Unit 16
Stories
课时练(二) 阅读理解提速练(练速度)
(限时：35分钟)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
(2016·石家庄二模)Spoiled for choice? That's likely how you'll feel after a mere day in Athens. The secret is in not trying to do everything. Instead, take in a couple of the tourist highlights and then get a feel for this attractive capital.
An ancient sight
The Acropolis (卫城) always comes out at the top of the list of things to see in Athens. The most famous of the western world's ancient sights continue to impress tourists as they climb the marble steps and stand before the graceful Parthenon. Views from up here are amazing.
A slow wander
Plaka is the city's oldest neighborhood, resting on the slopes of the Acropolis with cafs and fascinating architecture. The streets are perfect for getting lost in, giving wanderers the chance to discover cafs and bars where they can down some strong coffee among locals. Plaka is at its best in the early evening. Acropolis House Pension is a preserved 19thcentury house that gives guests a glimpse into a Greek home.
A market scene
Varvakios Agora is Athens' central market. Locals come here to shop and look for everything needed in a Greek kitchen — from olive oil to meat. This is a look at local life as well as a window into Greek cuisine. The meat market is also home to some of the city's best pubs, feeding traditional food to crowds of customers from all walks of society.
A splash of nightlife
Athenian nights are filled with music, dancing and dining. Perivoli Tou Ouranou is a club with a strong atmosphere. Filled with the sounds of violins and guitars pelting out traditional blueslike music, it's sad but also beautiful and lively.
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。你想去雅典一饱眼福吗？雅典古城富有魅力的景点会让你流连忘返，一起来看看这里的美景介绍吧。
1．Which of the following is the best time to visit Plaka?
A．8：00. B．12：00.
C．18：00.
D．22：00.
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据A slow wander中的“Plaka is at its best in the early evening.”可知，C项正确。
2．Varvakios Agora seems more attractive to a foreigner who ________.
A．wants to try cooking Athenian food
B．is interested in the history of Athens
C．likes taking photos of ancient buildings
D．hopes to buy some souvenirs for his friends
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据A market scene中的内容可知，Varvakios Agora是雅典的中心市场，来自各行各业的人都能吃到传统的食物。故A项正确。
3．If you want to get a feel for traditional Greek music, you can go to ________.
A．Parthenon
B．Plaka
C．Varvakios Agora
D．Perivoli Tou Ouranou
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据A splash of nightlife中的介绍可知，Perivoli Tou Ouranou是一个富有音乐情调的俱乐部，在这里可以欣赏到由吉他、小提琴演奏出的传统音乐。故D项正确。
B
(2016·河北省七校联合考试)Recently I came in contact with the true meaning of love. That would have been, Kane, a boy. Kane was the twoyearold son of Jolene, my new neighbor.
At a glance Kane was a sight. He'd been born with hard sticks for legs. And on that morning I witnessed the effect that Kane's physical shortcomings had on his family. But I also witnessed much more than that.
I saw an extraordinary family that embraced this special child, a family that wouldn't allow Kane to know he was different. Jolene had constructed a small cart just a few inches off the floor for his son to get around. Using his hands to move, Kane moved the cart to “go to” any place just as everyone else was able to do. Kane worked that little cart like a master. Kane was a vital focus of the entire family. He was more than just a member of the family; he was the soul. This child was the driver, the motivator, and the founder of much of the interaction.
Much later in my life, I came to realize that God had sent this child to help some of us who just weren't getting what love was all about, even with my limited capacity for understanding at the time that Kane was a highlydeveloped spirit with great wisdom.
Kane demanded attention, but not because of his mobility challenges or other apparent shortcomings. In his mind, he had no challenges or shortcomings. The truth is that he received attention because he was alive and real and had so much to offer.
Kane was and still is a lot of warm and powerful energy sent to us all, so we might learn that love is beyond all things. Kane, a fragile yet lovely baby, was here to teach us all an important lesson. And at the age of two he did just that.
语篇解读：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。这是一篇关于什么是爱的文章，通过描述“我”的邻居Kane，一个两岁大但身体有缺陷的孩子的家庭成长环境，告诉我们：爱可以战胜一切困难。
4．How did the author think of Kane's family members?
A．It was ridiculous for them to make a cart for Kane.
B．They were greatly brave to face all the difficulties.
C．They were strange because they locked Kane at home.
D．It was respectable for them to start their own business.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据第三段首句“I saw an extraordinary ... he was different.”可推知，这个家庭勇敢地面对所有的困难，故选B项。
5．How did Kane “go to” everywhere he wanted to go?
A．By moving his cart with his own hands.
B．By asking his father to lead him ahead with a stick.
C．By asking his grandparents to push him everywhere.
D．With the help of a babysitter employed for him.
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据第三段第三句“Using his hands to move, Kane moved the cart ...”可知，Kane用他的双手移动手推车，故选A项。
6．Kane needed attention because he wanted to show ________.
A．he could challenge his difficulties in moving
B．he had challenges or shortcomings in his life
C．he had the power to prove he was capable too
D．he himself needed to be looked after by others
解析：选C 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的“The truth is that he received attention ... had so much to offer.”可知，他需要关注是因为他想证明他也是有能力的，故选C项。
7．What can we learn from Kane's story?
A．Love me, love my dog.
B．Pure gold fears no fire.
C．Love is above all things.
D．Many hands make light work.
解析：选C 主旨大意题。根据最后一段中的“so we might learn that love is beyond all things”可知，爱高于一切，故选C项。
C
(2016·河南省普通高中毕业班适应性测试)Do you have lunch at school? Do you like having lunch at school? School dinners (that means “lunch”) are a hot topic in the UK these days and there
are lots of different opinions about what young people eat at lunchtime. Some
people think that school meals are unhealthy; some people say that they are much better than in the past and others say that midday meals should be free for all school children.
