《阅读理解特训：3真2模含解析》2016届高三英语二轮突破54
阅读理解（共20小题；每小题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
Dutch treat is a late-nineteenth-century term, and it originally refers to a dinner where everyone is expected to pay for his own share of the food and drink. If people go “Dutch treat”, or simply “go Dutch”, it means that they will share the expenses of a social engagement.
There are many other “Dutch” expressions in English, many of which were invented in Britain in the seventeenth century, when the Dutch and the English were commercial and military rivals. The British used “Dutch” to refer to something bad, cheap and shameful. A “Dutch bargain” at that time was an uneven, one-sided deal; “Dutch reckoning” was an unitemized account; and “Dutch widow” was slang for prostitute. Later centuries brought in “Dutch courage”, for bravery induced by drink; “Dutch concert”, for discordant music; “Dutch nightingale”, meaning a frog; and “double Dutch”, for incomprehensible language, or unintelligible talk.
Some of the expressions are still in use today, but some are not. In fact, in American English, some “Dutch” expressions have nothing to do with the Dutch, but something with the German. It was probably because of the similar spelling and pronunciation that people made a mistake in distinguishing between “Dutch” and “Deutsch” (the German word for German), when German immigrants came to America in the 1700s. For instance, “the Pennsylvania Dutch” refers to the German descendants, instead of the Dutch descendants, living in Pennsylvania.
56. Many of the “Dutch” expressions were invented with derogatory (贬义) sense, because
A. The Dutch were underdeveloped people.
B .Britain and Holland were competitors at that time.
C. The Dutch had many bad habits.
D. The British were superior to the Dutch.
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据when the Dutch and the English were commercial and military rivals. 57. With the information you get from Paragraph 2, make a guess at the meaning of the sentence “You are in Dutch”. It probably means
A.You are in Holland.
B. You are welcome.
C. You are in trouble.
D. You are lucky.
【答案】C
【解析】句意猜测题。根据The British used “Dutch” to refer to something bad and shameful.Dutch指的是不好可耻的事情，所以这句应该理解为“你有麻烦了”，故选C。
58. According to the passage, some native American “Dutch” expressions were related to the German instead of the Dutch, simply because
A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch.
B.People made a mistake at the beginning.
C.People made a joke about the German.
D.The German immigrants proclaimed that they were Dutch.
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据It was probably because of the similar spelling and pronunciation that people made a mistake in distinguishing between “Dutch” and “Deutsch” (the German word for German),B
Gadgets(潮流装备)make study fun
Now in a world piled high with smart phones, tablets (平板电脑)and e-readers, technology has entered the classroom in ways unimaginable. Taking classes can be fun too. All you have to do is swipe your fingers on your phone screen and download some apps (应用程序),which can make your study more fun and efficient .Balancing study and play in a college setting has never been easy and with the following few apps, it’ll be tough to tell the two apart．
Ever note
Use: note-taking Can be used on: iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry, Palm OS and Windows,Phone 7 price :free
If you take notes to stay organized，then Evernote is for you. The main thing about Evernote is that all of your notes are automatically sent into the cloud-and then you can access them from any web-connected computer via the Evernote app or a web browser(浏览器). Evernote also supports audio and photo notes-rather handy if you want to record your lecture or take photos of any projected notes. But, of course, ask for permission first.
Wikipanion
Use: research database Can be used on: iPhone/iPad/iPodtouch
Price :free (Wikipanion Plus for$4.99,or 31.87yuan )
Now you don’t necessarily have to go to a library or anywhere with computer services to do research work for your paper anymore. You can get access to the research databases just onyour smart phone or tabler.
Conquering Bilingual News Listening in 7Days
Use: English learning application
Can be used on:iPhone/iPad/iPodtouch
Price: For a limited time you can get the App for only $0.99—half price.
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59.The purpose of this passage is to___________________．
A. make your study more fun and efficient
B. introduce some apps used on gadgets
C advertise high-tech teaching ways
D. develop new application programs
【答案】B
【解析】写作意图题。根据短文的内容可知这是介绍了一些应用程序，故选B。60.Which app can save you from the research work in the library?
