2017届四川省剑阁县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解训练：3（含解析）

　　2017四川剑阁县高考英语一轮阅读理解训练

　　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’ve seen news reports about people who need help after a flood. Maybe you’ve walked past people who are sleeping on the streets. Or perhaps you’ve watched TV programs about how lonely older people can get. So what can you do about any of those things? The answer: You can volunteer (做志愿者).

　　Volunteering is a great way to learn new skills — from working as part of a team to setting and reaching goals. It gives you a chance to find out what kinds of things you’re good at and enjoy the most. Volunteering can provide you with a sense of responsibility because people really depend on you. And it can help you understand disabled (残疾的) people, sick kids, or the elderly.

　　Volunteering helps people feel they do have the power to change things for the better. When people depend on you, it can change the way you look at yourself, and this is the main reason that makes volunteering attractive. You can feel proud of the goals that you’ve achieved (实现) for a charity organization (慈善组织) — whether it’s helping to organize a 10K to raise money for lung cancer or running the race itself.

　　Sometimes it’s easy to feel worried about your grades or the fight you had with your friend or parents. And although these things are very important in their own way, sometimes it can be helpful to get some distance and think about other things. Volunteering allows you to do this. It lets you focus on others that are worth doing.

　　Finally, volunteering can help save you from being bored — it gives you a place to be where you can have a good time and keep busy.

　　1. From the passage, we can learn that volunteering ____.

　　A. is the best way to find out your interests

　　B. mainly helps the old and the poor people

　　C. makes sure volunteers will get a good job in the future

　　D. can help volunteers choose a job that they really like in the future

　　2. Today, most people volunteer mainly for the purpose of ______.

　　A. making themselves famous and popular

　　B. knowing their value by helping others

　　C. increasing their knowledge and learning skills

　　D. helping people out of trouble

　　3. What do the underlined words “a 10K” (Paragraph 3) probably refer to?

　　A. A charity organization.

　　B. A volunteer group.

　　C. A 10-kilometer race.

　　D. A political activity.

　　4. The purpose of the passage is to ________.

　　A. talk about the difficulties of volunteering

　　B. talk about how to make life meaningful

　　C. tell readers how to volunteer

　　D. talk about the advantages of volunteering

　　【参考答案】1---4、DBCD

　　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。

　　Almost anyone who has read a travel brochure about Africa has heard of elephants getting drunk from the fruit of the marula tree. It is said that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented (发酵) fruit rotting on the ground. Books have even been written to prove the truth of the phenomenon.

　　But a study published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology tells a very different story.

　　Steve Morris, a biologist at the University of Bristol in England and an author of the study, says there is nothing in the biology of either the African elephant or the marula fruit to support the stories. Morris says, “ people just want to believe in drunken elephants.”

　　The marula tree, a member of the same family as the mango, grows widely in Africa. Its sweet, yellow fruit is used for making jam, wine and beer. “The first mistake of the drunken-elephant theory is that it’s unlikely that an elephant would eat the fruit if it were rotten, ” Morris says. “Elephants eat the fruit right off the tree, not when it’s rotten on the ground, ” he explains.

　　Other experts add that if an elephant were to eat the fruit on the ground, it wouldn’t wait for the fruit to ferment. Michelle Gadd, an African wildlife specialist, says that elephants and many other animals, including birds and monkeys, are too fond of marula fruit to let it rot.

　　If fermented fruit on the ground is out of the question, so is the notion that the fruit could ferment in the stomach of elephants, according to the study authors. Food takes between 12 and 46 hours to pass through an elephant’s digestive system, the authors point out, which is not enough for the fruit to ferment.

　　Supposing that this happened, it’s still highly improbable that the food would produce enough alcohol to make an elephant drunk. Through calculations of body weight, elephant digestion rates, and other factors, the authors conclude that it would take about 1.9 litres of ethanol(乙醇) to make an elephant drunk.

　　56. We can learn from the passage that ________.

　　A. it is not easy to find marula fruit in the wild in Africa

　　B. African elephants don’t like to eat marula fruit at all

　　C. marula fruit can be made into food or drink consumed by people

　　D. birds and monkeys in Africa like to eat rotten marula fruit

　　57. According to Paragraph 6, marula fruit is likely to ferment ________.

　　A. in about 12 hours

　　B. in about 34 hours

　　C. between 12 and 46 hours

　　D. in more than 46 hours

　　58. According to Mr. Morris, which of the following is TRUE?

　　A. Elephants just eat the fruit right off the tree.

　　B. Elephants will not eat the fruit which is rotten.

　　C. The marula tree and the mango belong to different families.

　　D. There are several connections between Elephants and the marula fruit.

　　59 . What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph probably refer to ?

