2017届英语高三二轮复习：第三板块高考体验2—阅读理解

　　(2010·北京)

　　Goldie’s Secret

　　She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way，not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before.“We’re moving house.” “No space for her any more with the baby coming.”“We never really wanted her，but what could we have done？She was a present.”People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

　　I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name.She was so unsettled during those first few days.She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her.There was nothing I could do to make her happy，it seemed.Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner’s. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down.Always by my side，whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.

　　That’s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home，when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn’t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.

　　By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie.But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them.“We didn’t know what had happened to her，”said the woman at the door.“I took her for a walk one day，soon after the puppies were born，and she just disappeared.”“She must have tried to come back to them and got lost，”added a boy from behind her.

　　I must admit I do miss Goldie，but I’ve got Nugget now，and she looks just like her mother. And I’ve learnt a good lesson：not to judge people.

　　【语篇解读】　 文章讲述了一只狗(Goldie)的故事：它从原先的家中走失，被作者收养。后来有一次和作者出去散步时找到了自己原来的家和小狗。

　　1．How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?

　　A．Shocked.B．Sympathetic.

　　C．Annoyed.

　　D．Upset.

　　解析　细节理解题。根据第一段的描写，尤其是No way could I have sent her away.可以知道作者对Goldie非常同情。

　　答案　B

　　2．In her first few days at the author’s house，Goldie________.

　　A．felt worried

　　B．was angry

　　C．ate a little

　　D．sat by the fire

　　解析　细节理解题。根据第二段：She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her.可知答案为A。

　　答案　A

　　3．Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ________.

　　A．saw her puppies

　　B．heard familiar barkings

　　C．wanted to leave the author

　　D．found her way to her old home

　　解析　推理判断题。根据第三段，尤其是最后一句Eventually I couldn’t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.推断答案为D。

　　答案　D

　　4．The passage is organized in order of________.

　　A．time

　　B．effectiveness

　　C．importance

　　D．complexity

　　解析　文章结构题。纵观全文，作者从Goldie的到来和离开，按时间顺序描写。

　　答案　A

　　Passage 1

　　(2011·重庆)There was a gardener who looked after his garden with great care. To water his flowers, he used two buckets. One was a shiny and new bucket. The other was a very old and dilapidated one, which had seen many years of service, but was now past its best.

　　Every morning, the gardener would fill up the two buckets. Then he would carry them along the path, one on each side, to the flowerbeds. The new bucket was very proud of itself. It could carry a full bucket of water without a single drop spilled (溢出). The old bucket felt very ashamed because of its holes: before it reached the flowerbeds, much water had leaked along the path.

　　Sometimes the new bucket would say, “See how capable I am! How good it is that the gardener has me to water the flowers every day! I don’t know why he still bothers with you. What a waste of space you are！”

　　And all that the old bucket could say was, “I know I’m not very useful, but I can only do my best. I’m happy that the gardener still finds a little bit of use in me, at least.”

　　One day, the gardener heard that kind of conversation. After watering the flowers as usual, he said, “You both have done your work very well. Now I am going to carry you back. I want you to look carefully along the path.”

　　Then the two buckets did so. All along the path, they noticed, on the side where the new bucket was carried, there was just bare (光秃秃的)earth; on the other side where the old bucket was carried, there was a joyous row of wild flowers, leading all the way to the garden.

　　【语篇解读】　本文用拟人的手法讲述了园丁和两个水桶的故事：一个新桶，为自己不漏水而自豪；一个旧桶，走一路，漏一路，很自卑。但他所经过的地方，却是鲜花盛开。园丁最后道出了真谛：每个桶都有存在的价值。同样，我们每个人也都有用。

　　1. What does the underlined word “dilapidated” probably mean?

　　A. Dirty

　　B. Dark

　　C. Worn­out

　　D. Plain­looking.

　　解析　猜测词义题。根One was a shiny and new bucket. The other was a very old and dilapidated one.可知一只桶是崭新的，而另一只是破旧不堪的。注意下文特别提到The old bucket felt very ashamed because of its holes: before it reached the flowerbeds, much water had leaked along the path.可知是漏水的，当然就破了呀。

　　答案　C

　　2. What was the old bucket ashamed of?

　　A. His past.

　　B. His aging.

　　C. His manner.

　　D. His leaking.

　　解析　细节题。The old bucket felt very ashamed because of its holes: before it reached the flowerbeds, much water had leaked along the path.

