2017届高考英语一轮复习阅读理解解析版汇编：107（含解析）

　　2017高考英语阅读理解解析版汇编（107）

　　阅读理解(原创)People in Hong Kong speak a rich mixture of languages. Hong Kong was a British colony for more than 156 years before it was returned to Chinese control in 1997. English was the only official language until 1994.

　　Most people in Hong Kong today speak Cantonese, but Mandarin and other dialects also are heard, and English as the British used is still widely spoken and taught here. Now however, many people are choosing to learn English as it is spoken in the United States.

　　Victor Chan, for example, has children who attend school called Nature EQ on Saturday and Sunday, and they are learning to say words the American way. Mr Chan says he wants his sons to learn American English, because he plans to send them to the United States for further study.

　　Nature EQ is one of a growing number of schools in Hong Kong that offer American English classes. Frankie Ng opened the school 17 years ago, at that time, he had only 40 students. Today, the school has 350 students, and it does not have space for any more.

　　Mr Ng says American English is clear and defined. He says it is easy to teach and easily understood. That, however, is not the main concern of the children.

　　Public schools in the former British colony still teach mostly British English. But the number of private language schools teaching American English is growing.

　　In Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O district, for example, the American English Workshop school had 20 students a week when it opened one year ago. Today, ithas more than 180 each week.

　　Some observers say American English is becoming the language of international business. Increased contact with American culture, like movies, television programs, computer games and the Internet is spreading American expressions and accents in areas other than business.

　　But for now, people hearing English in the streets of Hong Kong are mainly hearing traditional British English.

　　“We can understand both, but for what we speak, we speak with the British accent, ”said one local woman.

　　“The British is better I think, ”commented a local man.

　　【文章大意】多元化的大都市香港现在正兴起一股学习美式英语的热潮。

　　1. Which of the following is TRUE about the language spoken in Hong Kong?

　　A. English is still the only official language now.

　　B. British English is still widely spoken and taught at present.

　　C. Most people are learning American English now.

　　D. All people in Hong Kong can speak Cantonese.

　　【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第二段English as the British used is still widely spoken and taught here一句可知英式英语在香港广泛使用和用于教学之中。

　　2. What can we learn from the examples shown in this passage?

　　A. Views are different on American English.

　　B. Not all people like American English.

　　C. American English is becoming more popular.

　　D. American English is better than British English.

　　【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据文章提供的例子可知人们越来越喜欢学习美式英语。

　　3. What does the underlined word“it”refer to?

　　A. British English

　　B. American English

　　C. American English Workshop school

　　D. Hong Kong

　　【解析】选C。细节理解题。it代指上句中的American English Workshop school“美式英语培训学校”。

　　4. What can we infer from the passage?

　　A. American English and British English will go hand in hand in the future.

　　B. American English will be more popular than British English.

　　C. British accent is clear and easy to study.

　　D. Local people can’t understand both of the two kinds of English.

　　【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据文章可知尽管美式英语的学习不断升温, 英式英语仍在广泛使用和在教学中应用, 故推断美式英语和英式英语将会在香港并存下去。

　　阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　Success doesn’t begin until you begin the walk down the way towards your goals. And your walk down the way always begins first with a baby step. Why do we call them baby steps? Are they really anything more than our next step down life’s way?

　　Baby steps are the first steps we take as an act of faith. We see others stepping out and we want to show our ability to walk by following them. As we grow, we continue our development by taking extra baby steps. Sometimes we fall; sometimes we fail. After that, all steps become an act of faith; we just become more practiced. If you say to yourself“I don’t want to make a fool of myself”or“I’d better be good at this”, you’ll probably never take the baby steps towards your goals and end up lying in your own self-pity.

　　As a culture, we focus on results. We think about every risk that must be taken to reach our goals. There are few people who are excellent performers of any tasks the first time they try them. They fail and succeed. Then, they build upon their abilities learned each time. They practice their skills and use their talents through baby steps before they are ready to prove them to the whole world.

　　So, learn to take those baby steps to reach the goals before you. Know that you can depend on God to show you the way. As you become more experienced, your baby steps become a walk, then a jump, and finally a sprint. That’s how our baby steps lead us through the marathon of life.

　　【文章大意】千里之行, 始于足下。即使是最优秀的运动员, 在其通往辉煌顶峰的人生起跑线上, 其步履也一定是蹒跚如婴儿般孱弱。本文向我们讲述了baby steps在我们人生及成功道路上的重要意义。

　　5. What does the writer mainly discuss in the text?

　　A. The power of faith in our life.

　　B. The importance of baby steps.

　　C. The abilities to achieve success.

　　D. The cause of cultural differences.

　　【解析】选B。主旨大意题。本文主要论述了baby steps在人们走向成功的道路上所起的重要作用。

　　1. Which of the following is thought most important in taking baby steps?

　　A. Faith. B. Practice. 　C. Skill. 　D. Examples.

　　【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第二段中Baby steps are the first steps we take as an act of faith和After that, all steps become an act of faith可知, 在我们迈出走向目标的第一步时, 坚定的信念是最重要的, 而不是技能、练习或榜样。

　　. In the third paragraph, the writer expresses the view that　.

　　A. we can’t expect to succeed without working hard at first

　　B. adults should learn from babies in dealing with hard tasks

　　C. we must make full use of our skills in order to get rewards

　　D. baby steps play the key role in leading us towards success

　　【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据该段内容可知, baby steps是成功的第一步, 它让我们在失败中提升能力, 获得成功所需要的各种才能, 因此baby steps在我们迈向成功的道路上起着关键作用。

　　. The underlined word“sprint”in the last paragraph probably means“　”.