　　A. Elephants getting drunk.

　　B. Marula fruit fermenting in elephants’ stomachs.

　　C. Elephants eating rotten marula fruit.

　　D. Elephants eating marula trees directly.

　　57.【答案】D

　　【解析】根据本段中“Food takes between 12 and 46 hours to pass through an elephant’s digestive system, the authors point out, which is not enough for the fruit to ferment. ”可知答案。

　　【考点定位】考查推理判断能力。

　　58.【答案】B

　　【解析】根据第四段中“The first mistake of the drunken-elephant theory is that it’s unlikely that an elephant would eat the fruit if it were rotten, ” Morris says. “Elephants eat the fruit right off the tree, not when it’s rotten on the ground”一句可知。

　　【考点定位】考查细节理解。

　　59.【答案】B

　　【解析】“Supposing that this happened, it’s still highly improbable that the food would produce enough alcohol to make an elephant drunk.”这句话的意思是假设这种果实在大象体内能发酵，那它产生的乙醇也不足以使大象醉倒。

　　【考点定位】考查推理判断能力。

　　阅读下列短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Froli Cat Dart

　　While cats require less attention compared to dogs, that doesn’t mean you can just leave them at home all day long. No sir, they too, need some level of attention and will have to keep themselves occupied mentally and physically too. Well, FroliCat Dart makes it possible. Just what is the FroliCat Dart all about? Well, for starters, this device delivers 360° rotation (旋转) that will project laser patterns on the floor, letting your feline (猫科动物) friend chase after it.

　　Portable USB Power Supply

　　With modern gadgets, running out of juice happens to some of us more often, simply because today’s devices seem to suck up more juice than before. That’s why the Portable USB Power Supply comes in handy, being a best emergency charger for cell phones and other devices. Capable of holding a charge for up to three months when in standby，it will ship with adapter tips that cater for a certain variety of cell phone brands.

　　Battery Powered Gloves

　　For those living in the northern hemisphere，we are pretty sure that you have already stocked up on your winter supplies to make sure you remain nice and warm throughout the upcoming freezing months. Well, wearing a pair of the Battery Powered Hand Warming Gloves is necessary so as to keep your palms and fingers warm. These gloves come with battery-powered integral (不可或缺的) heating elements which is capable of keeping your hands nice and warm for up to eight hours. It requires a quartet of AA batteries in each glove, and since both gloves are fully lined with a waterproof, breathable material, they might just come in handy during your next snowball fight. Too bad it comes only in one color-black.

　　60. How does FroliCat Dart work?

　　A. It can make cats run around your house.

　　B. It can project laser patterns to make cats chase.

　　C. It can make cats much sleepier than before.

　　D. It can provide food and drink for cats.

　　61. From the second paragraph, we know that________

　　A. Lack of power happens to some of us less often than before.

　　B. The adapter tips cater for all kinds of cell phone brands.

　　C. The Portable USB Power Supply can charge for some phones.

　　D. The Portable USB Power Supply can only last for three months.

　　62. Where do the Battery Powered Gloves sell well?

　　A. Iceland

　　B. India

　　C. Australia

　　D Singapore

　　【文章大意】本文是三篇广告。

　　60. 【答案】B

　　【解析】从第一则广告最后一句可知答案。

　　【考点定位】考查细节查找。

　　61.【答案】C

　　【解析】从第二则广告后面部分“---being a best emergency charger for cell phones and other devices. Capable of holding a charge for up to three months when in standby，it will ship with adapter tips that cater for a certain variety of cell phone brands.”可知答案。

　　阅读

　　Brrriiinnng. The alarm clock announces the start of another busy weekday in the morning. You jump out of bed, rush into the shower, into your clothes and out the door with hardly a moment to think. A stressful journey to work gets your blood pressure climbing. Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper with depressing stories or reports of disasters. In that sort of mood, who can get down to work, particularly some creative, original problem- solving work?

　　The way most of us spend our mornings is exactly opposite to the conditions that promote flexible, open- minded thinking. Imaginative ideas are most likely to come to us when we’re unfocused. If you are one of those energetic morning people, your most inventive time comes in the early evening when you are relaxed. Sleepy people’s lack of focus leads to an increase in creative problem solving. By not giving yourself time totune into your wandering mind, you’re missing out on the surprising solutions it may offer.

　　The trip you take to work doesn’t help, either. The stress slows down the speed with which signals travel between neurons (神经细胞) , making inspirations less likely to occur. And while we all should read a lot about what’s going on in the world, it would not make you feel good for sure, so put that news website or newspaper aside until after the day’s work is done.

　　So what would our mornings look like if we wanted to start them with a full capacity for creative problem solving? We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed, following our thoughts where they lead. We’d stand a little longer under the warm water of the shower, stopping thinking about tasks in favor of a few more minutes of relaxation. We’d take some deep breaths on our way to work, instead of complaining about heavy traffic. And once in the office—after we get a cup of coffee—we’d click on links not to the news of the day but to the funniest videos the web has to offer.

　　1. According to the author, we are more creative when we are　.　

　　A. focused B. relaxed　C. awakeD. busy

　　2. What does the author imply about newspapers?

　　A. They are solution providers.

　　B. They are a source of inspiration.

　　C. They are normally full of bad news.

　　D. They are more educational than websites.

　　3. By "tune into your wandering mind” (in Para. 2) , the author means"　".　

　　A. wander into the wild

　　B. listen to a beautiful tune

　　C. switch to the traffic channel

　　D. stop concentrating on anything

　　4. The author writes the last paragraph in order to　.　

　　A. offer practical suggestions

　　B. summarize past experiences

　　C. advocate diverse ways of life

　　D. establish a routine for the future

　　【参考答案】40.BCDA