山西壶关县 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮编选（五）

山西壶关县 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮编选（五）

只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 1 山西壶关县 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮编选（五） 【由江西省吉安一中 2014 模拟改编】 阅读理解。阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 To Whom It May Concern: Your address was forwarded to us by How to Magazine. All of us here think The International Institute of Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world. You know how to avoid unnecessary activities! As a matter of fact, we closely followed the advice in your article. First, we replaced all our telephones with carrier pigeons. Simply removing the jingle of telephones and replacing them with the pleasant sounds of birds has had a remarkable effect on everyone. Besides, birds are cheaper than telephone service. After all, we are a business. We have to think of the bottom line. As a side benefit, the birds also fertilize the lawn outside the new employees’ sauna(桑拿房). Next, we sold the computers off to Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty, a firm of lawyers nearby. Our electricity bill went way down. Big savings! The boss is impressed. We have completely embraced paper technology. Now that we all use pencils, doodling is on the increase, and the quality of pencil woman ship is impressive, as you can tell from my handwriting in this letter. By the way, if you can, please send this letter back to us. We can erase and reuse it. Just tie it to Maggie’s leg and she’ll know where to take it. Now it’s very calm and quiet here. You can notice the difference. No more loud chatter on the telephones! All we hear is the scratching of pencil on paper, the sound of pigeons, and the delivery of inter-office correspondence by paper airplane. Wonderful! I’ve always wanted to work for an insurance company ever since I was a little girl. Now it’s perfect. Sincerely yours, Eleanor Lightly Spokeswoman and Company Hair Stylist ABC Activity Insurance: insure against overdoing it 1. Which of the following best describes the life the author is leading? A. A simple, slow-paced life. B. A life of hard work and security. C. A religious, peasant-like life. D. A life away from paper and pencils. 2. Where is Eleanor’s letter sent to? A. How To Magazine. B. ABC Activity Insurance Company. C. Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty Law Firm. D. The International Institute of Not Doing Much. 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 2 3. Which of the following is practiced in the author’s company? A. Replacing the manual work system with modern technology. B. Turning off lights in the daytime to save electricity. C. Recycling paper resources whenever possible. D. Buying birds and pets as company for the staff. 4. What is true about Maggie? A. She works as a manager in the author’s company. B. She sometimes helps fertilize the lawn outside the sauna. C. She often helps with inter-office correspondence using e-mail. D. Her handwriting has improved a lot after entering the company. 5. What is the purpose for the person to write this letter? A. to show his dissatisfaction with the new environment. B. to complain about the bad working condition. C. to persuade people to live a simple life. D. to express his gratitude for the good advice. 【参考答案】1---5、ADCBD 2016 高考模拟题。阅读理解。 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。 Who won China’s first gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics? It was Li Jianrou. The 27-year-old finished first in the women’s 500m short track speed skating on Feb 13. The race was full of drama. Three athletes fell over because of an accident caused by Elise Christie of Britain in the second turn and Li became the surprise winner. Three-time defending champion Wang Meng of China missed the Olympics after breaking her ankle last month. Li had little experience in the race, where getting off to a quick Start is important. But she kept her cool while everyone else was falling around her. “I feel very lucky,” Li said through a translator. She and one of her coaches cried tears of joy after China joined South Korea as the only countries to win the same short track event four Olympics in a row. The Koreans won the 3,000 relay in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. “I cried because I was so excited,” Li said. “My coach told me this medal is for Wang Meng as well, so I felt very moved.” 