A typical school dinner costs about 2 pounds a day for a secondary pupil in the UK. There is usually a main course, a dessert and a drink. Parents often pay in advance online. School dinners must include food groups such as fruit and vegetables, protein (for example meat, fish or cheese) and carbohydrate (for example rice or pasta). There are rules about how the food is prepared, for example there are limits on the quantity of fried food.
Martha Payne, from Scotland, started a blog called Neverseconds about her school dinners when she was just nine years old. She posts photographs of her lunch every day and gives the food a grade out of ten. The grade depends on the quality and quantity of the food and how healthy it is. She doesn't always give good grades. Her complaints include too much fried food, small quantities and hair in the food. Many people read her blog and young people from all over the world post pictures, of their school meals on Neverseconds.
Jamie Oliver, the celebrity British chef, is concerned about school dinners. He thinks that they need to be healthier and tastier. Jamie helped to promote Martha's blog by tweeting (在推特上写) about it and Neverseconds became very popular, very quickly on social media websites. On the blog, Martha also collects money for charity. The money is used to provide food for more than 600,000 poor children around the world.
语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。主要论述了学校午餐成为热门话题以及人们对此所持的观点。
ziyuanku.com8．School dinners can be a hot topic in the UK these days because ________.
A．parents cannot afford to pay for them
B．they have led to many healthy problems
C．people have different opinions about them
D．there are no rules about how the food is prepared
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第一段第三句“School dinners ... what young people eat at lunchtime.”可知，因为人们对学校午餐有不同的意见，所以这成了热门话题。故答案选C。
9．What do you know about the typical school dinner in the UK?
A．It's free for all school children.
B．It costs about 2 pounds a day for a secondary pupil.
C．It's low in protein and carbohydrate.
D．It has no fruit or vegetables.
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句可知，对于一个英国中学生而言，标准的学校午餐每天要花费大约2英镑。故答案选B。
10．Which of the following is the example of the underlined word “complaints”？
A．He has never phoned me since we parted.
B．She posts photographs every day in her blog.
C．They are always doing their work pretty well.
D．Today we had pizza, salad, then an apple for dessert.
解析：选A 推理判断题。根据第三段中的“She doesn't always give good grades ... small quantities and hair in the food.”可知，她也会抱怨食物不好。画线词意为“抱怨”。故只有A项符合此意。
11．How did Martha Payne's blog become popular?
A．Jamie Oliver helped to promote it.
B．Many people collected money for it.
C．Poor children could get free food from it.
D．Martha Payne spent most of her time on it.
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据最后一段第三句“Jamie helped to promote ... very quickly on social media websites.”可知，Jamie通过推特宣传Martha的博客Neverseconds，使之广受欢迎。故答案选A。
D
(2016·九江市高三二模)The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.
That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.
Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant roundup — how to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to a boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old life.“Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase，”she says.
But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun. “My work，” she says, “is to rescue men from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from men.” And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. “Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans，” she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
12．For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to ________.
A．get longlasting excitement
B．keep both men and elephants safe
C．send them back to the jungle
D．make the angry elephants tame
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第五段的第二句“‘My work，’ she says ...’”可知，Parbati捕捉大象主要是为了保障大象与人的安全，故选B项。
13．Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, ________.
A．she spent her time hunting with her father
B．she learned how to sing love songs
C．she had already been called the elephant princess
D．she was taught how to hunt tigers
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据第四段的第二句“After a happy childhood hunting with her father ...”可知，Parbati与父亲一起打猎度过了一个幸福的童年，之后被送去市里的一个寄宿学校，故选A项。
14．Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because ________.
A．they are caught and sent for heavy work
B．illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C．they are attacked and their land gets limited
D．dogs often bark at them and chase them
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第五段的第四句“Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for ...”可知，大象因遭到非法狩猎者的袭击以及领地受限而对人类进行报复，故选C项。
15．The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that ________.
A．people easily fall victim to elephants' attacks
B．the manelephant relationship is getting worse
C．elephant tamers are in short supply
D．dogs are as powerful as elephants
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据文章整体内容可推知，文章以一头大象的故事开头是为了展现人类和大象日益紧张的关系，故选B项。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
(2016·山西四校联考二)You think you know your dog. __1__ She probably recognizes you when she sees you. But can a dog tell by simply looking at you whether you have a happy or an angry expression on your face? Researchers in Austria have taught pet dogs to know the difference.
__2__ When dog owners shout or speak in a strong, sharp voice, dogs often act guiltily and quietly move away from the area.
Recently, researchers found that dogs can look at our faces, and tell the difference between a smile and a frown. The animals were able to recognize a look of approval from one of disapproval.Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna performed a series of experiments. __3__ They showed the dogs two pictures of either the upper or lower half of a person's face. On one picture, the person looked happy. The other appeared angry. The dogs were then shown images of the eyes or mouths of people they had never seen before.__4__
Once the dogs learned to recognize which image was happy or angry, they could easily identify the same expressions in pictures of any face. Future studies will try to show whether dogs can learn the meaning of facial expressions. __5__
The researchers' findings were published in the journal Current Biology. They provide the first solid evidence that humans are not the only species that can read the body language of another species.
A．Dogs are very aware of sound.
B．Dogs have feelings just as you do.
C．But how well does your dog know you?
D．They were also shown the left half of the faces used in training.
E．Some dogs are very unhappy when they are left alone for a long time.
F．They taught dogs to recognize facial expressions.
G．For example, whether a frown shows that someone is angry.
答案：1～5 CAFDG