重庆市2017高考英语阅读理解选编（129）（附解析）
阅读理解。
The pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（数字化）of everyday life.
Set to open in 2017, the £188 m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.
As digital media（媒介）is important to its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies.
Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning, “The aim is to mix the physical with the digital. Providing 24-hour services which can be used through many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.”
The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.
Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虚拟的）LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.
Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls “enlarge reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of development is an online library of figures of the city being built by a digital content company in Cahoots, in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material.
Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to make the library’s content and services open to citizens as sever before.”
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) 1. The underline part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of____.
A. the equipment
B. the project
C. the digital media
D.
the physical library
(
) 2. While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can_____.
A. get a general idea of the LoB
B. meet many world-famous experts
C. learn how to put up a library building
D. understand how the specialists work on the project
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) 3. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens?
a. It offers better learning tools
b. It reaches users in different ways
c. It provides users with smart phone
d. It allows users to enrich its material
e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services
A. a, b, d
B. a, c, e
C. b, c, d
D. b, d, e
(
) 4. This text is most probably taken from
.
A. a put book
B. a library guide
C. a handbook
D. a newspaper report
【答案与解析】
【要点综述】本篇文章为资讯报道类文体。文章报道了Library of Birmingham（伯明翰图书馆）将会投巨资改建成一个全新的数字化图书馆的事情。
1．B词义推断题。通过分析单词所在的这个句子，可知its（它的）指代的是主句中的主语“这个工程的”，its idea便是指the idea of the project。
2．A细节理解题。根据第6段第2句“Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.”可知答案为A。B、C、D说法均有误。
3．A细节理解题。根据第4段“it is about giving people the right tools for learning”， “which can be used through many different ways”及第7段“in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material”可知。
4．D推理判断题。文章首段便简明地概括了文章主题，全文体现较明显的及时性，这是资讯类文体的典型特征，据此可判断文章应来源于一篇资讯报道。
阅读理解训练
(2015·陕西)
Parents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades.Other forms of parental_involvement，including volunteering at school and observing a child's class，also fail to help，according to the most recent study on the topic.
The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting(养育子女) where schools expect them to act as partners in their children's education.Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time，fed，dressed and ready to learn.
Keith Robinson，the author of the study，said，“I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance.One of the things that was consistently negative was parents' help with homework.”Robinson suggested that may be because parents themselves struggle to understand the tasks.“They may either not remember the material their kids are studying now，or in some cases never learnt it themselves，but they're still offering advice.”
Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks.In general，about 20% of parental involvement was positive，about 45% negative and the rest statistically insignificant.
Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because “children with good academic success do have involved parents”，admitted Robinson.But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.“A big surprise was that AsianAmerican parents whose kids are doing so well in school hardly involved.They took a more reasonable approach，conveying to their children how success at school could improve their lives.”
文章大意：文章和很多人预期不同的是，父母过度的参与孩子的教育未必有好的效果。父母应该帮助孩子意识到学校教育的重要性。
9．The underlined expression “parental involvement”in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.
A．parents' expectation on children's health
B．parents' participation in children's education
C．parents' control over children's life
D．parents' plan for children's future
答案：B 句意理解题。根据第一段的句子：Other forms of parental involvement, including volunteering at school and observing a child's class可知，“parental involvement”指的是“父母参与孩子的教育”，故选B。
10．What is the major finding of Robinson's study?
A．Modern parents raise children in a more scientific way.
B．Punishing kids for bad marks is mentally damaging.
C．Parental involvement is not so beneficial as expected.
D．Parents are not able to help with children's homework.
答案：C 细节理解题。根据文章第三段的句子：...but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance.可知，Robinson的研究发现是父母参与孩子的教育没有预料的那么有效，故选C。
11．The example of AsianAmerican parents implies that parents should ________.
A．help children realize the importance of schooling
B．set a specific life goal for their children
C．spend more time improving their own lives
D．take a more active part in school management
答案：A 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段的句子：They took a more reasonable approach, conveying to their children how success at school could improve their lives.可知，美国父母的例子暗示父母应该帮助孩子意识到学校教育的重要性，故选A。
（2016高考训练）阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项。体裁：说明文 话题：大学教育 词数：268 时间：6′
Jiang Zhongjie，19，a second－year student majoring in biology at Xiamen University，looks at job websites almost every day.As summer vacation approaches，he can't decide which internship (实习) position would benefit him.
“I think it is hard to know what would be a meaningful intern job，” he said.“Most of the time，the positions on offer are low paid，boring jobs，such as sales promotion，” said Jiang.
Last month，during an education forum (论坛)，Huang Guitian，assistant to the president of Peking University，called for a halt to the internships of lower quality，regarding them as “dull and meaningless，affecting students' academic performance”．
Huang conducted a mini survey，showing “80 percent of students merely do odd (零散的) jobs on internship”．
But employers and students may have different attitudes.According
to
a
survey
of
116
Beijing
and
Shanghai－based companies by Zhaopin.com，a leading human resource services site，nearly 60 percent said they still valued applicants' hands－on experience most.
Zhang Jianhong，HR director in Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd agreed with this idea，believing that internship even goes beyond gaining experience.“An internship actually offers a great chance for students to get an inside glimpse of a company，an industry and a particular occupation，” he said.
He says it can help interns discover whether the career they are considering is suitable for them.And if students are aware of which industry they would like to enter，Zhang suggests that they select an internship in a relevant field，with the potential to turn into a formal job offer.
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇有关大学生毕业实习的报道。文章介绍了不同的人对于实习有着不同的观点，褒贬不一。
．What does the word “halt” in the third paragraph probably mean?
