山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（27）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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I have been a music fan ever since I was a little kid. It must have been my eldest brother who brought me to the world of music, which later in my life became the source of happiness
and sadness. My brother liked to play the dizi, a very traditional musical instrument which was very popular in the 1970's. Greatly influenced by his enthusiasm to music, I learned to play the dizi in my spare time.
Do you know what the most popular form of culture was in the 1970's? The so-called model dramas, that is, "Modern revolutionary Beijing opera", which were officially formed during the Cultural Revolution. Their materials were from the communist activities or related subjects. From morning till night, you would hear them broadcast over and over again. Frankly speaking, model dramas served as my guide to music to some extent（程度）because the music was really wonderfully made.
Later I met my desk-mate, who was then also a music lover. Having much in common, we soon became good friends. Very often we listened to the radio, learned new songs and then sang them on our way home. I still remember one day in class we even put our radio beneath the surface of our desk and kept our ears close to it, listening to the pop songs of that time with the teacher giving his lesson in front. Does it shock you? At the beginning of the 1980's, films were very much popular with young people and the songs in them would soon become the hits. At the same time, many film stars like Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong captured the hearts of us late 1960's generation.
I spent my high school days in the world of music and continued my passion for music in my spare time in my following years.
1. The author of the passage began his musical hobby with
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A. Beijing opera
B. radio broadcast
C. films
D. dizi
2. The author is probably in his
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A. 30's
B. 40's
C. 50's
D. 60's
3. The author writes this passage
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A. to tell readers how he began his musical hobby
B. to tell readers about Beijing opera
C. to tell readers something about his teacher
D. to recall his life of his childhood and middle school
B
During the 20th century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century probably has been in her middle 20's and would be likely to have seven or eight children. By the time the youngest was 15, the mother would have been in her early 50's and would expect to live a further 20 years, during which chance and health made
it hard for her to get paid work.
Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's
youngest child will be 15 when she is 45 and she can be expected to live another 35 years and is likely to get paid work until 60.
This important change in women's life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a fulltime job. However, when they married they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is 16, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more return to work later. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties of family life.
4. We learn from this passage that in the 19th century
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A. there were more children in the world than there are today
B. women spent a greater part of their lives raising
C. there were more women in poor health than there are today
D. women married younger than they do today
5. One reason why a married woman of today may take a job is that
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A. she is young when her children can look after themselves
B. she is obliged to help her husband support the family
C. she feels lonely at home when her children grow up
D. she hopes to change the world a bit
6. Many girls are now likely to
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A. give up their jobs after they get married
B. leave school as soon as they can
C. marry early so that they can get better jobs
D. continue working until they are going to have a baby
7. Now a husband probably
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A. plays a greater part in doing housework
B. does almost all of the housework
C. feels unhappy about his wife's going out to work
D. takes a part-time job so as to help at home
C
Tens of thousands of travelers from around the world pelted each other with tonnes (公吨) of tomatoes on Wednesday in a festival in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol.
The one-hour bloodless battle, known as the Tomatina, left the town awash in a sea of tomato pulp（果肉）.
The local government brought in some 100 tonnes of ripe tomatoes on trucks for the about 40,000 tourists who visited the town of just 9,000 local people for the yearly festival, which has taken place for more than 60 years. Many of them were shirtless while others wore old clothes and hard hats.
Afterwards, workers clean the walls and streets to remove the tomato pulp.
Spanish media said the tomatoes cost the local government around 28,000 euros (35,000 dollars), about one third of the total amount of money for the festival, most of which goes to pay for security, cleaning services, and mobile toilets.
More than 100 police and 120 civil protection volunteers were on hand in case of incidents.
The Tomatina is held each year in Bunol, located in a rich area some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the coastal city of Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, on the last Wednesday in August.
The origins of the event are unclear although it is thought to have its roots in a food fight between childhood friends in the mid-1940s in the city.
It has grown in size as international newspaper coverage brought more and more people to the festival.
8. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Tomatina--a local government's headache
B. Tomatina--a Spanish tomato festival
C. Tomatina--an international incident
D. Tomatina--a one-hour bloody battle
9. What does the underlined word "pelt" in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. catch
B. connect
C. throw
D. trick
10. The local government will be concerned about the following EXCEPT
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A. preventing the citizens and tourists from fighting
B. asking workers to tidy the street after the battle
C. buying tonnes of tomatoes for the festival
D. providing the rest rooms for all present
11. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The local government spent more than 80,000 euros on the festival.
B. The festival is organized by a non-government organization.
C. Tourists have to buy tomatoes from the local people.
D. Most local people are poor and shirtless.
D
Michelle Obama has started a campaign against childhood obesity in the US, saying that it is a problem that concerns her both as first lady and as a mother.
Mrs. Obama said that the fight was designed to encourage people to live healthier lives, but admitted that she herself was not immune to the temptations of junk food.
"I love hamburgers and fries. And I love ice cream and cakes. And so do most kids," she said. But she added: "We' re not talking about a lifestyle that avoids all that."
"The question is how we help people balance that out so that they're not facing life-threat-
ening illnesses, but they're enjoying their food, they're eating their vegetables, they're doing th-
eir running and walking and playing and still have time to get a good, fun meal in every once in a while."
One in three American children is overweight or obese, patting them at higher risk of develop-
ing diabtes（糖尿病）, high blood pressure, high cholesterol（胆固醇）and other illnesses.
Billions of dollars are spent every year treating obesityrelated conditions.
"None of us wants this future for our kids," Mrs. Obama said at the White House. "We have to act, so let's move."
Her campaign has four parts: helping parents make better food choices, serving healthier food in school vending（出售）machines and lunch lines, making healthy food more affordable, and encouraging children to exercise more.
The campaign, which Mrs. Obama hopes will be seen as her gift, is aimed at solving the childhood obesity problem in a generation, so that children born today can reach adulthood at a healthy weight.
"This isn't like a disease where we're still waiting for the treatment to be discovered. We know the treatment for this," she said at the starting ceremony.
President Barack Obama praised his wife for dealing with what he called one of "the most urgent health issues facing the country."
"This has great promise in improving the health of our children, in giving support to parents to make the kinds of healthy choices that are often very difficult," he said.
12. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. The first lady enjoys her healthy eating lifestyle.
B. The first lady started a movement against fat people.
C. The first lady is eager for forming her healthy eating habit.
D. The first lady calls for improving the health of American children.
13. Her campaign includes the following parts EXCEPT
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A. providing better food for parents
B. supplying healthy food for school lunch
C. keeping the healthy food cheaper
D. asking children to do more sports
14. What's the purpose of the campaign?
A. Helping her husband President Obama solve the urgent issue.
B. Attracting the international attention to the children obesity.
C. Cutting down the cost spent every year treating obesity.
D. Expecting the American children to grow up stronger.
15. What did Mrs. Obama mean when she said "she herself was not immune to the temptations of junk food"?
A. She was hurt by junk food for most of the time.
B. She was willing to accept junk food sometimes.
C. She wanted to get rid of the bad habit of eating junk food.
D. She was eager for a cure for unhealthy eating habit.
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