湖北黄冈市2017高考英语阅读理解二轮精练（30）及（解析）答案
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和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Whenever we turn on the TV or radio, read the newspapers, surf the Internet, we'll be surrounded by the word "diet" everywhere. We have so easily been attracted by the promise of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically（心理上地）and physically.
It's obvious that diet products weaken us psychologically. They allow us to jump over the thinking stage that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fat. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word "diet" in food labels.
What's more, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves that we don't have to work to get results．Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
As a matter of fact, the danger that diet products bring not only lies in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm they cause. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie. oaly because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products, And they can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are stopping our bodies having basic nutrients. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals
that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Think twice before buying diet products. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, 3rd therefore, prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them.
1. From Paragraph 1，we learn that
A. diet products are in our daily life
B. people have trouble choosfng diet products
C. people should put up with diet products
D. diet products are misleading people
2. The psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to
A. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods
B, pay attention to their daily diet
C. watch their weight rather than their diet
D. try out varieties of diet foods
3. The underlined part in Paragraph 3 probably means
A. diet products cause no pain
B, it costs a lot to.lose weight
C. losing weight is effortless
D. diet products are free of fat and calories
4．Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products
A. are over-consumed
B. are short of basic nutrients
C. lack chemicals
D. provide too much energy
参考答案1—4、 DCCB
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和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Eating too much fatty food, exercising too little and smoking can raise your future risk of heart disease. But there is another factor that can cause your heart problems more immediately: the air you breathe.
Previous studies have linked high exposure to environmental pollution to an increased risk of heart problem, but two analyses now show that poor air quality can lead to heart attack or stroke (中风）within as little as a few hours after exposure. In one review of the research, scientists found that people exposed to high levels of pollutants (污染物）were up to 5% more likely to suffer a heart attack within days of exposure than those with lower exposure. A separate study of stroke patients showed that even air that the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers to be of “moderate” quality and relatively safe for our health can raise the risk of stroke as much as 34% within 12 to 14 hours of exposure.
The authors of both studies stress that these risks are relatively small for healthy people and certainly modest compared with other risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. However, it is important to be aware of these dangers because everyone is exposed to air pollution regardless of lifestyle choices. So stricter regulation by the EPA of pollutants may not only improve environmental air quality but could also become necessary to protect public health.
1.The text mainly discusses the relationship between .
A．heart problems and air quality
B．heart problems and exercising
C．heart problems and smoking
D．heart problems and fatty food
2.The underlined word “modest” in Paragraph 3 most probably means.
A．relatively high B．extremely low
C．relatively low D．extremely high
3. What can we learn from the text?
A．Eating fatty food has immediate effects on your heart.
B．The EPA conducted many studies on air quality.
C．Moderate air quality is more harmful than smoking,
D．Stricter regulations on pollutants should be made.
4. The author’s purpose of writing the text is most likely to .
A. inform B. persuade C. describe D. entertain
参考答案1—4、ACDA
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和D）中，选出最佳选项。
My daughter is three-and-a-haft years old, but has been speaking in full sentences since she was 18 months old—children usually start connecting words fluently between the ages of two and three. She now has the language skills of a five-year-old and happily tells long stories, using different tenses.
So why is my child so precocious（超常）? Well, I believe her remarkable gift is down to my great friend and language expert, Nicola Lathey. When Minnie was just ten weeks old, Nicola came to meet her. Nicola said to me, “Minnie is very chatty. We’ve just been having a lovely long conversation.” Then she showed me how she was keeping eye contact and waiting for Minnie to make a noise. When Minnie paused, Nicola would utter something about the same length back to her, pause again, look at Minnie and wait for her to respond. She went back and forth in this way for about five minutes. Apparently, this is an early form of conversation.
In fact, Nicola told me that Minnie would have been able to start talking with me like this from around four weeks. Not only that, but babies even start learning language in the Womb too. So, we should begin chatting to our baby, while looking into their eyes, as soon as they are born. The earlier we talk to them, the more in tune with our language they’ll be and the quicker they’ll learn it. The sooner you get started, the better.
