2016高考英语二轮阅读理解训练七十集之连载（14）
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。
DONALD SLOAN
Gates Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
913-243-1682 After May 2009:
46 Clayton Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
314-726-8840
Objective To work with the client (委托人) population in a social service position.
Education B.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2009
Major: Social Services
Minor: Applied Psychology
Experience Assistant Activities Supervisor, Fairview Nursing Home, Lawrence, KS, November 2006-present. Help organize and implement recreational activities for nursing home residents. Activities include crafts, dances, day trips, sing-alongs, and visiting performers.
Hotline Volunteer. Teen Crisis Center, Lawrence, KS, September 2006- May 2007. Handled crisis calls from teenagers in the community. Dealt with drug use, unwanted pregnancies, failing grades, and the breakdown of parent-teen relationships.
Nurse’s Aide, Danyers General Hospital, St. Louis, MO, Summer 2006. Assisted nurses in patient care. Took histories, updated charts, and helped prepare patients for surgery.
Activities University Concert Board. Work with other board members to plan and implement on-campus concerts.
Senior Gift Campaign. Help manage the campaign to raise funds for the senior class gift to the university.
Residence Hall Programming Board. Planned social events for Eggar Residence Hall.
Skills Fluent in French. Water safety instructor. Skilled at working with people.
Interests Skiing, softball, classical music, and guitar.
1. This passage is most probably ______.
A. an advertisement for enrolling new employees
B. a self-introduction meant to apply for a job
C. a school report at the end of an academic year
D. a part of a recommendation letter from a university
2. According to the “Experience” section, we can infer that Donald Sloan can be _____
.
A. a wise leader B. a skillful performer
C. a good social worker
D.a gifted scientist
3. From the passage we can learn that Donald Sloan ______.
A.is about to graduate from a university B. is good at singing and dancing
C. has an interest in being a surgeon D. specializes in psychology
参考答案1—3、BCA
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。
Here’s a movie-a sharp, sugar-rush of fun that’s guaranteed to entertain the entire family.
With some terrific computer-generated effects, a great cast and a fun-packed storyline, Robots is the best animated film(动画片) since The Incredibles. Yep, it really is that good.
Set in a world populated by robots, Ewan McGregor plays Rodney Copperbottom, a young robot who leaves his small-town home to pursue his dream of becoming an inventor.
But after arriving in Robot City, his hopes of getting a job at Bigweld Industries are destroyed when he learns the firm has been taken over by the evil Ratchet (Greg Kinnear).
Egged on by his controlling mum, Madame Gasket(Jim Broadbent), Ratchet plans to reduce half on Robot City’s citizens to scrap metal by refusing to sell the spare Pans they need to survive.
Instead, he wants to make a fortune selling expensive upgrades that few can afford. As he says, “Why be you when you can be new?”
Aided by a few misfit robots known as the Rustles-including Robin Williams as the cowardly(胆小的) Fender (“I’m made of a metal called Afraidium”)-Rodney must track down the firm’s founder, Bigweld(Mel Brooks), and convince him to save the city from Ratchet’s plans.
The first thing that’ll strike you about the movie is the thought that’s gone into creating Robot City. It’s a wondrous world full of mechanical marvels including wind-up cars and walking streetlamps.
Also terrific are the special effects. This might be animated movie but at times you’ll catch yourself thinking it’s really a live-action film.
Of course, there have been plenty of animated movies that looked the part but were let down by a weak storyline(see Shark Tale, for example).
But Robots grips(扣人心弦)right from the start thanks to a heart-warming and thoroughly engaging plot that never bores.
My only complaints are with Williams who, as usual, has a one-in-10 success rate with his jokes. Also a letdown is a romantic subplot between Rodney and a shapely robot called Cappy(Halle Berry)that doesn’t go anywhere.
Complains aside, this is a mechanical marvel that’ll have you bolted firmly to your seat.
BEST QUOTE(引述)：Fender：“Even though you had a discouraging day, just remember there’s another one coming tomorrow.
BEST BIT：Check out those amazing images.
WORST BIT：Robin Williams’ character does an unfunny Britney Spears dance routine.