A．Stop.
B．Beginning.
C．Progress.
D．Delay.
答案 A
2．What does Jiang Zhongjie think of intern jobs?
A．They are meaningful.
B．They are not exciting.
C．The pay lives up to his expectations.
D．Internship improves students' learning abilities.
答案 B
．We may learn from the text that ________．
A．all the people have the same attitude toward internship
B．less and less companies think highly of applicants' working experience
C．Zhang Jianhong believes that an internship benefits students in some way
D．the students can't change their career once they select an internship in some field
答案 C
．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．No Internship，No Job
B．Internship，Good or Bad
C．Internship Helps Find a Job
D．Where to Find an Intern Job
答案 B (2015·陕西省西安地区八校联考三)
After achieving a 9 percent GDP growth, hosting a successful Olympic Games and carrying out its first space walk, you'd think China would be happy. Yet China is not pleased. That, at least, is the opinion of a new book written by a group of Chinese authors.
China Is Not Happy was released in March. It is a followup to the 1996 work China Can Say No, a bestseller that complained about the influence of the West, and the US in particular, on China. Thirteen years later, the authors of China Is Not Happy list their dissatisfaction with_how_China_is_being_treated_in_the_world_today. They argue that China needs to use its growing power and economic resources to build its own position of outstanding performances. “From looking at the history of human civilization, we are most qualified to lead this world. Westerners should be second，” the book says.
The authors single out the US for special scorn(轻蔑), and say their book's message has been helped by the economic crisis. “This economic problem has shown the Chinese people that America does have problems, and that what we've been saying is right，” said Wang Xiaodong, one of the authors in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Since released on March 13, the book has become a bestseller in many Chinese bookstores. The publisher has printed 270,000 copies, and says sales are far better than expected.
Several reviews in the Chinese media have criticized the book's radical(激进) opinions. The book is a way to “fish money from the pockets of the angry youth and angry elderly，” wrote one critic in the China Youth Daily. Meanwhile, a wellknown sociologist, Li Yinhe, has said that China needs patriotism(爱国精神), but there is a limit.
Wang Xiaodong admitted in an interview with the US' Time magazine that the book's title is a bit of a trick. “Those words in the title are just for the purpose of promoting the book in the marketplace，” he says.“We didn't choose them. It was the people selling the book who chose the title.”
文章大意：本文是主要介绍《中国不高兴》这本书的出版原因和出版意图。
12．In the book China Is Not Happy, the authors express their dissatisfaction with ________.
A．the influence of western countries on China
B．the relationship in economy between China and western countries
C．China's position in the international stage in the world today
D．Westerners' robbing China of many resources in history
答案：C 推理判断题。根据文章第二段的最后两句话可推断中国不高兴的原因就是中国在国际舞台上的地位不高。故选C。
13．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A．China has made great historical breakthroughs in the past several years.
B．China's civilization has advantages over the westerners'.
C．China needs to use its growing power and economic resources to build its own world position.
D．China should be the number one leader in the world.
答案：A 细节理解题。根据文章的第一段中国这几年GDP一直在增加，但并没有那么大的突破。故选A。
14．We can infer from the fifth paragraph ________.
A．some of the responses to the book is negative
B．the youth and the elderly in China are angry with the book
C．the authors of the book are reporters and sociologists
D．many Chinese express their radical opinions
答案：A 推理判断题。根据该段criticized, fish money, limit等可推知，人们对该书有反对声音。故选A。
15．The book is named China Is Not Happy because ________ on the book.
A．China wants to put pressure on the western countries
B．it reflects the national feelings of Chinese people
C．the authors of the book asked them to do so
D．it is a good selling point
答案：D 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的第一、二句话可推断作者起这样的书名就是该书的卖点。还有文章的最后一句话也可推断。故选D。
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。
I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives (观点) by creating worlds we could step into, take part. in. and live in.
With this unshakable belief, I, at. fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find his own voice by reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other people’s writing can one discover what works, what doesn’t and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.
Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction (文学作品)．As a. law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter—the volume (量) of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn't necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.
(
) 1. What can be inferred about the author as a child?
A.
He never watched TV.
B.
He read what he had to.
C.
He found reading unbelievable.
D.
He considered reading part of his life.
(
) 2. The underlined word "voice" in the second paragraph most probably means “
”.
A. an idea
B. a sound quality
C. a way of writing
D. a world to write about
(
) 3. What effect does reading have on the author?
A. It helps him to realize his dream.
B. It opens up a wider world for him.
C. It makes his college life more interesting.
D. It increases his interest in worldwide travel.
(
) 4. Which of the following can be the best title of this text?
A. Why do I read?
B. How do I read?
C. What do I read?
D. When do I read?
语篇解读：本篇文章是记叙文。作者通过自己的亲身体验，讲述读书使人形成自己的独立观点，读书使人开扩视野的重要作用。
1. 答案：D
考点：细节理解题
解析：根据首段第一二句， “I grew up in a house… with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves….I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing”可知作者是在一个以书为伴的环境中长大的，读书像呼吸那样已经成为生活必需。
2. 答案：C
考点：词义推测题。
解析：根据文中 “...but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find his own …”可以推断出voice所表达的意思是“写作方式”。
3. 答案B
考点：细节理解题
解析：由文章的最后一句：“It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn't necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.”可得出答案
4. 答案：A
考点：主旨大意题。
解析：文章作者主要以自己的亲身体验讲述读书的重要性。因此Why do I read?“我为什么读书？”作题目最佳。