2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解训练七十集之连载（37）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解训练七十集之连载（37）

　　【阅读理解】介绍说明类

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Very often when I go to look at someone’s garden and they complain that for some reason it does not feel right to them. What I notice is that the design quite complicated. Or, sometimes there is no real design and the layout (布局) just looks messy. Creating a garden without some form of design is like trying to bake a cake without a recipe.

　　With a cake you can add together ingredients (原料) from the cupboard and fridge in the hope that the result will be a perfectly baked cake. Both creating a garden and baking a cake follow outlines for getting a result. Know just when to add something, when to take the mix off the heat or how much oil to use, etc.

　　An experienced garden designer can help you create a garden best suited to you and your lifestyle, rather than impose their own ideas on you. He will listen to and help draw out your ideas. By keeping the garden design simple you and your chosen designer will have created the structure of a garden, similar to the structure of a house together with some details.

　　A golden rule to remember is that garden design is not about choosing the right plants. Don’t get caught up in the idea that you have to choose the right plants for the job straight away. Plant choice comes almost at the last minute in many cases, after you and your designer have created style or feeling you are wanting to have in your garden.

　　Design is about creating a constructable (可构造的) image for the garden, including form and shape, sounds, smells, even tastes and often, believe it or not, plants are never used. By keeping the design simple, especially if you are learning about design or taking on the project by yourself, you are increasing your chances of a successful design, one that matches your standard for your life.

　　1. What is the passage mainly about?

　　A. Designing a garden as simple as possible.

　　B. Comparing garden-designing with cake-making.

　　C. An experienced garden designer’s importance.

　　D. Choosing plants for the garden.

　　2. Why does the author use baking a cake in the passage?

　　A. To show the basic steps of baking a cake.

　　B. To imply how simple to design a garden.

　　C. To state baking a cake is very complex.

　　D. To introduce how to design a garden.

　　3. The underlined word “impose” in the third paragraph means　.

　　A. force B. turn　C. improve D. imagine

　　4. By keeping the garden design simple, 　.

　　A. you can get details from the garden designer

　　B. you will be successful one day

　　C. you can meet your standards in life

　　D. you can match the structure of a house with that of a garden

　　5. What is the most important for garden design?

　　A. Creating a constructable image for the garden.

　　B. Choosing the right plants for your garden first.

　　C. Inviting an experienced garden designer.

　　D. Not rushing to choose plants for your garden.

　　【参考答案】1—5、ABADD

　　2016高考训练题。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。

　　【题文】B

　　Never before in Chinese history has a documentary film aroused so much public enthusiasm. Everybody is talking about a new 7-part documentary called A Bite of China which was recently broadcast late at night on CCTV I. The documentary describes various gourmet items across the vast Chinese culinary (烹饪) landscape.

　　According to Taobao, China’s biggest online retail website, just five days after the series began to air, nearly 6 million people went to the site in search of various local specialities, particularly those mentioned in the documentary. More than 7.2 million deals were concluded. A ham producer from Yunnan Province saw his sales grow 17-fold in five days.

　　However, one can’t help but believe that the documentary’s popularity is probably linked to the endless stream of terrible food security issues that have emerged in recent years. In one well-received article, a netizen wrote, “I wonder how many felt so empty-hearted and sighed after watching the film .Formaldehyde(甲醛) sprayed cabbage, Sudan Red colored salty eggs, restaurants using gutter oil. The list is long…”

　　A varied and ancient food culture that is famous world-wide and which should have made the Chinese proud ends like this: one can only sigh. Food is the most vital thing in people’s lives. Yet China’s food industry is a typical description of “bad money driving out the good”. The market is huge while the cost of faking and cheating is so low for unscrupulous (不道德的) businessmen; and the punishment is too light. Take the milk industry as an example. Although Sanlu, the company that sold the melamine-adulterated milk powder, was punished, thousands of other dairies didn’t work hard to improve the quality. In order to allow national brands to survive, Chinese authorities are happy to loosen their regulations.

　　As the documentary shows, people are attracted not to gourmet items like matsutake, a species of rare mushroom grown naturally in remote forests, but to common Chinese dishes like barley, lotus root or tofu. They are what meet our basic needs. This explains why people are so excited about A Bite of China---it is a reminder that there is still a world out there where food is excellent and people have dignity.