IF YOU LIKED…Ice Age, The Incredibles, Toy Story…YOU’LL LIKE THIS.
1. This piece of writing is a _____.
A. commercial advertisement
B. film review
C. movie poster
D. 1iterary essay
2. The cast Of Robots is made up of all the following actors or actresses EXCEPT ______.
A. Ewan McGregor
B. Robin Williams
C. Britney Spears
D. Halle Berry
3. What is Shark Tale an example of?
A great cast.
B. A poor plot.
C. Special effects.
D. Clumsy animation.
参考答案1—3、BCB
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。
The first time we started using it, we thought it would just be a bit of fun, a one-time thing.
__A__
“Let’s just give it a try,” my fiancée said. I was a bit nervous, but I knew some of our friends were already into it, and they said it was fine and that I should relax because everyone was doing it.“OK,” I agreed, convinced it would be harmless.
___B___
Before long, we were using it once a week. Then it became twice a week. We went from using it after work to using it in the mornings, and then at lunchtime, too.
Suddenly we reached a point where we were using it every day. Even when I wasn’t using it, I was thinking about using it. ___C___
That’s when I realized the terrible truth. We couldn’t stop.
Dear readers, it shames me to admit it, but I am an addict of online shopping site Taobao.
And I don't think I’m the only one. __D__
I see the telltale signs every where: People with bags under their eyes, clearly exhausted after staying up late browsing items they might one day need (but probably won’t)，like the 1940s leather aviator cap I bought in the event I ever need to become an aviator in the 1940s. I see co-workers furtively (偷偷摸摸地）sneaking down to the mailroom, eyes darting around suspiciously.
I know what's going through your mind as you read this.
“This isn’t me，” you’re thinking, “I can stop anytime I want.”
But can you?
In China you can get same day delivery for just about anything you buy online. In Australia, my home country, the same item would take weeks to arrive.
“It's the convenience," I said to my fiancée. “That’s why we're hooked.”
But is that convenience worth the risk of waking up one morning to discover you’ve been buried alive in masses of brand new women’s shoes?
In my case it’s probably not, especially because I suspect my fiancée won’t realize I'm missing until weeks later, when my credit card stops working and I've long since expired.
So what can you do to battle this terrible addiction?
Never fear, dear readers, because I've created a special five-step list to help you stop online shopping.
Step one: Acknowledge you have a problem. Resist buying adult-sized, Star Wars Stormtrooper outfit on Taobao. You don’t really need it.
Step two: Try not to feel guilty about buying adult-sized, Star Wars Stormtrooper outfit on Taobao.
Step three: Put the computer and smartphone away, get back to nature, and take a walk in the park.
Step four: Try not to feel guilty about buying a new outfit for your walk in the park. I mean, it was
on sale, right?
Step five: Buying a book on how to quit Taobao...from Taobao.
On second thoughts, maybe don’t listen to me, after all.
1. Where should the sentence “I have never been so wrong in my entire life.” be put in the passage?
A. In blank A.
B. In blank B.
C. In blank C.
D. In blank D.
2. The author writes the underlined paragraph to show ________.
A. Taobao is a popular and successful online shopping site
B. online shopping is an effective way to help relax
C. people today are fond of the 1940s leather aviator cap
D. quite a lot of people are hooked on online shopping
3. The author concludes this passage with a tone of________.
A. confidence and optimism
B. disappointment and disapproval
C. uncertainty and humor
D. confusion and sympathy
参考答案1—3、BDC
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。
Even before there were people, there were cases of air pollution. There were dust storms. Volcanoes erupted, sending ash and poisonous gases into the atmosphere. When people appeared on the scene and began their conquest of nature, they also began to pollute the air. They cleared land, which made possible even larger dust storms. They built cities, and the soot(煤烟) from their hearths filled the air. The Roman author Seneca wrote in AD 61 of the “stink, soot and heavy air” of the imperial city. In 1257, the Queen of England was forced to move away from the city of Nottingham because the heavy smoke was unbearable. The industrial revolution brought even worse air pollution. Coal was burned to power factories and to heat homes. Soot, smoke, and sulfur dioxide(二氧化硫) fill the air.