A. Evernote
B. Wikipanion
C. Conquering Bilingual News Listening in 7Day
D. Smartphone
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据Now you don’t necessarily have to go to a library or anywhere with computer services to do research work for your paper anymore. 现在，你不必再为了写论文，而前往图书馆或者任何一个提供上网服务的地方去做研究功课了。Wikipanion维基百科阅读伴侣61.According to the passage, we can know that________．
A. the three apps all support audio and photo forms．
B. college study is undoubtedly full of ease and fun
C. college students used to do research workin the library or via computers
D. students can record lectures and send them to the cloud without permission
【答案】C
【解析】推理判断题。根据Now you don’t necessarily have to go to a library or anywhere with computer services to do research work for your paper anymore. You can get access to the research databases just onyour smart phone or tabler. 现在，你不必再为了写论文，而前往图书馆或者任何一个提供上网服务的地方去做研究功课了。你可以直接在自己的智能手机或平板电脑进入（学术研究）的数据库。62.Which of the following is true about the apps?
A. They can only be used on smart phones.
B. Evermote and Wikipanion Plus are free.
C. Evermote can merely be used on a computer.
D. They improve learning efficiency and pleasure.
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据which can make your study more fun and efficient .C
About a third of all common cancers in the United States, China and Britain could be prevented each year if people ate healthier food, drank less alcohol and exercised more, health experts said on Friday.
Reports from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) suggest that making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers alone in Britain and the United States, as well as tens of thousands of stomach cancers.
“Even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through keeping a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,” said a WCRF medical and scientific adviser.
WCRF findings are supported by World Health Organization (WHO) reports, which say regular exercise can prevent many diseases such as cancers and heart diseases.
Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world and its incidence(发病率) is rising. Each year around 12.7 million people discover they have cancer and 7.6 million people die from some form of the disease. There are about 200 known types of cancer.
Rachel Thompson, the WCRF’s head of science, said that while the message was simple — that not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help ward off many cancers — it was still a difficult one to get across.
The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.
Peter Baldini, head of the World Lung Foundation, also called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes. Tobacco kills millions of smokers every year, and tobacco-related lung cancers also kill hundreds of thousands of people who don’t smoke but have been exposed to it second-hand.
“There isn’t a magic bullet to cure all forms of cancer, but we have the opportunity and the duty to protect people from developing cancer wherever possible,” Baldini said.
63. Which of the following words can best take the place of the phrase “ward off” in the sixth
paragraph?
A. protect
B. prevent
C. develop
D. cure
【答案】B
【解析】词义猜测题。根据not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can helpmany cancers可以推测是不吸烟，吃好的食物及有一个健康的体重有助于阻止癌症的发生，故选B。
64. Which of the following statements is Not true according to the text?
A. Exercising and eating healthily can help to reduce cancer risk.
B. Each year about 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer around the world.
C. Every year millions of people die from smoking and lung cancers.
D. Adults should walk for fifty minutes three times per week.
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.65. Which of the following can be the best title of this text?
A. Simple life changes could stop millions of cancers
B. Cancer is a leading cause of death
C. Our bad lifestyle caused many diseases
D. The incidence of common cancers is rising
【答案】A
【解析】标题归纳题。根据making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers66. By writing the passage, the author mainly intends to ____.
A. advise people to develop healthier lifestyle.
B. warn people of the danger of cancers
C. explain why many people die from cancers every year.
D. introduce the ways to protect people from developing cancers
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据短文的内容可知主要建议人们发展健康的生活，故选A。67. We can infer from Peter Baldini’s opinion in the last two paragraphs that ____.
A. all the lung cancers are linked to smoking
B. there is no medicine to cure the cancers but it’s our duty to find one
C. all governments should take measures to control smokers and protect people’s health
D. it’s our opportunity and duty to persuade people to give up smoking
【答案】C
【解析】推理判断题。根据called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes.建议政府要采取措施控制人们吸烟进而来保护人们的身体健康，故选C。
D
Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in Daugavpils, Latvia in 1903. His family immigrated to the United States in 1913, after a 12-day voyage.
Mark moved to New York in the autumn of 1923 and found employment in the garment trade and settled down on the Upper West Side. It was while he was visiting someone at the Art Students League that he saw students painting a model. According to him, this was the start of his life as an artist. He was twenty years old and had taken some art lessons at school, so his initial experience was far from an immediate calling.
In 1936, Mark Rothko began writing a book, which he never completed, about the similarities in the children’s art and the work of modern painters. The work of modernists, which was influenced by primitive art, could, according to him, be compared to that of children in that “Child art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a copy of himself.” In this same work, he said that “The fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with color.”
