浙江省湖州市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮（暑假）精炼（16）含答案
阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）
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。
A
By the growing national Occupy Wall Street movement, hundreds of protesters moved through midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. They called this “Millionaires March”.
They marched two by two up the sidewalk, planning to pass the homes of some of New York City’s wealthiest people. They said they didn’t have a permit and didn’t want to lead the traffic jam.
“No Billionaire Left Behind,” said on a card that was written by Arlene Geiger, who teaches economics at Manhattan’s John Hay College of Criminal Justice.
New York’s 2 percent “millionaires’ tax” will last till this December. Protesters expressed they cared about how much less the wealthy would pay and who would get less money then. Protesters have been camped out for weeks in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street. They say they’re fighting for the “99 percent” of Americans who do not fall into the wealthiest 1 percent of population.
Their causes range from bringing down Wall Street to fighting global warning. The movement gained traction through social media, and has taken place in several other cities.
In Boston, hundreds of college students marched through downtown Boston on Monday and gathered on Boston Common, holding signs that read “Fund education, not corporations”. The protesters were angry with the education system. They said it was like “irresponsible, unaccountable, and unethical (不道德的) financial practices” of Wall Street.
And now, a lot more movements have taken places in some European countries.
1. What do you think of the “Millionaires March” in the passage?
A. It’s a name of the computer game.
B. It’s part of Occupy Wall Street movement.
C. It’s a book about millionaires in America.
D. It’s the name of a special day in America.
2. What are the protesters worried about?
A. The rich will pay less tax.
B. The rich will pay no tax.
C. The poor will get no money.
D. The poor will get no education.
3. What does the underlined word “traction” in the fifth paragraph mean in Chinese?
A. 宣传
B. 鼓励
C. 推动
D. 表扬
. What led the movement in Boston?
A. The economy system.
B. The education system.
C. The culture system.
D. The environmental problem.
BACB
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故事类[2012·重庆卷]
A
One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装)．
On September 11th, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying, “I promised you a gift, and here it is. ”What an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how much I loved it!
One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as “hopeless”， “pitiful”， and “dying”， which sounded ominous.
Christmas was coming. “Don't expect any presents this year，” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. “If your baby brother lives, that'll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. I'd never seen him cry before.
The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it.From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He's all right？” He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home！”
“Thank God！”
I heard Mum cry.
From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And
I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home.
I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!
56. What happened to the author on September 11th, 1958?
A. He got a baby brother.
B. He got a Christmas gift.
C. He became four years old.
D. He received a doll.
57. What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Impossible.
B. Boring.
C. Difficult.
D. Fearful.
58. Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?
A. Excitement.
B. Happiness.
C. Sadness.
D. Disappointment.
59. What is the passage mainly about?
A. A sad Christmas day.
B. Life with a lovely baby.
C. A special Christmas gift.
D. Memories of a happy family.
【要点综述】“我”四岁时母亲给了“我”一件特殊的圣诞礼物：人娃娃——我可爱的弟弟Richard。但后来Richard发高烧差点夭折，经医院抢救得生，这使我更加珍爱我的“人娃娃”。
56. A 细节理解题。虽然表面上是有了一个娃娃，但事实上是有了亲弟弟。
57. D 词义猜测题。从该句前半部分中的 “hopeless”， “pitiful”， and “dying”可知该词意思是“令人害怕的”。虽然其他三个词均表示消极含义，但只有fearful表示“我”害怕“弟弟”离“我”而去。
58. C 推理判断题。从第四段最后两句As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. I’d never seen him cry before.可知父亲感到十分伤心。
59. C 主旨大意题。第一段一开始便定义我的弟弟Richard是一件特殊的圣诞礼物。虽然弟弟Richard差点离我们而去，但后来还是得以平安回家，因此圣诞节并不悲惨。B和D选项外延过大，此段材料只是截取生活中的一个片段，并非整个和Richard一起生活的全部。
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B American Watersports
Tuesday--Saturday
Located on the beach of the Sea Gardens Beach Resort, there are fun things to rent for the whole family. They offer rentals for kayaks, jetskis, and even parasails! Enjoy the water upclose or from a bird's eye view! No matter what activity you're enjoying, be sure to protect yourself and your family from the sun's powerful rays and apply plenty of sun block!