The good old days? Not in the factory towns. But there were large rural areas unaffected by air pollution.
With increasing population, the entire world is becoming more urban. It is the huge cities that are most affected by air pollution. But rural areas are not unaffected. In the neighborhoods around smoky factories, there is evidence of increased rates of spontaneous abortion(自然流产) and of poor wool quality in sheep, decreased egg production and a high death rate in chickens.
Traffic police in Tokyo have to wear gas masks and take “oxygen breaks”—breathing occasionally from tanks of oxygen. Smog in Athens at times has forced factory closings and traffic restrictions. Acid rain in Canada is caused by air pollution in the United States, contributing to strained relationships between the two countries. Sydney, Rome, Tehran, Ankara, Mexico City, and most other major cities in the world have had frightening experiences of air pollution.
One of the two major types of smog—consisting of smoke, fog, sulfur dioxide, sulfuring acid (H2SO4), ash and soot—is called London smog. Indeed, the word smog is thought to have originated in England in 1905 as a contraction of the words “smoke” and “fog”.
Probably the worst case of smog in history started in London on Thursday, 4 December, 1952. A large cold air mass moved into the valley of the Thames River. A temperature inversion placed a blanket of warm air over the cold air. With nightfall, a dense fog and below-freezing temperatures caused the people of London to put coal into their small stoves. Millions of these fires burned throughout the night, pouring sulfur dioxide and smoke into the air. The next day, Friday, the people continued to burn coal when the temperature remained below freezing. The factories added their smoke and chemical fumes to the atmosphere.
Saturday was a day of darkness. For twenty miles around London, no light came through the smog. The air was cold and still. And the coal fires continued to burn throughout the weekend. On Monday, 8 December, more than one hundred people died of heart attacks while trying desperately to breathe. By the time a breeze cleared the air on Tuesday, 9 December, more than 4,000 deaths had been caused by the smog.
Soot and ash can be removed by electrostatic precipitators(静电吸尘器). Unfortunately, they use large amounts of electricity, and the electrical energy, which is hardly affordable for most of us, has to come from somewhere. Fly ash removed from the air has to be put on the land or water, although it could be used in some way.
The elimination(去除) of sulfur dioxide is more difficult. Low-sulfur coal is rare and expensive. Although sulfur can be washed from finely pulverized(粉末化) coal, the process is expensive. There are also processes for changing dirty coal into clean liquid and gaseous fuels. These processes may hold promise for the future, but they are too expensive to compete economically with other fuels at present. They also waste a part of the coal’s energy.
1. What is the passage mainly talking about?
A. The type and form of pollution .
B. The cause and effect of pollution.
C. The situation and elimination of pollution.
D. The concept and examples of pollution.
2. What can we infer from the first paragraph?
A. Human beings should not have begun their conquest of nature.
B. Human activities contribute more to pollution than natural disasters do.
C. Seneca and the Queen of England were both over-sensitive to air pollution.
D. The industrial revolution was a disadvantage in terms of air pollution.
3. With the example of “decreased egg production” in Paragraph 3, the author intends to_______
A. explain why the world is becoming more urban
B. indicate that heavy pollution also exists in rural areas
C. show that large cities are most affected by air pollution
D. prove smoky factories are more affected by air pollution
4. What is the right order about the 1952 London Smog?
a. A breeze cleared the air of London.
b. Thousands of people died.
c. There was a day of darkness in London.
d. A large cold air mass caused a blanket of warm air over London.
e. London people made continuous fires from coal to keep warm.
A. d-e-c-b-a
B. c-e-d-a-b C. d-c-e-b-a
D. c-d-e-a-b
5. What does the author mainly want to say in the last two paragraphs?
A. The technology to remove air pollution is only currently in development.
B. Society must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to eliminate air pollution.
C. Air pollution control is too costly to be achieved at the current time.
D. Pollution can be controlled using man-made scientific techniques.
6. It can be inferred that when writing this article, the author was in a(an) ____mood about the topic.
A. sympathetic
B. optimistic
C. desperate
D. concerned
参考答案1—6、CDBACD