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 3 Li’s victory made up for the surprising fall of teammate Fan Kexin in the semifinals. In the semis, Fan didn’t even complete the first lap of the race, catching her left blade（冰刀）as she skated near the front. She crashed on all fours into the crew of workers who maintain the ice between races. They climbed onto the top of the pads to avoid being injured by Fan’s long, sharp blades. Arianna Fontana of Italy took the silver and Park Seung-hi of South Korea earned the bronze. 1. Who made a mistake causing three athletes to fall over in the final? A. Li Jianrou B. Elise Christie C. Arianna Fontana D. Fan Kexin 2. Which country won the women’s 500m short track event 4 Olympics in a row as well as China? A. Italy B. Japan C. Britain D. South Korea 3. Which statement below is tree according to the passage? A. Li Jianrou won China’s first gold medal at Winter Olympics. B. Wang Meng missed the Olympics because of an injury. C. Fan Kexin was injured by long, sharp blades. D. South Korea ranked second in the event. 参考答案 1—3、B DB 【2015 高考复习】阅读理解 “Tiger Mother”parenting raises media storm.A new book written by a selfdescribed Chinese descent(血统)on her superstrict parenting—Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has raised media storm and fierce debates in the U．S. Amy Chua is a Yale Law School professor and the mother of two teenage girls.She is the daughter of immigrants of Chinese descent.In the Chinese culture，the tiger symbolizes strength and power.In her book Ms.Chua writes about how she demanded excellence from her daughters.For example，her daughters，Sophia and Louisa，were never allowed to attend a sleepover，be in a school play， watch TV or play computer games.They couldn't choose their own afterclass activities or get any grade less than an A．They had to play piano or violin—and no other musical instruments.She writes that if a Chinese child gets a B—which she says“would never happen”—there would be“a screaming，hairtearing explosion”．She describes making her 7yearold daughter play a piano piece perfectly—yelling and not letting her leave the bench even to use the bathroom—until it was. Many people have criticized Chua.Some say her parenting methods were abusive.She even admits that 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 4 her husband，who is not Chinese，objects to her parenting style.But she says that was the way her parents raised her and her three sisters. Stacy DeBroff，who has written four books about parenting，says Amy Chua's parenting style is not limited to Chinese families.She says it represents a traditional way of parenting among immigrants seeking a better future for their children.But she also sees a risk.When children have no time to be social or to follow their own interests，they might not develop other skills that they need to succeed in life.Stacy DeBroff advised parents not to just repeat the way they were raised. Alison Lo，an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Washington's Bothell campus said，“I don't think Amy is advocating a best practice of parenting style，or that success and achievements are critical yardsticks(衡量标准)of a good life.But I can imagine how strong her daughters' college applications are going to be.For many parents whose dreams are seeing their kids graduating from a competitive university，Amy is sharing with the readers that it is achievable by persistent，dedicated parental guidance，”Lo said in an interview with Julie Muhlstein，a columnist with the USbased Heraldnet.com. “In that sence，a young adult's giftedness can be born，or made，”Lo continued. 【语篇解读】 耶鲁大学华裔教授 Amy Chua 的新书《虎妈战歌》成为美国人热议的话题，她提出的“中国 式”严苛教子方法引发了巨大争议。 1．According to the passage，which is TRUE of Amy Chua? A．She is an easygoing woman. B．She is an assistant professor. C．She is a demanding parent. D．She is a cruel teacher. 解析 推理判断题。由文章第二段“In her book Ms.Chua writes about how she demanded excellence from her daughters.”及其后她对孩子的苛刻要求的“几个不准”、孩子自己的“几个不能”以及成绩总是 A 等，足见其为一个“苛求的”人，即 demanding。 答案 C 2．Which of the following are Sophia and Louisa allowed to do? A．Playing the piano. B．Playing the guitar. C．Dating with boys. D．Getting an A minus. 解析 细节理解题。文章第二段“They had to play piano or violin—and no other musical instruments.”