2016高考英语二轮阅读理解精选（02）及答案
A
(·南京二模，A)
French tourist outsmarts Dutch thief
AMSTERDAM—A quickthinking French tourist outsmarted a Dutch thief after the thief tried to seize his bag, Amsterdam police said Wednesday.
After winning a brief tugofwar over the sports bag, the 27yearold tourist ran into a nearby police station with the thief in hot pursuit.
The thief“realized too late he had run straight into ‘the_long_arm_of_the_law’”，police spokeswoman Wilma Verheij said of the incident，which took place Tuesday.
After it dawned on the thief, a 28yearold man whose identity was not released, said that he was in the middle of a police station, so he tried to run away again. But he was quickly caught by officers and arrested，Verheij said.
Liz Taylor remains hospitalized
LOS ANGELES—Heart trouble is keeping Elizabeth Taylor hospitalized in Los Angeles for some time, but her publicist says the 78yearold actress is OK and has been visiting with family and friends.
Taylor's spokeswoman Sally Morrison said in a statement Tuesday that the twotime Oscar winner is comfortable at CedarsSinai Medical Center and“there has been steady improvement in her condition” since she was admitted last week.
Taylor is being treated for symptoms of heart failure, a condition she revealed in November 2004.
“Her medical team is satisfied by her progress to date, and it is hoped and expected that this will continue over the next few days. For now, she will remain under their care in the hospital for continued monitoring，” Morrison said. “Friends and fans around the world should be convinced that Elizabeth Taylor is in good health and receiving the best possible care from her skilled and devoted doctors and nurses.”
Morrison described Taylor's condition as stable but offered no other details.
Japan halts(暂停) whale hunt after chase by protesters
TOKYO—Japan has halted its annual Antarctic whale hunt following protests from a campaign group. Activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society，a USbased environmental group, have been chasing the Japanese fishing ship.
Commercial whaling was banned in 1986 but Japan uses a regulation permitting hunting for scientific research.
Iceland and Norway have claimed official objections to the ban and continue to hunt commercially.
“Putting safety as a priority, the ship has halted scientific whaling for now. We are currently considering what to do，” Tatsuya Nakaoku, an official at the fisheries agency, told Reuters news agency.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says one of its boats has been blocking the ship loading ramp(斜梯) ，preventing any hunted whales from being loaded on to the ship. “Every whale saved is a victory to us, so we've gotten a lot of victories down here this year，” Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson told Reuters news agency by satellite phone from the Steve Irwin ship.
本文为三则资讯。
1．The underlined part“the long arm of the law”refers to
______
in Amsterdam.
A. a travel agency
B. a policeman
C. a police station
D. a police spokeswoman
答案：C。词义猜测题。从画线短语的上—段段尾的police station可推测出答案为C。
2．What can we know about Elizabeth Taylor from the news?
A. She has been suffering from heart illness for some years.
B. She will go back home in a day or two.
C. She is feeling quite well in hospital.
D. She will receive her Oscar Award in the hospital.
答案：A。事实细节题。从第二则资讯的第3段可知，自2004年11月以来Taylor就患了心脏病，故A项正确。从倒数第2段中的“it is hoped and expected that this will continue over the next few days”，可知B项错误；文中自始至终没有提到Taylor自己的感受，故C项错误；由第2段内容可知Taylor是两度奥斯卡奖得主，而不是将在医院接受颁奖，故D项错误。
3．Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Japanese fishing ships go to the Antarctic for whale hunt every year.
B. Iceland and Norway will not stop hunting whales.
C. Commercial whale hunt has been banned for about twentyfive years.
D. Japan will not hunt whales any more.
答案：D。事实细节题。文中只是说日本的捕鲸船被暂时阻止，而没有信息表明日本将不再捕鲸，故D项符合题意要求，为正确答案。从该资讯的第2段可知自1986年以商业为目的的捕鲸禁令颁布以来，日本依然以科研为借口继续捕鲸，故A项是正确的；从第3段可知B项正确；从第2段捕鲸禁令发布的时间是1986年可推知C项正确。综上所述，A、B、C不符合题干中的NOT true的要求。
B
(·南京二模，B)
“Choo，Choo！”Here comes the Chunnel train. Get aboard if you want to learn more about this underground transportation system. This is an unusual form of transportation, because it is a tunnel that trains travel through and not an actual form of transportation.
The Chunnel is actually the English nickname for the Channel Tunnel. In French，it is called le tunnel sous la Manche. It is a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Straits of Dover. It connects Cheriton in Kent, England with Sangatte in northern France. It is the second longest rail tunnel in the world.
Did you know that the British and the French had a race while they were building the Chunnel? The race was to see who could get to the middle of the tunnel first. The British won by a little bit. It took 15,000 workers over seven years to dig the tunnel. The tunnel was finished in 1994.
