this igloo(冰屋) style hotel is certainly for you. Nearly everything, including the bedding, is made of ice! This hotel is so well insulated(隔热) that whatever the temperature outside is, the temperature inside never changes more than a few degrees. It’s around 23 degrees to be exact. Since it is made of ice the hotel does have some dress requirements that can be found on their website. Arctic sleeping bags are provided for every guest, including children. For more information, visit the website: http://21世纪教育网icehotelcanada.com. The Tigers Nest Monastery — Bhutan Built directly onto a cliff side, this ancient temple has claimed its spot since 1692. Rich in history, Tigers Nest is constructed around eight attractive caves on the mountainside. Most of the caves are easy to reach through the natural rock stairways. However, some are more difficult, 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 8 and can only be reached by shaky rope bridges. Visit the website http://21世纪教育网 bhutantouroperators.net/taktsang-monastery.php for more information. Dinosaur Provincial Park — Canada Known to be one the greatest fossil locations in the world, Dinosaur Provincial Park has nearly 500 specimens (标本) in all shapes and sizes. The park itself has a vast collection of fossils and a unique natural ecosystem. For more information, please visit http://tpr.alberta.ca/parks/dinosaur/index.aspx. Leshan Giant Buddha — Sichuan China The world’s largest Buddha sits on the edge of two great rivers. Construction is believed to have started around the year 713, and at the time of this construction it was the tallest carved statue in the world. All 233 feet of the stature was carved from the surrounding cliffs and preserved in amazing condition. Even the 2008 earthquake was not enough to shake it. Its website http://yeschinatour.com/china-guides/china-attractions leshan-giant-buddha-leshan will provide you with more information. 36. Which of the following is NOT true about Hotel de Glace? A. It lies in the Arctic. B. Even the bedding is made of ice. C. Every guest is provided with sleeping bags. D. You can visit its website for dress requirements. 37. Which of the following websites can give information about the Tigers Nest? A. http://yeschinatour.com/china-guides/china-attractions leshan-giant-buddha-leshan B. http://21世纪教育网icehotelcanada.com C. http://tpr.alberta.ca/parks/dinosaur/index.aspx. D. http://21世纪教育网bhutantouroperators.net/taktsang-monastery.ph 38. If John is interested in fossils, he can pay a visit to ______. A. Leshan Giant Buddha — Sichuan China B. Hotel de Glace — Canada C. The Tigers Nest Monastery — Bhutan D. Dinosaur Provincial Park — Canada 39. This passage is mainly to tell us about ______. A. four different constructions in the world B. some popular hotels in Canada C. four unusual places in the world D. all kinds of parks in Europe 40. The passage is probably taken from a magazine on ______. A. politics B. environment C. education D. travel 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 9 【参考答案】36—40 ADDCD