2016广东番禺县高考英语阅读理解二轮选练（4）
【2016模拟】
阅读理解This year I decided to stop drinking coffee, my only source of caffeine. Anyone who knows me, especially my wife, will recognize this as a tough and extreme step. I’ve been drinking coffee since age 10, and I’d developed quite an addiction to the perfect cup.
In the past, I’ve experimented with quitting a few times by simply going cold turkey. Each time, the physical withdrawal, basically headaches, was over within 10 days, but after a month or two I would become convinced that coffee was good for my concentration and start drinking it again.
My reason to quit this time was the growing suspicion that coffee was causing mood swings and crashes that are bad for my overall sense of well-being. For this experiment I decided to stop very gradually. I thought that if I allowed the psychological withdrawal to occur gradually alongside the physiological(生理的), I would be able to observe my “coffee-desire” without acting on it, and learn the skill I would need to avoid touching the cup again in future.
I made the same amount of coffee each day. Although I didn’t measure caffeine content, I did control many factors including age of beans, water temperature and water/coffee contact time. From this controlled pot of coffee, I used measuring cups to throw away an additional 20ml per week. I used notebook software to keep some records of my progress and I started with a 3 cup pot in mid-April. Towards the end of July I wrote “I am increasingly wanting to abandon this project altogether”,but I continued and in August I was down to a half glass per day, and decided I was done.
Over the past few days, I noticed myself increasingly thinking“I am having trouble concentrating and coffee might help”. These thoughts came to an end on Wednesday. This time, I was armed with data. I created a graph of my hours of concentration per day. One thing is very clear: based on my records, the amount of time I spend concentrating has not decreased since I quit coffee, so I can easily reject the wrong belief “I need coffee to help me concentrate.”
I see this as a success for self-quantifying. Whether or not it provides a general understanding of the effects of caffeine, it proves the use of self-tracking for making individualized personal decisions.
63. How will the author’s wife view his decision?
A. It is harmful.
B. It is admirable.
C. It is unreasonable.
D. It is challenging.
64. By “going cold turkey” (in Para. 2), the writer means “____”.
A. developing a new interest
B. breaking the habit suddenly
C. dining at a turkey restaurant
D. drinking a cup of cold tea
65. Which factor resulted in the author’s previous failure to kick the habit?
A. A lack of strong will.
B. A state of low spirits.
C. A series of physical symptoms.
D. A false concept about coffee.
66. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. Effects of coffee.
B. Success through statistics.
C. An unforgettable experiment.
D. Significance of determination.
【参考答案】63—66 、CCAB
【2016模拟】阅读理解Until now, little research has been conducted on the association between parents’friendships and the emotional well-being of their adolescent children. A new study from researchers at the University of Missouri suggests that mothers’friendships with other adults can impact their adolescent children’s relationships with their own friends, particularly the negative aspects of these relationships such as conflict and opposition.
Gary C. Glick, a doctoral candidate at MU, and Amanda Rose, professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, studied the development of friendships and other peer (同龄人)relationships during adolescence and their impact on psychological adjustment. They found that adolescents may mimic the negative characteristics of their mothers’relationships in their own peer-to-peer friendships suggesting that mothers can serve as role models for their adolescents during formative years.
“ Mothers who display high levels of conflict with friends may signal to their children that such behavior is acceptable, or even standard in friendships,” Glick said. “Additional findings suggest that adolescents take for granted their reactions to their mothers’conflict with adult friends which may lead to anxiety and depression. ”
Previous research of this type focused on primary-aged children, but MU researchers wanted to expand their study to focus on the formative adolescent years. Youth ranging in age from 10 to 17 and their mothers were surveyed separately to measure regarded positive and negative friendship qualities in both groups. Results showed that positive friendship qualities were not always imitated by adolescents; however, negative and unfriendly relationship characteristics exhibited by mothers were much more likely to be copied by the youth studied. “We know that conflict is a normal part of any relationship — whether it a relationship between a parent and a child, or a mother and her friends — and we’re not talking physical fights but oral conflicts,” Glick said. “ But being exposed to high levels of such conflict generally isn’t going to be good for children. Parents should consider whether they are good role models for their children especially where their friends are concerned. When things go wrong, parents should talk with their children about how to act with their friends, but more specifically, how not to act. ”
67. The word “mimic”(in Para. 2) means “______” .
A. inherit
B. imitate
C. possess
D. discover
68. In comparison with the previous study, the new study expanded _____.
A. research subjects
B. research themes
C. research goals
D. research approaches
69. According to Glick, parents should instruct their children ____.
A. how to avoid any conflict with friends
B. how to establish a sincere friendship
C. how to deal with a troubled friendship
D. how to put an end to a wrong friendship
70. What does die new study reveal?
A. Aggressive mothers ruin their children’s friendship.
B. Conflicts and opposition form children’s characters.
C. Parent-child relationship affects children’s growth.
D. Teens mirror negative features of mom’s friendships.
【参考答案】67—70 、DCBA
阅读理解。
A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages.They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat reoms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives.
Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become Compulsive
behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessive behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites.
They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is
affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don't concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades, and success at schools. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their soeial life.
They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society,
Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends Who they have never met in their life.Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real life friends they have known all their fife. lt is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect the whole world.
16. The passage is about
A. the cause of weboholism
B. the advantage of weboholism
C. the popularity of weboholism
D. the influence of weboholism
17. The underlined word"obsessive" in the second paragraph most probably means
A. attractive
B. addictive
C. professional
D. potential
18. We can learn from the passage that
.
A. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers
B. teeangers can hardly balance real and virtual life
C. people are addicted to games on the lnternet
D. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway
19. Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism?
A. It contributes to the development of the web.
B. The chat room language may change social culture.
C. The problem will have a negative influence on our future.
D. People addicted to the web often become inactive in real life.
20. The author's attitude towards weboholism is that of being
A. objective
B. positive
C. opposed
D. acceptable
【参考答案】16—20、DBBAC
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
During the summer holidays there will be a revised schedule(时刻表) of services for the students.
Changes for dining-room and library service hours and for bus schedules will be posted on the wall outside of the dining-hall.
Weekly film and concert schedules, which are being arranged will be posted each Wednesday outside of the student club.
In the summer holidays, buses going to the town center will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour during the day.
The dining-room will serve three meals a day from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm during the week and two meals from noon to 7:00 pm on weekends.
The library will continue its usual hours during the week, but have shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays.
The weekend hours are from noon to 5:00 pm.
All students who want to use the library borrowing services must have a new summer card.
This announcement will also appear in the next week’s student newspaper.
1.The main purpose of this announcement is to ________.
tell students of important schedule changes
B. show the excellent services for students
tell students of new bus and library services
D. ask students to renew their library cards
2. At which of the following times will the bus leave the main hall?
A. 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00
B.8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30
C. 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00
D. 8:00, 9:30, 11:00, 12:30
3. Times for films and concerts are not listed in this announcement because ________.
they are not to be announced
B. the full list is not ready
C. they are hard to arrange
D. the full list is too long
4. In the summer holidays, the library will have __________.
no special hours
B. special hours on weekdays
C.
special hours on weekends
D. special hours both on weekdays and weekends
5. We may infer that during the summer holidays ________.
The library will continue its usual hours on weekdays
B.
students will stay in the university
there will be a concert or film once a week
D.
no breakfast will be served on weekends
【参考答案】1—5、ABBCD
阅读理解-----B
Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route—through the boot(行李箱).
Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”
Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn (喇叭) and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.
Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew (扭下) the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”
It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench (扳钳)
and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled(爬行) clear as the car filled up.”
His hands and arms cut and bruised(擦伤), Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer抯 wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Huddled in a blanket, he said, 揟hat thirty minutes seemed like hours.?Only the tips of the car wheels were vd uisible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.
6 What is the best title for this newspaper article?
A. The Story of Mr. Johnson, A Sweet Salesman
B. Car Boot Can Serve As The Best Escape Route
C. Driver Escapes Through Car Boot
D. The Driver Survived A Terrible Car Accident
7. Which of the following objects is the most important to Mr. Johnson?
A. The hammer.
B. The coin.
C. The screw.
D. The horn.
8. Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. Mr. Johnson’s car stood on its boot as it fell down.
B. Mr. Johnson could not escape from the door because it was full of sweet jam.
C. Mr. Johnson’s car accident was partly due to the slippery road.
D. Mr. Johnson struggled in the pouring mud as he unscrewed the back seat.
9. “Finally it gave” (Paragraph 5) means that _______.
A. Luckily the door was torn away in the end
B. At last the wrench went broken
C. The lock came open after all his efforts
D. The chance was lost at the last minute
10. It may be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. the ditch was along a quiet country road
B. the accident happened on a clear warm day
C. the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch
D. Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended
【参考答案】6—10、CBCCA