河南罗山县2017高考英语一轮阅读理解训练题
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、D）中，选出最佳选项。When it comes to success in business and success in life, there are few qualities as important as confidence．
People naturally have different levels of confidence．Some have a higher level of confidence than others do, but even those whose confidence is lacking can learn to build their level of confidence and reach their most important goals．Increasing self confidence is one of the most common reasons people give for seeking the help of psychologists and other professionals．
One of the many places where a greater level of confidence is useful is in the workplace． We all know how difficult it can be, for instance, to ask the boss for a raise．This process can be extremely difficult for those who lack confidence in their own abilities．After all, if you are unsure about your own abilities, how will you ever convince your boss that you deserve more money for the work you do?
Even if you are not asking for that big raise, having plenty of confidence in your abilities is important to success．If you are certain of your abilities, chances are that those around you, whether they are your coworkers, your colleagues or your superiors, will see that confidence, and that will help to assure them that you aree the best at what you do．
Having a high level of confidence, after all, does not mean overlooking the places where you could improve．Knowing what you do well and where you need help will help you enjoy increased success and confidence．
33．What is the passage mainly about?
A．The influence of confidence on one's life．
B．The difference of people's confidence．．
C．The importance of confidence to success
D．The judgment on one's confidence．
34．Psychologists and other professionals can offer help to those ______．
A．who dream to be recognized experts
B．who expect to give guidance to others
C．who want to ask the boss for a raise
D．who think their goals are hard to reach
35．What does the underlined word "indispensable" in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．outgoing
B．attractive
C．important
D．energetic
36．What message does the author want to convey（传递） in the last paragraph?
A．To overlook one's disadvantages．
B．To make full use of one's advantages．
C．To have great confidence in one's abilities．
D．To make objective evaluations of one's abilities
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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。
The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
【文章大意】
本文叙述的是去玛格丽特·米切尔写小说时住的房子参观，可以更多了解她的生活。玛格丽特·米切尔出生在亚特兰大，小时候就开始写小说，后来在亚特兰大日报社做记者。她和丈夫住在一说小公寓里。因为受伤，她不上班了，呆在家里读书写作。她写的小说《飘》获得了普利策奖，并被拍摄成电影。
26. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.
A. first published on a newspaper
B. awarded ten Academy Awards
C. written in “The Dump”
D. adapted from a movie
【答案】C
【 解析】推理判断题。根据Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story和They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .可知玛格丽特·米切尔在自己家写的《飘》，她和她的丈夫戏称他们的小公寓为垃圾站，故选C。
27. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.
A. be very pleased with
B. show great respect for
C. be much taller than
D. show little interest in
【答案】C
【 解析】词义猜测题。根据her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall.可知她的身高只有1.5米，而那些大学男孩的身高应是比她高。故选C。
28. Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?
A. Because she was rich enough.
B. Because she was injured then.
C. Because her husband didn’t like it.
D. Because she wanted to write books.
【答案】B
【 解析】细节理解题。根据Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury.可知玛格丽特·米切尔因为受伤停止了作为记者的工作。故选B。
29. We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.
A. her height made her marriage unhappy
B. her interest in writing continued as an adult
C. writing stopped her working as a reporter
D. her life was full of hardship and sadness
【答案】B
【 解析】推理判断题。根据She started writing stories when she was a child.和She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book.可知她小时候开始写小说，当她结婚后，她继续写小说。故选B。
30. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.
B. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.
C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.
D. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.
【答案】A
【 解析】标题归纳题。根据Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.可知本文叙述的是去玛格丽特·米切尔写小说时住的房子参观，可以更多了解她的生活。故选A。
A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
In 1995, Susan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition(试演) for My Kind of People, a televised talent show popular in the UK. She was immediately rejected. She was nervous during the audition, and felt she didn’t perform well, but her brother said that she was rejected because of her plain looks. Boyle was not discouraged and continued to sing at church and at the karaoke nights in a local pub.
Boyle suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death, Boyle put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother Bridget Boyle. The mother and daughter often talked of Susan’s possible fame. Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competitions. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain’s Got Talent. We used to watch it together.” susan later told reporters. “She thought I would win.”
In 1999, Boyle used all of her savings to pay for a professional demo (样本唱片) tape, which she sent to record companies. In 2002, Boyle began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O’Neil.
In 2007, Boyle’s mother passed away at the age of 91. A neighbor reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn’t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone.” she lived alone with her cat, Pebbles. For over a year, she refused to sing. But in August of 2008, O’Neil urged her to try out for Britain’s Got Talent. Convinced that the performance would be an honor to her mother, Boyle auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. She sang I Dreamed A Dream in the first round of the show, which was aired on 11 April 2009.
The 47-year-old Scottish woman’s plain looks provided a sharp contrast (对比) to her powerfully beautiful voice. The performance astonished the audience and the judges. Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week. Although she failed to win the final of Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular. Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies.
