2016高考英语（二月）阅读理解精选（13）及答案
维B2 阅读理解(每题2分，满分8分)选材相似度：★★★★
设题相似度：★★★
难度系数：★★★★
Whether you depend on your bike for transportation (交通) or exercise，you'll enjoy these fun facts on this twowheeled vehicle (车辆)．
* In 1817，Karl von Drais from Germany invented a horseless carriage that would help him get around faster.The machine became known as the “draisine”，and led to the creation of the modern bicycle.
* The term “bicycle” was not introduced until the 1860s，when it was created in France to describe a new kind of twowheeler.
* Fred A．Birchmore circled the globe by bicycle at the age of 25 in 1935.The whole trip covered forty thousand miles.He rode about 25,000 miles and wore out seven sets of tires (轮胎)．
* There are over a half billion bicycles in China.They are the most common means of transportation.Bikes were first brought to China in the late 1800s.
* About 100 million bicycles are made worldwide each year.
* Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all city trips.Europeans bike in cities a lot more often—in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle,30 percent in the Netherlands，and seven out of eight Dutch people over age 15 have a bike.
* The Tour de France is one of the most famous bicycle races in the world.Established in 1903，it is considered to be the biggest test of endurance (耐久力) out of all sports.Lance Armstrong，an American cyclist，is the only man to have won seven titles (1999—2005) after surviving cancer.
* Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX)，an extreme style of bicycle track racing，became a sport in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing，China.Maris Strombergs，from Latvia，received
the gold medal for Men's BMX，and Anne Caroline Chausson，from France，took home the gold in the first Women's BMX Olympic event.
【语篇解读】 本文为说明文。自行车是我们生活中常见的交通工具。你了解有关自行车的趣事吗？
1．The passage is written mainly to ________.
A．tell an interesting story
B．tell us the history of the bicycle
C．encourage more people to ride bicycles
D．introduce some interesting facts about the bicycle
答案 D [推理判断题。文章开篇点明了写作目的：介绍有关自行车的趣事。]
2．Who use the bicycle least according to the passage?
A．Chinese.
B．Americans.
C．Italians.
D．Dutch people.
答案 B [细节理解题。根据文中所列的第四点和第六点可以看出美国人骑自行车的比例最小，不到百分之一。]
3．What can be learned from the passage?
A．Karl von Drais invented the modern bicycle.
B．Fred A．Birchmore was the first to go around the world.
C．Anne Caroline Chausson won seven titles of the Tour de France.
D．Maris Strombergs won the first Men's BMX Olympic event.
答案 D [细节理解题。根据文中所列举的第一点、第三点和最后两点可知，Karl von Drais发明了一种叫draisine的机器，它是现代自行车的前身；Fred A．Birchmore在25岁时骑行全球，并未提到他是不是第一个环行全球的人：Maris Strombergs和Anne Caroline Chausson分别获得小轮车成为奥运会比赛项目后的第一届男女冠军：是Lance Armstrong战胜癌症后获得环法自行车赛的七个奖项，故D项正确。]
4．From
the
passage，we
know
that
the author ________.
A．owns a bicycle shop
B．is good at riding a bike
C．has a rich knowledge of the bicycle
D．has taken part in the Tour de France
答案 C [推理判断题。文章给读者介绍了许多有关自行车的趣事，由此可看出作者这方面知识丰富，故选C项。]
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维B1 阅读理解(每题2分，满分分)
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Katharine
Mehta's mother likes to joke that the first sentence her daughter said was “I love dogs.” It's not the fact，but it's certainly true in spirit.
“When I was young，my grandmother told me about how she sometimes found stray dogs and cats，and kept them on her farm as pets，” says Katharine.“That made me wonder what would happen when animals didn't have a home.I felt horrible thinking that they might be hungry or could get hit by a car.”
But what could a little girl do? The answer came during a trip to a park in her New York City neighborhood two years ago，where she met volunteers from Mighty Mutts，a local nokill animal rescue organization.“I thought maybe I could earn some money and give it to them，” she says.
Since Katharine had plenty of practice taking care of her own dog，she decided to start a summer dogwalking service.She chose two friends and，with their parents' permission，the group put up homemade posters with their phone numbers and a bargain price—50 cents an hour.Before long they had 15 dogs in their care.“We walked two or three at a time with one mother helping out，” she says.“By the end of that summer，we'd collected $45.” That fall Katharine and her mother，Loma，came up with another mini enterprise to raise money for Mighty Mutts—selling freshbaked shortbread to their neighbors.
The 11yearold，who starts sixth grade this fall，has become a nonstop campaigner.Her mother says，“When she sees somebody with a dog，she starts a conversation and tells them to donate to Mighty Mutts.”
Katharine's passion comes from the heart.“It makes me cry to think that strays might be_put_to_sleep when there's a group that can find new homes for them，” Katharine says.“But it makes me smile to know I can help.”
Notes：
stray adj.流浪的 ②shortbread n．黄油甜酥饼
【语篇解读】 本文主要讲了11岁女孩Katharine是如何关爱和帮助流浪狗等小动物的。
1．Katharine's love of dogs comes from ________.
A．her grandmother's influence
B．her mother's influence
C．the influence of an organization
D．seeing a dog killed by a car
答案 A [细节理解题。由第二段可知，Katharine关心流浪狗是受奶奶的影响。]
2．How did Katharine help the organization—Mighty Mutts?
A．By walking stray dogs.
B．By giving shortbread to stray dogs.
C．By collecting money.
D．By making speeches everywhere.
答案 C [推理判断题。由第三、四段可知，Katharine为别人遛狗挣钱，然后捐给Mighty Mutts，并且经常劝说养狗的人为Mighty Mutts捐款，故选C。]
3．The underlined part “be put to sleep” in the last paragraph means “________”．
A．to be supplied with a comfortable place for sleeping
B．to be given drugs so that they can die without pain
C．to be made unconscious before a medical operation
D．to be made to sleep
答案 B [词义猜测题。Katharine很有爱心，非常关心无家可归的小动物，所以她一想到流浪的小动物被人们用药物所谓“仁道地”杀死，她就会心痛地流泪。put to sleep意为“用药物使(长眠)，无痛苦地杀死”。]
4．What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Katharine and her pets
B．An organization for rescuing stray dogs
C．Pet dogs are popular with children
D．A little girl helps strays
答案 D [主旨大意题。全文主要讲述了小女孩Katharine帮助、关爱流浪狗，故正确答案为D。]