　　答案　D

　　3. The new bucket made conversations with the old one mainly to ________.

　　A. laugh at the old one

　　B. take pity on the old one

　　C. show off its beautiful looks

　　D. praise the gardener’s kindness

　　解析　推理判断题。根据The new bucket was very proud of itself.和第三段，可知新桶对自己的表现很是自豪，而看到那个旧桶一路都是漏水，当然要炫耀一下自己，羞辱一下别人。

　　答案　A

　　4. Why was the old bucket still kept by the gardener?

　　A. Because it was used to keep a balance

　　B. Because it stayed in its best condition

　　C. Because it was taken as a treasure

　　D. Because it had its own function

　　解析　推理判断题。根据文章最后两段可知，两个桶都有其存在的价值。

　　答案　D

　　Passage 2

　　I was working as a consultant in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice­presidents form and carry out their new planning projects. It was really a great challenge.

　　At the same time, my mother was in the final stages of cancer.

　　I worked during the day and drove 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was tiring and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My commitment was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day, even though my evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to bother the president with my situation, yet I felt someone at the company needed to know what was going on. So I told the vice­president of Human Resources, asking him not to share the information with anyone.

　　A few days later, the president called me into his office.

　　I figured he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were working on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large desk, looked me in the eye and said, “I hear your mother is very ill.”

　　I was totally caught by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my crying subside(平息), and then gently said a sentence I will never forget: Whatever you need.

　　That was it. His understanding and his willingness both to let me be in my pain and to offer me everything were qualities of sympathy that I carry with me to this day.

　　【语篇解读】　这是一篇记叙文，讲述作者在工作的同时照顾患病母亲，公司董事长的理解和帮助令其终生难忘。

　　1．When the author was working in a beer company, his mother________.

　　A．was concerned about him

　　B．drew the president’s attention

　　C．was seriously ill

　　D．was proud of her son

　　解析　考查细节理解。第二段第一行可以得出结论。

　　答案　C

　　2．Although he felt tired and stressed, he felt it his duty________.

　　A．to carry out their new strategic vision

　　B．to avoid bothering the president

　　C．to tell the vice­president his difficult situation

　　D．to do his job well and look after his mother

　　解析　考查细节理解。第三段第一、二行有清晰的叙述。

　　答案　D

　　3．Most probably, the president got the information from________.

　　A．a relative of the author’s

　　B．the vice­president

　　C．the author’s good friends

　　D．the author’s collegues

　　解析　考查判断推理。第三段最后一句作者把母亲患癌的事告诉了副董事长。几天以后，董事长找他谈他母亲的事。由此可以得出推理的结论。

　　答案　B

　　4．Which of the following can be used to best describe the president?

　　A．Considerate.

　　B．Intelligent.

　　C．Honest.

　　D．Consultative.

　　解析　考查推理和细节理解。根据最后一段第二句第一个单词和董事长的行为得出答案。

　　答案　A

　　5．Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

　　A．Understanding Is Everywhere

　　B．Generous President

　　C．Sympathy Is Needed

　　D．An Unforgetable Memory

　　解析　考查主旨要义。从整体和最后一段判断作者对这件事刻骨铭心。

　　答案　D

　　Passage 3

　　(2011·监利中学高三第一次摸底)It was my first day at school in London and I was half­excited and half­frightened. On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and rehearsed (practiced) all the answers: “I am nine years old. I was born here

　　but I haven’t lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I also wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.

　　No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”， but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all the curiosity my arrival aroused.

　　My teacher was called Mr Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn’t stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon.

　　Mr Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class，said；“Timbuktu”， and Mr Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me.I said；“Portsmouth”， and everyone stared at me because Mr Jones said I was right. This didn’t make me very popular, of

　　course.

　　“He thinks he’s clever，” I heard Brian say.

　　After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’s team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.

　　“He’s big enough and useless enough，” Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.

　　I suppose Mr. Jones remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a penalty. As the boy kicked the ball hard along the ground to my right, I threw myself down instinctively and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were grazed and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.

　　“Do you want to join my gang (team)？” he said.

　　At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.

　　1．The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT“ ________”．

　　A. How old are you?

　　B. Where are you from?

　　C. Do you want to join my gang?

　　D. When did you come back to London?

　　解析　考查细节理解。根据第一段我设想的问题可知选C。

　　答案　C

　　2．We can learn from the passage that________.

　　A. boys were usually unfriendly to new students

　　B. the writer was not greeted as he expected

　　C. Brian praised the writer for his cleverness

　　D. the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper

　　解析　考查细节理解。根据第二段内容中的“I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”， but no one spoke to me.”可推知选B。

　　答案　B

　　3．The underlined part “I didn’t stand out” in paragraph 3 means that the writer

　　was not________.

　　A. noticeable　

　　B. welcome

　　C. important

　　D. outstanding

　　解析　考查猜测词义。根据第三段可知：班上男孩众多，我并不引人注目。

　　答案　A

　　4．The writer was offered a handkerchief because________.

　　A. he threw himself down and saved the goal

　　B. he pushed a player on the other team

　　C. he was beginning to be accepted

　　D. he was no longer a new comer

　　解析　考查判断推理。根据文章中的“I was no longer a stranger.”推知作者被接纳了。

　　答案　C