The completed Chunnel cost about $21 billion. But it all paid off, because it became very popular, very quick. Millions of people use it. Now it is getting even more popular.
There are three complete tunnels in the Chunnel. The two outside ones are the passenger trains. The small inner one is a guidance train. The guidance train is not used for transportation. Each track is exactly parallel to each other.
There are four different train systems in the Chunnel. The Eurostar is a high speed passenger service that connects London, Paris, Brussels and Lille. The Eurotunnel shuttle is a rail ferry service. These shuttles carry cars and vans. These are railcars that allow drivers to drive their vehicles on and off. There are also two Eurotunnel goods service trains.
Now you know more about the Chunnel. Everybody off，this is the last stop.
本文介绍了1994年竣工的横贯多佛海峡连接英法的海底隧道地铁的修建、内在结构及其服务系统。
4．The Channel Tunnel links
________with________.
A. London; Paris
B. Cheriton; Sangatte
C. Lille; Brussels
D. Dover; Kent
答案：B。事实细节题。由第2段倒数第2句“It connects Cheriton in Kent，England with Sangatte in northern France.”可知B项正确。
5．Which of the following shows the structure of the tunnels in the Chunnel?
答案：A。事实细节题。由倒数第3段可知A项正确。
6．The Eurotunnel shuttle is intended to carry________.
A. passengers B. drivers and their vehicles
C. goods
D. staff members of the Chunnel
答案：B。事实细节题。由倒数第2段中的“The Eurotunnel shuttle is a rail ferry service...their vehicles on and off”可知B项正确。
7．The text can most probably be ________.
A. found in a guidebook B. read in a magazine
C. broadcast on a train
D. heard in a railwav station
答案：C。推理判断题。文章首尾，尤其是尾段，说明了这是乘坐火车的场景，也暗示了答案。
C
(2010·杭州质检二，C)
Any discussion of English conversation, like any English conversation, must begin with The Weather. And in this spirit of observing traditional rule, I shall quote Dr Johnson's famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of the weather”， and point out that this observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago.
This, however, is the point at which most people either stop, or try, and fail, to come up with a convincing explanation for the English “addiction” to the weather. They fail because their premise(前提) is mistaken: they assume that our conversations about the weather are conversations about the weather. In other words，they assume that we talk about the weather because we have a keen interest in the subject. Most of them then try to figure out what it is about the English weather that is so fascinating.
Bill Bryson，for example, concludes that the English weather is not at all fascinating, and that our“addiction” to it is therefore very difficult to explain: “To an outsider，the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it. All those phenomena that elsewhere give nature an edge of excitement, unpredictability and danger—tornados, monsoons, hailstorms—are almost wholly unknown in the British Isles.”
Jeremy Paxman takes offence at Bryson's comments and argues that the English weather is truly fascinating：
Bryson misses the point. The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty... one of the few things you can say about England with absolute certainty is that it has a lot of weather. It may not include tropical cyclones but life at the edge of an ocean and the edge of a continent means you can never be entirely sure what you're going to get.
My research has convinced me that both Bryson and Paxman are missing the point, which is that our conversations about the weather are not really about the weather at all：English weatherspeak is a form of code, developed to help us overcome our natural reserve (含蓄) and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows, for example, that “Nice day, isn't it？”， “Oh, isn't it cold？”； and other variations on the theme are not requests for weather data: they are greetings or conversationstarters. In other words, English weatherspeak is a form of “cleaning talk”—the human equivalent of what is known as “social cleaning” among our primate(灵长类的)cousins, where they spend hours cleaning each other's fur, even when they are perfectly clean, as a means of social connection.
英国人谈话为什么以谈天气开始，本文作者在对比了两个具有代表性的说法之后提出了自己的见解——作为一种社会联系的手段。
8．According to the author，most people's explanations for the English love for weather talk are ________.
A. scientific
B. incorrect
C. fascinating
D. accurate
答案：B。推理判断题。由第2,3,4,5段内容可推断出B项正确。
9．As is stated in the passsage，most people try to find out ________.
A. why the English weather is so unique
B. whether the English enjoy their weather
C. why the English are so interested in the topic of weather
D. whether the English really talk about weather when they do so
答案：C。主旨大意题。总览文章可知答案。文章第1段引出话题，从第2段开始就其原因展开探讨。
10．In Bill Bryson's opinion, the English “addiction” to their weather is ________.
A. understandable
B. convincing
C. respectable
D. unreasonable
答案：D。推理判断题。由第3段首句的“it is therefore very difficult to explain”可推知答案。
11．Disapproving of Bill Bryson's opinion，Jeremy Paxman argues that ________.
A. the English talk about their weather because it is unpredictable
B. the English don't talk about weather as often as the outsiders think
C. the English weather can be as exciting as anywhere else's
D. the English weather talk is merely a form of small talk
答案：A。推理判断题。由倒数第3段的“Jeremy Paxman...argues that the English weather is truly fascinating”和倒数第2段第2句but in uncertainty可推知答案。
12．According to the author, English weatherspeak is similar to primates' social cleaning in that they are both ________.