　　A. slow rush　B. sudden stop

　　C. hard climb D. fast run

　　【解析】选D。词义猜测题。根据语境, 随着你的经验越多, 蹒跚学步变成走, 然后跳, 最后冲刺。

　　. What’s the writer’s tone in the text?

　　A. Light-hearted.

　　B. Regretful.

　　C. Encouraging.

　　D. Concerned.

　　【解析】选C。推理判断题。作者劝说人们不要惧怕失败, 要勇敢地迈出通向自己成功目标的baby

　　steps, 由此可知, 作者在叙述中是一种“鼓励、激励”的语气。

　　阅读理解 (2017·吉安模拟) Clothes can make phone calls, play music, dial your pal’s number, keep you warm during cold weather and operate your computer.

　　This is not a fantasy. A British company, called Electrotextiles, has created a wide range of clothes—clothes that have minds of their own! Scientists, working for the company, have invented a kind of fabric that can be blended(混合)with flexible electronic materials to create intelligent clothing. The result is electronic garments.

　　If you think the wearer has to be wired to different devices, think again. These designer clothes are wire-free, soft to touch and washable! Like any electronic device, these high-tech clothes have to be powered. Currently, a tiny nine-volt battery serves the purpose. But the researchers hope that in the near future the clothes will generate electricity by using body heat. These clothes are 100 percent shock proof, they say.

　　The Electrotextiles team has also created the world’s first cloth keyboard. This keyboard can be sewn into your trousers or skirt. To use this device, you will have to sit down and tap on your lap! These“lap-tap”gadgets(器具)are all set to take over laptop computers!

　　Another useful garment is the shirt-cum-mobile phone. This handy invention enables drivers to chat comfortably with others at the wheel! Other popular electronic wear includes the denim(牛仔布)jacket with flexible earphones sewn into the hood(风帽)and the electronic ski jacket with a built-in heater. The ski jacket is also programmed to send signals to a satellite. This technology is known as global positioning system and can be used to track lost skiers and wandering kids.

　　Having completed the cloth keyboard, scientists have already started to work on a new project—a necktie that can be used as a computer mouse. What is the next? Do you have any idea?

　　【文章大意】本文是一篇科技说明文。主要介绍了一些高科技的布料、衣服等, 这些新发明有各种各样的功能, 比如打电话、听歌。

　　1. The electronic garments are similar to other electronic devices in that　.

　　A. they feel smooth and soft

　　B. they use electricity as power

　　C. they can be washed in water

　　D. they are made from flexible materials

　　【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第三段第三句话Like any electronic device, these high-tech clothes have to be powered. 可知, 像其他电子产品一样, 这种高科技的衣服也必须用电来作为动力。

　　2. How will researchers improve these high-tech clothes?

　　A. Body heat will be used as power.

　　B. The wearer will not get shocked.

　　C. A tiny nine-volt battery will work.

　　D. They will get charged automatically.

　　【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第三段倒数第二句话But the researchers hope that in the near future the clothes will generate electricity by using body heat. 可知A正确。

　　3. What does the underlined phrase“This handy invention”in Paragraph 5 refer to?

　　A. The laptop computer.

　　B. The electronic ski jacket.

　　C. The shirt-cum-mobile phone.

　　D. The world’s first cloth keyboard.

　　【解析】选C。推理判断题。由第五段的Another useful garment is the shirt-cum-mobile phone. This handy invention enables drivers to chat. . . 可知, 这里很明显是指代前文的the shirt-cum-mobile phone。

　　4. The main purpose of the text is　.

　　A. to advertise for an English company

　　B. to predict the future trend of science

　　C. to show how rapidly science develops

　　D. to introduce some intelligent clothing

　　【解析】选D。主旨大意题。通读全文可知作者是向我们介绍几种智能的衣服、布料等。

　　阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　(2017·绍兴统考)When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.

　　Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska—to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10, 000 to 15, 000 years ago. Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge, ”said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat. ”

　　Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(驯化)of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North America’s domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendants(后代)of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.

　　Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层)until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A. D. , before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. “The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of pure native American dogs, ”Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendants of wolves from North America.

　　Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(标本)from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.

　　Leonard and Wayne’s study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep, ”Wayne said. “They didn’t feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource. ”

　　【文章大意】本文是科普性文章。说明了在几千年前狗陪同人们一起跨过白令大陆桥进入北美大陆, 并且在此繁殖起来。而通过检测发掘出的狗骨头的DNA也证实了这一点。

　　1. The underlined word“remains”is closest in meaning to“　”.

　　A. leftover food　B. animal waste

　　C. dead bodies

　　D. living environment

　　【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据第四段第二句话“Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost”说明是在永冻层发现的狗的骨头, 所以remains应该是尸体。故C正确。

　　. According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that　.

　　A. ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 A. D.

　　B. the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs

　　C. the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves

　　D. the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans

　　【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据“They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A. D. , before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. . . ”可判断出被研究的骨头不是欧洲人带到北美的狗的骨头。所以D正确。

　　. What can we know from the passage?

　　A. Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.

　　B. Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in the 1920s.

　　C. Latin America’s dogs are different from North America’s in genes.

　　D. Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.

　　【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段“When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science. ”可知D正确。

　　4. What does the passage mainly talk about?

　　A. The origin of the North American dogs.

　　B. The DNA study of ancient dogs in America.

　　C. The reasons why early people entered America.

　　D. The difference between Asian and American dogs.

　　【解析】选A。推理判断题。文章第一段提到狗和人们一同跨过the Bering Land Bridge, 第二、三、四、五段研究狗的DNA“to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia”, “Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication of wolves thousands of years ago”, 所以文章中心是谈论北美的狗的起源。