15th Street Boat Company
Monday --Saturday
15th Street Boat Company offers rental boats of all kinds. They're sure to have what you are looking for, whether it's a small boat for a quick and simple outing or an extravagant(奢侈的) boat with comfortable seats with a stereo(立体声) and high tech navigation(导航). You can rent a boat for half a day, a couple days, or even weeks at a time. If you want it, they've got it. It's fun for everyone!
Coconut's Watersports
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Sunday
Coconuts Water Sports is open 7 days a week for your convenience and offers tons of water fun for the whole family. Jet ski activities last 30 minutes or 1 hour and can make stops along the way. You must be at least 14 years of age to ride alone and can be as young as 3 to ride along with an adult. Everybody is required to wear a life jacket and a license is required to operate the jet ski. Bathing suits and shorts are recommended.
Jet Ski(水上摩托)Tours of Miami
Thursday-Sunday 10 a.m.-7p.m.
Jet Ski Tours of Miami includes onsite parking, indoor restrooms, lockers, and life jackets for participants. You may choose a one or two hour tour and each jet ski can hold up to 3 people. You must be at least 18 years old in order to ride. As long as you are accompanied by an adult, there is no age limitation for any passenger. There is a restaurant nearby to eat at. The tour visits 6 different islands and passes by Bayside and Hard Rock. You may even catch a glimpse of dolphins playing or a manatee resting in these fabulous Florida waters.
5. What activity is convenient for the visitors to have lunch?
A. Jet Ski Tours of Miami
B. Coconut's Watersports
C.15th Street Boat Company
D. American Watersports
6 . To satisfy your son’s curiosity about marine animals, you ___________.
A. will rent a boat to ride with him.
B. prefer an extravagant boat with comfortable seats with a stereo.
C. would like to prefer American Watersports to Florida waters.
D. can choose the tour to Bayside and Hard Rock.
7. If you like to sail a boat, you can________.
A. go to the Sea Gardens Beach Resort
B. visit 15th Street Boat Company
C. choose Jet Ski Tours of Miami
D. go to Coconut’s Watersports
8. To ride alone in the jet ski activities, _____________.
A. you have to be at least 14 years old.
B. you can choose to wear a life jacket or not.
C. you must be over18 years old.
D. you have to be with parents.
ADBA
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C
A new factory that turns used wine bottles into green sand could revolutionize（彻底改革） the recycling industry and help to filter（过滤）the nation's drinking water.
For the last 100 years special high grade white sand quarried（开采）at Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire has been used to filter tap water to remove bacteria and impurities（杂质）—but this may no longer be necessary.
The green sand has already been successfully tested by water companies and is being used in 50 swimming pools in Scotland to keep the water clean.
Backed by one million pounds from the European Union and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a company based in Scotland is building a factory to turn drinking bottles back into the sand from which they were made.
The idea is not only to avoid using up increasingly scarce sand in Scotland and avoid any further quarrying but also to solve a crisis in the recycles only 750 000 tones of it.
Howard Dryden, the scientist and managing director of the company has spent six years working on what he calls Active Filtration Meadia, or AFM, the recycled glass. He says he needs bottles that have already contained drinkable liquids to be sure that drinking water would not be polluted.
"The fact is that tests show that AFM does the job better than glass, it is easier to clean and reuse and has all sorts of properties that make it ideal for other applications, "he claimed. He also thinks the market will be able to take 250 000 tones of green sand a year. The plan is to build five or six factories in cites in UK where the bottles come from to cut down on transport.
The factory will be completed this month and is expected to go into full production on January 14 next year. Once it is providing a "regular" product, the government's drinking water inspectorate will be asked to perform tests and approve it for general use by water companies.