　　1. The underlined word “gourmet items” probably means________.

　　A. beautiful clothes

　　B. latest technology

　　C. delicious food

　　D. great inventions

　　2. The second paragraph mainly talks about______.

　　A. the producer of the document

　　B. the content of the document

　　C. the history of Chinese gourmet

　　D. The popularity of the document

　　3. We can infer from what a netizen wrote in one well –received article that ______.

　　A. none of the television viewers have a knowledge of the Chinese food culture

　　B. there is a huge contrast between the ancient food culture and the reality

　　C. the price of food is too high for many common people

　　D. the documentary was made by a world-famous Chinese director

　　4. According to the passage, China’s food industry is full of faking and cheating because_____.

　　A. there are still so many poor people at the present time

　　B. the punishment for unscrupulous businessmen isn’t serious enough

　　C. the Chinese government encourages it to do so

　　D. the food technology is not so advanced as in developed countries

　　参考答案1—4、CDBB

　　【阅读理解】介绍说明类

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Garlic is one of the most common flavors in our kitchen. It not only tastes wonderful, but also it’s very good for your body. It is one of Mother Nature’s most precious gifts to cooks of all levels.

　　Choose garlic heads that are firm to the touch, with no scars or soft cloves (蒜瓣). If you notice dark, powdery patches under the skin, pass it up because this is an indication of a common mold which will eventually spoil the flesh.

　　Store unpeeled heads of garlic in an open container in a cool, dry place away from other foods. Do not refrigerate or freeze unpeeled garlic. Properly stored garlic can keep up to three months.

　　As garlic ages, it will begin to produce green sprouts in the center of each clove. These infant green sprouts can be bitter, so throw them before using the garlic for your recipe. However, if you plant the cloves and let them grow to a height of about six inches, you can use the sprouts like chives (韭黄) in salads and such.

　　Garlic can also be purchased as peeled whole cloves, both stored in olive or vegetable oil. It is urgent that garlic in oil be stored under refrigeration to avoid potentially-deadly bacteria growth. If you use a lot of garlic and wish to cut your preparation time down, you can pre-peel and store your own in oil in the refrigerator, but the best flavor will come from freshly-peeled cloves. Use garlic powder, garlic salt, and garlic juice only as a last resort.

　　To peel a garlic clove, place it on a cutting board on its side, and gently press down quickly with the flat side of a butcher knife. The skin should then easily peel off. If you find the skin clinging desperately to the clove, congratulations! You have fresh garlic. As garlic ages, the skin is gradually dried-up, making it easier to peel.

　　1. The passage is mainly about　.

　　A. how to select, store and peel garlic

　　B. what garlic tastes and smells

　　C. where to keep the garlic

　　D. when to reap the garlic

　　2. A dark patch under the skin of garlic means　.

　　A. the cloves of garlic are soft

　　B. the garlic has been kept for long

　　C. something wrong with the garlic

　　D. the garlic has been cooked

　　3. The underlined word “sprouts” means　.

　　A. new parts growing on a plant

　　B. newly seeds growing on a plant

　　C. parts belonging to a branching shape

　　D. thin skin attached to garlic

　　4. If you want to store garlic, 　.

　　A. you can keep it in the refrigerator up to three months

　　B. you’d better keep the peeled in the refrigerator

　　C. you may keep frozen unpeeled garlic

　　D. you can put garlic in vegetable oil

　　5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A. The sprouts of garlic tastes like chives.

　　B. Garlic juice is better than the freshly-peeled.

　　C. A cutting board is helpful for peeling garlic.

　　D. Olive oil is needed when cooking garlic.

　　【参考答案】1—5、ACABC

　　2016高考训练题。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。【题文】C

　　For a while, my neighborhood was taken over by an army of joggers(慢跑者). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “Come on!” My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “You’ll feel great.”

　　Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army, I’m not alone in my opinion.

　　First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet take a real pounding（重击）running down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn’t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.

　　Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn’t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, “I love being out there with just my thoughts.” Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.

　　And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn’t just the first week;it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn’t fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog?

　　I don’t jog any more, and I don’t think I ever will. I’m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I’m getting exercise, and I’m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I’ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.

　　1. The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____.

　　A. heart attacks

　　B. back problems

　　C. famous joggers

　　D. physical weaknesses

　　2. What was the writer’s attitude towards jogging in the beginning?

　　A. He felt it was worth a try.

　　B. He was very fond of it.

　　C. He was strongly against it.

　　D. He thought it must be painful.

　　3. Why did the writer give up jogging two months later?

　　A. He disliked doing exercise outside.

　　B. He found it neither healthy nor interesting.

　　C. He was afraid of having a heart attack.

　　D. He was worried about being left alone.

　　4. From the writer’s experience, we can conclude that______.

　　A. not everyone enjoys jogging

　　B. he is the only person who hates jogging

　　C. nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit

　　D. jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport

　　参考答案1—4、 D A B A