很清楚地表明答案为 A。 答案 A 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 5 3．Stacy DeBroff advised parents to________. A．seek a better future for their children B．develop their own style of parenting C．be strict with their children D．follow Amy Chua's parenting style 解析 细节理解题。由文章倒数第三段末尾“Stacy DeBroff advised parents not to just repeat the way they were raised.”可以得出答案为 B。 答案 B 4．Alison Lo concluded that________. A．persistent，dedicated parental guidance is the best parenting style B．parents should respect children's personalities C．a gifted child was born with talent D．a teenager can be raised to be talent by strict parenting 解析 推理判断题。文章末尾句：“In that sense，a young adult's giftedness can be born，or made.”“从 这个意义上讲，年轻人的天赋可以是天生的，也可以通过后天严格的教养而激发”，故 D 项正确。A 项与原 文意思 achievable“有成就的”有出入，文中并无信息表明“persistent，dedicated parental guidance” 是“最好的”。 答案 D 【2015 高考复习】阅读理解 Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making a polite conversation with an Ethiopian (埃 塞俄比亚的) teenager about her wedding day.The 16yearold had already been married for a year.“She looked at me with the saddest eyes and said，‘I had to drop out of school，’ ” Robinson said in a telephone interview.“That conveyed to me the reality，” said Robinson，the first woman to serve as Ireland’s president and former U．N.High Commissioner for Human Rights.“Her life， as far as she is concerned，had more or less ended.” Robinson said keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to address the coming challenges of an everincreasing population，predicted by the United Nations to reach 7 billion soon.“European countries are concerned about aging populations， but this is much less of an issue than the huge number of people which we are going to see over the next 40 years when the population goes from 7 billion to 9 billion，”she said.“Almost all of that increase will be in poor developing countries，so that we have a very big challenge.” Family planning experts worry in particular about the future population explosion in SubSaharan 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 6 Africa.In May，the United Nations projected the world population would reach 9.3 billion in 2050 and 10.1 billion by 2100.Much of that growth will come from Africa，where the population is growing at 2.3 percent a year—more than double Asia’s 1 percent growth rate.If that rate stays consistent， which is not certain，Africa’s population will reach 3.6 billion by 2100 from the present 1 billion. Joel Cohen，a professor of population studies at Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York，said universal secondary education offered a way to reduce population in high birth rate regions.In addition to providing information about birth control，a secondary education teaches women to reduce their own fertility，improve the health of their children and allows them to move from a mindset of having many children in the hope that some will survive to improve the quality of each child’s life，Cohen wrote in the journal Nature. 【语篇解读】 人口的快速增长困扰着世界。有关人士指出，控制人口快速增长的一种方式就是提高女性 的受教育水平，进而改变人们头脑中固有的传统生育观念。 1．In the first paragraph，the author introduces his topic by________. A．giving an example B．explaining the author’s opinions C．describing the poor education system D．coming straight to the topic 解析 篇章结构题。在本段中，作者以爱尔兰前总统 Mary Robinson 与埃塞俄比亚的一位已婚少女的交谈 为例引入话题，所以 A 项正确。 答案 A 2．What can we learn from the passage? A．Robinson is happy after talking to the Ethiopian girl. B．Robinson is a successful expert in population studies. C．Robinson is worried about the population growth. D．Robinson encourages female education. 解析 推理判断题。第二段引号中的内容提到“欧洲国家担心出现人口老龄化问题，但与人口快速增长相 比，这算不了什么。几乎所有的人口增长都发生在发展中国家，这将是一个巨大的挑战。”由此可推断她 担心的是人口增长问题。 答案 C 3．What is Joel Cohen’s view about secondary education? A．It provides basic knowledge of heahh. B．It reduces aging population. C．It makes people pay more attention to education. D．It can change people’s parenting ideas. 解析 推理判断题。由最后一段的最后一句可知，Joel Cohen 在《自然》杂志中写到中学教育可以改变人 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 7 们的育儿理念。 答案 D 4．According to the passage，the most important way to control high population growth is_____. A．let girls go away from Africa B．keep girls in school C．let young girls remain single D．keep girls in families 解析 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句前半部分中的内容可知，控制人口快速增长的最重要的方式之一是 让女孩儿上学。 答案 B