1. Bridget Boyle’s attitude towards her daughter’s musical talent can be described as______.
A. critical B. doubtfulC. indifferent D. optimistic
2. From Para. 4 we learn that Boyle______.
A. was slightly discouraged by her voice coach
B. entered Britain’s Got Talent to prove her ability
C. decided to give up her singing career
D. was deeply affected by her mother’s death
3. Which of the following is TRUE about Susan Boyle?
A. Her international fame grew rapidly in 2008.
B. Her audition for My Kind of People failed.
C. She has never stopped singing since 1995.
D. She was the winner of Britain’s Got Talent.
4. In writing this passage, the author mainly intends to______.
A. tell us how Boyle’s dream came true
B. let us know more about Boyle’s personal life
C. show how Boyle was influenced by her family
D. explain how to enter and win a talent show
【参考答案】1—4、DDBA
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。
You are given many opportunities in life to choose to be a victim or a creator. When you choose to be a victim, the world is a cold and difficult place. “They” did things to you which caused all of your pain and suffering. “They” are wrong and bad, and life is terrible as long as “they” are around. Or you may blame yourself for all your problems, thus internalizing(内化) your victimization. The truth is, your life is likely to stay that way as long as you feel a need to blame yourself or others.
Those who choose to be creators look at life quite differently. They know there are individuals who might like to control their lives, but they don’t let this get in the way. They know they have their weaknesses, yet they don’t blame themselves when they fail. Whatever happens, they have choice in the matter. They believe their dance with each sacred(神圣的) moment of life is a gift and that storms are a natural part of life which can bring the rain needed for emotional and spiritual growth.
Victims and creators live in the same physical world and deal with many of the same physical realities, yet their experience of life is worlds apart. Victims relish (沉溺) in anger, guilt, and other emotions that cause others—and even themselves—to feel like victims, too. Creators consciously choose love, inspiration, and other qualities which inspire not only themselves, but all around them. Both victims and creators always have choice to determine the direction of their lives.
In reality, all of us play the victim or the creator at various points in our lives. One person, on losing a job or a special relationship, may feel as if it is the end of the world and sink into terrible suffering for months, years, or even a lifetime. Another with the same experience may choose to first experience the grief, then accept the loss and soon move on to be a powerful creative force in his life.
In every moment and every circumstance, you can choose to have a fuller, richer life by setting a clear intention to transform the victim within, and by inviting into your life the powerful creator that you are.
【文章大意】本文叙述了创造者和受害者的两种出事状态，以及如何把受害者转变成创造者的方法。受害者和创造者都能决定自己的生活方向，都是生活的主人。受害者是因为太沉浸在痛苦中而创造者选择那些激励自己的事物。在每种情况和环境下，你可以通过设置明确的目的充实丰富的生活选择来改变受害者的那种思想。
31. What does the word “they” in Paragraph 1 probably refer to?
A. People and things around you.
B. Opportunities and problems.
C. Creators and their choices.
D. Victims and their sufferings.
【答案】A
【 解析】词义猜测题。根据“they” are around.可知“they”在我们周围，因此是我们周围的人或事。故选A。
32. According to Paragraph 2, creators __________.
A. seem willing to experience failures in life
B. possess the ability to predict future life
C. handle ups and downs of life wisely
D. have potential to create something new
【答案】C
【 解析】推理判断题。根据Whatever happens, they have choice in the matter.可知创造者无论什么事情发生，他们都能做出抉择，说明他们能够处理生活的挫折。故选C。
33. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. Creators and victims face quite different things in life.
B. Creators and victims are masters of their lives.
C. Victims can influence more people than creators.
D. Compared with victims, creators are more emotional.
【答案】B
【 解析】推理判断题。根据Both victims and creators always have choice to determine the direction of their lives. 可知受害者和创造者都能决定自己的生活方向。因此，他们都是生活的主人。故选B
34. The examples mentioned in Paragraph 4 show that __________.
A. strong attachment to (沉浸在）sufferings in life pulls people into victims
B. people need family support to deal with challengers in life
C. it takes creators quite a long time to get rid of their pains
D. one’s experiences determine his attitude toward life
【答案】A
【 解析】推理判断题。根据One person, on losing a job or a special relationship, may feel as if it is the end of the world and sink into terrible suffering for months, years, or even a lifetime.可知一个人太沉浸在痛苦中，他就会成为受害者。故选A。
35. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
A. To define victims and creators.
B. To evaluate victims against creators.
C. To explain the relationship between victims and creators.
D. To suggest the transformation from victims to creators.
【答案】D
【 解析】推理判断题。根据In every moment and every circumstance, you can choose to have a fuller, richer life by setting a clear intention to transform the victim within, and by inviting into your life the powerful creator that you are. 可知在每种情况和环境下，你可以通过设置明确的目的充实丰富的生活选择来改变受害者的那种思想。因此本文的目的是告诉我们如何从受害者转变成创造者。故选D。