Researchers studied the impact of a child’s early environment（before they are two）on their language, and found that children whose parents talked to them a lot at home went on to achieve higher scores in tests of languages, reading and maths when they entered school. So by giving your child the gift of conversation, you really are giving them the best possible start in life.
1. Why does the author mention her daughter Minnie in Para. 1 ?
A. To introduce the theme by an example.
B. To show a very happy life with a daughter.
C. To persuade people to protect children’s gifts.
D. To talk about the development of children.
2. According to Ms Nicola Lathey, ________.
A. any child has their own advantages
B. Minnie is lucky to receive training on language skills
C. parents should spend more time with their kids
D. it’s better to start talking with children at an early age
3. Which statement is NOT tree, according to the text?
A. Parents can have a big impact on how children learn to talk.
B. Giving children the gift of conversation will boost their brainpower for life.
C. There’s no need to push children to learn languages when they’re young.
D. The better children are talking before two, the better they’ll do when starting school.
4. Who would be most interested in the text?
A. Parents to be.
B. Parents with teenagers.
C. Teachers at primary school.
D. The young baby-sitters.
参考答案1—4、ADCA
阅读理解, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。
The Arctic is a polar region.It surrounds the North Pole.
Like Antarctica，the Arctic is a land of ice and snow.Antarctica holds the record for a low temperature reading 125 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.Reading of 85 degrees below zero are common in both the Arctic and Antarctica.Winter temperatures average 30 degrees below zero in the Arctic.At the South Pole the winter average is about 73 degrees below zero.
One thing alone makes it almost impossible for men to live in Antarctica and in parts of the Arctic.This one thing is the low temperature—the killing chill of the far North and the polar South.
To
survive，men must wear the warmest possible clothing.They must build windproof shelters.They must keep heaters going at all times.Not even for a moment can they be unprotected against the belowzero temperatures.
Men have a way of providing for themselves.Polar explorers wrap themselves in warm coats and furs.The cold makes life difficult，but the explorers can stay alive.
What about animals？Can they survive？Do we find plants？Do we find life in the Arctic and in Antarctica？Yes，we do.There is life in the oceans.There is life on land.
Antarctica，as we have seen，is a cold place indeed.But this has not always been the case.Expedition scientists have discovered that Antarctica has not always been a frozen continent.At one time the weather in Antarctica may have been much like our own.
Explorers have discovered coal in Antarctica.This leads them to believe that Antarctica at one time was a land of swamps and forests.Heat and moisture must have kept the trees in the forests alive.
1．What does the underlined word“chill”probably mean?
A．coldness
B．coolness
C．damp
D．desert
答案：A 猜测词义题。根据前面的the low temperature可知这个画线词表示“寒冷”。
2．One of the reasons why there is no man living in Antarctica and in parts of the Arctic is that________.A．there are no wildlife there
B．there are no minerals
C．they are extremely cold
D．they are hard to access
答案： C 细节理解题。根据第三段可知极度寒冷使人们不可能生活在南极和北极的部分地区。
3．According to the passage，which statement is TRUE?
A．The lowest temperature of the world is in the Arctic.
B．To survive in the Poles，the explorers wear the warmest possible clothing.
C．Antarctica has always been a cold place.
D．Coal has been found in the Arctic.
答案：B 细节理解题。根据“Polar explorers wrap themselves in warm coats and furs.”可知B项符合题意。
4．If you are exploring the polar region，you need to______.
A．wear only furs
B．build a windproof shelter
C．use heaters sometimes
D．live in groups
答案：B 事实细节题。根据第四段和第五段可知。
阅读理解。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier，only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps，after all，it is safer to be driven by a woman.
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red，orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man see everything in shades of green—a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”．These help us see in a bright day and tell the difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”， but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but no color. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes(蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects，but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day，and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.
. This passage is mainly about ________.
A. color and its surprising effects
B. women being luckier than men
C. danger caused by color blindness
D. color blindness
2. According to the passage，with the help of the “cones”，we can ________A. tell different colors
B. see in weak light
C. tell different shapes
D. tell orange from yellow
3. Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?
A. Women are more careful.
B. There are fewer colorblind women.
C. Women are fonder of driving than men.
D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.
【参考答案】1—3、D A B