2017届高考英语二轮专题训练：阅读理解（40）
A
The city of X is internationally known for sports, catering for the needs of both professional and amateur sportspeople as well as those that seek to maintain an active lifestyle. The city promotes well-being by offering its citizens lots of opportunities for sports, both indoors and outdoors throughout the year.
Sports clubs in X organize activities in a wide arrangement of sports. The most popular are ice hockey and football, and the list covers well over one hundred other sports.
X’s large green areas including the Central Park and the sea offer ample opportunities for physical activity: walking, running, jogging, hiking, bicycling, roller skating, swimming, boating and fishing. The city claims 50,000 amateur fishermen, more than any other capital city in Europe.
The city organizes a number of community sports activities and maintains a variety and lots of sports facilities. These facilities include more than 200 km of tracks for walking, jogging and running, close to 200 km of ski tracks in winter, some 30 indoor sports halls, some 10 indoor ice rinks and 80 outdoor ice rinks, 14 indoor swimming halls and 2 outdoor pools in summer, close to 30 beaches, and 12,000 boat berths (泊位).
Ice Park is a downtown winter-time skating rink on Railway Square, complete with skate rental (出租) and a heated café.
The local people are active bicyclists especially in summer. X’s bicycle path network covers 1,000 kilometers inside the city limits. The city promotes bicycling with many services, including a Journey Planner for Cycling.
One of the unusual sports here is ice swimming, and X even hosts ice swimming world championships. The city maintains some 15 ice swimming sites throughout the city.
Campers find a convenient site inside the city: Rastila Camping is one of the most popular camping sites in this country, located by the seaside and accessible by underground. The Nuuksio National Park offers camping in wilderness just half an hour from the city by car.
The city of X’s sports function is managed by the Sports Department. The department provides and maintains sports facilities and organizes activities. The department also rents facilities for sports, conference rooms and saunas.
B
The White House dropped a report putting together some federal data. None of the information is exactly new, but a number of graphs in the report offer a clear and convincing illustration (阐述) of the status of women today. For instance, more young women are going to college than young men for the first time in US history. But, women are much more likely to go into lower-paying fields than men when they graduate, therefore lasting the long-standing wage gap. And women, especially minority women, are still more likely to live in poverty than men. Check out three of the graphs from the report below.
Senior Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said on a conference call with reporters that the president will use the data as a “tool” to inform policy plans, though she would not name any specific new moves the administration is considering.
“You really have to look at the whole story of a woman’s life,” Jarrett said. “This report gives us a framework to do that.”
24. The reason why American women delay having their first child, as is shown in Graph I,
may be that ________.
A. they get married at a later age
B. they don’t want to have children
C. more of them are going to college
D. more of them are working outside
25. From Graph II, we can know that in the USA ________.
A. women can receive the same education as men
B. in the 1970s, only 10% of women got a bachelor’s degree or higher
C. men are paying more attention to university education than women
D. more women have finished university education than men since the late 1990s
26. Which conclusion can we draw from Graph III?
A. Women with the same education level as men don’t earn as much.
B. The more education one has received, the more pay he or she can get.
C. Women under 25 years old usually don’t go out to work.
D. The longer one has worked, the more pay he or she can get.
27. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the report?
A. The State of American Women
B. The Education American Women Receive
C. American Men and Women
D. Competition between Men and Women
C
Physics is a different world now. Will there ever be another Einstein?
Scientists say a new Einstein will appear, but it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival (堪与相比者), Isaac Newton.
Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn’t been born yet. That is because the long difficult search for a theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.
New math must be created before the problem can be solved.
But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein appearing anytime soon.
For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein’s day, there were a few thousand physicists worldwide, and fewer theoreticians.
Education is different, too. One important aspect of Einstein’s training that is overlooked is the philosophy he read as a teenager. It taught him how to think abstractly about space and time.
And he was an accomplished musician. The interplay between music and math is well known. Einstein would crazily play his violin as a way to think through a complex physics problem.
Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren’t many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical and rewarding efforts. Those who stay in science don’t work alone.
It’s very difficult to imagine an independent person like Einstein ever tolerating this.
28. According to the passage, the most important reason for Einstein’s success is that ________.
A. he was a good musician
B. he learnt philosophy as a teenager
C. he was born 200 years later than Newton
D. he was a great mathematician
29. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the reason why a new Einstein has not been born yet?
A. The limits of current mathematics.
B. The development of physics.
C. Different education systems.
D. The lack of analytical skills.
30. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?
A. Einstein rather than Newton made great contributions to the world.
B. Working independently is one of the contributing factors of Einstein’s success.
C. Physics graduates can easily get science jobs today.
D. Music has nothing to do with science.
D
My room faces the sun in the morning and on clear summer mornings it wakes me bright and fresh, no matter what time I stayed up till; I’ll get up and make breakfast.
This morning I wake up suddenly, like the alarm clock in my head has given me a little electric shock; it isn’t sunny outside. I pull back the curtains and the sky is dark grey.
Hearing my brother is getting up, I go downstairs to make him a cup of tea. He’s down in the kitchen about five minutes later, wearing his work clothes, eyes mostly closed against the morning.
“Morning.” I say.
“Uh huh.”
I leave him to work out what he is going to eat and go back to my room, and get back beneath the quilt.
This morning I want to think a while. Today is Dad’s birthday; Mom won’t mention it. My brother might, just to cause a row, so I’ll keep him sweet when he comes in from work. Every year on my dad’s birthday I draw a picture of him; each year he looks a bit different. I’m an artist. It’s not that I draw a straighter line or a truer circle, as they try to teach us to do at school. I just get the message across more clearly than other people. More truthfully. I know it.
I read a lot of books too, mainly about artists, and I try to paint like them. When my dad comes back I’ll be able to say “this is you when I was twelve and I was in love with Monet” or “this is you on your thirty-eighth birthday, when I was fourteen, and you’d been gone five years, and I wanted to paint like Dante Gabriel Rossetti.” And he’ll look at each painting and know that I love him and never forget him.
On Saturday mornings he’d take me to town and I’d drag him around the art shops. On my sixth birthday he bought me a box of 99 crayons. On my eighth birthday he bought me an easel (画架), a real one, not a kiddie’s. On my ninth birthday he bought me oils. Some mornings I’d wake up and there’d be a book on my pillow about Picasso, or Chagall.
“Draw me,” he’d say.
“Aw, Dad, I can’t.”
I know I should go to school; I’m not one of those kids who are scared to go. But, it’s my dad’s birthday and I think I must spend it with him.
So I spend some time thinking about his hair, which I think is probably no more grey than it was last year; I know hair doesn’t age at the same speed every year, but I make his hair longer this year. And in my mind’s eye I give him an extra few pounds too. But I keep the smile fixed in my head, like it is when he’s happy.
It’s head and shoulders, so I’ll put him in a T-shirt that shows his neck and throat and how strong he is and how brightly his eyes shine and how his eyebrows are dead level straight and still black.
I try to think of how much I want to show and how much I want to tell.
Then I pick up a charcoal stick and do it. I pick up a chalk to add a suggestion of colour to his eyes, then another chalk for his mouth.
And there he is.
Dad.
There you are.
31. The author wakes up suddenly this morning because ________.
A. it is a dark grey morning
B. it is time for her to make breakfast
C. it is her father’s birthday
D. she doesn’t want to go to school
32. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The author’s father left home when she was twelve.
B. The author has drawn more than five pictures of her father.
C. The author’s mother won’t hear a word about her father.
D. The author’s brother is a worker.
答案：
ABDCD
AABDB
CABDC