It was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for. In 1949 Rothko exhibited these new works at the Betty Parsons Gallery. For reviewer Harold Rosenberg, the paintings were unique and primitive. Rothko had, after painting his first multiform, separated himself from the world in East Hampton on Long Island, only inviting a very few people, including Rosenberg, to view the new paintings. The discovery of his works’ specialty came at a period of great sorrow: his mother Kate died in October 1948. As part of this new uniformity of artistic vision, his paintings no longer had individual titles. From this point on they were simply untitled, numbered or dated. However, to assist in distinguishing one work from another, traders would sometimes add the primary colors to the name. Additionally, for the next few years, Rothko painted in oil only on large vertical tents. This was done to surround the viewer, or, in his words, to make the viewer feel enveloped within the picture.
68. When did Rothko want to be an artist?
A. When he immigrated to the U.S.A.
B. When he watched students drawing.
C. When he moved to the Upper West Side. D. When he joined the Art Students League.
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据It was while he was visiting someone at the Art Students League that he saw students painting a model. According to him, this was the start of his life as an artist.69. What did Rothko think of modern art?
A. It could be produced by children.
B. It could be compared to child work.
C. It was a certain kind of primitive art.
D. It was academic from the very beginning.
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据about the similarities in the children’s art and the work of modern painters.70. Why does the author mention Rothko’s uncompleted book?
A. To prove Rothko’s concentration on painting.
B. To show Rothko’s research on the modern art.
C. To suggest Rothko’s unique personal painting style.
D. To explain the inspiration of Rothko’s painting style.
【答案】C
【解析】推理判断题。根据It was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for.提出他的独特绘画风格，故选C。71. Rothko’s distinctive style ______.
A. took shape in 1948
B. was affected by Rosenberg
C. resulted from his boyhood experience D. was rooted in the separation from the world
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据The discovery of his works’ specialty came at a period of great sorrow: his mother Kate died in October 1948.他的独特风格的形成是在1948年。
E
Most recently, it's very common in students who need a parent present for job interviews. Naturally, it's easy to blame the students in these situations, but the bigger problem is us. We—as parents—are so eager to shelter our kids that we fail to realize that this in itself is harming them. As the mother of two young sons, I have to remind myself constantly that the biggest responsibility I have as a parent is to help them develop the skills needed to live in, to live without me. So, I'll let them fail．
I'll let them fail because as long as they are safe and warm inside their comfort zones, they will never grow. And failure along with loss, heartbreak, disappointment, etc.—will be part of growth for them. Call me the anti-tiger mom, but leaving them alone is, my way of helping them become equipped to fit in this world as we know it today. From terrorism and seemingly endless natural disasters, to our national debt and beyond, if we expect the next generation to stand up to the very real problems of our time, we need to stop feeding them and start teaching them how to fish.
My children now are becoming little masters of compromise, but they try to negotiate everything now. It's a small price to help them learn a skill they'll use for the rest of their lives, including when I don't accompany them on job interviews.
72. Why do parents accompany their kids on job interviews?
A. Because they want to protect their kids from difficulties．
B. Because they think they can help them on the questions．
C. Because their kids are too shy to attend interviews．
D. Because their kids strongly request them to do so．
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据文章2,3行We—as parents—are so eager to protect our kids that we fail to realize that this in itself is harming them.可知问题在我们父母亲身上，我们总是保护我们的孩子。让他们是去了自己发展的机会。故A。
73. According to the author, what is beneficial to kids' development?
A. Sheltering them．
B. Keeping them safe．
C. Leaving them alone．
D. Blaming them．【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。根据leaving them alone is my way of helping them become equipped to fit in this world as we know it today.可知让孩子独处是一种帮助孩子适应我们这个世界的很好的方法。故C。
74. Why does the author stress failure in kids' life?
A. To make them stronger than other kids．
B. To help them grow in this tough world．
C. To help them develop all social skills．
D. To make them learn to compromise．【答案】B K
【解析】细节理解题。根据if we expect the next generation to stand up to the very real problems of our time, we need to stop feeding them and start teaching them how to fish.可知我们要想让我们的孩子在这个世界上立足，就要让他们自己体验失败，只有这样才能再这个世界里成长。故B。
75. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. Never Shelter Your Kids
B. Let Your Kids Fail
C. Be Eager to Grow Up
D. Live Without Parents
【答案】B
【解析】标题归纳题。根据本文讲述的是要让自己的孩子经历挫折，而不是帮助孩子处理一切困难。因为挫折可以让他们长大。让他们了解世界的艰难，让孩子真正成长。故B正确。