A．ways of greeting
B．means social connection
C．fascinating topics between people
D．phenomena difficult to understand to outsiders
答案：B。事实细节题。由尾段尾句可知B项正确。
D
(·海淀第二学期期末，D)
The Child Ego State
The Child ego state is a set of behaviors, thoughts and feelings which are replayed from our own childhood.
Perhaps the boss calls us into his or her office, we may immediately get a churning in our stomach and wonder what we have done wrong. If this were explored we might remember the time the head teacher called us in to tell us off. Of course, not everything in the Child ego state is negative. We might go into someone's house and smell a lovely smell and remember our grandmother's house when we were little, and all the same warm feelings we had at six years of age may come flooding back.
The Child ego states are constantly being updated. For example, we may meet someone who gives us the permission we needed as a child, and did not get，to be fun and joyous. We may well use that person in our imagination when we are stressed to resist our old ways of thinking that we must work longer and longer hours to keep up with everything. We might ask ourselves“I wonder what X would say now. ”Then on hearing the new permissions to relax and take some time out，do just that and then return to the work renewed and ready for the challenge. Afterwards, rather than blaming ourselves for what we did or did not do, what tends to happen is that we automatically start to give ourselves new permissions and take care of ourselves.
Alternatively，we might have had an extremely unpleasant experience yesterday which goes into the Child ego state as an antique memory that stands in the way of our growth. Positive experiences will also go into the Child ego state as antique memories. The positive experiences can then be drawn on to remind us that positive things do happen.
The process of analyzing personality in terms of ego states is called structural analysis. It is important to remember that ego states do not have an existence of their own. They are concepts to enable understanding. Therefore it is important to say“I want some fun” rather than“My Child wants some fun”. We may be in our Child ego state when we say this,_but saying“I” reminds us to take responsibility for our actions.
本文讲述了“the Child ego state”的含义及对一个人行为的影响。
13．The writer uses two examples in Paragraph 2 in order to ________.
A. prove the Child ego state is negative B. explain why we become nervous
C. support the idea in Paragraph 1 D. introduce the point of Paragraph 3
答案：C。推理判断题。从文章结构来看，第2段所举的两个例子是对文章首段观点的阐释，故选C。
14．By asking“I wonder what X would say now” ，we intend to ________.
A. blame ourselves
B. avoid stress
C. keep up with everything
D. accept challenges
答案：B。推理判断题。由第3段中间的“We may well use that person...Then on hearing the new permissions to relax and take some time out...”可推知答案。
15．According to the passage，the Child ego state ________.
A. exists in one's childhood
B. shows one's wisdom
C. limits one's thoughts
D. influences one's actions
答案：D。推理判断题。
16．The underlined word“this” in the last paragraph refers to ________.
A. “I want some fun”B. “My Child wants some fun”
C. the Child ego state
D. structural analysis
答案：A。词义猜测题。答案在于文章最后两句，由尾句中的but saying “I” reminds us...可知代词this指代的是上句的“I want some fun”而不是“My Child wants some fun”。
E
(·东城练习二，D)
People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behavior are formed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are of course extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behavior. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as “nature and nurture”．
Those who support the“nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme，this theory states that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能)．
Proponents of the“nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviorist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviorists' view of the human being is quite mechanistic. They state that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (刺激) as the basis of their behavior.
Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are farreaching. In the US ，for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests. This leads some“nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites. Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.
Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes and that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.
人的个性和行为是天生具有的还是后天形成的？社会学家对此看法不一。
17．This passage is mainly concerned with ________.
A. relation between personality and behavior
B. relation between behavior and environment
C. different accounts of patterns of human behavior
D. different theories of the formation of human behavior
答案：D。主旨大意题。通读全文不难看出，本文主要讨论了人的个性是天生的还是受周围环境的影响而形成的，故选D。
18．The underlined word“proponents” in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A. creators
B. advisors
C. advocates
D. judges
答案：C。词义猜测题。本文主要叙述了两种理论拥护者之间的辩论，所以应选C(拥护者)。
19．In Paragraph 5, the author mainly writes about ________.
A. the considerable influence of the two theories
B. differences between the blackes and whites
C. racial discrimination in the United States
D. different responds to intelligence tests
答案：A。主旨大意题：第5段首先告诉我们，这两种理论在社会上和政治上都有深远的意义，接着用事例论证了这种理论，故答案为A。
20．What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A. To call our attention to the changes of human behavior.
B. To urge scientists to do more research in social science.
C. To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior.
D. To present an argument in the field of social science.
答案：D。推理判断题。本文主要叙述了社会学家对于人的个性和行为的形成的不同观点，以及他们精辟的剖析，故答案为D。