9. According to the passage, the new idea can do the following except_____.
A. avoiding using up increasingly scarce sand
B. avoiding further quarrying of white sand
C. solving the crisis in the recycling industry
D. cutting down the cost on transport
10. Tests show that ______ in keeping the water clean.
A . AFM is more efficient than white sand
B. AFM is more efficient than glass
C. glass is more efficient than AFM
D. white sand is more efficient than green sand
11. The underlined word "Backed" in the third paragraph can best be replaced by"_____".
A. Allowed
B. Opposed
C. Supported
D. Forbidden
12. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Revolution in the Recycling for the Industry.
B. Modern Technology in New Markets.
C. Revolution in Environmental Protection.
D. Unlocking the Benefits of Green Sand.
DBCD
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D
People around the world watched Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. The royal wedding broke records for live streaming on the Internet. It also produced more than two million tweets on Twitter.
The ceremony took place Friday at Westminster Abbey in London.
Kate wore a flowing white gown designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander McQueen. William wore a red army uniform.
It was Britain’s biggest wedding since William and Harry’s parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, were married in nineteen eighty-one.
Nearly two thousand guests filled the church on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets and parks of London to watch the wedding on video screens.
Among the wedding guests were English football star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, British Prime Minister David Cameron, the king of Norway and singer Elton John.
Bahrain’s crown prince(皇储) was invited but decided not to attend because of unrest(骚乱) in his country. Britain took back an invitation to the ambassador（外交官）from Syria over violence against protesters there.
After the ceremony, the royal couple traveled to Buckingham Palace. Crowds cheered when the newlyweds appeared on a balcony greeting to them.
Later, William drove his wife out of Buckingham Palace in an open-top Aston Martin car. William and the newest member of the royal（皇家的）family will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Kate is twenty-nine years old. William will be twenty-nine in June. His grandmother is Queen Elizabeth. His father, Prince Charles, is first in line to become king. William, as the older son, is second in line. Kate would not become queen, however, since she is not in the royal blood line. There was a big celebration at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. That was where William and Kate first met as art history students in two thousand one.
13. The crown prince of Bahrain was absent from the grand British royal wedding because____.
A. his country was at a terrible situation
B. Britain hadn’t invited him
C. he refused to come to the wedding
D. he was faced with violence against protesters
14. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Singer Elton John attended the royal wedding.
B. The British Prime Minister was one of the wedding guests.
C. Kate is second in line to become queen.
D. William’s wife is known as Duchess of Cambridge.
15. It is implied in the passage that _____.
A. the royal wedding was broadcast live through TV and the Internet
B. the wedding has drawn attention of the world
C. the newlyweds were majored in history ten years ago
D. all the celebrities invited have attended the wedding
16. What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Royal Wedding Takes Place
B. Internet Craze about the Royal Wedding
C. Happy Newlyweds
D. Celebrities Attending the Royal Wedding
ACBA
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E
Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, etc.
For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between our expectations and meaning of the text. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.
Different people converse with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the pages; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for the advanced readers.
There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that has nothing to do with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as opposed to “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in reading. If we are advanced reader our ability to hold a content conversation with text is usually well developed but not so our ability to hold a process conversation. It is just this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.
17. As a kind of conversation between the reader and the text, it becomes conscious only when ______.
A. the reader has trouble understanding what the author says
B. the reader’s expectations agree with what is said in the text
C. the reader asks questions and gets answers
D. the reader understands a text very well
18. At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to ______.
A. read a text slowly
B. read without thinking hard
C. interpreting a text in their own way
D. concentrate on the meaning of words only
19. According to the writer, _________ is of great importance to readers.
A. balance of lower and higher levels of comprehension
B. the reader’s expectation or the meaning of a text
C. conscious or unconscious level of comprehension
D. translating criticizing or analyzing a text
20. If we want to develop our reading ability at an advanced level, we should _____.
A. pay more attention to the content of a texts
B. make our reading process more conscious
C. learn to use different ways in reading different texts
D. take a critical attitude towards the writer’s ideals
参考答案
ADAC
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